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 Hanna Holborn Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Hanna Holborn Gray (born 1930), is a historian of political thought in the Renaissance and Reformation, and an Americann educator.
The daughter of Hajo Holborn, a professor of European history who fled to America from Nazi Germany, and of Annemarie Bettmann, a philologist, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and travelled to Oxford as a Fulbright scholar.
She met and married Charles Montgomery Gray in 1954 while both were graduate students at Harvard, and earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1957, and taught there, becoming an assistant professor in 1959.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/h/ha/hanna_holborn_gray.html   (255 words)

  
 Hanna Holborn Gray
Gray told degree candidates she hoped that as they, too, move on, they will always think of the College "not as an escape or sanctuary, but as another 'real world,' one without which the larger world and its possibilities would be impoverished, the quality of its life, its civilizing values and social purposes impaired."
Gray's father, Hajo Holborn, a distinguished historian, moved the family from Germany to the United States in 1934 after he was dismissed from his academic posts for opposing the Nazi party.
In 1991, Gray honored her mother by establishing the Annemarie Bettmann Holborn Fund at Bryn Mawr for scholarships and fellowships in classics and archeology.
www.brynmawr.edu /Alumnae/bulletin/hhgray.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Hanna Holborn Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Hanna Holborn Gray '50 is an historian with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Gray was an instructor at Bryn Mawr in 1953-54 and taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960.
Gray was one of 12 distinguished foreign-born Americans to receive a Medal of Liberty Award from President Reagan at ceremonies marking the rekindling of the Statue of Liberty's lamp in 1986.
www.brynmawr.edu /Alumnae/bulletin/hhgray2.htm   (426 words)

  
 Frederick Holborn, 76; was legislative, presidential aide to JFK - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Obituaries - News
Holborn, who had been a legislative assistant to John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was a Massachusetts senator and a special assistant to the president when Kennedy was in the White House, had been at the School of Advanced International Studies for more than 30 years.
Holborn, an educator with a gift for combining the practical and the theoretical and who had an inexhaustible cache of stories and anecdotes, taught courses on the conduct of foreign policy, Congress and foreign policy, domestic determinants of foreign policy, and US foreign policy from 1914 to 1945.
When the elder Holborn's research on the Weimar Republic came to the attention of the Nazis, he was dismissed from the institute, and in 1934, the Holborn family was forced to flee the country.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/06/17/frederick_holborn_76_was_legislative_presidential_aide_to_jfk?mode=PF   (849 words)

  
 Gray Appointed to Harvard Corporation
Gray will succeed to one of two vacancies occurring on June 30, 1997, upon the retirements of Richard A. Smith, chairman of the Board of Harcourt General Inc., and Henry Rosovsky, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus.
Born in Germany, Gray received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and went on to study at Oxford as a Fulbright scholar.
Gray resides in Chicago with her husband of nearly 42 years, Charles M. Gray, also a professor of history at the University of Chicago; he is a 1949 Harvard graduate who received the Ph.D in 1956.
www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/1996/06.06/GrayAppointedto.html   (754 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Hanna Gray to conclude service on Harvard Corporation
Gray joined the Corporation in 1997, and as a Fellow of Harvard College has brought her extensive experience as a scholar, teacher, and academic administrator to bear on a wide range of issues facing the University.
After concluding her presidency, Gray became the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago, and was honored in 1996 with the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Gray's many honors include the Medal of Liberty (1986), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1991), the Charles Frankel Prize of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1993), and the Jefferson Medal of the American Philosophical Society (1993).
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/10.07/17-corp.html   (642 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Chicago Prof. Will Join Corporation
"Hanna Gray is an outstanding academic leader and a person of exceptional judgment and experience," President Neil L. Rudenstine said yesterday in a statement.
The appointment of Gray, who has a Ph.D. in Renaissance intellectual history from Harvard and is currently a professor of history at Chicago, is in keeping with the University's goal of maintaining an academic presence on the Corporation, which is currently dominated by business executives.
Gray said yesterday that she was honored to have been chosen to serve on the board.
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 Hanna Holborn Gray, page 1
Hanna Holborn Gray was practically destined to an academic career.
She met Charles Montgomery Gray in a Renaissance history seminar while both were graduate students at Harvard, and they married in 1954.
Hanna Gray received tenure in 1964, and taught Western Civilization as well as other graduate and undergraduate classes on Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/centcat/pres/presch10_01.html   (411 words)

