Herman Goldberg

Herman Goldberg played for the USA at the 1936 Olympic demonstration baseball tournament. Goldberg attended Brooklyn College, graduating in 1935. After the Olympics he played minor league and semi-pro baseball from 1937-39. He later earned a masters’ degree from Columbia Teachers College in 1944, and then earned a law degree from the University of Rochester in 1965. He was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Bologna from 1960-61, and was a consultant to the ministry of education in Italy and Israel in 1960-61.

Goldberg started his career as a teacher in New York City public schools, but later moved to Rochester, where he became the superintendent of school in 1963-71. He then entered government service, working as an associate commissioner of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1971-82. He also had other government posts and then from 1983-87 he was senior executive administrator with the American Association of School Administrators.

In 1985 Goldberg was given a Distinguished Service Award by Brooklyn College. In 1995 the school gave him its 60th year Distinguished Service Alumni Award.