There are 6 article(s) tagged Rudi Scheidt:

• February 2023

  • Dionne Warwick brings star power to U of M music center opening

    Student musicians backed the legendary singer at the grand opening gala for the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis.

    By Aarron Fleming February 05, 2023

• January 2022

  • Scheidt family donates $500K to U of M music program

    Scheidt’s children are creating a matching fund, meaning that the goal is that the new fund will raise $1 million total.

    By Jasmine McCraven January 18, 2022

• March 2021

  • Opinion: The ‘irrational disease’ of anti-Semitism persists

    ‘I suspect most people who read this will think that anti-Semitism is nothing we need to worry about in Memphis, but they are wrong. Wherever white supremacy exists it is led by those who hate Jews.’

    By G. Scott Morris March 07, 2021

• April 2020

  • Rudi Scheidt: A force for life, larger than life

    Rabbi Micah Greenstein shares part of his eulogy for Rudi E. Scheidt Sr., the businessman, philanthropist and music lover who died Sunday, April 12. 

    By Micah Greenstein April 15, 2020

  • Scheidt was a businessman by trade, a philanthropist by profession

    Rudi didn’t take the idea of death lightly. He didn’t go to funerals. But when someone he cared for died, he gave generously to a charity in their memory.

    By Susan Adler Thorp April 15, 2020

  • Rudi Scheidt, philanthropist and businessman, dies at 95

    Scheidt, a retired cotton industry executive who was the former chairman of Hohenberg Brothers, gave millions of dollars along with his wife, Honey Hohenberg Scheidt, to Memphis nonprofits and arts causes.

    By Abigail Warren April 13, 2020