David G. Mugar
American businessman
David Graves Mugar (April 27, 1939 – January 25, 2022) was an American businessman from Belmont, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Mugar family of Greater Boston. He was CEO and chair of Mugar Enterprises. His father, Stephen P. Mugar, was the founder of the Star Market supermarket chain and was also a major Boston-area philanthropist.
Life and career
Mugar was born on April 27, 1939. He attended the Cambridge School of Weston and in 1962 graduated from Babson College. The Mugar Omni Theater at Boston's Museum of Science was named after Mugar's parents, and Mugar was a museum trustee. Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library, the university's main study and research library, is named after his grandparents.
Mugar worked as an executive producer of Boston's Fourth of July celebration—since the mid-1970s, closely associated with the Boston Pops concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade—organized by the Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded by Mugar. Mugar also owned WNEV, later known as WHDH (locally, channel 7), a television station broadcasting throughout the Greater Boston area.
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