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| | 121 | 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. | |
| 122 | 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. | |
| 123 | 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. | |
| 124 | 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. | |
| 125 | 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 | | | | |
| 126 | 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. | |
| 127 | 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 | | | | |
| 128 | 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 | | | | |
| 129 | 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. | |
| 130 | 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). | |
| 131 | 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. | |
| 132 | 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 | |
| 133 | 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. | |
| 134 | Name: | Mr. Bill D. Moyers | | | Institution: | Public Affairs TV, Inc | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
One of the chief inheritors of the Edward R. Murrow tradition of "deep-think" journalism, Bill Moyers has been involved in broadcast journalism for more than 40 years, principally in the areas of investigative documentary and long-form conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers. Formerly a print journalist, ordained Baptist minister, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, and newspaper publisher, Mr. Moyers came to television in 1970, delivering elegantly written and deceptively soft-spoken narrations that came out of the story-telling traditions of his East Texas upbringing. Examining the failings of constitutional democracy in his 1974 Essay on Watergate and exposing governmental illegalities and cover-ups during the Iran Contra scandal, he repeatedly explored countless important issues of of our time, from race, class and gender to the power media images held for a nation of "consumers," not citizens. Mr. Moyers could be said to have explored virtually every aspect of American political, economic and social life in his documentaries. Equally influential was Mr. Moyers' World of Ideas series, in which he used his soft, probing style to talk to a remarkable range of articulate intellectuals on his two foundation-supported interview series on PBS. In discussions that ranged from an hour to, in the case of mythology scholar Joseph Campbell, six hours on the air, Moyers brought to television what he called the "conversation of democracy." He spoke with social critics such as Noam Chomsky and Cornel West, writers such as Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, Mexican poet and novelist Carlos Fuentes and American novelist Toni Morrison, and social analysts like philosopher Mortimer Adler and University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson. Mr. Moyers engaged voices and ideas that had been seldom, if ever, heard on television, and transcribed versions of many of his series often became best selling books as well (Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, 1988; The Secret Government, 1988; A World of Ideas, 1989; A World of Ideas II, 1990, Healing the Mind, 1992). Mr. Moyers' television work is as prolific as his publishing record. In all he produced over 600 hours of programming (filmed and videotaped conversations and documentaries) between 1971 and 1989, and he broadcast another 125 programs between 1989 and 1992. In 1986 he formed his own company, Public Affairs Television, to distribute many of his own shows, and by the early 1990s he had established himself as a significant figure of television talk. Upon receiving the prestigious Gold Baton Award in 1991, Mr. Moyers was referred to as "a unique voice, still seeking new frontiers in television, daring to assume that viewing audiences are willing to think and learn." He was honored with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. After a brief hiatus, Moyers returned to public television in 2012 with "Moyers & Company," continuing in the tradition of his earlier work. | |
| 135 | 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 | | | | |
| 136 | Name: | Secretary Janet Napolitano | | | Institution: | University of California | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | 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: | 1957 | | | | | | |
Janet Napolitano was named the 20th president of the University of California on July 18, 2013, and took office on Sept. 30, 2013. She leads a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program.
As UC president, she has launched initiatives to stabilize in-state tuition and achieve financial stability for the University; improve the community college transfer process; achieve carbon neutrality across the UC system by 2025; accelerate the translation of UC research into products and services; focus UC resources on local and global food issues; and strengthen the University’s engagement with its Mexican peer institutions of higher education. She has also implemented the Fair Wage/Fair Work plan, which established a $15 minimum wage at UC for employees and contract workers - the first for a public university - and implemented a series of reforms to ensure that all UC contractors are complying with wage and workplace condition laws and policies. In 2014, she was appointed a tenured faculty member of UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
Napolitano is a distinguished public servant with a record of leading large, complex organizations. She served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009-13, as Governor of Arizona from 2003-09, as Attorney General of Arizona from 1998-2003, and as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona from 1993-97.
