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1	Name:	Mr. Louis Begley
	Institution:	Debevoise & Plimpton
	Year Elected:	2000
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1933

	LOUIS BEGLEY, b. Poland, October 6, 1933. Author of: Wartime Lies (1991), The Man Who Was Late (1993), As Max Saw It (1994), About Schmidt (1996), Mistler’s Exit (1998), Schmidt Delivered (2000), Das Gelobte Land (2001), Venedig unter vier Augen (with Anka Muhlstein, 2003), Shipwreck (2003), Matters of Honor (2007), Zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen (2008), The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka (2008), Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (2009), Schmidt Steps Back (2012), Memories of a Marriage (2013), Killer, Come Hither (2015), Kill and Be Killed (2016);, and numerous essays and articles. Retired partner, Debevoise & Plimpton. Education: AB (s.c.l), Harvard, 1954; LL.B. (m.c.l.), Harvard, 1959. Prizes include: The Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics’ Circle Finalist, PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, Prix Médicis Étranger, Jeanette-Schocken-Preis, Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur, American Academy of Letters Award in Literature, and Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Literaturpreis. Past Trustee and President, PEN American Center. Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Ph. D. (h.c.), University of Heidelberg.

2	Name:	Dr. Robert J. Glaser
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1918
	Death Date:	June 7, 2012

	Robert Joy Glaser received an M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He served as Associate Dean at Washington University from 1955-57, then as Dean and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine until 1963, and as Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University from 1963-65. In 1965 he became the Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean of the School of Medicine, and professor at Stanford University, also serving as acting president in 1968. He was Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Stanford University and he received that institution's Dean's Medal in 2009. Dr. Glaser had been a trustee and board member of many educational institutions and foundations, including the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, Georgetown University, Morehouse College, the David & Lucille Packard Foundation, UCLA School of Medicine, Center for the Future of Children, Packard Humanities Institute, and the Foundation for Biomedical Research. He was a consultant for Medical Philanthropy and Biomedical Science. In 1986 the Robert J. Glaser Award was established by the Society of General Internal Medicine. Robert Glaser is a legendary figure in the field of medicine and biomedical research. His uniqueness is based on a complex combination of personal characteristics: scientific ability, demonstrated early in his career as a successful clinical microbiologist, and widely acclaimed administrative leadership. His accomplishments in support of education and research in medicine and his stature as a wise and trusted leader within biomedicine are unparalleled. In addition, his deep commitment to support and stimulate young minds and to foster their education and training was coupled with a realistic sense of the need to find financial resources to realize these dreams. Dr. Glaser was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000 and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2009. He died on June 7, 2012, at the age of 93 in Palo Alto, California.

3	Name:	Dr. Mary Lowe Good
	Institution:	University of Arkansas & Venture Capital Investors, LLC & American Association for the Advancement of Science
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1931
	Death Date:	November 20, 2019

	Mary Good exemplified intellectual biodiversity. She was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dean of the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and managing director of the Fund for Arkansas, LLC. She also served on the board of Aexiom Inc., a successful information company, and on several not-for-profit boards. Good served four years as the Under Secretary for Technology in the Department of Commerce, a Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed, position. She chaired the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technological Innovation and was a member of the National Science Board, appointed by President Carter in 1980. Before joining the federal administration, she was for many years Senior Vice-President of Technology at Allied Signal, Inc. She was its chairman from 1988 to 1991. Prior to Allied Signal, she served for more than 25 years in academia. In 1991, she was appointed by President Bush to the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). She was an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mary Good was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. She died November 20, 2019 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 88.

4	Name:	Mr. Alan Greenspan
	Institution:	Greenspan Associates LLC; Federal Reserve System
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1926

	As the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan piloted the United States economy, the world's largest, for nearly 20 years. First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, at which time he relinquished the chairmanship to Ben Bernanke. Mr. Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven, "dot-com" economic boom of the 1990s. He remains a leading authority on American domestic economic and monetary policy, and his active influence continues to this day. In 1998 Mr. Greenspan was awarded the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service. The citation read "in recognition of his leadership and his work as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. His wise formation and skillful execution of monetary policy has contributed significantly to the longest period of prosperity in the United States on record." Mr. Greenspan has published several books, including The Age of Turbulence (2007) and The Map and the Territory (2013). He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.

