David Furchgott
American businessman
David Max Furchgott (born May 24, 1947) is a United States nonprofit cultural programs manager, arts educator, publisher, and cultural social entrepreneur.
Origin, education, and career beginning
David Furchgott was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Marcelle and Max Furchgott. His forebears (originally spelled Fürchtgott) moved from Central Europe in the late 19th century to the United States in 1864, eventually settling in Charleston (as well as Atlanta, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida). They began an early chain of family-owned sundry (department) stores. David Furchgott's father was a trained artist and photographer who studied at the University of South Carolina and the Art Students League in NY; his uncle was Robert F. Furchgott, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology.
David Furchgott graduated M. Rutledge Rivers High School in Charleston, the first integrated high school in South Carolina. Furchgott was the president of the Southeast Federation of Temple Youth, the five-state regional consortium of the Reform Jewish youth movement (now NFTY) which was then focused on issues related to social justice and equality.
In 1965, Furchgott attended Tulane University intending to study Architecture, then transferred to the University of Miami, graduating with a Bachelor of Education in Art Education in January 1970, and an incomplete Bachelor of Fine Arts. Having undergone a difficult process to be recognized as a Vietnam-era conscientious objector, Furchgott was required to return to South Carolina to complete two years of public service. He taught as an arts and crafts instructor at the South Carolina Habilitation Center in Ladson, SC; a facility for developmentally disabled children and adults.
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