ELIZABETH F. ROHATYN (1930–2016)

Anita Gates of the New York Times_ reports that philanthropist and arts supporter Elizabeth F. Rohatyn has died. Rohatyn, who was born in Memphis and attended both Sarah Lawrence College and the College of Santa Fe, served as a chairwoman for the New York Public Library and for Lincoln Center. She sponsored, with her husband, the financier Felix G. Rohatyn, the I Have a Dream Foundation project, which follows children from low-income backgrounds through middle school, high school, and four years of college (according to the foundation, nearly ninety percent of the more than 2,500 participants in the program within the New York area have successfully graduated from high school, and eight-seven percent of them have gone on to pursue higher education).

When her husband was an ambassador to France, from 1997 to 2000, she created the French American Museum Exchange—also known as FRAME—“a consortium of thirty major museums in France and North America that promotes cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations,” according to the organization’s website. In 2002, she was named a member of the Legion d’Honneur and, in 2007, an officer.