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INST. OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION / RM. 450
WEDNESDAY, OcT. 25 / 11 A.M.
THANK YOU, DICK KRASNO, HENRY KAUFMAN, FOR THIS
YOUR AWARD. AND I KNOW I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR SICHAN SIV,
WITH FORMER MANAGER OF ASIA AND PACIFIC PROGRAMS,
TO MY ADMINISTRATION. LET ME ALSO SAY IT'S A DELIGHT NOW
BE AMONG THE SUPPORTERS OF THE INSTITUTE
MANY FOREIGN LANDS.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, AND so MANY STUDENTS OF FROM so
- 2 -
LET ME TELL YOU HOW I CAME TO KNOW YOUR
ACHIEVEMENTS, AND TO APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO. BARBARA
AND I WERE RAISING A YOUNG FAMILY IN HOUSTON. WE HAVE
MANY FOND MEMORIES OF THOSE DAYS: A TIME FOR COOKOUTS,
SOFTBALL AND TAIL-GATE PARTIES. BUT AMONG OUR FONDEST
MEMORIES IS THE DELIGHT OF HAVING YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN
FROM so MANY COUNTRIES JOINING US FOR CONVERSATION AND
SUPPER AT OUR HOME.
- 3 -
WE BECAME INVOLVED WITH YOUR INSTITUTE AS A HOST
FAMILY THROUGH A VERY GOOD FRIEND, ALICE PRATT -- A
MEMBER OF YOUR ADVISORY BOARD HEADED BY ANOTHER GOOD
FRIEND FENTRESS BRACEWELL. BUT IT WAS ALICE WHO TAUGHT
US HOW REWARDING IT IS TO SHOW A YOUNG FOREIGN FRIEND
THE WAY THROUGH THE ACADEMIC, BUSINESS AND SOCIAL MAZE
OF A VIBRANT AMERICAN CITY. AND, BECAUSE OF ALICE, WE
LEARNED THAT BY SEEING OUR COUNTRY THROUGH ANOTHER'S
EYES, WE COULD BE TOURISTS AT HOME.
- 4 -
TODAY, AT THE WHITE HOUSE, WHEN BARBARA AND I DINE
WITH FOREIGN VISITORS, OUR GUESTS ARE RARELY STUDENTS.
RATHER, THEY ARE OFTEN FOREIGN LEADERS, PRESIDENTS,
PRIME MINISTERS, FOREIGN SECRETARIES, AND
AMBASSADORS. 11 BUT WE'VE NOTICED SOMETHING THAT MAKES
US THINK BACK TO OUR HOUSTON DAYS: MANY OF OUR FOREIGN
GUESTS ONCE WORKED AND STUDIED IN THE UNITED STATES,
OFTEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF YOUR INSTITUTE. 11 THIS CAN
ONLY BE TO THE BENEFIT OF ALL COUNTRIES.
Davis/Martin
Oct. 18, 1989
Title: Study
Draft: One
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: INST. OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, Rm. 450
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m.
Thank you, Dick Krasno, Henry Kaufman, for this award. And
I guess I should thank you for Sichan Siv, your former manager of
Asian and Pacific programs, now with my Administration. Let me
also say it's a delight to be among the supporters of the
Institute for International Education, and so many students from
so many foreign lands.
Let me tell you how I came to know your achievements, and to
appreciate what you do. In the 1950s Barb and I were raising a
young family in Houston. We have many fond memories of those
days: a time for cookouts, softball and tail-gate parties. But
among our fondest memories is the delight of having young men and
women from so many countries joining us for conversation and
supper at our home.
We became involved with your Institute as a host family
through a very good friend, Alice Pratt -- whose work is now
being carried on in Houston by Fentress Bracewell. But it was
Alice who taught us how much fun it is to show a young foreigner
the way through the academic, business and social maze of a big
American city. And, because of Alice, we learned that by seeing
your country through another's eyes, we could be tourists at
home.
