The Rockefeller Institute

Rockefeller's Advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates

"A new species of pastor flourished in the church of Luther and Calvin, the church of 'holy poverty.' In Minneapolis, toward 1888, the young preacher Frederick T. Gates had met with much success in raising huge sums of money among certain flour magnates for churches and universities. At a meeting with Rockefeller, Gates's mixture of fanatical zeal and business sense had cast its spell over the oil baron, who at this time was beginning to suffer the embarassment of his grotesque wealth: his earnings could scarcely be spent or even reinvested adequately, and at the same time they brought upon him the universal reproaches, the ignominy of a long succession of public trials, castigations and persecution. Now Gates showed himself a counselor able to guide Rockefeller both in this world and the next, as his confidential business agent he negotiated for him several remarkable transactions, such as the purchase of the limitless iron ore fields of the Merritt brothers ('the seven iron men') in Minnesota, which were bought during an emergency for a bagatelle; at the same time Gates, as the mentor of Rockefeller's soul, directed his prodigious investments in public charities which begun in 1890, were conducted upon a scale befitting the man's princely power, and most certainly fitted him to scale Heavan's walls. For the support of the college in Chicago, which had been languishing since 1856, Rockefeller was induced to subscribe $600,000 alone on condition that the pork-packers and dry-goods merchants of the Western metropolis contribute together an equal sum." And the attitude of the smug Baptist preachers who hoped to benefit: "'People charge Mr. Rockefeller with stealing the money he gave to the church,' said the pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, 'but he has laid it on the alter and thus sanctified it.'" (Chapter Fourteen, The Robber Barons, by Matthew Josephson. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934.) However, what they got for their moral corruption was a secular humanist institution anyhow. The flour magnates whom Gates elisted to help found the University of Chicago included the Pillsbury family, whose sons later became members of Skull & Bones.

Founding officers of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Dr. William H. Welch, Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University, President; Dr. T.M[itchell] Prudden, Professor of Pathology at Columbia University, Vice President; Dr. L. Emmet Holt, Clinical Professor of Children's Diseases at Columbia, Secretary; Dr. C.A. Herter, Professor of Pathological Chemistry at the University of New York and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Treasurer. Directors: Dr. H.M. Biggs, director of laboratories for the Board of Health, New York City; Dr. Theobald Smith, Professor of Comparative Pathology at Harvard University; and Dr. Simon Flexner, Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania. (Mr. Rockefeller Gives $200,000 to Science. New York Times, June 2, 1901, p.1.)

Simon Flexner

Simon Flexner got his MD from the University of Louisville in 1899. In 1890, at the suggestion of his younger brother Abraham Flexner, he went to Johns Hopkins to study pathology under William Henry Welch. "In the years between 1901 and 1913 the Rockefeller philanthropies were organized on an increasingly regular basis. The General Education Board was established in 1903 with Wallace Buttrick as its president. In 1909 the China Medical Board was organized, and in the same year the Sanitary Commission to Eliminate Hookworm Disease was launched. In 1913 the International Health Commission (later Board) was founded with Wickliffe Rose as its director, and the Rockefeller Foundation, which had been operating for nearly a decade under John D. Rockefeller's direct supervision, was incorporated. Flexner became a trustee of the Foundation in 1913, along with John D. Rockefeller Jr., Frederick L. Gates, Henry Pratt Judson, Starr J. Murphy, Jerome D. Greene, Wickliffe Rose and Charles O. Heydt. Later, Charles William Eliot of Harvard and A. Barton Hepburn joined the Board." In 1928, on the grounds of duplication of effort and lack of supervision by the Foundation, it was completely reorganized, and the Division of Natural Sciences was created. Its successive directors were Max Mason, Hermann A. Spoerr, and Warren Weaver. (A Guide to Selected Files of the Professional Papers of Simon Flexner at the American Philiosophical Society, by Margaret Miller.)

