Background
Prentice, Pierrepont Isham was born on September 10, 1899 in Newark. Son of Sartell and Lydia Beekman (Vanderpoel) Prentice.
Prentice, Pierrepont Isham was born on September 10, 1899 in Newark. Son of Sartell and Lydia Beekman (Vanderpoel) Prentice.
Bachelor cum laude, Yale University, 1920.
Reporter, New York Tribune, 1921-1924; editor, public, Camden Post Telegram (New Jersey), 1924-1926; managing editor, New Bedford Times (Massachusetts), 1926-1929; news editor, Philadelphia Record, 1929-1930; business manager, Fortune magazine, 1930-1934; circulation director, Time, Life and Fortune magazines, 1934-1941; vice president, Time, Inc., 1939-1965; vice president corporation affairs, Time, Inc., 1945-1949; principal officer in charge problems of housing and urban affairs, Time, Inc., 1949-1965; public, Time magazine, 1941-1945; editor, public, Architectural Forum, 1949-1954; founder, editor, public, House and Home magazine, 1952-1962; vice president, board directors, National Association Homebuilders Research Foundation, 1965-1969; consultant on housing marketing, Belleair, Florida, from 1965; member of advisory committee, Federal Housing Administration, 1954-1956; founder, director, Housing Industry President's Council, 1954-1967; member housing finance committee, Committee Economics Development, 1966-1967; member property tax committee, National Tax. Association, from 1976; chairman, National Council for Property Tax Reform, from 1976.
Board directors Lincoln Foundation, 1963-1971. Board directors Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, from 1963, president, 1973-1981. Board directors International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade, from 1966, vice president, from 1980.
Served as Second lieutenant United States Army, 1918-1919. Member American Institute of Architects (trustee American Institute of Architects Foundation 1966-1968), United States Chamber of Commerce (task force for economic growth and opportunity 1965-1966, urban and regional affairs committee 1968-1974).
Married Mildred Belcher, September 30, 1922. Children: Mildred Barbara Prentice Kulesh, Carolyn Sumner Prentice Falies. Married Janet McNair Pffieger, November 1, 1944.