[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 28, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E677-E679]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN BRADEMAS

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                           HON. JOE DONNELLY

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 28, 2007

  Mr. DONNELLY. Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to one of my 
distinguished predecessors in representing the District I am now 
privileged to serve in Congress and to wish him a Happy 80th Birthday.
  I speak of Dr. John Brademas of South Bend, Indiana, who for 22 
years, from 1959 until 1981, served the then Third District of Indiana 
in the House of Representatives. While in Congress, John Brademas was a 
member of the Committee on Education and Labor where he played a 
leading role in writing most of the Federal legislation enacted during 
that time concerning schools, colleges and universities; services for 
the elderly and the disabled; libraries and museums; the arts and the 
humanities.
  During his last four years on Capitol Hill, John Brademas was, by 
appointment of then Speaker Thomas P. ``Tip'' O'Neill, Jr., House 
Majority Whip.


                     PRESIDENT, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

  In 1981 John Brademas was named president of New York University, the 
largest private university in the United States, a position in which he 
served from 1981 until 1992, when he became president emeritus, his 
present position.
  During that time Dr. Brademas led the transition of NYU from a 
regional commuter school to a national and international residential 
research university. In 1984 he initiated a fundraising campaign that 
produced a total of $1 billion in ten years. Said the New York Times, 
``A Decade and a Billion Dollars Put New York University in [the] First 
Rank.'' Added Crain's New York Business (August 6, 2001), ``John 
Brademas turned NYU into an Ivy League rival . . .''
  In 2005 New York University announced the establishment, in its 
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, of the John 
Brademas Center for the Study of Congress. The Center undertakes 
research, teaching and public outreach activities focused on the role 
of Congress in making national policy.
  In 2006 Dr. Brademas received The John Gardner Spirit Award from 
Common Cause/New York for ``his unparalleled dedication to public 
service and a stronger democracy through his work in Congress, at New 
York University and as one of the Nation's leading champions of the 
arts and education.''
  In his book, An Entrepreneurial University (Tufts University Press), 
former Tufts Provost Saul Gittleman said, ``[T]he trustees at NYU . . . 
in 1981 found an individual who proved to be nontraditional and 
transformational. . . . [T]he Brademas presidency became another model 
for trustees and regents to examine, as he took NYU to a new and 
competitive eminence in New York City and the Nation. By the time his 
presidency was over, Columbia University was looking over its shoulder, 
in no small measure due to John Brademas. He was a potent fundraiser 
and extraordinary ambassador for the university''.

  In their book, Shakespeare. Einstein, and the Bottom Line (Harvard 
University Press, 2003), scholars David L. Kirp and Jonathan Van 
Antwerpen state, ``NYU is the success story in contemporary American 
higher education''.


                         PRODUCTIVE LEGISLATOR

  From 1994 through 2001, Dr. Brademas served, by appointment of 
President Clinton, as Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts 
and the Humanities, which in 1997 released Creative America, a report 
to the President on ways of strengthening support, private and public, 
for these two fields.
  Former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, Dr. Brademas 
was also for 11 years Chairman of the American Ditchley Foundation, 
which helps organize conferences at Ditchley Park, near Oxford, 
England.
  In Congress, a co-sponsor of the 1965 legislation creating the 
National Endowments for the Arts (NEA) and the Humanities (NEH), Dr. 
Brademas for ten years chaired the subcommittee of the House of 
Representatives with jurisdiction over them.
  He was chief House sponsor of the Arts, Humanities and Cultural 
Affairs Act; Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act; Museum Services Act; 
Library Services and Construction Act Amendments; National Commission 
on Libraries and Information Services Act; Education for All 
Handicapped Children Act; Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education Act; 
International Education Act; and Environmental Education Act.
  He was also a major co-author of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965; the Higher Education Acts of 1972 and 1976, 
which focused on student aid; and chief author of the measures creating 
the National Institute of Education and the National Institute on 
Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
  He was chief House author as well of the Presidential Recordings and 
Materials Preservation Act of 1974, which assured ownership by the 
Federal Government of the papers and tapes of the Nixon Presidency.


