Died: April 15, 2021. VARTAN Gregorian, who has died aged 87, was an Armenian-American academic, philanthropist, and fund-raiser who was most famous for saving the world-famous New York Public Library from decay and economic destitution. But one of his other great philanthropic interests was Scotland: he was the long-serving president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the charitable fund that had been established in 1911 by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and he was instrumental in establishing the Andrew Carnegie Lectures at Edinburgh College of Art. He was a special advisor to Culture and Sport Glasgow (now Glasgow Life), which runs the city’s culture and leisure services, and he was also a trustee of businessman Sir Tom Hunter’s foundation. Vartan Gregorian, said Sir Tom, was a reminder that you should never be the richest person in the graveyard.
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Vartan Gregorian championed a strong HE system in Africa
29 April 2021
Vartan Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the former president of Brown University and the New York Public Library in the United States, illustrious scholar and steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy, died aged 87 on 15 April. Gregorian had been hospitalised for testing related to stomach pain.
Gregorian, a distinguished historian and humanities scholar, was the 12th 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.
Vartan Gregorian Dead At 87
April 19, 2021
Vartan Gregorian, who led the Carnegie Corporation of New York for more than two decades, revitalized The New York Public Library during the 1980s, and served as president of Brown University, died suddenly on April 15 at age 87. He had been hospitalized for testing due to stomach pain, according to the Carnegie Corporation.
“Vartan Gregorian served the Corporation for 24 years as an extraordinary leader and a devoted steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy,” Thomas H. Kean, chair of the Carnegie Corporation of New York board of trustees and former governor of New Jersey, said via a statement. “We will remember him most for his immense intellect, his thoughtful generosity, his witty, learned, and sly sense of humor, and his uncanny ability to both inspire and challenge each of us to do our utmost to advance the Corporation’s mission above all else. He was a man of the world who inspired the world.”
Vartan Gregorian, former Brown University president and savior of the New York Public Library, dies at 87
By Robert D. McFadden New York Times,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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In this June 23, 2004, file photo, President Bush presents Vartan Gregorian with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation s highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday, April 15, 2021, after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.SUSAN WALSH/Associated Press
NEW YORK â 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 Thursday in Manhattan. He was 87.