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Institute for advanced Study
The leaders ot the Institute believe that an institutiiin such as this one must
seek to improve all levels of education whenever possible. In mathematics edu-
cation, the Institute for Advanced Study in 1993 assumed the institutional
responsibility for the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), which was
begun, and is still led by, some of this nation's most esteemed mathematicians.
As a life-long proponent of responsibility for educational outreach on the part
of our major institutions, I am exceedingly pleased by the Institute's sponsorship
of PCMI and am only concerned about the funding challenges that it has
encountered. The Summer Session of PCMI is an exciting revelation for high
school teachers, who in the course of the program come to understand the vital-
ity of current mathematical research. Likewise, PCMI is of great importance for
research mathematicians, who develop a better understanding of the complex
issues involved in teaching mathematics. We are fortunate to have the vision
and wisdom of our Director and mathematician, Phillip Griffiths, and also that
of the PCMI Oversight Board and Steering Committee, as the Institute pursues
this program which integrates mathematics research and education.
Another individual I would like to mention is Albert Hirschman, who, in 1974,
was the second professor appointed to the Faculty of the School of Social Science.
Albert Hirschman has made exceptional contributions to our understanding of
international economics and to the related areas of political economy and the his-
tory of economic thought. 1 am very pleased that the Institute is acting to recog-
nize Albert's legacy through the establishment ot a permanent place for the field
of economics at the Institute by creating the Albert O. Hirschman Chair and
Memberships in Economics. The Professor and Members who hold these posi-
tions will seek to perpetuate the original thinking which makes Albert
Hirschman's presence at the Institute so fruitful for scholarship and for the world.
The Institute was fortunate this year to have the energy and dedication of new
Trustees Martin Chooljian and Immanuel Kohn. Mr. Chooljian is the President of
CH Capital Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey. He was formerly the President of
Penn Corporation, of which he was a founder, and the Treasurer of Litton Industries.
Mr. Chooljian has had a life-long interest in physics, and for several years he and his
wife, Helen, have sponsored a visiting Member in the School of Natural Sciences.
Mr. Chooljian received both his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University.
Mr. Kohn is Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Cahill,
Gordon & Reindel, New York, and is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale
Law School. With his wife. Vera, Mr. Kohn has been an active member of the
Friends of the Institute for many years. The Kohns have been generous in their
support of the School of Historical Studies, of which Mr. Kohn's father, Hans
Kohn, was a visiting Member in 1948 and again in 1995.
A Trustee of the Institute who has served this institution so well for the past five
years and whom we will miss tremendously is Malvin Ruderman, Centennial
Professor of Physics at Columbia University. In the five years he served as the
Academic Trustee for the School of Natural Sciences, Professor Ruderman clar-
ified highly complex scientific concepts and contributed notably to ihc tliscus-
sions of the Board on all issues.
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