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Pinnacle 2001 - Masters' Biographies Beatrice Affron Beatrice Jona Affron has been music director and conductor of the Pennsylvania Ballet since 1997, where she has conducted many Balanchine ballets and other classics, such as Petroushka, Romeo and Juliet, and Sleeping Beauty. A graduate of Yale University, she studied conducting with Robert Spano and Pascal Verrot at New England Conservatory of Music, where she later served on the faculty for two years. Ms. Affron has also worked with Gunther Schuller, Jorge Mester, and David Effron and in 1996 she received the Conductors' Guild Thelma A. Robinson Award. Her involvement in contemporary music has included conducting in the Music at the Anthology Series (NYC) and, in 1997, leading the national tour of Philip Glass's Les Enfants Terribles.A native of New York City, she served as chorus master and assistant conductor of the Bronx Opera Company and was music director of the Greater New Haven Youth Symphony Orchestra. Last year she conducted the Boston and Chicago premiers of Glass's Akhnaten. Recently she conducted the Kennedy Center Orchestra in the Kennedy Center's Balanchine Celebration. In June 2001, Ms. Affron lead the premiere of the revised version of Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire at Opera Theater of Saint Louis. Arthur Jaffe Dr. Jaffe received a BA in chemistry from Princeton in 1959, a BA and an MA in mathematics in 1961 and 1963, respectively, from Cambridge University, and PhD in physics from Princeton in 1966. Currently, he is a Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science at Harvard University and the President of Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also the chair of the mathematics section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Dr. Jaffe's past faculty appointments include Visiting Professor at the University of Rome, the College de France, the University of California, the Rockefeller University, and Princeton University; Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, and Professor of Physics and Mathematical Physics at Harvard. He has been a member of several editorial boards, the cofounder and organizer of the Cargese Summer School on Mathematics, chair of the Harvard Mathematics Department, Trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ot Berkeley, President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, President of the American Mathematical Society, and Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. Among his numerous awards and fellowships are the Marshall Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellowship, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship, New York Academy of Science Prize for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Dannie Heinmann Prize for Mathematical Physics, College de France Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, and U.S. National Academy of Sciences membership. Dr. Jaffe has given numerous lectures internationally, including the Leipzig Mathematics Institute opening symposium in 1998, the Visions in Mathematics Meeting in Tel Aviv in 1999, and a Lecture Tour at the Soviet Academy of the Sciences in 1985. Faye Kellerman Faye Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. She earned a BA in mathematics and a doctorate in dentistry at UCLA, where she conducted research on oral biology and was a University fellow.Her groundbreaking novel, The Ritual Bath, was published in 1986 to wide critical and commercial acclaim and introduced readers to Peter Decker and Rita Lazarus, termed by People Magazine "Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around." The New York Times reported, "This couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality, unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives." The Ritual Bath won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Readers of America. There are well over fifteen million copies of Faye Kellerman's novels in print internationally: the Decker/Lazarus thrillers Sacred and Profane, Milk and Honey, Day of Atonement, False Prophet, Grievous Sin, Sanctuary, Prayers for the Dead, Serpent's Tooth, Jupiter's Bones, and her latest New York Times bestseller, Stalker. She is also the author of New York Times bestseller Moon Music and a historical novel of intrigue set in Elizabethan England, The Quality of Mercy. Her newest novel, entitled The Forgotten, will be out in August of 2001. Faye Kellerman's highly praised short stories and reviews have been anthologized in several collections, including two volumes of the notable Sisters in Crime series, Sara Paretsky's A Woman's Eye, The First Annual Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, The Third Annual Best Mystery Stories of the Year, Women of Mystery, and Deadly Allies 11. