USDA Soil Conservation Service; served on the U.S.S. Midway during World War II.

Director of marketing research at Stanley Tool Works; author of five books on marketing, including Do-it-Yourself Marketing Research; adjunct professor at the Miami of Ohio School of Business; lieutenant in the Navy Air Corps during World War II.

Founder and president of Berg & Co., which provides investment banking and financial advisory services for such institutions as Massachusetts General Hospital and the Children’s Hospital; member of the Republican Senatorial Trust; former president and trustee of an independent school; nominated to be the assistant secretary of domestic finance of the U.S. Treasury; certified mortgage banker of the Bankers Association of America.

Associate dean of students at Penn State University; president and vice president of the American Association of University Women; founder and president of the League of Women Voters in State College; board director of the Associated Charities of State College; Centre County commissioner; executive director of the Girl Scouts of Genesee Valley.

Worked at Midwest Research Institute and Butler Manufacturing Co.; served in the U.S. Navy as a landing craft radar and sonar technician during World War II.

Lawyer at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco.

Established the Department of Philosophy at Western Illinois University in 1959; served as chair of the department through 1982.

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Auburn University; assistant director for Public Administration Research and associate professor of political science at the University of Mississippi for 18 years; captain in the Naval Reserve.

One of the original five employees of Microsoft; aided in designing the BASIC and COBOL computer programs; donated to Lifelong AIDS Alliance, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Accountant and financial executive in San Jose, CA, New York City, and St. Louis; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, as a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific.

Co-chairman of the board of the Charmer Sunbelt Group, a major wine and spirits distributor; chairman of the board of directors for the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; assistant U.S. attorney.

Proprietor of a private surgical practice for over forty years; chairman of the department of surgery, president of the medical staff, and member of the board at Manchester Memorial Hospital; physician and surgeon with George Patton's army in World War II; awarded the Bronze Star for valiant efforts.

Teacher and author; gay rights activist; led the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center.

Physicist; head of the technical intelligence group for the Manhattan Project; government historian; outspoken critic of supersonic commercial airlines and the “Star Wars” missile defense system.

Co-owner of Roos-Frick, Inc. for over 25 years; worked at International Multi-Foods and Jostens; served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Partner in the advertising firm Norman Craig & Kummel; during WWII, served as first lieutenant in the Office of Strategic Services.

Harvard Law School professor; became one of the world's top legal specialists in international law; played an important role in the development of human rights laws and laws that govern the world's oceans.

Founding partner of venture capital firm HLM Venture Partners; partner at Harvard Management Company; former president and director of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Owned and operated the Table Mountain ski area; helped to develop the Telluride ski resort; during WWII, helped design planes with Douglass Aircraft.

President of the medical staff at Manchester Memorial Hospital; chemist.

Artist; professor emeritus of the art department at San Francisco State University.

Technical director of Harvard College theater programs; founder and operator of the freshman arts program at Harvard.

Technical director of Harvard College Theatre Programs since 1993; founder and director of Harvard College’s Freshman Arts Program; worked on lighting for the original Woodstock festival and the Boston Ballet; designed lights to coax penguins into mating at the New England Aquarium; patented an original theater lighting system.

Vice president and general manager of Hoerner Box, Inc.; founded and served as president and C.E.O. of Southwest Packaging Inc.

Accountant and financial executive; served in the Navy during WWII as a Lieutenant Commander.

Worked in management at Safeway Food Stores; served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, where he was a first lieutenant on the U.S.S. Midway.

Professor and chair of the classics department at UCLA; lieutenant commander of the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific.

Engineer; mapped Alaska while in the Army Corps of Engineers; worked for Vitro Engineering and PepsiCo; spent the majority of his career at General Electric.

Senior buyer with Sears, Roebuck, and Co.; piece goods consultant for a Florida garment manufacturer.

C.E.O. and president of EBASCO Services, Inc., a civil engineering company.

C.E.O. of retail giant Sears, Roebuck and Co.; set up Sears’ legal department; oversaw the planning and construction of the Sears Tower.

Marine insurance executive; president of the Marine Underwriters Association; volunteer accountant at Kara, a Palo Alto grief counseling agency.

Surgeon; gynecologist; chief of staff at Presbysterian Hospital; neurosurgical specialist in the Army Medical Corps during WWII.

Professor of literature; taught at Lewis and Clark College, Southwest Missouri State University, and the University of Toledo; published author and editor.

Chef; started a catering business; drove a taxi; wrote poetry and short stories; taught second grade.

Ran an accounting and tax practice in Kansas City; worked in an investment management practice; served as president of Radcliffe Alumnae in Kansas City.

Psychologist in private practice; chief of the Nerve Clinic at the New England Medical Center; psychologist in the Army during WWII; professor at Windham College; rabbi.

Founder and CEO of the land preservation and sustainable development company Qroe Corporation; served in the Army from 1952 to 1954.

