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| | 141 | Name: | Mary, Countess of Bessborough | | | Institution: | Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, London | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | April 13, 2013 | | | | | | |
Born in 1915 in Philadelphia, Mary, Countess of Bessborough was educated in France, England and the United States. She worked in interior decoration and design in New York and during World War II worked with the French Red Cross and served as a nurse's aide in military and civilian hospitals in Florida and New York. She returned to France after the war, where she met and married the Earl of Bessborough. Lady Bessborough was involved with the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House from 1971 to her death, becoming the group's chairperson in 1983. In 1984 she was awarded the Scroll of Recognition and Appreciation for the Historic Preservation of the Benjamin Franklin House. She was also the recipient of the Martha Washington Medal of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Lady Bessborough was a patron of Task Brasil, a charitable organization working with South American street children. She died April 13, 2013, at age 98 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| 142 | Name: | Dr. Walter Eugene Massey | | | Institution: | School of the Art Institute of Chicago; City Colleges of Chicago; Morehouse College | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
Dr. Walter E. Massey is currently president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He served as president of Morehouse College, the nation's largest liberal arts institution for men, from 1995 to 2007. Dr. Massey is a former provost and senior vice president of the University of California system, former director of the National Science Foundation and founding director of the Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He received a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Morehouse, and a master's and doctorate in physics from Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Massey is chairman of Great Schools Atlanta and a member of the Atlanta University Center Council for Presidents, the Atlanta Committee for Progress the Atlanta Regional Commission for Higher Education and the Rotary Club of Atlanta. He is also a member of the board of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the President's council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a position he held previously from 1990-1992, and the board of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Massey serves on the boards of the Gates Millennium Senior Advisory Council, the Mellon Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, Motorola, Inc., Bank of America, McDonald's Corporation, BP, p.l.c., and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. In 2016 he was awarded the Public Humanities Award of Illinois Humanities. | |
| 143 | Name: | Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews | | | Institution: | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Jessica Tuchman Mathews served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1997 to 2015. She is now a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism. She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Council's Washington program. While there, she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift," chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal's 75 years. From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural-resource management issues. She served on the editorial board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, covering energy, environment, science, technology, arms control, health, and other issues. Later, she became a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, writing a column that appeared nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune. From 1977 to 1979, she was director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council, covering nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare, and human rights. In 1993, she returned to government as deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. Dr. Mathews is a director of Somalogic Inc. and Hanesbrands Inc. and a trustee of the International Crisis Group, The Century Foundation, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. She has previously served on the boards of the Brookings Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and the Joyce Foundation, among others. | |
| 144 | Name: | Professor Jack F. Matlock | | | Institution: | Duke University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | | | | |
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a retired diplomat, has held academic posts since 1991: Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, 2007- ; Cyrus Vance Professor of International Relations, Mount Holyoke College, 2007; Sol Linowitz Professor of International Relations, Hamilton College, 2006; visiting professor and lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University, 2001-04; George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1996 to July 2001; Senior Research Fellow and then Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy at Columbia University, 1991-96. In 2015 he joined the faculty of Duke University as a Rubenstein Fellow. He will spend two years on campus based in the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, teaching courses, collaborating with students and faculty, engaging journalists and policymakers, and delivering lectures both on and off campus. In the 2016-2017 academic year he will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he will lecture on U.S.-Russia relations as part of the Russia summer program.
During his 35 years in the American Foreign Service (1956-1991) he served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-91, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff from 1983 until 1986, and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1981-83.
Before his appointment to Moscow as Ambassador, Mr. Matlock served three tours at the American Embassy in the Soviet Union, as Vice Consul and Third Secretary (1961-63), Minister Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission (1974-78), and Charge d'Affaires ad interim in 1981. His other Foreign Service assignments were in Vienna, Munich, Accra, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, in addition to tours in Washington as Director of Soviet Affairs in the State Department (1971-74) and as Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1979-80). Before entering the Foreign Service, Mr. Matlock was Instructor in Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College (1953-56). During the 1978-79 academic year he was Visiting Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.
He is the author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004); Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995); and a handbook to the thirteen-volume Russian edition of Stalin's Collected Works (1955, 1971).
