Cyrus Vance (S&K 1939)
Democratic. Politician. Lawyer. Yale University. Scroll and Key.
Trustee of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Yale Urban Institute and the Yale Corporation, and was chairman of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation. Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until 1987, and a member of the United Nations Association and the Trilateral Commission.[2]
Served on the boards of directors of corporations, among them I.B.M., Pan American Airways, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, U.S. Steel and The New York Times.[2]
1988 to 1990 - Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York..[2]
1987 - named to the New York commission on Government Integrity, established to investigate corruption at all levels of government in the state.[2]
1980’s and 1990’s - After his return to private practice, Mr. Vance was repeatedly called back to the public arena to use his quiet negotiating skills on some of the bloodiest conflicts: in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia; in South Africa; and in a disintegrating Yugoslavia. There, he successfully negotiated a cease-fire in Croatia to allow a United Nations peacekeeping force to enter and disarm warring militias.[2]
20 Jan 1977 to 28 Apr 1980 - 57th United States Secretary of State by President Jimmy Carter (Gridiron. Trilateral Commission).
Deputy: Warren Christopher (CFR. Trilateral Commission. Bilderberg.). Preceded by Henry Kissinger (Bohemian). Succeeded Edmund Muskie (CFR. Phi Alpa Delta. Phi Beta Kappa).
Resigned in protest over President Jimmy Carter’s decision to try a military rescue of American hostages in Iran, an action that he considered ill advised and futile… but he had already come to see that President Carter was increasingly rejecting his advice in favor of that of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski.[2]
To those, like Mr. Brzezinski, who referred occasionally to the ”once-dominant WASP elite,” Mr. Vance said: ”The establishment is still alive and reasonably healthy. I think you’ll find the establishment, with its moral force and integrity, will be playing a larger role in the future.”[2]
1975 to 1976 - President of the New York City Bar Association.[2]
1970 to 1972, Served on a committee to investigate police corruption in NYC.[2]
1968 - Sent to Paris as deputy to W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1917) , the chief United States negotiator, who was trying to work out a settlement with the North Vietnamese.[2]
28 Jan 1964 to 30 Jun 1967 - 11th United States Deputy Secretary of Defence, Secretary Robert McNamara (Bohemian) by President Lyndon B. Johnson
5 Jul 1962 to 21 Jan 1964 - 7th United States Secretary of the Army by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon. B. Johnson.
29 Jan 1961 to 30 Jun 1962 - General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Secretary Robert McNamara (Bohemian) by President John F. Kennedy.
1939 - Graduated Yale, Scroll and Key. Classmates included Sargent Shriver (S&K), William Scranton, Stanley Rogers Resor (S&K1939), and William Bundy (S&B1939).
Died 12 Jan 2002, from Not Known. Age 84.
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed
Note: Adopted father was John W. Davis (Freemason. Rockefeller foundation. Council on Foreign Relations and Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed - many Skull and Bones connections.)
George Brooke Roberts Jr. (S&B 1932)
12 Oct 1979 to 8 Sep 1981 - Career Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Guyana) appointed by Secretary Cyrus Vance (S&K1939)
Mar 1978 to Sep 1979 - Career Foreign Service Officer, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (Laos) appointed by Secretary Cyrus Vance (S&K1939)
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Cyrus Vance (S&K 1939)
[2] - NY Times 13 Jan 2002 - Obituary - Cyrus Vance (S&K 939)
[3] - Find a Grave - Cyrus Vance (S&K 1939)
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