2
Today, at the White House, when Barb and I dine with foreign
visitors, they are rarely students. In fact, they tend to be
presidents, prime ministers and foreign secretaries. But we've
noticed something that makes us think back to our Houston days: a
very large portion of our foreign guests once worked and studied
in the United States, often under the auspices of your
Institute. This can only be to the benefit of all countries.
But you do more than bring the world to America. You open
the cultures of the world to our people as well. Mark Twain said
that "broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot
be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all
one's lifetime."
Thomas Jefferson, our first education president, perfected
such a broad, wholesome and charitable view when he left the
familiar Piedmont of Virginia to represent the American cause in
France. In more recent times, many Americans have had the
liberating experience of living abroad. Certainly, Barbara and I
felt transformed by our China days, a time when we traveled the
dusty roads of Beijing by bicycle. Days we will never forget.
Of course, we learned a lot about the Chinese people. But
most of all, we learned a lot about ourselves. Every American
who lives abroad returns home with a new perspective and deeper
feeling for our native land.
Your Institute promotes this kind of understanding through
249 programs, assisting more than 10,000 people from 155
3
countries every year. Innumerable are the new friendships made;
incalculable is the goodwill generated.
When your organization was founded seventy years ago, there
was a belief that the exchange of students, scholars and
professionals from country to country would promote peace and
understanding. Some regarded that ideal as hopelessly naive.
Some still do.
And it is true that the cynics can point to seventy years of
conflict and suspicion. But I believe they miss the point.
International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all
differences. But they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to
peace as surely as water wears away hard stone.
So I thank you for this award. Yet I can't help but feel I
should be giving you an award, for all you do to promote peace
and understanding. Thank you and God bless you all.
#
#
#
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Davis/Martin
Oct. 18, 1989
Title: Study
Draft: One
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: INST. OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, Rm. 450
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m.
Thank you, Dick Krasno, Henry Kaufman, for this award. And
I guess I should thank you for Sichan Siv, your former manager of
Asian and Pacific programs, now with my Administration. Let me
also say it's a delight to be among the supporters of the
Institute for International Education, and so many students from
so many foreign lands.
Let me tell you how I came to know your achievements, and to
appreciate what you do. In the 1950s, Barb and I were raising a
young family in Houston. We have many fond memories of those
days: a time for cookouts, softball and tail-gate parties. But
among our fondest memories is the delight of having young men and
women from so many countries joining us for conversation and
supper at our home.
We became involved with your Institute as a host family
through a very good friend, Alice Pratt -- whose work is now
being carried on in Houston by Fentress Bracewell. But it was
Alice who taught us how much fun it is to show a young foreigner
the way through the academic, business and social maze of a big
American city. And, because of Alice, we learned that by seeing
your country through another's eyes, we could be tourists at
home.
2
Today, at the White House, when Barb and I dine with foreign
visitors, our guests are rarely students. In fact, they tend to
be presidents, prime ministers and foreign secretaries.
But
we've noticed something that makes us think back to our Houston
days: a very large portion of our foreign guests once worked and
studied in the United States, often under the auspices of your
Institute. This can only be to the benefit of all countries.
But you do more than bring the world to America. You open
the cultures of the world to our people as well. Mark Twain said
that "broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot
be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all
one's lifetime."
Thomas Jefferson, our first education president, perfected
such a broad, wholesome and charitable view when he left the
familiar Piedmont of Virginia to represent the American cause in
France. In more recent times, many Americans have had the
liberating experience of living abroad. Certainly, Barbara and I
felt transformed by our China days, a time when we traveled the
dusty roads of Beijing by bicycle. Days we will never forget.
Of course, we learned a lot about the Chinese people. But
most of all, we learned a lot about ourselves. Every American
who lives abroad returns home with a new perspective and deeper
feeling for our native land.
Your Institute promotes this kind of understanding through
249 programs, assisting more than 10,000 people from 155
3
countries every year. Innumerable are the new friendships made;
incalculable is the goodwill generated.
