Washington, DC
Ken Archer, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is owner of software-provider Telogical Systems, as well as a graduate student in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, and a board member of Chi Alpha Campus Ministry.
Mr. Archer began his study of philosophy at Tufts University, where he first developed a concern for the relationship between faith and reason. While at Tufts, Ken was accepted to the New England Undergraduate Philosophy Conference with his paper, “Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt.” After earning his B.A. in political theory in 1996, Mr. Archer began his business career at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he received a Master’s in International Business Law. In Budapest he met his wife, Veronika, of the Czech Republic.
After settling in Washington, DC in 1998, Mr. Archer co-founded Telogical Systems in McLean, Virginia, which has grown into a leading provider of pricing management software for telecommunications providers and an employer of seventeen in Virginia and Oklahoma. Mr. Archer currently serves Telogical as Vice President of Engineering.
In 2003, Mr. Archer approached Father Pritzl about pursuing his love of philosophy at the Catholic University of America, and in 2004 he matriculated into the graduate program. Also in 2004, Mr. Archer continued his commitment to the relationship between faith and higher education by joining the board of Chi Alpha Campus Ministry, which trains and sends Christian disciplers and mentors to college students on over 200 campuses.
Mr. Archer lives in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC with his wife, who is a physician assistant in the Surgery Department of Sibley Memorial Hospital. Mr. Archer is an avid reader of philosophy, politics and technology, and a fan of the Oklahoma Sooners football team.
Jayne Gilbride Bauer
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
As an adjunct professor at The Regional Center for College Students with Learning Disabilities and a Clinical Instructor at the School of Education at Farleigh Dickinson University, Jayne Gilbride Bauer is an IMSLEC certified Orton Gillingham teacher whose concentration is in the field of Language and Reading Acquisition and Instruction. As a private practitioner, Jayne is a consultant to several urban and suburban public schools in New Jersey, and to the United Nations International School in New York City. Jayne has conducted a number of workshops at various teaching institutions in the metropolitan area, on Multisensory Phonics Language Based Instruction and Literacy Reform. In March 2004, Jayne presented at The New York International Dyslexia Conference.
A graduate of Canisius College and Brooklyn Law School, Jayne is a non-active member in good standing of the New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC Bar Associations. Presently, Jayne has acquired over thirty graduate credits in pursuit of a Masters Degree in Learning Disabilities. Jayne’s previous work as an advocate for children with special educational needs precipitated her return to doing that which she loves most: teaching. Jayne explains her career choice as follows: “In the same way that a skilled lawyer must understand and present her case from many angles, a skilled teacher must do the same. The stakes in law are often high, but there can be no more important charge than that of making a difference in the life of a child. In truth, I use my legal education every day as there is a similar logic underlying law and language, and to be a student of both is continuously intriguing. I really love what I do.”
Jayne is married to Brian Bauer, an orthopedic surgeon who frequently travels to Telas, Honduras as a physician with Heal the Children and Wings for Angels. Brian and Jayne have four children: Christopher, 23; Hilary, 21; Jarrett, 17 and Stefan, 15, and reside in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.
Mary Ellen Bork
McLean, Virginia
M.A., The Catholic University of America, 1980, Theology
Mary Ellen Bork is a free-lance writer and lecturer on issues affecting Catholic life and culture. She is a graduate of Manhattanville College with a B.A. in Philosophy, Siena College with an M.A. in English Literature, and Catholic University with an M.A. in Theology. She taught religion for many years as a Sacred Heart nun.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the John Carroll Society, The Institute on Religion and Democracy, and Women Affirming Life. She is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Voices. She is on the Advisory Board of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, Christendom College, The Cardinal Newman Society, Institute for Psychological Sciences, the Susan B. Anthony List, and the Chesterton Review. She is a member of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, and Immediate Past-president of the Downtown Washington Serra Club. She is past president and program chairman of the Thomas More Society.
She is on the parish council of St. Ann’s parish, Washington DC and serves as a lector.
Her articles appear in the National Catholic Register and the Washington Times, and The New Criterion.
She received the St. Paul Woman of the Year award in 1991 from the Daughters of St. Paul, and the Brent Society Award in 1992. In 1995 she received an Honorary Degree from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. She was a member of the Presidential Delegation to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Pope John Paul II in Rome in 2003. She also attended the Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
She and her husband, Judge Robert H. Bork, live in McLean, Virginia.
