[Alumni-chat] Albert Berney '41, former College VP passes

[dl bahr]

Tim:  Thank you for posting Mr. Berney '41 Baltimore Sun obituary. Reading it was a pleasure.  I am sorry for the loss of your friend.  It seems he had an active and well lived life.  May his memory be sanctified.
Lesley A Pownall Bahr

> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:15:31 -0500
> From: timothynoble at gmail.com
> To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu; SaveAntioch at lists.antiochians.org; communications at antiochians.org
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> Subject: [Alumni-chat] Albert Berney '41, former College VP passes
> 
> Sad news.  Albert was a good friend.  His reaction on hearing that the
> Board of Trustees would close Antioch was 2 words:  "Real Estate.
> They want the real estate."
> The Baltimore Sun Obituary follows.
> 
> 
> www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.berney14feb14,0,3834681.story
> 
> baltimoresun.com
> Albert Berney
> [ Age 88 ] Head of Hamburger's clothing store served on many civic
> boards, took part in Charles Center project.
> 
> By Jacques Kelly
> 
> Sun Reporter
> 
> February 14, 2008
> 
> Albert Berney, a retired president the old Hamburger's men's clothing
> store who served on numerous civic boards, died of respiratory disease
> Tuesday at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The North Baltimore resident was
> 88.
> 
> Born in Baltimore and raised in Reservoir Hill in the Esplanade
> apartments, he attended Park School and was a 1936 Polytechnic
> Institute graduate. He earned a degree in accounting at Antioch
> College in Ohio and was a lieutenant in the Navy in the South Pacific
> during World War II.
> 
> In 1949, he became controller of the business founded by his
> great-grandfather Isaac Hamburger in 1850. In 1959, he became
> president and oversaw the construction of a Hamburger's store that
> spanned Fayette Street in the urban renewal effort known as Charles
> Center. He also established suburban locations.
> 
> "Hamburger's was one of the first businesses to back the Charles
> Center plan," said his son Louis Berney of Baltimore. "Their old
> building served them well, but he wanted to go along with the idea of
> rebuilding downtown Baltimore."
> 
> After his business became a Phillips Van Heusen Corp. subsidiary, Mr.
> Berney resigned in 1969. For a time, until 1975, he was a vice
> president of Antioch College. He then lived for about 15 years in
> Colorado.
> 
> In 1966, Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin named Mr. Berney chairman of the
> city's Community Action Agency, a federal anti-poverty program. A Sun
> editorial praised him for his "open-mindedness and flexibility" in
> dealing with those "wrought by social and economic deprivation."
> 
> He was president of Sinai Hospital and was board vice president of the
> Enoch Pratt Free Library. He also was president of the Jewish Family &
> Children's Bureau, the Maryland Council of Social Welfare, and the
> Maryland Council of Retail Merchants and the Retail Merchants of
> Baltimore.
> 
> An active Democratic Party member, he was a past president of the
> Maryland chapter of Americans for Democratic Action.
> 
> During the last two decades of his life Mr. Berney ran a travel
> business. He and his wife, Carla Hochschild Berney, a great-niece of a
> co-founder of the Hochschild-Kohn stores, traveled extensively
> together. He was the first president of Maryland-Rio de Janeiro
> Partners of the Alliance. Last year, he traveled to Egypt, the 71st
> country he had visited.
> 
> He was a student during the past decade at the Johns Hopkins
> University's Evergreen Society and was chairman of its advisory
> committee. He liked to solve mathematical and word puzzles and
> belonged to the National Puzzlers League.
> 
> A memorial gathering will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Highfield House,
> 4000 N. Charles St.
> 
> In addition to his son, survivors include another son, David Berney of
> Baltimore; two daughters, Kay Berney and Kim Berney, also of
> Baltimore; and six grandchildren. His wife of 47 years died in 1991.
> 
> jacques.kelly at baltsun.com
> 
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