Richard S. Abramson ’63 was Senior Vice President and Senior Managing Director of AllianceBernstein for 37 years. He passed away in 2016 after a battle with multiple myeloma. He was President of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served on the investment committees of North Shore-LIJ Health System, the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Legacy Heritage Fund. A board member of American Friends of the Hebrew University, he initiated a program at the Auschwitz Jewish Center, where cadets from the Air Force, West Point and the Naval Academies go to Auschwitz to study the Holocaust.