Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born March 19, 1944) is the elder of the two daughters of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. Lynda Bird was engaged to Bernard Rosenbach before she met the actor George Hamilton, who himself had been engaged to Susan Kohner. In 1966, Lynda Bird and Hamilton began dating. Because of an increase in Secret Service protection of Presidential relatives resulting from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, …

Leland Livingston Sage (April 23, 1899 - February 16, 1989) was an American professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Iowa. He was deeply interested in Iowa history, and wrote two books on it, both of which won national recognition from the American Association for State and Local History. In 1983, Sage was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Born in Magnolia, Arkansas, to Jesse A. and Mary C. (Livingston) Sage, …

John August Swanson (b. 1938) is an American visual artist working primarily in the medium of serigraphy, as well as oil, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, lithography, and etching. He is based in Los Angeles, California, the city of his birth. Swanson studied with Corita Kent at Immaculate Heart College. He is the recipient of a Doctor of Humane Letters degree honoris causa from California Lutheran University. He has collaborated on a number of books.

Laurie Perry Cookingham, more commonly known as L.P. Cookingham or L. Perry Cookingham, (October 23, 1896-July 22, 1992) was a noted public administrator in the United States having served as City Manager of Kansas City, Missouri for 19 years, a tenure longer than anyone else has served as city manager in any city in the United States.

Sir Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, GBE, D.Litt, D.C.L, LL.D, L.H.D. (June 5, 1894 - August 4, 1976) was a newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur. Thomson was born in Toronto, the son of Herbert Thomson, an Ontario barber. Herbert Thomson was a telegraphist turned barber at the Grosvenor Hotel in Toronto and married English born Alice Coombs. He was born in Toronto to Hugh Thomson and Mary Nichol Sylvester.

He joined the Navy and served at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. It was there that he realized the importance of education and he finished his equivalency diploma through correspondence courses. In 1961, he won a track and field scholarship to the Temple University in Philadelphia. There, he studied physical education and was part of the track team and the football team.

Ellen Burstyn 's illustrious career encompasses film, stage, and television. In 1975, she became only the third woman in history to win both the Tony Award and the Academy Award in the same year, for her work in Bernard Slade 's Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and in Martin Scorsese 's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination and a British Academy Award for Best Actress.

Bruce McPherson became California's 30th Secretary of State on March 30, 2005. After being nominated by the Governor, he was unanimously confirmed by the State Senate and Assembly. Over the past year Secretary McPherson has led the charge to restore trust and confidence to the Office of Secretary of State.

Elder Russell M. Nelson was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 7, 1984. ... An internationally renowned surgeon and medical researcher, Dr. Nelson received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Utah (1945, 47). Honorary scholastic societies include Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha.

Phyllis Tickle (Founding Advisor 2000-2004) Phyllis Tickle , for many years contributing editor in religion to Publishers Weekly , the international journal of the book industry, is frequently quoted in sources like Newsweek , TIME , The New York Times , USAToday , CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, and The Hallmark Channel. Tickle is an authority on religion in America and a much sought after lecturer on the subject.

Ruth Messinger , president and director of American Jewish World Service "It's a tragedy of immense proportions. We haven't begun to experience or understand it yet. It's a situation experienced in other countries, where everyone you know is going to know someone who died. There's going to be a need for a lot of attention and loving and caring for each other," said Messinger.

Brent Scowcroft President, The Scowcroft Group, Inc. Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force (retired)

Dr. Angelo Collins is the former associate director of the National Center for Mathematics and Science and the former director of the National Science Education Standards Project. Her research focuses on assessing students' understanding of scientific models and teacher professional development.

Morris W. Offit Co-Chief Executive Officer Offit Hall Capital Management LLC Founder and Former

Rhoda H. Karpatkin Consumers Union President Emeritus

William Davidson is Chairman, President and CEO of Guardian Industries Corp., a company of 19,000 employees located in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Winkler was not academically gifted all through elementary school and high school. His problems in school were later attributed to dyslexia, which he learned to manage well enough to receive a bachelor's degree from Emerson College in 1967 and a master of fine arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1970. He later received a Ph.D. in Hebrew literature in 1978 from Emerson College.

Before coming to Vassar in 1946, Madame Wolkonsky headed the French Department of Knox Junior College from 1925 to 1942 and then served as a Russian instructor at Cornell. In 1942 she joined the faculty of Connecticut College where she established the Russian department. The same year that Madame Wolkonsky came to Vassar she also started work on the steering committee of the American Council of Learned Societies, which was working on the Anthology of the Russian Character.

Jerry Kaye is the Director of the Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc , Wisconsin as the head of the Union for Reform Judaism Youth Department for the Great Lakes Region. Jerry served as a member of the Brandeis University Professional Advisory Committee on Informal Education and has authored numerous works relating to Jewish education, self-esteem and youth.

Jerry Kaye is the Director of the Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc , Wisconsin as the head of the Union for Reform Judaism Youth Department for the Great Lakes Region. Jerry served as a member of the Brandeis University Professional Advisory Committee on Informal Education and has authored numerous works relating to Jewish education, self-esteem and youth.