Jane N. Haher, M.D.
New York, New York
B.A., The Catholic University of America, 1962, Biology.
Dr. Haher is the Chief of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in New York City. She was born and raised in New York City and earned a B. A. at The Catholic University of America in 1962 and an M.D. from New York Medical College in 1967. Dr. Haher is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha national honor medical society. She is also Associate Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College and has been the recipient of numerous awards for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Haher has received recognition from the The New York Times and Avenue magazines. Her medical opinions and advice have been printed in leading women’s publications such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. In addition, Cosmopolitan has profiled her with a multi-page feature article. She was recently featured in the series Saint Vincent’s Lifeline on The Discovery Channel in several episodes, including “Welcome to St. Vincent’s,” “Sense of Mission,” “Women in Medicine” and “Changing Perspectives.” The series has been shown in national markets.
As President of the Board of Trustees of her alma mater, Marymount School (NYC), for the past thirteen years, Dr. Haher has been involved in strategic planning which will deepen and expand the commitment of the school to educate and inspire Catholic women. She maintains close ties with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
Dr. Haher is also an accomplished artist. After training at the Arts Students League and Pratt Institute in New York City, she has become a respected member of professional artists associations, such as The Salmagundi Club and The Allied Artists of America. She has exhibited her work at many outstanding galleries in New York and the New England area. Her works are displayed in many public places and grace important collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, and South America. For the past ten years, Dr. Haher has also devoted her artistic talents to painting urban landscapes for the benefit of Catholic schools and institutions in New York City.
Dr. Haher also donates her surgical expertise and time in helping indigent patients from international communities. She has assisted in the repair and facial reconstruction of individuals who have suffered disfigurement through terrible tragedies.
Dr. Haher was also recently honored by St. John’s University (NY) and presented with the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Medal in 2001.
Dr. Haher and her husband, Herculano Izquierdo, reside in NYC and are the parents of one child, Michael.
James D. Johnston
Locust Grove, Virginia; Washington, DC
Mr. Johnston was born in Nebraska in 1930, living there until moving to California in 1944. After graduation from San Bernardino High School in 1948, he traveled through Mexico and much of Central America. He attended Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, graduating in 1953. Following service in the U.S. Army, he earned a Masters in Public Administration at the University of California at Los Angeles (1957). While at Georgetown he worked at United Press and while at UCLA, worked with Town Hall, the Los Angeles organization of civic and business leaders.
In 1957, he joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. He served in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs as post management officer for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. In 1959 he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City as a consular officer and then as assistant to the ambassador. In 1963, he served as Chief Economic Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, followed by service in the Department of State as staff assistant to the Assistant Secretary for American Republic Affairs and special assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (1963-1966).
Taking a leave of absence from the Foreign Service, he worked as assistant to the president of the Automobile Manufacturers Association. After resigning from the Foreign Service, he took a position with General Motors in 1971. He attended the Harvard Business School’s advance management program in 1982 and was elected that year as General Motors’ vice president for industry-government relations. With offices in Detroit and Washington, he was responsible for public policy position development and corporate relations with governments at the federal, state and local levels.
While at General Motors, he served on the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Federal City Council, the National Symphony, the International Road Federation and other business and civic organizations. He served as president of the American Coalition for Traffic Safety (dedicated to increase vehicle safety belt use) and was a board member and officer of other state and national safety groups. He was a member of the board of advisers of the National Council of La Raza, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Ford’s Theater, Meridian House and others.
Retiring from General Motors in 1994, Mr. Johnston joined the American Enterprise Institute as a resident fellow researching government-business relations, transportation issues and regulation and has written articles on these subjects for various publications. He is the author of Driving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice, published by AEI in 1997.
Mr. Johnston and his wife, Margaret, live in Locust Grove, Virginia and Washington, DC He has five children and eleven grandchildren, all of whom live in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia.
Emily Mahony
Washington, DC
Emily Mahony is presently the Vice President of Development for Marymount University, a Catholic university located in Arlington, Virginia. A native of Boston, Emily came to Washington, DC where she worked in the office of the Honorable Thomas P “Tip” O’Neill as a legislative assistant until Congressman O’Neill rose to become Speaker of the House of Representatives. She served as the Treasurer of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 1980s. Having earned a Master’s Degree in Special Education, Emily left The Hill and became a special education teacher focusing on the learning disabled and emotionally disturbed. Emily was the architect for Fairfax County’s elementary school program for self-contained learning disabilities classes.