5	Name:	Dr. Seamus Heaney
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2000
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1939
	Death Date:	August 30, 2013

	Born and educated in Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest poet since William Butler Yeats. His carefully crafted work received international praise for its powerful imagery, meaningful content, musical phrasing and compelling rhythms. In 1996, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Educated at St. Columb's College and Queen's University in Belfast, he worked as a teacher at college and university level in Belfast in the 1960s, moving with his family to the Irish Republic in 1972. After some years as an independent writer, he resumed work as a college lecturer. In 1982 he began his long association with Harvard University, coming and going for a term each year until 1996. At that time, he resigned the Boylston Professorship to begin a more flexible affiliation as Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence, a position he resigned in 2007. Between 1989 and 1994 he also served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Since the publication of Death of a Naturalist in 1966, Mr. Heaney produced many works of poetry, criticism and translation. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 appeared in 1998 and Finders Keepers, his selected prose, in 2002. Other recent publications include Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (1998) and Electric Light (2001). His version of Sophocles' Antigone, entitled The Burial at Thebes, was produced as part of the Abbey Theatre's centenary celebrations. In 2007 he won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his latest collection, District and Circle and in 2009 he won the Royal Irish Academy's Cunningham Medal. Seamus Heaney was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2000. He died on August 30, 2013, at the age of 74, in Dublin.

6	Name:	Professor Herma Hill Kay
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	2000
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	504. Scholars in the Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1934
	Death Date:	June 10, 2017

	Herma Hill Kay received a J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School in 1959. She was the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was Dean of the Law School from 1992-2000. Kay was only the second woman hired on the Berkeley Law faculty - when the first announced her plans to retire. But by the time Kay stepped down as dean, the student body was more than 50 percent female. That figure stood at 10 percent in 1969. "[Kay's] mentoring of women law students and young faculty opened the door to legal careers that simply did not exist before she and other women of her generation began to imagine them," wrote Berkeley emerita law professor Eleanor Swift in a 2016 article in the California Law Review. "The women law professors whom she mentored throughout her career constitute her enduring legacy to the law and to legal education." Kay's influence goes far beyond the legal academy, however. She was a driving force behind California's 1969 adoption of so-called no-fault divorce, when she sat on the state's Commission on The Family. California was the first to adopt the rule, which has since been embraced by nearly every other state. She also co-authored the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, which provides a national standard for no-fault divorce. She was a recipient of the Research Award from the American Bar Foundation, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Distinction award of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Marshall-Wythe Medal. She was the author (with M. West) of Text, Cases, and Materials on Sex-Based Discrimination (6th edition, 2006); and of (with D. Currie, L. Kramer and K. Roosevelt) Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions, (7th edition, 2006). Herma Hill Kay was a recognized leader in legal education and also a productive scholar in the important fields of family law, sex-based discrimination, and conflict of laws. Except for visiting professorships elsewhere, she spent her entire 45-year career at the University of California, Berkeley. She presided over such national organizations as the Association of American Law Schools, the Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Order of the Coif and was a valued, long-time member of the Council of the American Law Institute. Her writings in family law won her the prestigious Research Award of the American Bar Foundation in 1990. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. Herma Hill Kay died June 10, 2017, at age 82, in Berkeley, California.

7	Name:	Dr. Arnold J. Levine
	Institution:	Institute for Advanced Study
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1939

	Arnold Levine discovered the p53 tumor suppressor gene and protein in 1979. He and others went on to show that it was the single most common genetic alteration in human cancers. Over the past 20 years Dr. Levine has led our understanding of how p53 prevents cancers and functions. He has chaired the department of microbiology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and the department of molecular biology at Princeton University. Between 1998 and 2002 he was the president and chief executive officer of Rockefeller University. He is now a professor emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. A leader in biomedical sciences, Dr. Levine has won numerous prizes in cancer research and holds six honorary degrees. He chaired the National Institutes of Health committee on AIDS Research budgets in 1995-96. His most recent honors are the American Association for Cancer Research's 2008 Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research, the Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award for his work in defining the molecular basis of tumor suppression, the 2009 American Cancer Society's Medal of Honor, and the 2012 Lars Onsager Medal of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

8	Name:	The Honorable Louis H. Pollak
	Institution:	U.S. District Court
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1922
	Death Date:	May 8, 2012

