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| | 221 | Name: | Mr. George Soros | | | Institution: | Soros Fund Management, LLC; Open Society Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
George Soros is the Founder and Chairman of the Soros Fund Management, LLC and the Founder of the Open Society Institute. At the time of the transition in central and eastern Europe from communism to their current governments in the 1980s and early 1990s he emerged as one of the leading philanthropists in the world with his support for those societies. More recently he has become a social commentator, dealing both with philosophical and economic issues. To a rare degree his life encompasses improving the world with his own money based upon his philosophical reflections. He has written a number of books, including: The Alchemy of Finance, 1988; Opening the Soviet System, 1990; Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998; (with M. Notturno) Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy, 2000; Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, 2001; George Soros on Globalization, 2002; The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, 2003; The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, 2006; The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, 2008. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1998). | |
| 222 | Name: | Professor Michael I. Sovern | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | January 20, 2020 | | | | | | |
Michael Sovern was an internationally renowned legal scholar, a well-known labor arbitrator and mediator, and a prominent scholar in the fields of labor relations, employment discrimination, and conflict resolution. As dean, provost, and president of Columbia University, Dr. Sovern made notable contributions to Columbia, New York, and the nation. He became a leading spokesman for higher education in efforts to secure adequate federal funding for basic research and student aid through his published articles, speeches, and testimony before legislative committees. He spearheaded efforts to increase education opportunities for minority students. In his 13 years at Columbia, the university's endowment grew by more than a billion dollars, supporting new scholarships and fellowships, and a score of new academic centers, including the Harriman Institute, the National Center for Telecommunications Research, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. A graduate of Columbia University Law School (L.L.B., 1955), Dr. Sovern continued to serve as president emeritus and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia, after stepping down as university president in 1993. Michael Sovern died January 20, 2020 in New York, New York at the age of 88. | |
| 223 | Name: | Dr. Joan E. Spero | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Joan E. Spero is an expert in international political economy. Her book The Politics of International Economic Relations is currently in its 7th edition and has been translated into numerous languages. From 2011-2018, Ms Spero was a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and from 2009-2010 was a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation Center. Ms Spero served as Founding President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation from its inception in 1997 until 2008. From 1993 to 1997, Ms. Spero served in the U.S. Department of State as Undersecretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, and from 1981 to 1993 held several positions at American Express Company, the last being Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications. Joan was Ambassador to the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs from 1980 to 1981 and an Assistant Professor at Columbia University from 1973 to 1979.
Currently, Ms. Spero is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the American Philosophical Society, the Century Association, the Council of American Ambassadors, the Council of Chief Executives and the Council on Foreign Relations where she served on the Board of Directors from 2001 to 2011. She recently concluded her tenure as a Trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and is a Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University, Amherst College, and the Brookings Institution. Ms. Spero previously served as a director of Citigroup, IBM, International Paper, ING, First Data Corporation, Delta Airlines, and Hercules. She is married to C. Michael Spero. They have two sons and four grandchildren. | |
| 224 | Name: | Dr. Patrick Spero | | | Institution: | George Washington Presidential Library
at Mount Vernon | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1978 | | | | | | |
Patrick Spero received his B.A. from James Madison University in 2000, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He held a number of public history jobs while pursuing his Ph.D., including serving has Historian at the David Library of the American Revolution. From 2009-2011, he served as the Pew Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bibliography at the American Philosophical Society Library, where he surveyed the Society’s early American manuscript collections and wrote a guide to these collections. Dr. Spero then joined the faculty of Williams College until 2015, when he returned to the Society as its Librarian. Before joining the Society, Spero organized several international conferences and directed numerous teacher workshops. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews and has published two books, Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 (W.W. Norton, 2018) and Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). He is also co-editor of The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). | |
| 225 | Name: | Dr. G. Gabrielle Starr | | | Institution: | Pomona College | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1974 | | | | | | |
G. Gabrielle Starr is the 10th president of Pomona College and Philip and Gertrude McConnell Professor Human Relations in the departments of English and Neuroscience.
Originally a scholar of the British long eighteenth century, she has extended her critical inquiries into the modern origins of aesthetics through graduate training in cognitive neuroscience, becoming a leading voice in the emergence of the field of neuroaesthetics.