                     WIDE-RANGING PRO BONO SERVICE

  Dr. Brademas has served on a number of boards and national 
commissions on subjects ranging from the arts to higher education, 
foreign policy, jobs and small business, historic documents and 
records, and science, technology and government.
  In 2004 he was elected to the New York State Board of Regents by the 
New York State Legislature.
  He is a founding director of the Center for Democracy and 
Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, headquartered in Salonika, Greece. 
He is also a trustee of Anatolia College, the American College of 
Thessaloniki.
  He currently serves on the boards of the Center for National Policy 
in Washington, D.C., the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, InsurBanc, 
Comfidex Corporation and Society for the Preservation of the Greek 
Heritage.
  He is a member of The Century Association, Committee on Economic 
Development (CED), Council on Foreign Relations, Council on the United 
States and Spain, U.S.-Japan Foundation, and the National and 
International Advisory Councils of Transparency International, the 
organization that combats corruption in international business 
transactions.
  In 2006 the Committee for Economic Development released a report, 
Education for Global Leadership: The Importance of International 
Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National 
Security. Dr. Brademas was a co-chair of the CED Subcommittee that 
produced the report.

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  He is also Vice Chairman of the Advisory Council of Americans for 
UNESCO and a member of the American Associates of the Saint Catherine 
Foundation. He is a trustee of the World Conference of Religions for 
Peace and member of the Mental Illness Prevention Center Advisory Board 
of the NYU Medical Center.
  He is also a member of the Executive Council of the Cyprus 
International Initiative for the Environment and Public Health--Harvard 
School of Public Health.


           FORMER CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK

  Former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 
Dr. Brademas also served on the boards of Americans for the Arts, The 
Aspen Institute, Board of Overseers of Harvard, New York Stock 
Exchange, Rockefeller Foundation and The Trilateral Commission.
  He has served as well on the boards of RCA and NBC, Columbia 
Pictures, Berlitz, Kos Pharmaceuticals, NYNEX, Oxford University Press-
USA, Scholastic, Texaco, Loews Corporation and the Alexander S. Onassis 
Public Benefit Foundation.
  In 2004 he was elected to the New York State Board of Regents by the 
New York State Legislature and served on the Board until 2007.
  Dr. Brademas is a Lifetime Trustee of New York University and the 
University of Notre Dame.
  Dr. Brademas is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
and served on the Council of the Academy. He is a Fellow of the 
National Academy of Education (USA) and a Corresponding Member of The 
Academy of Athens.
  In 1983, as president of New York University, Dr. Brademas awarded an 
honorary Doctor of Laws degree to His Majesty, King Juan Carlos I of 
Spain.
  In 1997, in the presence of His Majesty and Queen Sofia of Spain and 
the First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dr. 
Brademas announced the establishment of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain 
Center at New York University. He is President of the Foundation 
established in Spain to support the Center; His Majesty is Honorary 
President.
  In 1985 Dr. Brademas received the Annual Gold Medal of The Spanish 
Institute; in 1993 was named a ``Friend of Barcelona'' by then Mayor 
Pasqual Maragall; and in 1997 was decorated by the Minister of 
Education and Culture of Spain with the Gran Cruz de la Orden de 
Alfonso X el Sabio.
  Among the other centers established at NYU during Dr. Brademas' 
presidency are the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, Skirball Department of 
Hebrew and Judaic Studies, The Center for Japan-U.S. Business & 
Economic Studies and, for the study of Europe, the Remarque Institute.


             GRADUATE OF HARVARD, RHODES SCHOLAR AT OXFORD

  Born in Mishawaka, Indiana, on March 2, 1927, Dr. Brademas graduated 
from South Bend Central High School in 1945. After service in the U.S. 
Navy in 1945-46, in the Naval Officers' Training Program at the 
University of Mississippi, he was a Veterans National Scholar at 
Harvard University, from which he graduated with a B.A., magna cum 
laude, in 1949, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
  In 1949 he was an intern, appointed by the U.S. Department of State, 
to the United Nations, serving at Lake Success.
  He was from 1950 to 1953 a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, from 
which he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Studies 
in 1953.
  Dr. Brademas has been awarded honorary degrees by 52 colleges and 
universities, most recently (2003) the degree of Doctor of Civil Law by 
the University of Oxford. The degree citation described him as ``a man 
of varied talents and extraordinary energy, the most practical of 
academics, the most scholarly of men of action''. He is an Honorary 
Fellow of Brasenose College, his college at Oxford.
  In 1955-56 he was Executive Assistant to Adlai E. Stevenson in charge 
of research on issues during the 1956 presidential campaign. Prior to 
his election to Congress, he was (1957-58) Assistant Professor of 
Political Science at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
  Dr. Brademas, a former member of the Senate of Phi Beta Kappa, its 
governing body, is a director of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
  He is a former member of the Central Committee of the World Council 
of Churches and was a delegate from the United Methodist Church to the 
Fifth Assembly of the WCC held in Nairobi in 1975.


