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| • | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | [X] |
| | 1 | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | 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. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Edward G. Jefferson | | | Institution: | Du Pont | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | February 7, 2006 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Howard Wesley Johnson | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | December 12, 2009 | | | | | | |
Howard Wesley Johnson is the former president (1966-71) and chairman (1971-83) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1948-55, when he came to M.I.T. as associate professor of management and director of the Sloan Fellowship Program. Dr. Johnson became professor and dean of the Sloan School of Management in 1959, serving until 1966, when he became M.I.T.'s twelfth president. Later, he served as president of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (1975-80). His public service includes membership on the National Commission on Productivity, the National Manpower Advisory Committee, the (U.S.) President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has also been a trustee or director of public and private institutions including the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Radcliffe College, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. | |
| 4 | Name: | Mr. Robert Imbrie Smith | | | Institution: | Glenmede Trust Company & Pew Charitable Trusts | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | November 1, 2008 | | | | | | |
As the former president and CEO of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Glenmede Trust Company, Robert I. Smith has devoted himself to public service and to bettering the civic and ethical quality of the City of Philadelphia. A banker by trade, he ran the Joseph Pew-founded Glenmede Trust Company from 1977 until his retirement in 1986. He is currently a director of Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. and of the Haverford Trust Company. He has been a director of the Sun Company and the Rorer Pharmaceutical Company. He has served on both the board of directors and the executive committee of the Urban Affairs Partnership. His other civic involvements include leadership on the United States Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities and membership on the Trial Court Nominating Commission of Philadelphia County. Mr. Smith holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University (1957) and has been presented with honors including the Yale University Medal (1982) and the Philadelphia Human Rights Commission Award (1982). | |
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