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Gary Comer was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Lands' End clothing company, which he started in 1963. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 10, 1927. Comer attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a degree in economics. After college, he worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency. In 1963, he founded Lands' End, a mail-order clothing company. The company grew rapidly and eventually became a major retailer. Comer was an avid sailor and was a member of the Chicago Yacht Club. He was also a philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to various causes. He was a major supporter of the University of Chicago, donating money for the construction of a new library and a new student center. Comer died on October 27, 2006, at the age of 79. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters.

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2011

Comer was a long-time philanthropist, donating money to causes including children's health care, education and the study of global climate change. He opened the Gary Comer Youth Center which serves as the anchor institution to Gary Comer Middle School and Gary Comer College Prep, a campus of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. In 2011, the Gary Comer Youth Center and Gary Comer College Prep won the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal. Comer was a major contributor to the University of Chicago, providing more than $84 million in donations leading to the establishment and expansion of the Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago. He also donated to Columbia University in support of geochemistry research at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at the Lamont Observatory is named in his honor.

2006

Comer succumbed to prostate cancer on October 4, 2006, at his home in Chicago surrounded by his family.

1963

In the Spring of 1963, Comer founded Lands' End, along with his close friend Robert Halperin, Richard Stearns, and two of Stearns' employees. They started it originally as a retailer of sailing supplies and equipment (based on a mail order equipment business begun a year earlier). Comer served as president through 1990 (including following Lands' End's registration as a public company), when he stepped down from active management. He remained a major shareholder until Lands' End was acquired by Sears in 2002.

1942

Born on the South Side of Chicago in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, Comer graduated from the Paul Revere Elementary School in 1942 and Hyde Park High School in 1946. From 1950 to 1960, he worked as a copywriter at Young & Rubicam in Chicago. After quitting, he traveled around Europe for a year, and then, having been an avid sailor from childhood, he began his own business supplying sailing equipment.

1927

Gary Campbell Comer (December 10, 1927 – October 4, 2006) was the founder of mail order clothing retailer Lands' End.

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