"As Dr. Welch gradually retired, Father [Simon Flexner] stepped into his shoes as the leader of the American scientific medical establishment. Under successive governors he served as chairman of the Public Health Council of the State of New York, an advisory body to the Board of Health that had administrative powers of its own. For my brother and me, it was particularly delightful that the very low number of our automobile license plate indicated a high state official who it was wise for the police not to tangle with." (Maverick's Progress. An Autobiography. By James Thomas Flexner. Fordham University Press, 1996.) Simon Flexner married into the Maryland aristocracy. His wife, Helen Thomas, was the daughter of James Carey Thomas, one of the founding trustees of JHU. Her sister, M. Carey Thomas, was one of the feminist financiers of the Medical School.

The Rockefeller Institute funded Otto Heinrich Warburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Germany. Simon Flexner invited him to lecture at RIMR in 1924, and his papers show correspondence from 1924 until 1931.

Flexner's correspondence with William Rogers Embree from 1917 to 1936 includes a "letter expressing concern that the press charged Rockefeller Foundation dominated certain departments of New York City administration, 9/22/17." Embree later left the Rockefeller Foundation to become chairman of the Rosenwald Foundation, established by Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck.

Philip Morris director Howard S. Cullman told Paul M. Hahn, President of the American Tobacco Company, about a phone call he received from Simon Flexner's nephew, James Flexner. Cullman said Flexner said that he was "outraged at the connotation of the mousetrap we have been put in in what he calls the fictitious relation of skin cancer via painting the backs of mice," and "thinks scientifically reputable men should knock down the hoax of the connotation and its implications that have been given wide publicity in the Reader's Digest, Time and Life." (Cullman to Hahn, Jan. 7, 1954.)

Jerome D. Greene

Wickliffe Rose

'The discussion seemed to develop substantial agreement on the following points: (1) that a fundamental need in the public health service in this country at the present time is of men adequately trained for the work; (2) that a distinct contribution toward meeting this need could be made by establishing at some convenient place a school of public health of high standard; (3) that such an institution, while maintaining its separate identity and autonomy, should in the interest of both economy and efficiency be closely affiliated with a university and its medical school; (4) thst the nucleus of this school of public health should be an institute of hygiene; (5) that a plan for this institute should be formulated with a view to its beginning not on the scale of its ultimate character, but rather on that of its minimum requirements; that it should be given opportunity to grow within its own sphere as an institute of hygiene and to expand into full stature as a school of public health by drawing upon the medical school, the school of engineering, and the other departments of the university, and by utilizing for purposes of demonstration and practical experience all the facilities of the city and state department of health and of the U.S. Public Health Service.'" (School of Public Health. By Wickliffe Rose, 1915. Manuscript, The Rockefeller Foundation Files.)

(The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation By Raymond Blaine Fosdick.

"1918 Because the Foundation’s successful hookworm campaign reveals the urgency for trained public health leaders, RF identifies public health education as one of its principal areas of interest, and builds and endows the first school of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Foundation President George E. Vincent calls it 'the West Point of public health.'" (The Rockefeller Foundation Timeline 1913-1919. The Rocklefeller Foundation.)

"1921 RF endows a second and third school of public health in the U.S. at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, and launches an ambitious plan to circle the globe with schools. Spending more than $25 million over the next two decades, RF helps establish schools in Prague, Warsaw, London, Toronto, Copenhagen, Budapest, Oslo, Belgrade, Zagreb, Madrid, Cluj (Romania), Ankara, Sofia, Rome, Tokyo, Athens, Bucharest, Stockholm, Calcutta, Manila and São Paulo. The total contribution to schools of public health amounts to $357 million in current dollars." In 1925, they began to "study the influence of films on public opinion" as well. (The Rockefeller Foundation Timeline 1920-1929. The Rocklefeller Foundation.)

Francis Peyton Rous

Peyton Rous, who discovered in 1911 that a virus caused a sarcoma of chickens, joined the Rockefeller Institute in 1909. However, he gave up this research at the beginning of World War I to do work on blood transfusion. He had to wait until 1966 to receive a Nobel prize for his groundbreaking earlier work.

