Last Friday, I was reading the stories about the former Senator from Rhode Island, Claiborne Pell, who had died on New Year’s Day. While his long and distinguished career as both a business man and a public servant was noteworthy in many ways, I will always be grateful to Mr. Pell for the extraordinary role he played in creating educational opportunity and promoting the arts. Mr. Pell was instrumental in writing the legislation in 1965 that established both the National Endowment for the View more