Emory University has named its graduate school after James T. Laney, the former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea who was the college’s president from 1977 through 1993.
During Laney’s tenure as Emory’s president, the university was admitted to the prestigious Association of American Universities. While Laney was at the helm, Emory also received a $105 million in Coca-Cola stock from the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, which at the time was the largest single gift to any institution of higher education in American history.
Laney, an ordained United Methodist minister, was dean of Emory’s Candler School of Theology from 1969 to 1977. He was the ambassador to South Korea from 1993 through 1997.
He holds degrees from Yale University and received 22 honorary degrees from colleges in the U.S. and around the world.
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