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175 Makers of History: Charles H. "Pete" McTier

Charles H. "Pete" McTier 61B
President, Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

Charles H. "Pete" McTier helped form the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, one of four foundations he led during a career in philanthropic administration.

McTier signed the checks that provided hundreds of millions of dollars to a variety of causes across Georgia: education, health, child welfare and youth programs, the elderly, cultural institutions and the arts, civic projects, economic development, and the environment.

Now retired from the foundations' day-to-day operations, he remains a trustee of three of them and also serves his alma mater as a trustee.