Dr. Gregorian reestablished the library “as an intellectual center, magnet — and jewel,” Library Journal noted in 1988. But Dr. Gregorian grew frustrated by campus politics, and he had no patience for faculty pettiness or backbiting. She “played an entrancing Joplin ragtime,” Dr. Gregorian once told the New Yorker. He wanted — and was widely expected — to succeed Penn President Martin Meyerson when he resigned in 1981. Dr. Gregorian received the news on his car radio; stung, he abruptly resigned.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2021 19:50 UTC