  
 Johns Hopkins Gazette | June 13, 2005
This past year, Holborn was very involved in the planning of the SAIS 60th anniversary celebration and, at the time of his death, was in the midst of writing a history of SAIS.
Graduating from Harvard in 1949, Fred Holborn took a position as a management intern with the Department of the Interior and the Displaced Persons Commission in Washington, D.C. He returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Littauer Center from 1953 to 1957, receiving a master's degree in public administration.
Holborn is survived by his sister, Hanna Holborn Gray, president emerita of the University of Chicago.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2005/13jun05/13holb.html   (1057 words)

  
 Mellon Foundation to establish the Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic ...
Gray served as President from 1978 to 1993 and has taught for more than 35 years, will establish the Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.
Gray is an historian with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Gray was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of history at Northwestern University in 1972.
www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/03/030402.gray.html   (986 words)

  
 Faculty of Arts & Sciences: News and Events
Gray was selected for her trail-blazing service in academia.
An adviser to three Harvard presidents, first as Overseer and now Fellow, she is widely admired for her powerful intellect and her staunch defense of fundamental principles of scholarship in a context of institutional renewal and change.
In addition to recognition of Gray and Hyde, the College will honor seniors Sarah Levit-Shore and Julia Appel, both honorable mentions for the Women's Leadership Award, in recognition of their many noteworthy achievements.
www.fas.harvard.edu /home/news_and_events/releases/gray_04052004.html   (514 words)

  
 Foreign Policy Guru Frederick Holborn Dies
Holborn, who had been a legislative assistant to John F. Kennedy when he was a Massachusetts senator and a special assistant to the White House when he was president, had been at SAIS for more than 30 years.
Holborn, an educator with a gift for combining the practical and the theoretical and who had an inexhaustible cache of stories and anecdotes no matter the circumstance, taught courses on the conduct of foreign policy, Congress and foreign policy, domestic determinants of foreign policy and American foreign policy from 1914 to 1945.
His father, Hajo Holborn, was a renowned professor at the Institute of Politics in Berlin, and his mother, Annemarie Bettman, held a doctorate in classical philology.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060802579.html   (910 words)

  
 Mellon Foundation honors Gray with grant for graduate researchers
The Gray Fellowships will support outstanding graduate students at the University during the later stages of their studies and will enable them to focus fully on dissertation research and writing.
Gray is a historian with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics during the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Gray was one of 12 distinguished foreign-born Americans to receive a Medal of Liberty Award from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and in 1991, President George H. Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
chronicle.uchicago.edu /030417/gray.shtml   (740 words)

  
 BARNARD NEWS
Goodwin, who received the Barnard Medal of Distinction along with Hanna Holborn Gray, Annie Liebovitz and Kathie Olsen, spoke to the graduates about the struggle for balance in life by contrasting the closing chapters in the lives of Lyndon B. Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, both of whose lives she has chronicled.
I hope that when you are old and gray and full of sleep, as the poet William Butler Yeats once wrote, that you can say that your goal in life was not the perfection of work alone, but the perfection of a life," Goodwin told the graduates.
Hanna Holborn Gray, the former president of the University of Chicago and the first woman president of a major research university, has provided strong and inspired leadership to some of our nation's finest colleges and universities.
www.barnard.columbia.edu /newnews/news51600c.htm   (1237 words)

  
 Empowering Women in Asia: The Urgent Need for Higher Education
For women living in the male-dominated societies of Asia, the nurturing environment of an all-female university is paramount, said a panel of highly esteemed educators convened by the Asia Society.
Hanna Holborn Gray, President Emeritus of University of Chicago, Sang Chang, President Emeritus of Ewha Womans University in South Korea and Patricia Licuanan, President of the Philippine's Miriam College, spoke of the advantages that single sex education gave Asian women, much as single sex colleges supported American women in the 1950s and 1960s.
Hanna Holborn Gray, who serves on the board of the new university's support foundation and received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr in 1950, admitted that she might not chose an all-female college if she were attending today.
www.asiasource.org /asip/education.cfm   (966 words)

  
 Crain's Chicago Business: hanna holborn gray; 73 President emeritus, University of Chicago.(100 Most Influential ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
hanna holborn gray; 73 President emeritus, University of Chicago.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
Hanna Gray's tenure as president of the University of Chicago, from 1978 until 1993, was marked by progress-and a touch of controversy.
Gray resisted budget cuts despite some lean years.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:118057100&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (204 words)

