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CANDIDATES FOR NEW IAS DIRECTOR: AUGUST 26, 1986
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY Capron, Alex Prof of Law & Med., Univ. of S. Calif. M. Abram Dahrendorf, Ralf Past Director, LSE Q. Skinner David, Ed Former Pres., Exxon Research D. Straus, L. Branscomb Deutch, John Provost, MIT H. Brown Drell, Sidney Physicist, SLAC School of Natural Sciences Gomory, Ralph E. VP & Dir. of Research, IBM John Sawyer Prewitt, Kenneth VP, Rockefeller Fdn. M. Walzer Rosovsky, Henry Economist, Harvard G. Field Rudenstine, Neil Provost, Princeton J. Bahcall Schreiffer, Robert Director, ITP, Santa Barbara G. Field Shapiro, Harold T. Pres., Univ. of Michigan T. Bradshaw Singer, Isadore Math., Member Pres. Sci. Adv. Com. William Bowen Starr, Fred Pres., Oberlin Z. Stewart Swearer, Howard President, Brown Univ. Committee Whitman, Marina Economist, General Motors Committee Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
CANDIDATES FOR NEW IAS DIRECTOR: JULY 23, 1986
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY Atiyah, Michael Mathematician, Oxford R. Langlands Capron, Alex Prof of Law & Med., Univ. of S. Calif. M. Abram Dahrendorf, Ralf Past Director, LSE Q. Skinner Deutch, John Provost, MIT H. Brown Drell, Sidney Physicist, SLAC School of Natural Sciences Ehrlich, Tom Provost, Univ. of PA Committee Gomory, Ralph E. VP & Dir. of Research, IBM John Sawyer Rhodes, Frank Pres., Cornell Univ. Committee Rosenbluth, Marshall Dir., Inst. Plasma Physics C. Moore, J. Bahcall Rosovsky, Henry Economist, Harvard G. Field Rudenstine, Neil Provost, Princeton J, Bahcall Schreiffer, Robert Director, ITP, Santa Barbara G. Field Shapiro, Harold T. Pres., Univ. of Michigan T. Bradshaw Singer, Isadore Math., Member Pres. Sci. Adv. Com. William Bowen Swearer, Howard President, Brown Univ. Committee Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
CANDIDATES FOR NEW IAS DIRECTOR: JUNE 18, 1986
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Atiyah, Michael Mathematician, Oxford R. Langlands Boyer, Ernie Princeton University Don Straus Bragdon, Paul President, Reed College David Riesman Dabrendorf, Ralf Past Dir., LSE Q. Skinner Ehrlich, Tom Provost, Univ. of Pa. Committee Glicksman, Maurice Provost, Brown Joan Scott Gomory, Ralph E. VP & Dir. of Research, IBM John Sawyer Ilchman, Alice Pres., Sarah Lawrence Committee Martin, Paul Dean, Applied Science, Harvard S. Treiman, G. Field, J. Bahcall May, Robert Prof. Biology, Princeton J. Bahcall McVicker, Margaret VP carnegie Fdn. Joan Scott Meselson, Matthew Biochemist H. Rosovsky Ostriker, Jerry Astrophysicist G. Field Pagels, Heinz Dir., NY Academy of Sciences S. Treiman, J. Wolfensohn Press, William Astrophysicist, Harvard S. Treiman Rabin, Michael Prof. of Math. Harvard J. Bahcall Rees, Martin Astrophysicist, Cambridge G. Field Rosenbluth, Marshall Dir., Inst. Plasma Physics C. Moore, J. Bahcall Rosovsky, Henry Economist, Harvard G. Field Rudenstine, Neil Provost, Princeton J. Bahcall Schreiffer, Robert Director, ITP, Santa Barbara G. Field Searle, John Philos., Berkeley William Bowen Shapiro, Harold T. Univ. of Michigan T. Bradshaw Singer, Isadore Math., Member Pres. Sci. Adv. Com. William Bowen Singer, Maxine F. Chief, Natl. cancer Inst. F. Dyson Sovern, Mike Pres., Columbia Committee Spence, Jonathan Chinese History, Yale D. Mostow Starr, Fred Pres., Oberlin Z. Stewart Swearer, Howard President, Brown Univ. Committee Weinberg, Steven Prof. of Physics, Univ. Texas S. Treiman, J. Babcall Winch, Donald Economist, Univ. of Sussex Q. Skinner Zinder, Norton Biochemist, Rockefeller Univ. A. Pais Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
CANDIDATES FOR NEW IAS DIRECTOR: JUNE 6, 1986 .
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Boyer , Ernie Princeton University Don Straus Bragdon, Paul President, Reed College David Riesman Garey , Bill Head of AAAS Committee D'Arms, John Dean, Grad School, U. of Mich. Roger Bagnall Dahrendorf, Ralf Past Dir., LSE Q. Skinner Edwards, Robert President, Garleton College David Riesman Ehrlich, Tom Provost, Univ. of Pa. Committee Field, George Astronomer, Harvard H. Rosovsky Glicksman, Maurice Provost, Brown Joan Scott Gomery, Ralph E. VP & Dir. of Research, IBM John Sawyer Griffith, Phillip Duke c. Moore Ilchman, Alice Pres., Sarah Lawrence Committee Keyworth, George President's Sci. Adv., Ret. P. Giffitbs Lebowitz, Joel L. Prof. of Math & Physics, Rutgers F. Dyson Lighthill, Sir James Provost, Univ. Col., London Q. Skinner Martin, Paul Dean, Applied Science, Harvard s. Treiman, G. Field, J. Bahcall May, Robert Prof. Biology, Princeton J. Bahcall McVicker, Margaret VP carnegie Fdn. Joan Scott Meselson, Matthew Biochemist, Harvard H. Rosovsky Moore, Calvin C. Assoc . VP, Berkeley S. MacLane Nelkin, Dorothy Science Policy, Cornell Joan Scott Ostriker, Jerry Astrophysicist G. Field Pagels, Heinz Dir., NY Academy of Sciences s. Treiman, J. Wolfensohn Press, William Astrophysicist, Harvard S. Treiman Rabin, Michael Prof. of Math. Harvard J. Bahcall Rees, Martin Astrophysicist, Gambridge G. Field Rosenbluth, Marshall Dir., Inst. Plasma Physics C. Moore, J. Bah call Rosovsky, Henry Economist, Harvard G. Field Rudenstein, Neal Provost, Princeton J. Bahcall
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CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Schreiffer, Robert Director, ITP, Santa Barbara G. Field Searle, John Philos., Berkeley William Bowen Singer, Isadore Math., Member Pres. Sci. Adv. Com. William Bowen Singer, Maxine F. Chief, Natl. Ganeer Inst. F. Dyson Sovern, Mike Pres., Columbia Committee Spence, Jonathan Chinese History, Yale D. Mostow Stamas, Steve Chairman, Harvard Board of Overseers, Lewis Branscomb VP Exxon Starr, Fred Pres., Oberlin z. Stewart Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Peter V. Chanel., Gambridge Q. Skinner Watt, John Exec. Dir., Am. Bureau Med. Adv./China David Riesman Weinberg, Steven Prof. of Physics, Univ. Texas S. Treiman, J. Bahcall Wenzlau, Tom VP, Colorado College Don Straus Winch, Donald Economist, Univ. of Sussex Q. Skinner Zinder, Norton Biochemist, Rockefeller Univ. A. Pais Ziolkowski, Theodore Dean, Grad. Sehl. Princeton R. M. Lumiansky Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
CANDIDATES FOR NEW IAS DIRECTOR: MAY 29, 1986
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Botstein, Leon Pres. Bard College Don Straus Boyer, Ernie Princeton University Don Straus Bragdon, Paul President, Reed College David Riesman Branscomb, Lew Chief Scientist, IBM S. Treiman Garey, Bill Bead of AAAS Committee Connor, Robert Princeton Roger Bagnall D'Arms, John Dean, Grad School, u. of Mich. Roger Bagnall Dahrendorf, Ralf Past Dir., LSE Q. Skinner David, Ed Former Pres. Exxon Research Don Straus, Lewis Branscomb Drell, Sidney Physicist, SLAC S. Treiman, T. D. Lee, A. Pais, J. Bahcall, C. Moore Edwards, Robert President, Carlton College David Riesman Ehrlich, Tom Provost, Univ. of Pa. Committee Field, George Astronomer, Harvard H. Rosovsky Gell-Mann, Murray Physicist S. Treiman Giamatti, Bartlett President, Yale 8. Rosovsky, L. Stone, S. Drell Gleason, Andrew Harvard J. Glimm Glicksman, Maurice Provost, Brown Joan Scott Goldberger, Marvin Pres. , Cal Tech S. Treiman, Lewis Branscomb Goldhaber, Maurice Former Dir., Brookhaven G. Field Gomery, Ralph E. VP & Dir. of Research, IBM John Sawyer Gray, Hanna Pres., Univ. of Chicago J. Bahcall Gregorian, Vartan President, NY Public Lib. H. Rosovsky, L. Stone Griffith, Phillip Duke C. Moore Bolton, Gerry Pres. Hist. of Sci. Seo. Alberta Arthurs Ilchman, Alice Pres., Sarah Lawrence Committee Keyworth, George President's Sci. Adv., Ret. P. Giffiths Kohn, Walter Founding Dir., ITP, Santa Barbara C. Moore Lax, Peter Courant Inst. J. Glimm Lebowitz, Joel L. Prof. of Math & Physics, Rutgers F. Dyson Lederman, Leon Head of Fermilab G. Field Lighthill, Sir James Provost, Univ. Col., London Q. Skinner Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
CANDIDATE PRESENT/fORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Low, Francis Past Provost, MIT S. Treiman Luers, William Pres., Metropolitan Museum of Art Committee Martin, Paul Dean, Applied Science, Harvard S. Trei.man, G. Field, J. Bahcall May, Robert Prof. Biology, Princeton J. Bahcall McVicker, Margaret VP Carnegie Fdn. Joan Scott Meselson, Matthew Biochemist H. Rosovsky Moore, Calvin c. Assoc. VP, Berkeley S. MacLane Mostow, Dan Mathematician, Yale C. Moore, Wu-chung Hsiang Nelkin, Dorothy Science Policy, Cornell Joan Scott Newman, Frank Ex. Pres. Univ of RI Don Straus Ostriker, Jerry Astrophysicist G. Field Pagels, Heinz Dir., NY Academy of Sciences S. Trei.man, J. Wolfensohn Pines, David Physicist, Univ. of Illinois R. Schrieffer Press, William Astrophysicist, Harvard S. Treiman Rabin, Michael Prof. of Math. Harvard J. Bahcall Rees, Martin Astrophysicist, Cambridge G. Field Rhodes, Frank Pres., Cornell Committee Richardson, Elliott Lawyer-Washington DC Don Straus Rosenbluth, Marshall Dir., Inst. Plasma Physics C. Moore, J. Bahcall Rudenstein, Neal Provost, Princeton J. Bahcall Schreiffer, Robert Director, ITP, Santa Barbara G. Field Searle, John Philos., Berkeley William Bowen Singer, Isadore Math., Member Pres. Sci. Adv. Com. William Bowen Singer, Maxine F. Chief, Natl. Cancer Inst. F. Dyson Solow, Robert M. Economist, MIT John Sawyer Sovern, Mike Pres., Columbia Committee Spence, Jonathan Chinese History, Yale D. Mostow Stamas, Steve Chairman, Harvard Board of Overseers, Lewis Branscomb VP Exxon Starr, Fred Pres. , Oberlin z. Stewart Steiner, Daniel VP and Counsel, Harvard G. Field Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Peter V. Chanel., Cambridge Q. Skinner Tosovsky, Henry Economist, Harvard G. Field Truman, David Dean, Columbia G. Field Watt, John Exec. Dir., Am. Bureau Med. Adv./China David Riesman Weinberg, Steven Prof. of Physics, Univ. Texas S. Treiman, J. Bahcall Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Wenzlau, Tom VP Vol. College Don Straus Wilson, Ken Cornell G. Field Winch, Donald Economist, Univ. of Sussex Q. Skinner Ziolkowski, Theodore Dean, Grad. Sehl. Princeton R. M. Lumiansky Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA CANDIDATES FOR NEW !AS DIRECTOR: MAY 23, 1986
CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Botstein, Leon Pres. Bard College Don Straus Boyer, Ernie Princeton University Don Straus Bragdon, Paul President, Reed College David Riesman Branscomb, Lew Chief Scientist, IBM S. Treiman Carey, Bill Head of AAAS Committee Connor, Robert Princeton Roger Bagnall D' Arms , John Dean, Grad School, U. of Mich. Roger Bagnall Dahrendorf, Ralf Past Dir., LSE Q. Skinner David, Ed Former Pres. Exxon Research Don Straus Drell, Sidney Physicist, SLAC S. Treiman, T. D. Lee, A. Pais, J. Bahcall, C. Moore Edwards, Robert President, Carlton College David Riesman Ehrlich, Tom Provost, Univ. of Pa. Committee Field, George Astronomer, Harvard H. Rosovsky Gell-Mann, Murray Physicist S. Treiman Giamatti, Bartlett President, Yale H. Rosovsky, L. Stone, S. Drell Gleason, Andrew Harvard J. Glimm Glicksman, Maurice Provost, Brown Joan Scott Goldberger, Marvin Pres. , Cal Tech S. Treiman Goldhaber, Maurice Former Dir., Brookhaven G. Field Gooiery, Ralph E. VP & Dir. of Research, IBM John Sawyer Gray, Hanna Pres., Univ. of Chicago J. Bahcall Gregorian, Vartan President, NY Public Lib. H. Rosovsky, L. Stone Griffith, Phillip Duke C. Moore Holton, Gerry Pres. Hist. of Sci. Seo. Alberta Arthurs Ilchman, Alice Pres., Sarah Lawrence Committee Keyworth, George President's Sci. Adv., Ret. P. Giffiths Kohn, Kohn Founding Dir., ITP, Santa Barbara C. Moore Lax, Peter Courant Inst. J. Glimm Lebowitz, Joel L. Prof. of Math & Physics, Rutgers F. Dyson Lederman, Leon Head of Fermilab G. Field Lighthill, Sir James Provost, Univ. Col., London Q. Skinner Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA CANDIDATE PRESENT/FORMER POSITION SUGGESTED BY
