Biography
Haas graduated with a BS degree from the UC Berkeley College of Commerce in 1910. He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958. In 1989, the UC Regents voted to rename the business school the Haas School of Business in his honor, after a large gift from the Haas family. Haas had three children: Rhoda Haas Goldman, Peter E. Haas, and Walter A. Haas, Jr..
Haas served in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War I. A Republican, he was an alternate delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention. He was Jewish, and served as president of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Federation.
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