1.   He was a lifetime trustee of DePauw and a past trustee of the San Francisco Law Library.

2.   He was a past trustee of Smith College and in recent years served as chairman of a publications subcommittee at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

3.   He was a past trustee of the Folger Library and the American consultant for the Oxford University Shakespeare Project.

4.   He was a past trustee of the Darien Library and a selectman in the town of Darien.

5.   She was a past trustee of the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, the Social Service Federation of Englewood and other community organizations.

6.   Spitzer was a past trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and president of the American Astronomical Society.