Howard Philip Goldberg of Freehold, New Jersey , passed away on January 7 at his vacation home in Florida . Howard graduated from Dartmouth in 1961 and was named a Rufus Choate Scholar, the highest academic distinction then awarded at the school. After Dartmouth Howard studied English literature at the University of California , Berkeley , and, then at Columbia University .

In 1966 he graduated. cum laude from Harvard Law School , after which he married Marcia Zeisel. They raised two sons in Freehold. Howard spent most of his professional career in private practice In New Jersey, where he specialized in tax law, personal estate law and real estate law. His other interests included golf, opera, good books, trips to Las Vegas and the Bahamas and his family. Howard was predeceased by his wife, Marcia, and is survived by sons Seth and Micah, sister Barbara and grandchildren Talulla, Monty, Mina and Julius.