Low, Francis Past Provost, MIT S. Treiman Luers, William Pres., Metropolitan Museum of Art Committee Martin, Paul Dean, Applied Science, Harvard S. Treiman, G. Field, J. Babcall May, Robert Prof. Biology, Princeton J. Babcall McVicker, Margaret VP Carnegie Fdn • Joan Scott Meselson, Matthew Biochemist H. Rosovsky Moore, Calvin C. Assoc. VP, Berkeley S. MacLane Mostow, Dan Mathematician, Yale C. Moore, Wu-chung Hsiang Nelkin, Dorothy Science Policy, Cornell Joan Scott Newman, Frank Ex. Pres. Univ of RI Don Straus Ostriker, Jerry Astrophysicist G. Field Pagels, Heinz Dir., NY Academy of Sciences S. Treiman, J. Wolfensoh Pines, David Physicist, Univ. of Illinois R. Schrieffer Press, William Astrophysicist, Harvard S. Treiman Rabin, Michael Prof. of Math. Harvard J. Babcall Rees, Martin Astrophysicist, Cambridge G. Field Rhodes, Frank Pres. , Cornell Committee Richardson, Elliott Lawyer-Washington DC Don Straus Rosenbluth, Marshall Dir., Inst. Plasma Physics C. Moore, J. Babcall Rudenstein, Neal Provost, Princeton J. Babcall Schreiffer, Robert Director, ITP, Santa Barbara G. Field Searle, John Philos., Berkeley William Bowen Singer, Isadore Math., Member Pres. Sci. Adv. Com. William Bowen Singer, Maxine F. Chief, Natl. Cancer Inst. F. Dyson Solow, Robert M. Economist, MIT John Sawyer Sovern, Mike Pres., Columbia Committee Spence, Jonathan Chinese History, Yale D. Hostow Steiner, Daniel VP and Counsel, Harvard G. Field Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Peter V. Chanel., Cambridge Q. Skinner Tosovsky, Henry Economist, Harvard G. Field Truman, David Dean, Columbia G. Field Watt, John Exec. Dir., Am. Bureau Med. Adv./China David Riesman Weinberg, Steven Prof. of Physics, Univ. Texas S. Treiman, J. Bahcall Wenzlau, Tom VP Vol. College Don Straus Wilson, Ken Cornell G. Field Winch, Donald Economist, Univ. of Sussex Q. Skinner Ziolkowski, Theodore Dean, Grad. Sehl. Princeton R. M. Lumiansky Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA @ AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 228 EAST 45th STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK IOOJ7 - 3398
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Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Dear Professor Walzer:
In response to your letter of March 18, I suggest that your Search Committee consider seriously Theodore Ziolkowski as next Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. He has done a superb job as Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton, and his scholarly accomplishments led to his election as President of the Modern Language Association of America. Since Ted must be well known to many of you, I shan't add further details.
Sincerely yours,
R. Y>-, . 1...~~ ... u.7 R. M. Lumiansky RML:bmh Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
The Roc k e f e ller Foundation
AL BER TA ARTH U RS DIRECTO R FO R ART S ANO HUM ANITIE S
April 4, 1986
Dear Michael: Thank you for your letter inviting nomination for the directorship of the Institute for Advanced Study. I would like to suggest that you take a close look at Gerry Holton, whose work and qualifications I'm sure you know very well. Our experience at the Foundation with Gerry over the past two years has been inspiring. As the President of the History of Science Society, he provided precisely the kind of leadership in idea and action that is needed by institutions which are dedicated to the pursuit of human knowledge. We will try here to think of other ideas as well. But I hope that you will be able to put this nomination under careful scrutiny.
All best wishes,
f, lt«..-~fl- .{, berta Arthurs
Prof. Michael Walzer School of Social Science The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ 08540
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March 26, 1986
Professor Robert Langlands The Institute For Advanced Study ....__, School of Mathematics Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Dear Bob:
I have three suggestions in your search for a director for the Institute for Advanced Study. My first suggestion is Peter Lax. My second suggestion is to consult John Wheeler, who was recently advising a director search process at another location. My third suggestion is Andrew Gleason.
I will send copies of the reports you requested separately.
Best regards,
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TO: Michael Wal~~ FROM: Joan Scott u-.J
Here, at last, are some more names for your director search committee and my comments on Howard Swearer as well.
New Names:
Alice Rivlin, Economist, Brookings Institute She ' s apparently a good administrator, an accomplished economist, with great political visibility and influence.
Cathleen Morawetz, Mathematician, Courant Institute She has both academic and administrative reputation and has been an important figure in the running of the Courant. People seem to like and respect her there.
Juanita Kreps, Economist As Secretary of Commerce in the Carter Administration she was highly respected and influential. She resigned because of her husband ' s illness, but that apparently is under control and no longer an issue . She is an extraordinarily good fund raiser and administrator .
Louis Branscome, IBM VP Several people have suggested that he has the right combination of administra- ' tive and academic experience and that he is the right age or at the right point in his career for undertaking the IAS directorship.
Info you requested :
Howard Swearer I worked closely with HS at Brown and came to admire his administrative talents enormously. He is not a distinguished scholar yet doesn' t seem to be intimidated by those who are, rather he seems to know how to accommodate his administrative and political skills to an academic institution. He is a brilliant fund raiser and is credited with having saved Brown financially. His field is political science; he was President of Carelton College before coming to Brown and before that was at the Ford Foundation. He has extensive foundation and business contacts as we l l as academic ones. He seems to me to know how to run an academic institution, how to create an environment in which imagination and creativity flourish, how to use people to provide the information and expertise he doesn't have in some areas. His weakness for our purposes seems to me his lack of academic distinction and his lack of direct involvement in sci ence - research or administration. At Brown he has people close to him (especially the Provost, Maurice Glicksman) dealing with that area. I think, overall, he is worth keeping on the list at this point . He is a strong possibility and I think is ready to think about leaving Brown where he ' s been for just about 10 years. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
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ECEIVED --1-a/to/fZ ALB E RTA ARTHU RS SWERECJ _ _ DIR EC T OR FO R ART S AND HUMANIT I E S E
October 14 , 1986
Dear Jim, I am forwarding to you the copy of the resume of Ed David, a really remarkable research and education professional who I would like to recommend for the presidency of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. I had a letter some time ago asking me to nominate people, and at that time I was not sure of Ed's availability. He is available and I will be very surprised if you and your committee are not as impressed by his person as you are by his credentials. He really is a very special individual. So, though you haven't asked me, here is a suggestion direct from me to you for the Institute. I hope it proves to be of interest.
All best wishes,
~ ~ Alberta Arthurs Mr. James D. Wol fensohn James D. Wolfensohn Inc. 425 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 ABA/slm
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ED W ARD E. DAVID, JR.
Box 435 Bedminster, NJ 07921 Office: 201-730-3210 Home: 201-234-9319
SENIOR EXECUTIVE with over 20 years of experience in directing and managing research, development, and engineering, as well as experience in advising and consulting in science and technology for industry, universities, and U.S. government.
Special skills in: • Setting and assessing trends in science and technology;
• Defining commercial, educational, and social implications of complex technology;
• Managing technological innovation to achieve specific goals in timely manner;
• Leading organizations to accomplish realistic objectives;
• Creating effective organizations for purposeful research and development;
• Communicating orally and in writing to inspire individual achievement.
CAREER HISTORY
EXXON CORPORATION, President of Exxon Research and Engineering, 1977-present.
Reporting to corporate Senior Vice President, direct Corporation's research, development, engineering, ang technical service activities, about one-fourth of which is funded by Corporation with remainder funded on "fee-for-service" basis by appropriate divisions. Operating budget of $500 million and staff of 4200 operating in four U.S. laboratories and two European installations.
Expanded and modernized Corporation's laboratory facilities, equipment, and computing capabilities to meet R&D needs and attract "brightest and best". Upgraded staff with 1200 new hires, many of whom were world renowned, and by developing continuing educational program for staff in collaboration with Columbia University.
Over past eight years, commercialized 85 new products and processes, which contributed over $1.5 billion of additional profits over last five years. Directed engineering technical service activities that produced operational savings of about $500 million over past five years. Engineering activities supported capital investments of over $15 billion since 1980. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
EXXON CORPORATION (continued)
Organized and directed major effort to develop advanced chemical techniques for converting low-value solid fuels, tars, and other energy resources to high-value liquids. Efforts led to:
- "Break-through" catalyst technology that promises to revolutionize conversion of coal, residual oils, and tars to high value liquids; - New, economical process for converting natural gas to high-value liquids for fuels and lubricants; - Other technology that likely will be of commercial importance in future.
Originated and directed development of new shale retort that is critical element of Exxon's strategic technology program, which is expected to begin commercialization in late-1980's or early-1990's. Circumvented costly prototype testing and resulting delay in commercial ization by developing computer simulation techniques to bridge from pilot plant data to commercial design.
Convened National Academy panel to document decline of mathematics research in the U.S. and to recommend solutions. Personally raised funds for effort and edited report issued by National Academies reflecting views of panel. Follow-up efforts now underway by pro fessional societies have already produced estimated 15 percent increase in research support.
EDWARD E. DA YID, INC., President, February-June, 1977.
Firm specialized in private consulting in technology to U.S. industry.
Developed retainer consultancies with Boeing, TRW, EMI, Gould, Motorola, and Comsat; performed major consulting projects for American Express and Schlumberger.
GOULD INC., Executive Vice President- R&D and Planning and President of Gould Laboratories, 1973-1977.
Reporting to Chairman/CEO, was responsible for organizing and directing three laboratories to support business strategies of conglomerate-like Corporation based on new products and common technologies. Operating budget of $35 million with staff of 300 in three U.S. laboratories.
Built new lab complex and hired key individuals to provide desired thrust. Over five-year period, laboratories developed some 50 new commercial products, many of which have been important contributors to subsequent performance of Corporation.
U.S. GOVERNMENT, Science Advisor to President of U.S. and Director of White House Office of Science and Technology, 1970-1973.
