"Street Person" - Autobiography By Dick Berkowitz

Dick Berkowitz . . . (1933 Birmingham, AL–) led the Institutional Sales division of Drexel Burnham Lambert in Atlanta from 1970, through the "mega years" (52) according to his second wife, and until the firm imploded in 1990. Street Person refers to his career on Wall Street in the go-go years of the "men-don't-cry era" (2). At the behest of his son, Berkowitz writes of his youth in segregated Birmingham; education at Georgia Military Academy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and University of Miami School of Law; his military service in France and failed first marriage; and work and family life. A theme is the many relationships he cultivated—professionally, civically, and personally—and those relationships he regretfully did not better protect and nurture—in particular, with his eldest three of five children. Berkowitz is indebted to several psychiatrists, and a refrain becomes his impulsivity. One such rash act, admirably so, was withdrawing his application from University of Alabama School of Law when the university revoked Autherine Lucy's initial acceptance (23). This is a memoir of a different time and place, a volatile and binary universe of Black/white, war/peace, Christian/Jew, work/play. "There is always a price to pay" (4). Concluding his career with Oppenheimer & Company, in his retirement, Berkowitz remains a politically engaged Conservative blogger, newspaper op-ed contributor, self-described cynic, and art collector. After almost ninety years of a dualistic worldview, Berkowitz closes with the insight to "always treat others as you would like them to treat you" (108). You/me. Me/you. —Lisa Thaler, 11 August 2021

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"A Conservative Capitalist Offers: Eleven Lessons and a Bonus Lesson for Raising America's Youth Born and Yet To Be Born"

I wrote this book because I believe a strong country must rest on a solid family unit and that Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" has morphed into "A Confused, Dependent and Compromised Generation." I hope this book will provide a guide to alter this trend.
Dick Berkowitz . . .

“Dick, I read your book this weekend. I hardly know where to start. You did an excellent job of putting into one short book a compendium of the virtues which only a relatively short time ago all Americans believed. It’s a measure of how far we have fallen that many Americans, perhaps a majority of Americans, no longer believe in what we once considered truisms. I think your father would have agreed with every word, but the party he supported no longer has such beliefs.” Mike
  
"Dick, I indeed marvel at how much wisdom you have been able to share with so few words. Not too unlike the experience in reading the Bible. I feel that with each read one will gain additional knowledge and new insights…" Larry

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About The Author:
After completing his formal education in 1960, Dick Berkowitz began his professional career as a stockbroker in Atlanta, joining the nation's largest Southeastern Regional NYSE Member Firm - Courts and Co. becoming a general partner in seven years. Dick subsequently resigned after Courts merged and he opened an institutional office for Burnham and Company. Twenty years later, after Drexel Burnham closed its doors, he moved his staff to Oppenheimer in 1990, retiring in 2003.

During his business career he served on The President’s Commission on White House Fellows ’90 – ‘92, The Board of Visitors St John's College ’95 -2001, The Board of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars '97 - '98, The George Bush for President National Finance Committee ‘98.

Dick also was a Founding Member Univ of Ga. President’s Club and Chaired Blackburn Park Master Plan Committee ‘98.

Re-locating to Savannah, where he now lives with Lynn, his wife of 49 years, he continues to manage money for a few clients, remains active serving on The Board of Visitors of the State of Ga. Museum of Art. He also began The JEA Speaker Series, serves on The Board of The Savannah Federation Investment Foundation, at one time The Advisory Board of Spine and Sports and more recently The Board of The Skidaway Island Republican Club - 2012.

Dick Berkowitz also publishes his thoughts on The Middle East, politics and economics which can be found at: www.Dick-Meom.Blogspot.com