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Sanford Greenberg

March 05, 2023

Sanford "Sandy" David Greenberg (born December 13, 1940) is an American inventor, author, public servant, and philanthropist most well known for his efforts toward the goal of ending blindness.[1][2][3]

Sanford Greenberg
Born
Sanford David Greenberg

(1940-12-13) December 13, 1940 (age 82)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationColumbia University (BA, MBA)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
University of Oxford
OccupationChairman of the Board of Governors of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Wilmer Eye Institute
SpouseSusan Roseno (m. 1962)

Early life

Greenberg was born in Buffalo, New York as the oldest of four children. His father Albert was a tailor who died of a heart attack in 1946. Greenberg attended Bennett High School, then entered Columbia University in 1958 on a full scholarship where he roomed with Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, and was a friend of Michael Mukasey.[4]

As Greenberg recounts in his memoir, misdiagnosed glaucoma caused his eyesight to fail during the first semester of his junior year in college, and then in January 1961 his vision failed completely.[5] The next month, a surgeon blinded Greenberg to save his eyes. With Art Garfunkel’s encouragement and help, Greenberg returned to Columbia in September 1961, made up the semester he had lost, and graduated with his class as its president and Phi Beta Kappa.[6][7][8]

In 1965, Greenberg received a master's degree and a PhD in government from Harvard University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and attended Harvard Law School. He spent 1964–1965 at University of Oxford, Linacre College as one of 24 Marshall Scholars named that year, and then received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1966, while also serving as an Assistant Professor in its Department of Public Law and Government.[9][10]

Career

Greenberg launched his first company, International Communications Associates, in the field of the technology of information processing. In 1966, Greenberg developed and got patents on an electronic device for compressed speech, which speeds up the reproduction of words from recordings without distorting any sound. In 1966 Greenberg was named one of the ten “Outstanding Young Men” of America by the United States Junior Chamber.[11] That spring, Greenberg was also one of seventeen young Americans selected to be White House Fellows in the Lyndon Johnson administration. While serving as a Fellow, Greenberg formed a close friendship with David Rockefeller, who had helped found the Program and became Greenberg’s mentor.[12]

In 1968, with $2 million raised from Wall Street financial institutions, Greenberg launched EDP (Electronic Data Processing), a systems-analysis company headquartered in Washington, DC. Since the White House was transitioning to the Richard Nixon administration at that time, Greenberg was able to include multiple high-ranking figures from the Johnson years in his new enterprise. Among them: Dr. James L. Goddard, Orville Freeman, Bill Moyers and W. Willard Wirtz. A highlight for EDP came in July 1969 when the company helped develop the on-board computer system for Apollo 11’s lunar excursion module. In October 1969, The Washington Post reported that EDP was worth $80 million.[13]

During these years, Greenberg was still perfecting the speech-compression machine he had been working on for almost a decade. The final design, patented in 1969, was one of the earliest methods for time-scale modification of speech.[14] Greenberg licensed the device to Sony, General Electric, Matsushita, and other manufacturers of audio equipment.[15] As a member of the board of governors of Ford’s Theatre, Greenberg played a role in the renovation and 1968 reopening of the site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The following year Harper & Row published Greenberg’s analysis of Executive Branch decision-making, The Presidential Advisory System, co-edited with Thomas E. Cronin.[16][17][18][19][20]

In May 1974, the Young Presidents' Organization named Greenberg its first Man of the Year while he was serving on the board of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and as a director of the Capital Centre (Landover, Maryland), and as a partner of the Washington Capitals. Greenberg added a second sports venue to his real-estate interests in 1976 when he purchased the Richfield Coliseum, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. In 1983, Greenberg founded T.E.I. Industries.[21][22][23]

As a past director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a longstanding member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Greenberg was a founding director of the “American Agenda: A Report to the Forty-First President of the United States,” George H. W. Bush, chaired by Presidents Carter and Ford.[24] In 1994, Bill Clinton appointed Greenberg to the National Science Board, and in 1996, he became chairman of the federal Rural Healthcare Corporation created by Congress.[25][26]

In 2012, he announced the Greenberg Prize, a three-million-dollar prize to go to the scientists who contributed the most toward the cause of ending blindness.[27] This gained wide recognition in 2014 when it was granted a featured session on the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2020, the Greenberg Prize was awarded to 13 scientists and researchers.[28][29][30][31][32]

In 2016, Greenberg was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[33][34] In 2020, Greenberg released his memoir Hello Darkness, My Old Friend published by Post Hill Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster.[35] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg contributed a warm foreword to the memoir.[36][37] Hello Darkness, My Old Friend also includes an introduction from Art Garfunkel and a “Final Word” from novelist Margaret Atwood.[38] The audiobook version of the book is also read by Art Garfunkel.

