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| | 61 | Name: | Dr. John H. Gibbons | | | Institution: | United States | | | 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: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | July 17, 2015 | | | | | | |
John H. Gibbons served with distinction as an experimental physicist and expert in energy supply and conservation and environmental technology development. In 1973, at the start of the nation's first major energy crisis, he was appointed first director of the Federal Office of Energy Conservation. He returned to Washington in 1979 to direct the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and from 1993-1998 he served in the Clinton-Gore Administration as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Gibbons received a Ph.D. (physics) from Duke University (1954) and six honorary doctorates. He received Distinguished Service Awards from both NASA (1997, 1998) and the National Science Foundation (1998). He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for Advancement of Science. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. John H. Gibbons died July 17, 2015, at the age of 86, in Virginia. | |
| 62 | Name: | Dr. Robert J. Glaser | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | 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: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | June 7, 2012 | | | | | | |
Robert Joy Glaser received an M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He served as Associate Dean at Washington University from 1955-57, then as Dean and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine until 1963, and as Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University from 1963-65. In 1965 he became the Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean of the School of Medicine, and professor at Stanford University, also serving as acting president in 1968. He was Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Stanford University and he received that institution's Dean's Medal in 2009. Dr. Glaser had been a trustee and board member of many educational institutions and foundations, including the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, Georgetown University, Morehouse College, the David & Lucille Packard Foundation, UCLA School of Medicine, Center for the Future of Children, Packard Humanities Institute, and the Foundation for Biomedical Research. He was a consultant for Medical Philanthropy and Biomedical Science. In 1986 the Robert J. Glaser Award was established by the Society of General Internal Medicine. Robert Glaser is a legendary figure in the field of medicine and biomedical research. His uniqueness is based on a complex combination of personal characteristics: scientific ability, demonstrated early in his career as a successful clinical microbiologist, and widely acclaimed administrative leadership. His accomplishments in support of education and research in medicine and his stature as a wise and trusted leader within biomedicine are unparalleled. In addition, his deep commitment to support and stimulate young minds and to foster their education and training was coupled with a realistic sense of the need to find financial resources to realize these dreams. Dr. Glaser was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000 and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2009. He died on June 7, 2012, at the age of 93 in Palo Alto, California. | |
| 63 | Name: | Hon. Robert F. Goheen | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | 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: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | March 31, 2008 | | | | |
| 64 | Name: | Mr. William T. Golden | | | Institution: | American Museum of Natural History & American Association for the Advancement of Science | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | 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: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | October 7, 2007 | | | | | | |
William T. Golden is chairman emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History and an officer and trustee of several scientific and educational organizations including the New York Academy of Sciences (honorary life member, life governor, former president); the American Association for the Advancement of Science (treasurer emeritus); the Carnegie Institution of Washington (secretary emeritus); Mount Sinai Medical Center, Hospital and Medical School (vice chairman emeritus); the National Humanities Center (emeritus); the Hebrew Free Loan Society (treasurer emeritus); Barnard College (vice chairman emeritus); and the Black Rock Forest Consortium (chairman emeritus). He is also a director of several business corporations including General American Investors Company and Block Drug Company.
Mr. Golden was co-chairman (with Joshua Lederberg) of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. As Special Assistant to President Truman he designed the first President’s Science Advisory apparatus in 1950 and was presidential adviser on the initial program of the National Science Foundation.
He served as an officer in the US Navy on active duty throughout World War II, and has served in the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of State, and the Executive Office of the President.
He received the Distinguished Public Service Award of the National Science Foundation in 1982 and its Special Tribute of Appreciation from the National Science Board in 1991. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society (vice president, 1992-98); the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Royal Society of Arts (Benjamin Franklin Fellow), London; and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania (AB, 1930) and of Columbia University (MA in Biology, 1979). He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Polytechnic University, Hamilton College, Bard College, the City University of New York Graduate School, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. In 1995 he received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Philosophical Society; in 1996 the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (its highest honor); in 2001 the Scholar-Patriot Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 2002 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mr. Golden is editor and co-author of Science Advice to the President (Pergamon Press, 1980; second edition, AAAS Press, 1993); Science and Technology Advice to the President, Congress, and Judiciary (Pergamon Press, 1988; second edition, AAAS Press, 1993); Worldwide Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Governments (Pergamon Press, 1991). Distributed by Transaction Publishers; and guest editor with J. Thomas Ratchford of Science, Engineering, and Technology in Government and Industry Around the World: Translating Knowledge into Power and Wealth (Elsevier Science Ltd., 1997); published as a special issue of Technology In Society: An International Journal, Vol. 19, Numbers 3/4.