Mr. Matlock was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on October 1, 1929, and was educated at Duke University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1950) and at Columbia University (M.A. and Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1952). He has been awarded honorary doctorates by four institutions. In addition to the books noted, he is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy, international relations, and Russian literature and history. He and his wife, the former Rebecca Burrum, divide their time between Booneville, Tennessee, and Durham, North Carolina. They have five children and three grandchildren. | |
| 145 | Name: | Hon. George Crews McGhee | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | July 4, 2005 | | | | |
| 146 | Name: | The Honorable Robert S. McNamara | | | Institution: | The World Bank | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | July 6, 2009 | | | | | | |
Born in San Francisco in 1916, Robert S. McNamara graduated from the University of California in 1937 and received an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1939. In 1940 he returned to Harvard to become an instructor and later assistant professor of business administration. He was commissioned a captain in the air force in 1943 and served in the United Kingdom, India, China, and the Pacific. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and promoted to lieutenant colonel before going on inactive duty in 1946. Upon discharge from the air force, Mr. McNamara joined the Ford Motor Company. He was elected director of the company in 1957 and president of the company in 1960. Just weeks after assuming the latter position, he agreed, at the request of President-elect John F. Kennedy, to serve as Secretary of Defense of the United States. This eventually became a controversial period for Mr. McNamara, as he became known as one of the primary architects of the Vietnam War. Amidst countless deaths in Southeast Asia and the failure of the government's wartime policies, he resigned the position in 1968 to become president of the World Bank, a position he held until his retirement in 1981. Since his retirement, Mr. McNamara has served on a number of boards of directors for both corporations and non-profit associations. He has written and spoken on many topics including population and development, world hunger, the environment, East-West relations and nuclear arms. Mr. McNamara is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad and has received many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (with Distinction), the Albert Einstein Peace Price, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Medal, and the Dag Hammarskjold Honorary Medal. He is the author of The Essence of Security; One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People; Out of the Cold; and In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. | |
| 147 | Name: | Mr. Robert L. McNeil | | | Institution: | The Barra Foundation; McNeil Laboratories, Inc. | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | May 20, 2010 | | | | | | |
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. is a philanthropist who has devoted more than forty years to strengthening the artistic and intellectual environment of the Philadelphia area. Born in Connecticut in 1915, he holds a B.S. from Yale University (1936) and a B.Sc. from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science (1938). From 1938-65 he worked at McNeil Laboratories as research chemist to director of research department to vice president (1938-56); director (1941-65); and chairman (1956-65). Since 1964, through the Barra Foundation, Mr. McNeil has done a great deal to support research and publication in early American history and culture. He has supported the publication of scores of difficult-to-fund art books and scholarly editions, has endowed professorships of American art history at Yale University and Wellesley College, and has endowed fellowships at the Winterthur Museum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society Library. He has also generously endowed the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, which was renamed in his honor. A noted collector of American art, silver and furniture of the period 1750-1825, he has made important gifts to such institutions as the National Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Winterthur Museum, and the National Constitution Center. Mr. McNeil has served as a director of corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Arrow International, Inc., Island Gem Enterprises and Resco Products, Inc. He has also been vice president and trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; governor of the Yale University Art Gallery; director of the Archives of American Art, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Valley Forge Historical Society; and a trustee of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, Princeton Theological Seminary and Germantown Academy. In sum, Robert McNeil is a remarkably active and effective supporter of art, education, and public service. | |
| 148 | Name: | Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society; Bryn Mawr College | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Mary Patterson (Pat) McPherson served as the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2007-12. She was Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and its Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges from 1997 through March 2007. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served nineteen years as the sixth President of Bryn Mawr College. She is widely credited with renewing and revitalizing Bryn Mawr and enhancing its stature during a time when the role of women’s colleges was being challenged. She had also been Dean of the Undergraduate College, Deputy to the President, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr from 1970 to 1978. Between 1964 and 1970 she was Assistant Dean, then Associate Dean of the College at Bryn Mawr. She received her A.B. from Smith College, an M.A. from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. McPherson holds numerous honorary degrees.
Complementing her academic and administrative services, Pat McPherson has served on a variety of boards, currently including Central European University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions. Her prominence in the fields of education and public policy has also led her to serve on the boards of the Agnes Irwin School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Shipley School, Amherst College, the Teagle Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Carnegie Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Spencer Foundation, Bank Street College, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Philadelphia Contributionship, and the National Humanities Center. She is the immediate past chair of the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, Smith College. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1983. | |
| 149 | Name: | Dr. Michael S. McPherson | | | Institution: | Spencer Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Michael S. McPherson, now emeritus, served as the fifth President of the Spencer Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2003 he served as President of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota for seven years. A nationally known economist whose expertise focuses on the interplay between education and economics, McPherson spent the 22 years prior to his Macalester presidency as professor of economics, chairman of the Economics Department, and dean of faculty at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics, an M.A. in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics, all from the University of Chicago.