                  LEADER IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION

  In a 1975 Change magazine poll of 4,000 college and university 
presidents, foundation executives, government officials and 
journalists, John Brademas was named one of ``the Top Four'' (with 
Clark Kerr, Theodore M. Hesburgh and Roger W. Heyns) ``most important 
people in American higher education''.
  In 1977 Dr. Brademas chaired the first Congressional delegation 
during the Carter Administration to visit the People's Republic of 
China, and in 1985 took part in the First Chinese-U.S. University 
Presidents' Seminar, held in Beijing.
  In 1979, he led a delegation of Members of the House of 
Representatives who met in Moscow with Members of the Supreme Soviet of 
the USSR.
  Dr. Brademas led other Congressional delegations on official visits 
to Europe and Latin America.
  During 1981-83 Dr. Brademas served, by appointment of House Speaker 
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., on the National Commission on Student Financial 
Assistance and chaired its Subcommittee on Graduate Education. In 1983 
the Commission approved the Subcommittee's study, Signs of Trouble and 
Erosion: A Report on Graduate Education in America.
  Dr. Brademas is a former member both of the National Commission on 
Financing Postsecondary Education and the National Historical 
Publications and Records Commission. In 1982-83 he served on the 
National Academy of Sciences Committee on Relations between 
Universities and Government in Support of Science.
  In 1984 he served as chairman, by appointment of Governor Mario 
Cuomo, of the New York State Council on Fiscal and Economic Priorities.
  In 1986-87 he served on the American Council on Education's 
Commission on National Challenges to Higher Education.
  In 1986 he served on the National Commission on Jobs and Small 
Business.
  During 1987-89 Dr. Brademas served on the National (Volcker) 
Commission on the Public Service, which produced Leadership for 
America, recommendations for attracting able persons to the career 
Federal civil service. He subsequently served, by appointment of 
President George H.W. Bush, on the National Advisory Council on the 
Public Service.
  In 1992 he served on the Carnegie International Endowment National 
Commission on America and the New World. He also served on the Carnegie 
Commission on Science, Technology and Government and chaired its 
Committee on Congress.


             MEMBER, EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS

  In 1998, in Buenos Aires, he was inducted as a Corresponding Member 
of the National Academy of Education of Argentina and in 1999, in 
Vienna, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  He is an Honorary Patron of the Fundacion Residencia de Estudiantes 
in Madrid.
  He is a director of the American Friends of Girona (Spain) Museum and 
Institute, and member of the Board of Advisors of VSA/arts and the 
International Advisory Council of the Pharos Trust (Cyprus).
  He serves on the National Advisory Board, Institutions of Democracy, 
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania.
  He is a member of The Pilgrims Society of Great Britain and The 
Pilgrims Society of the United States.
  He is former chairman of the National Advisory Committee of 
``Fighting Back,'' a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program to help 
communities reduce demand for illegal drugs and alcohol
  He was also chairman of the Advisory Council of the David Rockefeller 
Fellowships of the New York City Partnership.
  In 1990 he served as co-chairman of the Independent Commission 
created by Congress to review the grant-making procedures of the 
National Endowment for the Arts.
  In 1996 he served on the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the 
Presidential Appointments Process.
  In 1975 Dr. Brademas was awarded the Gold Medal of St. Barnabas by 
President Makarios of Cyprus.
  In 1978 Dr. Brademas received the annual Award for Distinguished 
Service to the Arts of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and 
Letters.
  In 1980 he was, with Leonard Bernstein and Eubie Blake, one of the 
first three recipients from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, 
Baltimore, of the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding 
Contribution to Music in America.
  In 1981 he received the Town Hall (New York City) Friend of the Arts 
Award.
  Dr. Brademas was named High Knight Commander of Honor (Order of the 
Phoenix) by President Constantine Karamanlis of Greece in 1981.
  In 1982 Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem made Dr. Brademas a Grand 
Commander of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.
  Dr. Brademas has received other awards, including the Annual Cultural 
Award, Recording Industry of America; the Distinguished Service Award, 
American Association of University Presses; the Medal for Distinguished 
Service, Teachers College, Columbia University; and the award for 
Distinguished Service in International Education of the Institute of 
International Education.
  Dr. Brademas received the first James Bryant Conant Award for 
distinguished service to

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education from the Education Commission of the States, the Gold Key 
Award of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the 
Distinguished Service Award of the Council of State Administrators of 
Vocational Rehabilitation, the Caritas Society A ward for outstanding 
contributions in the field of mental retardation, and the Humanist of 
the Year Award of the National Association for Humanities Education.


