ERSON FirtHy Ricu 1 There, at the Courant Institute University of Missouri following a back injury, and graduated in the mathematical physiology of 1949. That same year, he moved to New York and, after a series m any college or university. of rejections at white-shoe firms—places that never would hire a Jew— landed a job at Bear Stearns, earning $32.50 a week as a clerk. e Dalton School, a prestigious By 1958, he'd been made a full partner. Built like a pit bull, side. Like Tavern on the Green, | Greenberg smoked cigars, performed coin tricks for his friends, Century Association, Dalton is : . and always dressed in a bow tie. He was an all-elbows trader — K-12 rocket ship built for the 7. gruff, cheap, and, above all, impatient. He was also a champion sits. | bridge player, a hunter of big game in Africa, and the firm but in, who has no college degree, loyal leader of the team he’d built at Bear Stearns—an unusual eg team made up mostly of men who'd grown up in New York’s "his teens and already a teacher of 4 outer boroughs. sid” is the Dalton School's credo. : E Greenberg didn’t care about MBAs or Ivy League diplomas. ; adopted. For him, Dalton’s an ; a: What he cared about was raw talent and drive. Greenberg culti- 4 q vated risk takers, unconventional thinkers, and he looked high igh School. The kids he's teach- 4 (and especially low) for his “PSDs”: men who, in his estimation, oarents are extremely well con- E 4 were poor, smart, and, above all, determined. iter-borough accent, he’s careful 4 F Jeffrey Epstein, the Dalton School teacher, fit Greenberg’s bill moment, he’s one parent-teacher a fe ; perfectly. ew world of possibilities. a 9 lent student-to-teacher ratio, the ee te well. Before long, a Wall Street ; q vberg has taken a special shine to ‘ ring his son Ted. : q me from a humble background. F q ity shopkeeper, he won a football : ; of Oklahoma, transferred to the : 94 4 J 95 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022064