Dana Foundation Honors Murphy
The Charles A. Dana Foundation of New York has announced the 1989 recipients of its $50,000 Charles A. Dana Awards for Pioneering Achievements in Health and Higher Education.
The foundation’s board of directors named Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, former chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., a special honoree “for forceful and inspired direction in higher education, the arts, and the humanities over more than four decades.”
Susan P. Baker, a public health official, was honored “for imaginative leadership in summoning the scientific community and the nation to combat the tragic toll of death and disability from unintentional injuries.”
Dr. Herbert L. Needleman received the award “for research that reawakened the nation to the threat to millions of children from exposure to lead and for advocacy of action to protect them.”
Educators Colton Johnson and Janet E. Lieberman were honored “for developing a model program that opens the doors to four-year colleges and bachelor’s degrees for students, many of them minorities, who attend community colleges.”
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