Life Trustee Sol M. Linowitz '35 died on March 18 in Washington at the age of 91. He had been in failing health. Sol Linowitz was Hamilton's most distinguished living public servant, following in the tradition of Elihu Root. He was a trusted advisor for a half dozen U.S. presidents, including Jimmy Carter for whom he served as co-negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties and representative for Middle East negotiations from 1979 to 1981. It was largely at Sol's urging that President Carter came to Hamilton as a Great Names speaker in April 2001, just three years after President Clinton awarded Sol the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country's highest civilian honor.
An interview with Sol appeared in the "Legends of the Law" column in the Aug./Sept. '95 edition of the Washington, D.C., Bar Report.
