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Allen Gontz is an Associate Professor of Coastal Geology and Geophysics at UMass Boston. His research interest is in coastal geological evolution and how landscapes change over time. Gontz’s lab focuses on the investigation of changes to the landscape within the Quaternary that are primarily the result of changing sea-level and anthropogenic impacts.

Donald Cann is a park ranger for the Boston Harbor Islands National Park. Together with John Galluzzo, he has coauthored four titles with Arcadia, including Postcard History Series titles *Rockland and Abington* and Images of America titles *Rockland and Squantum* and *South Weymouth Naval Air Stations*.

John J. Galluzzo, is the public program coordinator for Mass Audubon's South Shore Sanctuaries in Marshfield. He has coauthored, along with Donald Cann, eight books for Arcadia Publishing, including * Hull and Nantasket Beach*; *Scituate, Rockland, and Squantum*; and *South Weymouth Naval Air Stations*.

Daniel John Hinkley is an American plantsman, garden writer, horticulturist and nurseryman. He is best known for establishing Heronswood, in Kingston, Washington; and Windcliff, on the Kitsap Peninsula near Indianola, WA; and for collecting, propagating, and naming varieties of plants new to the North American nursery trade. Dan Hinkley earned his Bachelor of Science in Ornamental Horticulture, and Horticulture Education, from Michigan State University in 1976. He went on to graduate school at the University of Washington, where he accomplished a Master of Science degree in Urban Horticulture in 1985. Hinkley was an instructor of horticulture at Edmonds Community College, in Edmonds, Washington, from 1987 to 1996. In 1987 Hinkley began gardening on the land that would become Heronswood with his partner, the architect Robert L. Jones. By the mid 1990's Heronswood Nursery was doing a thriving mail-order business, and the display garden tours gained international acclaim. Hinkley became a regular speaker at seminars offered during the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. In 2000, Hinkley and Jones sold the business, and display gardens, to Burpee Seeds, but continued to run the nursery. Hinkley and Jones moved to a residence separate from the nursery in Indianola, Washington.

Dr. Bottoms's first book, *Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump*, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as *The Atlantic*, *The New Yorker*, *Harper's*, *The New Republic*, *Poetry*, and *The Paris Review*, as well as in over four dozen anthologies and textbooks. Among his other awards are the Levinson Prize of *Poetry* magazine, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Dr. Bottoms has given readings and conducted workshops at over 150 colleges as well as the Guggenheim Museum and the Library of Congress. Profiles appear in the *Dictionary of Literary Biography*, *Contemporary Literary Criticism*, *Contemporary Southern Writers* and *The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry*. He has twice been interviewed on National Public Radio and is the subject of a half-hour segment of "The Southern Voice", a public television miniseries profiling southern writers. He is a founding coeditor of *Five Points*. In 2000, Govenor Roy Barnes appointed him Georgia Poet Laureate.

H. Robert Baker studies the place of law and constitution in the many struggles that make up North American history. Primarily interested in civil rights and dissent of all stripes, he examines legal concepts and how they permeate popular culture. Baker's interest in legal history stems from my year as a Fulbright scholar in Canada. Studying the western fur trade colony at Red River (the site of modern day Winnipeg, Manitoba), he was struck by the power of the colony's only law court to unite a fractious, polyglot community of Scots, French, English, and Motis settlers. For a colony that began with the Battle of Seven Oaks and ended with the Riel Rebellion, the court seemingly held the peace in between. He has published *The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution*, and *the Coming of the Civil War* in 2006 with Ohio University Press. the latter won the Gambrinus Book Prize from the Milwaukee County Historical Society. A paperback edition was released in January of 2008. His current work continues to look at the question of fugitive slaves in the early republic.

Cedric Suzman has been associated with the center since its inception in 1977 and was elected to the board of trustees in 1988. He was an associate professor in the College of Managementat the Georgia Institute of Technology, from 1974-1977.

Konrad Oberhuber, curator of drawings and professor of fine arts from 1975 to 1987, died of brain cancer on Sept. 12 in San Diego. He was 72 years old. Born in Linz, Austria, he studied at the University of Vienna, and worked for a decade at the Albertina, the renowned Viennese museum. Before coming to Harvard he served as curator at the National Gallery of Art. When he left Cambridge in 1987, it was to return to the Albertina as its director, a post he held until his retirement in 2000. As an art historian, Oberhuber was best known as the world's pre-eminent authority on the drawings of Raphael, but his expertise extended beyond the Italian Renaissance in many directions and across five centuries. In every European and American museum collection he visited, he correctly attributed unidentified and misidentified drawings by French, Netherlandish, Italian, and German draftsmen. As the most prominent expert in the United States on Renaissance drawings, during the 1970s and 1980s Oberhuber was inundated with requests for help from students, scholars, collectors, dealers, and auction houses. Not only did he nurture Harvard undergraduates and graduate students, but he also served formally and informally as surrogate adviser to Ph.D. candidates from other institutions.

Dr. John Garver holds several degrees including a B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in Political Science from Oklahoma State University as well as a M.S. and PhD in Political Science from the University of Colorado. The focus of Dr. Garver's research has been mainly concerned with Chinese foreign relations and Asian international relations. Dr. Garver has authored nine books on Sino-Soviet, Sino-American, and Sino-Indian, Sino-Iranian, and Sino-Middle East relations, and nearly one hundred articles on China's foreign relations. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, participates frequently in various Asia policy related fora, and has lived for extended periods in China, Taiwan, India, and Pakistan. He speaks Chinese and German and is the recipient of awards from the U.S. National Academy of Science.

Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated by President Clinton on December 5, 1996 as Secretary of State. After being unanimously confirmed by the US Senate, she was sworn in as the 64th Secretary of State on January 23, 1997. Secretary Albright is the first female secretary of state and the highest ranking woman in the history of the US government. Prior to her appointment, Secretary Albright served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations (presenting her credentials at the UN on February 6, 1993) and as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet and National Security Council. Secretary Albright formerly was the President of the Center for National Policy. The Center is a non-profit research organization formed in 1981 by representatives from government, industry, labor and education. Its mandate is to promote the study and discussion of domestic and international issues. As a Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international affairs, US foreign policy, Russian foreign policy, and Central and Eastern European politics, and was responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to enhance women's professional opportunities in international affairs. From 1981 to 1982, Secretary Albright was awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian following an international competition in which she wrote about the role of the press in political changes in Poland during the early 1980's. She also served as a Senior Fellow in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, conducting research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. From 1978-1981, Secretary Albright was a staff member on the National Security Council, as well as a White House staff member, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From 1976-1978, she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator Edmund S. Muskie. Awarded a BA from Wellesley College with honors in Political Science, she studied at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at Columbia University, and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Public Law and Government. Secretary Albright is fluent in French and Czech, with good speaking and reading abilities in Russian and Polish.