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Gert Boyle
Gertrude "Gert" Boyle (born March 6, 1924) is a German-born American businesswoman in the state of Oregon. After her family fled Nazi Germany, her father started Columbia Sportswear, where she later became president. , she is the chairperson of the company, as well as a philanthropist and memoirist. ==Early life and education== Born Gertrude Lamfrom to a German Jewish family in Augsburg, Germany, she was the daughter of Marie (née Epstein) and Paul Lamfrom. Her father used to own the largest shirt factory in Germany〔 until it was seized by the government.〔(Immigrant Entrepreneurship: "Gertrude Boyle" ) retrieved November 9, 2013〕 Her mother was a nurse during World War I.〔 In 1937, when she was 13, her family fled Nazi Germany and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in the United States;〔 her grandmother who stayed behind died in a concentration camp.〔 In 1938, her father borrowed money from a relative and purchased the Rosenfeld Hat Company,〔 changing its name to the Columbia Hat Company (after the river).〔 She attended Grant High School in Portland and later graduated with a B.A. in sociology from the University of Arizona.〔
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