John Hauberg, Art Collector, Museum Chief, 85

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John Hauberg, art collector and benefactor who founded the Pilchuck
Glass School and served as president of the Seattle Art Museum, died
Friday in Seattle, Washington, of a heart attack brought on by a
bacterial infection, at the age of 85. Hauberg grew up in Rock Island,
Illinois, the son of John Hauberg Sr., who founded the city's Hauberg
Indian Museum.

After graduating from the University of Washington, the younger Hauberg
stayed in Seattle, where he became a civic leader and philanthropist. He
was Republican state finance chairman from 1955 to 1964, and helped
found the Northwest Hardwoods Assn., the Child Development and Mental
Retardation Center and the former Foundation for the Handicapped. In
1971, he founded the Pilchuck school on his family farm as a summer
project. An international faculty now teaches hot-glass design, casting
and engraving, stained-glass painting and glass blowing. Hauberg filled
his three homes with collections of pre-Columbian art, Northwest Indian
art and contemporary Northwest art.

The first chairman of the board of the Seattle Art Museum, Hauberg in
1973 succeeded its founder, Richard Fuller, as president. During his
five-year tenure, he was a key player in securing the museum's downtown
location. To celebrate the downtown facility's opening in 1991, he
donated more than 200 pieces of Northwest Coast Indian art; it was
considered one of the finest collections of its kind.

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