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1	Name:	Dr. David Pierpont Gardner
	Institution:	University of Utah & University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1989
	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:	1933

	For more than 40 years, David Pierpont Gardner has set a standard of excellence for higher education leadership. Nationally recognized as a visionary for his work throughout America's higher education structure, he was most recently Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah, President Emeritus of the University of California and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1983-92, Dr. Gardner served as the 15th president of the now 10-campus University of California system, one of the world's most distinguished centers of higher learning, and during his presidency, he successfully led the university through periods of intense controversy over affirmative action, animal rights, AIDS research, weapons labs and divestment in South Africa. In 1992, he was named president emeritus of the University of California. While serving as president of the University of Utah from 1973-83, Dr. Gardner chaired the U.S. Department of Education's Commission on Excellence in Education, which helped spark a national effort to improve and reform United States schools through its influential report "A Nation at Risk". Prior to his tenure at the University of Utah, Dr. Gardner spent seven years as a faculty member and vice chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, during a tumultuous era of culture wars, ethnic division and anti-Vietnam-war protests. He is the author of many articles and books on educational policy reform. The latter include The California Oath Controversy; Higher Education and Government: An Uneasy Alliance; and Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President. Dr. Gardner has earned numerous awards for his work, including the California School Board's Research Foundation Hall of Fame Award, the James Bryan Conant Award, and the Fulbright 40th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow Award. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Gardner received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.

2	Name:	Ms. Ada Louise Huxtable
	Institution:	Wall Street Journal & New York Times
	Year Elected:	1989
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	504. Scholars in the Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1921
	Death Date:	January 7, 2013

	Pulitzer Prize winner Ada L. Huxtable was for many years the architecture critic for The New York Times. She received her A.B. from Hunter College and did her postgraduate studies at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Following a stint as assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (1946-50), Ms. Huxtable became a freelance writer and contributing editor for the publications Progressive Architecture and Art in America (1950-63). She joined The New York Times as architecture critic in 1963 and served on the newspaper's editorial board from 1973 until her retirement in 1982. Ms. Huxtable has also written extensively on architecture for The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of numerous works on architecture, including Classic New York (1964), Kicked a Building Lately? (1973), The Tall Building Artistically Considered: The Search for Skyscraper Style (1985); a biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. (2004) and On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change (2008). She was awarded the Louis Auchincloss Prize at the Museum of the City of New York in December 2008. Ada Louise Huxtable died on January 7, 2013, at the age of 91 in Manhattan.

3	Name:	Mr. David Packard
	Institution:	Hewlett-Packard Company
	Year Elected:	1989
	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:	1912
	Death Date:	3/26/96

4	Name:	Dr. David S. Saxon
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of California, Los Angeles
	Year Elected:	1989
	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:	1920
	Death Date:	December 8, 2005