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1	Name:	The Honorable Nancy Kassebaum Baker
	Institution:	U. S. Senate
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1932

	Nancy Landon Kassebaum was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1932. In 1954 she received a B.A. in political science from the University of Kansas and in 1956 a Masters in Diplomatic History from the University of Michigan. In 1978 she was elected to the United States Senate from Kansas and served three terms, retiring in 1997. During her Senate tenure, she served as Chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee on African Affairs, and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation. In 1996 she married Howard Baker, formerly U.S. Senate Majority Leader, White House Chief of Staff under President Reagan, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Prior to living in Japan from 2001-2005, Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker served on the Board of Trustees for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation. She is past Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health, the George C. Marshall Foundation, and the American-Turkish Council. She served as the U.S. Commissioner on Prime Minister Blair's Commission for Africa. She has four children and seven grandchildren.

2	Name:	Dr. W. Robert Connor
	Institution:	The Teagle Foundation & National Humanities Center
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1934

	W. Robert Connor is a classicist and former president and director of the National Humanities Center. From 2003 to 2009 he served as president of the Teagle Foundation, an organization dedicated to strengthening higher education, where he is now a Senior Advisor. Dr. Connor holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he also taught Greek and Roman history from 1964-89, retiring as Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus. He has also taught at the University of Michigan. Dr. Connor has long provided energetic and imaginative leadership in sustaining the best humanistic scholarship and has played an important role in affirming the importance of the humanities to American society. During his tenure at the helm of the National Humanities Center, Dr. Connor oversaw the Center's internationally recognized fellowship program; strengthened its initiatives to improve college and secondary school education; and encouraged its outreach to wide national audiences through effective public programs. During his administration, the center's permanent strength was significantly augmented. During his presidency of the Teagle Foundation, he focused on the systematic improvement of undergraduate learning in the liberal arts and sciences. His leadership gave impetus to national efforts as well as to projects on individual campuses. In particular the New Leadership for Student Learing and Accountability initiative derived in large part from his insistence on a concerted, proactive national strategy for improving student learning. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1992), Dr. Connor is also the author of numerous works on Athenian political and cultural history, including Thucydides (1984), a study of the ancient historical writer.

3	Name:	The Duke of Devonshire
	Institution:	Eleventh Duke of Devonshire
	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? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	May 3, 2004

4	Name:	Professor Rita Dove
	Institution:	University of Virginia
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1952

	Rita Dove served as the Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993-95. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 2008 Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2006 Common Wealth Prize, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1996 National Humanities Medal, and Oregon State University's 2016 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2012 and Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois medal in 2019. Born in Akron, Ohio in 1952, Ms. Dove received her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. She has published the poetry collections The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), Museum (1983), Thomas and Beulah (1986), Grace Notes (1989), Selected Poems (1993), Mother Love (1995), On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), American Smooth (2006), Sonata Mulattica (2009), a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985), the novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992) essays under the title The Poet's World (1995), and Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (2016). Ms. Dove is also the author of the play The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its world premiere in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theatre in London and other theatres. Seven for Luck, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra with music by John Williams, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. For "America's Millennium", the White House's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Ms. Dove contributed, in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial accompanied by John Williams's music, a poem to Steven Spielberg's documentary The Unfinished Journey. As a player of the viola de gamba, Ms. Dove is fond of incorporating music into her poetry. She is currently Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2018 she became Poetry Editor at the New York Times Magazine, introducing the readership to a new poem each week.

5	Name:	Dr. Stanley N. Katz
	Institution:	Princeton University
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1934

	Stanley N. Katz is a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Educated at Harvard University, he received his Ph.D. in history in 1961. Dr. Katz is a recognized expert on American legal and constitutional history as well as philanthropy and non-profit institutions. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Society for Legal History and as vice president of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Copyright Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. In addition to these duties and his teaching responsibilities, he publishes frequently in professional journals such as Common Knowledge and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Stanley Katz was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1996. He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama.

6	Name:	Dr. Ralph Landau
	Institution:	Stanford University & Listowel, Inc.
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1916
	Death Date:	April 6, 2004

7	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? :	Living
	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.

8	Name:	Dr. Theodore R. Sizer
	Institution:	Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1932
	Death Date:	October 21, 2009

	Among America's leading educational reformers, Theodore R. Sizer is currently Professor Emeritus in Education at Brown University. He is the founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), an organization dedicated to creating and sustaining equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to making such schools the norm of American public education. From 1964-72, Dr. Sizer was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Later, he was headmaster of Phillips Academy (Andover, MA) from 1972-81. In 1983, he joined the faculty of Brown University, where he served as founding director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and founded CES. Later, Dr. Sizer served with his wife, Nancy Faust Sizer, as co-principal of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, MA. Among Dr. Sizer's several books, those of his "Horace" series (e.g., Horace's Compromise) on school reform are classics in the field. They center on the professional challenges of a fictional high-school English teacher named Horace Smith. His most recent book is The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education (2004). A historian by training, he was educated at Yale (B.A.) and Harvard (M.A.T., Ph.D.) Universities. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees.

9	Name:	Mr. Edgar S. Woolard
	Institution:	DuPont
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1934

	Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. was born in North Carolina in 1934. He graduated from North Carolina State University in 1956 with an industrial engineering degree and took a job at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant the next year. He quickly demonstrated an aptitude for management, and during the 1960s he held supervisory positions at Kinston, Wilmington and Old Hickory. As managing director of the Textile Marketing Division during the economic downturn of the mid-1970s, Woolard took a hard look at DuPont's corporate performance. His conclusion was that the company could no longer depend on big scientific breakthroughs and huge manufacturing facilities. Instead he focused on lowering costs and streamlining the production process. In the late 1970s, as general manager of Textile Fibers, Woolard worked closely with customers and suppliers in pursuit of more efficient textile manufacturing. After he was elected executive vice president and appointed to the Board of Directors in 1983, Woolard streamlined management and production in three other departments: Agricultural Chemicals, Photo Products and the Medical Division. Woolard was elected president and chief operating officer in 1987 and chief executive officer two years later, a period when DuPont faced economic recession, the loss of important markets to competitors, and a possible takeover. To streamline corporate decision making, Woolard eliminated the Executive Committee and directed department managers to report directly to the CEO. These measures cut corporate costs $3 billion between 1991 and 1994. Woolard also initiated DuPont's joint venture with Merck Pharmaceutical and major investments in new agricultural chemicals. Woolard retired from DuPont in December 1995.