The Hacker family
Front row: Georgina, George, Neil. Back row: Scott, Laura, Mark
In Memory

George L. Hacker of New York, London and most recently Scottsdale, Ariz., passed away on June 11, 2017, while on holiday in the United Kingdom. A proud graduate of Amherst College, he enjoyed a full and successful life both personally and professionally. His career included roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as a newspaperman, as adjunct professor at Columbia University, director of research at Blyth Eastman Dillon in New York and partner/senior managing director at Bear Stearns in London. George was a generous and genial man, loved and admired by many and large in both heart and spirit. Travel, cruises, poker and model trains were among his interests. He will be greatly missed especially by his five children, Mark, Laura, Scott, Neil and Georgina, as well as his daughters in-law and son in-law and two grandchildren. At George’s request a celebration of his life will be organized for later this year.

George always spoke fondly of his time at Amherst. In May he attended his 60th class reunion and enjoyed time in the dorms with his classmates. He commented at the reunion that he thought he still has the class record for the youngest offspring (twins).

One of George’s favorite quotations was from Teddy Roosevelt, which George wrote in our 50th Reunion book: “The credit belongs to the man who was actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat, and dust, and blood, who tries and fails and tries again, for this man, when he wins, knows the most glorious of triumphs; and when he fails, can at least take solace in the knowledge that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory or defeat.”

The Hacker Family