Class
| • | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | [X] |
| | 1 | 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? : |
Living
| | | 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). | |
| 2 | Name: | Mr. William R. Hewlett | | | Institution: | Hewlett-Packard Company | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | January 12, 2001 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | The Honorable Robert S. McNamara | | | Institution: | The World Bank | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | July 6, 2009 | | | | | | |
Born in San Francisco in 1916, Robert S. McNamara graduated from the University of California in 1937 and received an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1939. In 1940 he returned to Harvard to become an instructor and later assistant professor of business administration. He was commissioned a captain in the air force in 1943 and served in the United Kingdom, India, China, and the Pacific. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and promoted to lieutenant colonel before going on inactive duty in 1946. Upon discharge from the air force, Mr. McNamara joined the Ford Motor Company. He was elected director of the company in 1957 and president of the company in 1960. Just weeks after assuming the latter position, he agreed, at the request of President-elect John F. Kennedy, to serve as Secretary of Defense of the United States. This eventually became a controversial period for Mr. McNamara, as he became known as one of the primary architects of the Vietnam War. Amidst countless deaths in Southeast Asia and the failure of the government's wartime policies, he resigned the position in 1968 to become president of the World Bank, a position he held until his retirement in 1981. Since his retirement, Mr. McNamara has served on a number of boards of directors for both corporations and non-profit associations. He has written and spoken on many topics including population and development, world hunger, the environment, East-West relations and nuclear arms. Mr. McNamara is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad and has received many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (with Distinction), the Albert Einstein Peace Price, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Medal, and the Dag Hammarskjold Honorary Medal. He is the author of The Essence of Security; One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People; Out of the Cold; and In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. | |
| 4 | Name: | Mr. I. M. Pei | | | Institution: | I. M. Pei Architect | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | May 16, 2019 | | | | | | |
Ieoh Ming Pei was born in China in 1917. He came to the U.S. in 1935 to study architecture at M.I.T. (B. Arch., 1940) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Arch., 1946). In 1948, he became Director of Architecture at Webb & Knapp, Inc., a real estate development firm. This association resulted in major architectural and planning projects in Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, and other cities. In 1958, he formed I.M. Pei & Associates, which evolved to I.M. Pei & Partners, and later to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. After 1996 he was an independent architect. Mr. Pei designed well over 50 projects around the world. The impressive list includes the East Wing, National Gallery of Art; the Pyramide du Louvre, Paris; Bank of China, Hong Kong; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland; Javits Convention Center, New York; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Christian Science Center, Boston; J.F.K. Library, Boston; Dallas City Hall; Morton Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; Fragrant Hill Hotel, Beijing; and Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation Center, Singapore. Mr. Pei was awarded the American Philosophical Society's 2001 Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, the award citation for which reads, "In recognition of his distinguished accomplishments as a seminal, creative architect; his fulfillment in the contemporary world of Vitruvius' injunction to combine in one's work utilitas, firmitas, venustas; and the elegant, spiritual, uplifting genius embodied in his buildings across the globe." Additionally, he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 2010 from the Royal Institute of British Architects in London and the 2016 Asia Game Changer Lifetime Achievement Award. I.M. Pei was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1981. On May 16, 2019 he died in Manhattan at the age of 102. | |
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