Reporting to President of U.S., served as advisor to President on programs and issues related to technology. Operating budget of $2.5 million with staff of 50.
Reorganized office to work closely with Office of Management and Budget in reviewing and modifying federally funded science/technology programs to assure conformity with national priorities set by President, his Cabinet and staff. Initiated several new programs and expanded, deleted, or diminished others. Particularly strengthened were cancer, breeder reactor, space shuttle, and energy R&:D programs. Developed national science policy, which was introduced to Congress by President Nixon in message prepared by Office of Science and Technology. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
AT&T CORPORATION, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1950-1970.
Ex:ecutive Director - Research, Communication Systems Division, 1965-1970.
Reporting to divisional Vice President - Research, directed Division's research in general field of communications and computing systems technology. Operating budget of $7 million with staff of 180.
Directed research to increase capacity of mobile telephone system. Effort produced concept and methodology for computer-controlled cellular telephony, which has evolved into major business with revenues today of $2.3 billion.
Originated "spare time" effort to develop high school course for promoting technological literacy and encouraging engineering careers. The resulting program, co-directed with Professor John Truxal, involved for three years some 60 people from industry and academia who developed course of study, The Man-Made World. Currently being revived, course was adopted in 1960's and 1970's by 1000 high schools and over 70 colleges and universities and has had strong influence on technical education for both technical and liberal arts students.
Director- Computing and Information Research, 1962-1965.
Reporting to Corporation's Executive Director - Research, directed Bell Laboratories' Computing Center and research required on both hardware and software to meet computing requirements of Bell Laboratories' R&D activities.
Organized "Multics" collaborative project with MIT and GE to develop computer time sharing system for linking desk-top consoles with main frames to permit software sharing and improve overall programmer performance and cost-effectiveness. This pioneering project led to development of similar successful systems by other external groups. Subsequently used this experience as base for development of Bell Laboratories' UNIX operating software system, one of two major operating systems in use today with personal computers.
Developed interactive graphics technology for circuit design and other applications, and adapted Xerox printer to provide hard-copy graphic output.
Director - VJSUal and Acoustics Research, 1958-1962.
Reporting to Corporation's Executive Director - Research, directed corporate research in general field of audio and visual communications. Operating budget of $5 million with staff of 50.
Developed nation's first computer simulation facility to permit testing of speech-processing schemes without building special testing equipment. Objective: reduce costs, increase effectiveness, and shorten time required for evolving speech-processing techniques and "speech recognition" industry. Digital techniques currently used in commercial speech processing are traceable to this pioneering effort, while derivative computer simulation techniques are now widely used in petroleum and chemical industries.
Various technical and management positions, from Member of Technical Staff to Assistant Director - VJSUal and Acoustics Research, 1950-1958. Important activity was development for U.S. Navy of long-range submarine detection system based on underwater sound &nd spectral analysis of machinery and other sub marine noises. System is still vital part of U.S. defense.
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EDUCATION
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950. M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1945.
Participated in numerous technical and management seminars and courses throughout business career.
HONORS
Honorary degrees from 11 universities and institutes of technology. Delmer S. Fahrney Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1985. Arthur M. Bueche Award, National Academy of Engineering, 1984. "Scientist of Year" Award, Research & Development magazine, 1984. Industrial Research Institute Medal, 1983. New Jersey Science/Technology Medal, 1982. Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration, Society of Research Administrators, 1980. North Carolina Award, 1972. Harold Pender Award, The Moore School, University of Pennsylvania, 1972. President's Award of Merit, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1971. The Lanchester Prize, Operations Research Society of America, 1971.
PUBLICATIONS
Authored 179 publications and co-authored 64. Complete list available.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
White House Science Council. U.S. Representative to NATO Science Committee. Board of Directors, Materials Research Corporation. New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (Chairman). New York Mayor's Commission on Science and Technology. Executive Com mittee of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation (Life Member). Trustee, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Technical Advisory Council, Chrysler Corporation. Trustee, The Twentieth Century Fund. National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Engineering. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Philosophical Society. National Academy of Public Administration. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Fellow). Acoustical Society of America (Fellow). . . American Society for Engineering Education (Honorary Life Member).
PERSONAL
Married, one child; Born 1925; Health excellent. Board of Trustees 'IRecords: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA ·1 j THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY ,l_;
October 13, 1986
To: Members of, and Representatives to, the Search Committee
From: Donna Manning ~/11,
Enclosed are:
~ list of applicants responding to the advertisement for the director A memo from T. Bradshaw dated 10/1/86 An article from the May, 1983 Science magazine written by Ralph Gomory which R. Langlands thought might be of interest to circulate to the Committee members
I've spoken to a number of faculty members about Jim Wolfensohn's meeting with them last Thursday. The reaction was positive even though there was no definite procedure put forward as to the faculty's involvement in the selection process.
There will be a meeting of the Search Committee on Friday, October 24, 4:30 to 6:30 in the Board Room.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Telephone 609-734-8000 Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Responses to Ad for IAS Director
APPLICANT POSITION
Frederick M. Asher Assoc. Dean , Uni v of Minn. H. Peter Aitken Headmaster, Brooks School John E. Bachman VP Natl, Assoc, Ind. Schools Gene Beverly Di v . Mgr., AT&T Information Systems · Lawrence Birken Asst. Prof. Hamilton College Martin Blume (nominated) Deputy Dir., Brookhaven Thomas G. Bostwick Pub. Auditor, Repub. of Palau F. Avril Brenig Standards Mgr., Acoustical Society of America Morton H. Broffman Pres. & CEO Putlic Media, Inc. Harold C. Cannon Dir., Off. of Presevation, NEH Lawrence C. Cerny Chemistry Prof, Utica College , Robert B. Cohen Consultant, NYUDC Peter P. Curtin, Jr. Partner Pub. Affairs co. Edward Desantis Asst Dean Univ of New Mexico Augustua Dhar Radiation-physicist Don Erickson Teacher and businessman Robert M. Falcey Admin. , Port Authority David Glass Prof., Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Dennis M. Goldstein Exec. Dir., Counci l for Social Elizabeth C. Grobe (nominated) Admin., Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Rochester W. Lawrence Gulick Pres. St. Lawrence Univ. Kingsley E. Haynes 1 Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA "" Joan Leopold Assor. Proof I lf";I (.\ Emi 1 e U . bresco Cc1ns1 d 1' 'n1 4 Rober1 J . Loftus H:i qt '' hnc• . • • ~; '· j ·• I L1 ndc:t S. 1_ 11ch n w~ :, I :1 !~I I· t..o• r, r> 0 ;:\J P l vn1, H 2 Board of Trustees Records:' / Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and,• Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA / / '. The New York Public Library A STOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS · Fift h Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, New York 10018 President and Chief Execi1ti1•e Officer· (212) 930-0736 August 8, 1986 Mr. Thornton F. Bradshaw Chairman, Search Committee Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Brad: I think the ideal Director for the Institute for Advanced Study is Henry Rosovsky, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. I have conveyed this information (when asked) .to several Board members of the Institute. I think if Henry is asked, he would accept the position. Henry Rosovsky is an experienced administrator with high academic standards, which will enable him to head a distinguished Institute such as the Institute for Advanced Study. I gather also that Hans Hillerbrand is leaving the provostship and vice-presidency of Southern Methodist University. If I were you, I would also take a look at his credentials. He may be of interes t to the Search Committee. If I can be of further assistanc e, do not hesistate to call on me. Warm regards, Sincerely, Vartan~ Gregorian-- VG:gp ' Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Hans J. Hillerbrand Southern Methodist University 9605 Robin Meadow Dallas, Texas 75275 Dallas, Texas 75243 (214) 692-3219 (214) 340-0702 Ph.D. University of Erlangen, Germany, 1957 (Intellectual History) LL.D. (Hon.), Montclair State College, New Jersey, 1978 PROVOST AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 1981 - 1986 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY The Vice President and Provost is the Chief Academic Officer of the University. He also serves as Deputy President. The deans of the six academic units (College, Law, Business, Theology, Arts, Enqineering) and the directors of Continuing Education and SUJll'Rer Session, International and Special Programs, and Libraries report to him. The following initiatives have been undertaken since September 1981 . ---major increases in the budgetary allocations for the academic areas have been authorized. These amounts represent a disproportionate share of the overall budget increases compared with the non-academic areas of the budget. ---major increases in faculty. compensation have occured. In a list of 30 private universities, SMU has nK>ved from 20th place in 1981 to 16th in 1985. ---a comprehensive University-wide planning process was initiated and completed, resulting in a new University "Statement of Purposes" and a detailed planning document for the University. ---a program of external quality reviews of academic departments was bequn. ---A University Research Council and a program of faculty grants were established to enhance faculty research. ---the category of "University Distinguished Professorships" was created and initial appointments approved. ---two new University-wide endowed chairs in ethics and human values were funded at the Provost's initiative. ---the "President's Scholars Program" (undergraduate merit scholarship program) was established along with several L Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA undergraduate admissions initiatives aimed at high-achieving students. These resulted in an increase of almost 100 points in the mean SAT of entering freshmen from 1980 to 1985. ---Visiting Corrrnittees were established for the Schools of the University (with two in place for 1985/86). ---a "Distinguished Scholar in Residence" program was established to bring internationally renowned scholars to the campus for extended periods. ---the "Robert S. Hyer Society" (University-wide undergraduate academic honor society) was established. ---a University-wide honors program was conceived and implemented in 1984. ---The SMU Press was revitalized through the appointment of a new director and the delineation of a sharper editorial focus. A new "Board of Editors," comprised of faculty, was established. ---the "Collegium," a University-wide monthly discussion group of senior faculty, was established. ---automation of the Central University Library was begun. ---a University Breakfast Lecture Series was inaugurated to present outstanding faculty to the COltlllUnity. ---additional new initiatives include a surrmer program for gifted and talented secondary school students. ---University-wide faculty seminars on topics of general interest ("The Ideas of the University"; "The Moral Society") were established. ---the "Provost's Roundtable" was formed; this is an informal gathering of provosts from SMU, Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, Washington, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Southern california. VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST 1977 to 1981 GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK The Vice President and Provost is the chief academic officer of the Graduate School and University Center. He also serves as Deputy President. He recorrrnends to the President educational policy (both degree programs and Continuing Education) and budget allocations. He conducts regular evaluations of all academic programs. He is accountable for all faculty matters. He has reporting to him the divisional deans, and works closely with the President in the areas of Development and Public Relations. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA The following initiatives occurred between 1977 and 1981: ---almost one million dollars in institutional grants were secured and a 30\ increase in research and program support to the school was achieved in a five year period. ---in the face of general University retrenchment, academic planning activities, both short and long term, were introduced. These entailed extensive faculty participation and the establishment of an Office of Academic Planning. ---policy guidelines for annual budget requests to the New York State Division of the Budget were designed. ---a 'Board of Visitors' of civic and academic figures was established to guide the administration in matters of general provenance. ---the development of continuing and professional education programs received special attention. DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES 1972 TO 1977 GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK The Dean of Graduate Studies directs and administers all graduate academic programs as well as all student services, including admissions, registrar's office, and the financial aid office. The Dean also manages the Computer Center, Library, Educational supplies and equipment, faculty travel funds, the Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Expanded Educational Opportunity. Between 1972 and 1977 the Dean: ---developed a program of external reviews of graduate programs and in conjunction with the New York State Education Department, directed the State-wide review of 11 disciplines. ---developed new comprehensive guidelines for utilization of faculty from the five senior colleges of the City University for doctoral work. ---planned three new graduate programs and the discontinuation of three existing programs. ---executed, at the time of the fiscal crisis of the City University, a budget reduction of 15\ with a mininrum of disruption of faculty, staff, and students. