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Gregorian, Vartan
Born: 1934 AD
Currently alive, at 74 years of age.
Nationality: Iranian
Categories: Administrator, Educators
Currently alive, at 74 years of age.
Nationality: Iranian
Categories: Administrator, Educators
1934 - Born on April 8th in Tabriz, Iran. Iranian-born educator and historian.
1956 - He entered Stanford University, where he majored in history and the humanities, graduating with honors.
1969 - He received the Danforth Foundation’s E.H. Harbison Distinguished Teaching Award.
1974 - He was founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
1978 - The provost of University of Pennsylvania.
1981 - For eight years, 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.
1986 - Gregorian was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
1989 - The president of Brown University.
- Awarded with the American Academy of the Institute of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Service to the Arts.
1997 - Vartan Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie.
2004 - Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush.
1956 - He entered Stanford University, where he majored in history and the humanities, graduating with honors.
1969 - He received the Danforth Foundation’s E.H. Harbison Distinguished Teaching Award.
1974 - He was founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
1978 - The provost of University of Pennsylvania.
1981 - For eight years, 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.
1986 - Gregorian was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
1989 - The president of Brown University.
- Awarded with the American Academy of the Institute of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Service to the Arts.
1997 - Vartan Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie.
2004 - Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush.
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- "The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer."
- "It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."
- "Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and [the] fragments of stupidity."
- "Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family."
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