October 9, 2007

• Good to the Last Tank:

  William T. Golden, Financier and
  
  Key Science Adviser, Is Dead at 97

  "William T. Golden, an investment banker, a philanthropist and a main
  architect of American science policy in the 20th century who had the
  idea for a presidential science adviser, died on Sunday [Oct. 7, 2007] in Manhattan.
  He was 97....

  His death, at Mount Sinai Hospital, was announced by the American
  Museum of Natural History, where he was chairman for five years and
  most recently chairman emeritus. Mr. Golden had helped found the Mount
  Sinai School of Medicine.

  For more than 50 years, Mr. Golden was at the nexus of science and
  society as a man who knew almost everybody in science and government.

  His willingness to 'buy the first tank of gas,' as he put it, for
  worthy projects led him to serve as a trustee or officer or board
  member of nearly 100 organizations, universities and government
  agencies....

  In 1989, when he bought from Harvard the Black Rock Forest in the
  Hudson Highlands, which was threatened by development, Mr. Golden
  explored its nearly 4,000 acres by horseback. He later turned over the
  forest to a consortium to preserve it."

  -- Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007

  
   
  
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  See also the following art,
  suggested by the Golden obituary's
  Mount Sinai, Black Rock, and
  forest themes, as well as by
  the "Deep Beauty" entry from
  the date of Golden's death:

  

  Click for details.

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