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Mystery Writers of America, Southern California Chapter. She lives in Southern California with her husband, novelist Jonathan Kellerman, and their children, along with three maniacal dogs. Jonathan Kellerman Trained as a clinical psychologist, Jonathan Kellerman published his first novel, When the Bough Breaks, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony Boucher awards and adapted as an NBC Movie of the Week, in 1985. He has produced a best-selling novel every year since: Blood Test, Over the Edge, The Butcher's Theater, Silent Partner, Time Bomb, Private Eyes, Devil's Waltz, Bad Love, Self Defense, The Web, The Clinic, Survival of the Fittest, Billy Straight, Monster, and Doctor Death. He is also the author of three volumes on psychology, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children, and has written and illustrated two books for children. There are currently over 30 million of Jonathan Kellerman's books in print, translated into 24 foreign languages.Born in New York City, Jonathan Kellerman grew up in Los Angeles and worked as a freelance musician and artist during his student days. He received his BA in psychology, with honors, from UCLA, where he served as a cartoonist, illustrator, journalist, and editor, and won the Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award at the age of 21. At the age of 24, he earned a PhD in clinical psychology at USC, where he is currently Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Psychology at the College of Arts and Sciences. As founding director of the Psychosocial Program at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Dr. Kellerman specialized in the emotional care of seriously ill children and their families, conducted research in behavioral medicine, and authored numerous scientific publications in areas ranging from pain control to sleep disorders. He has served as a consultant to Los Angeles Superior Court, various medical schools, and the United States Army. Dr. Kellerman and his hospital team were responsible for developing what remains the primary clinical model for the psychosocial care of sick children. He is the recipient of several awards for philanthropy, and in the field of psychology, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from UCLA and the Presidential Commendation from the American Psychological Association. Jonathan Kellerman is married to best-selling novelist Faye Kellerman, with whom he has four children. Joshua Lederberg Dr. Lederberg, a research geneticist, is Sackler Foundation Scholar and President Emeritus at The Rockefeller University, one of the world's leading scientific institutions devoted to biomedical research. Dr. Lederberg was educated at Columbia and Yale University, where he pioneered in the field of bacterial genetics with the discovery of genetic recombination in bacteria. In 1958, at the age of 33, Dr. Lederberg received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this work and subsequent research on bacterial genetics. Dr. Lederberg was a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University School of Medicine before coming to the Rockefeller University in 1978. At Stanford, he was also professor of computer science, working on research in artificial intelligence in biochemistry and medicine.A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1957, and a charter member of its Institute of Medicine, Dr. Lederberg has been active on many government advisory committees and boards, such as NIH study sections and the National Advisory Mental Health Council, and has served as Chairman of the President's Cancer Panel. Most recently he has been immersed in the problems of emerging infections. In recent years, he has been particularly active as a consultant in national security affairs. Since 1972, when he served as advisor to the US delegation for the Biological Weapons Convention, he has been particularly concerned with arms control and other preventative and defense measures. Dr. Lederberg has been awarded numerous honorary Doctor of Science, MD, and Dr. Mil. Med. Degrees, as well as a Foreign Membership of the Royal Society, London. In October 1989 he received the National Medal of Science, the citation for which made particular reference to his work as a consultant to government. He retired as President of the Rockefeller University in July 1990 and continues his research activities there in chemical mutagenesis in bacteria. Philip Scheffler Philip Scheffler, Executive Editor of 60 Minutes, has been chief operating officer, with day-to-day responsibility for that broadcast, since 1980. On March 16, 2001, Scheffler marked 50 years with CBS News, 30 of those spent helping shape 60 Minutes into the best and most watched news program in history.Mr. Scheffler was born in 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1950 and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1951. After joining CBS News in 1951, he worked for the CBS Evening News and other regularly scheduled news broadcasts as a writer, reporter, and editor until 1960. From 1960-1963, he was a reporter and associate producer on the award-winning CBS News broadcast Eyewitness, a weekly half-hour series covering each week's top story. In 1964, Mr. Scheffler became a producer of documentary and special news broadcasts, including CBS Reports, and produced more than 100 such broadcasts. He was named a producer of 60 Minutes when it became a weekly series in 1971. He was responsible for 58 segments, covering such diverse areas as politics and government, medicine, social issues, law, and military affairs, before being appointed the Senior Producer in 1980 (title changed to executive editor in 1996). CBS news broadcasts that Mr. Scheffler has produced have received numerous awards, including the Peabody, the Emmy, the Ohio State, the University of Missouri, the Columbia-duPont and the award of the National Education Association. In 1981, he received the Alumni Award for distinguished contributions to journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and he is a 1997 recipient of the Townsend Harris Medal given by the City College of New York for outstanding post-graduate achievement. Mr. Scheffler's work has taken him throughout the world, including five assignments in Vietnam. He has reported from all but three of the United States and from more than 50 foreign countries. He is married to Dr. Linda Weingarten Scheffler, a clinical psychologist, author, artist, and