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Barrie Wigmore, BEd’62, BA’63, LLD’02

Barrie Wigmore moved to the United States in 1970 to work for Goldman, Sachs, & Co., investment bankers. He founded the firms Public Utility Department dealing with electric and gas utilities, telephone companies, and natural gas pipelines around the world and eventually became a Partner in 1978. The author of two books, as well as numerous academic articles on financial history, Dr. Wigmore was a director of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan from 1989-2002, and is currently a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. Although he retired in 1988, he remains a committed and involved supporter of the U of S.