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Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, former president of Brown University and The New York Public Library, illustrious scholar, and steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy dies at age 87
Vartan Gregorian, a distinguished historian and humanities scholar and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. During his tenure, from 1997 to the present, he championed the causes of education, immigration, and international peace and security key concerns of the foundation’s founder, Andrew Carnegie. Like Carnegie, Gregorian was a naturalized United States citizen, whose experiences in a new country helped shape him, including his belief in the great importance of immigrant civic integration to the health of American democracy. Gregorian died on April 15, 2021, in New York City at age 87. He had been hospitalized for testing related to stomach pain. ....

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