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Biography of Hannah Holborn Gray
Name: Hannah Holborn Gray
Birth Date: October 25, 1930
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality: American, German
Gender: Female
Occupations: educator, administrator, university president
Hannah Holborn Gray
Hannah Holborn Gray (born 1930) was an education administrator who served as the first woman provost at Yale and as the first woman president of the University of Chicago. She thus became the first woman to serve as the chief executive of a major coeducational university.Hannah Holborn Gray was born on October 25, 1930, in Heidelberg, Germany, the second child and only daughter of an academic couple, Hajo Holborn, a renowned professor of history, and Annemarie Bettman, who held a Ph.D. in classical philology. When the Hitler regime dismissed the liberal-thinking Hajo Holborn from his post at the Institute of Politics in Berlin, he emigrated with his family to New Haven, Connecticut, joining the History Department at Yale University where he remained for 35 years. Hannah Holborn grew up within Yale's ivy-covered walls. It was at Yale, too, that she later achieved national prominence when she became its first woman provost in 1974 …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…life steeped in them," said one observer.Gray was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a trustee of Bryn Mawr College. She was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board, the Council on Financial Aid to Education, and the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago and New York. She served on the board of directors of J.P. Morgan & Company/Morgan Guaranty, Atlantic Richfield Company, and Ameritech. She held honorary degrees from 42 colleges and universities, received the Medal of Liberty in 1986 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. Associated Organizations Further Reading Additional information can be found in Carol Felsenthal, "Gray Among the Gargoyles," in Chicago (November 1984); Who's Who of American Women, 1985-1986; Gene I. Maeroff, "University of Chicago Accommodates Easily to a Woman President," in New York Times (March 16, 1980); and "Hannah Gray" (Interview), in Educational Record (Fall 1980).
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