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Stephen Friedman Elected Chair of
Columbia Trustees


	Stephen Friedman has been elected chairman of  the Trustees of Columbia 
University.  Mr. Friedman is Senior Chairman and a Limited Partner of 
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
	A Trustee since 1989 and vice chairman since 1995, he will assume the 
chairmanship September 2, Columbia President George Rupp announced.
	Mr. Friedman, a graduate of Columbia Law School, has been with 
Goldman, Sachs & Co. since 1966 and became a partner in 1973.  From 1987 to 1990 
he was vice chairman and co-chief operating officer, and from 1990 to 1994 he was 
co-chairman or chairman.
	After earning his B.A. in 1959 from Cornell University and his LL.B. in 
1962 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Law Review editor and a Harlan 
Fiske Stone Scholar, he served as a law clerk in the Federal Court for the 
Southern District of New York.  He was a practicing attorney before joining 
Goldman, Sachs.
	Mr. Friedman is a trustee of the Brookings Institution and chairman of its 
executive committee and a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  
He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign 
Relations.  He was a member of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of 
the U.S. Intelligence Community (the Aspin/Brown Commission).  He is also a 
director of Wal-Mart Stores and Fannie Mae.
	As a Columbia Trustee, Mr. Friedman has been chairman of the 
committee on health sciences, the investment steering committee and the 
subcommittee on compensation, and he is a member of the executive committee, 
the finance committee and the subcommittee on nominations.
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