Education
Goldberg graduated from Nottingham High School in Syracuse before enrolling at Princeton University.
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He dropped out of Princeton in order to enlist in the United States Army during World World War World War II He returned to New York following the end of World World War II, where he received a bachelor"s degree from Syracuse University in 1948. Raymour & Flanigan
Bernard and Arnold Goldberg opened the first Raymour Furniture in 1946 in Syracuse, New New York They did not name their new store "Goldberg" because another store in the city owned by their relatives already used their given name.
Instead, the brothers named their furniture store after an antiques shop in Long Island which was owned and operated by another brother.
Under Goldberg"s ownership, the two brothers opened a second store in Clay, New York, in 1972. The company acquired Flanigan"s Furniture in 1990, which operated fourteen stores in upstate New York at the time.
The acquisition gave the company its present name, Raymour & Flanigan. Bernard Goldberg remained the chairperson of Raymour & Flanigan until his death in 2010.
However, he suffered from deteriorating health, including Alzheimer"s disease during the later years of his life.
Bernard Goldberg died in Syracuse on August 27, 2010, of complications from Alzheimer"s disease, aged 84.
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Additionally, Goldberg was a founding member of the Syracuse Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York and was a member of the board of directors for the New York State Division of Human Rights.
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