When your organization was founded seventy years ago, there
was a belief that the exchange of students, scholars and
professionals from country to country would promote peace and
understanding. Some regarded that ideal as hopelessly naive.
Some still do.
And it is true that the cynics can point to seventy years of
conflict and suspicion. But I believe they miss the point.
International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all
differences. But they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to
peace as surely as water wears away hard stone.
So I thank you for this award. Yet I can't help but feel I
should be giving you an award, for all you do to promote peace
and understanding. Thank you and God bless you all.
#
#
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The Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education was born of a vision. It was a
envire.
vision of a world at peace; of people from different nations learning to
understand and appreciate one another's differences as well as similarities;
of men and women pooling their skills and expertise to solve the problems
confronting humanity in the modern era.
Deeply troubled by the events of World War I, Stephen Duggan, Nicholas
Murray Butler and Elihu Root founded the Institute of International Education
in 1919. All three were dedicated internationalists of the post-war era.
Butler and Root, both recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, assisted Andrew
Carnegie in directing the programs of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. It was the Carnegie Endowment that made the initial $30,000 grant to
launch the Institute. Butler, president of Columbia University for many
years, donated the use of a one-room office on Columbia's campus.
Duggan, professor of political science at city College of New York,
refined the Institute's mission and served as its first president for more
than 25 years. From his modest uptown office, he soon had distinguished
scholars and educators shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic, breaking
boundaries with ideas and information. Prior to World War II, Duggan and ITE
Assistant Director Edward R. Murrow helped locate university teaching and
research positions in the United States for scholars fleeing from
Nazi-occupied Europe.
Today, IIE is the largest private international education organization in
the United States. It administers 249 programs that assist more than 10,000
individuals from 155 countries each year. While ties with Europe and other
developed regions remain strong, IIE has focused increasingly on the critical
training and educational needs of Third World nations.
IIE's programs give students, scholars and professionals in diverse
fields such as journalism, energy resource development and human rights an
opportunity to study, teach and conduct research in countries other than their
own. Both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals participate in these efforts.
IIE also serves the general public and the U.S. higher education community
with publications, seminars and workshops, statistical and policy-oriented
research, and information and counseling services.
The Institute's eleven-story world headquarters is located in New York,
across from the United Nations. IIE maintains regional offices in five U.S.
cities and overseas offices in Mexico, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Project management offices ins Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Cairo serve to support
specific ILE-administered AID projects. IIE's services annually reach more
than 225,000 individuals worldwide.
many shall run
to and fro, and
knowledge shall
be increased
Daniel XII,
4,C.800 B.C.
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The Institute works closely with both private and public agencies and
international organizations to promote international educational exchange. It
administers many of its programs through contractual arrangements with
sponsors, such as the United States Information Agency and the Agency for
International Development. The Institute relies increasingly on contributions
from individuals, private foundations and corporations to develop its services
and to respond to emerging educational needs with innovative programs.
The road to international security and prosperity is paved by those who
know and respect the diverse human inhabitants of the world. Through
international educational exchange, IIE builds networks of knowledge, skill
and friendship around the globe.
Participants:
5,000 foreign grantees in academic degree programs in the
United States, 31 in other countries.
2,600 foreign grantees in specialized nondegree programs in
the United States, 120 in other countries.
1,000 U.S. nationals in educational and cultural programs
outside the United States, conducting independent research,
serving as teaching assistants, studying in foreign
institutions.
1,200 technical assistance professionals at international
research centers.
220 children of international employees of sponsoring
corporations.
311 arts professionals and 117 arts organizations affiliated
with IIE's Arts International (AI) Program.
604 accredited U.S. colleges and universities affiliated with
IIE's Educational Associate Program.
Staff and Offices: IIE has 320 staff members in its six U.S. offices and 40
in its offices in Cairo, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
and Zimbabwe.
Volunteers: Same 6,000 volunteers regularly contribute an indispensable range
of services: as campus Fulbright advisers, as mentors to Fulbright grantees,
as members of advisory boards and selection committees, as professional
resources in planning programs, as hosts to foreign students and foreign
leaders and specialists, as organizers of fundraising events, as volunteer
interns in IIE offices, and in providing information on international
education to the public.
