| | 141 | 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 | | | | |
| 142 | Name: | Ms. Linda Greenhouse | | | Institution: | Yale Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Linda Greenhouse is a senior research scholar at Yale Law School, where she has taught since 2009. For 30 years before that, she was the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting. In 2005 she was awarded the American Philosophical Society's Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in recognition of her paper "'Because We Are Final': Judicial Review Two Hundred Years after Marbury," delivered as part of the symposium "The Two Hundredth Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison," at the Society's 2003 April Meeting and published in the March 2004 Proceedings. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001, became a Vice President of the Society in 2012, and was elected its President for 2017-23.
She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and earned the degree of Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School, which she attended on a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Among numerous awards during a 40-year career in journalism were the Pulitzer Prize (1998); the Henry J. Friendly Medal from the American Law Institute, of which she is an honorary member; and the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association for "a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." In 2020 she received the Franklin Founder Award from "Celebration! of Benjamin Franklin, Founder," a consortium of representatives of Franklin-related institutions.
Among her publications are Becoming Justice Blackmun (2005); (with Reva B. Siegel) Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (2010); The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (2012); and (with Michael J. Graetz) The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (2016); Just A Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between (2017); and Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court. She is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and currently serves on the Senate of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | |
| 143 | Name: | Ms. Beverly Sills Greenough | | | Institution: | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts & Metropolitan Opera & New York City Opera Company & Lincoln Center Theatre | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | July 2, 2007 | | | | |
| 144 | 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. | |
| 145 | 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. | |
| 146 | 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). | |
| 147 | Name: | Mr. A. R. Gurney | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | June 13, 2017 | | | | | | |
A.R. Gurney was a prolific playwright who dissected the fading folkways of the Northeast's traditional white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society, of which he himself was a member. Among his plays are Scenes from American Life; The Dining Room; The Cocktail Hour; Love Letters; Slyvia; Later Life; Far East; Ancestral Voices; Big Bill; Mrs. Farnsworth; Indian Blood; Buffalo Gal; The Grand Manner; Black Tie; Heresy, and Family Furniture. He had written three published novels, several television scripts, and the libretto for Michael Torke's Strawberry Fields, commissioned and produced by the New York City Opera. Gurney was a Professor of Literature at M.I.T. before devoting himself full time to the theatre. He is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he has honorary degrees from Williams College and Buffalo State University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009. A. R. Gurney died June 13, 2017, at the age of 86, in Manhattan. | |
| 148 | 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. | |
| 149 | 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. | |
| 150 | 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. | |
| 151 | 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. | |
| 152 | Name: | Dame Zaha Hadid | | | Institution: | Zaha Hadid Architects | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | Death Date: | March 31, 2016 | | | | |
| 153 | Name: | Ms. Joy Harjo | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1951 | | | | | | |
Joy Harjo is a poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate and has since been reappointed twice. She has been a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets since 2019, is Board Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and directs For Girls Becoming–an arts mentorship program for young Mvskoke women. She earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1978.
Harjo (Mvskoke) was the first Native American Poet Laureate. About Harjo, American Academy of Poets Chancellor Alicia Ostiker has written, "… Harjo has worked to expand our American language, culture, and soul…Harjo is rooted simultaneously in the natural world, in earth—especially the landscape of the American southwest—and in the spirit world. Aided by these redemptive forces of nature and spirit, incorporating native traditions of prayer and myth into a powerfully contemporary idiom, her visionary justice-seeking art transforms personal and collective bitterness to beauty, fragmentation to wholeness, and trauma to healing." Also a performer, Harjo plays saxophone and flutes with the Arrow Dynamics Band and solo, and previously with the band Poetic Justice. She has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, in venues across the U.S. and internationally, and has released seven award-winning albums.
