{"id":106,"date":"2007-02-05T02:30:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-02-05T02:30:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T21:00:36","slug":"who-the-heck-is-t-denny-sanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/05\/who-the-heck-is-t-denny-sanford\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Who the heck is T. Denny Sanford?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sioux Valley Hospital, a mainstay of healthcare in Sioux Falls, SD, since the 1800&#8217;s, just disappeared this weekend. From now on it will be known as Sanford Health, in honor of T. Denny Sanford, who <a href=\"http:\/\/argusleader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070204\/NEWS\/702040344\">donated $400,000,000<\/a> to the hospital foundation this past week.<\/p>\n<p>A Google search yields some interesting results; Sanford is #117 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/\">Forbes&#8217;<\/a> list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. Interesting that Forbes&#8217; shows Sanford as one of the top philanthropists in the country, and his goal in life is to &#8220;Die broke&#8221;. Also interesting is that he&#8217;s known by his friends as the &#8220;wolt&#8221;; World&#8217;s Oldest Living Teenager. I think I could like this guy.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a lifelong entrepreneur, having made his fortune himself in the banking industry, more specifically First Premier Bank and Premier Bankcard, both based in Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philanthropy.com\/free\/articles\/v19\/i08\/08000701.htm\">Philanthropy.org<\/a> has a nice article on the man and his gift.<\/p>\n<p>Both Yvonne &amp; Emily work at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;ll=43.534511,-96.743717&amp;spn=0.004223,0.006427&amp;t=h&amp;om=1\">Sioux Valley&#8230;<\/a> I mean Sanford Health. And the campus is only a few blocks from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;z=18&amp;ll=43.53108,-96.748985&amp;spn=0.002112,0.003213&amp;t=h&amp;om=1\">home<\/a>. On the news last night they showed an architect&#8217;s rendering of what the campus might someday look like; I wonder how close it will be in say ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sioux Valley Hospital, a mainstay of healthcare in Sioux Falls, SD, since the 1800&#8217;s, just disappeared this weekend. From now on it will be known as Sanford Health, in honor of T. Denny Sanford, who donated $400,000,000 to the hospital foundation this past week. A Google search yields some interesting results; Sanford is #117 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-stuff","category-sioux-falls"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}