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Joan Beverly was the third wife
of McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc and a philanthropist. Kroc was born on August 27, 1928
in West St. Paul, Minnesota. Her father, Charles Smart
Mansfield, was a store keeper, later a railroad telegraph operator and
salesman. Her mother, Gladys Bonnebelle Mansfield was born April 5, 1906 in
Luck, Wisconsin
to Herman Conrad Peterson and his wife Emma Bonnebelle. Joan's mother was an
accomplished violinist. She studied music at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis and started
teaching at age 15. In 1945, she married Rawland F.
Smith, a Navy veteran. The couple's only child, a daughter named Linda, was
born the following year. Kroc met McDonald's Corp. founder
Ray Kroc while playing piano at a bar in St.
Paul, Minnesota in
1957. Kroc said in his autobiography that he "was stunned by her blond
beauty". They carried on a secret relationship until they both divorced
their spouses and married in 1969. Following Kroc's death in 1984, she acquired
his fortune.
Kroc's first philanthropic
endeavor was Operation Cork in 1976 in La Jolla.
It aimed to inform doctors and other health workers about the dangers of
alcoholism. She tried to donate the team to
the city of San Diego
(the San Diego Padres went on to win its first ever National League pennant
that year), but Major League Baseball rules forbid public team ownership. Kroc
sold the team in 1990 and turned her attention to philanthropy. She drew
controversy when she alluded to paying star and future Hall of Fame shortstop
Ozzie Smith to maintain her garden at a time when he was refused a raise by her
team's general manager. Her one million dollar donation
to Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign was considered by many to be a
betrayal of her husband's wishes.
The Joan B. Kroc Foundation
donated $18.5 million to the San Diego Hospice Corporation (now known as San
Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine) in 1985 to create its
multi-purpose hospice center. The donation covered the cost of planning, land
acquisition (6.5 acres (26,000 m2)), construction and interior furnishings of
the center.
In 2002, Kroc Center,
a large Salvation Army community center that she helped fund—to the tune of $87
million—opened to the public. She later bequeathed an additional $1.6 billion
to open Salvation Army Kroc Centers across the nation, the largest one-time
gift ever recorded. Several institutions in the San Diego
area are named after her, including the think tank Joan B. Kroc Institute for
Peace and Justice at the University
of San Diego, the St.
Vincent de Paul Joan Kroc Center for the Homeless in downtown and the Kroc-Copley
Animal Shelter in the Morena District. America’s leading 'Peace'
institution is probably the University of Notre Dame’s Joan B. Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies, established and endowed by Joan herself. Kroc
preferred to give donations anonymously, but recipient organizations often
insisted on publicizing her gifts, hoping to attract new donors. She also supported the Ronald
McDonald Children's Charities and Ronald McDonald Houses. As the Padres owner, she started
Major League Baseball's first employee-assistance program for players and staff
with drug problems.
Kroc was also politically active.
In 1985, she spent millions of dollars in support of nuclear disarmament, which
included reprinting the book Missile Envy by Helen Caldicott, as well as
publishing ads in major newspapers calling for disarmament. In response, Cal
Thomas, a conservative syndicated columnist, called her a "McNut." She is affectionately known by
the citizens of Grand Forks, North
Dakota and East Grand
Forks, Minnesota as
the "Angel" because of her anonymous $15 million donation to assist
the cities after a devastating flood occurred there in 1997. She was revealed
as the source of the funds after reporters tracked down ownership of the jet
that she used to fly into the area to survey the damage. Upon her death in 2003, a bequest
of $225 million was made to National Public Radio (NPR) and $5 million to her
local public radio station, San Diego's
KPBS.
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