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...Mundheim says he has been driven to restlessness by a desire to explore...
Four years after graduating from HLS, Mundheim briefly joined a law firm before taking a stint with the Air Force in Berlin, serving on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), playing a lead role in negotiating the release of the U.S. hostages in Iran, two decades in various academic institutions and a position on the team that rebuilt Salomon Brothers...
...despite his accomplishments, Mundheim speaks modestly. HLS Professor David Shapiro ’54, who shared a room in Holworthy with Mundheim during their freshman year at Harvard, describes him as one of the most humble people he knows...
...Mundheim was born into a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany in 1933, just as Adolph Hitler’s Nazi party was rising to power. In January of 1939, Mundheim’s family managed to escape Germany and immigrate to the United States...
...Mundheim attended Exeter before matriculating to Harvard in 1950, where he pursued a degree in American History, was active in Philip’s Brooks House Association (PBHA) and played freshman baseball and other sports...