William R. Orthwein Jr.

[1][2] His father, William R. Orthwein, was a lawyer who competed in water polo at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and his mother, Nina Kent Baldwin, was a schoolteacher.

[3] His paternal grandfather, William D. Orthwein (1841–1925), was a German-born grain merchant in St.

[2][4] Orthwein started his career as a salesman for the General American Life Insurance,[4] now part of MetLife.

[2] Additionally, Orthwein served on the boards of directors of the Mercantile Bancorporation and the Microdata Corporation.

[2][3] Through the foundation, Orthwein donated US$2.5 million to the Yale School of Medicine to support scholarship in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in 2007.