Class
| • | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Miss Margaret E. Mahoney | | | Institution: | MEM Associates, Inc. | | | 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: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | December 22, 2011 | | | | | | |
Margaret E. Mahoney was President of MEM Associates, Inc, a national not-for-profit organization located in New York City that focused on improving the health and general well-being of Americans. One of its major initiatives, the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, is a partnership of national and local foundations that assist health care systems and professionals in improving the care of children from birth to age three. Before leading MEM Associates, Ms. Mahoney was President of The Commonwealth Fund, where she became the first woman to head a major foundation. She has also served in the United States Department of State, for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her career was devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of issues concerning health, education, the arts and the humanities.
Ms. Mahoney was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the honorary medical society of Alpha Omega Alpha. She served on a number of national boards and was active in New York City in medical affairs. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she held honorary degrees from several colleges and universities and received numerous awards including the American College of Physicians Edward R. Loveland Award.
Margaret Mahoney died on December 22, 2011, at the age of 87, in New York City. | |
| 2 | 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 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Emily Hartshorne Mudd | | | Institution: | Marriage Council of Philadelphia & Pennsylvania | | | 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: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 5/2/98 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | The Honorable Ellen Ash Peters | | | Institution: | University of Connecticut ;Connecticut Supreme Court | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
Ellen Ash Peters has had two professional careers in the law. For 22 years, she taught contracts and commercial law at The Yale Law School. For the following 22 years, she was a member, and, for many years, chief justice, of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Having reached the age of mandatory retirement, she now hears cases on the Connecticut Appellate Court. | |
| 5 | Name: | Mr. Maurice Frederick Strong | | | Institution: | United Nation's University for Peace; Peking University; Environmental Foundation, China; Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia | | | 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: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | November 28, 2015 | | | | | | |
A native of Canada, Maurice Strong grew up during the Great Depression, escaping poverty to become a successful businessman in the oil and utilities industries. He became a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan. In 1972, as director of the U.N. Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, he successfully placed global environmental issues on the international agenda for the first time, and twenty years later, in 1992 he convened the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the largest international conference in history. Attended by 110 heads of state and government, the conference resulted in the adoption of Agenda 21, securing a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on the sustainable development required to bring global population numbers in line with the finite resources of the Earth. At the conference, Mr. Strong called on the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations to extend significant financial aid to developing countries as reparation for a century of industrial development and environmental degradation. Maurice Strong held a number of other prominent positions, including senior advisor to the president of the World Bank; director of the World Economic Forum Foundation; and president and rector of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica where he was President of the Council. Later, Strong spent most of his time in the People's Republic of China. He was an active honorary professor at Peking University and Honorary Chairman of China's Environmental Foundation. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia. He had also presented stirring papers on the relation of poverty in developing countries to their population growth, particularly at the Symposium on Population Problems at the 1987 APS autumn meeting. Maurice Strong died November 28, 2015, at the age of 86. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. P. Roy Vagelos | | | Institution: | Merck & Co., Inc. | | | 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? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | | | | |
Roy Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from 1985-94. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from 1986-94. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. Earlier, he served as Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and as Founding Director of the University's Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Previously he held senior positions in cellular physiology and biochemistry at the National Heart Institute, after internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Dr. Vagelos received the Enzyme Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society in 1967. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Washington University, Brown University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New York University, Columbia University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pamukkale University in Turkey, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of British Columbia; an honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University; and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University. He received the Thomas Alva Edison Award from Thomas Kean, the Lawrence A. Wien Prize from Columbia University, the C. Walter Nicholas Award from New York University's Stern School of Business, the National Academy of Science Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, the Othmer Gold Medal from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the 1999 Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute. His Majesty the King in Bangkok, Thailand awarded the Prince Mahidol Award to Dr. Vagelos in January 1998. Dr. Vagelos was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-99, having served as a trustee since 1988. He also served as Co-Chairman of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center from 1989-99 and was President and CEO of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1999-2001. Dr. Vagelos is a Director of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a Trustee of The Danforth Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Theravance, Inc. and was Chairman of the Review, Planning and Implementation Steering Committee of New Jersey and the Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development. | |
| 7 | Name: | Mr. Cyrus R. Vance | | | Institution: | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | | | 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: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | January 12, 2002 | | | | |
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