HAVERFORD ALUM IS AMONG NEW FELLOWS
OF THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Haverford College alumnus, John Carroll ’63
is among the newly elected Fellows of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. In announcing its new Fellows and Foreign
Honorary Members on Monday, (May 5), the Academy noted that
this year’s new members include Kofi Annan, Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Donald Glaser, and William Gates, Sr., co-chair of
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Carroll, who is the executive
vice president and editor of the Los Angeles Times,
is one of two journalists, along with Walter Cronkite, to be
selected this year.
Founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots
“to cultivate every art and science which may tend to
advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free,
independent, and virtuous people,” the Academy has elected
“…the finest minds and most influential leaders
from each generation.”
Carroll, who has been at the LA Times since 2000, began
his career as a state staff reporter for the Providence, Rhode
Island Journal-Bulletin the year he graduated in English
with honors from Haverford. Following two years of service in
the U.S. Army, he joined the Baltimore Sun in 1966
where he covered local news, and later became the paper’s
correspondent in Vietnam, the Middle East and at the White House.
From 1972 to 1979, he served in several editorial positions
at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and throughout the 1980s,
he served in a number of executive positions at the Herald-Leader
in Lexington, Kentucky. During his editorship, both papers received
Pulitzers.
Carroll returned to the Sun
in 1991 as editor, was named to the Pulitzer Prize board in
1994, and became vice president of Times Mirror in 1998.
