From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 12:13:33 EDT
From the URPE Announcements list. I believe that Sumner attended the memorial meeting at the New School for Bob Heilbroner this past Spring. / In solidarity, Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Indeck" <soapbox@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: [URPE] [Fwd: Sumner Rosen] Sumner was also an [URPE] Economy Connection member, and gave a wonderful Stony Brook radio interview on Social Security, as well as participating in a Town Meeting on Social Security in Staten Island a few weeks before he became ill. Ruthie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sumner Rosen Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:38:00 -0400 From: mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu To: mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Dear Friends and Colleagues Let us mourn the passing of Sumner Rosen, life-long champion of social and economic justice, member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, strategic thinker, organizer, friend. Please see the message below from Sumner's family. Michael Dear Friends, family and Colleagues of Sumner: It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Sumner Rosen. It was his wish that we send this notice to everyone in his email address book. Below you will find the death notice and funeral arrangements that will appear in the New York Times tomorrow. Please forward this email to anyone who is not on the list. Judith, Max & Rebekah ROSEN - Sumner M. Sumner M. Rosen died peacefully today, August 17th 2005 at home, surrounded by his family, after a brief but valiant battle with cancer. The funeral will be on Friday August 19th at 11:30 am at The Plaza Memorial Chapel, 630 Amsterdam Avenue at 90th Street in New York City. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to Bâ??nai Jeshurun Social Action Fund www.bj.org or The Five Borough Institute www.fiveborough.org. Sumner was> born in Boston in 1923. He served in World War II, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in economics from Harvard, and received a Ph.D. from MIT. Sumnerâ??s long and distinguished career as an academic and > as a social activist was marked by an unwavering devotion to fighting for the rights of working people everywhere. He was a tenured professor at Columbia Universityâ??s School of Social Work, and upon retiring, became a founding member of The Five Borough Institute, a research and educational organization devoted to implementing progressive public policies. He is survived by his wife, Judith Davidoff, his son Max, his daughter Rebekah Rosen-Gomez, and two grandchildren. Sumner M. Rosen and Judith Davidoff tel: 212 580-9787 fax: 212 496-8014 address: 201 West 86th Street, New York NY 10024
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