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President Bush's involvement with the IIE regional office in Houston:
As a host family for IIE's llouston Office in the 1950s, President and Mrs.
Bush helped ensure that foreign students studying in colleges and universities
in the area received a warm welcome to Houston--host families invite students
to dinner, introduce them to the local community, bring them as guests to
special events, and in general help the students come to know America outside
the classroom.
In addition, upon the return of President and Mrs. Bush from China, Mrs. Bush
spoke to the consular women's group in Houston to help IIE establish an
emergency loan fund for international students.
Upon the retirement of Mrs. Alice Reynolds Pratt, who had been Director of
IIE/Nouston for over thirty years, President Bush wrote her a congratulatory
letter which reads, in part:
As a former IIE host family, we know first hand of your work on behalf of
foreign students and recognize the importance of insuring that these
future leaders be exposed to all facet of American society. Your efforts
on behalf of international awareness in Houston and throughout the
southern region have benefitted not just our international visitors;
instead, through the Festival of Nations, IIE seminars and guest speakers
have contributed to the education of the entire community. (January 13,
1988)
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ACHIEVEMENTS
OF THE PROGRAM
Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Scholarships, December 1986:
Forty Years: The Fulbright Program 1946-1986
$ was noted earlier, the success of the
In part, Senator Fulbright's ambition was to widen the
Fulbright Program is difficult to measure,
world's intelligence. but he also held a much more
but also difficult to deny. At one point,
extravagant ambition- protect the world from self-
Senator Fulbright commented that the purpose of the
destruction. The Senator had holocaust in mind. In his eyes
program was simply "to acquaint Americans with the world
were the European death camps and Hiroshima and
as It Is and to acquaint students and scholars from many
Nagasake. Fulbright countered these Images of
lands with America as It is-not as we wish it were or as we
extermination with the Fulbrights-an odd corrective,
might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which
don't you think? Students from all over the world coming
by my reckoning Is an 'Image' of which no American need
to America. students from America going all over the
be ashamed." Since the program began, more than 162,000
world, and doing what? Intensively studying noun
people-about 106,000 foreigners and over 56,000
declensions in Burma, or flute manufacture In Senegal.
Americans-have been afforded at least the opportunity to
How were such esoteric pursuits to keep the world from
become well acquainted with another culture and society
blowing apart?
and to develop the empathy that this acquaintance will
Then picture a selection of former Fulbright scholars
usually bring.
and say if you can how such a varied crowd could go
But to what end is this self-evidently valuable
about preserving the planet. Harvard's president Derek
empathy? Roger Rosenblatt, Time magazine essayist and
Bok, University of Chicago's president Hanna Gray. A group
former Fulbright student. described it this way In a 40th
of Nobel Prize-winning economists-Wassity Leontief,
anniversary tribute to the Senator:
Paul Samuelson, Milton Friedman. A group of Nobel Prize-
to
Balloon
Highs
ather Apparastic
int prom
Move
An exchange teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, taught American history and ourrent ovents In a Berlin
14 school (1956).
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Participants, U.S. and Foreign, 1949-1986
1940
1850
1951
1952
1983
1954
More than 100 Japaness Fulbright alumni took a
1968
1984 "sentimental Journey," during which they
revisited the American college campuses where
1856
they had been Fuibright students. Here, Dalauke
1957
Yamauchi, president of Mainichi Shimbun
newspaper, Yoshie Okawara, then Japan's
1958
Ambassador to the United States, and Elmatsu
1950
Takakuwa, Diet member, share a light mement with
U.S. Senator Spark Matsunage, second from left.
1960
1881
winning scientists-Hans Bethe, Joshua Lederberg. Emillo
Segre. Historians-Oscar Handlin, C. Vann Woodward,
1962
Henry Steele Commager, Jim Billington. Writers-Alfred
1963
Kazin, Joseph Heller, John Updike, Eudora Welty.
