Joshua A. Rosenthal *81

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Josh Rosenthal, who earned his MPA at the Woodrow Wilson School, died along with 3,000 others, 12 of whom were Princeton alumni, in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

Josh graduated from the U. of Michigan in 1979, where he had been selected the Truman Scholar from Michigan in 1977.

Josh studied economics and public policy while at the Wilson School, and spent his summer internship at the Office of Management and Budget in DC. Postgraduation, he became special assistant to the president of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Richard Leone *69. Josh worked with Leone for four years, including working on the Walter Mondale presidential campaign in 1984. He then spent nine years with J.P. Morgan, ending his tenure as vice president of mergers and acquisitions. Next he joined the development offices of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

In 1996 Josh became a portfolio manager at Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co. in Boston. Josh then joined Fiduciary Trust Co. Intl., which had offices in 2 World Trade Center in June of 1998, as a senior vice president.

Josh is survived by his sister, Helen, his two nieces, his mother, Marilyn, and his father, Avram.

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