Podcasts about Vartan Gregorian

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My motto: Any time spent with Vahe Gregorian is time well spent. You'll enjoy this hour with the sports columnist for The Kansas City Star as he shares highlights from his 35-year career. He puts us courtside in historic Allen Fieldhouse for the rivalry between Kansas and Missouri. He takes us to the Dominican Republic for the funeral of Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura. Go with Vahe to the home of Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers, who was battling dementia before his death. Head to Australia where Vahe went behind the scenes of an agonizing Olympic loss. Spend time with Tom Watson and George Brett, icons of Kansas City. Hear how that city was galvanized in the past decade by the Royals and Chiefs winning championships. And we give a special nod to Vahe's late father, Vartan Gregorian.   Vahe Gregorian will be one of five journalists enshrined in the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame this weekend at the Final Four in New Orleans. In 2017-18, he was president of the USBWA, which described him as “the ultimate teammate among his colleagues and a role model among his peers.” Gregorian has been sports columnist for The Kansas City Star since 2013 after spending 25 years covering a variety of sports for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has covered 10 Olympics, three World Series, a Super Bowl, 22 Final Fours and multiple college football bowl games since the late 1980s.   In 2017, the Associated Press Sports Editors named Vahe the national winner for column writing for large market newspapers. He earned another top 10 columnist award from the APSE in 2016, and his work was also recognized as part of a reporting team that was named one of the top 10 projects for that year. He was a Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2000, won several Football Writers Association of America awards, and has been named Missouri Sports Writer of the Year multiple times. His work has been published in “The Best American Sports Writing.” He has published two books: one about former Northwestern football coach Gary Barnett, and the other about former Michigan State football coach George Perles.   Gregorian was born in Beirut, Lebanon and raised in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He played varsity football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in English. He earned his master's degree in journalism at Missouri in ‘88. In 2004, he was chosen as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he focused on history and the demise of sportsmanship.   Follow Vahe Gregorian on Twitter: @vgregorian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics discussed in this episode include:John's interesting early history holding both science and music in his own heart and leading to the discovery of his singing voice and a career in opera including starting with Pavarotti. Then he went on to blossom in his and his team's inspirational non-profit work with many universities and fortune 500 companies around the world.John's discussion of the two emotional experiences of his youth - reading Einstein while listening to Chopin. Then, a discussion of his development of a service mission under the remarkable long-term mentorship of Vartan Gregorian starting when the two met while Vartan was heading the New York Public library. That work led to his meeting the interviewer and later doing a Renaissance Center pilot project at the University at Albany, again under Vartan's enthusiastic mentoring and funding.A deeper discussion of the non-profit work and the idea of using music and reflective programing to set the heart and mind in motion, i.e.to generate and integrate ideas.  Or as John puts it in the interview, to awaken the “potential that lives in our imagination, in our intuitions and the knowledge which sleeps within us.” Again, it is this inspiration that we also see happening in students who complement their academic learning in college with direct work experiences. John's team uses this inspiration to create a rebalancing or what is sometimes is called a “positive turbulence” to create a new perspective is highly valuable and it begins by playing with thoughts and ideas.In the last major segment, John talks about the ideas of the new Renaissance Center and what it could do after the pilot program that was supported by the Carnegie Corporation of NY.  He stresses the incorporation of a concert of ideas from Creative Leaps International, and discussed the opportunity to work on a project at UAlbany concerned the mission expanding of high-quality creativity in classroom teaching by faculty.Resources Discussed in this Episode:https://www.asoloartists.org/https://creativeleaps.org/https://www.ccl.org/https://www.carnegie.org/ Music Credits: C'est La Vie by Derek Clegg

