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| | 161 | Name: | Mr. David M. Rubenstein | | | Institution: | The Carlyle Group | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $276 billion from 27 offices around the world.
Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of Washington; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats.
Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book).
Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story and How to Lead. David Rubenstein was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 162 | 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? : |
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| | | 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. | |
| 163 | Name: | Dr. George Rupp | | | Institution: | International Rescue Committee | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | 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: | 1942 | | | | | | |
George Rupp was president of the International Rescue Committee from 2002 to 2013. As the IRC's chief executive officer, Dr. Rupp oversaw the agency's relief and development operations in over 40 countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States. In addition, he led the IRC's advocacy efforts in Washington, Geneva, Brussels and other capitals on behalf of the world's most vulnerable people. He regularly visited IRC program sites worldwide.
Before joining the IRC, Dr. Rupp was president of Columbia University. During his nine-year tenure, he focused on enhancing undergraduate education, on strengthening the relationship of the campus to surrounding communities and New York City as a whole, and on increasing the university's international orientation. At the same time, he completed both a financial restructuring of the university and a $2.84 billion fundraising campaign that achieved eight successive records in dollars raised.
Prior to his time at Columbia, Dr. Rupp served as president of Rice University, where in the course of his eight years applications for admission almost tripled, federal research support more than doubled, and the value of the Rice endowment increased by more than $500 million to $1.25 billion.
Before going to Rice, Dr. Rupp was the John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity and dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Under his leadership, the curriculum of the school was revised to address more directly the pluralistic character of contemporary religious life. Further developments included new programs in women's studies and religion, Jewish-Christian relations, and religion and medicine.
Born in New Jersey of immigrant parents, Dr. Rupp has studied and conducted research for extended periods in both Europe and Asia. He was awarded an A.B. from Princeton University in 1964, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972. He is the author of numerous articles and five books, including Globalization Challenged: Commitment, Conflict, and Community (2006).
He has served as chair of the Association of American Universities, is currently the co-president of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and serves on the boards of the Committee for Economic Development, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Institute for International Education, and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
George Rupp and his wife Nancy have two adult daughters, both anthropologists, and six grandchildren. | |
| 164 | Name: | Dr. Carl Sagan | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | 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: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | 12/20/96 | | | | |
| 165 | Name: | Mr. Harrison E. Salisbury | | | Institution: | New York Times | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | 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: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | 7/5/93 | | | | |
| 166 | Name: | Dr. John E. Sawyer | | | Institution: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Williams College | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | 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: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | 2/7/95 | | | | |
| 167 | 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 | | | | |
| 168 | Name: | Mr. Henry B. Schacht | | | Institution: | E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Company, LLC | | | 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: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | | | | |
Among American businessmen, Henry B. Schacht stands out as a thoughtful and serious leader who considers his responsibilities to his country and its institutions as seriously as those of his companies. As chairman and chief executive officer (1973-94), Mr. Schacht led the Cummins Engine Company to the forefront of U.S. industry. Later he would serve as CEO of Lucent Technologies (1995-97, 2001) and at present is Managing Director and Senior Advisor of the venture-capital firm Warburg Pincus LLC. Mr. Schacht has also devoted significant time and attention to matters of scholarship and education through his involvement with the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and as a trustee of Yale University. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1962. | |
| 169 | Name: | The Honorable William Warren Scranton | | | Institution: | United Nations | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | 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: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | July 28, 2013 | | | | | | |
William Scranton had long served the public through his effective leadership on the state, national and international levels. He served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961-63, then as governor of Pennsylvania from 1963-67 and as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1976-77. Known for his education reforms as governor and for his measured approach to diplomacy and interest in human rights as ambassador, Mr. Scranton received numerous honors, including the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1997. The citation read "in recognition of his leadership on the state, national and international level as a political leader who earned the respect of colleagues in both political parties. His voice of reason guided important studies which revealed what troubled American society at home, and suggested paths toward greater amity among nations." William Warren Scranton died July 28, 2013, at the age of 96 in Montecito, California. | |
| 170 | Name: | Mr. Charles Scribner | | | Institution: | Charles Scribner's Sons | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | 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: | 11/11/95 | | | | |
| 171 | Name: | Dr. Robert C. Seamans | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | 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: | June 28, 2008 | | | | |
| 172 | Name: | Dr. Donna E. Shalala | | | Institution: | The New School; U.S. House of Representatives; University of Miami | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | 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: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Donna E. Shalala is the Interim President of The New School. She was U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th Congressional District from 2019-21. Prior to her election she was Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami, having previously served as president of the University of Miami and Professor of Political Science (2001-15). During a two year leave from the University of Miami, she was president and chief executive officer of the Clinton Foundation (2015-17). Donna received her A.B. in history from Western College for Women and her Ph.D. from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She served as President of Hunter College of CUNY from 1980 to 1987, and as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993. In 1993, President Clinton nominated her as Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years. In 2008, President Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian award. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran from 1962-1964. In 2010, she received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights recognizing her dedication to improving the health and life chances of disadvantaged populations in South Africa and internationally. | |
| 173 | Name: | Irving S. Shapiro | | | Institution: | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom & DuPont | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | 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: | September 13, 2001 | | | | |
| 174 | Name: | Dr. Harold Tafler Shapiro | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | 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: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Harold T. Shapiro served as Princeton University's 18th president. Elected at a special Board of Trustees meeting on April 27, 1987, he was installed on January 8, 1988, and served in that capacity until June 2001. In 2009 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Shapiro, who received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1964, held a faculty appointment as a professor of economics and public affairs, becoming emeritus in 2023. He came to Princeton from the University of Michigan, where he served on the faculty for twenty-four years as professor of economics and public policy and as president from 1980-1988.
A trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, he also serves as director of the Hastings Center, DeVry, Inc., Reading is Fundamental, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the Merck Vaccine Advisory Board, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the Princeton Healthcare System, and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey Joint Board Managers. He is also a Governor of the American Jewish Committee. He served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on American's Energy Future. He served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institute of Health from July 2002-July 2003. Harold Shapiro is the author of "A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society (2005) and editor of "Universities and Their Leadership" (with William G. Bowen,1988) and "Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects" (with James F. Childress and Eric M. Meslin, 2005). He is a recipient of the Lt. Governor's Medal in Commerce from McGill University (1956), the William D. Carey Lectureship Award in Leadership in Science Policy (2006), and the National Academy of Science's Public Welfare Medal (2012). | |
| 175 | Name: | Dr. Judith R. Shapiro | | | Institution: | Barnard College; Bryn Mawr College | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | 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: | 1942 | | | | | | |
Judith R. Shapiro was president of Barnard College from 1994 to 2008. Previously she served eight years as Provost of Bryn Mawr College. She taught at the University of Chicago before joining Bryn Mawr's Department of Anthropology in 1975, serving successively as assistant professor, associate Professor and professor before becoming chair of the department in 1982.
A native of New York City, she received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of gender differentiation, social theory, and missionization, many based on her field research in lowland South America. She has been president of the American Ethnological Society, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, and the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) and is a member of the Board of Directors of JSTOR and the New York Building Congress. She is President of the Board of Directors of the Morningside Area Alliance and also serves on the Executive Board of the Women's College Coalition, the Advisory Committee of Save the Children (Every Mother/Every Child), and on the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. In March, 2004, she received the Athena Award in Education from the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and in May, 2004, she was an honoree at the Women with Heart luncheon hosted by the American Heart Association. She also received the Gershom Mendes Seixas Award from the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life in 2004 and, upon her retirement, she was awarded the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2008. She was President of the Teagle Foundation 2013-18, and served on the foundation's board since 2009. | |
| 176 | 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. | |
| 177 | Name: | Dr. Ruth J. Simmons | | | Institution: | Prairie View A&M University | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
On December 4, 2017, Ruth J. Simmons was officially named the eighth president of Prairie View A&M University. She is the first woman to serve as president of the university. From 2001-2012, she served as the 18th president of Brown University. A French professor before entering university administration, Dr. Simmons previously held an appointment as a professor of comparative literature and of Africana studies at Brown. She graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans before completing her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University. She served in various administrative roles at the University of Southern California, Princeton University and Spelman College before becoming president of Smith College, the largest women's college in the United States, in 1995. At Smith, she launched a number of initiatives including an engineering program, the first at an American women's college. Dr. Simmons is the recipient of many honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the 2001 President's Award from the United Negro College Fund, the 2002 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the 2004 Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal, and the 2012 Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal of Honor. She has been a featured speaker in many public venues, including the White House, the World Economic Forum, the National Press Club, the American Council on Education, and the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture at Harvard University. In 2012, she was named a ‘chevalier’ of the French Legion of Honor. | |
| 178 | Name: | Dr. James H. Simons | | | Institution: | Euclidean LLC | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | 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: | 1938 | | | Death Date: | May 10, 2024 | | | | | | |
James Simons has been very successful at two different endeavors: research mathematics and investing. During his career as a mathematician, James Simons was a leading differential geometer. He recast the subject of area of minimizing surfaces. A consequence of this was the settling of two classical questions, the Bernstein Conjecture and the Plateau Problem. Jointly with S.S. Chern, he discovered certain measurements now called the Chern-Simons Invariants, which have found wide use, particularly in theoretical physics. In 1978, Simons turned his attention to investments. He founded Renaissance Technologies Corporation, a private investment firm dedicated to the use of mathematical methods, which is staffed by Ph.D. mathematicians and physicists. Renaissance is one of the most successful fund management firms in history. He also manages the Simons Foundation, a private charitable organization devoted to scientific research with over $200 million in assets. He was elected to life membership in the MIT Corporation in July of 2010, and to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. In 2013 he received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. | |
| 179 | Name: | Dr. Theodore R. Sizer | | | Institution: | Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | 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: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | October 21, 2009 | | | | | | |
Among America's leading educational reformers, Theodore R. Sizer is currently Professor Emeritus in Education at Brown University. He is the founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), an organization dedicated to creating and sustaining equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to making such schools the norm of American public education. From 1964-72, Dr. Sizer was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Later, he was headmaster of Phillips Academy (Andover, MA) from 1972-81. In 1983, he joined the faculty of Brown University, where he served as founding director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and founded CES. Later, Dr. Sizer served with his wife, Nancy Faust Sizer, as co-principal of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, MA. Among Dr. Sizer's several books, those of his "Horace" series (e.g., Horace's Compromise) on school reform are classics in the field. They center on the professional challenges of a fictional high-school English teacher named Horace Smith. His most recent book is The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education (2004). A historian by training, he was educated at Yale (B.A.) and Harvard (M.A.T., Ph.D.) Universities. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees. | |
| 180 | Name: | Dr. David Skorton | | | Institution: | Association of American Medical Colleges | | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
David J. Skorton was the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, overseeing 19 museums, the National Zoo, 21 libraries, several research centers, and numerous education units and centers. Dr. Skorton is a board-certified cardiologist and the first physician to lead the Smithsonian.
Dr. Skorton is currently a Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University and previously served as the president of Cornell University. He was also a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and in Cornell's Department of Biomedical Engineering. Before that, he was president of the University of Iowa and a professor there for 26 years. In 2019 he left the Smithsonian to become president and CEO of the American Association of Medical Colleges.
Dr. Skorton received his bachelor's degree in psychology and his medical degree from Northwestern University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. | |
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