Majid Tehranian ’59

Majid Tehranian ’59 passed away on December 23, 2012, in Newport Beach, California. Majid was born in Iran, and first came to the United States at age 17 as a delegate to the 1955 New York Herald Tribune Forum, where he met President Eisenhower. At Dartmouth Majid majored in government and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Undergraduate Council, where he served on the academic committee. He was president of the Cosmopolitan Club for four years and vice

president of the International Relations Club. Majid also served on the editorial board of Vox. He earned a master’s in Middle Eastern studies and his Ph.D. in political economy at Harvard University. Majid dedicated his life to fostering international peace. He worked globally, serving as director of social planning at the Plan Organization of Iran, founding director of the Iran Communications Institute, senior fellow at St. Anthony’s College (Oxford University), program specialist at UNESCO (Paris), trustee of the International Institute of Communications (London), professor of international communications for more than two decades at the University of Hawaii, director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, senior fellow at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Relations, and director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. He published 25 books and more than 100 articles, translated into a dozen languages. He traveled to or lived on six continents and in approximately 100 different countries. Katharine, his wife of 40 years, two daughters (including Maryam ’96), two sons and six grandchildren survive him.