Ira Michael Heyman Explained

Ira Michael Heyman
Order:	10th Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution
Term Start:	1994
Term End:	1999
Predecessor:	Robert McCormick Adams
Successor:	Lawrence M. Small
Order2:	6th Chancellor of the
Title2:	University of California, Berkeley
Term Start2:	1980
Term End2:	1990
Predecessor2:	Albert H. Bowker
Successor2:	Chang-Lin Tien
Birth Date:	30 May 1930
Birth Place:	New York City, New York
Death Place:	Berkeley, California
Spouse:	Therese Thau

Ira Michael Heyman (May 30, 1930  - November 19, 2011) was a Professor of Law and of City and Regional Planning, and was Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Life

Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, and in 1951 from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth he joined the Theta Chi men's fraternity. After serving as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the Korean War, he entered Yale Law School, where he became editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation in 1956, he served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Edward Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then from 1958 to 1959 he was a clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren.

He joined the law faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and he became Vice Chancellor in 1974. He was named Berkeley's sixth Chancellor and served in that capacity from 1980 to 1990.^{[5] [6]}

He returned to teaching law after leaving the Chancellorship. He was Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, from 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 2000. He served as a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1982 until 1992 and as the chair of the Board of Trustees for the last two years of his tenure.^[7] During his Berkeley years he became a member of the Bohemian Club, at which his closest associates included Caspar Weinberger, who was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense.

After having smoked a few packages of cigarettes a day for many years, he died of emphysema in 2011.^[8]

Works

• of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Conduct (1964)
• Students at Berkeley, views and data on possible sex discrimination in academic programs (1977)
• for the individual; the community YWCA and other Berkeley organizations (1978)
• Nobel Tradition at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley (1984)
• Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999:oral history transcript (2012)

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice)

External links

• I. Michael Heyman from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
• "Conversations with History:", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• "Ira M Heyman", The Los Angeles Times
• "Ira Michael Heyman, Former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dies at 81", Smithsonian Magazine, November 22, 2011

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ira Michael Heyman. www.nndb.com. Aug 12, 2020.
2. Web site: I. Michael Heyman | American scholar. Encyclopedia Britannica. Aug 12, 2020.
3. https://www.jstor.org/pss/3480916 "Tribute. Professor Ira Michael Heyman"
4. Web site: UCRAB Newslteter, Summer 2004. Aug 12, 2020. March 21, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120321092003/http://thecenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/UCRABSummer04.pdf. dead.
5. Web site: History & discoveries | University of California, Berkeley. www.berkeley.edu. Aug 12, 2020.
6. Web site: Yang. Sarah. Ira Michael Heyman, former UC Berkeley chancellor, dies at 81. Berkeley News. 30 November 2001 . UC Berkeley. 19 September 2016.
7. Web site: Ira Michael Heyman '51. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. en. 2019-06-03.
8. News: Ira Michael Heyman obituary: He led UC Berkeley, Smithsonian. 19 September 2016. Los Angeles Times. November 22, 2011.