[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 9, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E177-E178]
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 TRIBUTE TO CITIZEN REGENTS ON THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN 
                              INSTITUTION

                                 ______
                                 

                            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 1950
     Fulbright Scholar, Oxford University 1950-51
     Ph.D. (History) Harvard University 1957

     1953-54--Instructor, Bryn Mawr College
     1955-57--Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
     1957-59--Instructor, Harvard University
     1959-60--Assistant Professor, Harvard University; Head Tutor, 
         Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
     1961-64--Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
     1963-64--Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University
     1964-72--Associate Professor, University of Chicago
     1970-71--Visiting Professor, University of California at 
         Berkeley
     1972-74--Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and 
         Professor, Northwestern University
     1974-78--Provost, Yale University; Professor of History
     1977-78--Acting President, Yale University
     1978-93--President of the University of Chicago; Professor of 
         History
     1993-  --Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor 
         of History, Department of History, University of Chicago

                           Fellowships, etc.

     1960-61--Fellow, Newberry Library
     1966-67--Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral 
         Sciences
     1970-71--Visiting Scholar, Center for Advanced Study in the 
         Behavioral Sciences
     1971-72--Visiting Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa
     1978-  --Honorary Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford 
         University

                     Corporate Board Directorships

     Ameritech
     Cummins Engine Company
     J.P. Morgan and Company/Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.

               Current Trusteeships/Not-for-Profit Boards

     Harvard University Corporation
     Chair, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
     Chair, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
     Marlboro School of Music
     Board of Regents, The Smithsonian Institution

                               Government

     Secretary's Energy Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy

                        Former Boards (Selected)

     Atlantic Richfield Corporation
     Bryan Mawr College
     Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
     The University of Chicago
     Council on Foreign Relations
     Harvard University Board of Overseers
     Mayo Foundation
     National Council on the Humanities
     Pulitzer Prize Board
     Yale University Corporation

                     Selected Honors, Awards, etc.

     Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
     Member, American Philosophical Society
     Member, National Academy of Education
     Phi Beta Kappa
     Radcliffe 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)

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     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, 1978
     L.L.D., Yale University, 1978
     L.L.D., Brown University, 1979
     D.Litt. Hum., Oxford University, 1979
     L.H.D., Rikkyo University, 1979
     L.L.D., University of Notre Dame, 1980
     L.L.D., University of Southern California, 1980
     L.L.D., University of Michigan, 1981
     L.H.D., Duke University, 1982
     L.L.D., Princeton University, 1982
     L.H.D., Brandeis University, 1983
     L.L.D., Georgetown University, 1983
     D.Litt., Washington University, 1985
     L.H.D., City University of New York, 1985
     L.H.D., American College of Greece, 1986
     L.L.D., Columbia University, 1987
     L.H.D., New York University, 1988
     L.L.D., University of Toronto, 1991
     L.H.D., McGill University, 1993
     L.H.D., Indiana University, 1994
     L.L.D., Harvard University, 1995
     L.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.


     
                                  ____
                         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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