1864
Composers-Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Roger Sessions.
1265
Actors-John Lithgow, Stacy Keach. A Librarian of
1988
Congress and historian, Dan Boorstin: a Senator, Daniel
Patrick Moynthan; a voice. Anna Moffo.
1997
Fuibrights all and a remarkable lot. But would you
1968
say they kept the world intact? of course one must
1880
concede that the world has stayed Intact these 40 years,
1970
so no one can prove exactly that the Fulbright program did
1971
not do the trick.
1972
Foreign Alumni
1973
Key
Perhaps the connection to improved International relations
1874
D.S. perticipanta 55.401
is clearer when one examines foreign alumni of the Fulbright
1975
Foreign participants 106,239
Program. An academic career leads more often In other
Total participants 162,640
1978
countries than in the United States to preferment In politics
or the civil service, so It Is not surprising that large
1977
numbers of foreign participants have gone on to key roles in
1978
their governments. These Include one head of
1970
government-the current Prime Minister of Sweden, Ingvar
1830
Carlsson, who did graduate studies In economics and
1881
polítical science at Northwestern University in 1960. Dozens
of former and current cabinet ministers are Fulbrighters,
1863
Including the current Minister of Defense in Belgium, the
1963
Minister of Foreign Affairs in Indonesia, and the Minister of
1934
Finance In Colombia. Also among the ranks of Fulbrighters
1985
are at least 40 former and current members of various
1889
parliaments, ten current Supreme Court justices, and dozens
of former and current ambassadors, Including the New
1987
Zealand Ambassador to the United States, a former prime
o
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
8000
minister of his country.
A look at alumni of one country shows the breadth of
president of one of the nation's top five dailies to numerous
the Fulbright Program's impact. In Japan, the list of
reporters, columnists and commentators.
prominent former grantees includes seven Diet members;
Moving beyond the self-evident benefits, professional
34 active ambassadors; the administrative vice presidents of
and personal, that a Fulbright award brings to an individual,
the ministries of finance, foreign affairs, education, and
It can certainly be said that the Fulbright Program has
justice: the recently retired chief justice of the Supreme
contributed to the expansion of human knowledge. This has
Court and three current justices; the presidents of 27
always been highly dependent on the opportunities creative
universities; and more than 100 senior executives of major
people have to broaden their experiences while in contact
business corporations. In addition, many American
with-ethers who share their intellectual interests. The
companies in Japan have Fulbrighters as their chief
Fuibright Program has enabled thousands of gifted young
executives. In the media, Fulbright alumni range from the
scholars to do this on an International scale.
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Participants by Category of Grant, 1949-1986
institutes, departments, programs. and courses throughout
the world. All told, universities in more than one hundred
Students
countries have American studies offerings today. The
Foreign
U.S.
program's sponsorship of American studies in the Third
60,236
23,698
World has been especially effective in creating cadres of
"Americanists, who are raising the level of academic
Teachers
competence about the United States in the developing
Foreign
0.5.
17,999
10,487
countries.
Second, the program has successfully fostered
Lecturers
institutional relationships between American and foreign
Foreign U.S.
universities. Both research and teaching in the United
5,278
14,816
Total Foreign 105,239
States and abroad have benefited from these networks, and,
Research Scholars
Total U.S. 56,401
on occasion, ties that began with Fulbright grants have
Total Qrantees 162,640
Foreign U.S.
blossomed into formal agreements on sharing resources,
19,792 7,400
developing joint research projects, or sponsoring regular
Other (Practical Experience a Training)
exchanges of faculty and students. Finally, the Fulbright
Program has powerfully reinforced efforts to add an
Foreign
1,958
international dimension to U.S. higher education curricula.
Scholars (1978-1986)
Third, the program has expanded the Influence of the
Hubert M. Humphrey
American model of higher education on foreign university
Foreign
976
systems. Key American educational concepts, such as
interdisciplinary collaboration and methods of university
administration, have penetrated to many parts of the world
through exchange and training programs, of which the
Fulbright is sometimes only a small, but often quite a
ut, perhaps most importantly for the Ameri-
can taxpayer, who ultimately funds the
bulk of the Fulbright Program, there are
tangible benefits to U.S. national interests.