  
 Gray, Franklin awarded 1993 Charles Frankel Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Hanna Gray, Professor in History and President Emeritus, and John Hope Franklin, the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History, have each been awarded the Charles Frankel Prize for 1993 by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Franklin and Gray received their awards from President Bill Clinton at a White House ceremony on Oct. 7.
She served for 15 years as president of the University of Chicago, where she became a highly visible and widely acclaimed advocate for higher education.
chronicle.uchicago.edu /931028/frankel.shtml   (325 words)

  
 朝圣山之思 大学的理念 Powered By phpArticle Version 2.0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Gray had been stunned, she said then, by a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education that urged the higher education industry to take lessons from our domestic automobile industry, lessons that signaled a need for universities to "redesign, repackage, and sell their products" in response to shifting consumer priorities.
Gray's talk, Edward Shils, dean of analysts of universities, delineated ten contemporary social developments that conspired to weaken the commitment of universities to their historic mission.
Their mission was dramatized by issuing scholarly publications through their own university press, whose centrality to the institution appears in its location right inside the central administration building for over three decades-just as earlier, for more than three decades, the central administration had existed inside the main research library.
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 BARNARD NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Hanna Holborn Gray has provided strong and inspired leadership to some of our nation’s finest colleges and universities.
She received a doctorate in Renaissance history from Harvard in 1957; as a professor at Northwestern, she became the dean of arts and sciences for the school.
Gray was the first woman provost at Yale University from 1974-78 and became the first woman to head a major research university in 1978 when she served as president of the University of Chicago for 15 years.
www.barnard.columbia.edu /newnews/news50100d.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Sallie Mae News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced two grants totaling $4.5 million in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray, who retired as chairman of its Board of Trustees after having served as a board member for 23 years.
Gray taught history at the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1972, served as president of the university from 1978 to 1993, and is now the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History Emeritus.
Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Gray is one of 12 distinguished foreign-born Americans to receive a Medal of Liberty Award from former President Ronald Reagan at ceremonies marking the rekindling of the Statue of Liberty's lamp in 1986.
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 SAIS Reports Sep/Oct 2005
Holborn died June 3 at his home in Washington, D.C., of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
A SAIS faculty member for more than three decades, Holborn served as a symbol of academic excellence at SAIS, where some of his most noteworthy accomplishments included teaching and advising hundreds of students, directing the annual Crisis Simulation seminar, hosting the Election Night party and advising the American Political Science Association’s Congressional Fellowship Program.
Holborn held a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University and taught at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
www.sais-jhu.edu /pubaffairs/publications/SAIS_Reports/2005_sep_oct/holbornevans.html   (857 words)

  
 Hanna Holborn Gray, page 3
Edward H. Levi and Hanna H. Gray at the Centennial alumni reunion, June 1992.
Responding to changes in medical care and research, Gray led the separation of the hospitals from the University and their establishment as a corporation of which the University is the sole member.
After planning and presiding over a year-long celebration of the University's hundredth anniversary, Gray announced that she would retire at the end of June 1993, making her 15-year tenure as president the third longest, and one of the most productive, in the history of the University.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /projects/centcat/centcats/pres/presch10_03.html   (366 words)

  
 University of Chicago - Department of Art History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Ph.D. Harvard University- Linda Seidel, Professor of Art History, was named the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor in Art History.
Seidel is the first person to be appointed to the chair, which was established in honor of Hanna Holburn Gray, President Emerita and the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in History.
Gray served as President of the University from 1978 to 1993 and then returned to teaching in Autumn Quarter 1994.
humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/art/faculty_staff/seidel.shtml   (314 words)

  
 Hannah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hannah (or Hanna) is a common female human name:
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 AllRefer.com - Hanna Holborn Gray (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Hanna Holborn Gray 1930–;, American historian, president of the Univ. of Chicago (1978–93), b.
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 The University of Chicago Magazine: October 2000, Campus News
The Carlson professor will be a scholar in the humanities or humanistic social sciences whose work is making a contribution nationally or internationally and who can inspire students and faculty.
An endowed chair has been established in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray, president emerita and the Harry Pratt Judson distinguished service professor emerita in history.
Chicago's president from 1978 to 1993, Gray continues to teach in the history department, specializing in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and Renaissance and Reformation politics.
magazine.uchicago.edu /0012/campus-news/journal-record.html   (541 words)

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