Personal life

Greenberg married Susan Roseno in August 1962, in Buffalo. Art Garfunkel is godfather to their three children.

Greenberg has been notable for his refusal to avail himself of the most common aids for the blind such as a companion dog, a cane, or the use of Braille.[39] Greenberg also plays basketball. He has written that although he cannot see, he can feel people moving in waves around him and orient himself toward the basket. For more than 50 years, Greenberg has also been collecting art that he cannot see, including pieces by Frank Stella, Picasso, and Rembrandt.[2]

Citations

  1. ^ Morgan, Mike (November 8, 2017). "Mind's Eye". Baltimore Magazine.
  2. ^ a b "Donor Enlists Top Scientists and Philanthropists to End Blindness". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. August 4, 2020.
  3. ^ "Security Violation" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Old Friends". Columbia Magazine.
  5. ^ "Investing Legend Sanford Greenberg Looks Back on a Life of Blindness". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com. 24 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Art Garfunkel and Sanford Greenberg discuss their special bond". TODAY.com.
  7. ^ Nolasco, Stephanie (July 16, 2020). "Art Garfunkel's pal says singer helped him overcome despair after he became blind: 'It lifted me out of the grave'". Fox News.
  8. ^ "Inside Art Garfunkel's Bond with Blind College Roommate Who Says His Care Was 'End of Hopelessness'". PEOPLE.com.
  9. ^ "This Man Thinks He's the Luckiest in the World—Even Though He Went Blind in College". June 28, 2018.
  10. ^ "The Man Who Put a Bounty on Blindness". Magazine. August 15, 2016.
  11. ^ Koeniges, Thomas R. (March 12, 1966). "Blind White House worker (Dr. Sanford Greenberg)". www.loc.gov.
  12. ^ Brady, Erik. "Erik Brady: Sandy Greenberg's quest for sight found solace and hope in Darkness, his old friend". The Buffalo News.
  13. ^ "Authors Sanford D. Greenberg Archive | Post Hill Press". posthillpress.com.
  14. ^ Simon, Madeleine (May 8, 2020). "I turned to Jonas Salk for advice in the 1970s. His words could help us conquer the coronavirus". TheHill.
  15. ^ Jones, Stacy V. (January 19, 1974). "Device Allows Intelligible High‐Speed Tape Replay (Published 1974)". The New York Times.
  16. ^ Cronin, Thomas E.; Greenberg, Sanford D. (1969). The Presidential Advisory System. ISBN 0060414251.
  17. ^ Cronin, Thomas E.; Greenberg, Sanford D. (March 12, 1969). The Presidential advisory system. Harper & Row – via National Library of Australia (new catalog).
  18. ^ Cronin, Thomas E.; Greenberg, Sanford D. (March 12, 1969). The Presidential advisory system. Harper & Row – via Hathi Trust.
  19. ^ "Mr. Sanford D. Greenberg". www.endblindnessby2020.com.
  20. ^ https://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=muskie_oh[bare URL PDF]
  21. ^ "The Richfield Coliseum, a magnificent structure sitting on a..." UPI.
  22. ^ "Players Give the Barons' Owner Ultimatum and Tuesday Deadline (Published 1977)". The New York Times. February 19, 1977.
  23. ^ "Conscious Talk - Radio that Makes a Difference -Radio that Makes a Difference - Guest Information for Sanford Greenberg". www.conscioustalk.net.
  24. ^ American Agenda: Report to the Forty-First President of the United States of America. Book-of-the-Month Club. January 1990.
  25. ^ "Blindness - Charlie Rose" – via charlierose.com.
  26. ^ "National Science Board: Meetings". www.nsf.gov.
  27. ^ "Art Garfunkel's Beloved Blind College Roommate Awards $3 Million to Scientists to Cure Blindness". PEOPLE.com.
  28. ^ "13 doctors and researchers win the Sanford and Sue Greenberg Prize to End Blindness". Science. December 3, 2020.
  29. ^ "Simon John Awarded Sanford and Susan Greenberg Visionary Prize to End Blindness". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. December 17, 2020.
  30. ^ "James Fujimoto wins the Visionary Prize from the Greenberg Prize to End Blindness". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  31. ^ "Vision researchers honored by End Blindness 2020". Penn Today.
  32. ^ "$2 Million Gift in Gold Bullion to Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine Creates Prize for Ending Blindness by 2020 - 10/18/2012". www.hopkinsmedicine.org.
  33. ^ "3 Members of the Johns Hopkins University Community Elected to American Academy of Arts And Sciences - 04/20/2016". www.hopkinsmedicine.org.
  34. ^ "Sanford D. Greenberg". American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
  35. ^ Greenberg, Sanford D. (June 30, 2020). Hello Darkness, My Old Friend. ISBN 9781642934977 – via www.simonandschuster.com.
  36. ^ Greenberg, Sanford D. (November 3, 2020). "Opinion | An Election Day Message From R.B.G.'s Neighbor". The New York Times.
  37. ^ "Hello Darkness, My Old Friend | Columbia Alumni Association". www.alumni.columbia.edu.
  38. ^ Greenberg, Sanford D. (30 June 2020). Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life. ISBN 978-1642934977.
  39. ^ Polcaro, Rafael (July 19, 2020). "Art Garfunkel's blind friend who inspired "Sound Of Silence" tells his story". Rock And Roll Garage.

