Vartan Gregorian
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"Vartan Gregorian" is an Iranian-born Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Gregorian came to the United States in 1956 as a freshman, attending Stanford University, where he completed his B.A., with honors, in two years. After receiving his dual doctorates in history and humanities from Stanford in 1964, Gregorian served on the faculties of several American universities. He taught European and Middle Eastern history at San Francisco State College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1972 he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty and was appointed Tarzian Professor of History and professor of South Asian history. He was founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and four years later became its twenty-third provost until 1981. From 1981 to 1989, Gregorian served as president of The New York Public Library, an eight-year tenure which would prove to be one of his lasting legacies.

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The result is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its regeneration.

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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

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Traditional affirmations of life and rebirth.

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Over the next several days, the design will be updated to reflect several changes, and new presentation materials will be created.

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It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

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Will evolve still over time.

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