RONALD GREENBERG
September 09, 1934 - February 25, 2021
Ronald David Greenberg, a San Antonio native, died on Thursday, Feb. 25, in Westchester County, New York, at age 86. The cause of death was a sudden heart attack. Ron was a 1952 graduate of Jefferson High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society. He was a 1957 graduate of the University of Texas (Austin) with a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering. At UT, he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, which he served as president, and of several university honors fraternities. Following active duty with the US Navy, he pursued post-graduate degrees at Harvard University. There, he earned a Master of Business Administration with a focus on international economics in 1961 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1964. He spent most of his professional career in New York, where he lived first in Greenwich Village and then in Larchmont, Westchester County. Ron practiced law but considered himself to be primarily an educator. From 1970 to 1995, he served on the faculty of the Columbia Business School, where he taught courses in business law, business tax, and related fields. He also held visiting professorships at Stanford Business school (1978) and Harvard Business School (1981). He was the author of numerous scholarly articles, as well as course materials, book chapters, and other works. He served on many committees of the New York and American bar associations.
Ron was a member of the golf teams at both Jefferson High School and the University of Texas. While serving in the Navy on the aircraft carrier USS Tarawa, he won the Narragansett Bay (R.I.) Golf Tournament. A 1958 Navy Times cover photo showed Ron on the Tarawa flight deck driving a golf ball – tied to nylon line connected to a fuel hose – to the destroyer USS Hugh Purvis to demonstrate an alternative to a gun as a means of refueling ships at sea. Ron was always careful to give credit to the teachers and colleagues who shaped him. They would be proud. Ron was preceded in death by his parents, Benjamin and Sylvia Greenberg. He is survived by his brother, Mike Greenberg, of San Antonio; close friend Ann Meehan, of Larchmont, N.Y.; and numerous cousins and friends.
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