Though these benefits are In some sense
political, they are clearly not designed to
serve the immediate interests of a given administration or
policy, but rather are cumulative and long-term In their
effect.
First. the program has done much to build our
knowledge of foreign peoples and languages, and thus to
contribute to an improved Intellectual context for public
policy debates in the United States. It has also improved the
quality of foreign schotarship about the culture, history,
and government of the United States Strengthening
Americans' familiarity with other lands and deepening
foreign scholarship about the culture, history, and
An American Fuibright student consults with a
government of the United States are perhaps the two,
Beigien composer during his studies at the electronic
activities most directly supportive of the program's mandate
muslo laboratory of the Conservatoire Royal de
to Increase mutual understanding. This is true even for
Musique de Liege (1973).
those Fulbrighters who have studied or taught abroad
without specializing in language or area studies, but with
the opportunity to develop some understanding of other
countries as a hyproduct of their main grant objective. The
resulting pool of knowledge has enriched our schools,
businesses, and the media, as well as the entire foreign
affairs community.
The program's traditional emphasis on foreign area
studies has been matched by the encouragement of
American studies by overseas students. Approximately 20
percent of the grants in any given year are likely to be for
persons who will study, teach, or do research in that
discipline. Over the years, this continuing support for
Then Mayor Willy Brandt welcomes American
16 American studies has provided the underpinnings for
Fulbright scholars to West Berlin (1962).
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SELECTED
AMERICAN ALUMNI OF THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM
(*country and date not available)
College Presidents
Other Academics
Mortimer Appley
Cermany. 1973-74
Daniel Aeron
United Kingdom, 1968-69
Clark University
Harvard University
Dorek Bok
France. 1954-55
Walter Berns
France, 1965
Harvard University
American Enterprise Institute
Edward Bloustein
United Kingdom. 1950-51
Emest Boyer
India, 1984:
Rutgers University
President, Camegie Foundation for
Henna H. Gray
United Kingdom. 1950-52
the Advancement of Teaching
University of Chicago
Marshall Goldmen
USSR, 1977-78
John W. Ocwaid
Netherlands, 1953-54
Harvard University
Pennsylvania State University
Leo Marx
United Kingdom, 1956
Frank H.T. Rhodes
United Kingdom Scholar
M.I.T.
France. 1955
Comell University
to the United States. 1950-51
Peter Viereck
Italy, 1955
John R. Sliber
Germany. 1959-60
Mount Molyoke College
Boston University
Aaron Wildavsky
Austria, 1954
University of California. Berkeley
Economists
Helen Vendier
Andrew Brimmer
India. 1951-52
Beiglum. 1954-35
Brimmer and Company, Washington
Harvard University
Former member. Federal Reserve Board
Journalists
Martin Feldatein
United Kingdom, 1961
Fox Butterfield
Taiwan, 1961
Harvard University
The New York Times
Milton Friedman
United Kingdom. 1953-54
Barbara Crossette
India
Hoover Institute
The New York Times
Nobel Prize-1976
Georgia Anne Geyer
Austria, 1956-57
Wassity Leonties
Syndicated columnist
New York University
Nobel Prize-1973
Frederick Graham
United Kingdom, 1959-50
CBS News
Franco Modigiani
Italy, 1955
M.I.T.
Margaret Greenfield
United Kingdom: 1952-53
Nobel Prize-1985
The Washington Past
Paul Samuelson
Lectures in Asia
Norman Podhoretz
United Kingdom, 1950-31
M.I.T.
