Bruce Alva Gimbel

Bruce Alva Gimbel (July 28, 1913 – October 7, 1980) was an American businessman and president of the Gimbels department store.

Biography Gimbel was born on July 28, 1913, to a Jewish family, the son of Alva (née Bernheimer) and Bernard Gimbel. He had four siblings: twins Peter Gimbel and David Gimbel; and twins Hope Gimbel and Caral Gimbel. and mother of photographer Lynn Stern. His sister Caral was married and divorced from Edward Lasker, son of Albert Lasker; and baseball superstar Hank Greenberg before settling down with World War II hero Joseph M. Lebworth. In 1935, he graduated from Yale University. as vice president of sales in 1946. 15 stores, and 20,000 employees. and then to Barbara Poulson with whom he had a son, John B. Gimbel. He also adopted a daughter, Judith C. Gimbel, who married architect Benjamin Mendelsund, with whom she had a daughter, Lisa Mendelsund, and a son, graphic artist Peter Mendelsund.