In the meantime, Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was awarded the Nobel prize in 1926, "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma." But the "nematode" that he claimed caused cancer in the stomachs of rats turned out not to exist, and this debacle helped the infection-denialists in the chemical carcinogenesis camp, who continue to revere him. Interestingly, it had been proposed that Otto Warburg share that year's prize with him. According to his official Nobel biography, "Fibiger fulfilled a large number of official missions and took part in the direction of numerous institutions," including serving as President of the Danish Medical Association's Cancer Commission.

1932: "Despite mounting evidence for Rous' viral theory of cancer, there was considerable resistance among medical researchers to its acceptance, who argued that Rous had discovered a condition peculiar to birds and benign tumors, rather than malignant cancers. It was not until the 1950s that subsequent research in virology changed the situation and led to its inculcation as a central element in the theory of cancer origins." (Peyton Rous Papers 1909-1970. American Philiosophical Society.) IT STILL HAS NOT BEEN ACCEPTED AMONG THE HEALTH FASCISTS WHO HAVE THE MONOPOLY ON POLITICAL POWER, and who still freely sacrifice science to further their political agenda.

Rous was affiliated with the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research between 1940 and 1963. The fund was established in 1937 by Alice S. Coffin and Starling W. Childs for their daughter, who died of cancer. Its first chairman was Frederic Collin Walcott, Skull & Bones 1891, a former Senator from Connecticut and a friend of Starling Childs. The first chairman of its Board of Scientific Advisors was Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Skull & Bones 1910 and Dean of the Yale School of Medicine (1935-1940). Starling Winston Childs, Skull & Bones 1976, is presumably a relative. The Childs family owns a large amount of forest land in Connecticut.

James B. Murphy

James B. Murphy, a former assistant to Rous at the Rockefeller Institute, and member of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and the American Cancer Society, took over research as Rous retired. "In the 1930s his research concluded that cancer was caused by a somatic mutation and that the Rous virus was best thought of as a transmissible mutagen." (James B. Murphy Professorship in Oncology, Johns Hopkins University.) Fortunately, the current holder of the Professorship, Richard F. Ambinder, does not subscribe to this! With pictures of a contrite Murphy and a triumphant Ambinder.

Murphy was a director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in 1936. In 1938, Murphy and Dr. Mont R. Reid replaced James Ewing and Francis Carter Wood as members of the National Advisory Cancer Council of the National Cancer Institute. (Named to Cancer Council. New York Times, Dec. 11, 1938, p. 30.)

The Rockefeller Foundation

Harold Fowler McCormick and Frederick T. Gates were inaugural trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1909. McCormick's first wife was Edith McCormick, the fourth daughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr. ((Harold Fowler McCormick. Wikipedia, accessed Apr. 19, 2008.) The McCormicks had endowed the Journal of Infectious Diseases in 1903, with Ludwig Hektoen as editor.

The Rockefeller Foundation was incorporated in New York State and John D. Rockefeller Jr. was elected president in 1913. "Health becomes an RF priority at the first meeting of the Board when Frederick Gates, longtime advisor to John D. Rockefeller, Sr., argues that 'disease is the supreme ill in human life.'" It mades a grant to Johns Hopkins University "to extend its model 'full-time' system of basic medical education to clinical departments of medicine, surgery and pediatrics. Other specialties are added later." (The Rockefeller Foundation Timeline 1913-1919. The Rocklefeller Foundation.)

John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Junior, Frederick T. Gates, Harry Pratt Judson, Simon Flexner, Starr J. Murphy, Jerome D. Greene, Wickliffe Rose, and Charles O. Heydt were the incorporators in 1918 of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. Charles E. Hughes was a witness. It was consolidated with the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929. The directors and trustees until the first annual meeting were James R Angell, Trevor Arnett, John W. Davis, David L. Edsall, Simon Flexner, Raymond B. Fosdick, Jerome D. Greene, Ernest M. Hopkins, Charles P. Howland, Vernon Kellogg, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Anson Phelps Stokes, Frederick Strauss, Augustus Trowbridge, George E. Vincent (President of the Rockefeller Foundation), George H. Whipple, Ray Lyman Wilbur, William Allen White, Arthur Woods (Acting President of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial), and Owen D. Young. Thomas M. Debevoise and Winthrop W. Aldrich were counsel. (Rockefeller Foundation Charter, The Rockefeller Foundation.) Thomas M. Debevoise was one of the founders of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in 1913, and was an officer and fundraiser of the ASCC until 1927.

