Though he is not directly in the animation industry he has touched a lot of animators at the school which he fought so hard to start. The founder of School of Visual Arts, Silas H. Rhodes, died at 91 last Wednesday.

Here is a really good obituary about his life which includes everything from working on the early Tarzan comic strip to his run in with Senator McCarthy when he was going around claiming people were Communists. Very interesting life.

NY Times Obituary