Schurman served as United States Ambassador to Greece in 1912-13 , Minister to China between 1921 and 1925 , and then as Ambassador to Germany between 1925 and 1929 , a position twice previously held by Cornell 's first president Andrew Dickson White . In 1917 Schurman was appointed honorary chairman of the American Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor , an organization which provided humanitarian relief to Ottoman Greeks during the Greek genocide . He retired to Bedford Hills , New York in 1930
Greek genocide
Greek genocide
Jacob Gould Schurman