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AROUND THE QUADS

Berne To Receive Hamilton Medal on November 16

Robert Berne '60

Photo: Eileen Barroso

Robert Berne ’60, ’62 Business will be honored in Low Rotunda on Thursday, November 16, with the 2006 Alexander Hamilton Medal. Each fall, the Columbia College Alumni Association presents the medal to an alumnus or faculty member for distinguished service and accomplishment in any field of endeavor. It is the highest honor the College bestows.

Berne served 13 years on the College Board of Visitors — four as an ex officio member — and from 1998–2000 was chairman of the Columbia College Fund. His two-year term as president of the Alumni Association ended in June.

Since 1962, Berne has been in the real estate industry, working early in his career for government housing agencies in New York City and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the private sector, he was an associate of the Milstein family, developing several thousand luxury apartments in New York City. With his family and partners, he has built apartments, shopping centers and large-scale land developments in the South and Northeast.

A board member of the Kraft Family Center for Jewish Student Life, Berne also serves on the M.B.A. Real Estate Program Advisory Board for the Business School. He endowed the Gustave M. Berne Professorship in the Core Curriculum in honor of his late father, who was in the College Class of 1922 and the Law School Class of 1924.

Berne and his wife of 40 years, the former Steffi Mokotoff, have a daughter and son and one grandchild.

For more information on the dinner, please contact Shelley Grunfeld, alumni office manager of special events: 212-870-2743 or rg329@columbia.edu.

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