1972-73
Editor, Commentary
Nobel Prize-1970
Roger Recemblatt
Ireland, 1965
James M. Buchanan
Italy
Time Magazine
George Mason University
Nobel Prize-1985
Scientists
Hans Bethe
United Kingdom, 1955-56
Historians
Nobel-Prize, physics-1967
James H. Billington
Finland, 1960
Director. Woodrow Wilson
Joshua Lederberg
Australia. 1957-58
Nobel Prize, medicine-1958
International Center for Scholars
Daniel Boorstin
Emillo Segre
Italy, 1950-51
Italy, 1950-51
Mobel Prize, physics-1959
Librarian of Congress
(
Japan, 1957
Charles Townes
Hanry Steale Commager
France. 1955-56
Amherst College
Nobel Prize, physics-1964
Japan, 1956-57
Lectures in Europe, 1972-73
John Hope Franklin
Australia, 1960-61
James Watson
National Humanities Center
Lectures in tatin
Argentina, 1986
Nobel Prize, medicina-1962
North Carolina
America. Asia. 1972-73
ORDER Handlin
Realyn Yalow
France, 1954-55
Nobel Prize, medicine-1977
Harvard University
Australia. 1981-82
Leon F. Litwaok
Soviet Union. 1980
Writers
University of California, Berkeley
Renate Adler
France, 1960
William McNelli
United Kingdom, 1950-51
John Achbery
Prance. 1953
University of Chicago
Robert Bly
o, Vann Woodward
Norway. 1936
United Kingdom. 1954-56
Emeritus. Tale University
Brazil, 1969-70
Paul Fussell
Gennany 1957-58
Joseph Heller
Sociologists
United Kingdom. 1949-50
Rebert Bellsh
Alfred Kazin
Japan, 1930
France. 1930
University of California, Berkeley
Onlway Kinnell
France, 1978-79
Peter Berger
Germany. 1964
Scott Momaday
USSR. 1973-74
Boston University
Wallsce Stegner
Greece. 1963
Nathan Clazer
India. 1983
Peter Taylor
Harvard University
France, 1935
John Updike
Seymour Martin Lipset
Lectures in Africa, 1972-73
Hoover Institute
Eudora Walty
United Kingdom, 1954
William H. Whyte
Fena. 1961
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Music
Theater
Dominick Argento
Italy, 1951-52
Michael Moriurty
United Kingdom. 1964
Composer
Actor
Aaron Copland
Italy, 1949
Stacy Keach
United Kingdom, 1964-65
Composer
Actor
George Crumb
Germany, 1853
John Lithgow
United Kingdom
Composer
Actor
Philip Glass
France
lersel Horevits
Composer
Playwright
George Rochberg
Italy 1950-51
William Ball
United Kingdom, 1953-54
Composer
Director of American Conservatory
Theater, San Francisco. California
Ned Rorem
France, 1951-52
Composer
Arvin Brown
United Kingdom, 1961-62
Roger Sessions
Italy, 1951-52
Director of the Long Wharf Theater
New Haven, Connecticut
Composer
Robert Brustein
Virgil Thomson
United Kingdom. 1953-35
Director of the American Repertory
Composer
Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lorin Massel
Austria
Conductor
Government
Evelyn Lear
Germany, 1957-58
Michael Armacost
Cermany, 1958
Singer
Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs
Anna Motto
Singer
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
United Kingdom, 1957.58
United States Senator
Art
Donald Pease
Date Chinuly
Italy
United States Congressman
Glassmaker
3. Dillon Ripley
India, 1950
Ada Louise Huxtable
Italy. 1950, 1952
Former Head of the
Pulitzer Prize for
Smithsonian Institution
architecture criticism
Walt Rostow
India, 1983
Milton Glaser
Italy: 1952-53
Former foreign policy advisor,
Graphic Designer
currently Professor at the
Mancy Graves
France, 1964-65
University of Texas
Painter
Herrison H. Schmitt
Norway. 1957-58
Former astronaut and
Peter Marxis
Italy. 1973-74
United States Senator
Director,
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Philip Pearletein
Italy, 1958-59
Painter
Richard Serve
Italy, 1965-66
Sculptor
World. Fulbrighters who come to the United States to study
social sciences are Introduced to empirical research
techniques and exposed to the nondoctrinalre approach that
has generally characterized U.S. higher education in that
fleld. The experience serves to challenge the Marxist
orientation in social sciences that is prevalent in many
countries today. No political litmus test is applied to
applicants, but the Fulbright experience provides the
opportunity for the foreign student to become professionally
conversant with a different body of thought in personally
rewarding circumstances, at a time when the student is able
In 1978, Arthur Dudden, then president of the
to make first-hand observations about the good and bad
Fulbright Alumni Association, presented membership
features of American society.
