OBITUARY: MICHAEL JOYCE
February 27, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Michael S. Joyce, former executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, died Friday at age 63, reports National Review. At the Olin Foundation, Mr. Joyce helped start the Federalist Society and bankrolled conservative thinkers such as Allan Bloom and Charles Murray, while at the Bradley Foundation, he worked to advance changes in welfare and education in Wisconsin. “He basically invented the field of modern conservative philanthropy — it existed before him and he didn’t do it alone, but he made it far more successful than it had been,” says James E. Piereson, a former head of the Olin foundation, of Mr. Joyce.
