By Alec Snyder, CNN
Vartan Gregorian, shown here in 2016, died Thursday at the age of 87 (CNN)Vartan Gregorian, the philanthropist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient whose work revitalized the New York Public Library, died Thursday at age 87 while hospitalized for testing related to stomach pain, according to a statement by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Gregorian served as the Carnegie Corporation s president in New York City and the former president of Brown University. We must continue to provide opportunities for all so that our country s best institutions of higher learning do not become the sole preserve of the talented few who are wealthy enough to afford tuition or poor enough to qualify for aid, Gregorian said at his final Convocation address at Brown in 1997. We must provide opportunities for the entire spectrum of our society. For America is a microcosm of the world, and Brown must be a microcosm of America.
Philanthropist and New York Public Library revivalist Vartan Gregorian dies at 87
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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.