Person:James Cleveland (36)

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Harlan Cleveland (January 19, 1918 – May 30, 2008) was an American diplomat, educator, and author. He served as Lyndon B. Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965. He was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s, and Founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Cleveland also served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961.

He was born in New York City to Stanley Matthews Cleveland and Marian Van Buren. His siblings were Harold van Buren Cleveland, an economist, Anne Cleveland White, an artist, and Stanley Cleveland, a diplomat. He attended Phillips Andover Academy and graduated from Princeton University in 1938. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the late 1930s. He was an early advocate and practitioner of online education, teaching courses for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) and Connected Education in the 1980s and early 1990s.

During the 1980s Cleveland was elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS) and a member of the Club of Rome and served actively in both organization for more than a quarter century. He served as president of the World Academy of Art Science (1990–1998) and remained a member of the board of trustees until his death in 2008. After participating in the final meeting of the International Commission on Peace & Food (ICPF) at the Carter Presidential Center in October 1993, Cleveland released ICPF’s report to the UN entitled Uncommon Opportunities: Agenda for Peace & Equitable Development at the Minneapolis General Assembly in October 1994 and then served as chairman of the commission’s successor organization International Center for Peace and Development in California through the rest of his lifetime. He also represented both WAAS and ICPD at the 10th anniversary conference of ICPF in Delhi in October 2004. During this period, the academy took up a number of the research programs initiated by ICPF, including its work on nuclear abolition, cooperative security, employment and theory of social development.

He authored twelve books, among his best-known are The Knowledge Executive (1985) and Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership (2002). He also published hundreds of journal and magazine articles. His final published writing was the opening chapter for "Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice" (2004) entitled, "Leading and learning with nobody in charge."

He was awarded 22 honorary degrees, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, the Peace Corps' Leader for Peace Award, and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. He was the co-winner (with Bertrand de Jouvenel) of the 1981 Prix de Talloires, an international award for "accomplished generalists". He was a trustee of the Chaordic Commons.

1.   Harlan Cleveland, in Wikipediia.
2. ↑ Harlan Cleveland , in Find A Grave.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
4. ↑ New York, United States. Birth Index, 1881-1942.
5. ↑ United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Not yet located in the 1920 census, he does not appear with his parents and 2 older siblings who are enumerated in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey in the 1920 census.

6. ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Not yet located in the 1930 census. Possibly away at boarding school and/or abroad.

7. ↑ THEY COME AND GO., in Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Page 8, 07 Dec 1935.

   ... Miss Anne Thorburn Cleveland and Mr. Harlan Cleveland II., the interesting children of the late Reverend Stanley M. Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland, are arriving in time for the Marston Allen Ball at the Hotel Sinton on December 21 which will initiate the winter season of 1935 for the debutantes. Mr. Cleveland is coming to Cincinnati direct from Princeton ...

8. ↑ GLENDALE STUDENT WINS., in Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Page 12 , 24 Mar 1937.

   Princeton, N. J., March 23 (AP) James H. Cleveland of Glendale, Ohio, junior at Princeton University, was announced today as winner of a scholarship awarded by the university's School of Public and International Affairs, entitling him to a study-tour of the Orient next summer.