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“TRIBUTE TO CITIZEN REGENTS ON THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E177-E178 on Feb. 9, 1999.
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TRIBUTE TO CITIZEN REGENTS ON THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION
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HON. SAM JOHNSON
of texas
HON. RALPH REGULA
of ohio
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, February 9, 1999
Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as Congressional members appointed to the Smithsonian Board of Regents, Chairman Ralph Regula and I are pleased to submit Dr. Hanna H. Gray, Mr. Wesley S. Williams, and the Honorable Barber B. Conable to successive terms as citizen regents on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Their personal commitment and dedication to the Smithsonian Institution has been an invaluable asset in our drive to keep the Smithsonian a national treasure for all to enjoy. We thank them for all their hard work and look forward to working with them during the 106th Congress.
Hanna Holborn Gray
The Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History, The
University of Chicago
Hanna H. Gray was President of the University of Chicago from July 1, 1978 through June 30, 1993, and is now President Emeritus.
Mrs. Gray is a historian with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation. She taught history at the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1972 and is now the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History in the University of Chicago's Department of History.
She was born on October 25, 1930, in Heidelberg, Germany. She received her B.A. degree from Bryn Mawr in 1950 and her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1957. From 1950 to 1951, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University.
She was an instructor at Bryn Mawr College in 1953-54 and taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, returning as a Visiting Lecturer in 1963-64. In 1961, she became a member of the University of Chicago's faculty as Assistant Professor of History, becoming Associate Professor in 1964.
Mrs. Gray was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University in 1972. In 1974, she was elected Provost of Yale University with an appointment as Professor of History. From 1977 to 1978, she also served as Acting President of Yale.
She has been a Fellow of the Newberry Library, a Fellow of the Center of Behavioral Sciences, a Visiting Scholar at that center, a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar for Phi Beta Kappa. She is also an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford.
Mrs. Gray is a member of the Renaissance Society of America. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education, and the Council on Foreign Relations of New York. She holds honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities, including Oxford, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Duke, Harvard, and the Universities of Michigan and Toronto, and The University of Chicago.
She is chairman of the boards of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, serves on the boards of Harvard University and the Marlboro School of Music, and is a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
In addition, Mrs. Gray is a member of the boards of directors of J.P. Morgan & Company, the Cummins Engine Company, and Ameritech.
Mrs. Gray was one of twelve 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. In 1991, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, from President Bush. She received the Charles Frankel Prize from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Jefferson Medal from the American Philosophical Society in 1993. In 1996, Mrs. Gray received the University of Chicago's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In 1997, she received the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr College.
Her husband, Charles M. Gray, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
Biography
Born: October 25, 1930, Heidelberg, Germany.
Married: Charles M. Gray, 1954, A.B. Harvard University 1949, Ph.D. Harvard University 1956.
Education
B.A. Bryn Mawr College 1950Fulbright Scholar, Oxford University 1950-51Ph.D. (History) Harvard University 1957
1953-54--Instructor, Bryn Mawr College1955-57--Teaching Fellow, Harvard University1957-59--Instructor, Harvard University1959-60--Assistant Professor, Harvard University; Head Tutor,
Committee on Degrees in History and Literature1961-64--Assistant Professor, University of Chicago1963-64--Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University1964-72--Associate Professor, University of Chicago1970-71--Visiting Professor, University of California at
Berkeley1972-74--Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and
Professor, Northwestern University1974-78--Provost, Yale University; Professor of History1977-78--Acting President, Yale University1978-93--President of the University of Chicago; Professor of
History1993- --Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History, Department of History, University of Chicago
Fellowships, etc.
