Raymond White Lapham (December 16, 1903 – July 11, 1976) was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as president of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation.
In 1927 he, along with 14 of his classmates and professor Richard Foster Flint, was seriously injured when a platform the group was standing on collapsed and fell to the bottom of a quarry.
[3][4] In 1940, Lapham was elected president of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, succeeding his deceased father.
[7] During World War II, Lapham served as a captain in the United States Army.
[3][4] In 1944, Lapham, Brown, Charles I. Keene, and Harry G. Collier purchased Benson's Wild Animal Farm in Hudson, New Hampshire, from the estate of John T.