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In June, Agnes Hsu-Tang ’94, Ph.D., Chair of the Board of Trustees at the New-York Historical Society, New York’s first museum founded in 1804, presented Drew Gilpin Faust ’68, Ph.D. with the institution’s 2024 Women in Public Life Medal at an award ceremony.

Hsu-Tang and Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, were joined by President Emerita Kim Cassidy.

As she presented her with the award, Hsu-Tang spoke of Faust’s strength and conviction, recalling how, as a student, Faust and other student leaders persuaded the administration to drop the historical 2 a.m. curfew and how she traveled to Alabama to join the Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

“Two values deeply ingrained in all ������̳ students are the pursuit of knowledge and honor,” Hsu-Tang said in her speech. “For those who have followed the trail that Dr. Faust has blazed, she is the personification of our school’s dictum ‘veritatem dilexi’— I have chosen truth.”