Leo Maynard Bernstein
March 14, 1929 – July 1, 2020
Leo Bernstein was born in Elgin, Illinois and was raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Leo attended the University of Chicago from 1947 – 1949. In the summer of
1950, he became a communication specialist in the U.S. Air Force. With the help of
the GI Bill, he graduated in 1959 from The New School for Social Research with a B.A.
in Economics.
After graduating, he moved to Washington, D.C. and worked for the Office of
Business Economics, U.S. Department Commerce (now the Bureau of Economic
Analysis). He retired from the Department of Commerce in the early 1990’s.
He was a movie enthusiast, and he loved animals, baseball and the opera.
His ash