+Gray, Hanna Holborn1930╨educatorBorn in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 25, 1930, Hanna Holborn was of a family of scholars. She came with her family to the United States in 1934 and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended private schools and in 1950 graduated from Bryn Mawr College. After two years at St. Anne╒s College, Oxford, on a Fulbright scholarship, she pursued graduate studies in Renaissance intellectual history at Radcliffe College for a year. She taught history at Bryn Mawr in 1953╨1954. In June 1954 she married Charles M. Gray, then a Harvard graduate student and later a professor of history. In that year she resumed her studies at Harvard, from which she received a Ph.D. in 1957. For three years she taught history at Harvard, first as an instructor and in the last year as an assistant professor. During 1960╨1961 she was a research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and in the latter year she joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. She advanced to associate professor in 1964 and shortly afterward became head of the undergraduate history program. Gray remained at Chicago until 1972, taking leaves during that period to serve as a visiting lecturer at Harvard in 1963╨1964, as a fellow in 1966╨1967 and a visiting scholar in 1970╨1971 at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and as a visiting associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1970╨1971. In 1971╨1972 she was a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar. From 1965 to 1970 she edited the Journal of Modern History with her husband. In 1972 she was named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Two years later she became provost of Yale University, a post that had seldom before been held by a non-alumnus (never before by a woman) and that had traditionally been a stepping-stone to the presidency of the university. On the appointment of Kingman Brewster, Jr., as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in May 1977, Professor Gray became acting president of Yale. Before the university╒s search committee arrived at a choice for the presidency, however, she accepted the post of president of the University of Chicago. On assuming that office in July 1978 she became the first woman to head a major American university. She served also at various times on the National Council on the Humanities, with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and as a director of various public and private corporations. She received the Medal of Liberty in 1986 and was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1991. åstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ $ !I !I 9 !I link `
