John Jay Iselin
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John Jay Iselin great-great-great-great-grandson of John Jay
John Jay
John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States ....

, was president of the Marconi fellowship foundation at Columbia University
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. He was also an adjunct faculty member of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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Iselin was a graduate of St. Mark's School
St. Mark's School
St. Mark’s School is a coeducational, Episcopal, preparatory school, situated on in Southborough, Massachusetts, from Boston. It was founded in 1865 as an all-boys' school by Joseph Burnett, a wealthy native of Southborough who developed and marketed the world-famous Burnett Vanilla Extract . ...

, and Harvard, where he served as Managing Editor
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 of the Crimson
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. In 1959, he was selected as a Marshall Scholar, and in 2001 became founding Chairman of the New York Marshall Committee.

Until 2000, Iselin served as President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Before that he served as president of WNET
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