Harjo's bibliography is extensive. Books of poetry include: The Last Song (1975), What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979), She Had Some Horses (1983), Secrets from the Center of the World (1989), In Mad Love and War (1990), The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994), A Map to the Next World: Poems (2000), How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (2002), Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), and the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise (2019). Her prose includes: The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry) (1995), For a Girl Becoming (2009), Soul Talk, Soul Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo (2011), and Crazy Brave (2012). Plays include: Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses (2019). She has received numerous awards and honors including the American Book Award, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Poetry Foundation's Wallace Stevens Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Native Writers Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2009 Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Harjo was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021. | |
| 154 | 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. | |
| 155 | Name: | Mr. Conrad K. Harper | | | Institution: | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Conrad Harper received an LL.B. at Harvard Law School in 1965. He was a staff lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1966-70. He began as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 1971, becoming a partner of the firm in 1974. He left to serve as a legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State, 1993-96, and as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 1993-96, and 1998-2004. Mr. Harper returned as partner of Simpson Thacher in 1996 and became of counsel in 2003. Beyond his litigation and international practice with one of New York City's premier firms, Conrad Harper's legal abilities have been applied to such diverse assignments as Chancellorship of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and leadership in the American Law Institute. His civic leadership has similarly taken him into diverse assignments including Vice Chair of the New York Public Library, presidency of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, co-chairmanship of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, and the Harvard Corporation. He is a director of New York Life Insurance Company and the Public Service Enterprise Group. He is a trustee of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Mr. Harper was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 156 | Name: | Dr. Cyril M. Harris | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 504. Scholars in the Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | January 4, 2011 | | | | | | |
Cyril M. Harris was one of the world's leading acoustical consultants and engineers. He was born in 1917 and, after working as a researcher during World War II, he received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945. He was employed as a research engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945-51 before joining the faculty at Columbia University. Dr. Harris was named professor of architecture in 1964, chairman of the division of architectural technology at Columbia in 1974 and Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1976. He also served as an acoustical consultant for the Metropolitan Opera House and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and was responsible for the acoustical revitalization of Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. Dr. Harris is the author of works such as Acoustical Designing in Architecture (1950), Handbook of Noise Control (1957) and Shock and Vibration Handbook (1961) and has been presented with numerous awards including the A.I.A. Institute Medal (1980) and the Gold Medal of the Audio Engineering Society (1984). He also served as the 85th president of the New York Academy of Sciences (1991-93) and was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Cyril Harris died January 4, 2011, at the age of 93, at his home in New York City. | |
| 157 | Name: | President Václav Havel | | | Institution: | Former President of the Czech Republic | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | 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: | 1935 | | | Death Date: | December 18, 2011 | | | | | | |
One of the world's shining lights in the struggle for truth and freedom, playwright, essayist and prisoner of conscience Vaclav Havel served as president of the Czech (formerly Czecho-Slovak) Republic 1989 to 2003. Living proof of the proposition that intellectuals can greatly influence that struggle, Mr. Havel authored the "Velvet Revolution" in his country that peacefully swept the Communist regime from power and put the Czechs at the forefront of the Central and Eastern European nations converting to democracy. As an author, Mr. Havel had been awarded numerous international prizes, including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1968), the Olof Palme Prize (1989) and the Simon Bolivar Prize (1990). Among his many books and plays are Garden Party (1963), Protest (1978), Slum Clearance (1988), Disturbing the Peace (1990) and The Art of the Impossible (1997). His memoir, To the Castle and Back, was published in 2007, and his first play in 18 years, "Odchazeni" ("On Departure") had its premiere at the Archa Theater in Prague in 2008. Prior to his country's democratization, Mr. Havel's work was frequently suppressed by Czecho-Slovak authorities, and as spokesman for the Charter 77 human rights movement, he was variously persecuted, imprisoned and placed under house arrest for "subversive" and "antistate" activities. As a politician, he has been honored worldwide and in 1994 was presented with the presitigious Philadelphia Liberty Medal. In 1990 he led his nation to free elections, and even as former Czech Head of State, he continued to be recognized as a moral authority due to his courageous and unyielding stance through the years of Communist totality.
