Native New Yorker and Princeton graduate (with three degrees--including a Ph.D) Thomas Hoving was appointed by John V. Lindsay to serve as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thomas Hoving Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art John V. Lindsay Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving
(1931-01-15)January 15, 1931
New York City, New York, U.S. Princeton University in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1959, all from Princeton University. He received a B.A. in 1953, an M.F.A. 