As we mentioned last week, here in June, the month of Father's Day, we're talking with folks who were greatly influenced by their fathers. And this week, Father's Day week, appropriately enough, we're chatting with Kansas City Star columnist Vahe Gregorian, whose father Vartan died in mid-April at the age of 87.But what a life he lived. Vartan was born in Iran to Christian Armenian parents and by the time he came to the States in 1956 to attend Stanford, he spoke seven languages. We're going to talk more about his life, but we'll add these distinctions and honors: he taught at multiple universities, was the President at Brown, and also led the New York Public Libraries and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. While there, he helped lead an initiative with other foundations called the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, which made grants to nine countries totaling $440 million over ten years, improving conditions for 4.1 million African students enrolled at 379 universities and colleges. Oh, and there's this: President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Humanities Medal, and President Barack Obama appointed him to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.This will be unlike most of our podcasts but we think it'll be a tremendous blessing as you hear about a great leader who wanted to make a difference for others.Vahe takes a swing at our "Pregame Batting Practice," and then he discusses the influence of his parents, particularly that of his father. LINKS:For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.If you'd like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

In an expanded edition of the Talking Vartan podcast, we commemorate the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in words and music. We will hear remarks by Knights of Vartan Grand Commander Steven Adams and Daughters of Vartan Grand Matron Alice Kalustian. Host and Producer Asbed David Medzorian will talk to author and historian Professor Taner Akcam of Clark University, who will discuss Turkey's continuing denial of the genocide and the reasons for it. We will focus on the life and music of Komitas, including selections of his music and rare recordings of Komitas himself, made in Paris in 1912. We will say farewell to educator, scholar, and humanitarian Dr. Vartan Gregorian, who died on April 15th. We'll recall his November 2019 visit to Boston with Sarah Ignatius, Executive Director of the National Association For Armenian Studies and Research. The new NAASR headquarters in Belmont, Massachusetts is named in honor of Vartan Gregorian. Our program will conclude with a prayer for the souls of the Genocide victims offered by Father Aram Mirzoyan of St. Hovhaness Armenian Church in the Armenian Tavush Province City of Berd.

  This week's Independence Day show features 16-year-old Fez Zafar, who brought Des Moines High School students together for a series of Iftar dinners; Hector Barajas, a deported U.S. Army veteran who's back in California after 14 years in exile; and Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  

The following is a conversation between Vartan Gregorian, the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Denver Frederick, Host of The Business of Giving on AM 970 The Answer in New York City. It is now my pleasure, indeed my honor, to welcome to the show one of the greatest friends that philanthropy and education has ever had. As president and CEO, he oversaw the renaissance of the New York Public Library in the 1980s. He left Brown University in far better shape than he founded where he served as its president through much of the 1990s, and who has been the guiding spirit of the Carnegie Corporation for nearly 20 years. He is Vartan Gregorian, the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Afternoon session of a conference celebrating the enduring legacies of three key events that shaped America's knowledge-based democracy: passage of the Morrill Act, the founding of the National Academy of Sciences, and the founding of the Carnegie libraries. Speakers included James H. Billington, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Vartan Gregorian, Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Carla D. Hayden, Anthony W. Marx, David Nasaw and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Includes a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5598.

Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York and former President of Brown University speaks with Myrna Chase, Dean of Baruch's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, about the personal, practical and societal values of a liberal arts education.

Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York and former President of Brown University speaks with Myrna Chase, Dean of Baruch's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, about the personal, practical and societal values of a liberal arts education.

Dr. Vartan Gregorian discusses the purpose of foundations. The post The Idea and the Uses of a Foundation, Part II appeared first on Richard Heffner's Open Mind Archive.

Dr. Vartan Gregorian discusses the purpose of foundations.

With state budgets strapped, President Obama's proposed economic stimulus plan directs funds to educational institutions. Bill Moyers talks with Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian on the future of public higher education and its role in our democracy.

On the heels of the American drone attacks on suspected terrorist compounds in Pakistan, Bill Moyers Journal takes a closer look at America's history of and current policy on bombing, explores the ethics behind these assaults when civilians become the victims and asks: Does bombing work? Bill Moyers sits down with historian Marilyn Young, author of the forthcoming Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History and former Pentagon official Pierre Sprey, who developed military planes and helped found the military reform movement. And, with state budgets strapped, President Obama's proposed economic stimulus plan directs funds to educational institutions. Bill Moyers talks with Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian on the future of public higher education and its role in our democracy.

Approximately 1,000 students and 50 faculty members and administrative officials participated in the graduate commencement ceremony. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation delivered the keynote address.