VOL. 23, NO. 1	SEPTEMBER 5, 1997

Friedman

tephen Friedman has been elected chairman of the Columbia University Board of Trustees. Friedman is senior chairman and a limited partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. A Trustee since 1989 and vice chairman since 1995, he assumed the chairmanship Sept. 2, President George Rupp announced.

  Stephen H. Case, a partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, has been elected a Columbia University Trustee.

  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 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.

  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.

Stephen Case

  As a Columbia Trustee, 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.

  Case, an authority on bankruptcy law, is a graduate of both Columbia College and Columbia Law School. His six-year term as an Alumni Trustee began Sept. 2.

  Associated with Davis Polk since 1968, Case has focused on complex Chapter 11 cases and financial distress matters involving more than 40 major corporations and other business firms. He has also helped guide a wide range of corporate securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions. His office has been in Washington, D.C., but will soon be relocated to New York City. He has taught at Georgetown's Law Center and testified before House and Senate judiciary committees on bankruptcy legislation.

  Case, CC'64 and Law'68, has been active in Columbia alumni affairs as a volunteer and benefactor. He has been a director of the Columbia College Alumni Association and a member of the Law School's Board of Visitors and capital campaign executive committee. His gifts have endowed the Edwin H. Case Professorship in Music and a scholarship in the College, both in memory of his late son, a member of the College's Class of 1992.