William R. Burleigh, Chairman, is chairman of the E.W. Scripps Company, from which he retired as CEO in September 2000. His nearly fifty years of service to Scripps began when he covered high school sports for the Evansville (Ind.) Press. He is a director of Xtek, Inc., the International Board of Legatus, and the Hebrew Union College Ethics Center.

Robert P. George, Vice Chairman, is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, professor of politics, and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality and In Defense of Natural Law, and the editor of Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality and The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence and is a former Presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Kenneth W. Bickford is managing partner for Roseline Development, a New Orleans-based creator of traditional neighborhood developments. An active participant in civic affairs, he is a frequent speaker on technology and culture. He is an active supporter of faith-and-reason symposia, particularly at his alma mater, Louisiana State University.

Eric Cohen is Executive Director of the Tikvah Fund in New York, which promotes serious Jewish thought about the enduring questions of human life and the pressing challenges that confront the Jewish people. A former senior consultant on the President's Council on Bioethics and fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Cohen also serves as the Editor-At-Large of The New Atlantis, where he served as editor from its founding until 2007.

Joseph D. (Nick) Decosimo is managing partner of the business consulting and accounting firm Decosimo. An active community leader in Chattanooga, he serves on numerous civic boards. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a UniversityFellow.

Amy A. Kass is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she works on issues concerning philanthropy, civic education and American identity. In addition, she is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, where she has been an award-winning teacher of classic texts for more than thirty years. She is the author of numerous articles and the editor of four books: American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction, an anthology of American autobiographies; Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Leon R. Kass); The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose; and Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists.

Frank A. Orban, III, of the law firm of deKieffer & Horgan, has been engaged in international law and business since 1968. He was appointed by the Reagan Administration to serve as one of the American negotiators in the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Arms and Space Talks in Geneva. As a recognized expert on China, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, he has lectured and written extensively and has been an advisor to the U.S. and foreign governments on various foreign trade, investment and development issues.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick In Memoriam, 1926-2006
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