Background
Horner, Matina Souretis was born on July 28, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Demetre John and Christine (Antonopoulos) Souretis.
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Horner, Matina Souretis was born on July 28, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Demetre John and Christine (Antonopoulos) Souretis.
AB cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, 1961. Master of Science, University Michigan, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1968.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Dickinson College, 1973. Doctor of Laws, Mount Holyoke College, 1973. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1975.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Smith College, 1979. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Wheaton College, 1979. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Michigan, 1989.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1973. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Tufts University, 1976. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Hartford, 1980.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University New England, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bentley College, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New England College, 1989.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Pine Manor College, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), American College Greece, 1990. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Claremont University Center and Grad School, 1988.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Hellenic College, 1990. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colby Sawyer College, 1991.
Teaching fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1962-1966; lecturer motivation personality, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968-1969; lecturer social relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-1970; assistant professor clinical psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-1972; associate professor psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1989; consultant university health services, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1989; president, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, 1972-1989; president emerita, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, since 1989; executive vice president, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund, New York City, since 1989. Board directors Neiman Marcus Group, Boston Edison Company.
Member advisory council National Science Foundation, 1977-1987, chair, 1980-1986. Board trustees Twentieth Century Fund, The Century Foundation, since 1973, American College of Greece, 1983-1990, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1986-1990, Committee for Economic Development, since 1988, vice-chairman, 1992-1998. Board trustees Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute Health Professions, since 1988, vice chairman, 1994, chair, 1995-2007, Longy School Music, since 2009.
Board directors Council for Finance Aid to Education, 1985-1989, Beth Israel Hospital, 1989-1995. Board directors Revson Foundation, 1986-1992, chairman, 1992-1997. Board directors Women's Research and Education Institute, since 1979, chair research committee, since 1982.
Member Council on Foreign Relations, since 1984. Executive committee American Council on Exercise Business Higher Education Forum, 1984-1986. Executive committee New England Colleges Fund, since 1980, Second vice president, 1984-1985, 1st vice president, 1985-1988, president, 1988-1989.
Member national panel to study declining test scores College Entrance Examination Board, 1976-1977. Executive committee, chair task force President's Commission for National Agenda for 1980s, 1979-1980. Advisory committee Women's Leadership Conference on National Security, since 1982.
Executive committee Council on Competitiveness, 1986-1989. Chair task force on health care Challenge to Leadership Conference, 1987-1989. Board directors Greenwall Foundation, since 1997, chair, 2004-2006.
Board directors Fund for City of New York, chair, 1997-2003. Member National Organization of Women (national corporation advisory board of legal defense and education fund 1984-1989), American Laryngol. Voice Research and Education Foundation (president), National Institute Social Sciences (medal for outstanding service 1973), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Joseph L. Horner, June 25, 1961. Children: Tia Andrea, John, Christopher.
