Iphigene Bertha Ochs Sulzberger (September 19, 1892 – February 26, 1990) was an American heiress, socialite, newspaper executive, philanthropist and former owner of The New York Times.
Her father was then the publisher of the Chattanooga Times, and her mother was a daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism.
After college, she was reintroduced to him by her cousin, Julius Ochs Adler, who trained with Sulzberger in the military in Plattsburgh, New York.
[5] Her funeral at Congregation Emanu-El of New York was attended by well over a thousand people, including New York City mayor David Dinkins and former mayors Ed Koch and John Lindsay, U.S. senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Abraham Ribicoff, former United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, and President of the Museum of Modern Art William Luers.
[16] Her first daughter, Marian, a director of the newspaper, married Andrew Heiskell, chairman of Time Inc., after her first husband Orvil Dryfoos died.
Her other son, Michael Golden, is currently vice chairman of The New York Times Company and former publisher of the International Herald Tribune.
His son, Arthur Ochs "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. succeeded him as publisher and became chairman of The New York Times Company in 1997.
[19] Punch's other grandson, David Perpich, served as a senior vice president in the company and oversees its standalone products.