retired Hunter College professor. Martin Seligman Dr. Seligman works on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, and optimism and pessimism. He is currently Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. A best-selling author and former president of the American Psychological Association, he is well known in both academic and clinical circles.Dr. Seligman's bibliography includes fifteen books and 150 articles on motivation and personality. Among his books are Learned Optimism (Knopf, 1991), What You Can Change and What You Can't (Knopf, 1993), The Optimistic Child (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), and Helplessness (Freeman, 1975; 1993). He is the recipient of two Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards from the American Psychological Association, the Laurel Award of the American Psychological Association for Applied Psychology and Prevention, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He holds an honorary PhD from Uppsala, Sweden, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Seligman received both the American Psychological Society's William James Fellow Award and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award. Dr. Seligman's research and writing has been broadly supported by a number of institutions, including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. His research on preventing depression received the coveted MERIT Award of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1991. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Prevention and Treatment, the electronic journal of the American Psychological Association. He is the network director of the Positive Psychology Network, Scientific Director of the Values-In-Action Classification Project of the Mayerson Foundation, and the chair of the Board of Advisors of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict. For 14 years, Dr. Seligman was the Director of the Clinical Training Program of the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named "Distinguished Practitioner" by the National Academics of Practice. He is a past president of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Seligman served as the leading consultant to Consumer Reports for their pioneering article that documented the effectiveness of long-term psychotherapy. With the theme of bringing practice and science into harmony, he was, in 1996, elected President of the American Psychological Association by the largest vote in modern history. E. Belvin Williams Dr. Williams has been a New York State certified psychologist since 1964. He holds a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from Denver University, an MA in Psychology and Philosophy from Columbia University Teachers College, an MS in Business from Columbia University, a Professional Diploma in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College, and a PhD in Psychology from Columbia University.Since 1989, Dr. Williams has been Executive Director of the Turrell Fund, an independent philanthropic foundation that provides funding to not-for-profit organizations rendering direct services to needy children in New Jersey and Vermont. He has served as the Director of the Macy Documentation Program of the Research Foundation at the City University of New York and Co-Director of the Program of Resources in Minority Education for the Macy Documentation Program. Dr. Williams has also served as consultant to the President and Dean of Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, on matters pertaining to urban and disadvantaged students, and President of the Williams and Weisbrodt firm, which consulted in the area of test program management, development, and administration. From 1977-1982, he served as Senior Vice President for Program Areas at the Educational Testing Service. He has also served as Associate Dean for Administration and Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. A member of the Board of Trustees of the American Psychological Foundation, Dr. Williams was the 1996 recipient of the American Psychological Association Presidential Award. He is the author of sixteen presentations and publications on education and minority issues. Vincent Wimbush Dr. Wimbush received a BA in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, from Morehouse College, a Master of Divinity from Yale University Divinity School, and a PhD in Religion from Harvard University. He is currently a Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at New York University's Union Theological Seminary and an Adjunct Professor of Religion in Columbia University's Classics Department.He has edited several major publications, including African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures (Continuum, 2000), Asceticism and the New Testament (Routledge, 1999), Asceticism (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Paul the Worldly Ascetic (Mercer University Press, 1987). Dr. Wimbush has been honored with numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including the Crown Zellerbach Fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley (1973-74), the Two Brothers Fellowship from Yale University Divinity School (1978), the American Council of Learned Societies Younger Scholars Award (1986), the NEH Summer Research Fellowship in African American Religious History at Princeton University (1987), the Luce Research Fellowship (1995-1996), the Lilly Endowment Research Grant (1996) and the Ford Foundation Grant (1998) for the African Americans and the Bible research project, and a Ford Foundation Planning Grant (2000). |
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