Subdivision
| • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Mr. J. Carter Brown | | | Institution: | Ovation - The Arts Network & National Gallery of Art | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | June 17, 2002 | | | | |
| 2 | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | 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. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Neil Leon Rudenstine | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | 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? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
An educator, administrator and literary scholar, Neil L. Rudenstine is president emeritus of Harvard University and chair of ARTstor, an initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition to his fine work as a teacher and scholar of English literature, he has proved himself to be a clear-sighted academic administrator who is deeply imbued with and committed to intellectual inquiry and the life of the mind. Dr. Rudenstine studied the humanities at Princeton University (B.A., 1956) and later attended New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard University. Most of Dr. Rudenstine's subsequent career has been dedicated to educational administration. Between 1968-88, he was a faculty member and senior administrator at Princeton University, serving as dean of students (1968-72), dean of the college (1972-77) and provost (1977-88). Previously, he served at Harvard from 1964-68 as an instructor and then as an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language. After his time as provost of Princeton University, he served as executive vice-president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1988-91, becoming president of Harvard University in 1991 and serving until 2001. In addition to being an honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Dr. Rudenstine is Provost Emeritus of Princeton University as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2011, he replaced Catherine Marron as the Chair of the Board of the New York Public Library, on which he has served as a trustee since 2001. In 2012 he published The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the Controversy, for which he won the John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society. | |
| 4 | Name: | The Honorable George P. Shultz | | | Institution: | Hoover Institution, Stanford University | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | February 6, 2021 | | | | | | |
George P. Shultz served as the sixtieth United States Secretary of State from 1982-89, after which time he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics (now Emeritus) at the Graduate School of Business and the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He had previously taught at Stanford from 1974-82. Dr. Shultz's academic career also brought him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946-57) and the University of Chicago (1957-68). His other governmental positions include U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969-70), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972-74) and chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-82). From 1974-82 he worked in the private sector as president and director of the Bechtel Group. Dr. Shultz's publications include Workers and Wages in the Urban Labor Market (1970); (with Kenneth Dam) Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines (1978); the best-selling memoir Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993); and Putting Our House Back in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform (2007). He was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1989, and he has also received the Seoul Peace Prize (1992), the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service (2001) and the Reagan Distinguished American Award (2002). He is the recipient of the Elliot Richardson Prize for Excellence and Integrity in Public Service, The James H. Doolittle Award, and the John Witherspoon Medal for Distinguished Statesmanship. The George Shultz National Foreign Service Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated in his honor in 2002. Dr. Shultz was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2005. He holds a Ph.D. degree in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949). He died on February 6, 2021. | |
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