U.S. #3243
32¢ Giving and Sharing

Issue Date: October 7, 1998
City: Atlanta, GA
Quantity: 50,000,000
Printed By: Avery Dennison
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: 11.1
Color: Multicolored

Happy Birthday Paul Newman

Actor, director, race car driver, and philanthropist Paul Leonard Newman ...  more

U.S. #3243
32¢ Giving and Sharing

Issue Date: October 7, 1998
City: Atlanta, GA
Quantity: 50,000,000
Printed By: Avery Dennison
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: 11.1
Color: Multicolored

Happy Birthday Paul Newman

Actor, director, race car driver, and philanthropist Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Newman enjoyed acting as a child, first appearing on stage at age seven as a court jester in Robin Hood.  He also did a play when he was 10 with the Cleveland Play House.

Newman went on briefly attend Ohio University before joining the Navy in World War II.  He served as a radioman-gunner aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill.  After the war, Newman earned his bachelors in drama and economics from Kenyon College.  He went on to attend Yale Drama School for a year before going to New York to study under Lee Strasberg.    

While acting was his craft, philanthropy was Newman’s calling.  He donated his personal resources wherever there was a need.  A man of many talents, Newman used to make salad dressings to give to friends and family.  He decided he could turn it into a charitable business – and he did.  In 1982, he started his own company, aptly named “Newman’s Own.”  Today, his legacy lives on through his namesake foundation.  In its 30-plus years, the company has donated over $550 million to charity – all from the profits and royalties of Newman’s Own products, just as Paul intended.  Newman also co-founded the Safe Water Network, which provides sustainable drinking water to those in need. 

Newman reportedly had been diagnosed with lung cancer and died on September 26, 2008.