Vaclav Havel died on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75 in norther Bohemia, Czech Republic. | |
| 158 | Name: | Dr. Carla Hayden | | | Institution: | Library of Congress | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Carla Hayden is currently Librarian of Congress, a position she's held since 2016. She earned her Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Chicago and worked for two decades at the Chicago Public Library, eventually becoming the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Librarian of the Chicago library system. Between that and the Library of Congress, she worked at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and was CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
Carla Hayden is a pioneering librarian who has made knowledge more accessible and useable. She began her career in the children’s department of the Chicago Public Library in the 1970s. Later, as the Executive Director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Hayden's accomplishments included opening the first branch in thirty-five years and raising over $100M to renovate the main building. Her success earned her the Librarian of the Year Award from the American Library Association in 1995. She later served as the ALA’s president. In 2016, Barack Obama nominated Dr. Hayden to be the fourteenth Librarian of Congress. The Senate overwhelmingly approved her appointment. She is the first woman and first African-American to serve.
In addition to being named Librarian of the Year, Carla Hayden was named Ms. Magazine "Woman of the Year" in 2003 and one of Fortune's "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders" in 2016. She won the President's Medal of Johns Hopkins University in 1998. She authored A Frontier of Librarianship: Services for Children in Museums in 1987. Carla Hayden was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2020. | |
| 159 | Name: | Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard | | | Institution: | Hastings College of the Law, University of California | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 504. Scholars in the Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | January 11, 2018 | | | | | | |
One of the most distinguished figures in American law, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., received his LL.B. from Columbia University in 1954. He was a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Hastings College of the Law, University of California. Hazard's great scholarly distinction led to his selection in 1984 to succeed the late (APS member) Herbert Wechsler as Director of the American Law Institute. At the helm of the Institute for fifteen years, Hazard orchestrated the work of the unique American law reform enterprise which, for more than three-quarters of a century, brought together leaders of the bar, the bench and the academy in long-term efforts to examine, render coherent, and appropriately "restate" major areas of legal doctrine, both substantive and procedureal. The Institute's celebrated "restatements" of the law have become grist for the mills of courts, state legislatures, and, in certain selected fields, Congress and federal agencies. In 1999 Hazard retired from the Directorship in order to resume, on a full-time basis, his own teaching and scholarly endeavors in realms in which he was preeminent: legal ethics and civil procedure. His legal scholarship was widely respected not only by his academic colleagues but by practicing lawyers and members of the judiciary as well. Geoffrey Hazard was the author of works such as Quest for Justice (1973); (with F. James, Jr., J. Leubsdorf) Civil Procedure (5th edition, 2004); Ethics in the Practice of Law (1978); (with W. Brazil, P. Rice) Managing Complex Litigation: A Practical Guide to the Use of Special Masters (1983); (with S. Koniak, R. Cramton) The Law and Ethics of Lawyering (4th edition, 2005); and (with M. Taruffo) American Civil Procedure: An Introduction (1993). He was also the editor of Law in a Changing America (1968) and (with D. Rhode) The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1986), he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., died January 11, 2018, at the age of 88. | |
| 160 | Name: | Dr. Seamus Heaney | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | Death Date: | August 30, 2013 | | | | | | |
Born and educated in Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest poet since William Butler Yeats. His carefully crafted work received international praise for its powerful imagery, meaningful content, musical phrasing and compelling rhythms. In 1996, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Educated at St. Columb's College and Queen's University in Belfast, he worked as a teacher at college and university level in Belfast in the 1960s, moving with his family to the Irish Republic in 1972. After some years as an independent writer, he resumed work as a college lecturer. In 1982 he began his long association with Harvard University, coming and going for a term each year until 1996. At that time, he resigned the Boylston Professorship to begin a more flexible affiliation as Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence, a position he resigned in 2007. Between 1989 and 1994 he also served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Since the publication of Death of a Naturalist in 1966, Mr. Heaney produced many works of poetry, criticism and translation. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 appeared in 1998 and Finders Keepers, his selected prose, in 2002. Other recent publications include Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (1998) and Electric Light (2001). His version of Sophocles' Antigone, entitled The Burial at Thebes, was produced as part of the Abbey Theatre's centenary celebrations. In 2007 he won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his latest collection, District and Circle and in 2009 he won the Royal Irish Academy's Cunningham Medal. Seamus Heaney was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2000. He died on August 30, 2013, at the age of 74, in Dublin. | |
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