Winthrop W. Aldrich

Winthrop W. Aldrich was the president of the Equitable Trust Company. He was John D. Rockefeller's brother-in-law. He was a director of the Bankers Trust Company of New York from 1922 until 1930. The Rockefellers sold their holdings because directors of national banks could not also be directors of trust companies, and Aldrich became president of the Chase National Bank upon its merger with the Equitable. (Rockefellers Sell $30,000,000 Stock. New York Times, May 2, 1930.) He was elected a director of A.T.&T. in 1930. (A.T. & T.'s Banking Directorate. New York Times, Aug. 24, 1930.) He was Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in 1926, when John D. Rockefeller Jr. made an unconditional gift of $100,000, plus an additional $10,000 toward expenses for a congress of cancer specialists at Lake Mohonk, and a director of the ASCC 1936-37.

Winthrop W. Aldrich and William V. Griffin of Time Inc. were trustees of the United Hospital Fund in 1930, when John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Edward S. Harkness both contributed $25,000 (2 Gifts of $25,000 Aid Hospital Drive. New York Times, Dec. 9, 1930.) Winthrop W. Aldrich and William H. Zinsser were on the advisory committee of the United Hospital Fund in 1947, when Roy E. Larsen of Time Inc. was re-elected president of the fund for the sixth time in 1947. Mrs. Frank Adair and T.J. Ross were among the vice presidents, and James S. Adams was a member of the board. (United Hospital Fund Brought in $1,756,191. New York Times, Mar. 12, 1947.)

Winthrop W. Aldrich, Artemus L. Gates (S&B 1918), and William C. Potter, chairman of the board of the Guaranty Trust Company were three of the twelve directors of the Discount Corporation of New York (Display Ad. New York Times, Jan. 14, 1938).

Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich was the sister of Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse (Mary Crocker Alexander); their father was Charles B. Alexander, counsel, a director, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Equitable Life, and grandson of a founder of Princeton Theological Seminary. Their grandfather, San Francisco banker Charles Crocker, was associated with Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins. (Miss Alexander to Wed S. Whitehouse. New York Times, Jul. 30, 1920; C.B. Alexander, 77, Noted Lawyer, Dies. New York Times, Feb. 8, 1927.) Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich and Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller were guests of Robert E. Strawbridge Jr. [vice chairman of the Memorial Cancer Center Fund Campaign and member of the Board of Managers of Memorial Hospital] (Fan Ball At Plaza Aids Cancer Fund. New York Times, Dec. 14, 1950.) Mrs. Aldrich of the board of directors of the United Hospital Fund in 1952. (Hospital Fund Elects. New York Times, May 7, 1952.)

Raymond B. Fosdick

"Fosdick had started his junior year at Princeton after completing his freshman and sophomore years at Colgate University. Princeton had been a substantial step-up for Fosdick, the son of a teacher from Buffalo in New York State, but one that he had actively sought out. He found Colgate lacking in the necessary resources, while he knew Princeton to be well endowed, as well as being run by Wilson who gave ‘challenging courses in jurisprudence and constitutional law.’ His family was poor, yet somehow the money was found and in September 1903 Fosdick was at Princeton; on his third day there that he met [Woodrow] Wilson. The meeting – the two crossed paths whilst walking across the campus – is described in Fosdick’s memoirs and elsewhere, seems unremarkable, except for one important detail. It was Fosdick’s deliberate act of deference – doffing his hat to Wilson – something not practiced at Princeton, but an act that undoubtedly appealed to the new president of Princeton’s sense of self-importance, that brought Fosdick into Woodrow Wilson’s orbit. ‘I wish you would drop in to see me’, Wilson had told Fosdick, thus launching their long relationship... Fosdick graduated from Princeton in 1905, and then completed a year of post-graduate work before studying law at New York Law School, much to Wilson’s apparent dismay; but his association with Wilson did not stop there. In 1912, during the presidential campaign, Wilson personally appointed Fosdick to be secretary and auditor of the finance committee of the National Democratic Committee. Fosdick recalls that he complied with Wilson’s request ‘without a moment’s hesitation’; despite being a Republican he believed that in Wilson ‘the country would find inspiring leadership of a new and unique kind.... (The Invisible Man of the New World Order: Raymond B. Fosdick (1883-1972). By Will Banyan, Sep. 2005.)

