Henry W. Bloch (born
July 30,
1922) is the co-founder
and (since 2000) the chairman
emeritus of
H&R Block.
Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955
in Kansas City,
Missouri
.
Personal life
Bloch was born in Kansas City.
He attended Southwest High School, and
was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas
City
and the University of Michigan
, graduating from Michigan in 1944.
Through
the Army Air Corps he
received graduate training at the Harvard Business
School
.
Bloch and
his wife Marion married in 1951 and live in the Kansas City
metropolitan area
.
The Henry
Wollman Block fountain in front of Union Station in
Kansas City
is named in his honor, as is The Henry W.
Bloch
School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri–Kansas
City
and the Bloch Building, a major addition to the
Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
. Mr. Bloch was inducted into the Junior
Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2001.
References
- Biography of Bloch from the H&R Block
website
- About Henry Bloch from the UMKC Bloch School
website