George H. Heyman Jr. ’70

Our class sadly announces the death of our first honorary classmate and beloved father of our classmate Bill, George H. Heyman Jr., who died peacefully in NYC May 31, 2003, after an extended illness. He was 86.

Mr. Heyman was our first of only a handful of honorary classmates. He was a great benefactor of our class, and a friend and adviser. A noted philanthropist with wide-ranging interests, he was a member of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb's executive committee, and held other senior posts there in the late 1970s and early 1980s, after being president of Wall Street's Abraham & Co. He was president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY from 1969 to 1971, a trustee of NYU and its medical center in the 1980s and 1990s, and chairman of NYU's trustee development committee.

He graduated from City College of NY and received an MBA from NYU. He served in the Army in Iceland, France, and Germany during WWII, finishing as a captain.

He is survived by his wife, Edythe, whom he married in 1946; two sons, Bill '70 and John; and two grandchildren. To each, our class extends its most heartfelt sympathy.

Ave atque vale.

The Class of 1970