Post on 16 April 2021 by Anne Marie Steiger
April 16, 2021
It is with deep sorrow that CNS observes the passing of Dr. Vartan Gregorian, an extraordinary educator, scholar, and visionary. As president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, no one was a more steadfast friend and supporter of the field of international peace and security and MIIS.
Dr. Vartan Gregorian
Dr. Gregorian was a true renaissance man, interested in and knowledgeable about literature, history, politics, higher education, immigration, and global affairs. He devoted his life to serving the public good and had an enormous and positive impact on all those he touched.
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Vartan Gregorian in 2009. A brilliant historian and educator, he led Brown University and the Carnegie Corporation, but his crowning achievement was the revival of the New York Public Library. Credit.John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
April 16, 2021, 3:33 p.m. ET
Vartan Gregorian, the ebullient Armenian immigrant who climbed to pinnacles of academic and philanthropic achievement but took a detour in the 1980s to restore a fading New York Public Library to its place at the heart of American intellectual life, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 87.
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Glenn Gamboa April 16, 2021 - 12:57 PM
NEW YORK - Vartan Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.
âThe Corporation has lost a devoted and tireless leader â an extraordinary champion of education, immigration, and international peace and security, and steward of Andrew Carnegieâs legacy,â the philanthropic group wrote in a statement on its website Friday. âWe, his colleagues, have lost a mentor, an inspiration, and, for so many, a very dear friend.â
Born to Armenian parents in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian arrived in America in 1956 to study history and the humanities at Stanford University, even though he had only a limited grasp of English. His quest to understand the relationship between the individual and society at large began there, a pursuit that continued as he led The New York Pub
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