	Louis H. Pollak was a graduate of Harvard University (1944) and Yale Law School (1948). Following his graduation from law school, Judge Pollak clerked for Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. Between 1950 and 1955, he served as 1) an associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; 2) in the State Department as special assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup; and 3) as Assistant Counsel of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In 1955, Judge Pollak was appointed to the Yale Law School faculty where he remained until 1974, serving as dean from 1965-70. From 1974-78, Judge Pollak was a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, serving as dean from 1975-78. At that time, Judge Pollak was appointed as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Upon becoming a judge, he retired from the full-time University of Pennsylvania faculty, but continued to teach a seminar as an adjunct professor. Constitutional law continued to be the principal focus of Judge Pollak's teaching and scholarly interests. From 1950 until he became a judge, he was associated with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, first as one of the volunteer lawyers assisting Thurgood Marshall in Brown v. Board of Education, and later as a board member and vice president. Judge Pollak also has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1978. In addition to his duties on the bench, he continued to write, including the most recent, "Marbury v. Madison: What Did John Marshall Decide and Why?," published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume #1, March 2004. Judge Pollak was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2000. He died on May 8, 2012, at age 89, at his home in West Mount Airy.

9	Name:	Ms. Rebecca W. Rimel
	Institution:	The Pew Charitable Trusts
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1951

	Rebecca W. Rimel is president and chief executive officer of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit organization driven by the power of knowledge to solve some of today’s most challenging problems. Rebecca Rimel joined The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1983 as health program manager. She became executive director in 1988 and accepted her current position in 1994. As president, she has helped make Pew one of the nation’s most innovative and influential nonprofits. During her 20 years at the helm, Pew has become known for its entrepreneurial, results-based approach. Additionally, Rebecca Rimel serves on the board of directors for the Deutsche Bank Scudder Funds and ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism, as well as the PNC Bank advisory board. She is also a trustee emeritus of Monticello (the Thomas Jefferson Foundation); a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and a member of the American Philosophical Society and its prestigious Wistar Association. Prior to joining Pew, Rebecca Rimel built an exemplary career in health care, specifically in nursing. From 1981 through 1983, she was assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, making her the first nurse to hold a faculty position in the university’s medical school. Along with additional teaching and practitioner positions at the University of Virginia Hospital, she served as head nurse of the medical center’s emergency department. During her tenure, Rebecca Rimel authored and co-authored many scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters pertaining to head injury. Rebecca Rimel earned a bachelor of science degree, with distinction, from the University of Virginia School of Nursing in 1973 and a master of business administration from James Madison University in 1983. In 1982, she was awarded a Kellogg National Fellowship, a four-year professional enrichment opportunity for emerging leaders. In 1988, she received the Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award from the University of Virginia and, in 1999, the University of Virginia Women’s Center Distinguished Alumni Award.

10	Name:	The Honorable Patricia McGowan Wald
	Institution:	Open Society Justice Initiative; War Crimes Tribunal for for former Yugoslavia (The Hague) & U.S. Court of Appeals
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1928
	Death Date:	January 12, 2019

	Patricia M. Wald received her B.A. from Connecticut College for Women and was a 1951 graduate of the Yale Law School. From 1999-2001, Judge Wald served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. Prior to her tenure on the ICTY, she was on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals from 1979-99 and was the Chief Judge from 1986-91. As the first woman to serve on the appeals court, she was known for handling cases involving the rights of women, children and the poor. From 1977-79 she was Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legislative Affairs. Before that she practiced public interest law, was an associate of Arnold and Porter and was a member of national and local criminal policy commissions. Judge Wald was a council member (1978-2009) and was Vice President of the American Law Institute from 1988-98. Later in her life she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative, for which she was formerly a chair. She also served on the President's Commission on Intelligence Capabilities, the independent body that examined U.S. intelligence gathering in light of the war in Iraq. She traveled and consulted with Eastern European judicial and legal organizations as a representative of the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative-American Bar Association. Patricia Wald wrote extensively on judicial administration, women's rights, international and comparative law, legislative history, criminal procedure, juvenile law, administrative law (environmental review), judicial ethics, and mental health law. Important decisions in which she took part include cases involving children's television programming and protest demonstrations at abortion clinics. Judge Wald was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2000. She was awarded the 2013 Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. She died on January 12, 2019 in Washington, DC at the age of 90.

11	Name:	Mr. John F. Welch
	Institution:	General Electric
	Year Elected:	2000
	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:	1935
	Death Date:	March 1, 2020