Background
Her father was Harry Lynde Bradley, co-founder of Allen-Bradley and the Bradley Foundation with her uncle, Lynde Bradley.
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Jane Pettit
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She attended the Lake School for Girls, Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and Milwaukee University School. She graduated from The Principia in Saint Louis, Missouri and studied drama at Finch Junior College.
Career
She entered society as a debutante on January 1, 1938 at the Milwaukee Country Club. Philanthropy
Over the course of her life, she donated more than $250 million to the community and through her Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. She donated $90 million to the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
Her United States$20 million donation to build the Lynde & Harry Bradley School of Technology & Trade, which replaced 100-year-old Milwaukee Technical & Trade High School, was the largest single private gift ever to a public school in the United States.
She also donated $9 million to the Pettit National Ice Center, an indoor skating facility with two Olympic-sized hockey rinks and a 400-meter skating oval. In 1999, she bought 14 percent of the Milwaukee Brewers.
She was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame because of lieutenant She also donated more than United States$100,000 to the United Way of Great Milwaukee.
The Jane Bradley Pettit Building, home to the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, is named for her.
She founded the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. Personal life
Their daughter, Lynde Bradley Uihlein, is President of the non-profit organization Brico Fund. Their son, David Vogel Uihlein, Junior., is Vice-Chairman of the Bradley Foundation, President of Uihlein-Wilson Architects, and chairs the David & Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation.
She died of lung cancer on September 9, 2001.
She also owned homes in Land O" Lakes, Wisconsin and Naples, Florida, where she wintered.
Membership
She was a member of the Service Club of Milwaukee.