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CitationsEarly life EditGreenberg was born in Buffalo New York as the oldest of four children His father Albert was a tailor who died of a heart attack in 1946 Greenberg attended Bennett High School then entered Columbia University in 1958 on a full scholarship where he roomed with Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer and was a friend of Michael Mukasey 4 As Greenberg recounts in his memoir misdiagnosed glaucoma caused his eyesight to fail during the first semester of his junior year in college and then in January 1961 his vision failed completely 5 The next month a surgeon blinded Greenberg to save his eyes With Art Garfunkel s encouragement and help Greenberg returned to Columbia in September 1961 made up the semester he had lost and graduated with his class as its president and Phi Beta Kappa 6 7 8 In 1965 Greenberg received a master s degree and a PhD in government from Harvard University where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and attended Harvard Law School He spent 1964 1965 at University of Oxford Linacre College as one of 24 Marshall Scholars named that year and then received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1966 while also serving as an Assistant Professor in its Department of Public Law and Government 9 10 Career EditGreenberg launched his first company International Communications Associates in the field of the technology of information processing In 1966 Greenberg developed and got patents on an electronic device for compressed speech which speeds up the reproduction of words from recordings without distorting any sound In 1966 Greenberg was named one of the ten Outstanding Young Men of America by the United States Junior Chamber 11 That spring Greenberg was also one of seventeen young Americans selected to be White House Fellows in the Lyndon Johnson administration While serving as a Fellow Greenberg formed a close friendship with David Rockefeller who had helped found the Program and became Greenberg s mentor 12 In 1968 with 2 million raised from Wall Street financial institutions Greenberg launched EDP Electronic Data Processing a systems analysis company headquartered in Washington DC Since the White House was transitioning to the Richard Nixon administration at that time Greenberg was able to include multiple high ranking figures from the Johnson years in his new enterprise Among them Dr James L Goddard Orville Freeman Bill Moyers and W Willard Wirtz A highlight for EDP came in July 1969 when the company helped develop the on board computer system for Apollo 11 s lunar excursion module In October 1969 The Washington Post reported that EDP was worth 80 million 13 During these years Greenberg was still perfecting the speech compression machine he had been working on for almost a decade The final design patented in 1969 was one of the earliest methods for time scale modification of speech 14 Greenberg licensed the device to Sony General Electric Matsushita and other manufacturers of audio equipment 15 As a member of the board of governors of Ford s Theatre Greenberg played a role in the renovation and 1968 reopening of the site of Abraham Lincoln s assassination The following year Harper amp Row published Greenberg s analysis of Executive Branch decision making The Presidential Advisory System co edited with Thomas E Cronin 16 17 18 19 20 In May 1974 the Young Presidents Organization named Greenberg its first Man of the Year while he was serving on the board of Ben Gurion University of the Negev and as a director of the Capital Centre Landover Maryland and as a partner of the Washington Capitals Greenberg added a second sports venue to his real estate interests in 1976 when he purchased the Richfield Coliseum home of the Cleveland Cavaliers In 1983 Greenberg founded T E I Industries 21 22 23 As a past director of the National Committee on U S China Relations and a longstanding member of the Council on Foreign Relations Greenberg was a founding director of the American Agenda A Report to the Forty First President of the United States George H W Bush chaired by Presidents Carter and Ford 24 In 1994 Bill Clinton appointed Greenberg to the National Science Board and in 1996 he became chairman of the federal Rural Healthcare Corporation created by Congress 25 26 In 2012 he announced the Greenberg Prize a three million dollar prize to go to the scientists who contributed the most toward the cause of ending blindness 27 This gained wide recognition in 2014 when it was granted a featured session on the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland In 2020 the Greenberg Prize was awarded to 13 scientists and researchers 28 29 30 31 32 In 2016 Greenberg was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 33 34 In 2020 Greenberg released his memoir Hello Darkness My Old Friend published by Post Hill Press distributed by Simon