Student DirectoryFord School Receives Gifts to Establish Fund in Memory of Joshua Rosenthal, AB '79
Joshua Rosenthal, AB ''79, was lost along with more than 3,000 others on the morning of September 11, 2001 when terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center buildings. Josh worked in 2 World Trade Center at Fiduciary Trust Company International as a senior vice president.
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Josh studied Political Science. It was at Michigan where he developed an interest in public policy and spent two summers interning for members of Congress and worked as an aid to a member of the British Parliament. He spent his senior year at what was then the Institute for Public Policy.
After graduating from UM, Josh went on to get an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 1981. Josh served on the University's Investment Advisory Committee, a group of alumni who advise the University on investment strategy for the endowment. He was also an avid reader, mountain hiker and sailor and particularly treasured his friendships.
Gifts in Josh's memory have come to the Ford School to establish the Joshua Rosenthal Education Fund to provide funds for lectures, special seminars, support for student research and internships and new needs that emerge to encourage new and deeper understandings of international issues. For more information on events regarding the Joshua Rosenthal Fund, please see our September 2003 Public Lectures Schedule.
His sister, Helen, his two nieces Madeleine and Alexandra, his mother, Marilynn, and his father, Avram, survive Josh. Josh's mother, Marilynn said, "There are no words to describe the loss of my son but it is a great comfort to know that the fund in Josh's memory will go on to do many good things in the future to help policy students better understand international relations."
"Josh was a wonderfully warm and witty person who was loved and admired by those who knew him," said Robert Kasdin, Chief Financial Officer of UM and a close personal friend of Josh's. "He was a star and was tremendously talented in anything he did. Many will miss him terribly. I am pleased to know that his memory will live on at the Ford School through the Joshua Rosenthal Education Fund."
For information about making a gift to the Joshua Rosenthal Education Fund at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy please contact Beth Johnson at bethj@umich.edu or 734/615-4001.
