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21Name:  Mr. Harrison E. Salisbury
 Institution:  New York Times
 Year Elected:  1983
 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:  1908
 Death Date:  7/5/93
   
22Name:  Dr. John E. Sawyer
 Institution:  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Williams College
 Year Elected:  1983
 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:  2/7/95
   
23Name:  Lord Leslie George Scarman
 Institution:  House of Lords
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1911
 Death Date:  December 8, 2004
   
24Name:  Mr. Rudolf Serkin
 Institution:  Marlboro Music School and Festival & Institute for Young Performing Artists
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  501. Creative Artists
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1903
 Death Date:  5/8/91
   
25Name:  Dr. Claude E. Shannon
 Institution:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  103. Engineering
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  February 24, 2001
   
26Name:  Dr. William Kelly Simpson
 Institution:  Yale University & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1928
 Death Date:  March 24, 2017
   
 
William Kelly Simpson (B.A. Yale, 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954) was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1958, and as Professor of Egyptology in 1965. He embraced nearly every aspect of the subject, including history, literature, art and archaeology. His numerous books include publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, Giza mastabas, several volumes of papyri and other Egyptian writings; a standard history of Egypt; and an anthology of Egyptian literature in translation. He was the author of nearly 150 articles in the field and was also former editor of the Yale Egyptological Studies. Furthermore, Dr. Simpson served for many years as Curator of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Kelly Simpson died March 24, 2017, at the age of 89.
 
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