Joan Tisch

Tisch was born to Howard N. Hyman[2] and his wife, Marie Ziegler.[3] Her father was a Manhattan dentist who helped disabled war veterans attend theater and sporting events. He persuaded Jack Mara, then president of the New York Giants, to donate 400 seats for each home game to disabled fans and their companions, according to a news release from Loews upon his death in 1981.[3] Her mother was born in Germany.[4] In 1948, she received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan[3] and married Preston Robert "Bob" Tisch (1926–2005) the same year. They had three children:

• Steve Tisch is a businessman who lives in Beverly Hills, California. He is the only Tisch child to leave the New York area and serves as the family’s point man in their shared ownership of the New York Giants.
• Jonathan Tisch is the public face of the hotel division of Loews Corporation. In 1988, he married Laura Steinberg, the daughter of financier and insurance executive Saul Steinberg, at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan.[5] They later divorced. Jonathan is also an active Democratic Party fund-raiser.
• Laurie Tisch sits on the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Children's Museum of Manhattan and is chairwoman of The Center for Arts Education, a nonprofit group that works to improve Arts education in the public schools. She is divorced from Connecticut hedge fund manager Donald Sussman.[6][7] She founded the not-for-profit foundation, the Illumination Fund, which serves the children of New York City with an emphasis on arts education.[8]

Joan Tisch died on the morning of November 2, 2017, at the age of 90 after a brief illness.[9][10]

• Forbes.com profile