McPherson, who is co-author and editor of several books, including Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities; College Access: Opportunity or Privilege?; Keeping College Affordable; Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy; and was founding co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. He has served as a trustee of the College Board, the American Council on Education and Wesleyan University. He was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is currently a trustee of McNally Smith College of Music and the DentaQuest Foundation, as well as President of the Board of Overseers of TIAA-CREF. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. | |
| 150 | Name: | Mr. Paul Mellon | | | Institution: | Mellon Bank & National Gallery of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 2/1/99 | | | | |
| 151 | Name: | Dr. Richard A. Meserve | | | Institution: | Carnegie Institution of Washington; International Nuclear Safety Group; Covington & Burling LLP | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Dr. Richard A. Meserve served as the ninth president of the Carnegie Institution from 2003 until 2014, after stepping down as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). He continues to serve on the board. The Carnegie Institution conducts basic research in biology, astronomy and geophysics. As Chairman of the NRC, Meserve served as the principal executive officer of the federal agency with responsibility for ensuring public health and safety in the operation of nuclear power plants and in the usage of nuclear materials. He served as Chairman under both Presidents Clinton and Bush and lead the NRC in responding to the terrorism threat that came to the fore after the 9/11 attacks. Before joining the NRC, Meserve was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling, and he now serves as Senior Of Counsel to the firm. With his Harvard law degree, received in 1975, and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford, awarded in 1976, he devoted his legal practice to technical issues arising at the intersection of science, law, and public policy. Early in his career, he served as legal counsel to the President’s science advisor, and was a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 1966. Meserve has served on numerous legal and scientific committees over the years, including many established by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. He also currently serves as Chairman of the International Nuclear Safety Group, which is chartered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and as a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Among other affiliations, he is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Engineering, and Sigma Xi, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Meserve serves on the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation, Luminant Holding Company LLC, and of the Universities Research Association, Inc., on the Advisory Committee for UniStar Nuclear Energy LLC, and on the Council, Executive Committee, and Trust of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. | |
| 152 | Name: | Dr. Martin Meyerson | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | June 2, 2007 | | | | |
| 153 | Name: | Mr. J. Irwin Miller | | | Institution: | Cummins Engine Company | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | August 16, 2004 | | | | |
| 154 | Name: | Mr. Paul F. Miller | | | Institution: | Pew Charitable Trusts; Squam Lakes Natural Science Center; Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | September 9, 2017 | | | | | | |
Paul F. Miller, Jr. started his career in 1950 with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and then joined the investment banking firm of Drexel & Co., where he became a partner, then president of a successor firm, Drexel Harriman Ripley. In 1969, he founded the investment management firm of Miller, Anderson & Sherrerd where he stayed until his retirement in 1991. He became a partner of Miller Associates, private investors, and a limited partner of Miller Investment Management. He was a trustee emeritus and former chairman of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and a former trustee of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Miller was a senior trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and a trustee of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. He was a past director of the Pew Charitable Trusts, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, and the Appalachian Mountain Club. Also, he was a retired director of Hewlett-Packard Company, the Mead Corporation, and Rohm and Haas Company. Mr. Miller was a 1950 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and received honorary degrees from both the University of Pennsylvania and Washington and Lee University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005. Paul F. Miller died September 9, 2017, at the age of 90. | |
| 155 | Name: | Ms. Leslie Anne Miller | | | Institution: | Philadelphia Museum of Art | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Leslie Anne Miller is an attorney who has been a leader in her profession and community for over thirty years. During her twenty-five years as a civil litigator, she compiled a list of "firsts": the first woman partner in her law firm, the first woman elected as President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the first woman to serve as General Counsel of the Commonwealth under Governor Rendell.
Her broad and deep record of civic engagement is notable for the number of leadership positions she has held. She is the current Chair of the Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was Chair of the Board of Mount Holyoke College, her alma mater. She also served as interim President of the Kimmel Center for the performing arts and Chair of the Philadelphia Flower Show. In addition, she has been an active member of the Boards of numerous academic and not for profit institutions, including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Temple Law School and the Mayor's Cultural Advisory Board.
