Elmer Holmes Bobst

Elmer Holmes Bobst (December 16, 1884 – August 2, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry.

After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920.

In April 1961 Bobst married Mamdouha As-Sayyid, who was a member of the Lebanese delegation to the United Nations, and decades his junior.

[2] In 1988, Mamdouha Bobst donated the records and personal effects of her late husband to the Fales Library at New York University.

If this beloved country of ours ever falls apart, the blame rightly should be attributed to the malicious action of Jews in complete control of our communications.”[5] he died in 1978.

A view of the interior of Bobst Library