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Walter A. Haas
Walter A. Haas, Sr. (May 11, 1889 – December 7, 1979), son of the founder of Hellman-Haas Grocery (which became Smart & Final), was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. Haas was credited with saving the once struggling company.
==Biography==
Haas was born to a Jewish family, one of four children of Abraham Haas and Fanny Koshland.〔(Jewish Museum of the American West: "Abraham Haas: Purveyer of Food Stuffs, Wholesale & Retail, Part 1, Los Angeles" ) retrieved April 21, 2014〕 His father was an immigrant from Bavaria who founded the Hellman, Hass and Company which eventually became the Smart & Final grocery store chain.〔 His mother was the daughter of one of the most successful wool merchants in San Francisco.〔(Jewish Museum of the American West: "Abraham Haas: Purveyer of Food Stuffs, Wholesale & Retail, Part 2, Los Angeles" ) retrieved April 21, 2014〕 His siblings were Charles, Ruth (1891), and Eleanor (1900).〔(The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life: "Berkeley Haas (Abraham) correspondence, 1885-1886" ) | The Bancroft Library | University of California | retrieved April 21, 2014〕 In 1910, Haas graduated with a BS degree from the University of California-Berkeley College of Commerce.〔(University of California Berkeley website: About Walter Haas ) retrieved March 27, 2013〕 (He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958). Haas served in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War I.〔 Upon his return to the United States in 1919, he worked at the Levi Strauss & Company, then a small drygoods wholesaler and maker of work clothing, owned by the family of his wife. In 1928, he became president and served in that position until 1955; thereafter, he served as chairman until 1970 and remained active in company affairs until his death in 1979.〔 Haas' tenure and dedication at Levi Strauss - along with that of his business partner and brother-in-law Daniel E. Koshland, Sr., father of physicist Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.〔(JWeekly: "Daniel Koshland, biologist and philanthropist, dies at 87" by joe eskenazi ) July 27, 2007〕 - is widely credited with saving the company leading it through the Great Depression, racial integration at its factories, the global popularization of the Levi brand, and the creation of the Levi Strauss Foundation.〔(Butler Koshland Fellopshops: "Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. 1892-1979" ) retrieved march 27, 2013〕
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