The late Marjorie Merriweather Post was one of the world's richest women, heiress to the Post Cereal Company fortune, and daughter of its founder, Charles William Post.
In 1954 she gave her home estate to Long Island University for use as a campus.  The campus was named "C.W. Post" after her father.
Charles William Post invented and marketed several wildly popular grain-based food products including the breakfast cereals Post Toasties and Grape Nuts.  Marjorie Merriweather Post, a brilliant business executive in her own right, added frozen foods, Jell-O, Maxwell House Coffee and other now well-known brands to her father's business line.  She built the company into an international enterprise now known as Kraft General Foods.