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More than 60 friends of Lehman Brothers, Sherman R. Lewis Jr., ’64, and Chicago GSB gathered at the Hyde Park Center November 11 to dedicate the Lehman Brothers Classroom in Lewis’s memory.
Lewis was vice chairman and director of Lehman Brothers, Inc., and a loyal supporter of the GSB. A member of the Council on the Graduate School of Business, he helped found the Chicago GSB Club of New York, which in 2002 granted him its distinguished alumnus award.
If there’s a person who deserves to be honored and remembered by both Lehman and this institution, Sherm was the man, said Richard S. Fuld Jr., Lehman’s chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. Today’s dedication and naming of this classroom is about a man who has friends all overfriends at Lehman, friends at this schoolwho valued and cherished him.
The value system between Chicago and Lehman has a terrific fit, said dean Edward A. Snyder, noting that Lehman has hired 35 graduating students from the GSB in the last three years. According to Fuld, it was Lewis who made that close relationship happen. He led the charge for Lehman Brothers and a lot of other Wall Street firms to really deepen their relationship with the GSB, Fuld said. It’s terrific for us to be represented this way in this magnificent classroom within this building.
The classroom also met with approval from Lewis’s wife, Dorothy. It is beautifully designed, she said. The building is fantastic.
In addition to the support of Lehman Brothers, the dedication also was made possible by gifts from the Chicago GSB Club of New York and William Connors, ’90, senior vice president of fixed income trading at Lehman Brothers.
Anthony Ruth