                           HONORS AND AWARDS

  In 1984 Dr. Brademas received the annual Hubert H. Humphrey Award of 
the American Political Science Association for outstanding public 
service by a political scientist.
  In 1984 Dr. Brademas was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of 
France.
  In 1985 Dr. Brademas received the annual Charles Evans Hughes Gold 
Medal Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews ``for 
courageous leadership in governmental, civic and humanitarian 
affairs.''
  In 1986 Dr. Brademas, first native-born American of Greek origin 
elected to Congress, was one of eighty persons to receive the Ellis 
Island Medal of Honor.
  In 1988 he received the National Governors' Association Award for 
Distinguished Service to State Government.
  In 1990 Dr. Brademas received the Athenagoras Award for Human Rights, 
named for the late Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 
Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.


                  GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR, CITY OF ATHENS

  In 1991 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Athens.
  In 1992 he received the Annual American Assembly Service to Democracy 
Award and Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal.
  In 1993 he received the Human Dignity Award of the Kessler Institute 
for Rehabilitation.
  In 1996 he received the American Council for the Arts Award for 
Distinguished Service.
  In 1997 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indiana 
Council for the Humanities.


                     ``SERVICE TO DEMOCRACY'' AWARD

  In 1998 he was named a ``Distinguished Friend of Oxford University'' 
and received the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Cyprus Federation of 
America.
  In 1999 he received the Benjamin Rush Award for ``humanistic values 
in corporate and government life'', Dickinson College, Pa; and the 
Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Aspen, Colorado), National Service Award.
  In 2000 he received the Annual Fulbright Award from Metro 
International (New York City) for ``significant contribution to 
international understanding''.
  In 2000 he received the Lifetime Achievement for Leadership in the 
Arts Award from Americans for the Arts and the United States Conference 
of Mayors. He also was awarded the Honorific Title of Commendatore in 
the Order of Merit, conferred by the President of the Republic of 
Italy.
  In 2001 he received the Service to Democracy Award of the National 
Endowment for Democracy.
  In 2001 he was awarded the Albert Gallatin Medal of New York 
University, presented annually to a member of the NYU family for 
outstanding contributions to society.

             JOHN BRADEMAS POST OFFICE, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA

  In 2002 the Post Office in South Bend, Indiana, was named the ``John 
Brademas Post Office''.
  In 2002 he received the Distinguished Service Award of the National 
Historical Publications and Records Commission.
  In 2004 he received the first Global Education Achievement Award from 
Fairleigh Dickinson University.
  In 2006 he was selected by the American Association of Museums for 
inclusion on the AAM Centennial Honor Roll as ``a pioneer in the museum 
field'' because of his co-sponsorship of the ``legislation establishing 
the National Endowment for the Humanities and his having been ``chief 
House sponsor of the Museum Services Act. . . .''


            AUTHOR, ``WASHINGTON, DC TO WASHINGTON SQUARE''

  Dr. Brademas' study of the anarchist movement in Spain, 
``Anarcosindicalismo y revolucion en Espana, 1930-37'', was published 
in Barcelona by Ariel in 1974.
  Dr. Brademas is, with Lynne P. Brown, author of ``The Politics of 
Education: Conflict and Consensus on Capitol Hill,'' published in 1987 
by the University of Oklahoma Press.
  He is also author of Washington, DC to Washington Square (New York: 
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), a collection of essays, speeches and book 
reviews on Federal policy toward higher education, the arts, 
humanities, libraries and museums, and the education of handicapped 
children; as well as on foreign and economic policy; Greek studies in 
the United States; the place of religion in public life; and other 
subjects.
  He is married to Mary Ellen Brademas, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 
A physician in private practice in New York City, Dr. Brademas is a 
graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine. A member of 
the Department of Dermatology of the NYU Medical Center, she is former 
director of the venereal disease clinic at Bellevue Hospital and former 
chief of dermatology at St. Vincent's Hospital.


                 JOHN BRADEMAS HAS LIVED SEVERAL LIVES

  Madam Speaker, Our distinguished former colleague, John Brademas, has 
lived several lives. He has been a dedicated and highly productive 
Member of the House of Representatives, an effective legislator and 
maker of national policy; he has been president of the Nation's largest 
private university in which position he brought NYU to new heights; he 
has served in a wide range of pro bono positions, both as a Member of 
Congress and since his having gone to New York University.
  There will still be some members of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate who served with John Brademas, and they will, I believe, 
share my sentiments, on both sides of the aisle, in expressing our 
admiration for his outstanding public service.

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