Donald Beer | |
Full Name: | Donald Andrew E. Beer |
Birth Date: | 31 May 1935 |
Birth Place: | Manhattan, New York City, US |
Death Place: | Princeton, New Jersey, US |
Resting Place: | Buried in Trinity All Saints Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey |
Education: | Yale University (BSE) Harvard University (MBA) |
Sport: | Rowing |
Donald A. E. Beer (May 31, 1935 - January 25, 1997) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.
He received a gold medal in eights with the American rowing team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[1] The eight rowers were Yale undergraduates. Beer was a member of the Class of 1957 for Yale with a major in electrical engineering, and graduated from Harvard Business School in 1959 with a master's degree in business administration.[2] [3]