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Biographies
of 2000 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipients
Arlene Alda ~
Barbara Knowles Debs ~
Richard A. Debs
Arlene Alda
– As an author, photographer and musician, Ms. Alda both
engages and educates her audiences. Her award-winning children’s books, widely
published photographs and essays, and nationally recognized documentary,
Bravo Gloria, encourage viewing the world in new ways. A Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Hunter College, Ms. Alda was selected as a Fulbright scholar to
Germany in 1954. She studied clarinet at the Cologne Conservatory of Music.
Ms. Alda began her diverse and distinguished artistic career as a clarinetist
with the Houston Symphony under Leopold Stokowski.
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Barbara Knowles Debs – An
outstanding teacher and administrator, Mrs. Debs has focused her life work on
the power of the arts to educate. A 1953 Fulbright scholar to Italy, she
studied art history in Pisa and Rome and later earned her doctorate from Harvard
University. Mrs. Debs was President of Manhattanville College, instituting
international studies and English as a Second Language programs, and of the New
York Historical Society, guiding these prominent institutions from difficult
circumstances to renewed success. She serves on the boards of the Brooklyn
Museum of Art, the Foreign Policy Association and the Geraldine Rockefeller
Dodge Foundation, among others.
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Richard A. Debs
– As a Federal Reserve official, an investment banker and a philanthropist, Mr.
Debs acted as a leading, early proponent of internationalism in both the public
and private sectors. He studied international affairs at Cairo University as a
Fulbright scholar in 1952 and earned his law degree from Harvard University and
his doctorate from Princeton University. Mr. Debs was the founding President of
Morgan Stanley International and now serves as an Advisory Director of Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter and as a member of its International Advisory Board.
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