State & Local Contributions

• Chair, Division of Health Sciences, CCAC; Executive Director, National Board of Certification for Hospice Nurses
• Residential developer/builder who built more than 1500 residences and complexes in the South Hills
• Judge, Allegheny Court of Common Pleas
• Surveyor of the Port Authority Light Rail Transit System from Downtown to Sough Hills Village
• Professor and Chair, Modern Languages Department, Chatham College
• Judge, Beaver County Court of Common Pleas
• Professor of History and Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
• Disc Jockey, KDKA and WWSW for more than 40 years
• Superintendent, 14 years in Upper St. Clair School District; Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year, 2002
• Professional football player (Steelers, Browns, Baltimore Colts) Brentwood High School Football coach

National Contributions

• Associate Director, Athletics, University of Colorado; presidential appointee to US Advisory Committee on Women in the Armed Forces
• Vice Commander-in Chief of US Air Forces in Europe; Inspector General of the US Air Force; Chief-of-Staff of the US Air Force; Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Air Forces
• Pioneer in broadcast engineering; first multi-station circular polarized panel antenna in US
• Executive Director, Allegheny Conference on Community Development; Executive Director, George Grund Foundation
• Reporter, Pittsburgh Press; Scripps-Howard News Services in D.C. (25 years)
• President, Rockwin Prestressed Concrete Corp. of CA, one of the largest producers of its kind in the US
• Senior trial attorney, Fraud Section, Dept. Of Justice; Deputy Chief Counsel, Criminal Tax Investigations, IRS
• Pittsburgh and Philadelphia sports writer; sports editor, Parade Magazine, later a writer for New York Times and Los Angeles Times
• Dentist with focus on pain management and hypnosis; first woman president of Pennsylvania Dental Association
• President and co-founder of D.B.Root & Co, a wealth management firm: one of nation's top 100 financial advisors, according to Barrons
• Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Washington (Seattle) ; Oncology and transplant surgeon
• Pitt football All American; NFL All Pro and MVP; player and coach, Detroit Lions
• Founder and President, Tri-Mark Communications, 1990 winner of Jefferson Medal

International Contributions

• Reporter for New York Herald-Tribune (Paris edition); foreign service officer in Paris, Tehran, and Washington
• President and CEO of Tube City, a metals corporation with branches in US and Europe
• Director of American Language Institute at University of Southern California,; taught in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Thailand
• Professor of Physics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle; member, multinational Brookhaven Laboratory experiment that includes physicists from US, Germany, Japan and Russia
• Entrepreneur. Practice Director and Manager, Hatch Assoc. (London); founder and president, C/G Electrodes, producer of ultra high power graphite electrodes, marketed worldwide.
• Director of Communications for Saudi Investment Bank; public relations advisor to Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
• Entrepreneur. Dravo Corporation engineer; founder, owner and president of Somerset Consolidated Industries (35 years) shipping castings to Europe, South America and Japan