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| 65 | Name: | Dr. Mary Lowe Good | | | Institution: | University of Arkansas & Venture Capital Investors, LLC & American Association for the Advancement of Science | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | 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: | November 20, 2019 | | | | | | |
Mary Good exemplified intellectual biodiversity. She was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dean of the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and managing director of the Fund for Arkansas, LLC. She also served on the board of Aexiom Inc., a successful information company, and on several not-for-profit boards. Good served four years as the Under Secretary for Technology in the Department of Commerce, a Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed, position. She chaired the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technological Innovation and was a member of the National Science Board, appointed by President Carter in 1980. Before joining the federal administration, she was for many years Senior Vice-President of Technology at Allied Signal, Inc. She was its chairman from 1988 to 1991. Prior to Allied Signal, she served for more than 25 years in academia. In 1991, she was appointed by President Bush to the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). She was an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mary Good was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. She died November 20, 2019 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 88. | |
| 66 | Name: | The Honorable Albert A. Gore | | | 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: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
In three decades as a widely respected politician and public figure, Albert A. (Al) Gore, Jr. has called attention to, and helped develop solutions to, many of the key issues of our time. During his sixteen years in Congress he supported a range of productive legislation, from progressive environmental policies (he held the first congressional hearings on climate change in the late 1970s and on global warming in the 1980s) to communications initiatives that had a significant effect on the development of the Internet. As vice president in the Clinton administration, he was heavily involved in areas of government from the economy to the environment. Since his near-election to the presidency in 2000, Gore has channeled his environmental expertise into activism, lecturing widely on the climate crisis and starring in the film An Inconvenient Truth, which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2007 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize (with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for his "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." Al Gore was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. His book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change came out in 2013. | |
| 67 | Name: | Dr. Patricia Albjerg Graham | | | Institution: | Harvard 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: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Patricia Albjerg Graham is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Education Emerita at Harvard University. She holds a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Graham was dean of the Harvard School of Graduate Education from 1982 to 1991. She has taught nursery school and grades 5 through 12, chaired a high school history department, and served as a high school guidance counselor. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, she ran a program for beginning teachers in the New York City schools. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1974, Graham taught at Barnard College; Teachers College, Columbia University; Northern Michigan University; and Indiana University. She was dean of the Radcliffe Institute and vice president of Radcliffe College from 1974 to 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter director of the National Institute of Education, where she served from 1977-79. She served as the president of the Spencer Foundation in Chicago from 1991-2000. Dr. Graham is the author of four books on the history of education, coeditor of a book on women in higher education, and author of a number of articles dealing with historical and contemporary issues in American education. Dr. Graham also serves on several corporate, not-for-profit and foundation boards. She is past president of the National Academy of Education and former vice-president of the American Historical Association. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1999. | |
| 68 | Name: | Mr. Donald E. Graham | | | Institution: | Graham Holdings Company | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Donald E. Graham became chief executive officer of Graham Holdings Company (then The Washington Post Company) in May 1991 and chairman of the board in 1993. He was publisher of The Washington Post newspaper from January 1979 until September 2000 and chairman of the paper from September 2000 to February 2008. His father, Philip Graham, was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until 1961 and president from 1947 until his death in 1963. His mother, Katharine Graham, served in a variety of executive positions from 1963 until her death in 2001. Eugene Meyer, Graham's grandfather, purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.
After graduating in 1966 from Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Graham was drafted and served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department from January 1969 to June 1970. Graham joined The Washington Post newspaper in 1971 as a reporter and subsequently held several news and business positions at the newspaper and at Newsweek. He was named executive vice president and general manager of the newspaper in 1976.