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA PROFESSORIAL APPOINTMENTS Professor (History) 1981 to present Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas Professor (History) 1970 to 1981 Graduate School and University Center City University of New York Associate and Full Professor 1959 to 1970 (History and Church History) Duke University Durham, N.C. Instructor (History) 1957 to 1959 Goshen College Goshen, Indiana PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Member, Council (1972-74) Renaissance Society of America Member (1972-1981), Columbia University Seminar of the Renaissance Member, Editorial Board (1971-83), Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies President, (1973), American Society for Reformation Research Member, Council (1971-74), American Society for Church History Director (1975-77), Journal of the History of Ideas Member, Editorial Board (1975-82), Sixteenth Century Journal Editor (1976-82), Archive for Reformation History Vice Chairman (1977 ff.), Center for Reformation Research, St. Louis, MO Member, Task Force (1976 ff.), Council of Graduate Schools in the United States Member, Doctoral Council (1974-1981), New York State Education Department Member (1973-75), New York State Regents Regional Coordinating Council Consultant (1977 ff.), National Endowment for the Humanities Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Consultant (1977), New Jersey Department of Higher Education Member (1982 ff,) IREX Conlnission on USA-German Democratic Republic Education/Scientific Exchange Member, Executive Conmittee, Council of Chief Academic Officers, American Council on Education, (1984 ff , ) Consultant for publishing houses (Harper & Row, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Cornell, National Geographic) Visiting Lecturer (Yale, Munich, Windsor, Columbia, Drew, Wofford, Bethel, Iowa, Lycoming, Concordia, etc.) Trustee, Montclair State College, New Jersey (1979 to 1981) PUBLICATIONS A. Books 1. Die Politische Ethik Des Taufertums. (Leiden-Koln, 1962) • . 84 pp. 2. A Bibliography of Anabaptism 1520-1630. (Goshen, Indiana, 1962) xv. 283 pp. 3. The Reformation. A Narrative History as Related by Contemporary Observers. (New York, 1965). 495 pp. (Reprinted 1979) 4. A Fellowship of Discontent. (New York, 1967). 176 pp. 5. The Protestant Reformation. Select Documents. (New York, 1967). 6. Landgrave PhilipP of Hesse, 1504 - 1567. Religion and Politics in the Reformation. (St. Louis, 1967). 37 pp. 7. Men and Ideas in the 16th Century. (Chicago, 1969). 130 pp. 8. Erasmus and His Times: Select Letters. (New York, 1971). 300 pp. 9. Christendom Divided: The Protestant Reformation. (Cleveland, 1971). 344 pp. 10. The World of the Reformation. (New York, 1973) . 229 pp. (Reprinted 1981) 11. Luther's Works . Sermon II. (Philadelphia, 1974) . 300 pp. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA B. Articles 1. "An Early Anabaptist Treatise on the Christian and the State." Mennonite Quarterly Review 32 (1958). 28-47. 2. "The Anabaptist View of the State." Mennonite Quarterly Review 32 (1958). 83-110. 3. "Remarkable Interdependencies Between Certain Anabaptist Doctrinal Writings." Mennonite Quarterly Review 33 ( 1959). 73-76. 4. "Ein Tauferbekenntnis aus dem 16. Jahrhundert." Archiv f. Reformationsgeschichte SO (1959). 40-50. 5. "Die gegenwartige Tauferforschung: Fortschritt oder DileJl'll\&? 11 In: Helmuth Diwald, (ed.): Lebendiger Geist. (Leiden-Koln, 1959). pp. 48-65. 6. "Anabaptism and the Reformation: Another Look." Church History 29 (1960). 404-424. 7. "Ein Tauferisches Missionszeugnis aus dem 16. Jahrhundert." Zeitschrift f. Kirchengeschichte 71 (1960). 324-327. 8. "A Sixteenth Century Anabaptist Evangelistic Testimony." Mennonite Qµarterly Review 35 (1961). 314-317. 9. "The Passing of the Church: Two Corrments on a Strange Theme." Church History 30 (1961). 481-482. 10. "Die Taufer des Reformationszeitalters und der Index." Theol09ische Zeitschrift 18 (1962). 283. 11. "Menno Simons: Sixteenth Century Reformer." Church History 31 (1962). 387-399. 12. "The Origins of 16th Century Anabaptism." Archiv f. Reformationsgeschichte 53 (1962). 152-180. 13. "Thomas Muntzer's Last Tract Against Luther: Translation and Connentary." Mennonite Qµarterly Review 38 (1962). 20-36. 14. "Die Hessische Wiedertauferordnung von 1537." Zeitschrift f. Religions -- und Geistesgeschichte 15 (1963). 330-347. 15 . "The 'Turning Point' of the Zwinglian Reformation." Mennonite Qµarterly Review 39 (1965). 309-311. 16. "Andreas Bodenstein of carlstadt: Prodigal Reformer." Church History 35 (1965). 379-398. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA 17. "Thomas Muntzer." in B. Gerrish. (ed). Reformers in Profile (Philadelphia, 1967). 18 . "Luther's 'Deserting Disciples' . 11 McCormick Quarterly 21 (1967). 105-113. 19. "The Spread of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century: A case Study in the Transfer of Ideas." South Atlantic Quarterly 67 (1968). 265-286. 20. "Die T!uferforschung der letzten dreissig Jahre." Verkundigun9 und Forschung 13 (1968). 95-109. 21. "Zwingli's Reformation-Turning-Point." Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 31 (1969). 39-46. 22. "Luther and the Bull 'Exsurge Domine'." Theological Studies 30 (1969). 108-112. 23. "Anabaptism and History. " Mennonite Quarterly Review 45 (1971). 107-122. 24. "The Reformation and the German Peasants' War." L.P. Buck, ed., The Social History of the Reformation (Columbus, Ohio, 1972). 106-136. 25 . "Religion and Politics in the German Reformation: the case of Philipp of Hesse." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (1973). 1-15. 26. "The Popular Dimension of the Reformation." Proceedings Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Durham, N.C., 1975). 27. "Recent Anabaptist Literature 1962-1975." 16th Century Bibliography Series (St. Louis, 1975) . 56. 28. "Thomas MUntzer: A Bibliography." 16th Century Bibliography Series (St. Louis, 1976) . 34. 29. "Reformation und Bauernkrieg." Der Deutsche Bauernkrieg 1524/25 (Berlin, 1977). 123-130. 30. "Reformation and Society." The Christian World, G. Barraclough, ed. (London, 1981) . 31. "Martin Luther and the Left Wing of the Reformation," Mennonite Quarterly Review. (1986). 60. (forthcoming) 32. "The Reformation of the 16th Century." Encyclopedia of Religion. (forthcoming) 33. "Martin Luther." Encyclopedia 2f Religion. (forthcoming) Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA c. Book Reviews over 100 reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, catholic Historical Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Archive for Reformation History, Church History, Journal of Church and State. May 1986 Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA RECEIVED AUG 2 1 tS36 Princeton University Box 46 Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0046 (609) 452-3373 August 7, 1986 Mrs. Baylis Manning Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Mrs . Manning: I spoke with you yesterday about Robert Skotheim, whom I was suggesting as a possible candidate for the Director's post. Bob and I talked this morning, and while he was pleased I'd thought of him, he feels that the Institute is really in need of a clearly prestigious figure, some one who can persuade the Senior researchers that he understands the importance of their having the time to engage in the demanding hlgh level of research they do, better salaries, etc ... Moreover, a director who is clearly perceived, from the beginning, as sympathetic to their work. As he talked, I sensed a deep under standi ng of and appreciation for the unique nature of the Institute. He is known by historians who would be known to you and the Committee, and Harry Woolf spoke at a Whitman Commencement, in 1978, I think, but Bob feels that he has been living in the small college world for sometime now, and those bonafides would not be immediately inter esting or reassuring to Institute scholars, I suppose . A pity, because he would do brilliantly ever ything the next Director must be seen to do . Thank you for your advice. I enjoyed talking to you. And do pass a l ong a word of greeting to Jim when you speak to him, next . MJL :ls Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA ' . ~r s~ RECflVED ¢ ./fZ . Y ~l~ ~ w· FRANKE. 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Cable: BIOTECH Q , 11 85 Bolton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 (617) 864-0040 Telex: 705219 John Hunt CHAIRMAN AND CHlEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER June 25, 1986 James D. Wo lfensohn ED _____ 425 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 ------Dear Jim: It was good t o hear from you. At our most recent meeting, two possible candidates were mentioned. The first has deserted academe for baseball . (There must be a moral there somewhere). As for t he second, Dr. G., I believe that he enjoys support among some of your colleagues. The word I get independently (and I have not raised the matter myself to anyone) is that the only concern is whether or not he would accept. I know Dr. G. well if that could ever be of use to you . I pass this along for whatever it may be worth , realizing that you may be off in other directions by now. Cordially, ( 105 7H) £.-+v tm~~-~k-A '1 / '.9 bs1o Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Donna Manning FROM Florence Sterrett 7/16/86 A letter from Mr. Wolfensohn and a copy of John Hunt ' s letter wer e sent to you by hand yesterday, but unfortunately the envel ope was lost. I am enclosing a copy of Mr. Wolfensohn's letter and another copy of the John Hunt letter. encl. -PS~ 'J 3~ ~L; f\~~ 1-elft~ wa,g lLc..-r ":'-f>ieJ -tlu: .., J re Ll.Q (ul:l w J ,I IL ~ () t "" J ~ CJ: t.., eu.Lc~y J , JAMES D . WOLFENSOHN INC ORPOR.-.TED 4Z5 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK. NEW YORK IOOZZ PHONE 121219 09·8 100 TELEX 6618 30 I Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRIN<";ETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 Telephone 609-734-SOOO SCHOOL OF NATURAL SOENCES ( ' ~ ~ vS OJ'. n.....~ cl"\~ t~\s.- M. ..~~~ ~,.,~~\~ '(1....t_ ~ ~.l~~ -(1.,.:.. , \.\,. ~ 0..,,,,.. .I ' ~ \~ 5' ~~ . . SS d'"'- ,.,..~ ~ \5' ~() '~ 31 'v, 13"- °' ~ . '7.o. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA <;_ k ku. l ~ Au... yt.- ..- ~ ( F\ '-4 ~ -~~ ~) ~v- ~ ull'·~~...t) G.... ~~ ~~ ~~ (j.. ~~ - 9- N~ fc,./-~ ~t~~~t f\~ ;, ~ ~~it- 4- J__u.,y.~l-'b.S ~ ~u,,.hr~~, ~(Jk~~ t.o..J\~J\J • . ~ J (/\ \..() o..vk~~ \~ ~~ t1.1",rk ()... ,t ~~ 'St.~t.~ ~~'-~ ~.\"t~.t . M.t11-ic.~·t lo.\ ·._s~ ;J ~~~t , Lu.Jo~~~ o\..- \S~~~~r4 I J\J~~~ lv--•r-0--...S-~u ~~ 1---\~~t\.. ~ Jh.,.1 ~~~~~~ (_~~ ~ ~~. )_ °'-~ Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA MARTIN E. SEGAL 730 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10019 June 9, 1986 Mr. Thornton F . Bradshaw Chairman, Search Committee The Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Brad: Vartan Gregorian is deeply invol ved with The New York Public Library, where he has given extraordinary l eadership . I doubt that he wou l d consider a change of position at this time. However, he certainl y meets the criteria established by the Search Committee for the Institute . Consequently, you might want to l earn whether there's any interest on Dr . Gregorian's part in a possible change from his present situation. Cordially yours, Mar~u;~egal /bz cc: Mr. Thornton F. Bradshaw 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10020 Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 0854'0 Telephone: (609) 734-8000 Telex: 229 734 IAS UR SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES 6 June 1986 MEMORANDUM To: Bob Langlands From: John Bahca ll Re: Director's position Bob Schrieffer's name came up as a possible candidate for the Directors' position in a recent School of Natural Sciences faculty meeting. He is now the Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. JNB/ph Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY 1230 YORK AVENUE •NEW YO RK , N !: W YO RK 100 21-6399 3>/za/Jt. ~~ p~ c4'7fktcP, . ~ku._, <711 ;r-u-r '>'e. ~ ~ ~ ~ t.;.,! k. "d- ~ t:k~ c a....d. · c1a~ p-r /1... tfcr,c:r-,,..,.Jt..:.r 7 ~ TIJ.S - I~~~~ cfra.w~a.~~ -k Pufa..-..ttr N~ :Zr .... ~~ C.<.ur'-"''$-"~ aA ~ ~ckefc 11.e.r tt"'-4·~ ~ . ¥a.i~) tLµol ~?, tK .:i. br·o~f- of- ltp~ d.l.JilVtc:rttii.t, I ~~ /'CfL-.>fft 7~ ~~ ?t:U.J Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Princeton University Department of Physics: Joseph Henry Laboratories j adwin H all Post O fli ce Box 708 Princeton, New Jersey 08544 May 27, 1986 Professor Robert Langlands School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N.J. 08540 Dear Professor Langlands: Some months ago I received a letter from the chairman of the Search Committee inviting me to suggest a possible candidate for director of the. Institute. After giving the matter some thought, I have decided that I would like to make a suggestion. I believe that Sam Treiman, currently the chairman of the physics department at Princeton University, would be a logical choice. He certainly has the outstanding academic credentials that the Institute is looking for. · He also has the requisite administrative ability and management skills to be director. Finally, I believe it has been some time since the Institute has had a physicist as director (although at least one famous physicist was Institute director in the past), so that such a choice would be natural. Sincerely, ~1_/;trJj/d,1 Edward Witten EW/na cc: Prof. M. Walzer - T el ephone: 609 452-4400 T elex : 499-35 12 Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA ------·--·· -- -- : ~= - =_~~L t7 " - / L'c//1 . ;: ; =-=. :=--=._;_:;// bUYb-.1tauo;uz< ::::::Ou Offi"c of Vi1·c Presidf'nl Armonk, Nrw York 10504 and Chief ScicnList May 21, 1986 Mr. Thornton F. Bradshaw Chairman, Search Committee Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Thornton: Mr. John F. Akers has asked me to respond to your letter of April 30 to suggest possible candidates for the Institute for Advanced Study. The Search Committee might want to consider as a possible candidate, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., who recently retired as President of Exxon Research and was President Nixon's Science Advisor. He is 61 years old and recently headed a highly regarded study for the National Academy of Sciences on the status and future of pure mathematics in the U.S. If the director wants to consider continuing in the recent tradition of an articulate lay director, they might wish to consider Mr. Steven Stamas, who has just stepped down as Chairman of Harvard University Board of Overseers and as Vice President for Communications of Exxon. A third possibility might be Dr. Marvin Goldberger, President of the California Institute of Technology, a distinguished theoretical physicist, formerly from Princeton, who may be in a position to leave Cal Tech in the moderately near future. His intellectual credentials are unchallenged. As a consultant, you might also wish to consider Dr. Ralph E. \\ Gomory, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research. He is a trustee of Princeton University and a well known mathematician who has an excellent set of acquaintances. I hope these suggestions are helpful. Sincerely, 0 ~ Lewis M. Branscomb LMB/ds cc: Mr. J. F. Akers Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93106 April 28, 1986 TELEPHONE: (805) 961-4111 Professor Robert Langlands School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Professor Langlands: Thank you for your letter of March 19th concerning the directorship of the Institute for Advanced Study. Having given the issue some thought, I would like to recommend to you the name of Dr. David Pines of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois. I have known Professor Pines for more than thirty years and have worked with him on a number of occasions, both on scholarly pursuits as well as on a number of committees. Professor Pines is one of the founders of the field of many body physics, an area which has important implications in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and aspects of quantum field theory. He is a highly regarded scholar with broad interests and accomplishments across most of modern physics. In addition to his scholarly contributions, Professor Pines has been a highly successful leader in international scientific cooperation and in organizing scientific workshops. Under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, he organized and ran an outstanding exchange program which, unfortunately, was terminated by the tragedies of Sakharov and Afghanistan. He is once again involved in resurrecting the bilat.