Stern Announces Major Gifts:
New Professorship and
Commons Room Dedication
Dean Thomas F. Cooley and former Dean George Daly recently announced two major gifts
to the Stern School that will provide important assistance in its continued progress. These include the endowment
of a new Professorship in Ethics and Corporate Governance and Strategy in honor of businessman Seymour Milstein
and a naming gift of the new Commons Room in memory of Douglas B. Gardner.
Philip L. Milstein, MBA '74, member of the NYU Stern Board of Overseers and President of the Emigrant Savings Bank,
together with his wife Cheryl Milstein, have endowed a Professorship in Ethics and Corporate Governance and Strategy
in honor of his late father, Seymour Milstein. Seymour Milstein, a 1941 NYU Heights Campus BA graduate, was a distinguished
businessman, philanthropist and humanitarian.
In addition, Joseph Gardner, BS '49, has made a naming gift for the new Commons Room adjacent to the September
11 Memorial Lobby of Shimkin Hall. The space will now be known as the Joseph H. and Douglas B. Gardner Commons
Room in memory of Joseph's son, Douglas, who was a top executive of Cantor Fitzgerald and lost his life in the
World Trade Center.
