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1	Name:	Hon. Walter H. Annenberg
	Institution:	Court of St. James's & Triangle Publications, Inc.
	Year Elected:	1990
	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:	1908
	Death Date:	October 1, 2002

2	Name:	Mr. Robert G. Dunlop
	Institution:	Glenmede Corporation & Sun Company
	Year Elected:	1990
	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:	9/20/95

3	Name:	Dr. Edward A. Frieman
	Institution:	Scripps Institute of Oceanography & University of California, San Diego
	Year Elected:	1990
	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:	1926
	Death Date:	April 11, 2013

	Edward Frieman made equally outstanding contributions to science and public service. A plasma physicist with research interests that extend into other physical science fields, Dr. Frieman is best known for his contributions to stability problems in plasma flow and to the fundamental properties of turbulence flow. His experience in plasma dynamics also permitted an easy transition to the oceanographic questions posed by stratified rotating fluids. A professor at Princeton University for more than 25 years, Dr. Frieman was also employed in the private sector and by the federal government. He had served as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy, on the White House Science Council, and on a number of United States Navy boards. He was appointed director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 1986 and became Research Professor and Director Emeritus in 1996. He had also been Senior Vice President, Science/Technology at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Among Dr. Frieman's many honors are the Department of Energy Distinguished Service Medal (1980) and the Richtmyer Award from the American Physical Society (1984). He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He earned his master's degree in physics in 1948 and his doctoral degree in physics in 1952 from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York. Edward A. Frieman died on April 11, 2013, in La Jolla, California, at the age of 87.

4	Name:	Mrs. Helene L. Kaplan
	Institution:	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Carnegie Corporation of New York
	Year Elected:	1990
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1933
	Death Date:	January 26, 2023

	Helene Kaplan received a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is currently Of Counsel to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. She has served in the not-for-profit sector as counsel or trustee of many scientific, arts, charitable and educational institutions and foundations. She is a trustee and Vice-Chair of the American Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Commonwealth Fund, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and The Institute for Advanced Study. She was Chair of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a trustee of Mount Sinai/NYU Health. Ms. Kaplan is Chair Emerita of Barnard College and has served as Chair of Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she is an honorary trustee. She was a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, and chaired its Task Force on Judicial and Regulatory Decision Making. From 1985-87, Ms. Kaplan was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa, and from 1986-90, she served as a member of New York Governor Mario Cuomo's Task Force on Life and the Law, concerned with the legal and ethical implications of advances in medical technology. Previously, Ms. Kaplan served as a trustee of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MITRE Corporation, and the New York Foundation. She was Chair of the New York Council for the Humanities and Vice-Chair of the New York City Public Development Corporation. She is a retired director of JP Morgan Chase Corporation, The May Department Stores Company, Metlife, Inc., Exxon/Mobil, and Verizon Communications and a member and former director of the Council on Foreign Relations. Helene Kaplan is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1990.

5	Name:	Mr. David T. Kearns
	Institution:	Xerox Corporation
	Year Elected:	1990
	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:	1930
	Death Date:	February 25, 2011

	David Todd Kearns was the retired chairman and chief executive officer of the Xerox Corporation. After receiving his B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1952, he worked for 17 years in the data processing division and as a sales representative for IBM Corporation before joining Xerox as group vice president in 1975. He assumed the titles of president and CEO in 1982 and succeeded in bringing the corporation from a very poor state to an extremely successful one. He retired as CEO eight years later, staying on as chairman until 1992, when he was named Deputy Secretary of Education to the Bush Administration. The author (with Dennis Doyle) of Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive (1988), Mr. Kearns devoted significant energies to the problem of public education in America. He co-authored "America 2000," a blueprint for lifting the nation's high school graduation rate and attaining global superiority in math and science, and organized New American Schools, a nongovernmental agency funded by corporations that would work outside the education establishment to select and promote models of reform. Mr. Kearns also served for many years as chairman of the board of the University of Rochester and Duke University Business School. He died February 25, 2011, at the age of 80, in Vero Beach, Florida.

6	Name:	Mr. Charles R. Longsworth
	Institution:	Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
	Year Elected:	1990
	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? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1929

	Charles Longsworth is Chairman Emeritus of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, President Emeritus of Hampshire College and Chairman Emeritus of Amherst College. An instrumental figure in the founding of Hampshire College, he wrote, with Franklin Patterson, the book The Making of a College, which outlined the concept for a new educational institution in the Connecticut Valley. Mr. Longsworth subsequently served for seven years as president of the college before becoming president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1979. As leader of the foundation, he helped perpetuate it as a first-class education and research organization while bringing in first-class archaeologists and curators to further reveal the real Williamsburg of the colonial period. A former United States Marine Corps lieutenant with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, Mr. Longsworth has worked with a number of other esteemed organizations throughout his career, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Center for Public Resources, Flight Safety International, and the Houghton-Mifflin Company.

7	Name:	Dr. Harold Tafler Shapiro
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	1990
	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? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1935

	Harold T. Shapiro served as Princeton University's 18th president. Elected at a special Board of Trustees meeting on April 27, 1987, he was installed on January 8, 1988, and served in that capacity until June 2001. In 2009 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study. Shapiro, who received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1964, held a faculty appointment as a professor of economics and public affairs, becoming emeritus in 2023. He came to Princeton from the University of Michigan, where he served on the faculty for twenty-four years as professor of economics and public policy and as president from 1980-1988. A trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, he also serves as director of the Hastings Center, DeVry, Inc., Reading is Fundamental, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the Merck Vaccine Advisory Board, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the Princeton Healthcare System, and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey Joint Board Managers. He is also a Governor of the American Jewish Committee. He served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on American's Energy Future. He served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institute of Health from July 2002-July 2003. Harold Shapiro is the author of "A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society (2005) and editor of "Universities and Their Leadership" (with William G. Bowen,1988) and "Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects" (with James F. Childress and Eric M. Meslin, 2005). He is a recipient of the Lt. Governor's Medal in Commerce from McGill University (1956), the William D. Carey Lectureship Award in Leadership in Science Policy (2006), and the National Academy of Science's Public Welfare Medal (2012).

8	Name:	Dr. Carl-Otto Still
	Institution:	Carl Still Corporation, Pittsburgh & Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Recklinghausen
	Year Elected:	1990
	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:	1940
	Death Date:	January 12, 2013

	Carl-Otto Still was a council member at the Salk Institute; president of the Carl Still Corporation, Pittsburgh; and owner and managing director of Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Recklinghausen. He was very active administering the affairs of the Salk Institute and was a member of a family of philanthropists who for three generations have been influential in assisting various German universities and cultural institutions. Among others, Göttingen University received a new telescope and Munster Cathedral a new roof through his efforts. With expertise in the chemical industry, particularly as it relates to coal, coke and steel, Carl-Otto Still and his family have been credited with helping to build the world's steel industry. Among his other roles, he served as chairman of Children's Hospital, Datteln, Germany, and as curator at the University Witten Herdecke. He holds a Dr.-Ing degree from the Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Höchschule Aächen (1971). He died January 12, 2013, at age 72 in Recklinghausen, Germany.