The Nation - News from Feb. 24, 1989

The Rev. Timothy S. Healy, who has led Georgetown University for 13 years, announced his resignation to become president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library. Healy, 65, will become head of one of the world’s largest research libraries, as well as a library system that operates 82 branches around New York City. He succeeds Vartan Gregorian, 54, who will become president of Brown University. In letters to Georgetown faculty, Healy said he had decided to resign at the end of the university’s bicentennial celebrations in the fall, believing that Georgetown “would benefit from a new and younger imagination.”