John Brandemas
John Brademas, President Emeritus of New York University, was NYU President
from 1981 to 1992. During that time Dr. Brademas led the transition of
NYU from a regional commuter school to a national and
international residential research university. In 1984 he initiated a
fundraising campaign that produced a total of $1 billion in ten years.
Said the New York Times, "A Decade and a Billion Dollars Put New
York University in [the] First Rank."
Before coming to New York, Dr. Brademas served as United
States Representative in Congress from Indiana's Third District for twenty-two
years (1959-81), the last four as House Majority Whip. While in Congress
he was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor where he played
a leading role in writing most of the Federal legislation enacted during
that time concerning schools, colleges and universities; services for
the elderly and the handicapped; libraries and museums; the arts and humanities.
From 1994 through 2001, Dr. Brademas served, by appointment
of President Clinton, as Chairman of the President's Committee on the
Arts and the Humanities. He is also Chairman of the American Ditchley
Foundation, a Governor of the Ditchley Foundations and is former Chairman
of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Co-sponsor of the 1965 legislation creating the National
Endowments for the Arts (NEA) and the Humanities (NEH), Dr. Brademas for
ten years chaired the Congressional subcommittee with jurisdiction over
them. He was chief House sponsor of the Arts, Humanities and Cultural
Affairs Act; Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act; Museum Services Act; Library
Services and Construction Act; National Commission on Libraries and Information
Services Act; Education for All Handicapped Children Act; Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Education Act; and International Education Act.
He was also a major co-author of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965; the Higher Education Acts of 1972 and 1976, which
focused on student aid; and author of the measures creating the National
Institute of Education and National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research.
He was chief House author of the Presidential Recordings
and Materials Preservation Act of 1974, which assured ownership by the
Federal government of the tapes and papers of the Nixon Presidency.
In 1990 he co-chaired the bipartisan Independent Commission,
mandated by Congress to review the grant-making procedures of the NEA.
Dr. Brademas has served on a number of boards and national
commissions on subjects ranging from the arts to higher education, foreign
policy, jobs and small business, historic documents and records, and science,
technology and government.
He is a founding director of the Center for Democracy and
Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, headquartered in Salonika, Greece.
He serves on the boards of Americans for the Arts, Center
for National Policy, The Spanish Institute, InsurBanc, Kos Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., Loews Corporation, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
(USA), Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage and New York
University.
He is a member of the Committee on Economic Development,
Council on Foreign Relations, Council on the United States and Spain,
U.S.-Japan Foundation and the National and International Advisory Councils
of Transparency International, the American-European Community Association
(USA) and is a trustee of the World Conference on Religion and Peace.
Former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, Dr. Brademas also served on the boards of The Aspen Institute,
Overseers of Harvard, New York Stock Exchange, Rockefeller Foundation
and the University of Notre Dame as well as on the Central Committee of
the World Council of Churches and The Trilateral Commission.
He is a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and a member of the National Academy of Education (US), the Academy of
Athens, National Academy of Education of Argentina and The European Academy
of Sciences and Arts.
In 1983, as president of New York University, Dr. Brademas
awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree to His Majesty, King Juan Carlos
I of Spain.
In 1997, in the presence of His Majesty and Queen Sofνa
of Spain and the First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Dr. Brademas announced the establishment of the King Juan Carlos I of
Spain Center at New York University. He is President of the Foundation
established in Spain to support the Center; His Majesty is Honorary President.
In 1984 Dr. Brademas received the Annual Gold Medal of The
Spanish Institute; in 1993 was named a "Friend of Barcelona"
by then Mayor Pasqual Maragall; and in 1997 was decorated by the Minister
of Education and Culture of Spain, Esperanza Aguirre, with the Gran Cruz
de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio.
Among the other centers established at NYU during Dr. Brademas'
presidency are the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, Skirball Department of
Hebrew and Judaic Studies and The Center for Japan-U.S. Business &
Economic Studies.
A graduate of Harvard, B.A. magna cum laude and of Oxford
University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and from which he received his
Ph.D., Dr. Brademas has been awarded honorary degrees by 52 colleges and
universities, most recently by Oxford University. He is an Honorary Fellow
of Brasenose College, his college at Oxford. He has also received the
annual Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts of the American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Born in Mishawaka, Indiana, on March 2, 1927, Dr. Brademas
graduated from South Bend Central High School in 1945. He served in the
US Navy in 1945-46. In 1955-56 he was Executive Assistant to Adlai E.
Stevenson in charge of research on issues during the 1956 presidential
campaign. Prior to his election to Congress, he was (1957-58) Assistant
Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Dr. Brademas is author of Anarcosindicalismo y revoluciσn
en Espana, 1930-37, published in Barcelona by Ariel in 1974; of Washington,
D.C. to Washington Square (New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986);
and, with Lynne P. Brown, of The Politics of Education: Conflict and Consensus
on Capitol Hill, published in 1987 by the University of Oklahoma Press.
He is married to Mary Ellen Brademas, a physician
in private practice in New York City. Dr. Brademas, a graduate of the
Georgetown University School of Medicine, is a member of the Department
of Dermatology of the NYU Medical Center and former chief of Dermatology
at St. Vincent's Hospital
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