Former presidential adviser Ruth Morgenthau dies
wazzzy
Ruth Morgenthau, a scholar who escaped the Nazis as a child and went on
to work as an adviser to three presidents and the United Nations, has
died. She was 75.
Morgenthau suffered from a blood disease, and she died Saturday at
Brigham and Women's Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Morgenthau came to the United States in 1940 with her family who had
left their native Austria in 1938, fleeing the Nazis.
After graduating from Barnard College in New York, she studied in Paris
on a Fulbright scholarship then went on to earn her doctorate from
Oxford University. Morgenthau became an expert on French-speaking West
Africa and later put her international skills to use as a member of the
U.S. delegation to the United Nations.
She worked as political adviser to presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon
Johnson and Jimmy Carter and advised several presidential campaigns,
including those of Michael Dukakis, Bill Bradley and Paul Tsongas.
"I found her to be one of the few academics who had the capacity to
apply their knowledge in a practical way that was applicable for
government decision makers," said Stuart Eizenstat, chief domestic
policy adviser to Carter.
Her own venture into politics was not as successful; she failed in 1988
to win a U.S. House seat in Rhode Island, losing to former Rep.
Claudine Schneider.
She was a professor emeritus at Brandeis University where she chaired
the international politics department. She was also the founding
director of the school's graduate program in international sustainable
development.
"Although she was a scholar she liked to put her ideas into practice,"
her husband, Henry Morgenthau, told The Boston Globe. "She was always
doing something in the public sphere."
MGW
scrawled:
> She was a professor emeritus at Brandeis University
Actually, she was a professor emerita.
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MGW
Statistics means never having to say you're certain.
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Brad Ferguson
<mgw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2006 11:34:45 -0800, "wazzzy" <enter...@gmail.com>
> scrawled:
>
> > She was a professor emeritus at Brandeis University
>
> Actually, she was a professor emerita.
Actually, she was a profestrix emerita.
Nineteenth century, here we come. Ave atque vale.
MGW
<thir...@frXOXed.net> scrawled:
I've seen emerita used in the 21st century but admit to never having
heard profestrix. Just as I'm an alumna, not alumnus, of various
schools.
Brad Ferguson
<mgw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:55:01 -0500, Brad Ferguson
> <thir...@frXOXed.net> scrawled:
>
> > In article <d1u7l2tm6bdodqdg5...@4ax.com>, MGW
> > <mgw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 9 Nov 2006 11:34:45 -0800, "wazzzy" <enter...@gmail.com>
> > > scrawled:
> > >
> > > > She was a professor emeritus at Brandeis University
> > >
> > > Actually, she was a professor emerita.
> >
> >
> > Actually, she was a profestrix emerita.
> >
> > Nineteenth century, here we come. Ave atque vale.
>
> I've seen emerita used in the 21st century but admit to never having
> heard profestrix. Just as I'm an alumna, not alumnus, of various
> schools.
Believe me, I'm not correcting you. I wouldn't presume to do so. If
you google on this, you'll find a loud and long (and completely
useless) debate about the term, whether it's Latin or English, and so
on.
"Professor emerita" is the proper term in English, and "emerita" has
been in use as an English word for a couple of hundred years, so there
you are. I just puked up the Latin term for no good reason.
DGH
Ruth Schachter Morgenthau or Ruth S. Morgenthau.