amp Schuster 35 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg contributed a warm foreword to the memoir 36 37 Hello Darkness My Old Friend also includes an introduction from Art Garfunkel and a Final Word from novelist Margaret Atwood 38 The audiobook version of the book is also read by Art Garfunkel Personal life EditGreenberg married Susan Roseno in August 1962 in Buffalo Art Garfunkel is godfather to their three children Greenberg has been notable for his refusal to avail himself of the most common aids for the blind such as a companion dog a cane or the use of Braille 39 Greenberg also plays basketball He has written that although he cannot see he can feel people moving in waves around him and orient himself toward the basket For more than 50 years Greenberg has also been collecting art that he cannot see including pieces by Frank Stella Picasso and Rembrandt 2 Citations Edit Morgan Mike November 8 2017 Mind s Eye Baltimore Magazine a b Donor Enlists Top Scientists and Philanthropists to End Blindness The Chronicle of Philanthropy August 4 2020 Security Violation PDF Old Friends Columbia Magazine Investing Legend Sanford Greenberg Looks Back on a Life of Blindness jewishweek timesofisrael com 24 June 2020 Art Garfunkel and Sanford Greenberg discuss their special bond TODAY com Nolasco Stephanie July 16 2020 Art Garfunkel s pal says singer helped him overcome despair after he became blind It lifted me out of the grave Fox News Inside Art Garfunkel s Bond with Blind College Roommate Who Says His Care Was End of Hopelessness PEOPLE com This Man Thinks He s the Luckiest in the World Even Though He Went Blind in College June 28 2018 The Man Who Put a Bounty on Blindness Magazine August 15 2016 Koeniges Thomas R March 12 1966 Blind White House worker Dr Sanford Greenberg www loc gov Brady Erik Erik Brady Sandy Greenberg s quest for sight found solace and hope in Darkness his old friend The Buffalo News Authors Sanford D Greenberg Archive Post Hill Press posthillpress com Simon Madeleine May 8 2020 I turned to Jonas Salk for advice in the 1970s His words could help us conquer the coronavirus TheHill Jones Stacy V January 19 1974 Device Allows Intelligible High Speed Tape Replay Published 1974 The New York Times Cronin Thomas E Greenberg Sanford D 1969 The Presidential Advisory System ISBN 0060414251 Cronin Thomas E Greenberg Sanford D March 12 1969 The Presidential advisory system Harper amp Row via National Library of Australia new catalog Cronin Thomas E Greenberg Sanford D March 12 1969 The Presidential advisory system Harper amp Row via Hathi Trust Mr Sanford D Greenberg www endblindnessby2020 com https scarab bates edu cgi viewcontent cgi article 1151 amp context muskie oh bare URL PDF The Richfield Coliseum a magnificent structure sitting on a UPI Players Give the Barons Owner Ultimatum and Tuesday Deadline Published 1977 The New York Times February 19 1977 Conscious Talk Radio that Makes a Difference Radio that Makes a Difference Guest Information for Sanford Greenberg www conscioustalk net American Agenda Report to the Forty First President of the United States of America Book of the Month Club January 1990 Blindness Charlie Rose via charlierose com National Science Board Meetings www nsf gov Art Garfunkel s Beloved Blind College Roommate Awards 3 Million to Scientists to Cure Blindness PEOPLE com 13 doctors and researchers win the Sanford and Sue Greenberg Prize to End Blindness Science December 3 2020 Simon John Awarded Sanford and Susan Greenberg Visionary Prize to End Blindness Columbia University Irving Medical Center December 17 2020 James Fujimoto wins the Visionary Prize from the Greenberg Prize to End Blindness MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vision researchers honored by End Blindness 2020 Penn Today 2 Million Gift in Gold Bullion to Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine Creates Prize for Ending Blindness by 2020 10 18 2012 www hopkinsmedicine org 3 Members of the Johns Hopkins University Community Elected to American Academy of Arts And Sciences 04 20 2016 www hopkinsmedicine org Sanford D Greenberg American Academy of Arts amp Sciences Greenberg Sanford D June 30 2020 Hello Darkness My Old Friend ISBN 9781642934977 via www simonandschuster com Greenberg Sanford D November 3 2020 Opinion An Election Day Message From R B G s Neighbor The New York Times Hello Darkness My Old Friend Columbia Alumni Association www alumni columbia edu Greenberg Sanford D 30 June 2020 Hello Darkness My Old Friend How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life ISBN 978 1642934977 Polcaro Rafael July 19 2020 Art Garfunkel s blind friend who inspired Sound Of Silence tells his story Rock And Roll Garage Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sanford Greenberg amp oldid 1141189606, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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