~ ral Gxi:hanges in physics. Muth of what was a.ccomplishP.d during that decade was a direct result of David Pines' energy, wisdom, and adherence to the highest of academic standards. Another example of his scientific leadership is his important role in the reorganization of the Aspen Center for Physics, significantly restructuring the Center toward thematic activities. It is widely acknowledged that as a result of this restructuring, the quality of science at the Center and the overall effectiveness of the program was greatly enhanced. Finally, David Pines played an important role in the early days of the Center for Advanced Studies at Illinois, directing that organization in its early days. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Professor Robert Langlands -2- April 28, 1986 I believe David Pines has the scholarly stature, intelligence and determina tion to provide excellent leadership for the Institute for Advanced Study in the years ahead. I would like to express my strongest support in his behalf. Sincerely yours, !t::!L::t Director RS:bjh Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Columbia University in the City of New York New York, N. Y. 10027 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS 538 West l 20th Street April 18, 1986 Professor Robert Langlands School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N. J. 08540 Dear Professor Langlands: Thank you for your letter of March 19th. May I propose Dr. Sidney D. Drell as a candidate to be the next director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Drell is one of the most accomplished and inter nationally highly respected theoretical physicists. He has been the Deputy Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for many years, and is well-known for his administrative skill. He has served as a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study and is therefore familiar with its purpose and operation. The Institute has profited by having distinguished directors from various disciplines. Over the years their cumulative effort has made it increasingly richer in diversity of intellectual pursuits and endowed it with greater overall balance. In coming years, it would be ideal to have once again an exceptionally eminent physical scientist, such as Dr. Drell. I believe he can follow the outstanding leadership of Dr. Woolf and continue what I regard as a recent period of renaissance in the history of the Institute. Yours sincerely, To.~ T. D. Lee TDL:it Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Yale university New Haven, Connecticttt 06520 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Box 2155 Yale Station April 17, 1986 Professor R. P. Langlands School o f Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Bob: The Visiting Committee had some suggestions about the role of the Institute's Director which I had planned to communicate to the Trustees in Executive Session. In as much as the Search Committee meets before the Trustee's meeting, it might be helpful to communicate our Committee viewpoint, which is expressed very well in the enclosed excerpt prepared by Cal Moore. "Let me also comment further on the leadership or rmanagement' problems that we discussed. As I pointed out, the operation that they are running here is a very complex one, perhaps more complex than they realize. I think it can be argued that this complexity in part results from the changed and now more competitive environment in which the Institute finds itself. This was brought home to me vividly by trying to imagine running MSRI the same way the School of Mathematics is run, by utilizing not too much more than the spare time of some very distin guished mathematicians whose generally above average disinclination toward administration is coupled with their being attracted to a position at the Institute. As I think we all agreed implicitly, hiring some kind of administrator to take on these responsibilities is most definitely not the solution. What strikes me now is that the Director ought to be taking a lead role. It is the Director who ought to be leading the charge to the NSF. The Director w,1uld be in a position to talk to Rich N-= cholson or to Erich Bloch. Erich Bloch is, after all, a former Vice President of IBM, and the Chairman of the Board of IBM serves on the Board of Trustees of the Institute. It strikes one as strange, in the abstract, that apparently the first-ever site visit by a member of the NSF staff to the Institute will be taking place at a time when the Institute Director is out of town. We all found it unusual that the day before this s ite visit, the senior faculty apparently had not given much thought to what .they were going to say to the NSF visitor. It strikes me that this is an activity where the Institute -nirector might naturally take a leadership role. I think one can argue that a good part of the leadership problems we observed have their root cause in what was described as an absentee Director, and the breakdown in communication and trust between the School of Mathematics and the Office of the Director. Perhaps similar problems exist in one or more of the other ' Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Professor R. P. Langlands April 17, 1986 Page 2 Schools of the Institute and can be traced to the same cause. You are, of course, in a better position to judge this. However, in order to move toward a solution of some of these problems, there might have to be some redefinition of the proper role of the Director." Best regards, ])~ Dan Mostow GDM:cpc Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY • DAVIS • IRVINE • LOS ANGELES • RIVERSIDE • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO DAVID PIERPONT GARDNER OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT President BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720 WILLIAM R. FRAZER Senior Vice President Apri 1 16, 1986 Academic Affairs IN STRICT CONFIDENCE Robert D. Langlands School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Bob: A few weeks ago you asked me for some names of people who might be candidates for the Directorship of the Institute for Advanced Study. Here are six names that you may wish to consider. They are listed in no parti cu lar order. Walter Kohn He is a solid state theoretical physicist, originally at UC San Diego, who went to UC Santa Barbara as Founding Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. He is largely responsible for the success of this organization. He stepped down a year or two ago from the Directorship but remains active as Professor of Physics. One possible drawback is his health; he has had bypass surgery and history of heart problems. Marvin Goldberger Goldberger is currently President of the California Institute of Technology, and so the suggestion may seem a little unusual . I have heard, however, some indications that he might be movable; IAS might be a good place for him, and conversely. Sidney Drell Drell is a t heoretical physicist at SLAC and former Associate Director. He has thought a l ot about arms control and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship recently. Marshall Rosenbluth He obviously needs no introduction at IAS. Whether he is movable from his Institute Directorship in Texas is not at all clear. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Apri 1 16, 1986 · Page Two Dan Mostow This is a real long shot as to his interest. I have no reason to believe he would be interested, but on the other hand, I have no reason to believe that he might not find the idea a little bit intriguing if it were posed to him. Phillip Griffith Again another long shot as to his interest. I have absolutely no indication that he would be inclined to move from his present host at Duke, but who knows? With very best regards, Sincerely, AL- Calvin C. Moore Associate Vice President Academic Affairs Professor Department of Mathematics University of California, Berkeley Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 02138 (617) 495-2556/ 2545 ROBINSON HALL April 14, 1986 Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Science The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Michael: I have been thinking about your letter regarding a successor to Harry Woolf as Director of the Institute, without coming up with a reasonable suggestion . No doubt there are plenty of good administrators who would handle the Institute' s affairs with success and style, but my problem is that I remember so vividly the Institute under Oppenheimer when I first visited there, in 1964. His presence was incandescent; it set the style of the place, the level of expectation, and the sheer intellectual energy quotient. So while I can imagine various good administrators familiar with this kind of effort, the kind of people who run the major foundations and a few of the more effective coll ege presidents--in the Directorship, it would make such a difference if he or she were a person of great, independent status as a scientist or humanist scholar. Perhaps the day for that kind of thing has passed: the professors at the Institute now, as it acquires a new character with the passing of the refugee generation, may not want a Director who has striking ideas a nd an agenda of his own . But I hope that isn't so, and that as the Institute finds its new identity under present conditions , it will be guided by a person of great intellectual distinction . Everything at the Institute, surely, rests on the quality of the people appointed to permanent positions. Any appointments less than world-class severely diminish the place, and in my opinion that goes for the Director as well as for the professors . None of this is much help, I know. If I think of a specific suggestion, I'll write again. Regards, Professor Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Princeton University Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Departmeot of History 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Telephone: 609-452-4997 Director: Professor Lawrence Stone April 8, 1986 Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Science The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N.J. 08540 Dear Michael, Your request for names of possible candidates for the Directorship of the Institute places me in a very awkward dilemma. If I understand matters aright, factional feuds have died down, as you point out, and harmony pre- /:1 ~~1/YY vails. But the constitution has been so altered after the fall of Carl that ~' U::·' ~ is stripped of virtually all say in the intellectual thrust or even short- terrn direction of the institution. If the job is largel y confined to cere- monial, fundraising and routine housekeeping chores I see no reason why any person with the qualifications you mention should be interested in the job. I have a great admiration for Vartan Gregorian, the head of the New York Public Library, but he would be bored to tears at the Institute within a few months. The s ame goes for Bart Giamatti of Yale . Indeed everyone I can think of would be wasted on the job as currently defined. Yours, Lawrence S ton~e LS/jd Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS April 7, 1986 Professor Robert Langlands The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Bob, Thank you for your letter of 27 March asking me for suggestions of names to succeed Dr. Harry Woolf as the new director of the Institute for Advanced Study. I have given some thoughts to it and come to the following conclusion. Perhaps, the School of Mathematics is the strongest one in the Institute and I don't believe that the past three directors fully appreciate this fact. I also believe that the future director should be a distinguished scholar in addition to his administrative ability. Moreover, he should have a broad understanding of other subjects and a balanced view. From this point of view let me suggest one of the most distinguished mathematicians as the candidate: Professor G.D. Mostow. Best wishes, ( {l?i_ c (__,. Wu- chung HsianJ Professor of Mathematics (Princeton University) Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Columbia University in the City of New York New York, N. Y. 10027 DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 60 6 Hamilton Hall 7 April 1986 Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Professor Walzer, I am sorry to have taken so long to reply to your letter of 18 March, but the question you put is a very difficult one. Finding a combination of a scholar who can be respected by the Institute's faculty, an administrator who can raise funds, and a figure which will command some public respect is hard enough, but to find it for a position which has the image of being relatively powerless must be difficult indeed. And the fields I know well do not seem to me relatively strong in administrative talent. The best in every way is your own colleague Glen Bowersock, who tells me he is not interested. George Goold of Yale, who has many good qualities, is probably too old (at 64) and perhaps not interested enough in administration. Two people worth considering, though neither quite ideal, are John D'Arms of Michigan and Robert Connor of Princeton. Both are reputable scholars, though Connor has been less productive. Both have administrative experience; the fact that D'Arms became Dean of the Graduate School only last year may make him less willing to consider any move, but I really don't know if either is interested. But they are the only two names which occur to me as credible candidates. Sometimes