Media Advisory
Memorial Service for J. Carter Brown (1934-2002)
Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art
When:
3:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Where:
Washington National Cathedral
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Press Contacts:
To arrange press coverage of the service:
Carrie Tydings, Cathedral Press Office (202) 537-6248
For background information/images:
Deborah Ziska, Gallery Press Office (202) 842-6353
Who:
Eulogists:
Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art
(worked as executive curator and in other posts under Brown, 1976-80,
and succeeded him as the Gallery’s director in 1992)
Dr. Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation, President Emeritus of Brown University (renamed in 1804 in recognition of Nicholas Brown’s contributions)
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton
(Brown was a member of the Committee for the Preservation of the
White House during the Clinton administration)
Reflection:
I.M. Pei, architect
(collaborated with Brown on the award-winning design of the
National Gallery’s East Building)
Scriptural Readings by Brown family members:
Capt. Nicholas Brown, USN (retired), brother;
former director of National Aquarium, Baltimore
Elissa Lucinda Rionda Brown, daughter
Officiant: The Very Reverend Nathan D. Baxter
dean of the National Cathedral
Homily: The Reverend Dr. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University (Brown received his AB, summa cum laude, in 1956 and his MBA there in 1958)
Music: Marvis Martin, soprano; José Simbulan, pianist; Paula Robison, flutist; Members of the Cathedral Choral Society and the Choral Arts Society of Washington
Honorary Ushers: Charles Atherton, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect; Mark Leithauser, Gallery Chief of Design; D. Dodge Thompson, Gallery Chief of Exhibitions; Ambassador F. Hayden Williams, WWII Memorial Site and Design Committee
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