He was elected a director of The Washington Post Company in 1974 and served as president from May 1991 to September 1993.
In 2013 The Washington Post newspaper and other newspaper division assets were sold to Jeffrey P. Bezos, and the Company was renamed Graham Holdings Company.
Graham is chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, a private foundation which, since 1999, has helped double the number of DC public high school students going on to college and has helped triple the number graduating from college. He co-founded the program along with major local businesses and foundations. Since its inception, DC-CAP has assisted over 13,000 DC students enroll in college and has provided scholarships totaling more than $18 million. He is a co-founder of TheDream.US, a national scholarship fund for DREAMers, created to help immigrant youth get a college education.
Graham is a trustee of the Federal City Council and of the Philip L. Graham Fund, which was established in 1963 in memory of his father. He is also a director and member of the compensation committee of Facebook, The Summit Fund of Washington, the College Success Foundation and KIPP-DC. Previously, he served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. | |
| 69 | Name: | Dr. Hanna H. Gray | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Hanna Holborn Gray is a groundbreaking academic administrator and historian of political thought specializing in the Renaissance and the Reformation. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she traveled to Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar before earning her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957. She served as assistant professor at Harvard from 1956-60, moving to the University of Chicago in 1961 and to Northwestern University in 1972 as professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gray subsequently assumed the office of provost (1972-78) and acting president (1977-78) at Yale University before returning to the University of Chicago in 1978 to become the first female (full) president of a major university. She served as president through 1993, making her 15-year tenure the third-longest, and one of the most productive, in the university's history. She currently holds the title of Harry Pratt Judson Professor Emeritus. Along with her husband, Charles M. Gray, she is the editor of Journal of Modern History (1965-70). Dr. Gray has been honored with awards including the Medal of Liberty, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, most recently, the Chicago Historical Society's 2008 Making History Award. She is the author of Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories (2011) and An Academic Life (2018). | |
| 70 | Name: | Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt | | | Institution: | DuPont | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | 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: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | 9/27/1993 | | | | |
| 71 | Name: | Mr. Alan Greenspan | | | Institution: | Greenspan Associates LLC; Federal Reserve System | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | 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: | 1926 | | | | | | |
As the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan piloted the United States economy, the world's largest, for nearly 20 years. First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, at which time he relinquished the chairmanship to Ben Bernanke. Mr. Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven, "dot-com" economic boom of the 1990s. He remains a leading authority on American domestic economic and monetary policy, and his active influence continues to this day. In 1998 Mr. Greenspan was awarded the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service. The citation read "in recognition of his leadership and his work as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. His wise formation and skillful execution of monetary policy has contributed significantly to the longest period of prosperity in the United States on record." Mr. Greenspan has published several books, including The Age of Turbulence (2007) and The Map and the Territory (2013). He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. | |
| 72 | Name: | Dr. Vartan Gregorian | | | Institution: | Carnegie Corporation of New York & Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | 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: | April 15, 2021 | | | | | | |
A scholar of Armenian, Caucasian and cognate history, Vartan Gregorian served as the twelfth president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Prior to this position, which he assumed in 1997, Dr. Gregorian served for nine years as the sixteenth president of Brown University. Born in Tabriz, Iran of Armenian parents, he received his elementary education in Iran and his secondary education in Lebanon. He graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1958 and was awarded a Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford in 1964. Dr. Gregorian has subsequently taught European and Middle Eastern history at San Francisco State College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1972 he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty and was appointed Tarzian Professor of History and professor of South Asian history. He was founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and four years later became its twenty-third provost until 1981. From 1981-1989, Dr. Gregorian served as a president of the New York Public Library, an institution with a network of four research libraries and eighty-three circulating libraries. In 1989 he was appointed president of Brown University. Vartan Gregorian is the author of works such as The Road To Home: My Life And Times, Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith, and The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1880-1946. A Phi Beta Kappa and a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellow, he is a recipient of numerous fellowships, including those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council and the American Philosophical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 1969 he received the Danforth Foundation's E.H. Harbison Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Gregorian was the 2008 recipient of the James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations. He has been decorated by the French (Chevalier of Legion of Honor), Italian, Austrian, Portuguese and Armenian governments and received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton in 1998. In 2004, President Bush awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award. He died on April 15, 2021. | |
