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Alan L. Berger occupies the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, the first Holocaust chair established in the state of Florida, and is Professor of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University where he also directs the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz. Berger founded and directed the Holocaust and Judaic Studies B.A. Program at FAU (1998-2005). Prior to this, he was a professor in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University where he founded and directed the Jewish Studies Program. While at Syracuse, Berger served as Acting Chair of the Religion Department and Interim Chair of the Fine Arts Department. He also was the Visiting Gumenick Professor of Judaica at the College of William and Mary. Berger chaired the Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches in 1989 and in 1990, and was guest chair of the Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust Conference in 1998. He was series editor of *Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust*, Syracuse University Press.

Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1948 as son of Richard Lightman, a movie theater owner, and Jeanne Garretson, a dancing teacher and volunteer Braille typist. From an early age, he was entranced by both science and the arts and while in high school, he began independent science projects and writing poetry. He won state-wide science fairs and was the state winner of the National Council of Teachers of English literary award. In 1966, he graduated from White Station High School in Memphis. Lightman received his AB degree in physics from Princeton University in 1970, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, and his PhD in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1974. He has received three honorary degrees.

Alan is an urban designer and architect with over 25 years of experience as a project manager for planning and urban design projects around the world. He has managed diverse teams of professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, real estate economics, transportation planning, and environmental engineering--having successfully reached consensus on design and planning issues, expediting approval processes, and gaining community support for both large- and small-scale projects. With a particular interest in community planning and historic preservation, Alan has completed numerous projects in many historic cities across New England and further afield. He has also worked on several major waterfront developments, including the Anacostia Waterfront Framework Plan in Washington, DC., recipient of an AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design; and the redeveloped Shanghai Bund, winner of the MIPIM Asia Gold Award for Best Urban Regeneration Project.

Alan Palevsky grew up sailing on Great South Bay on Eastern Long Island. He started by crewing for his older brother in the Blue Jay Class in 1959, graduating to the Windmill in 1965. This boat was a Clark Mills design as the next boat up after the Optimist Pram. They took 2nd in the Windmill Nationals in 1968.

Alan R. Hoffman, translator, holds a BA degree in history from Yale University and a JD degree from Harvard Law School. Passionate about American history and Lafayette, he spent three years working on this first unabridged English translation of Auguste Levasseur's journal and readying it for publication. He is a member of the American Friends of Lafayette and the Massachusetts Lafayette Society, and he lectures on Lafayette.

Alan Rabinowitz is a world renowned big cat conservationist who created the world's first jaguar reserve in Belize after being the first scientist to place radio collars on jaguars to monitor their movements and document the jaguars territorial needs. Rabinowitz's pioneering work was highlighted in the National Geographic film In search of the Jaguar. His dream is to create a "Jaguar Corridor" which connects pieces of jaguar habitat from lower Mexico, through Central America, and through South America all the way to Argentina to ensure the vitality of jaguars as a species forever.

Professor Rogers' research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Constitution, American legal history, and the American Revolution. His most recent books are: *Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts*, *The Boston Strangler*, and *Boston: City on a Hill* (with Lisa J. Rogers). An article on State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty, will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the *Journal of Policy History*. Rogers also has published articles in the* New England Quarterly*, the *Journal of the Early Republic*, and the *American Journal of Legal History*, among other scholarly journals. The undergraduate and graduate courses he teaches parallel his research interests: U.S. Constitutional History, I & II, The Bill of Rights, Anglo-American Law, (with Professor Robin Fleming), and "Atlantic World, a history core course. Rogers is the chair of the Seminar in Early American History, hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a member of the Adams Papers Executive Publication Committee. His current book project is titled Faith, Healing, and the First Amendment.

Alan Simpson graduated from Cody High School in Cody, Wyoming, in 1949 and attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1950. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science degree and in 1958 with a Juris Doctor degree. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1955-1956 with the 10th Infantry Regiment, Fifth Infantry Division and with the 12th Armored Infantry Battalion,Second Armored Division. Simpson was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 7, 1978, but was appointed to the post early on January 1, 1979, following the resignation of Clifford P. Hansen. From 1985 to 1995, Simpson was the Republican whip in the Senate, having served with then Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He was chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997 when Republicans regained control of the Senate. From 1997 to 2000, Simpson taught at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served for two years as the Director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School.

Alan Solomont is the former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andora (2009-2013) and a lifelong social and political activist. He is currently the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. His Jewish community involvement includes serving on the boards of the Israel Policy Forum, the New Israel Fund, Jewish Fund for Justice, J Street and Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.

Alan has been the most visible Worcester presence, representing an ownership group which has worked tirelessly to bring quality professional baseball back to Worcester and Central Massachusetts. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, Alan was a pioneer in the New England legal recruitment field, and a practicing attorney. His background includes a pre-law career in public relations in New York City and Washington, DC. For the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, he traveled nationally with Jesse Owens, arranging Canadian/American media events with National Hockey League and North American Soccer League teams. Alan holds degrees from Tufts University, Boston College Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. For many years, Alan has been an active coach and participant in youth sports activities, particularly Weston (Mass.) Little League.

Alan Taylor, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History, is the author of "American Colonies", "American Revolutions", and "American Republics", prior volumes in his acclaimed series covering the continental history of the United States. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.