Starr is known nationally as a tireless advocate for the liberal arts and for creating opportunities to expand access to education. This has included founding programs fostering partnerships with community colleges, providing access to higher education for incarcerated individuals, lobbying Congress on behalf of scholars subject to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and expanding opportunities for refugees through her founding of the Global Student Haven Initiative.
A graduate of Emory (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard universities, she was a Robert T. Jones Scholar at the University of St Andrews and completed post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2017, she was on the faculty at New York University, departing as professor of English and the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science. She assumed leadership for Pomona in 2017.
Starr is the author of three books: Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2023); Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (MIT Press, 2013; shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2014); and Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Starr’s literary critical, neuroscientific, and interdisciplinary work has been published in academic journals including Modern Philology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cognition, Neuron, NeuroImage, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her public commentary has appeared in the Hill, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed.
Starr is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Science Foundation ADVANCE award (jointly with Nava Rubin), and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. Starr is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Starr is a member of the board of directors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is a trustee of the Getty Trust and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She has served as an elected officer or board member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the California Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. An education leader in California, Starr was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the California Higher Education Recovery with Equity task force in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic She is married to John C. Harpole and together they have two school-aged children. They reside in Claremont, California. | |
| 226 | Name: | Dr. H. Guyford Stever | | | Institution: | Carnegie Mellon University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | April 9, 2010 | | | | | | |
H. Guyford Stever received a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1941. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941 and remained until 1965, serving as professor, executive officer of the guided missiles program (1946-48), associate dean of engineering (1956-59), and head of the departments of mechanical engineering, naval architecture, and marine engineering (1961-65). He was president of Carnegie Mellon University from 1965-72 and director of the National Science Foundation from 1972-76. Dr. Stever has also served as Science Advisor to the President (1972-76), White House Science and Technology Advisor to the President, director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, chairman of the Federal Coordination Committee for Science, Engineering, and Technology (1976-77) and chairman of the Policy Division of the National Research Council. As a scientist, H. Guyford Stever contributed professionally to aeronautical and space engineering, cosmic rays, and gas dynamics. His presidency of Carnegie Mellon University was marked by significant change and growth, including the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute. As Director of the National Science Foundation, he strengthened NSF's highest priority mission as supporter of basic research. As Science Advisor to the President during the OPEC oil embargo of 1973, he rapidly increased NSF's non-fossil and renewable energy sources research; he also helped President Ford reestablish the White House science structure. Dr. Stever is a recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Department of Defense, Commander, Polish Order of Merit, Distinguished Public Service Award from NASA, National Medal of Science, and the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation. He has been a trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute since 1980. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Japan Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 227 | Name: | Dr. Carl-Otto Still | | | Institution: | Carl Still Corporation, Pittsburgh & Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Recklinghausen | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | Death Date: | January 12, 2013 | | | | | | |
Carl-Otto Still was a council member at the Salk Institute; president of the Carl Still Corporation, Pittsburgh; and owner and managing director of Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Recklinghausen. He was very active administering the affairs of the Salk Institute and was a member of a family of philanthropists who for three generations have been influential in assisting various German universities and cultural institutions. Among others, Göttingen University received a new telescope and Munster Cathedral a new roof through his efforts. With expertise in the chemical industry, particularly as it relates to coal, coke and steel, Carl-Otto Still and his family have been credited with helping to build the world's steel industry. Among his other roles, he served as chairman of Children's Hospital, Datteln, Germany, and as curator at the University Witten Herdecke. He holds a Dr.-Ing degree from the Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Höchschule Aächen (1971). He died January 12, 2013, at age 72 in Recklinghausen, Germany. | |
| 228 | Name: | Mr. Robert B. Strassler | | | Institution: | Riverside Capital Management Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Robert B. Strassler is the Creator and Series Editor of The Landmark Editions and is President of the Riverside Capital Management Corporation. He has his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1961). He is the editor of The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, 1996; The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, 2007, translated by Andrea L. Purvis; The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika, 2009, translated by John Marincola. He is the series editor of The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, 2010, edited by James Romm, translated by Pamela Mensch; The Landmark Polybius: The Federation and Conquest of the Greek States, forthcoming 2012.