In 1910, Fosdick married Winifred Finlay, the daughter of George D. Finlay, who was a director of the P. Lorillard Tobacco Company in the 1890s, and one of the executors of Pierre Lorillard's will. She shot their two children, ages 10 and 16, and herself. (Mrs. Fosdick Kills 2 Children and Self. New York Times, Apr. 5, 1932.) Fosdick's brother, Harry Emerson Fosdick, was pastor of the Rockefeller-funded Riverside church in New York from 1926-1946. (Rockefeller and the New World Religion. By Daniel Taylor. Old-thinker news, Dec. 2, 2007.)

From 1910 to 1913, Fosdick was Commissioner of Accounts for the city of New York. In 1913 he was retained by the Bureau of Social Hygiene, funded by John D. Rockefeller. From 1915 to 1916, Fosdick was a member of the New York City Board of Education. During World War I, he was a Special Representative of the War Department in France, and a Civilian Aide to General Pershing during the Paris Peace Conference. "In 1919 and 1920, Fosdick served as Under-Secretary-General for the League of Nations until it became clear that the United States was not going to ratify the League of Nations covenant. He returned to the Bureau of Social Hygiene and resumed his work on American police systems. In 1933 he served on the Liquor Study Committee and later wrote the book Toward Liquor Control, published in 1933. From 1920 through 1936, Fosdick was a member of the Curtis, Fosdick, and Belknap law firm. He was elected president of the Rockefeller Foundation and assumed the position on 1 July 1936. Fosdick worked at the Rockefeller Foundation until his retirement in 1948. He died in Newtown, Connecticut on 19 July 1972." (The Papers of Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1883-1972) from the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.)

Raymond B. Fosdick headed the Commission on Training Camp Activities of the "Council of National Defense," whose purpose was to shut down the sex trade and impose prohibition on the U.S. military. (Barring Sex Diseases from the American Army. New York Times, October 28, 1917.)

The Harvard School of Public Health

"The Harvard School of Public Health, established last year as the result of the endowment received last year from the Rockefeller Foundation, which will ultimately amount to more than $2,000,000, will open Monday for the first time. During the first half year, Roger I. Lee, Professor of Hygiene, will serve as acting dean of this school in the absence abroad of Dr. David L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School. The faculty of the school will include Drs. Richard P. Strong, Milton J. Rosenau, Lawrence J. Henderson, George C. Whipple, Cecil K. Drinker and Professor Edwin B. Wilson." The Harvard Theological School also opened that year. It was "formed last June by agreement between the Harvard authorities and the Trustees of Andover Theological Seminary," with Rev. Willard L. Sperry as Dean. (Harvard Will Open Two New Departments. New York Times, Sep. 24, 1922.)

Rockefeller Foundation Trustees, 2008

William H. Foege, Presidential Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Foege and J. Michael McGinnis are responsible for one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated, their supposed "Actual Causes of Death in United States," 1993, which is based on ignoring the role of infection in order to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle. He has been a trustee since at least 2000.

Ann M. Fudge, Former Chairman & CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands, New York, New York. She has been a trustee since 2006. "Ms. Fudge received a B.A. degree from Simmons College and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Ms. Fudge served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Young & Rubicam from 2003 to 2006. Prior to joining Young & Rubicam, Ms. Fudge worked at General Mills and at General Foods, where she served in a number of positions including president of Kraft General Foods’ Maxwell House Coffee Company and president of Kraft’s Beverages, Desserts and Post Divisions. Ms. Fudge is a director of Catalyst and The Rockefeller Foundation and is on the board of overseers of Harvard University." She has been a director of General Electric since 1999. (GE director bio, 2008.) In 1990 she was an executive vice president of General Foods USA. (Philip Morris 1991 Annual Report; Tma Daily News Report, Apr. 9, 1991.) In 1994, she was employed by Kraft USA, a Philip Morris company. (Schedule A Itemized Receipts, Philip Morris, Oct. 1995.) In 2004, she was a featured speaker at the Time/ABC News "Summit on Obesity," sponsored by the health fascist Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with additional support by Aetna, Inc.

