Al Glick, chairman and CEO of Jackson-based Alro Steel and known for his philanthropy, most notably to the University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital and Michigan football, has died.
Glick was 95.
His name appears on the Michigan football indoor facility — “Al Glick Field House” — after donating $8.7 million to the $26.1 million project that opened in 2009. His name also appears on the football weight room, the “Glick Family Performance Center” and he donated to the renovations of Michigan Stadium in 2010. The Alvin Glick Foundation donated $3 million in 2011 to Mott Children’s Hospital in the name of former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, with whom he was close friends.