names come floating up to the consciousness which won't come when bidden. If so, I ' ll write again. Good luck: It could be an important job, and the Institute is a place of central importance for classical studies among others. Yours sincerely, ~~~~ Roger S. Bagnall Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Christ ' s College Cambridge, 5th. April , 1986 CONFIDENTIAL Dear Michael, Thank you so much for your letter of the 28th. February about the question of a successor to Harry Woolf as Director of the Institute. I am sorry to be a lit tle sl ow in r eplying. But the question of the right person for t hat job seems to me ver y important and very diffi cult, so I 've tried to give it some proper thought making any response. Aft er some thought, it seems to me that there's not much point in my trying to suggest names of persons within the United States. I don' t really know the set-up well enough, and in any case you will, I am sure, receive a great deal of excellent advice on the point locally. You mention, however, that you might perhaps be willing to consider candidates from this country, and it's to this possibility that I 've addr essed myself. One possible sour ce of names might be the list of current Masters of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. But in the former case I don' t really know the field well enough, while in the latter it seems to me , after going through the list, that there's not one name one could conscientiously recommend. There's also the question of the major schools within London Univer sity. At the LSE one natur ally thinks of the pr evious Director, Ralf Dahr-endorf. He has some links with Princeton (where I original ly met him when he was Gauss seminarist) and is, of course, an administrator of proved distinction as well as a consider able figure within the social sciences. One might also think of the pr esent Provost of Univer sity College London. He is Sir James Lighthill, FRS , who used to be Professor of Mathematics here. I am told that he is a major man in his discipline - - but there would be many at the Institute who could definitely say whether that is really the case. He is certainly a major administrator, and is said to have been a great success at the College. Like Dahrendorf, however, he may be considerably older than you' d want. I also think of Sir Peter Swinnerton- Dyer, FRS. He too used to hold a Chair in mathematics in this University, and in this case there is I think general agr eement that he is a major figure in his s ubject. He was also Vice Chancellor (ie., roughly Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA speaking Pr esident) of t his University, and is now (on a fairly short-term contract) Chair man of our University Gr ants Committee, and thus in charge of all funding (such as it is) to UK Universities. So t here can be no question but that he is one of our leading academic adm inis tra tors, as well as being an academic with an immense r eputation. It's perhaps worth adding that, since Lighthill and s-p yer wer e both at Trinity here, I think that John Elliott probably knows t hem both quite well. He certainl y knows S- Dyer very well. My suspicion is that he might at fir st feel horrified by both suggestions, but I obviously ought not to speak for him. One person whom I know well, and whom I really think it would be worth considering, is Professor Donald Winch of the University of Sussex. He is an economist by training, which can't be a bad thing. His PhD is f rom Princeton, so he has long links with the comm unity. He has been a member of the I nstitute (this was when I orignally me t him , in 1974- 5), and. has always kept up his links and retained a deep affection for the IAS. He is a leading figure wi thin his discipline, being the author of numerous books on political economy and its history, including the brilliant study of Adam Sm nith's Politics which he wrote whil e at t he Institute. And he is an adminis trator of ver y great talent and experience. Currently he is pro- Vice Chancellor of Sussex Univer sity, where he pr eviously served as Dean dur ing its most turbulent years. He l acks the fame, of course, of the people I have mentioned above, but he is someone of exceptional admini strative abilities, as well as being a major f i gure within the social sciences in thi s country. Among people at Princeton who could t ell you about him in great er detail, perhaps Dick Jeffrey of the Dept. of Philosophy knows him best. But, again, John E. knows him well, as does Albert H., with whom he worked closely while at the Institute. I ought to add that he is a close friend of mine ; not to imply that what I say i sn't to be taken at face-val ue, but rather by way of underlining my judgment that he i s a very fine man as well as having just the range of talents in which you are interested. ._,ll ~ Jo _ lf ~~G ~J ~ 1~ ~lu p../ z..A/ c.,/"I ~ ~ ~fl- ~~ Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS 5 7 34 UN 1 VB RS IT Y AV B NUB CHICAGO• ILLINOIS 60637 J\.pril 2 , 1986 Professor Robert Langlands School of Mathematics The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Mew Jersey 08540 Dear Professor Langlands: This is a partial response to your inquiry of Mar ch 17 about people who might be considered for the position of director of the Institute for Advanced Study. After receiving your letter I canvassed my knowledge of various people in other branches of science, people whom I might know from my previous work at the National Academy of Sciences , but I did not come up with a very good candidate . However within the field of mathematics , I believe that Calvin C, Moore of the University of California at Berkeley is an excellent candidate . He has a number of important mathematical accomp lishments , indeed many of which you would already know , Ile has also had considerable administrative experience , which seems to me to have been'(Uite successful . As a summary of this I append a copy of a letter which I wrote some five years ago about his qualifications for a position as dean . Since that time , Moore has served as deputy director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California (the one supported by the NSF) . It is the eeneral impression that he did very well in this position. He worked chiefly while S . S . Chern was director and it is my impression that Moore did much of the detail work of administration . Those parts which I saw were done very expertly. Just in the past year he has been promoted to a higher position in the Administration at the University of California at Berkeley . I do not know the position exactly . To summarize , Moore is a man with substantial scientific accomp lishments and very effective administrative experience . Sincerely yours , A~~~ Saunders Mac Lane SM:ai Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA ~ 01lt;1r.JJ /Jb UJ zq /CjJC ) - Thank you for your recent inquiry ao~ r----- the position of Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and t~hAa-~~~~~~ Arts at the University of Michigan. I would like to suggest to you Calvin C. Moore, Professor of ·. Mathematics at the University of California. I believe that he amply meets the ·variou8 ·qualifications which you set forth in your letter. :. First, he ie an outstanding scholar in his own field. He ha. done a great many penetrating and ideal things about the representation8 of groups and similar matters. For example, I might quote a recent paper of bis, called "Group Extenaiona and Cobomology for Locally Compact Groupe III," published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 221 (1976), pp. 1-37. The review of this paper in Mathematical Reviews written by another expert, J. M. G. Fell, begins, "This important, long-awaited, and beautifully written paper ••• ". 'nlia seems to me an accurate description of the quality of this work - which, incidentally, happens to be a subject with some connectiona to my own earlier work on the cohomology of groups. Secondly, Moore has good experience of the complexitiee of maintain ing activities in te~ching and reeearch st major universities. He hae studied at Harvard Univeraity; he has been an inatructor at the University of Chicago (and we'd be delighted to get him back anytime), and he baa had a long experience at Berkeley. Three, he hae a deep co'lllllitment to the liberal arts and graduate education, aa I know from hie activities in teaching, both here and at Berkeley. I I Four, he haa demonstrated leadership qualities. He has served for a term of four or five yeara as Dean of the School of Physical Sci.enc•• 'I at the University of California. Though there was some controversy with · \ .I I I I \ Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA - _, -2- t~~rtment - ho did not agree with their proposal• tor a ·t -iat.ieve he waa affective in this position. More to the p , · '· f •f&r a considerable period, a Trustee of the American Mathematical Society. I had occasion to observe hie work .. a Trustee while I wae President of that society. I had great admiration for his insight and for hie concern about keeping the Society'• budget balanced. On all the•• counts, and many others, I believe that Moore would be a very fine candidate for this position. I know f roa some couveraationa with him that he has some possible interest in an administrativ~ career, as a follow-up to his previous experience at the University of California. I am sure that you will be able to find suitable lists of his publicationa, which will bear out hie extraordinary mathematical accompliahlll4lnta. Among the various mathematicians I know, he is the one who combine• beat outstand ing scholarship with talent in administrative and similar matte 'I ·I Cordially yours, y Saunders SM:sm Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATI ON 14 0 EAST 6 21!P STREET NEW YO RK, N. Y. 10021 (212) 838- 840 0 O F F I C E OF THE PRE S ID E NT April 1, 1986 Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Science The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Professor Walzer: In response to your inquiry of March 18 I think I have two good suggestions to offer, though with no knowledge of whether either would be available at this time. The first is Ralph E. Gomery, a mathematician who has for a number of years been Vice President and Director of Research at IBM. He is a highly intelligent, discerning, quietl y effective scientist-administrator, whose qualifications might be extremely well-sui ted to the opportunities at the Institute, and who may face IBM ' s curious 60-year-old retirement law in the near future. The second is an exceptionally imaginative and per ceptive economist at MIT, Robert M. Solow, who just might be open to a new challenge at this time. I have seen him in action with committees at the National Academy of Sciences at which he showed unusual ability to bridge fields, define problems and options in ways that would enable talented people from very different professional backgrounds to move forward on a question. He is a del ightful human being with a marvelous sense of humor and, if an economist might be eligible, would belong high on any list. Sincerely, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY 1230 YORK AVENUE •NEW YORK , NEW YORK 10021-6399 3/zc/~t /)R t4 %<. 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[,,,,,"le... .rI}> 04 el<. - fn,...,.~ . ~ ~ Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Princeton university DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS: JOSEPH HENRY LABORATORIES JADWIN HALL POST OFFICE BOX 708 PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 ( 6og) 452-4402 OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN Ma re h 12 , 1986 Professor Robert Langlands The Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Professor Langlands: I wish you and your colleagues well in the search for a new director . of the institute. Members of the Princeton University faculty have a natural interest in the welfare of that institution. This is particularly so for those of us who are in departments with counterparts at the Institute - and most especially so for the theoretical physicists and astrophysicists. We Iwould like to see the Institute recover its ancient strength in this area. It seems to me, at least as an outside observer, that administration ought not to be a full time occupation for the director - it's not that big an institution and not that complex (at any rate, it shouldn't be allowed to be complex). This speaks for a director with his or her own scholarly or public pursuits to be pursued, part time but with distinction. Not make-work, but genuine distinction. Even if I am right that physics is most in need of rebuilding, it doesn't necessarily follow that the director ought to be a member of that profession. Nevertheless, given your particular circum stances, my intuition is that that would be the best kind of choice, other things being equal. As to further qualities, I am equal ly unoriginal: the middle years rather than great age, other things being equal; smart, intellectual breadth, widespread recognition and status, vision, even but not too relaxed in temperament, ... and so on. Having said these things, I have no very original recommendations to offer. Here are some rather obvious names to be considered. Sidney Dre]J, a distinguished and well respected theoretical physicist, with a substantial and long-standing interest in arms control, former Institute trustee, ex perience as an institutional leader as associate director of SLAC and now at a Stanford arms control institute. Murph Goldberger, President of Cal Tech, distinguished theoretical physicist, former Princetonian, substantial arms control interests. Lew Branscomb, just retired (or about to retire) as chi ef sc ientist at IBM, articulate, good administrator, well connected, has Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Professor Robert Langlands -2- March 12, 1986 sensible science policy interests. Steven Weinberg, Nobelist in physics, cultured, articulate, very smart, no obvious experience of or taste for running an institution, classy but a long shot (and probably not moveable). Murray Gell-Mann, another physics Nobelist, erudite, opinionated,possibly looking for a new challenge, abrasive, brilliant. Paul Martin, Harvard physicist, dean, knows his way in science and academia, broad in interests, good vision. Francis Low, who has just stepped down as Provost at MIT, a distinguished physicist, cultured, possibly interested in a new challenge (though I think, just the opposite, that he wants to recover from his pro vostmanship). The names above are in random order. The people are all of them of a mature age. The middle or even younger years might be better (40-55), but it's hard to think of candidates who are proven, yet ready to give up active science. An extremely long shot would be Heinz Pagels, who runs the New York Academy of Sciences and is adjunct professor at Rockefeller. He's done good, though not truly memorable physics, but he's shown flair at the N.Y. Academy, he is well connected, well read and himself a semipopular author on science. His wife Elaine Pagels is a professor of religion here at Princeton and quite distinguished in her field (a MacArthur Fellow, among other things). Hm . Might