Joined the Massachusetts National Guard, Yankee Division, in 1939; served as an intelligence officer in the 494th Field Artillery, 12th Armored Hellcat Division; was a liaison officer to the Free French Army; retired as a major; spent two years in army hospitals; established an independent insurance agency in Framingham, Mass.; founding partner of Chandler, Hoover and Giles Insurance Agency in Newton Centre, Mass.

Architect in hotel design, nationally and internationally; president of Jutras, Nobili, Dougenik of Duxbury, Mass.

Taught a wide variety of college English courses at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, Portland OIC, Portland Community College, Mount Hood Community College, and most recently at the Kent campus of Green River Community College, where he received recognition for his outstanding teaching; had a series of articles on political analysis published in the Vancouver Columbian newspaper and served as the Department Secretary for the State Department of Rural Sociology; taught high school for two years.

A.M. Harvard, 1953; A.B. Harvard, 1947.

Emeritus Professor of English and State University of New York Exchange Scholar; international authority on Robert Burns and the cultural history of 18th century Scotland; taught at Harvard University, the University of Colorado, St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin, TX), the University of South Carolina (Columbia), Kansas State University (Manhattan), and the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he chaired the department of English and World Literature; served overseas with U.S. Naval Intelligence as both a translator and interrogator.

Adjunct professor of corporate strategy and international business at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan, 1983-2002; president, Financial Risk Management, Inc., 1983-2006; president, A.H. Foster & Co. (consultants in corporate finance), 1977-2006; worked for American Motors Corp., 1963-77, corporate director financial planning and analysis, 1963-67, treasurer, 1967-68; worked for Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., 1953-63.

Board-certified estate planner; lawyer specializing in real estate law; member of the State of Texas Bar College, the American Bar Association, and the Houston Bar Association.

Owned and operated the Cawley Christmas Tree Farm with his wife Sarah for many years; taught high school English primarily in Middletown and West Hartford; served during World War II in the European Theatre.

Business career capped as division president at Alcan Aluminum, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio; U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

Corporate lawyer and managing partner at Webster and Sheffield for 40 years; chamber music composer; philanthropist; director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1986 to 1990; overseer of Harvard College; president of the Harvard Club of New York; vice president of the Associated Harvard Alumni; vice president and trustee at the Brearley School; served the Public Education Association and Radcliffe College; vice president of the board and trustee of the New York Philharmonic; a director of the American Composers Orchestra; trustee and vice chairman of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center; former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Institute for Health Science; former Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Kathryn and Gilbert Miller Health Care Institute for Performing Artists.

Taught second grade in the Scarsdale Public Schools for 25 years.

General counsel of Nabisco Brands and Avon Products; board member of Osco Industries; began his legal career at the law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn; in 1961, joined Standard Brands, later to become Nabisco Brands, where he rose to senior vice-president and general counsel; remained there through the RJR-Nabisco leveraged buyout in 1988-89, the largest buyout in history.

Toured the country as the youngest member of the Benny Carter Band in the 1940s; authored the well-received and controversial biography of Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington and his World (2001); established a career in mental health; trained and taught at Harvard, Boston University and Simmons College; served as assistant to the commissioner of mental health for Massachusetts; was well known in and around greater Boston for his expertise on and devotion to civil rights and to the health and well being of urban black families.

Attorney, veteran of the Korean Conflict.

Worked for various Uniroyal branches, becoming First Vice President of the Sumitomo-Naugatuck joint venture company in Japan 75-83; pioneered the use of ABS type plastic in appliances, automotive parts, and plumbing; served over three years in Alaska in World War II, reaching the rank of Major and Adjutant of Fort Richardson.

Employed by The Exxon Corporation for 30 years, retiring as director of environmental sciences; held many board positions and professional positions including being a past president of the American Petroleum Institute and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, of which he was a diplomat; served as an adjunct associate professor at New York University and a guest lecturer at Harvard University.

Painter, diarist, professor; taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Haifa, and the University of Witwatersrand; his paintings have been exhibited in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, London, and Massachusetts, including at the Fogg Art Museum.

CPA in the Boston Area; held the office of treasurer for the United States Figure Skating Association, Oxfam America, and the Cathedral of the Pines where he also served on the Board of Trustees for many years; Lieutenant JG with the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict.

Accomplished the first railroad end-to-end merger in the United States, combining Chessie System and Seaboard Coastline railroads to form the present CSX Corporation, while acting as chief legal officer of Chessie System Railroads in Cleveland, Ohio where he served as senior vice president of law and casualty prevention; president, managing partner and general counsel of various real estate companies; vice president, secretary and general counsel of Standard Brands, Inc. (1971-76); director of policy planning at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-71); law clerk for the then-New York supreme court justice Charles Breitel (1963-64); worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City (1957-63, 64-69); chief legal officer aboard a heavy cruiser, The Baltimore, which represented the United States at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; later separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant.

Biochemical student, resident of Eliot House.

Vice-President of New England Life Insurance Company.

Served as minister of consumer and corporate affairs in British Columbia from 1980-1982, but resigned from cabinet amid charges of fraud; was later cleared by the RCMP; founding partner in the firm of Fraser Hyndman; elected to the B.C. Legislature as Social Credit MLA for Vancouver South in 1979; in 1990 joined the Loewen Group Inc. as senior vice-president until 1998, when he became associate counsel with Martineau Dumoulin LLP.