Director of production for nonprofit educational Channel 13 of New York’s public television; C.E.O of Los Angeles public television station KCET.

Worked for the F.B.I.; served in the Navy during WWII; worked as counsel to the Arab-American Oil Company; worked in the trust department of Coahoma National Bank.

Worked for the Container Corporation of America and for Republic Steel; ran Cook International, Cook Steel, and Investors Services; served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve.

Worked for health care provider Kaiser Permanente; served in the Army during the Korean Conflict.

Ran the O’Shea Insurance Agency; helped open a home for disabled adults in Ipswich.

Worked at the International Volunteer Service in Laos; worked with the UASAID Public Works Division; founded Earthwise Design architectural firm.

A radio and television broadcaster; the first Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado.

Editor and writer for the Green Bay Press-Gazette; lawyer specializing in mediation.

Assistant D.A. for L.A. County in appellate and consumer protection; started the National Center for Computer Crime Data; worked as an attorney specializing in worker's compensation and disability.

Partner of the Boston-based hedge fund C Squared Capital.

Served in the Army Air & Airways Communication Service from 1945 to 1947; worked as an architect with multiple architectural firms.

Served in the Army as a radio operator during WWII; worked for the heating company Weil-McLain; worked in commercial real estate.

Worked briefly at the investment bank Allen & Company; entrepreneur in the fast food industry.

Lawyer; did volunteer work for the Braille Institute.

Enlisted in the Navy during WWII, rising to the rank of lieutenant J.G.; senior engineer at the Montana Power Company.

Collector of rare books and records from sea voyages during the Age of Exploration, including books and maps from Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, James Cook, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Founder and co-editor of The New York Review of Books; edited Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl.”

Professor emeritus of creative management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; founder and director of the Wharton Real Estate Center.

Vice president and first general counsel of Harvard University; in 1978, wrote a brief that convinced the Supreme Court that an affirmative action program for college admissions was constitutional.

Co-headed “Ditz Bros.” tractor distributorship; founded Ditz-Crane Homes, a house-building construction company; president and director of the McKesson Property Group; president of McKesson Chemical Company; served as a naval officer during WWII.

Executive partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Banker; branch manager with Citizens & Southern Bank in Atlanta; division manager in ‘specialized loans,’ which included financing thoroughbred horses, for First Security National Bank; vice president at countless other banks as well; established Edgar Hunt and Associates, a financial consulting firm.

The first African American firefighter with the Richmond Fire Department; served in the Peace Corps as a senior U.S. foreign service officer in Colombia, Panama, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and Mexico.

Chairman of Capital-Gazette Communications Inc.; published Washingtonian, the Capital, and five community papers; former president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; served as assistant general to NATO; worked as a counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense.

Devoted his life to public service.

Taught in the Holyoke school system; worked as the administrative assistant for the National Felt Company of Easthampton.

Partner and executive vice president of Dwyer-Curlett & Co., a commercial mortgage banking firm; served as a fighter pilot in the Air Force during WWII.

Worked for a contractor; Co-founded LEK Consulting, served as managing partner of LEK’s Asia-Pacific region; served on the Board of Directors of Santos Ltd., a major oil and gas exploration and production company.

An electronics engineer with the U.S. Coast Guard during WWII; engineer on postwar projects including the development of the Minuteman Missile and on the Apollo Program.

Conscientious objector in WWII, attorney, FBI agent, realty owner, Palo Alto, Calif.

WWII Navy lieutenant, South Pacific; investment advisor, Buffalo, NY.

Served in the Marines and in the Navy.

OB/GYN at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, who advocated the presence of fathers in the delivery room and promoted natural childbirth when anesthesia was still standard; served in the Army as a medical officer; taught at both Harvard and Boston University medical schools.

Owned Edward Morrill & Son Rare Books; helped to found the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America; served in the Army in WWII and was stationed in Japan upon the conclusion of the war.

An ethnomusicologist who devoted himself to the study of Native American music, and a pacifist with strong objections to WWII, the Vietnam War, and the current war in Iraq.

WWII Army Lieutenant, cemetery manager in the Boston area.

A World War II fighter pilot who went on to pursue a career in mortgage banking; collected WWII survival gear.

Psychiatrist, University of Alabama; Episcopal priest

Psychiatrist for dismissed pedophilic priest John Geoghan; taught at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard Medical School; served in the Air Force as a flight surgeon.

Sociologist; Served as an Army researcher during WWII; taught at Cornell University and the University of Irvine.

Employee of Gulf Oil for 35 years; U.S. Representative to NATO and the Strategic Petroleum Board; WWII U.S. Army Captain.

Employed for 37 years by defense contractor Northrop Grumman; later worked for two different automobile body manufacturers and for a storage and shelving company; helped to found the consulting organization APAC Trading.

