Class
| • | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Miss Anne d'Harnoncourt | | | Institution: | Philadelphia Museum of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | Death Date: | June 1, 2008 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Earl of Bessborough | | | Institution: | House of Lords | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 12/5/93 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Charles Blitzer | | | Institution: | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | 2/19/99 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Sheldon Hackney | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | September 12, 2013 | | | | | | |
Sheldon Hackney was Professor Emeritus of History and President Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. His special interests were in the history of the South since the Civil War, the 1960s, and the American identity. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1955 and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1966, studying under C. Vann Woodward. His first book, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969) won the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association and the Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. Professor Hackney served as Provost of Princeton University (1972-75); President of Tulane University (1975-81); and President of the University of Pennsylvania (1981-93). In 1993 he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, returning to the Penn faculty in 1997. He had written and spoken widely about Southern history, higher education, and the role of the humanities in American life. His wife was Lucy Durr Hackney, an attorney and advocate for public policy affecting children. They had three children and eight grandchildren. Sheldon Hackney was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1988. He died September 12, 2013, at the age of 79. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Thomas W. Langfitt | | | Institution: | Wharton School of Pennsylvania & Glenmede Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | August 7, 2005 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Mary, Countess of Bessborough | | | Institution: | Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, London | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | April 13, 2013 | | | | | | |
Born in 1915 in Philadelphia, Mary, Countess of Bessborough was educated in France, England and the United States. She worked in interior decoration and design in New York and during World War II worked with the French Red Cross and served as a nurse's aide in military and civilian hospitals in Florida and New York. She returned to France after the war, where she met and married the Earl of Bessborough. Lady Bessborough was involved with the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House from 1971 to her death, becoming the group's chairperson in 1983. In 1984 she was awarded the Scroll of Recognition and Appreciation for the Historic Preservation of the Benjamin Franklin House. She was also the recipient of the Martha Washington Medal of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Lady Bessborough was a patron of Task Brasil, a charitable organization working with South American street children. She died April 13, 2013, at age 98 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
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