Emily left teaching and worked as a fundraiser for Reese and Associates followed by a long stint with O’Neill and Associates as an event fundraiser working for many non-profit groups. She then worked at The Catholic University of America in the Development Office representing the Schools of Architecture, Library and Information Science, and Catholic University’s premiere school, Philosophy, where she developed an appreciation for Philosophy. After a year at the National Italian American Foundation as Director of Development, a NIAF board member convinced her to join Marymount’s staff.
Emily is a member of the So Others Might Eat Executive Committee and is a committed volunteer to help with several of S.O.M.E.’s events and fundraisers each year. She serves on Ignatian Partners, a Jesuit group which recruits lay people to aid the Jesuits in helping the poor, Terry Mahony McLean Little League Scholarship Fund Board, and Leadership Arlington. She is involved in a writing group at Georgetown University and likes politics, Notre Dame, Boston College, Gonzaga High School, everything Italian, the World Champion Boston Red Sox, Catholic University’s School of Philosophy and now Marymount University.
Emily has a B.A. from Boston College in History and an M.A. from American University in Special Education. She moved to Georgetown from McLean, Virginia where she raised her two children, Jamie and Suzanne. Her late husband, Terence Mahony, was Vice President, Washington for NBC.
Raymond J. McGrath
McLean, Virginia
Raymond J. McGrath, President of the Downey McGrath Group, Inc., joined the firm in September 1999. Mr. McGrath brings more than 30 years of experience dealing with public policy issues at all levels of government and in the private sector.
From 1981 to 1993, Mr. McGrath, a Republican, represented the 5th District of New York in the Congress. As a member of the House Ways and Means Committee for eight years, Mr. McGrath developed an expertise in tax, trade and health care issues. He was one of the chief architects of a provision in the 1986 tax bill to preserve state and local tax
deductions.
Prior to joining the Downey McGrath Group, Inc., Mr. McGrath served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Beer Institute, a trade association representing more than 300 industry members worldwide.
In his capacity at the Beer Institute, Mr. McGrath represented the industry before Congress and state legislatures on issues ranging from taxes to advertising regulations to transportation. Mr. McGrath helped develop industry programs to promote health awareness and address underage drinking and drunk driving. He served as Director of the
Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (AMBRF).
Before coming to Congress, Mr. McGrath served in the New York State Assembly, where he was a pivotal force in helping to reform the state's Medicaid system.
Mr. McGrath serves on the Board of Advisors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, is President of the Capitol Hill Club and is on the Board of Directors for the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at the American University. He also serves as a guest instructor at the Lobbying Institute at the American University.
Mr. McGrath is married to the former Sheri Peterson, and they have four sons.
Paul R. McHugh, M.D.
Baltimore, Maryland
Paul R. McHugh received his medical education at Harvard Medical School with further training at the Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women’s) Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. After his training, he was eventually and successively Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University School of Medicine, Clinical Director and Director of Residency Education at the New York Hospital Westchester Division; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health Sciences Center. He was Henry Phipps Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975-2001. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine named him University Distinguished Service Professor in 1998.
Dr. McHugh was Founder and First Director, Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital, Westchester Division at Cornell. From 1992-2001, he directed the Blades Center for Clinical Practice and Research in Alcohol/Drug Dependence at Hopkins.
In 1986-89, Dr. McHugh was Chairman of the NIH BioPsychology Study Section. He received the William C. Menninger Award, American College of Physicians, 1987, and the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association, 1995. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to the President’s Council on Bioethics and in 2002 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People. He has written articles on psychiatry in The American Scholar, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Chronicles of Higher Education, and The Baltimore Sun.
His career has three interrelated themes. First: To create a model department of academic psychiatry by rendering explicit the conceptual structure of psychiatry and by demonstrating what this structure implies for patient care, education and research. Second: Teach how the brain-mind problem is embedded in these concepts and how it affects the thought and actions of psychiatrists. Third: Investigate the “motivated” behaviors, such as hunger, thirst, sex and sleep that are open in this era to multiple levels of analysis from molecular biology to social science.