she be a candidate? Another long shot is William Press, a youngish astrophysicist at Harvard, just finished a term as department chairman, son of the president of the National Academy, bright, vivacious, too wide ranging to have made the deep contributions he might be capable of, has - I believe - some administrative flair, but that should be · checked upon. These are some of my thoughts, more or less on the spur of the moment. Sincerely, ~~ Sam Treiman ST/sk Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 President's Room March 11, 1986 Personal Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Science The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Michael: First, thank you again for the breakfast at Mario's. I enjoyed the company, the food, and the opportunity to discuss the search for a new Director of the Institute . Subsequently, I was able (by purest chance) to have a con versation with Bob Adams. Bob suggested two particul ar individ uals whom you might want to consider . The first is a philosopher at Berkeley named John Searle . (I enclose his biography from Who's Who . ) Bob Adams tells me that he is on the Board of the National Humanities Center and is an able person. The second thought that occurred to Bob Adams is Isadore Singer, a mathematician of some distinction who is a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Please let me know how I can help as the process proceeds. With best wishes , Sincerely, /l;el William G. Bowen WGB: le Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA HARVARD UNIVERSITY lm~ m DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS HENRY ROSOVSKY 218 LITTAUER CENTER Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138 Uniuersity Professor TELEPHONE:(617)495-4151 March 6, 1986 Professor Michael Walzer Institute for Advanced Study Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Michael: In essence, this letter will repeat the substance of our conversation in Princeton. The best name I can think of is George Field at Harvard. He should be quite well known to your scientific colleagues. George is a fine astronomer, was a distinguished director of our large Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and is a generally respected figure in the scientific establishment. He has a warm and winning personality but at the same time I have seen him make difficult decisions with courage. As I told you, he is a Princeton Ph.D. and a former Junior Fellow. In my opinion, an excellent candidate from your point of view. Another Harvard possibility, and this name I did not mention to you during our earlier discussion. I have in mind Matthew Messelson: a distinguished biochemist whose interests in recent years have gone well , beyond the limits of the laboratory. Matt would be a riskier choice and he might not be at all interested. He can be idiosyncratic, but he has a superb mind, excellent taste, and would certainly be respected by your colleagues. When he is engaged, he can also raise money very effectively. Without Messelson we would have never built our new biochemistry building . Two humanists should be mentioned: Giamatti and Gregorian . You probably know all about the man who will be the former President of Yale on July 1 . An elegant and eloquent individual who would give the Institute a superb outside image. I cannot imagine that he would find the administrative duties especially difficult after his experience at Yale. I realize that most of your colleagues would prefer a scientist, but I do not happen to agree with that view. Vartan Gregorian is the former Provost of the University of Pennsylvania and the current head of the New York Public Library. Words fail me: I cannot describe him. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Prof. Walzer March 6, 1986 Page 2 You would have to meet him. Vartan was an excellent Provost and has been an absolutely outstanding director of NYPL. In character he is "ethnic," but he gets along with all types of people; a genuinely wonderful human being with a real commitment to scholarship. Of this list, George Field would probably be my first choice. But the other names are all of the highest quality. I will write again if other names occur to me. As ever, Jl sovsky HR:bc Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY William fames Hall 380 Cambridge, ..,Massachusetts 02138 5 March 1986 Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Michael: Your letter of 28 February is admirable in its evocativeness. As you can imaqine, I get a number of letters from mem!Jers of search committees, but few say anything helpful about the locale and its prospects and what sort s of persons are sought. I have written letters about two individuals, and want to mention a third in this l etter. Paul Bragdon. Paul Bragdon, like Robert Edwards, about whom I have written separatel y, does not have the Ph.D. If I recall correctly, he is an Amherst College graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before going to Reed, he was a Vice President at New York University. He has managed to revitalize Reed College in the face of demographic a nd financial perils. The Trustees were so pleased with him that they gave him a year ' s sabbatical, during which he came to the Harvard Business School for a year of postgraduate study. He does not have Robert Edwards ' s unusual intellectual capacities, but he could not have been as effective as he has been at Reed College--no banquet seat for a ny president!--if he did not have excellent judgment and a quick appreciation for the moral and intell ~c tual dimensions of academic and, at Reed particularly, intellectual life. With good wishes , Yours sincerely, 4~~l David Ries man DR/rnf Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA STANFORD UNIVERSITY Mail Addresa: Bin 81 STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER SLAC, P.O. Box 4349 Stanford, California 94305 March 4, 1986 Professor Robert Langlands School of Mathematics The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Dear Professor Langlands: I am responding to your letter of February 25 in which you seek my views on suggested qualifications for the new director of the Institute of Advanced Study, as well as suggestions of possible candidates. From my ten years as an academic trustee of the Institute, as well as my familiarity with other academic institutions, I have developed several strong feelings on this matter. First and above all, I think the Institute director should be a major figure from the world' of scholarship. The chores of IAS director are not so time consuming that running the Institute is a full-time position. The position does, however, provide an important pulpit for a major scholar to speak out on basic issues of education, the arts and sciences, and values in our society. There is a need for such leaders in the academic community to be heard. Closer to the Institute's needs and opportunities, such a scholar can be effective in creating new networks of communication and new forms of interdisciplinary work through conferences and symposia using Princeton's intellectual resources. I would also suggest that, to deserve the attention of a major scholar, the position of director will have to include the title of "Professor". This will not only assure that you appoint a director of appropriate stature but that the individual so anointed will identify with long range needs and goals of the Institute beyond his administrative term. Finally, I believe that the trustees must give such a director the financial resources for him/her to implement some of the initiatives for - in your words - "creating a much broader intellectual basis for the activities" of several of the schools. -... Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA page 2 March 4, 1986 I have only one possible suggestion of a candidate. Although I have never met him, the newly retired president of Yale University, Bart Giamatti, made a very favorable impression on me as an eloquent and forthright academic spokesman and leader. He was very highly respected by my faculty friends at Yale. Sincerely yours, ~~ !J/l,d! Sidney D. n:d Professor :::..nd D~puty Direct.or Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA 380 William James Hall II arvard University Cambrid ge, Massachusetts 02138 5 March 1986 Professor Michael Walzer Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Re: John R. Watt Dear Michael: I am writing to suggest John Watt as a prospect to succeed Harry Woolf. I do not regard him as possessing the elegance, eloquence, or intellectual range that I see in Robert Edwards, concerning whom I have written in a separate letter. However, John Watt does have the Ph.D. and has had an academic as well as an admin.istrative career. Here too I shall set forth what I know about him, and I can enclose a curriculum vitae. 1) I did not know John Watt when he was a graduate student here in Far Eastern Stu dies. I met him for the first time in his capacity as a charter member of the faculty of Johnston College, at that time, in 1969, the relatively independent offshoot of Redlands University in southern California. Ile was the first faculty recruit to the College, and survived a deep schism between the Chancell or, who departed, and the parent institution in its first year. John WaLt took over de facto leadership of the faculty in the ensuing turmoil. Already at that Lime, he had a quiet effectiveness and a wide range of interests. For example, I recall that a student in the College wanted to study Hebrew, and since the College was built on the contract system, an elTort was made to provide mentors for any reasonable student interest; John Watt Look on the student and taught Hebrew for a term. Beneath the quiet exterior of a Scotchman, is an academic virtuoso. 2) From Johnston College, John Watt came as dean to Windham College in southern Vermont. Having had a summer place in the area for over four decades, and knowing the founding President of Windham Coll ege, I recognized that John Watt faced at Windham College a situation of a mushroom college in potential disrepute for lax academic and admissions standards, and he worked with a new president to put it on a more solid academic footing. When he saw that this was an unfeasible task, he resigned, well before Windham's final deliquescence, and became an educational consultant in Brattleboro, where be was of considerable help to Marlboro College. In fact, when in 1981 Marlboro College itself was looking for a new President, the search committee asked John Watt to become a candidate. He was not interested, since bis wife and he are both established in the New York area, and he was not prepared to uproot his family. 3) Ten years ago, John Watt and I were colleagues on a research project, studying a group of institutions which had received grants for so-called competence-based education from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. Each of us had as our principal assignment a particular institution; John Watt's was the College of Public and Community Service of the University of Massachusetts in Boston. We visited each other's sites and had many discussions of the various enterprises in to whose efficacy we were inquiring. While John Watt was not originally trained in the more ethnographic and psychological social sciences, be managed in the course of this research to appreciate a number of diverse academic settin gs, with a grasp of both administrative and faculty issues. 4) John Watt's recent work has not only made him familiar with the worlds of medical technology and the health sciences from the perspective of an administrator, but has engaged him in often delicate negotiations between Taiwan and the United States and Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Re: John R. Watt -2- 5 March 1986 among medical institutions in both countries. He has had a hand in fund-raising as well. Most recently, he has, as the enclosed description of Work in Progress, 1985, makes clear, made himself at home in the relatively new field of medical ethnography--a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary area in which my Harvard colleague, Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Professor of Anthropology and of Psychiatry, has been one of t,he pioneers. 5) John Watt is a quiet person. His integrity is evident, but its possession does not blind him to the possibility that not all inhabitants of the branches of learning are equally civilized, decent, and straightforward. To put the matter differently, he has political skills, whether in negotiating among competing as well as cooperat,ive academic groups or with government officials. John Watt has shared with me a letLer from Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., M.D., now Professor of Medicine at NYU and former Vice President for the Ilealt,h Sciences there. Bennett writes about Watt: "He is cultured, scholarly , an excellent administraLor, and broadly knowledgeable in public aifairs .... I recommend him to you without reservat,ion .... " It is an open question for me how John Watt would fare in the complex constellations of the Institute. As I have indicated at least by implication, I cannot recommend him unreservedly. But I would not write about him if I did not think he was worth serious consideration. Sincerely, M David Riesman DR/mf Enc. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA 380 William James Hall Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 4 March 1986 Professor Michael Walzer School of Social Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Re: Robert, II. Edwards Dear Michael: Let me set forLh why I think Robert Edwards might be an interest.ing prospect, for the Directorship of t,he Instit,ut,e when Harry Wolf's term comes to an end. A graduate of Princeton, he spent two years at Cambridge and t,hen attended Harvard Law School. He worked for the Ford Foundation on development projects in Pakistan and West Africa, and I think also in Cairo, and became head of the Ford Foundation program for the Mid dle East and Africa. Ile does not have the Ph.D., and this made the search committee and the faculty at Carleton College somewhat wary when be was a candidate for t,he College>s Presidency. I would like to indicate why he came to my mind for the Inst,itute. 1) Edwards is a remarkably capable intellectual and academic leader. As a Ford Foun dation executive, he came to Carleton already famili ar with many academic institutions here and abroad. He knew he had come to a scholarly place, succeeding Howard Swearer (a political scientist with a doctorate from UCLA), who bad gone off in mid-year to Brown. Edwards set about to learn t,he Cad et.on saga, and the kinds of problems of the subspecialLies in the arts and sciences disciplin es represented in t,he College. At Carleton sin ce 1977, he reads what his faculLy members write, and what candidates have writLen. He is in fact a voracious reader, less than an expert., yet more than an amateur. 