Banking executive, oil and gas entreprenneur; Michigan National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserves.

Practiced psychiatry in San Francisco for 29 years.

Professor of internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; editor of the Western Regional Journal of Medicine and other medical publications; served in the medical corps of the Army during WWII.

Worked as a nurse in Boston, Seattle and Los Angeles; taught in the nursing program at the Community College of Allegheny County.

A rear admiral and chief of the office of health services for the U.S. Coast Guard; served in the Army during WWII; director of chronic diseases for the Public Health Service.

Lawyer who discovered that the pain reliever Vioxx increases heart attack and stroke risk; won a $253.5 million verdict against Merck, the corporation that manufactured the drug; taught at the Hotchkiss School.

Taught French at Emmanuel College in Boston.

Professor of farm management at the University of Illinois; During WWII, served as an officer in the Army and worked for the U.S. Departments of Defense and of State as an agricultural production specialist in Germany; authored and contributed to many University of Illinois publications, including the national publication "All About Us.”

Chemist whose work centered around plastics; owner of Premium Plastics, Inc.; served as a First Lieutenant in the Army during WWII.

Executive with Lennon and Newall, a New York advertising firm; worked in the retail field; served in the Navy during WWII as a Lieutenant, J.G.

Materials contract negotiator with General Dynamics for 29 years; Rancher; served as a Marine in the Korean War.

Worked on the international level for power company and for an electric motor company; managed sectors of the food and beverage industry; founded trucking company Fenix, Inc.; broadcast Chicago radio program “Quiz Kids;” served as an Army staff intelligence officer.

Lawyer at Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster and Russell.

Sales engineer for the Bendix Corporation and for I.T.T..

Traffic manager for the N.Y., N.H. & Hartford R.R. and for Kaman Aerospace Corp.; served in the Coast Guard on active duty from 1940 to 1944 and later in the reserves, rising to the rank of Captain; adjunct professor in the marketing department of the Austin Dunham Barney School of Business and Administration.

Environmental activist; ran a coed day camp; taught gymnastics; instructed in Red Cross swimming and First Aid; led Cub and Girl Scout troops; homemaker; taught at Bellow Falls Middle School; developed an alternative educational program for children.

Doctor specializing in occupational and environmental medicine; held executive positions in occupational medicine with the U.S. Postal Service; medical director of the occupational and environmental department at Boston Medical Center.

Worked as a postmaster for the U.S. Postal Service for twenty years; a decorated World War II veteran who lost a leg in the war, received both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

Profession: Headed the R. L. Whipple construction company for nearly 30 years; restored Worcester's Mechanics Hall, a national historic landmark.

Teacher and chair of the board at Teachers College at Columbia University.

Began work as a printer at 12 years old, in 1926; continued this career until selling his printing shop in 1999, having printed over 200 items in the process; taught English at Syracuse University in New York, Hamline University in St. Paul and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Did marketing and strategy work for Boston Consulting Group, IBM and Microsoft; homemaker; volunteered with Social Venture Partners.

Developer and development manager in Microsoft Office.

Worked for the Red Cross.

Bank of America public relations officer; part owner and operator of a heavy equipment company; a highly decorated WWII veteran of the medical department of the Army.

Managing partner of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge law firm; president of the Military Air Transport Association; served in WWII, becoming a highly decorated combat pilot and earning the rank of full colonel; served on the board of Emerson Electric Co., a defense contractor.

The military played a large role in the life of Frederick Brown. His career began at a torpedo station in Newport, Rhode Island, and then progressed to the radiation lab at MIT. For thirty years, he serviced Hanscom Air Force Base in Beford, Mass.

Richard Breed received his A.B. from Harvard in 1946, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School four years later. He served in the Army during WWII, and was decorated with both a Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart. Until his retirement, he worked as a partner in the family-owned Farquhar & Black Insurance Agency.

Worked for the agricultural company Monsanto; worked for advertising agencies; taught advertising, marketing, and marketing research at Saint Louis University and at the University of Missouri at St. Louis; served in the Navy during WWII; served in the Naval and Coast Guard Reserves; served in the Korean War.

Professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in neuroscience; served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps.

Texas farmer, rancher, and businessman; president of Tindall Cotton, a cotton import and export firm; president of the Lubbock Cotton Exchange; served on the board of the Texas Cotton Association; served in World War II.

Served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy; became fluent in Russian and Japanese; worked for the Library of Congress.

Investment salesman for the Tucker, Anthony, & R.L. Day brokerage firm; World War II Army veteran.

Employed by helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky's; worked for the Bristol Co.; worked at First Union Bank; WWII Navy veteran.

Elected by the U.S. government to serve as a civil engineer in Germany; WWII Army veteran; deputy director of the National Association of Farmer Elected Committees prior to his retirement in 1972; the first County Administrator for Atlantic County.