Napolitano earned a B.S. degree (summa cum laude in Political Science) in 1979 from Santa Clara University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, a Truman Scholar, and the university’s first female valedictorian. She received her law degree in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Law. In 2010, she was awarded the prestigious Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal (Law), the University of Virginia’s highest external honor. In 2015, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | |
| 137 | Name: | Mr. Joseph Neubauer | | | Institution: | ARAMARK Corporation | | | 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: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Joseph Neubauer was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ARAMARK until 2012. With sales of approximately $12.4 billion, ARAMARK is a leading provider of a broad range of professional services including food, hospitality, facility, and uniform services. The company has approximately 240,000 employees serving 19 countries in North and South America, Europe and the Far East. Mr. Neubauer joined the company in March 1979 as executive vice president of finance and development, chief financial officer and a member of the Board of Directors. He was elected president in April 1981, chief executive officer in February 1983, and chairman in April 1984. Prior to ARAMARK, Neubauer held senior positions with PepsiCo, Inc. from 1971 to 1979, including senior vice president of PepsiCo's Wilson Sporting Goods Division and vice president and treasurer of the parent company, PepsiCo., Inc. From 1965 to 1971 he was with the Chase Manhattan Bank, serving in several capacities from assistant treasurer to vice president of commercial lending. Mr. Neubauer serves on the Board of Directors of Macy's Inc., Verizon Communications, Wachovia Corporation, the Barnes Foundation, Catalyst and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for Tufts University and the University of Chicago. In 1994 he was inducted into the prestigious Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans and currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. In 2005 he received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. In 2014 he founded, along with his wife, the Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders. In 2007 Mr. Neubauer became a member of the American Philosophical Society. He received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. | |
| 138 | Name: | Ms. Indra K. Nooyi | | | Institution: | Preetara LLC | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | 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: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Indra Nooyi is Former Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo and serves on the Board of Directors of Amazon and AdvanceCT (Co-Chair of the Board; Connecticut Economic Resource Center). She is also Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at West Point. She earned her M.B.A. at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976 and a Master of Public and Private Management at Yale University in 1980. Prior to PepsiCo, she has held positions at Johnson & Johnson, India, The Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, and Asea Brown Boveri.
Indra Nooyi is a highly effective and principled business leader whose work has advanced the interests of her company as well as society. She is known for leading with courage, compassion and a strong moral compass. As the CEO of Pepsico and the President of GMA, the trade organization for her industry, she led the industry in a groundbreaking effort to take empty calories out of packaged food products and to have the results independently evaluated. The result was an overall reduction of approximately 4 Trillion calories which has the potential to positively impact population health. She took her stand on empty calories against the opposition of many in her industry. The importance of Indra Nooyi’s influence in this accomplishment cannot be overstated.
Her honors include: 2nd on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women List, 2015; Bower Award for Business Leadership, Franklin Institute, 2019; Outstanding Woman in Business Award, League of Women Voters of Connecticut. 2020. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2008). She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021. | |
| 139 | Name: | Mr. John Bertram Oakes | | | Institution: | New York Times | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | 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: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | April 5, 2001 | | | | |
| 140 | Name: | President Barack Obama | | | 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: | 1961 | | | | | | |
Barack Obama (Barack Hussein Obama II), fourty-fourth president of the United States, was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Though he was largely raised in Hawaii, he also spent time in Indonesia and in Washington State during his childhood.
He attended Occidental College for two years, before transferring to Columbia University. He received a B.A. degree from Columbia in 1983. From 1985-88 Obama worked as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. As director of the Developing Communities Project he worked with several area churches to organize job training, create education and employment opportunities for young people, and advocate for tenant rights.
After entering Harvard Law School in 1988 he became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991 with a J.D. degree. Following his graduation Obama began working at University of Chicago Law School, as lecturer from 1992-96 and as senior lecturer from 1996-2004. During this time in Chicago he served on the boards of several Chicago non-profits and in 1992 directed Illinois's Project Vote. He was an attorney with a civil rights law firm from 1993-2004. In 1995 Barack Obama's book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance was published. The book received great acclaim and was republished in 2004.
He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996. He lost a primary campaign for Congress in 2000 but was elected a United States Senator in 2004. During the campaign, in July 2004, he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. In 2006 his second book, The Audacity of Hope, was published.
On February 10, 2007 Barack Obama announced his campaign from President. Obama won the Democratic Party nomination and defeated John McCain in the general election held on November 4, 2008. Barack Obama served as President of the United States from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017. His administration's oversaw economic recovery and growth following the 2008 financial crisis, including a significant reduction of unemployment. One of Obama's signature domestic policy accomplishments was healthcare reform. In the foreign policy arena, his administration's achievements include the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, normalization of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and a renewed focus on America's relationships in the Pacific region. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
Since leaving office Obama has advocated for climate issues, disaster relief efforts, and civic engagement. His Obama Foundation trains and supports civic leaders through programs like Community Leadership Corps, My Brother's Keeper Alliance, and the Obama Foundation Scholars and Fellowship programs. | |
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