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On March 25th, Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, inducted the Luce Foundation into the Order of Horace B. Silliman, the university’s highest distinction for its supporters. President Ben Malayang III presented the award to Foundation President Michael Gilligan in an elegant ceremony in the newly restored Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. The Luce Auditorium – the largest in the Philippines outside Manila – was completed in 1974 with a major grant from the foundation, and through the United Board the Luce Foundation assisted with its renovation in 2008-2009. Silliman was founded by Presbyterian missionaries in 1901 – in the same period as the Luce family’s missionary work in China – and today is a leading private institution in the country’s Visayas region.
On the same afternoon in New Haven, Yale University hosted a public program, “Henry R. Luce and the 20th Century.” Yale University President Richard C. Levin gave the introduction, and Shelly Kagan, former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics, moderated a discussion between Alan Brinkley and Lance Morrow, authors of two new biographies of Henry Luce scheduled for publication this spring. Kit Luce and Margaret Boles Fitzgerald, Chair, were joined at the event by more than 10 members of the Luce family – as well as a number of the foundation’s previous grantees and current staffers of Yale Daily News. An excerpt of Brinkley’s The Publisher appears in the May 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, describing Harry Luce’s and Briton Hadden’s founding of Time.
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