Margaret B. Melady, Ph.D.
Washington, DC
Dr. Margaret Melady served as president of The American University of Rome from 1997 to 2003. Founded in 1969, the American University of Rome is Italy’s first American independent degree-granting university.
During her tenure as president, The American University of Rome reached a record level of enrollment, more than tripling in less than six years. Under Dr. Melady’s leadership, The American University of Rome added 14 new U.S. universities to its already impressive list of study abroad programs.
Margaret Melady has a rich background in university teaching and administration, corporate management and global communications. She has authored four books on social and political commentary and studies in international culture and communications and consulted with foreign and domestic clients for a Washington-based public affairs firm.
Dr. Melady is a former member of the faculties of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield (CT) and the State University of New York in Oswego where she taught speech, public relations and media communications.
An alumna of the College of New Rochelle where she received a B.A. degree, Dr. Melady received her M.A. from Seton Hall University. She earned the Licenza magna cum laude and Doctor of Social Sciences degree summa cum laude from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Her major study examined overseas travel as a new form of papal communications and was published by Preager in 1999 as The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II: The Pastoral Visit as a New Vocabulary of the Sacred.
As Director of Corporate Communications of United Illuminating, a Connecticut public utility company, Dr. Melady was responsible for all external and internal communications including advertising and media relations. At Chesebrough-Ponds, she directed a nationwide program in state governmental affairs. She was the first woman promoted to an executive position in public affairs at Stauffer Chemical Company, where she worked in both public relations and governmental affairs.
Dr. Melady produced and moderated her own radio programs at WICC, the largest commercial radio station in Connecticut. While speaking on behalf of her corporate clients, she appeared on many radio and television programs.
Dr. Melady’s volunteer activities have centered in intercultural and political themes. She served as Chair of the Board of Regents and Marymount International School, Rome, Italy. She ran for statewide political office and served on state and national committees.
Dr. Melady was invested in the Order of St. Gregory the Great. She received the Cross of Merit with Star from the Order of Malta and the Robertus Bellarmino Medal from the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 2003, both Seton Hall University and John Cabot University awarded her a doctor of humane letters honoris causa.
Jacques Joseph Moore
McLean, Virginia
Mr. Jacques Moore is the President and Owner of Moore Cadillac Company located in Vienna, Virginia. He has been a Cadillac Master Dealer for the past 25 years.
Mr. Moore earned a B.A. degree from LaSalle University in 1952, where he studied Psychology and Philosophy. He also attended Ford Merchandising School.
From 1953 to 1955, Mr. Moore served in active duty as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He continued in the Marine Corps Reserves, retiring in 1965.
Mr. Moore joined Ford Motor Company in 1955 as Sales Representative in Philadelphia. He then became general manager of a Ford dealership and partner in a Lincoln-Mercury dealership. Mr. Moore would then become the president of Moore Cadillac Company in York, Pennsylvania, in 1965. In 1977, he moved to the Tysons Corner area and opened the Moore Cadillac Company in Vienna, Virginia. He has served on the president’s advisory board of General Motors and as chairman of the National Dealership Council.
Mr. Moore’s community activities include Drovers Bank, Member of the Board; Catholic Professional Men’s Association; York (PA) Country Club Board of Directors; York (PA) Catholic High School, PTA President; Washington Performing Arts Society, Board of Directors; Paul VI Institute for the Arts Board; The Catholic University of America Board of Regents; Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception; General Motors Dealer Advisor Board; and Catholic Distance University Board.
Mr. Moore’s charitable activities include The Catholic University of America, Chestnut Hill College, LaSalle University, Catholic Distance University, Mount Saint Mary’s College and Seminary, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the Parkinson’s Foundation.
Mr. Moore has been the recipient of various honors including Knight of Malta, and Doctor of Laws from Chestnut Hill College.
He and his wife, Blanche (Haviland) Moore, have been married almost 50 years and have two children and five grandchildren.
