Ira A. Lipman

Ira Lipman (elected October 2016) died September 16, 2019. The founder of Guardsmark, one of the first major private security companies in America, Lipman collected art and rare books. As a sixteen-year-old senior at Central High School in Little Rock in 1957, Lipman fed NBC’s John Chancellor—who was covering desegregation in Arkansas—information from inside the school, calling the reporter on a pay phone. He served as chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews from 1988 to 1992 and was the chairman emeritus of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Lipman’s books include How to Be Safe: Protect Yourself and Your Family from Identity Theft, Predators, Scammers, and Intruders (1975).