Background
Levitt, Irving Francis was born on July 3, 1915 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles and Frances (Goretsky) Levitt.
Levitt, Irving Francis was born on July 3, 1915 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles and Frances (Goretsky) Levitt.
Bachelor of Science (honorary) in journalism, University of Michigan, 1936.
Advertising manager feature writer, Braddock (Pennsylvania) Free Press, 1936-1937;
advertising manager, Levitt Brothers Furniture Stores, 1936-1938;
partner, executive administrator stores in, Levitt Brothers Furniture Stores, Braddock, Vandergrift and New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1938-1955;
executive assistant, vice president, Levinson Steel Company, Pittsburgh, 1942-1944;
real estate, industrial development, 1938-1982;
president, Lepar, Inc., 1950-1980;
president, Chairman of the Board, Union Screw & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh
Chairman of the Board, Investment Capital Corporation, Pittsburgh, since 1955;
Chairman of the Board, Radix Organisation, Inc., New York
Chairman of the Board, Radix Real Estate, Inc.
Chairman of the Board, RRE Enterprises, Inc.
president, Kirwan Heights Land Company
president, King Land Company, Indiana
president, Blawnox Realty Company
Chairman of the Board, Apollo Industries, Inc., 1959-1968;
Chairman of the Board, director, Apollo International Corporation
president, director, Apollo-Peru S.A.
president, director, Oakland Investment Corporation, Pittsburgh
vice-president, director, Apollo Industrial, Inc.
vice-president, director, Apollo Investment Company, Pittsburgh
senior vice president, Parker-Levitt Corporation, Sarasota, Florida
senior vice president, Marble Island, Inc., Vermont
partner, Oliver-Smithfield Venture, Pittsburgh
partner, Nineteen Hundred Group Ltd., Sarasota, Florida. Board directors Commercial Bank & Trust Company, Pittsburgh, Nuclear Materials & Equipment Corporation, Ednl. Audio Visual, Inc., New York, London, Radix Ventures, North Carolina, New York.
Chairman of the Board, director Lido Beach Development Company, Inc., Sarasota, Florida. Partner One Hundred Kennedy Ltd., Tampa, Florida, SMP, Ltd., Pine Run Development, Inc., Sarasota. Member Pittsburgh Board Realtors, New Kensington Industrial Development Corporation, Smaller Manufacturers Council.
Board of directors Massanutten Military Academy, Woodstock, Virginia, United Jewish Fedn.Finance, Pittsburgh, Irene Kaufman Settlement Board. Trustee Levitt Found.Pitts., Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh. Member National Sales Executives Club (director 1952-1982), American Jewish Committee, Chautauqua Society, American Arbitration Association (panel of arbitrators), National Association Securities Dealers (board arbitration).
Married Florence Chaikin, October 10, 1937. Children: Robert Bruce, Linda Ann (Mistress Stanley L. Ehrenpreis).
