Successful Wall Street executive who loved 92NY
John P. Rosenthal (1932-2004)
John Paul Rosenthal was president of Burnham Securities Inc., a division of Burnham Asset Management Group in Manhattan. He also was a former president of 92NY, where he served as a board member for 36 years and particularly enjoyed the lectures, poetry readings, and concerts, former Y executives said.
John was born December 13, 1932, in New York to Harold Leonard and Stephanie Raunheim Rosenthal.
He and his first wife, Joan Ellen Weiskopf, raised two children, John Paul, Jr. and Lisa. After their divorce, he married Jacqueline “Jackie” Leila Lynton, who also had two children from a previous marriage, Laura Riese and Ronald Rothstein.
His partner at Burnham Securities, Jonah Wiener, said John “achieved unrivaled success in the game of life.” Another business partner, Irwin Silverberg, said John was “warm, kind, generous and caring to all around him, to a degree rarely matched … and enthusiastic and competitive on the tennis court.”
John was a founding director and longtime supporter of the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, which is now known as the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. He also was a founder of the Milstein/Rosenthal Center for Media & Technology and a board member of the UJA-Federation of New York.
John died suddenly in LaQuinta, California on March 27, 2004. He was 71.
In 1973, John and Jackie established the John P. Rosenthal Fund in The New York Community Trust. Their unrestricted fund supports hundreds of nonprofits in and around New York City.