| 73 | Name: | Dr. Werner Gundersheimer | | | Institution: | Folger Shakespeare Library | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Werner Gundersheimer, a highly respected French and Italian Renaissance scholar, is a major interpreter of Ferrara's cultural history who has brought unusual ingenuity and intellect to his directorship of The Folger Shakespeare Library, one of the world's great humanistic research centers. He succeeded in restructuring the Folger's operations and staff, increased the endowment and operating funds impressively, improved the physical environment, modernized the seminar program, organized both scholarly and popular conferences and lectures and created better lines of communication with the general public. Dr. Gundersheimer is a prominent leader in the study and interpretation of Renaissance history, and he continues to publish important articles in leading journals. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1963). He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and Tel Aviv University and presently lectures at several universities and colleges. Among his many honors is the Star of Italian Solidarity (Cavaliere della Stella Solidarieta Italiana) conferred by the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Italy (1974). | |
| 74 | Name: | Dr. Amy Gutmann | | | Institution: | U.S. State Department; University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | 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: | 1949 | | | | | | |
Amy Gutmann is a political philosopher, widely recognized for her work linking theory to practice in the core values of democratic civil society. In 2022 she became the U.S. Ambassador to Germany. From 2004-2022 she served as the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania, where she also held the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science chair in the School of Arts and Sciences, along with secondary faculty appointments in Philosophy, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Gutmann has published widely on the value of education and deliberation in democracy, on the importance of access to higher education and health care, on "the good, the bad and the ugly" of identity politics, and on the essential role of ethics -especially professional and political ethics - in public affairs. She continued to be an active scholar as Penn's President, most recently lecturing on "What Makes a University Education Worthwhile?" and publishing her sixteenth book, The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It (with Dennis Thompson) in May 2012. During her term as university president she became a national leader in the push to facilitate broader access to higher education, making Penn the largest university to establish a no-loan guarantee that has become a national model, and significantly expanding the number of low-income students attending the University.
Born in Brooklyn, New York to immigrant parents, Dr. Gutmann graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College. She earned her master's degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics and her doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University. Prior to her appointment as Penn's president, she served as provost at Princeton University, where she was also the founding director of the University Center for Human Values. She served as Princeton's dean of the faculty from 1995-97 and as academic advisor to the President from 1997-98. In 2000, she was awarded the President's Distinguished Teaching Award by Princeton University. She won the Harvard University Centennial Medal (2003), the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award (2009), and was named by Newsweek one of the "150 Women Who Shake the World" (2011). She is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, is a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Dr. Gutmann is a founding member of the Global Colloquium of the University Presidents, which advises the Secretary General of the U.N. on a range of issues, including the social responsibility of universities. In 2009, President Obama appointed her chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is married to Michael W.Doyle, the Harold Brown Professor of Law and International Affairs at Columbia University. Their daughter, Abigail Gutmann Doyle, is an assistant professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. | |
| 75 | Name: | Mr. John C. Haas | | | Institution: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania & Temple University Health System & Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia & Chemical Heritage Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | 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: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | April 2, 2011 | | | | | | |
John C. Haas spent his professional career with the Rohm and Haas Company (except for service in the Navy Reserve during World War II). He began his career at the company in 1942 and retired from the Board in 1988. Mr. Haas received an A.B. degree from Amherst College in 1940 and his M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942. Mr. Haas served on the board of Temple University Health System and chaired the Temple University Health System Board of Overseers. He was a trustee emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Mr. Haas was a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. John C. Haas died on April 2, 2011, at the age of 92, at home in Villanova, Pennsylvania. | |
| 76 | Name: | Mr. David Haas | | | Institution: | Wyncote Foundation; William Penn Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | 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: | 1955 | | | | | | |
