Evelyn Lauder
| Evelyn Lauder | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Evelyn Hausner August 12, 1936 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | November 12, 2011 (aged 75) New York, New York |
| Nationality | Austrian American |
| Spouse(s) | Leonard Lauder (1959–2011, her death) |
| Children |
William P. Lauder Gary Lauder |
| Website | http://www.elcompanies.com/Pages/EvelynLauder.aspx |
Evelyn Lauder (née Hausner; August 12, 1936 – November 12, 2011) was an Austrian American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer.
She was born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. Lauder’s family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, using their household silver to get visas to Belgium. They then moved on to England where her mother was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man and Evelyn was placed in a nursery. The family arrived in New York City in 1940. Lauder would later recall that she was asleep when the ship bringing them to the United States arrived in New York Harbor and her mother woke her up to see the Statue of Liberty. During the war years her father worked as a diamond cutter; then the family opened the first of what became a chain of five dress shops in Manhattan.
She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1954. She then attended Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, where she studied Psychology and Anthropology and also where she met her future husband, Leonard Lauder, then a trainee naval officer, on a blind date. She graduated from Hunter College in 1958. The couple were married on July 5, 1959. After the marriage, she worked for several years as a public school teacher in Harlem before leaving to work with her husband at the company founded in 1946 by her mother-in-law, Estée Lauder, which at the time sold six products: a red lipstick, creams, lotions, and Youth Dew fragrance in a bath oil.
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