He loved sports and won a spot on the wrestling team of the William Penn Charter School, which he attended on a scholarship. When he was 8 he contracted polio he used crutches for some years and walked with a cane the rest of his life. Fisher was born in Philadelphia on July 21, 1936, the first of two sons of an adhesives salesman for what is now the 3M Corporation. Fisher was chairman of the boards of Bard, Rockefeller University and the Urban Institute and chairman of the endowment trust of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In October, he and his wife, Jeanne Donovan Fisher, gave $10 million to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.Īt his death, Mr. The structure, which bears his name, was designed by Frank Gehry.
Fisher gave $25 million to Bard College, a private liberal arts in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., 90 miles north of New York City, to help build a performing arts center.
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