A highly successful graduate of the Harvard Business School, Robert Strassler is currently President of Riverside Capital Management Corporation. He has long been interested in Greek history and has a knowledge of the field that goes far beyond that of most amateur enthusiasts. More importantly, he has undertaken to create and fund a series of editions of the great Greek historians in English translation with ample notes and supplementary commentary. These so-called "Landmark" volumes are now legendary for providing unparalleled access to Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Arrian, and soon Polybius in English translations, of which all but the first were new and commissioned by Strassler himself. Leading scholars of classics and ancient history have provided copious annotation, together with detailed maps, illustrations, and special essays. These sumptuously produced books allow Greekless readers to study Greek historical writing much as a professional scholar would do, because the notes and essays are so rich and informative. They have proven equally valuable to scholars because they are exceptionally up-to-date in their discussions of current problems and bibliography. The concept was entirely Strassler’s, and he has played a vigorous role in the preparation of every volume in the series. As a musician and player of the viola da gamba, he has supported the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He is also the father of a theoretical high energy physicist and has consequently taken a lively interest in science. He has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2012. | |
| 229 | Name: | Mr. Maurice Frederick Strong | | | Institution: | United Nation's University for Peace; Peking University; Environmental Foundation, China; Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | November 28, 2015 | | | | | | |
A native of Canada, Maurice Strong grew up during the Great Depression, escaping poverty to become a successful businessman in the oil and utilities industries. He became a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan. In 1972, as director of the U.N. Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, he successfully placed global environmental issues on the international agenda for the first time, and twenty years later, in 1992 he convened the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the largest international conference in history. Attended by 110 heads of state and government, the conference resulted in the adoption of Agenda 21, securing a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on the sustainable development required to bring global population numbers in line with the finite resources of the Earth. At the conference, Mr. Strong called on the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations to extend significant financial aid to developing countries as reparation for a century of industrial development and environmental degradation. Maurice Strong held a number of other prominent positions, including senior advisor to the president of the World Bank; director of the World Economic Forum Foundation; and president and rector of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica where he was President of the Council. Later, Strong spent most of his time in the People's Republic of China. He was an active honorary professor at Peking University and Honorary Chairman of China's Environmental Foundation. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia. He had also presented stirring papers on the relation of poverty in developing countries to their population growth, particularly at the Symposium on Population Problems at the 1987 APS autumn meeting. Maurice Strong died November 28, 2015, at the age of 86. | |
| 230 | Name: | Ms. Jean Strouse | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Jean Strouse is an author and the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1967 and went on to work as an editorial assistant for The New York Review of Books (1967-69), as a freelance writer and editor (1969-72); as an editor at Pantheon Books (1972-75); and as a book critic for Newsweek magazine (1979-83). In 1975 she published her first book, Women & Analysis, Dialogues on Psychoanalytic Views of Femininity and followed that in 1980 with a biography of Alice James that won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. In 1999 she published another biography, Morgan: American Financier, to much praise. Ms. Strouse's essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Grand Street, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, and Newsweek. She has served as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The Harvard Advocate; on the executive board of The Readers' Encyclopedia of American History; and on the executive council of the Authors Guild. | |
| 231 | Name: | Ms. Helen Suzman | | | Institution: | Helen Suzman Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | January 1, 2009 | | | | | | |
In thirty-six years as a member of the South African Parliament, Helen Suzman worked tirelessly to bring democracy to her native land. The sole parliamentarian unequivocally opposed to apartheid from 1961 to 1974, she stood alone, in a divided, patriarchal society, as a progressive voice for equality and human rights. Confronting difficult and unpopular issues head on, she fought for universal suffrage, visited prisons and publicly challenged pro-apartheid officials. In a famous exchange with a fellow parliamentarian who suggested that her questions embarrassed her country overseas, Suzman replied, "It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa, it is your answers." In 1996 Suzman stood with Nelson Mandela as he signed South Africa's new constitution. Since then, she has founded her own foundation to further promote the principles - liberty, equality, empowerment for the powerless - to which she devoted her political career. A two-time nominee for the Nobel Prize, Helen Suzman was voted one of the "100 Greatest South Africans" of all time in 2004. She was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. | |
| 232 | Name: | Mr. Frank E. Taplin | | | Institution: | Environmental Defense & Metropolitan Opera Association & Institute for Advanced Study & Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | May 11, 2003 | | | | |
