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The Oyster Foundation is a heterogeneous group
of individuals who have tried in one way or another to make the world
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Stephen
Banker,
T.O.F. Founder, was a staff reporter for CBS and the Canadian Broadcasting
Corp., and an on-air columnist for the PBS series, The
New Tech Times. His column, aptly titled The
Technoklutz, appeared in Popular
Computing magazine. He also has produced technological expositions
in Miami and São Paulo. (Washington DC) |
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Lucas
M. Banker,
guitarist, rock star. To be accompanied by foxy girlfriend, Deva
Sharp. (Amsterdam) |
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Francis
E.K. Britton,
T.O.F’s Country Director for France, is the Managing Director
of EcoPlan International. Winner of the Stockholm
Challenge Prize for his innovative plan to enhance social
justice in Bogotá, and First Prize (2002) in the area of
the Environment from the World
Technology Network in London. Companion, Bettina Geraudel. (Paris) |
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| Albert
Hahn is a chemical engineer and the author of several books
on worldwide demand for key industrial chemicals. He is a native
of Rio de Janeiro, but moved to São Paulo as a young adult.
He holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Chemistry and Economics. He has a second home in Paris, where
he lived while on the run from the Brazilian military regime, which
disapproved of his harboring political refugees. (São Paulo) |
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George
Klein was
a Peace Corps Country Director in Africa (Tunisia) and a Foreign
Service Officer working on the world food problem. In the 1960s,
he helped organize refugee relief in Vietnam. Most recently, he
served in Rome as policy adviser to the President of the International
Fund for Agricultural Development. (Geneva) |
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| David
Levering Lewis, Ph.D.,
(spouse of Ruth A. Stewart) holds the Martin Luther King Jr. chair
at Rutgers University. He is the first person to win consecutive
Pulitzer Prizes for biography (for his two-volume study of W.E.B
Du Bois). He is a MacArthur Fellow and a former president of the
American Association of Historians. (New York) |
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Edward
B. Marks was the chief of U.S. refugee operations in Greece, Nigeria/Biafra
and Vietnam. A former UNICEF executive, he is the author of two
illustrated books about the United Nations. His articles have appeared
in Playboy and The
New Yorker. He was the first recipient (2002) of Dartmouth’s
Lester Granger Award for Humanitarian Achievement. Accompanied by
wife, Vera J. Barad, a psychotherapist. (San Francisco) |
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| John
E. Meeks, MD,
is the director of The
Foundation Schools, learning centers for emotionally-disturbed
children. He is the author of The
Fragile Alliance: An Orientation to Psychotherapy of the Adolescent and The Learning Alliance.
In 1998, The American Journal
of Adolescent & Child Psychiatry ranked John along with
Erik Erikson and Freud’s disciple, August Aichorn, as most
influential in the field. Accompanied by wife, Anita. (Washington
DC) |
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Peter
Belew Riddleberger was for many years the spokesman for the World Bank. In retirement,
he has devoted himself to funding, staffing and equipping the St.
Petersburg, Russia, Children’s
Rehabilitation Center, a clinic for treatment of pediatric
cerebral palsy. (Washington DC) |
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| Joseph
J. Schildkraut, MD,
is a professor at the Harvard Medical School. His 1965 essay on
biological elements of depression has been cited more than any other American Journal of Psychiatry article. His interest in depression and creativity inspired his
book, Depression and the
Spiritual in Modern Art: Homage
to Joan Miró. Accompanied by wife, Betsy. (Boston) |
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Ruth
Ann Stewart (spouse of David L. Lewis) is Research Professor of Cultural Policy
at Rutgers University. She is formerly the Assistant Librarian of
Congress for National Education and Cultural Programs. Ruth is a
member of advisory groups at The Ailey School and The John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts. (New York) |
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| George
Watson,
in college, Managing Editor of The Harvard Crimson, he went on to become ABC News White House Correspondent and Washington
Bureau Chief. He had tours of duty in London, Vietnam and Moscow.
He helped start CNN as its Managing Editor, then returned to ABC.
He has won Emmy, Peabody and DuPont-Columbia Awards for his broadcasts.
Wife, Ellen. (Washington DC) |
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