Michael Novak
Washington, DC
Michael Novak received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace) in 1994, and delivered the Templeton address in Westminster Abbey. He has also received the Boyer Award in 1999; with Milton Friedman and Vaclav Klaus the International Prize by the Institution for World Capitalism; the Antony Fisher Prize for The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism presented by Margaret Thatcher; the Weber Award for contributions to the Catholic Social Thought in Essen, Germany; the Cezanne Medal from the City of Provence, and the Catholic Culture Medal of Bassano del Grappa in Italy; the highest civilian award from the Slovak Republic in 1996; the Masaryk Medal, presented by Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic, in 2000; and in December 2001, the Gold Medal of The Pennsylvania Society.
Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, where he is Director of Social and Political Studies.
His writings have appeared in every major Western language, and in Bengali, Korean and Japanese. His masterpiece, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, has been reprinted often in Latin America, and was published underground in Poland in 1984, and recently in Czechoslovakia, Germany, China and Hungary. One reviewer called it “one of those rare books that actually changed the world.”
Mr. Novak has written some 25 influential books in the philosophy and theology of culture, including: The Open Church (1964), Belief and Unbelief (1965,1994), The Experience of Nothingness (1970, 1998), The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics (1972,1996), The Guns of Lattimer (1976,1996), Moral Clarity in the Nuclear Age (1983), Will It Liberate? Questions About Liberation Theology (1986), and Free Persons and the Common Good (1989). Together with the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy, he wrote Toward the Future (1984) and, with a scholarly committee, The New Consensus on Family and Welfare (1987). His other books include This Hemisphere of Liberty (1990), The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1993), The Joy of Sports (1976,1994), To Empower People: From State to Civil Society (1996), Business as a Calling (1996); The Fire of Invention (1997), and with his daughter Jana Novak, Tell Me Why: A Father Answers His Daughter’s Questions About God (1998); On Cultivating Liberty (1999); A Free Society Reader (2000); and his newest book, On Two Wings (2001). Mr. Novak has also published two novels: The Tiber was Silver (1961) and Naked I Leave (1970).
His essays and reviews have been published in The New Republic, Commentary, Harper’s, First Things, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and National Review, as well as Theological Studies, The Yale Law Journal, The Public Interest, The Review of Politics and many other journals here and overseas.
“Illusions and Realities,” his twice-weekly column was syndicated nationally from 1976-1980 and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1979. He took leave of the column in 1980 to complete two books and resumed weekly publication in 1984. His column “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” appeared monthly in National Review from 1979 until 1986. From 1989 to 1994 Forbes Magazine ran his occasional column, “The Larger Context.”
He serves on editorial boards of several publications and organizations here and abroad. He was co-founder of This World, Crisis, and First Things, and was publisher/editor of Crisis until 1996.
In 1974, Mr. Novak campaigned for the creation of a White House Office of Ethnic Affairs. The office was opened during the Ford administration, continued under President Carter, and Mr. Novak served as an advisor during both administrations.
Mr. Novak was appointed and served as: Ambassador of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, 1981-1982; head of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the monitor of the Helsinki Accords), 1986; with Senate approval, member of the Board for International Broadcasting (the private corporation that governs Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), 1984-1994; member of the Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice, 1985. He has served the United States during both Democratic and Republican administrations.
His teaching career began as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. From 1965-68 he was Assistant Professor of Humanities at Stanford, where in two out of his three years, the senior class voted him one of the two “most influential professors.” From 1968 to 1973 he taught at the newly formed experimental College at SUNY Old Westbury. During 1973-1974, Mr. Novak launched the new humanities program at the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1976 he accepted a tenured chair as University Professor and Ledden-Watson Distinguished Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He held the W. Harold and Martha Welch chair as Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame for the autumn semesters of 1987 and 1988. Intrigued by the relationship between religion and economics, he joined AEI as a Resident Scholar in the spring of 1978.
He graduated summa cum laude from Stonehill College (B.A., Philosophy and English) in 1956 and the Gregorian University in Rome (B.A. Theology, cum laude) in 1958. He continued theological studies at Catholic University and then at Harvard, where he received an M.A. in 1966 in History and the Philosophy of Religion. Among other awards he has received are: the Freedom Award of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (1979); the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedom Foundation (1984); the Angel Award (1985); first U.S. member, Argentine National Academy of Sciences, Morals and Politics (1985); Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1986); the Bratislava Medal (1998); the Economics Medal (2000) from the Institute of Italian Managers and Entrepreneurs (IDI); and more than 15 honorary degrees, here and abroad.
Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1933, Michael Novak is married to Karen Laub-Novak, a professional artist and illustrator. They have three children (Richard, Tanya, and Jana) and three grandchildren.
For more information on Michael Novak, go to www.michaelnovak.net.
Rev. Kurt Pritzl, O.P.
Dean, School of Philosophy
The Very Reverend David M. O’Connell, C.M., president of The Catholic University of America, appointed Kurt Pritzl, O.P. dean of the School of Philosophy in 2000 after an international search. Father Pritzl succeeded Jude P. Dougherty, who led the School for thirty-two years. His other distinguished predecessors include the illustrious fellow Dominican Ignatius Smith, O.P. who served as dean for twenty-five years.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Father Pritzl earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in philosophy and mathematics from Marquette University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. He studied for the Master of Arts degree and the Ph.D. degree in philosophy at the University of Toronto. His training at the University of Toronto included certification in the philosophy and Greek program conducted by the Philosophy and Classics departments. While at the University of Toronto he was a fellow of Massey College. In addition to his studies in philosophy, Father Pritzl was graduated with the master of divinity degree in theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D. C.
Father Pritzl is a member of the Province of Saint Joseph of the Order of Preachers, more commonly known as the Dominican Order. He joined the Dominicans in 1986, made solemn profession in 1990, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991.
Father Pritzl began his teaching career at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to the faculty of the School of Philosophy in 1980 and rose through the ranks to his present position. A specialist in ancient Greek philosophy, Father Pritzl works primarily in early Greek philosophy and the thought of Aristotle. He has concentrated on ancient theories of knowledge and accounts of soul. His current research bears on a comprehensive study of the explicit and implicit theories of truth in Aristotle’s writings. Father Pritzl has published articles in Greek philosophy in leading journals in the field and has been selected as a visiting scholar for the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Father Pritzl is associate editor of The Review of Metaphysics and has served as reader in Greek philosophy for a number of scholarly journals. He has also served on the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
Father Pritzl has been a member of the Corporation and Board of Trustees of Providence College and of the Provincial Council of the Province of Saint Joseph. He was appointed Regent of Studies for his Dominican province by the Master of the Order and is currently a member of the Vocation Council of the Province of Saint Joseph.
In addition to his academic duties at the University, Father Pritzl preaches regularly at parishes and retreat centers in the Washington area, serves as a chaplain in the Teams of Our Lady movement, and has been invited to serve as spiritual director at annual conferences of diocesan pro-life and natural family planning directors by the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Edward F. Reilly, Jr.
Bethesda, Maryland
On May 31, 2001, President George W. Bush designated Edward F. Reilly, Jr. as Chairman of the United States Parole Commission. After being appointed to the Commission in 1992, he also served as Chairman from August 15, 1992, until February 4, 1997, when he was designated a member of the National Appeals Board.
Mr. Reilly received a B.A. in political science from the University of Kansas.
Prior to his appointment to the Parole Commission, Mr. Reilly served 29 years as a legislator in the State of Kansas. He served one year as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and then 28 years as a Senator in the Kansas State Senate. In the legislature, Mr. Reilly served as Assistant Majority Leader, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs, Chairman of the Senate Insurance Subcommittee, and Vice Chairman of the Senate Elections Committee. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs, which handled most corrections issues, Mr. Reilly became keenly interested in the area of corrections, probation, and parole. In 1981, Mr. Reilly chaired the Senate/House Committee that reviewed the operations of the Kansas Correctional System. This review ultimately led to major reforms in Kansas Corrections, including increased benefits for correctional officers.
From 1982 to 1986, Mr. Reilly served as a Commissioner on the National Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. In 1985, he was appointed a member of the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. He has served as an advisory member of the American Justice Institute on federal and state prisons and as a member of the Community Liaison Committee of the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas. He has also served as a member of the State Attorney General’s Task force on Drug Education in Kansas.
Mr. Reilly is a member of the American Correctional Association, the Association of Paroling Authorities International, the National Criminal Justice Association, the National Committee on Community Corrections, and the National Association of Chiefs of Police. As Chairman of the Parole Commission, he serves as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission (ex officio) and the National Institute of Corrections Advisory Board (ex officio). In addition, he serves on a number of Boards, Committees and Task Forces relating to issues involving the criminal justice system.