Equally important has been her work as a mentor and role model for countless women in both the legal profession and broader community. She was the first Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Commission on Women and the Profession and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Women, along with the Pennsylvania Women's Forum and the Forum of Executive Women. In that same spirit, she has also worked tirelessly to help elect women (and a few good men) to local, state and federal offices.
Her contributions have been recognized with a variety of honors and awards. Among them: selection as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania; the Philadelphia Bar Association's Sandra Day O'Connor Award; the Alumnae Medal of Honor from Mount Holyoke College and the Globy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has also received honorary degrees from the Drexel University School of Law, Thomas Jefferson University's College of Health Professionals and Wilson College.
A cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College (1973), Miller received a MA from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (1974), a JD from the Dickinson School of Law (1977) and an LLM with honors from Temple University Law School of law (1994). | |
| 156 | Name: | Dr. Thomas Noel Mitchell | | | Institution: | Trinity College, Dublin | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
The 2002 recipient of the Society's Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities is Thomas Noel Mitchell, Provost Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin, in recognition of his paper "Roman Republicanism: The Underrated Legacy," delivered at the symposium "Rome: The Tide of Influence" on April 28, 2000, and published in our Proceedings in June 2001. Proceeding from a study of Cicero's De Republica and De Legibus, Dr. Mitchell shows that when Cicero seeks the specific principles of justice about which rightminded people could be expected to agree, he no longer looks to Greek philosophy to point the way, but focuses firmly on Roman experience. The departure from Plato and Aristotle and the dependence on Roman statutory law and custom are clearly demonstrated, as are the many ways in which the Roman system and Cicero's exposition of its theoretical foundations identified all the key ideas that later formed the heart of liberal theory from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and helped to shape the views of the framers of the American Constitution. Dr. Mitchell received a B.A. and M.A. at University College, Galway, with First Class Honors, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1966. He was a professor of Classics at Swarthmore College until 1979 when he moved back to Ireland as professor of Latin at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1991 he was appointed Provost of Trinity College, a post he held until his retirement last year. He is the author of three major books: Cicero, the Ascending Years (1979), a study of Cicero's early life and analysis of the workings of personal relations and of factionalism in Roman politics; Cicero: Verrines II.1 (1986), a text and translation of one of Cicero's greatest speeches and an extended commentary analyzing Ciceronian prose and the rhetorical precepts and techniques that shaped his oratory; and Cicero, the Senior Statesman (1990), a study of Cicero's later life and the events that led to the dramatic collapse of the Roman Republic. Professor Mitchell is author of more than two dozen articles in international journals on various aspects of Roman political and social history and Roman constitutional law. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1996. | |
| 157 | Name: | Mr. Philippe de Montebello | | | Institution: | New York University & Metropolitan Museum of Art | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
Philippe de Montebello directed the Metropolitan Museum of Art - the largest and most comprehensive art museum in the Western Hemisphere - for 31 years. In January 2008 he announced that he would retire at the end of the year and assume a professorship at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. As the first Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums, he will teach while also advising the university on its plan for a new overseas campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Mr. de Montebello attended French schools before graduating from Harvard University in 1958 with a B.A. degree in the history of art. After serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he received an advanced degree from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. With the exception of four and one half years spent as the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, his career evolved at the Metropolitan Museum. Under Mr. de Montebello's leadership, the Museum has nearly doubled in size and is today the world's most encyclopedic art museum. Its permanent collections - housed in 17 curatorial departments - embrace some two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present. During Mr. de Montebello's tenure, the Metropolitan has focused much of its resources on reinstalling, conserving, and publishing its permanent collection, while also pursuing an active acquisition program through purchase. And, to the five million people who visit the Museum each year, it is his familiar voice that guides visitors in special exhibitions and installations through the audio guides that he has narrated throughout his tenure as Director. Mr. de Montebello has been awarded several honors, including Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1991, the 2002 Blérancourt Prize for his contributions to the cultural bond between France and America, and was one of eight 2009 National Humanities Medalists. Mr. de Montebello was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2001. In 2014 he collaborated with Marting Gayford to write Rendez-vous with Art. | |
| 158 | Name: | Mr. Edward A. Montgomery | | | Institution: | Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey | | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | | | | |
