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OBITUARIESVictor Futter ’39, Attorney, Former CCAA President
Victor Futter ’39, ’42L, a prominent New York attorney and law professor, died on September 21, 2005, at his home in Manhasset, N.Y. He was 86. Futter served as president of the Columbia College Alumni Association from 1972–74 and was a dedicated supporter of the College and the University, receiving the President’s Cup in 1999. He edited the Columbia Law Review and had previously taught a seminar in corporate law at the Law School. Until recently, Futter was special counsel to the dean and a professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law. He also was general counsel of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Futter was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on January 22, 1919. In WWII, he was an Army officer in the European theater and a military governor in Japan. A Kent Scholar, Futter began his legal career with the New York firm Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked from 1946–52. In 1952, he became associate general counsel of the Allied Corp. (later Allied-Signal and now Honeywell International); at the time of his retirement in 1984, he was a v.p. and secretary there. Futter later was a partner in the New York office of the law firm now known as Sills Cummis. Futter received a distinguished service award from The American Society of Corporate Secretaries. He was familiar with the operation of corporate boards and had written extensively in this field. Futter served on a number of nonprofit boards and was active in the American Bar Association, where, among other things, he chaired the Senior Lawyers Committee, and was an active member of the Corporate Laws Committee and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He also was a member of the American Law Institute. Futter is survived by his wife, the former Joan Feinberg, whom he married in 1943; children, Jeffrey; Ellen ’71 Barnard, ’74L, former president of Barnard College, and Deborah ’82 SOA; and seven grandchildren. Lisa Palladino
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