- Eduardo Ermita
Eduardo R. Ermita, the current Executive Secretary of the Philippines, was born on July 13, 1935 in Balayan, Batangas. Ermita took his Defense Resource Management Course at Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California, U.S.A. from 1978-1979; Command and General Staff Course, Fort Bonifacio, 1974; Unit Psychological Officers Course, Kennedy Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1970-1971; Special forces Course, Fort Magsaysay, 1962-1963; Counterintelligence Course, … - Marcos Espinal
Marcos Espinal , Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Marcos Espinal is the Executive Secretary of the Global Partnership to Stop TB. He joined WHO in 1997 to lead the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance and the building of a strategy to manage MDR-TB in resource-limited countries. From 2000 he managed the DOTS-Plus initiative for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including the Green Light Committee. - James Forman
James Forman (October 4, 1928 - January 10, 2005) was an African-American Civil Rights leader active in both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party. - Adebayo Adedeji
Adebayo Adedeji was United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa until 1991. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Professor Adebayo Adedeji –– B.Sc (Economics) London, MPA (Harvard),Ph.D (Economics) London, D.Sc (Econ) Honoris Causa (OAU), LLD Honoris Causa, (Dalhousie University, Canada), University of Zambia and University of Calabar(Nigeria), Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) Honoris Causa, … - Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career. - Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. - Livingston Farrand
Livingston Farrand, M.D., LL.D. (June 14, 1867 - November 8, 1939) was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and academic administrator. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received in undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D.. He attended the universities of Cambridge and Berlin. - Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment. - Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York - died July 15, 1951) a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP. Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church were supporters of women's rights and had been involved in anti-slavery movement. Educated at Packer Collegiate Institute and Radcliffe College, … - Roy I. Sano
Roy Isao Sano (born 1931) is a retired Japanese-American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984. Sano was born on 18 June 1931 in Brawley, California, of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. Upon the death of their third child, Roy's parents were converted to Christianity. When Roy was eleven, his family was sent to Poston Concentration Camp, and then to Pennsylvania under the sponsorship of a Quaker family, where they worked as farm workers. - Kevin Warsh
Kevin M. Warsh (born April 13, 1970) is a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was nominated to that position by President George W. Bush in early 2006, and the United States Senate confirmed the nomination soon thereafter. He took office on February 24, 2006 to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2018. - Adama Dieng
Adama Dieng (born May 22 1950, Senegal) is a former board member of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda - Enrique V. Iglesias
Born May 8, 1975 in Madrid, Spain, Enrique Iglesias has followed in his father's large footsteps with even larger footsteps of his own. The hot singer that just released his first English language album has had a long history in the music industry and already is the best selling Latin recording artist in the world, though Ricky Martin may claim the same distinction. Enrique released his first album in 1995 although secretly had been planning the release since the age of 16. - Robert W. Funk
Robert W. Funk (July 18, 1926-September 3 2005), an American biblical scholar, was founder of the controversial Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California. Funk, an academic, sought to promote research and education on what he called biblical literacy. His approach to hermeneutics was historical-critical, with a strongly skeptical view of orthodox Christian belief, particularly concerning the historicity of Jesus. - Eric Wyndham White
Sir Eric Wyndham White (1913 - 1980) was a British administrator and economist. He was founder and first executive secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade between 1948 and 1965. He was the first director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 1965 to 1968. - Murray Thomson
Murray McCheyne Thomson (born 1922) was the 1990 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in peacekeeping. - William Bowie
William Bowie, B.S., C.E., M.A. (May 6, 1872-August 25, 1940) was an American engineer born at Annapolis Junction, Md., and educated at St. John's College, Trinity, and Lehigh. In 1895 he entered the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. During World War I he served in the Corps of Engineers in the army as a major. He represented the United States at various international geodetic conferences and congresses. - Bill Phipps