1960-61--Fellow, Newberry Library1966-67--Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences1970-71--Visiting Scholar, Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences1971-72--Visiting Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa1978- --Honorary Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford
University
Corporate Board Directorships
AmeritechCummins Engine CompanyJ.P. Morgan and Company/Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
Current Trusteeships/Not-for-Profit Boards
Harvard University CorporationChair, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteChair, Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMarlboro School of MusicBoard of Regents, The Smithsonian Institution
Government
Secretary's Energy Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy
Former Boards (Selected)
Atlantic Richfield CorporationBryan Mawr CollegeCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral SciencesThe University of ChicagoCouncil on Foreign RelationsHarvard University Board of OverseersMayo FoundationNational Council on the HumanitiesPulitzer Prize BoardYale University Corporation
Selected Honors, Awards, etc.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and SciencesMember, American Philosophical SocietyMember, National Academy of EducationPhi Beta KappaRadcliffe Graduate Medal (1976)Yale Medal (1978)Medal of Liberty (1986)Laureate, Lincoln Academy of Illinois (1989)Grosse Verdienstkreuz, Republic of Germany (1990)Sara Lee Frontrunner Award (1991)Presidential Medal of Freedom (1991)Jefferson Medal, American Philosophical Society (1993) Charles Frankel Prize, National Endowment for the Humanities
(1993)Centennial Medal, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences (1994)Distinguished Service Award in Education, Inst. of
International Education (1994)Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The
University of Chicago (1996)M.Carey Thomas Award, Bryn Mawr College (1997)
Selected Honorary Degrees
L.L.D., Darmouth College, 1978L.L.D., Yale University, 1978L.L.D., Brown University, 1979D.Litt. Hum., Oxford University, 1979L.H.D., Rikkyo University, 1979L.L.D., University of Notre Dame, 1980L.L.D., University of Southern California, 1980L.L.D., University of Michigan, 1981L.H.D., Duke University, 1982L.L.D., Princeton University, 1982L.H.D., Brandeis University, 1983L.L.D., Georgetown University, 1983D.Litt., Washington University, 1985L.H.D., City University of New York, 1985L.H.D., American College of Greece, 1986L.L.D., Columbia University, 1987L.H.D., New York University, 1988L.L.D., University of Toronto, 1991L.H.D., McGill University, 1993L.H.D., Indiana University, 1994L.L.D., Harvard University, 1995L.H.D., The University of Chicago, 1996
Selected Publications
``Renaissance Humanism: The Pursuit of Rhetoric,'' Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. XXIV (1963), pp. 497-514.
``Valla's Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Humanist
Conception of Christian Antiquity,'' in Essays in History and Literature, ed. H. Bluhm, Chicago, 1965, pp. 37-52.
``Machiavelli: The Art of Politics and the Paradox of
Power,'' in The Responsibility of Power, ed., L. Krieger and F. Stern, New York, 1967, pp. 34-53.
``Some Reflections on the Commonwealth of Learning,'' in AAAS
Science and Technology Yearbook 1992, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington,
D.C., 1963.
``The Research University: Public Roles and Public
Perceptions,'' in Legacies of Woodrow Wilson, ed. J. M.
Morris, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 23-44.
``The Leaning Tower of Academe,'' Bulletin of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XLIX (1996), pp. 34-
54.
``Aims of Education,'' in The Aims of Education, ed. J. W.
Boyer, Chicago, 1997.
``Prospect for the Humanities,'' in The American University;
National Treasure or Endangered Species?, ed. R. G.
Ehrenberg, Ithaca & London, 1997, pp. 115-127.
``On the History of Giants,'' in Universities and their
Leadership, ed. W. G. Bowen and H. T. Shapiro, Princeton,
1998, pp. 101-115.
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Wesley S. Williams, Jr.
Wesley S. Williams, Jr., of Washington, D.C., has been associated with the law firm of Covington & Burling since 1970 and a partner since 1975. He was previously legal counsel to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, a teaching fellow at Columbia University Law School, and Special Counsel to the District of Columbia Council. He is currently active on many corporate and non-profit boards and has participated in the Smithsonian Luncheon Group. He was appointed to the Board of Regents in April 1993, chairs its Investment Policy Committee, and serves on the Regents' Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Committee on Policy, Programs, and Planning, and ad hoc Committee on Business. He is also served on the Regents' Search Committee for a New Secretary, and he is a member of the Commission of the National Museum of American Art.
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Barber B. Conable, Jr.
Barber Conable retired on August 31, 1991, from a five-year term as President of The World Bank Group, headquartered in Washington, D.C. The World Bank promotes economic growth and an equitable distribution of the benefits of that growth to improve the quality of life for people in developing countries.
Mr. Conable was a member of the House of Representatives from 1965-1985. In Congress, he served 18 years on the House Ways and Means Committee, the last eight years as its Ranking Minority Member. He served in various capacities for 14 years in the House Republican Leadership, including Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and the Republican Research Committee. During his congressional service, he also was a member of the Joint Economic Committee and The House Budget and Ethics Committees.
Following Mr. Conable's retirement from Congress, he served on the Boards of four multinational corporations and the Board of the New York Stock Exchange. He also was active in foundation, museum, and nonprofit work, and was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Rochester.
Currently Mr. Conable serves on the Board of Directors of Corning, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., the American International Group, Inc., and the First Empire State Corporation. In addition, he is a Trustee of Cornell University and of the National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian Institution. He has chaired the Museum's development committee since October, 1990 and is a member of its International Founders Council, the volunteer committee for the National Campaign to raise funds for construction of the Museum on the Mall.
Mr. Conable is a native of Warsaw, New York and graduated from Cornell University and Cornell Law School. He was a Marine in World War II and the Korean War.
Mr. and Mrs. Conable are parents of three daughters and a son. They reside in Alexander, New York.
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