Walter H. Page was born and raised in Huntington, NY. After graduating from Harvard College in 1937, he began his career in banking and eventually became the Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan & Company. Like his father, Arthur W. Page, he became LIBA president (in 1958) and was instrumental in effecting the merger of LIBA’s Biological Laboratory with the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Genetics to form the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology. At that time, operation of the Lab was handed over to its new Board of Trustees. Walter later became a CSHL trustee and was noted for his ability to obtain substantial financial support for the Lab. He served with distinction as Chairman of the Board of CSHL from 1980 to 1986.