Ernest Lorge Sommer

Background

Sommer, Ernest Lorge was born on December 13, 1926 in Kassel, Germany. Came the United States, naturalized, 1946. Son of Benjamin and Hedwig (Lorge) Sommer.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, Pace College, 1949. Master of Science, Columbia University, 1954.

Career

Lecturer Pace College, 1954-1956. Director electrical business equipment applications Monroe Calculator Machines division Litton Industries, 1956-1958. Lecturer accounting, faculty supervisor City College of New York, 1957-1966.

Partner Sommer, Abraham & Company and predecessor firms, Certified Public Accountants, 1961-1988. Senior partner Edward Isaacs & Company. Board director Rodney White Foundation, New York City, Lynne and Charles Klatskin Foundation, Teterboro, New Jersey, Neal M. Klatskin Found, Teterboro, Mantell Family Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.

Member adjunct faculty Bergen Community College, 1970-1978.

Achievements

• Ernest Lorge Sommer has been listed as a noteworthy Accountant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors, chairman Foster Parents Plan, Inc. (United States), Warwick, Rhode Island. Board directors, vice chairman, Foster Parents Plan Inc.

(International); board directors YM & YWHA, Bergen County, New Jersey. Member American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Bergen County Estate Planners, New Jersey State Society of Certified Public Accountants, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Connections

Married Donna Anne Lapin, August 25, 1951. Children: Robert George, Jeffrey Andrew, Benjamin David.

Father:

Benjamin Sommer

Mother:

Hedwig (Lorge) Sommer

Spouse:

Donna Anne Lapin

child:

Benjamin David Sommer

child:

Robert George Sommer

child:

Jeffrey Andrew Sommer