| 233 | Name: | Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum | | | Institution: | Spelman College | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | |
| 234 | Name: | Mr. Rodolfo H. Terragno | | | Institution: | 21st Century University, Argentina | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Rodolfo Terragno, a lawyer and journalist during the military dictatorship in Argentina, became a celebrated political commentator who was forced to emigrate, first to Venezuela, where he founded El Diario de Caracas, and then to England, where he began his work on political philosophy and Latin American history. With the fall of the military regime in 1983 he returned to Argentina to become a member of Raul Alfonsin's cabinet. Since then he has served the Argentine people in many capacities, most notably as a Minister, Head of the Cabinet, President of the Opposition Radical Party, and candidate for the national presidency. Terragno's political philosophy, expressed in his books, emphasizes the role of the cooperation of government and business in the promotion of science and education as the basic ingredients for the growth of post-industrial economies in developing countries. These ideas have been influential throughout the continent and beyond. Terragno has also authored important books on the South American independence movement in the early 19th century and on the foundations of the Falkland Islands conflict. One of his most original contributions was the discovery in Scotland of the "Maitland papers" which revealed a secret British plan for the invasion of South America and the takeover of the vice royalty of Peru - very similar to the plan executed by San Martin decades later. Rodolfo Terragno is currently chairman of, and teaches at, the Fundación Argentina Siglo 21. He received a law degree in 1967 from the School of Law and Social Sciences at the National University of Buenos Aires. His books include Memorias del Presente (1984), The Challenge of Real Development (1987), Maitland & San Martín (1998), and Historia y Futuro de las Malvinas (2006). His many honors include the French Ordre National du Mérite in 1987, the Italian Cavaliere di Gran Croce in 1987, and Brazil's Medalha Mérito Maua in 1988. Rodolfo Terragno was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010. | |
| 235 | Name: | Dr. Samuel O. Thier | | | Institution: | Harvard Medical School | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Samuel Thier, nationally-known authority on internal medicine, kidney disease, biomedical research, national health policy, and medical education, has reshaped every institution he has led. At Yale University, he raised the status of the academic medicine department chair. As president of the Institute of Medicine (1985-91), he established the institute as an objective and expert source of health policy. As president of Brandeis University (1991-94), he raised the level of intellectual ferment and reclarified the university's mission. As president and CEO of Partners HealthCare System (1997-2002), he has made perhaps his most important contribution in demonstrating that a large, fully-integrated academic health system can provide excellent clinical care while maintaining financial stability and strenghthening research and education programs. Born in New York, Dr. Thier received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Syracuse in 1960. He subsequently worked at Massachusetts General Hospital (1967-69) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1969-71) and as vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1971-75) before joining the Yale University School of Medicine as chairman of the department of internal medicine in 1975. From 1994-97 he served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Thier's many accolades include the John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (2001) and the Robert H. Williams, M.D., Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine (2003). He was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1988. | |
| 236 | Name: | Mr. Franklin A. Thomas | | | Institution: | Ford Foundation; The Study Group | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | December 22, 2021 | | | | | | |
Franklin A. Thomas was born in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Franklin K. Lane High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia College in 1956 and a degree in law from Columbia University Law School in 1963. From 1956-60 he was a navigator in the United States Air Force, Strategic Air Command. In 1963, Mr. Thomas became an attorney for the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, and in 1964 he was named an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. From 1965-67 he served as Deputy Police Commissioner in Charge of Legal Matters for the New York City Police Department. From 1967-77, Mr. Thomas served as President and CEO of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, one of the nation's first public/private partnerships aimed at the comprehensive development (housing, business development, education, culture and recreation) of one of the nation's largest distressed urban communities. The Restoration Corporation has served as a model for thousands of similarly focused community-based development corporations throughout the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Thomas was Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward South Africa from 1979-81 and later served as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa from 1985-87. In June 1979, he was elected President of the Ford Foundation, having joined the Foundation's Board of Trustees in 1977. During the seventeen years that he led the Ford Foundation, its assets quadrupled and he deployed those assets on behalf of social justice and economic freedom across the world. He retired from that position in 1996. The Study Group, which he heads, provides advice to leaders and organizations in the non-profit and governmental sectors in support of equitable human development worldwide. Mr. Thomas is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Award for "Contributions to the Betterment of Urban Life," the John Jay and Alexander Hamilton Awards from Columbia College, and Columbia Law School's James Kent Medal for distinguished professional achievement. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Award and of Columbia University's Medal of Excellence. He has been granted honorary degrees from Bank Street College, Columbia University, Fordham University, New School University, Pace University, Pratt University and Yale University. Mr. Thomas is a director/trustee of several corporate and not for profit boards and serves as an advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. From 2001-06 Mr. Thomas was chair of the September 11th Fund, created by the New York City Community Trust and the United Way of New York City in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Fund assisted victims, their families and affected communities. | |
