"Sawyer, John Edward"@en . "American academic" . . "John Edward Sawyer (1917 \u2013 1995) was a prominent academic and philanthropic administrator. He was educated at Worcester Academy and then Deerfield Academy, Williams College, and Harvard University. He served as the 11th president of Williams College, and headed the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In 1988 Sawyer was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences."@en . "1917Z"^^ . . "1995Z"^^ .