certificates to Senators Harrison Schmitt and
Fifth, the program has provided an opportunity for
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both of whom studied in
future U.S. and foreign leaders to forge long-lasting bonds of
Europe under the Program during the 1950s.
friendship. This is perhaps the most subjective and
crucial, part. In fact, the personal involvement of Fulbright
unmeasurable goal of the program, but many individual
alumni in the administration of higher education overseas
Fulbrighters would rate It as the most important. The
has often been disproportionate to their numbers.
network of friendships that each participant forms often
Fourth, the program has been instrumental In
becomes an important link between the personal and
Introducing American concepts and methodology In the
professional lives of that Individual and those whom he or
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Foreign Alumni of the Fulbright Program
Foreign alumni of the Fulbright Program often become leaders in their own
countries. An informal survey reveals that such alumni include:
Thirty former and current Cabinet-level officials
Forty former and current members of national legislative bodies
Ten Supreme
Court justices
Sixty-seven former and current university presidents and rectors
Thirty-two former and current ambassadors
Former prime minister of Egypt Abdel Aziz Hagazy and the current prime
minister of Sweden, Ingvar Carlsson
Individual Country Facts:
One of every six Austrian university professors is a Fulbright alumnus.
In Chile, Jorge Edwards, one of the country's leading novelists, Nicanor
Parra, Chile's "foremost living poet," and Juan Pablo Isquierdo, the conductor
of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago, are all former Fulbrighters.
At the University of Jordan, Fulbright alumni hold the positions of dean
of agriculture, dean of law and dean of students. Alumni are also professors
in the departments of physics, sociology, public administration, and medicine.
Two Dutch Nobel Prizewinners (in physics and economics), the chairman of
the Human Rights Commission, and two foreign correspondents for the country's
most prestigious daily newspaper are Fulbrighters.
Singaporean alumni of the Program include: the current ambassador to the
United States; the head of the political science department at the University
of Singapore; two members of Parliament; the top civil servants in four
ministries; the chairman of the Economic Development Board, the chief
executive officer of the Trade and Development Board; and the director of
planning for the Ministry of National Development.
French writers Eugene Ionesco, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute
have all been Fulbrighters. The French Academy of Sciences and the French
Academy of Medicine have two members each who held Fulbright grants.
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6 In the Ivory Coast, the rector of the University of Abidjan, the dean of
its faculty of medicine and the dean of its faculty of science--all former
party. Fulbright research grantees--are now important members of the country's ruling
. In Colombia, Fulbrighters hold management positions with such companies
as Burroughs Colombia, the Boliver Insurance Company, the Anglo Colombiano
Bank, Cinefoto, and the Banco de la Republica.
. The mayor of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, studied public administration in
the United States in 1964 under a Fulbright grant. The director of the Rubber
Research Institute, who is also chairman of the Bank Simpanan Nasional
Malaysia, studied agricultural economics the same year.
In addition to the managing director of Norway's largest bank, the
president and executive vice-president of the Norwagian State Oil Company, and
many prominent professors and journalists, the roster of Norwegian alumni
includes the Bishop of Oslo, an internationally known neurologist and
discoverer of Refsum's Disease, one of Norway's most popular and prolific
authors, and a leading actor who studied at Columbia's School of Theater Arts
in 1958-59.
For further information contact:
Office of Public Liaison
Lois Herrmann or Lesley Vossen
United States Information Agency
301 - 4th Street S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20547
(202) 485-2355
7643E
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