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10 Facts About Harry Gideonse

1.

Harry David Gideonse was a Dutch-born American economist.

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Harry Gideonse was the second President of Brooklyn College, from 1939 to 1966, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research from 1966 until 1975.

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Harry Gideonse's family emigrated to the United States in 1904, settling in Rochester, New York, where Gidonese attended elementary school.

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At the University of Chicago, Harry Gideonse was an associate professor of economics.

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Harry Gideonse taught economics at Barnard College and Columbia University.

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Harry Gideonse was the second President of Brooklyn College, from 1939 to 1966.

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Harry Gideonse was Chancellor of the New School for Social Research from 1966 until 1975, when he retired.

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Harry Gideonse served on the executive committee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

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Harry Gideonse was chairman of the board for a number of years of Freedom House and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

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Harry Gideonse, who had lived in Great Neck, New York, and in East Setauket, New York, died on March 12,1985, at the age of 83 in the Port Jefferson New York Nursing Home, three weeks after his wife died.