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    Jay Van Andel (June 3, 1924 – December 7, 2004) was an American billionaire businessman, best known as co-founder of the Amway Corporation, along with...
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    beauty, and home care products. The company was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos and is based in Ada, Michigan. Amway and its sister...
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  • oldest Dutch person Jan van Andel [de; nl] (1877–1972), Dutch Lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Army Jay Van Andel (1924–2004), American businessman...
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    2018) was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando...
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  • States. It is privately owned by the families of Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel through Alticor which is the holding company for businesses including...
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    Alticor is a privately owned American corporation run by the DeVos and Van Andel families. It was established in 1999 to serve as the parent company for...
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    education organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan. VAI was founded by Jay and Betty Van Andel in 1996. The institute's research focuses on cancer epigenetics...
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    Global. It was named in recognition of the largest benefactors, Jay and Betty Van Andel. It is home to the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey...
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    The corridor originated from the 1996 founding of Van Andel Institute by Jay and Betty Van Andel. It has since expanded to include the Grand Rapids Community...
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  • professor in 2000. In 2012, he was appointed the Jay Van Andel Endowed Chair in Parkinson's Research at Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Before moving...
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  • president of Elizabethtown College Mel Trotter — rescue mission director Jay Van Andel — co-founder of Amway Robert J. Vanderbei — Princeton University professor...
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    youngest son of Helen June (Van Wesep) and Amway co-founder Rich DeVos, who, with Steve Van Andel's father Jay Van Andel, started Amway in Ada, Michigan...
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  • Olympics). Zuzana Navarová, 45, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer. Jay Van Andel, 80, American co-founder and former chairman of Amway, Parkinson's disease...
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  • operated a company to distribute the vitamins. The founders of Amway, Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos, began as independent distributors selling Nutrilite...
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  • Corporation 1993 – J. Willard Marriott, Jr. – Marriott International 1993 – Jay Van Andel – Amway Corporation 1993 – Raymond W. Smith – Bell Atlantic 1993 – Rich...
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  • traditional-style residence hall with a full cafeteria. The Richard M. DeVos and Jay Van Andel Academic Center is the main academic building on the campus. The 140...
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    – first settler of Kent County, pioneer, fur trader, and politician Jay Van Andel (1924–2004) – co-founder of Amway Barton H. Watson (1960–2004) – founder...
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    College, executive director of CRC 2013–present Jay Van Andel, businessman, co-founder of Amway Cornelius Van Til, (1895–1987) Reformed theologian, (raised...
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  • Strikwerda, president of Elizabethtown College Jay Van Andel, businessman, co-founder of Amway John Van Engen 1969, professor of history and Haskins Medal...
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    married Richard DeVos in 1953. They lived next door to Jay van Andel and his wife Betty. Richard and Jay were high school friends who had gone into the Nutrilite...
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  • 2004 – Jerry Scoggins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913) 2004 – Jay Van Andel, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (b. 1924)...
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    the field of Movement Disorders. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Jay Van Andel Award for outstanding research in Parkinson's disease. In 2015 Lees...
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  • Progress Eisner, Michael The Walt Disney Company 1999 An Enterprising Life Jay van Andel Amway 1998 Sam Walton: Made in America Walton, Sam Walmart 1993 No Excuses...
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    co-founder of Psychopathic Records and hip-hop singer (born in Wayne) Jay Van Andel, co-founder of Alticor and Amway (born in Grand Rapids) Brad Wardell...
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    In April 2019, Parkinson's awareness month, Van Andel Institute honored Sidransky with the Jay Van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson's...
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    Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson's Research (2013) Jay Van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson's Disease Research (2013)...
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    district Kobe Bufkin, first-round pick in 2023 NBA draft Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel, co-founders of Amway Kavon Frazier, former NFL American football player...
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    First Recipient of the Jay van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson's Disease Research, presented at the Van Andel Institute in 2012 Named...
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    from 1999 to 2009, served as the founding director of research at the Van Andel Institute (VAI). He is credited with the 1984 discovery of MET, an oncogene...
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    2006–2011); in Thirukkuvalai, Madras Province, British India (d. 2018) Jay Van Andel, American businessman and billionaire who co-founded the Amway Corporation;...
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