OPEN STACKS | #55 Biblio-files: Co-op Legends - Hanna Holborn Gray
This week on Open Stacks, the second episode of our occasional Biblio-files series, featuring Co-op friends and legends, with professor emerita and former University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray.
Gray coaching UChicago football players for a charity Monsters of the Midway competition against the Chicago Bears, 1992. (University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)
Upon her appointment as president of University of Chicago, Gray was profiled by none other than... People Magazine! From their archives:
Hanna Gray loves the city of Chicago and back in the early ’60s worked as a precinct captain in the Daley machine. She cheers nearly as ardently for the Chicago Bears as she does for her own bookish Maroons. “Marshall Field’s is a cathedral to her,” says her brother, Fred Holborn, now a lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “She does all her shopping there.”
But Hanna Gray reserves quite special affection for 165 acres on the city’s South Side, the University of Chicago campus—from its unpretentious football field to its magnificent library. She has spent her entire life on one campus or another. “The university is not an ivory tower,” she insists. “It is the real world too.”
Gray with her husband Charles, 1992. (University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)
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Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father...