| 237 | Name: | Dr. Sarah E. Thomas | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Sarah Thomas was Bodley's Librarian, the first woman and non-British citizen to hold the position since 1602. She headed the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford from 2007 through July 2013. From August 2013 through March 2019 she took up the position of Vice President for the Harvard Library at Harvard University and subsequently was also named University Librarian and Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Science. She shaped the library's vision to increase focus on user-centered services that connect faculty, students, alumni, and researchers with library resources online and in person. She spearheaded efforts to advance digital scholarship, committing library resources to open access and she advanced collaboration among libraries in areas such as shared storage, shared resources, and shared collections. She was University Librarian at Cornell University from 1996 until 2007. She began her career at Harvard University's Widener Library and has since worked at Johns Hopkins University, the Research Libraries Group (Stanford, CA), the National Agricultural Library, and the Library of Congress. She is a recipient of the Smith College Medal (2009), the Melvil Dewey Award (2007) from the American Library Association, and in 2004 she served as the President of the Association of Research Libraries. From 2013 to 2020 she was a trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition she has served on the boards of OCLC, the Natural History Museum, London, Historic Deerfield, and the Walters Art Gallery. She is a graduate of Smith College, and holds a MS in Library Science from Simmons College, Boston, and a Ph.D. in German literature from the Johns Hopkins University. Sarah Thomas was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 238 | Name: | Lord David Sainsbury of Turville | | | Institution: | United Kingdom | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Lord Sainsbury is a man of broad culture, keen intellect and pleasant, modest personality. He successfully managed a major industrial company in England and advanced the Sainsbury family tradition of being an outstandingly responsible and generous concerned citizen of the United Kingdom. Turning to public service, he has served on several U.K. government missions and was appointed in 1998 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science with responsibility for the Office of Science and Technology, Research Councils and space matters. He retired as a Minister in November 2006 and now concentrates on his charitable activities, the foremost of which is the Gatsby Foundation. He was elected to Chancellor of Cambridge University in 2011. | |
| 239 | Name: | Dr. P. Roy Vagelos | | | Institution: | Merck & Co., Inc. | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | | | | |
Roy Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from 1985-94. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from 1986-94. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. Earlier, he served as Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and as Founding Director of the University's Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Previously he held senior positions in cellular physiology and biochemistry at the National Heart Institute, after internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Dr. Vagelos received the Enzyme Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society in 1967. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Washington University, Brown University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New York University, Columbia University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pamukkale University in Turkey, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of British Columbia; an honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University; and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University. He received the Thomas Alva Edison Award from Thomas Kean, the Lawrence A. Wien Prize from Columbia University, the C. Walter Nicholas Award from New York University's Stern School of Business, the National Academy of Science Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, the Othmer Gold Medal from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the 1999 Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute. His Majesty the King in Bangkok, Thailand awarded the Prince Mahidol Award to Dr. Vagelos in January 1998. Dr. Vagelos was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-99, having served as a trustee since 1988. He also served as Co-Chairman of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center from 1989-99 and was President and CEO of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1999-2001. Dr. Vagelos is a Director of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a Trustee of The Danforth Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Theravance, Inc. and was Chairman of the Review, Planning and Implementation Steering Committee of New Jersey and the Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development. | |
| 240 | Name: | Mr. Cyrus R. Vance | | | Institution: | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | January 12, 2002 | | | | |
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