Education
He attended and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1923 and proceeded to, graduating in 1928. He played football at Yale and was an active member of The Ole Crowes club
He attended and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1923 and proceeded to, graduating in 1928. He played football at Yale and was an active member of The Ole Crowes club
In 1942, Murphy worked as the Chief of the Graveyard Section of the War Production Board Bureau of Industry Conservation. He helped seize scrap metal in Valparaiso, Indiana to build war tanks. In his later years Murphy lived in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He died September 1977, in a hospital in Stanford, California.
" G. Murphy established the Wood Kalb Foundation in 1953. Through three separate philanthropies, Murphy and his estate have given over $10 million to Yale, exclusively in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Medicine.
In 1978, Hitchcock gave $1 million to the medical school to establish the Murphy professorships in psychiatry. In 1979, Hitchcock gave $100,000 in support of Yale Cancer Center".
A second trust Murphy established was entitled "The Foundations" Fund for Research in Psychiatry".
The funds were exhausted in 1981, three years after his death. In return, Yale University has named a professorship after him, the " G. Murphy Professor". G. Murphy professors Benjamin Bunney Jane R. Taylor Susanne Wofford Angus Nairn Marina Picciotto.
He played football at Yale and was an active member of The Ole Crowes club