Bill has worked as a poverty lawyer, pastor, community organizer, hospital chaplain and an adult educator. Between 1974 and 1983, Bill was minister of Trinity-St. Paul's United Church in downtown Toronto. He then served for ten years in an administrative position as Executive Secretary with the United Church's Alberta and Northwest Conference. Bill has been a minister at Scarboro United Church in Calgary since 1993. - Elihu Harris
Elihu Mason Harris is a U.S. Democratic Party politician. He gained national attention by being the first major party politician to lose a state legislative race to a Green Party candidate, when he lost a race for California State Assembly to Audie Bock in 1999. Harris received a Master of Public Policy from University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and law degree from UC Davis School of Law in 1975. He had occupied the office of Mayor of Oakland from 1991 until 1999. - Michael Hollingshead
Michael Hollingshead was a British-born researcher in psychedelic drugs and hallucinogens including psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide, among others, at Harvard University in the mid-twentieth century. He was the Executive Secretary for the Institute of British-American Cultural Exchange in 1961. Dr. John Beresford received a package of LSD from Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland at a time when it was still legal to use in experiments, … - Arkady Filippenko
Arkady Filippenko was a Soviet Ukrainian composer. - Alvin L. Barry
Alvin L. Barry was president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod from 1992 until his death. He was the only president of the LCMS to die in office. He previously served as president of the Synod's Iowa District East from 1982 to 1992. - Ralph Arthur Bohlmann
Ralph Arthur Bohlmann (born February 20 1932 in Palisade, Nebraska) is the former president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, having held that office from 1981 to 1992. - Lucius C. Clark
Lucius C. Clark (born June 4, 1869, Grundy County, Iowa; died March 27, 1949, Washington, D.C.) was Chancellor of American University from 1922 until 1932. Clark received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell College in 1893, and was ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1894 to 1913, he was pastor of several Methodist churches in Iowa. In 1913, Clark moved to Washington and became pastor of the Hamline Methodist Church. - Phil Hardberger
Phil Hardberger was elected Mayor of San Antonio on June 7, 2005. A veteran public servant, Hardberger was the first Mayor in modern San Antonio history ever to have been elected from outside the City Council. A Texas native, Hardberger served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force where he piloted the B-47 bomber. He then went on to serve as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Peace Corps and as Assistant Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. - Rose Perica Mofford
Rose Mofford (born June 10, 1922 in Globe, Arizona), served as Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arizona from 1988 to 1991. She was the state's first female governor. She has Croatian descent. She was born Rose Perica, and attended Globe High School, graduating not only as valedictorian, but with the highest GPA ever achieved there. She was also a gifted athlete who played competitive fast-pitch softball. - Kathie M. Thomas
Kathie M. Thomas pioneered the Virtual Assistant industry in Australia and established the first VA network in the southern hemisphere. She started operating a home-based secretarial business in March 1994 and first went online in January 1996. In April 1996 she started a network of operators as her workload grew, bringing on board other women who also wanted to work from home as she was doing. - Parren J. Mitchell
Parren J. Mitchell , the first black representative from Maryland, was born in Baltimore on April 29, 1922. After graduating from Douglas High School in Baltimore in 1940, he entered the United States Army. In 1942, serving as a commissioned officer and company commander with the Ninety-second Infantry Division, he received a purple heart during the Italian Campaign. - Patricia Green
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Skip Gray 's UK Tuba-Euphonium Studio Skip Gray joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky School of Music in the fall of 1980 and was promoted to the rank of Professor of Music in 1991. He has appeared as a tuba soloist and clinician throughout North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. He has also served as Principal Tuba with the Lexington Philharmonic since 1980. - James Allen Zimble
Dr. Zimble then was sent to the Naval Hospital in Lemoore, California, where he was the Chief of OB/GYN and the Director of Clinical Service. He remained there from 1972 to 1976. From 1976 to 1978, he was assigned as Director of Clinical Services at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Following this, and until 1981, he was Commanding Officer of the Naval Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida. - Fern Schair
Fern Schair , the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Feerick Center, currently serves as Senior Vice President of the American Arbitration Association. Fern served as Executive Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1982 to 1997), as Director of Civil Justice Programs at the Fund for the City of New York (1997 to 1998), and as Program Development Officer for the Soros Foundation - Open Society Institute (1998 to 2000).
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