President and chief executive officer of the Atlas Mutual Insurance Company, the Fidelity Underwriting Agency, Inc., and the Rankin Benedict Company; began his career in 1948 in the grain business in Kansas City; later moved to Dallas with The Travelers Insurance Company; in 1954, returned to KC to join the three insurance organizations of which he later became president; during World War II, served in the Army of the United States three and a half years, attaining the rank of captain; was stationed overseas two and a half years in the Southwest Pacific, including New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippine Islands.

As a partner at the firm of Bingham, Dana and Gould, represented the First National Bank and the Red Sox; served with the 1st division and later commanded an artillery battery during the Battle of the Bulge.

Worked for State Department, where he had a distinguished career, serving on the Policy Planning Council during the Kennedy Administration; served for two tours in Iran, once for US AID and then with the Harvard Advisory Group; sergeant in the Signal corps during World War II, serving in the Aleutian Islands.

Lecturer at HBS, Boston University and Radcliffe; in 1961, began working for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and later at the Cambridge Redevelopment Center; joined U.S. Army in 1944, attaining the position of Staff Sergeant; among the first group of soldiers to go into Japan in the occupation after the war.

Chicago architect who designed many area churches and church renovations; joined his father's firm after graduating Harvard in 1968; about seven years ago, joined Church Building Consultants in Wheaton as chief architect and started to split his time between Chicago and California; buildings included St. Bernard's Catholic Church in Homer Glen, renovations of Our Lady Mother of the Church in Chicago, and Sts. Mark's and Nicholas churches in Evanston; also designed elements within many area churches such as altars, prayer rooms and baptismal fonts; his last design was for Three Rivers Church in Plainfield, which has yet to be built.

Owner/operator of Grafco Inc., Allentown (PA).

Senior partner of Corbett & Kane, a management labor law firm in Emeryville and San Francisco, from 1966 to 1991; neutral arbitrator and mediator for labor disputes; staff counsel for United Employers Association and in sole practice before joining the management labor law firm of St. Sure, Moore & Corbett in Oakland in 1954; assistant industrial relations director of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company in Connecticut; member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association, serving as its president in 1965; chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco; active in that organization and the Labor and Employment Section of the American Bar Association for many years.

Writer for Travel Weekly; illustrated stories with her own photographs; editor at Scholastic Publications.

Served in the US Navy as a Lt. Commander on patrol in the North Atlantic from 1942 to 1944.

Housing rights activist; made a career of ensuring that the elderly and disadvantaged kept their homes in difficult times; worked for the Ecumenical Social Action Committee agency in Jamaica Plain in Boston.

Elder statesman of the San Francisco interior design scene who influenced dozens of young designers with his classical approach; moved to San Francisco in the 1950s and started a design business with A-list members of society circles: the Gettys, the Thieriots, the de Guignes and celebrity clients in Southern California, including actor James Garner; his work was featured in countless magazines, including Architectural Digest; worked in London for Vogue magazine.

Businessman whose company, Vigoro, went public in 1991 with sales of nearly $600 million; committed philanthropist who donated millions of dollars and much of his time to human rights and the arts; worked at Swift & Co. and its successor, Esmark Inc., from the late 1950s until 1983, eventually running the company's Estech fertilizer division; soon put together the company that became Vigoro, a lawn and garden products business, with Jay Proops, who also had worked for Swift.

Taxation advisory specialist; partner in PriceWaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor companies; managing partner for PriceWaterhouseCoopers's office in Stamford; embarked on a second career as a professor of tax policy and law at the Wharton School of Finance (MBA program) of the University of Pennsylvania as well as the University of Pennsylvania Law School; taught an advanced seminar in tax strategy and planning; on active service with the United States Navy from 1962-1966 stationed in Adak, Alaska and Yokoshuka, Japan; lieutenant in the Navy Supply Corps.

Director of Ethnic Studies of Language Education at Rutgers University; appointed by several governors to the New Jersey Ethnic Advisory Council; world lecturer and author on bilingual and bicultural education; advocate for preventive health care and wellness.

Known for pioneering enlightened medical care for those afflicted with diseases previously thought to be untreatable, including leprosy; cofounder of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; first chairman of the Department of Dermatology; established practice in San Antonio, and served the community as a physician for over 50 years; served in the United States Navy, where he participated in Operation White Fleet in the Pacific following World War II.

Member of the Department of History at the University of Dayton; department chairman from 1949 to 1969; assistant to the president for institutional studies from 1969-1983; university secretary and director of Government Relations from 1980 to 1983; after retirement, continued part-time as director of government relations until 1991.

Civil engineer, businessman, and leader in the geotechnical engineering profession; in 1954, with Stan Wilson, a Harvard colleague, formed Shannon and Wilson Inc., a Seattle engineering firm which focused on designing building foundations and earthen dams, geotechnical consulting, and earthquake engineering; worked on projects all over the world, including Alaska, Korea, Borneo, Portugal, Australia, and Vietnam; in 1969, became the founding president of the Associated Soil and Foundation Engineers, a professional group dedicated to the control and reduction of liability claims; was a founding member of Terra Insurance, a group formed to provide professional liability insurance for the engineering community; worked for the Army Corps of Engineers at various locations; during WWII, worked on projects to enhance national security including designing military runways in the Azores and gun emplacements on the Eastern seaboard; taught at Harvard for one year.