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Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation and a BU trustee
from 1976 to 1989, when he was made an honorary trustee for life, spoke
on May 12 about his autobiography, The Road to Home: My Life and
Times (Simon & Schuster, 2003), at the School of Management. The book chronicles
Gregorian’s public and private life, which he describes as “one
education after another.” Born in Tabriz, Iran, of Armenian parents
and educated in Iran and Lebanon, he decided at the age of 15 to become
a person of learning and consequence. After graduating from Stanford
University in 1958 and earning a doctorate in history and the humanities
there in 1964, he taught at a number of universities. He has been president
of Brown University, president of the New York Public Library, the founding
dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
and later its 23rd provost, and since 1997 the 12th president of the
Carnegie Corporation, the grant-making institution founded by Andrew
Carnegie in 1911. Gregorian has received numerous fellowships, awards,
and honorary degrees as well as the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the
American Academy of the Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for
Service to the Arts. In 1998, President Clinton awarded him the National
Humanities Medal. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
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May 2003
Boston University
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