Rajat Gupta, Former Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, New York, New York. He has been a trustee since 2006.

Margaret Hamburg, Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C. Her father was president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1982 to 1997.

Thomas J. Healey, Healey Development, LLC, New York, New York. He was assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, and has been an an Advisory Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In 1987 he was vice president, real estate department, Goldman Sachs and Co. in New York City. He graduated from Georgetown University (B.A., 1964) and Harvard University (M.B.A., 1966). He was born September 14, 1942, in Baltimore, MD.

Antonia Hernández, President and Chief Executive Officer, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, California.

Alice Huang, Senior Councilor for External Relations, Faculty Associate in Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. She is the wife of David Baltimore.

Strive Masiyiwa, Chief Executive Officer, Econet Wireless International, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews: "She served on the editorial board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, covering energy, environment, science, technology, arms control, health, and other issues. Later, she became a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, writing a column that appeared nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune. From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural-resource management issues.... She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Council’s Washington program." Since 1997 she has been president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (Carnegie bio, accessed 3-16-08.)

Diana Natalicio, President The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C.

James F. Orr, III, Board Chair, Rockefeller Foundation. President and Chief Executive Officer, LandingPoint Capital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mamphela Ramphele, Chairperson Circle Capital Ventures, Cape Town, South Africa. In 2000, Ramphele was one of the managing directors of the World Bank, and was to represent the bank "at the forthcoming World Conference on Tobacco or Health, in Chicago, USA, where the polict recommendations in Curbing the epidemic and some of the analytic work supported by the Bank in countries around the world will be discussed." "The Bank is a strong partner in WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative and a core member of the Inter-Agency United Nations Task Force on Tobacco Control which chaired by WHO.... in 1999, the World Bank published Curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control, which argues strongly that tobacco contol is a severe public health problem for which there are clear justifications for government intervention.... One indicator of the importance we give to tobacco control is that Curbing the epidemic is being published in 12 languages with help from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO, the Pan American Health Office, and other partners - an all-time record for any World Bank publication." (Global Health Policy. By Eduardo A. Goryan and James Christopher Lovelace, The Lancet 2000 Aug 19;356:679-680.)

David Rockefeller, Jr., Director and former Chair Rockefeller & Co., Inc., New York, New York.

Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York.

Dr. John W. Rowe: "Dr. John Rowe is currently a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. From 2000 until his retirement in late 2006, Dr. Rowe served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc, one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations. Before his tenure at Aetna, from 1998 to 2000, Dr. Rowe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation’s largest academic health care organizations. From 1988 to 1998, prior to the Mount Sinai-NYU Health merger, Dr. Rowe was President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Gerontology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital.... He was Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is co-author, with Robert Kahn, Ph.D., of Successful Aging (Pantheon, 1998). Currently, Dr. Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation’s Initiative on An Aging Society and chairs the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans." The goal of this outfit is to shove their pet hypotheses of genes and caloric restriction down everyone's throats.

Raymond W. Smith, Chairman, Rothschild, Inc., New York, New York. Former Chairman and CEO of Bell Atlantic. "Prior to the formation of Bell Atlantic, Ray served as Director of Budget and Finance at AT&T and Chief Executive Officer of Bell of Pennsylvania and Delaware... Over the years, Ray has served on the boards of Bell Atlantic, The Carnegie Corporation, Westinghouse, CBS, Corestates Financial, First Union, US Airways, and others. He is also Chairman of Rothschild, North America, Inc. and Chairman of Verizon Ventures." (Arlington Capital Partners bio.)

Vo-Tong Xuan, Rector, Angiang University, Long Xuyen City, An Giang, Vietnam

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