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• A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
• As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
• Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
• I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
• I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
• I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
• I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
• I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
• It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
• Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
David Rockefeller Career Highlights
1969-81 - Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank
1977-91 - Founder and North American Chairman
1954 - U.S. founding member, life member, and member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group
1979-88 - Founding Chairman of the Partnership for New York City
1956-64 - Board Director, B. F. Goodrich & Co.
1948 - Chairman/Chairman Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art
1963 - Founder and Chairman/Honorary Chairman of the Council of the Americas
1950-75 - Honorary Chairman and Life Trustee of The Rockefeller University
1947-62 - Trustee/Life Trustee of the University of Chicago
1954-60 - President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Board of Overseers
1961-75 - Chairman, Chase International Investment Corporation
1992 - Leading member of the Russian-American Bankers Forum
1971-78 - Director of the New York Clearing House
1965 - Founder and Chairman of the Center for Inter-American Relations
1967 - Co-founder of The Business Committee for the Arts
1961 - Board member of the Commerce Committee for the Alliance for Progress
1981 - Member of Reagan's President's Commission on Executive Exchange
1964-65 - Founding member/Honorary member of the Commission on White House Fellows
1947-60 - Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1964-68 - Founder and Chairman of the International Executive Service Corps
1981 - Trustee of Historic Hudson Valley
1983-95 - Chairman, The Rockefeller Group Inc.
1985-92 - Chairman, Rockefeller Center Properties Inc.
1940 - Co-founder and Advisory Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
1967 - Co-founder and Honorary Trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund
1989 - Founder of the David Rockefeller Fund
2006 - Founded and funded the David Rockefeller Global Development Fund
1994 - Co-founded, funded and on the Advisory Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1965 - Cultural adjunct of the Council of the Americas
1960-65 - Punta Alegre Sugar Corp., The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Bibliography
2002 - Memoirs, David Rockefeller, New York: Random House
1971 - David: Report on a Rockefeller, William Hoffman, New York: Lyle Stuart
Awards
1998 - Presidential Medal of Freedom
1945 - U.S. Legion of Merit
1945 - U.S. Legion of Honor
1945 - U.S. Army Commendation Ribbon
1974 - Charles Evans Hughes award NCCJ,
1999 - George C. Marshall Foundation Award
2001 - Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
1970 - C. Walter Nichols Award, New York University
1968 - Medal of Honor for City Planning, American Institute of Architects
1953 - World Brotherhood Award, Jewish Theological Seminary
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