James b. hurlock and greenwich

Melanie Hollands posted a condolence

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

RIP Jim. My Columbia MBA flatmate for 18 months (at 1284 Amsterdam Ave at 123rd St 10027, above the Ethiopian reseaurant) until he proposed to Kate, the long distance love of his life. A friend emailed me this terrible news and it's " a gut punch." A lovely man. We met while standing next to eachother on line at MBA enrollment registration in late August 1990. It was a steaming hot humid Manhattan day and the line took several hours to move. We chatted for hours, discovered we were Python connoisseurs, Jim having had some kind of honorary role at The Ministry of Silly Walks, we had similar backgrounds, we had grown up partly overseas, Jim in western Europe me in Hong Kong and Japan, and our fathers each led global companies. Jim had a two bedroom airconditioned flat and was looking for a flatmate, I was in a Columbia student flat without AC. So a chill American bloke and an intense Aussie sheila became MBA flatmates. Morningside Heights at 123rd could be a bit iffy 32 years ago and I felt much safer in a shared flat. In an orientation Myers Briggs seminar, Jim learned he was INFP and I learned I was ESTJ... polar opposites. A great pal throughout grad school, Jim edited my writing I helped with the math, and we each drank our tea strong with milk in the British way. He would mock the presence of my jars of Vegemite in the refrigerator and comically philosophize about the wisdom, or not, of sharing a flat with someone from Australia where strange looking marsupials live and every animal wants to kill you. Jim was great with housework, I wasn't, because I have an existential objection to doing housework, so I paid a housekeeper. His parents invited me to join their family Thanksgivings in 1990 and 1991, lovely days. It was the era of CNN's 24/7 cover of Gulf War 1 and Operation Desert Storm, the emergence of Christiane Amanpour as the rockstar war correspondent, Terminator

he Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with sorrow the death on April 27, 2016, of former Life Trustee, James B. Hurlock , age 82.

Jim began his affiliation with WHOI when he was elected to the Corporation in 1993; he joined the WHOI Board of Trustees three years later.  He was elected an Honorary Trustee (now Life Trustee) in 2005.

Jim was born in Chicago on August 7, 1933, and grew up in Cleveland.  He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1955, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the Pyne Prize, the “highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.”  He also received a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford’s Magdalen College where he read law for two years, concluding with a series of oral exams conducted in Latin.  He graduated from Harvard Law in 1959 and joined the firm of White & Case. 

Jim’s focus was always international, and he became a leader in efforts to expand the firm’s client base overseas.  Early in his career, he worked on disputes over major projects in Saudi Arabia and India.  Starting in 1963, when he and his young family moved to Paris, he spent 10 of his first 15 years outside of the United States. He became a partner in 1967, and opened White & Case’s London office in 1971 and led it until 1975, when he returned to New York.  His influence steadily grew, and Jim was elected by his partners as Chairman in 1980, a position he held until his retirement in 2000.  Under his leadership, White & Case grew from 190 lawyers in six offices to more than 1,000 in 31 offices in 24 countries.

An avid sailor who completed a transatlantic race and seven Bermuda races, Jim was a dedicated advocate of the Oceanographic’s mission.  Always active in volunteer service, he was also a founding member of the International Development Law Organization, which he served as chairman from 2001-2004.  He was a trustee of the New Yo

James Bickford Hurlock III, 59, of New Canaan, Connecticut, died peacefully with family by his side on May 12, 2021 after a long battle with cancer. Jim was the beloved husband of Kathryn Buck Hurlock, and father of James Ross-Lewin Hurlock and Warren Bickford Hurlock. Born May 3 1962 in New York City to Margaret Lyn (Holding) Hurlock and James Bickford Hurlock, Jr., Jim spent his childhood in Paris, Brussels, London and Greenwich, Connecticut before attending the St. George’s School and Duke University, from which he graduated in 1984.

He embarked on a career in journalism, starting as a reporter for the Pine Bluff Commercial in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, before reporting from Dallas, Texas for BusinessWeek, and eventually joining the CNN business news bureau in New York where he was lead writer for CNN’s “Moneyline.” He went on to join The Blackwell Corporation in Washington, D.C. to produce the PBS Series “American Interests.” He attended Columbia Business School, from which he graduated in 1992 with an MBA, and joined HBO that year, moving with his young wife to Prague to establish HBO’s presence in the recently formed Czech Republic. He joined MGM in Sydney, Australia, where he led the studio’s Asia-Pacific distribution operation, before bringing his knowledge of the region’s film market to Paramount, with which he returned to the United States, settling with his family in Los Angeles. Anticipating the impact of technology on film distribution, Jim returned with his family to the east coast, repositioning himself in the burgeoning wealth management business, first at JP Morgan, and then Morgan Stanley. He was a long-serving board member of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Connecticut.

Jim formed lifelong friendships at every stage of his journey – from his fraternity brothers at Duke, to the many close friendships he formed on his adventures in Prague, Sydney, Los Angeles, New York, and New Canaan - his friends were never far. He was an accomplished sports

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