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Biographies
of 2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipients
 Rita
Dove–
Poet laureate of the
United States and consultant to the Library of Congress
from 1993 to 1995, Rita Dove is Commonwealth professor of English at the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville.
She has received many honors, including the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
and the 1996 National Humanities Medal.
In 2006, she received the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service with
Anderson Cooper, John Glenn, Mike Nichols and Queen Noor of
Jordan.
Ms. Dove graduated summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and received her
master of fine arts degree from the
University
of Iowa.
She was a Fulbright fellow at the Universität Tübingen in
Germany
in 1974-75. She is author of nine books
of poetry. Her latest collection,
Sonata Mulattica, was just
published this spring by W.W. Norton.
She has also written short stories, a novel, essays, and the play
The Darker Face of the Earth, which
was produced at the Kennedy
Center and at the Royal National
Theatre in London.
For the White House’s 1999-2000 New Year’s celebration, Ms. Dove
contributed — in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John
Williams’s music — a poem to Steven Spielberg’s
The Unfinished Journey.
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 Philip
Glass –
Through his operas, his
symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging
collaborations with other leading artists, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary
impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.
The operas—“Einstein on the Beach,” “Satyagraha,” “Akhnaten,” and “The
Voyage,” and others—play throughout the world’s leading houses.
Mr. Glass has
written music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning
motion pictures such as “The Hours” and Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun.”
He is the first composer to win a
wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, in the concert
hall, in the dance world, in film, and in popular music—simultaneously.
Mr. Glass studied at the University of Chicago,
the Juilliard
School, and in
Aspen
with Darius Milhaud. Dissatisfied
with much of what then passed for modern music, he studied in France on a
Fulbright fellowship with the legendary Nadia Boulanger and worked
closely with the sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar.
In 1967, he formed the Philip
Glass Ensemble. He continues to
appear regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble and to present lectures,
workshops, and solo keyboard performances around the world.
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 John
D. Maguire –
After 28 years
as a university president, the final 17 at Claremont
Graduate
University, John D. Maguire became president emeritus in 1998
and director/senior fellow in the Institute for Democratic Renewal in the
University’s School of Politics
and Economics. He and the Institute
are engaged full-time in racial and social justice community building projects.
He serves on the boards of Union
Theological Seminary, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Tomás
Rivera Policy Institute, and as senior advisor to the Claremont Museum of Art.
He is co-founder of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards and lectures
regularly as a Woodrow Wilson annual visiting fellow.
A colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he is a life director of the
King
Center and served in its
initial year (1968-69) as chair of the board. Dr.
Maguire was a Fulbright fellow in Scotland in 1953 after graduating from Washington and
Lee
University.
He graduated summa cum laude from the Yale
Divinity
School, then completed a
Yale doctorate in theology and psychiatry.
In 1965, while a Wesleyan University faculty member, he was a Fulbright scholar
at the Universität Tübingen in
Germany, engaged in post-doctoral research.
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Ruth
M. Owades –A passionate advocate for liberal arts education
in the business world, Ruth M. Owades is a serial entrepreneur (Gardener’s Eden
and Calyx & Corolla), corporate director, and mentor to young entrepreneurs.
She has served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors of the
Harvard
Business
School
and on the Council on Competitiveness and as a trustee of Scripps College,
where she established a scholarship for low-income students.
She was a Fulbright fellow to France in 1967, studying theatre with playwright
Eugene Ionesco, after graduating from Scripps College.
She received a master’s degree in business administration from
Harvard
Business
School, which has immortalized both of her
groundbreaking companies in case studies taught worldwide.
She was named a Best Entrepreneur by Business Week magazine and has been
recognized as a distinguished alumna by both Harvard
Business
School and Scripps College.
Ms. Owades is a director of Deckers
Outdoor Corp. and Northern Trust Corp. Western Board and previously served as a
director of Armstrong World Industries, Providian Financial Corp., and J. Jill
Group. She and her late husband endowed
a chair in research chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, funding
research on HIV infection and cancer.
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