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Museum Announces Three Honorees for 2020 Gala
forthcoming book, Radical Uncertainty:
Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers, on
March 16. A panel on “Balancing Risk &
Reward on Wall Street” is also in the works
for early April.
We also had a full house for our most
recent lunchtime program on the 90 th
anniversary of the Great Crash of ’29.
Former New York Times
reporter Ralph Blumenthal
spoke on “Crash! The Stock
Market Collapse of 1929 and
David J. Cowen | President and CEO
the Rise of Fake Money”
on October 29, which was
exactly 90 years to the day
Grant on Bagehot: The Life and Times
after Black Tuesday. See page 11 for Mr.
of the Greatest Victorian and “A Con-
Blumenthal’s article on this topic.
versation with Stacey Cunningham: The
Our most popular education program
First Female President of the NYSE.” All
also continued this fall, with the Museum
four programs were co-presented with the
Finance Academy running from Septem-
Fordham Gabelli Center for Global Secu-
ber 25 through November 14. Two ses-
rity Analysis.
sions of our signature after school finan-
Planning for the 2020 Evening Lecture
cial literacy certificate course were offered
Series is underway, with two events con-
on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
firmed so far. Wall Street Journal reporter
for the fall semester. This program also
Gregory Zuckerman will speak on “The
included field trips to the New York Stock
Unlikely Story of How Jim Simmons
Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank
Solved the Market” on March 4, and finan-
of New York. Scholarship winners for this
cial journalist Felix Salmon will interview
semester will be announced in the next
Sir Mervyn King in a fireside chat on his
edition of Financial History magazine.
This week, we wrapped up our Fall Eve-
ning Lecture Series with a film screen-
ing of “In Money We Trust?” followed
by a conversation with co-authors Steve
Forbes and Elizabeth Ames. This was the
fourth event in the series since September,
along with “Corporate Sustainability: Is It
Sustainable?” (see article, page 5), James
Message to Members
We are most appreciative of Con Edison’s
continued sponsorship of this program.
As the fall draws to a close, I am pleased
to announce we have secured three hon-
orees for our 2020 Gala, which will be
held on Monday, February 24, 2020, at
Cipriani Wall Street. PayPal President
and CEO Dan Schulman will receive the
Schwab Award for Financial Innovation,
Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO
James Gorman will receive the Whitehead
Award for Distinguished Public Service
and Financial Leadership, and Andover
National Corporation Chairman and CEO
Peter Cohen will be the first recipient of
our Lifetime Achievement Award. Addi-
tional details on the Gala, including the
table reservation form and sponsorship
information, can be found at www.moaf
.org/2020Gala.
Also coming up in 2020, we are work-
ing on an exhibit on NYC water to open
in early February at the New York City
Municipal Archives near City Hall. The
exhibit will feature the Manhattan Com-
pany, founded by Aaron Burr and the
predecessor of Chase Manhattan Bank.
Stay tuned for this exhibit and many other
interesting developments planned for next
year.
The Museum’s 2020 Gala honorees will be (left to right): Dan Schulman, James P. Gorman and Peter A. Cohen.
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