David Louis Rosenau

ROSENAU David Louis Rosenau, of Westport, died on April 20, 2007 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford. He was 74. Son of Hazel and Louis Rosenau, Rosenau graduated from Staples High School, class of 1950, received his B.A. degree in finance from Lehigh University in 1954 and an M.B.A., Economics, from New York University in 1970. He served as a 1st lieutenant and air intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1954 to 1958, and was stationed in the United States and Japan. Rosenau spent his career as a Wall Street bond dealer, specializing in money market and U.S. Treasury securities. He served as a vice president at Merrill Lynch, as a managing director of Paine Webber, and as the director of fixed income marketing at E.F. Hutton. He co-authored, with James B. Shuman, The Kondratieff Wave (1972). Rosenau served as director of the Public Securities Association, as well as chairman of its Government Securities Committee. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Primary Dealers in Government Securities. From 1991 until his retirement in 1998, he was CEO and part owner of Winstar Government Securities, a White Plains, N.Y. firm specializing in making live markets in Treasury securities for stockbrokers. During retirement, Rosenau was as a member of the Town of Westport Municipal Employees Pension Commission. He volunteered at the Honey Hill Care Center in Norwalk, and was a member of the Y's Men of Westport and the Confrrie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Celie Gray Rosenau, three sons, William Gray, of Washington, D.C., John Maxwell, of Fairfield, Conn., and Edward Hanes, of Boxborough, Mass. and five grandsons. Visiting hours will be held between 4 and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25th at the Harding Funeral Home, 210 Post Road East, Westport. A funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 26th at Assumption Church, 98 Riverside Avenue in Westport. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Yale Cancer Center, 157 Church Street, New Haven, Conn. 06510 or the Connecticut Hospice, 100 Double Beach Road, Branford, Conn. 06405.