Robert H. Sayre; An Industrial Pioneer

(WFMZ) Ask just about anyone who the father of Bethlehem Steel was and most would name those two 20th century titans of industry, Charles Schwab and Eugene Grace. Ask who the father of Lehigh University was and the reply will surely be Asa Packer.
But it would be the rare person who will know that without Robert H. Sayre, none of these institutions, one gone, the other flourishing, would have survived at all. Perhaps it is about time Sayre be given his chance to take a discreet historical bow. Continued