A native of Leavenworth, Kansas, Mr. Reilly was for thirty years in the field of real estate insurance and banking. Mr. Reilly served seven years in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. He has been actively engaged in the International Officers Program at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, hosting international officers from other nations attending the Command and General Staff College. From 1967 to 1992, Mr. Reilly annually provided instruction to the International Officers on federal, state and local government relationships.
Mr. Reilly currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Rome.
Catharine M. Ryan
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Catharine Murray Ryan was born in Bronxville, NY, the second of 10 children. She received her early education at parochial schools in the Diocese of New York. After high school at The Ursuline School in New Rochelle, she attended Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1968, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Economics.
In 1969, Catharine married John Ryan and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is still their home. John is Chairman and CEO of Mine Safety Appliances Company (MSA), the world’s leading manufacturer of worker safety and protective equipment.
While raising their two daughters and one son, Catharine was also active in various community and Church organizations, in particular, the Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors and the Sacred Heart Parish Council.
In 1988, Catharine returned to graduate school. She earned a Masters Degree in Pastoral Ministry from the Theology Department of Duquesne University in 1993. She then served as a Chaplain for seven years at Magee Women’s Hospital and Forbes Regional Hospital.
Currently, Catharine serves on the Board of Trustees of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and of the Venerable John Henry Newman Association. She is also a member of The Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Oratory, for whom she chaired a multi-million dollar fundraising campaign (completed in 1995) to build a new campus ministry center and a residence for the Fathers of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.
For many years, she has coordinated the John Henry Newman Lecture Series sponsored by The Pittsburgh Oratory. In 2002, she joined the Oratorians in co-founding the National Institute for Newman Studies, which encompasses the Newman Research Library, the Newman Scholars Program and the Newman Studies Journal. It is their hope that the Institute will become the definitive source in the United States for scholarly research on the life, work and influences of John Henry Newman.
Catharine’s family spends summers on Cape Cod, where she enjoys gardening, sailing, reading and playing with her four grandsons.
Mark Ryland
Great Falls, Virginia
Mark Ryland has professional experience in a variety of fields, including law and public policy; software and network architecture; and science and philosophy. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Mpower Media TV/Internet (www.mpowermedia.net), a Reston, Virginia-based division of a new family-oriented entertainment company. He is also co-founder and President of the Institute for the Study of Nature (www.isnature.org), a think-tank aimed at fostering a dialog between classical natural philosophy and modern empirical science. He was from 2003 to 2006 Vice-President and Director, Washington, DC office, of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think-tank and public policy organization. Prior to his work with Discovery, he provided management and software architecture consulting services to software companies working in areas of distance learning, microfinance, and technical standardization. Mr. Ryland is also a veteran of Microsoft Corporation (1991-2000), where he served in a number of technical and management roles, culminating in his role as founding Director of Standards Strategy. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Ryland was an attorney in private practice with the law firm of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C.
Mark and his wife Katherine and their AMDG Foundation are committed supporters of education and other philanthropic activities. Ryland serves on the board of directors of various educational and philanthropic institutions including Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California; the International Theological Institute in Austria; and the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS). He is on the board of advisors to of several other organizations including Thomas International, a new international fellowship of scholars working in the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of San Diego in 1983 (magna cum laude) and a law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley in 1986 (Order of the Coif). He clerked for Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals form 1986-88. Mark, Katy, and their children live in Great Falls, Virginia.
Barbara Weisz
New York, New York
Barbara Weisz received her B.A. in History from Adelphi University and her M.S. in Political Science from Queens College. She has held the position of Vice President with the Citibank Private Bank and Corporate personnel officer for training, recruiting and staff relations for Citicorp.
Barbara Weisz is a Trustee at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, where she is the Annual Fund chair and serves on the Development Committee and the Building and Grounds Committee. She is a Trustee of St. David’s School in New York City where she is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and a member of the Development and Annual Fund Committees. She is also Co-Chair of the newly formed “Parents of Alums” group at St. David’s.
She is Chair of the “Campaign for Marymount” Capital Campaign at the Marymount School, which her daughter attends. She serves on the Advisory Board for “Be a Student’s Friend,” part of the Inner City Scholarship Fund for the Archdiocese of New York City. She is also a member of the board for The Quogue Junior Theatre Troupe in Quogue, New York.
