Tributes were delivered by Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Harvard University; Charles de Gunzburg, chairman, FS Fiduciary Services LLC; John Mudd, longtime educational advocate; Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president and executiv director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund of the United States; and Karl Kaiser, CES Local Affiliate and Belfer Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
As part of the commemoration, Constanze Stelzenmüller, director of the Center on the United States and Europe and Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution, delivered the third annual Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany. The day concluded with the unveiling and an overview of Goldman’s permanent art bequest to CES.
The day concluded with a reception and the unveiling of Guido's art collection at CES. The artwork, now on permanent display at CES, includes notable works by Bernard Schultze, Adolfo Hohenstein and Ida Kerkovius, as well as an Ikat textile from Uzbekistan from Guido's collection.