Edward A. Montgomery, Jr., graduated from Deerfield Academy; he received a BA and LLD from Trinity College, and attended Harvard Business School. He joined Mellon Bank's management training program in 1959, and worked in Data Processing, Cash Management, Credit Policy and Corporate Banking. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Vice President responsible for corporate lending in the New York City division of the Corporate Banking Department. In 1974, he became Manager of the International Banking Department's London Office with responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1977, he returned to the States to become a Senior Vice President of Mellon Bank, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Mellon National Mortgage Corporation. In 1985, he became Vice Chairman of Mellon Bank Corporation and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mellon Bank (East). On August 1, 1989, he retired from the Bank. Upon retirement, he served as the 1989/1990 Campaign Chairman for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania in January 1990 as Vice President of Resource Development and a member of the Management Committee. In 1995 he assumed responsibility for the Tocqueville Society (individuals who give over $10,000 annually) and individual leadership donors outside the workplace. At the end of 2010 he retired from United Way. Since 2010 he has been a full time volunteer staff member of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Honorary Chair, Endowment Campaign and a volunteer consultant to United Way Worldwide, and for not for profits about fundraising, and board roles and responsibilities. He is Vice Chair of the Curtis Institute of Music and Chair of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. He is a Trustee of the Isabel Rockefeller Trust, and the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation. He is on the board of the Marlboro Music School and Festival, Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (past chairman), and the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He is Trustee Emeritus of the Academy of Natural Sciences (past chairman), Opportunities Industrial Center, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Russell Byers Charter School. Teach for America and Trinity College (past chairman). He is a retired director of Fisher Scientifics International, Mellon Bank Corporation, Pullman Corporation, and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. From 1956 to 1958, he served in the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division. He and his wife Susan (who died in January 2015) have two daughters and two grandsons. Awards: 2014 United Way Worldwide Lifetime Service Award 2014 John Haas Regional Champion Award – UWGPSNJ 1986 Community Leader of the Year – Arthritis Foundation Past Affiliations: Elderhostel Board 12 years beginning in 1990-2003 (one year off), Chairman of the Board Ft. Mifflin 1994-1998 Chairman of the Philadelphia Historical Commission 1987-1994 Chairman and Board member Prince Music Theater 1985-2000 | |
| 159 | Name: | Dr. Gordon E. Moore | | | Institution: | Intel Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | March 24, 2023 | | | | | | |
Gordon E. Moore is retired chairman of Intel Corporation. He co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President before becoming President and Chief Executive Officer in 1979. He remained CEO until 1987 and was named Chairman Emeritus in 1997. Dr. Moore is widely known for "Moore's Law," in which in 1965 he predicted that the number of components the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. In 1975, he updated his prediction to once every two years. It has become the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry to deliver ever-more-powerful chips while decreasing the cost of electronics. Dr. Moore earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from California Institute of Technology. He is a director of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineers. Dr. Moore also serves on the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. He received the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush in 1990 and the Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush in 2002. | |
| 160 | Name: | Dr. Janet Morgan | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
After some years of teaching politics and recent history at Oxford University, I joined the Central Policy Review Staff in the Cabinet Office, the so called ‘Think Tank’, working there during the governments of James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. The invitation to do so came at the end of a long case, heard by the Lord Chief Justice, to decide whether volume one of the diaries of a recently deceased cabinet minister, Richard Crossman, should or should not be published. I had edited this book - and went on to edit three further volumes - and, when the Government lost the case, was asked to come into the Cabinet Office to see for myself.
Three years of government work, in which I sought to specialise in issues to do with advanced technological development, unfitted me for a return to the university. Thinking that it would be interesting to try to write a biography, I was fortunate to be asked to write the authorised life of Agatha Christie (author of detective stories). I also found work as a consultant to various companies and governments, including some years as adviser first to the Director General of the BBC and then to the board of the Granada Group. This gave time for a little writing etc, including the authorised life of Edwina Mountbatten (a person too complicated to summarise here).
In 1988 I moved to Scotland. A variety of public appointments followed, supported by a sequence of directorships of companies in telecommunications, transport, retail, power generation, construction, finance etc. Since 1996 my main work has been in securing the investment of funds to deal with waste management and decommissioning liabilities of nuclear power stations. There has been one book, the account of a military espionage operation behind enemy lines in the First World War, the most difficult and enjoyable work I’ve done so far. | |
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