Barbara Weisz is currently a teacher at St. Vincent Ferrer High School, part of the Archdiocese of New York City. She has two children, Zachary, 15, and Zoe, 10.
David W. Wroe
Osterville, Massachusetts
Mr. Wroe is the President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Swingtide, Inc. located in Osterville, Massachusetts. Swingtide provides information technology products and services to the financial services industry.
After graduating in 1969 magna cum laude from Providence College with a B.A. in Mathematics, he joined Texas Instruments Inc. where he supported TI’s role in the Apollo Project, the B1 Bomber Program, and its launch of the digital calculator. At TI, his work in information systems and his creation of TI’s Operations Research Department, which published his book, Predict - A Time Series Analysis and Forecasting System, won the SBC Pioneer of Timesharing Award.
In 1978, Mr. Wroe joined Commercial Union Insurance Company in Boston as Vice President of Technology and later Senior Vice President of Agency Automation. In 1983, he was named President and CEO of Agency Management Systems, a software company serving the insurance industry and operated with a consortium of large insurance carriers. Over the next 13 years, while CEO, he built AMS into the largest provider of software to insurance agencies before assuming the role of Chairman of the Board in 1996. During his tenure as CEO of AMS, he was the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for Productive Technology, a cooperative effort of twenty insurers and industry organizations dedicated to industry standards and he was a Founding Board Member of the Quality Insurance Congress. In 1996, Mr. Wroe was named Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and member of the senior management team of CNA Insurance Company in Chicago. He is the recipient of the Wade S. Dunbar Jr. Award for Lifetime Outstanding Contribution to the Insurance Industry.
Mr. Wroe’s community activities have included President of the Alamo Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, Member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Mental Health Association, Member of the Defense Orientation Conference Association (DOCA), and Member of the Board of “Apply Yourself” which facilitates online college applications.
In 1992, Mr. Wroe was asked to lead a cooperative effort of a dozen religious orders in the Church, called the Apostolate Alliance of The Two Hearts, to foster devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As part of this project he co-authored, The Alliance of the Two Hearts: A Journey, A Destiny, An Urgency and The M and the Two Hearts Express Enough – A Meditation on the Miraculous Medal. He is a member of the Militia of the Immaculate, founded by Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and of the Third Order of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.
Mr. Wroe’s charitable activities include the Academy of the Immaculate, Providence College, Misericordia, Special Olympics, and the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. He and his wife, Peggy, live with their family of eight children on Cape Cod.
Stephen M. Younger, Ph.D.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
B.A., Catholic University, 1973, Physics.
Stephen M. Younger is the president and general manager of National Security Technologies, LLC, the manager and operator of the Nevada Test Site and satellite facilities in California, New Mexico, Nevada and Washington, D.C. Dr. Younger holds concurrent positions as a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and as an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Younger previously was a Senior Fellow in the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
From 2001 to 2004, Younger was the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a component of the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction. In this capacity, he led an organization of more than 2,000 people with a budget over $2 billion, and supervised activities including arms control inspections, cooperative threat reduction, new weapons development, chemical and biological defense programs, and operations in Iraq.
Prior to government service, Younger was senior associate director for national security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was responsible for assuring the safety and reliability of most of America’s nuclear deterrent, and managed a wide array of capabilities and facilities ranging from basic research to manufacturing. Younger was a driving force in the development of a new approach to strategic forces and deterrence in the post Cold War era.
Younger held senior management positions at Los Alamos from 1989 to 2001, and led technical projects in lasers, pulsed power and other technologies. He was the founder and first director of the Center for International Security Affairs at Los Alamos and took a leading role in opening the Russian nuclear weapons institutes for international collaboration.
From 1982 to 1989, Younger was a nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., where he developed and oversaw the testing of several new concepts in nuclear explosives. He previously served as computational atomic theorist at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md.
Younger has published more than 70 papers in physics and, more recently, on the computer modeling of normative behavior in small societies. His book on the future threat of mass violence and means to reduce that threat (Endangered Species: Mass Violence and the Future of Humanity) will be published by Harper Collins in April, 2007. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, recipient of the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Public Service, and member of Threat Reduction Advisory Committee and Board of Advisors of the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. He also serves on various other panels and review committees.
Younger earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1973; a master’s degree in physics from the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., in 1975; and doctorate degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1978.
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