2) What makes Edwards unusual is his gift for building a spirited administration, both from what he found when he came to Carleton, and what he was able, oft.en through his own direct persuasion, to recruit to Carleton. In the st. udy on which I worked wit,h Clark Kerr for AGB, Presidents Make a Difference, we found only a small handful of presidents who thought seriously about developing the people with whom they work, which of course means far more than being an inspiring advocate or cheerleader. It requires subtlety of concern for the other person, even while recognizing that such mentorship and the stimul ation of working in an administrative group will lead to the loss of people who outgrow the coll ege's opportunities. T o illustrate: in considering where Carleton, already good, might get better still, Edwards concluded that its faculty needed to connect themselves more securely to their disciplines without a loss of institutional concern. Hence he want,ed an Academic Dean with a research university background. Peter Stan ley, with all his degrees from Harvard, who had taught history at Harvard , was courted and persuaded by Edwards, of course with the concurrence of the appropriate search committee. Stanley and Edwards worked together in a program of faculty development support,ed by t,he Mellon, Bush, and Hewlett Foundations, and by matching grants raised by Edwards and Daniel Sullivan, a sociologist of science whom Edward s pulled out of the Carleton faculty and made Vice President, for Development and Planning. Stanley left Carleton last year t,o become Program Officer for Education and C ulture at the Ford Foundation. 3) Edwards is one of the group of president,s of the "research coll eges" who, meeting in June at Oberlin, published an interesting document about the producLiviLy in the natural sciences of graduates of these colleges. Edwards has had a part,icular concern wit,h t.he teaching of science at the undergraduate level, both to prospective scientists and and to non-scientists, and has made himself at home with some of the problems of research facil ities and of coll aborative work in the sciences. We have had discussions concerning the Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Re: Robert H. Edwards -2- 4 March 1986 prospects and problems of drawin~ more women into mathematics, chemistry (where Carleton does very well), physics \where there are fewer women at Carleton and elsewhere), geology, engineering, and high technology generally. 4) I am a friendly witness to what he has conliributed at Carleton. I have been interested in the College sin ce 1951 (when I went t,here in the cou rse of writing a biography of an early alumnus, Thorstein Veblen). It has had a succession of good presidents: Lawrence Gould at t,hat time, followed by John Nason (who had been President of Swarthmore), then Howard Swearer. Edwards's leadership is consultative, as he works with top administrators and with department heads and faculty committees. He has the capacity both to delegate and to do the fine-grained work--and of course, what presidents need, an immense capacity for work. Edwards bas another quality which is difficult, to describe. He is a caring person, but without sentimentality. He has built the closest possible personal as well as professional ties with fellow administrators, as I have already indicated; however, when as recently happened one of them transgressed a line of propriety, Edwards did not hesitate in forcing this person to leave the College. Edwards is a sensitive person, wounded by others and wounded when he has to take severe measures vis-l:t-vis others. But unlike many sensitive presidents, he is not egotistical; he downplays his remarkable versatility and subtlety, his intellectual profundity--not many presidents nor many of us are profound--and makes light of his own conscientiousness in the unending stress of often iterative tasks, surrounded by people who are not of course always charitable or generous to presidents. In other words, he is hardy without having become a tough guy. 5) Several major AAU public universities have been interested in Edwards. He has turned them down, concluding that he would prefer to continue to work in the independent sector where there are fewer political constraints. He is not averse to the political problems of an academic institution, whether this involves state or national lobbying and advocacy or quieter lobbying. He has dealt successfully with a strike of buildings and grounds workers. Ile handles the press adeptly. Ile inherited a good Board of Trustees, a large one, and has made it better still. 6) In all the usual indices of success, Carleton has prospered during his Presidency. His more difficult accomplishment has been to help Carleton become a more magnetic place for faculty and students alike, while keeping its breezy Midwestern egalitarian quality, so Lhat it is different from Amherst or Swarthmore in terms of the relations of faculty members with each other a nd with sli udents. 7) I have hesitated whether or not to say anything concernin g E llen Edwards. Some feminist logics require candid ates to be viewed as if they stood alone, even if they are part of a significant partnership. I believe that this is unrealistic, and that the loneliness of the presidency and the need for continuous moral and intellectual alertness in the presidency can be somewhat assuaged by a spouse who understands the program and the players in the program, and who has an independent interest in both. Ell en Edwards comes from a family of three generations of architect,s. She herself has a strong interest in design. Many Carleton students, as well as many faculty, have come to know her quite independently of her husband and the latter's position. Her intellectual and aesthetic sophistication would make her, quite independently of Robert Edwards, an asset to the Institute. 8) Martin Trow, who of course knows the Institute from bis year there, is a Carleton Trustee; he and the other Trustees, as well as the majority of the faculty, greatly value Edwards, as you might suppose, and would not want him to leave. But it is not up to the recommender to make decisions for other people. Moreover, your letter of 28 February is so invitational as to suggest that, if there were interest on the part of t,he Institute's committee in exploring the question with him, provided the lead time for notice to Carleton were sufficient--for he is one of the most scrupulous men I have ever known--an interest on his part seems to me quite conceivable. I am sure I need not tell you or oliher members of the committee of facu lty and Trustees that unlikely possibilities Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Re: Robert H. Edwards -3- 4 March 1986 do occur! Sincerely, /'\~ t David Riesman DR/ mf Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Harvard College Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory March 3, 1986 Dr. Robert Langlands The Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Bob, It is a pleasure to send some suggestions for you to consider as a possible new Director at the Institute. (1.) Martin Rees, Plumian Professor at Cambridge. Martin is among the top theoretical astrophysicists and cosmologists in the world. He is an absolutely wonderful human being - completely without pretense, and warm and friendly. Educated in Britain, he has an interest in the humanities hard to find among American scientists. He ran the Institute for Astronomy at Cambridge for a decade or so, and, as far as I know, superbly. (2.) Jerry Ostriker. Of course you know him. He has had enormous impact on several brands of astrophysics, and has a demonstrated administrative ability. (3.) Robert Schrieffer, a physicist who is now director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara. I believe he holds the Nobel Prize. I don't know him at all well, but was very impressed when I met him. (4.) David Truman (I believe is the correct name). I don't know this gentleman at all, but I believe that he has served or is serving as a Dean at Columbia. I don't know his field. He has been described in glowing terms to me by Professor Patrick Thaddeus, a physicist at Columbia. (5.) Leon Lederman, head of Fermilab. A distinguished scientist, and , from my brief acquaintance, a direct and interesting person . (6.) Daniel Steiner, Vice President and Chief Counsel of Harvard University. He is not, strictly speaking, an academic, but he holds a very re sponsible position. He is witty and urbane, and I recently heard him give a very scholarly discussion of a certain legal issue confronting American universities. He is extremely good with people - a quiet and thoughtful leader. You would probably have to go beyond your boundaries of acceptability to appoint him, unless I am mistaken in thinking his scholarly writings are too limited. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Dr. Langlands -2- March 3, 1986 (7.) Henry Rosovsky, former Dean of the Faculty at Harvard. An old personal friend, Henry is a deeply intelligent, and a very warm person, whose experience qualifies him instantly for the position. He does not have much inter.est in sci ence (he is an economist, with strong connections in Japan), but his instincts are sound. He turned down the Presidency of Yale while still Dean, but now that he has stepped down (about two years ago), he might be interested. (8 . ) Paul Martin, Dean of Applied Science at Harvard. Paul is regarded as a very good administrator by most scientists at Harvard. He is a physicist, and of all those on the list, my bet is that you could attract him most readily. I myself have somewhat mi xed feelings about his suitability, but could be readily conv i nced. (9.) Maurice Go ldhaber at Brookhaven. A former director (I believe!), he has old-world charm and styl e, as well as a wonderful reputation in physics. He is probably too old for the job, but he may perhaps be useful for calibration. His wife, Gertrude, is also a physicist. (10.) Ken Wilson at Cornell. A Nobel Prize winner in physics who is well known to your people. I don't know him at all well. I believe he is a successful entrepreneur. You may want to consider other Nobelists like Weinberg or Glashow, although neither of the latter enjoys admi ni stration, I believe. I hope these suggestions are useful. I will be out of the country from March 8 to May 8, but otherwise would be happy to consu lt further. Sincerely, 0-<-c~ ~orge Field GF/dar Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Yale University NewHaven,Connecticuto6520 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Bo": 2155 Yale Station February 17, 1986 Professor R. Langlands I .A.S . Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Bob: In reply to your l e tter of January 31, an outst anding candi date comes easily to my mind, Jonathan Spence. He is Professor of Chinese History at Yal e, and in his forties . I know him as a fellow traveler on my 1974 trip to China. He has an enviable grace of expression, and not surprisingl y, his books have been well received by reviewers. The ones I have read I found most enjoyable. He was educated in England, came to Yale to study Physics and switched t o Chinese history. My only hesitation in recommending him is that h e is a great teacher (his course l ectures fill the Law School auditorium, and it would be a great loss to Yale if he would leave) . As for whom to ask for candida t es, yo u might ask Spence. Also you mi ght ask Edmund Morgan, about to retire from Yale' s history department, but a man of excellent judgment. With best regards, ~ CiVL- George D. Mostow GDM : cpc Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 Telephone 609-734-8000 SCHOOL OP SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb. 10 Dear Michael, Some names to consider for the director search: Dorothy Nelkin, Cornell. Her field is science policy (sociology?? or history of science?? I'm not sure). _She was a strong contender for the Russell Sage Foundation directorship. Has a broad range that includes humanities and science; is known to be very smart; has administrative experience. Margaret Mcvicker, MIT. Her field is physics. She's been a dean at MIT and, most recently, a vice-president at the Carnegie Foundation. She's tough, extremely competent and could both provide leadership and manage the different interests represented in our four schools. Maurice Glicksman, Brown. Currently (and for the last 15 years) provost at Brown, he's an extraordinary administrator, in touch with the faculty in all departments. I don't know what kind of fundraiser he is, but we could find that out. His field is engineering and two years ago he spent the y~ar at MIT doing extensive research. (I think, though I don't know for sure, that he's kept his hand in research during his administrative career.) Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA ~uke JliniD£rsit~ ~urJ1um ~orll1 C!1rralinu 27706 @flier of lit~ Jrmmst 10 February 1986 (9l9) 684-2631 Professor Robert Langlands School of Mathematics The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ 08540 Dear Bob, Many thanks for your letter about a Director of the IAS. How about George Keyworth, who just retired (at a very early age) as the President's Science Advisor? Or how about Ed David? Yours truly, a>l~iitr G. Phillip A. Griffiths Provost PAG:rld Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 085'0 Telephonet (809) 'TS,·8000 Telex1 229 'TS' IAS UR SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES 5 February 1986 MEMORANDUM To: Professors Langlands and Walzer From: Freeman Dyson Copy to John Bahcall Two names to add to your list of candidates for Director: 1. Maxine F. Singer, Chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Trustee of Yale University and runner-up in the recent election of a President of Yale. WaE. here aJ?. a visitor in Summer 1984. 2. Joel L. Lebowitz, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,New Jersey. Ex-inmate, Auschwitz concentration camp. Active in New York Academy of Sciences, Committee of Concerned Scientists, and numerous other good causes. Has been here as a visitor on several occasions. Board of Trustees Records: Committee Files: Box 4: Suggested Candidates 1986 Director Search From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON. NEW JERSEY 08&'0 Telephone• (609) 734-8000 Telex• 229 7 3 4 IAS UR SCHOOL OF NATUR.AL SCIENCES 3 February 1986 MEMORANDUM To: Bob Langlands and Michael Walzer From: John Bahcall Re: Search for a new Director I suggest the following people as possible candidates: Sydney Drell (Professor of Physics, Stanford University and former IAS Trustee) Hanna Gray (President, Univ. of Chicago) Paul Martin (Professor of Physics and Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences) Michael Rabin (Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University and former Rector, Hebrew University) Robert May (Professor of Biology and Chairman of the Research Board, Princeton University) Marshall Rosenbluth (Director, Institute for Plasma Physics, University of Texas) Neal Rudenstein (Provost, Princeton University) Steve Weinberg (Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate, University of Texas) I suggest you write to the following people for additional names of possible candidates: Bill Bowen (President. Princeton University) ;<,. Murray G<>llMann (Professor of Physics, CalTech) 'I. Murph Goldberg (President, CalTech) ')( ~yman Spitzer (Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, Princeton University) ~C.->~ f~~ YCw.J~-.\ ~ 'S \.....L.\-- \( ""~ '-