David Haas is a philanthropist working with a number of foundations that were created by his grandparents, Otto and Phoebe Haas, and parents, John and Chara Haas. From 1999-2009, he served on the board of directors of the Rohm & Haas Company, founded by Otto Haas and chemist Otto Rohm in 1909, which grew to become a global Fortune 500 company. Haas has a history of supporting public media and journalism locally and nationally, and arts, culture and green space efforts in Philadelphia. He has served on the board of the William Penn Foundation since 1982, and as board chair since 1993 for all but four of those years. WPF, founded in 1945 by his grandparents, makes grants in the Greater Philadelphia region, in the program areas: Great Learning, Watershed Protection, and Creative Communities. Now one of the 40 largest foundations in the country, its current annual grant budget is $105 million and has an endowment of about $2 billion. Haas also serves on the board of the Wyncote Foundation, which was created in 2009 by John C. Haas. Wyncote supports efforts in culture, community and the natural environment. Since 2002, He has served as board chair of Media Impact Funders, a network of funders supporting and a wide public service media and digital technology efforts that strengthen communities. From 1989-1997, he ran the Philadelphia Independent Film/Video Association, a service organization for independent film, video and audio makers based in the Philadelphia area. Born in 1955, Haas grew up in the area suburbs, is the father of three sons and has been a resident of the City of Philadelphia since 1981. In 2015 he was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. | |
| 77 | 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? : |
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| | | 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. | |
| 78 | Name: | Ms. Suzan Shown Harjo | | | Institution: | The Morning Star Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Suzan Shown Harjo is the President of The Morning Star Institute. Her work as a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, activist, and policy advocate is extensive, and includes serving as the Congressional Liaison for American Indian Affairs (1978-1984) and, later, as Director of the National Congress of American Indians (1984-1989).
Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) has been the most consistent and effective advocate for Native American rights over the last five decades. She has helped develop critical legislation, including the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the American Indian Self Determination and Education Act, and the Passamaquoddy Penobscot Settlement Act. A founding trustee of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, her work has affected the lives of Native people across a tremendous spectrum, from museum representation, repatriation of human remains, free practice of religion and access to sacred sites, land and treaty rights, and the return of over one million acres of Indigenous lands. Harjo has sustained a distinctly Native cultural voice throughout her long career and continues to produce incisive political commentary and mentor multiple generations of Native American intellectuals.
Harjo co-authored My Father's Bones with M.K. Nagle in 2013 and edited Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations in 2014. Exhibitions she has curated include: Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; Visions from Native American Art, U.S. Senate Rotunda; American Icons Through Indigenous Eyes, District of Columbia Arts Center. In 2014, Hargo received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2020 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 79 | Name: | Dr. J. Bryan Hehir | | | Institution: | Harvard University; Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston | | | 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: | 1940 | | | | | | |
When J. Bryan Hehir was named chair of Harvard Divinity School's Executive Committee, Harvard Magazine's headline read, "Ecumenical Choice at the Divinity School." Announcing the position, then-President Neil Rudenstine said, "(Father Hehir's) combination of qualities - humanity, leadership, intelligence, judgment, commitment, and administration ability - is quite simply superb." Father Hehir was the main drafter of the Catholic Bishop Conference's The Challenge of Peace (on the ethics of nuclear war and deterrence) in 1983. He has written abundantly on the ethics of force, on bio-ethics, development and population issues, and on Vatican diplomacy. He continues to carry pastoral responsibilities as a Catholic priest of the Boston Diocese and to act as an active counsellor to the Catholic Aid Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic bishops throughout the world. He is an outstanding teacher and also continues in that role. He is presently Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and President of the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston. | |
| 80 | Name: | Mr. Ben W. Heineman | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Ben W. Heineman, Jr. was GE’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel for GE from 1987-2003, and then Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. He is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Corporate Governance, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. A Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr. Heineman was assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and practiced constitutional law prior to his service at GE. His book, High Performance with High Integrity, was published in June, 2008 by the Harvard Business Press. He writes and lectures frequently on business, law and international affairs. He is also the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Science, Technology and Law and recipient of the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member Magazine. He was named one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Journal , was named one of the 100 most influential individuals on business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine and was named on of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center(chair of patient care committee), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (chair of program committee), Transparency International-USA (chair of program committee) and the Committee For Economic Development (chair of the corporate governance committee). He is a member of the board of trustees of Central European University. He is currently on an international panel advising the President of the World Bank on governance and anti-corruption. | |
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