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David Lyle Boren is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as the 21st Governor of Oklahoma... from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently president of the University of Oklahoma. He was the longest serving Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Currently, he serves as Co-Chair of the nonpartisan U.S. President's Intelligence Advisory Board. The Boren family has a strong interest in public policy and three generations of public service. His father, Lyle Boren, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947. His son, Dan Boren, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005. Boren was born in Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1963 from Yale University, where he majored in American history, graduated in the top one percent of his class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Yale Conservative Party, elected president of the Yale Political Union and is a member of Skull and Bones.
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Ruth Jean Simmons is the 18th and current president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected... Brown's first female president in November 2000. Simmons assumed office in fall of 2001. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, Time named her as America's best college president. According to a March 2009 poll by The Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. On September 15, 2011 President Simmons announced that she plans to step down from the Brown presidency at the end of the current academic year, June 30, 2012. After a short leave, she will continue at Brown as Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. Simmons was born in Grapeland, Texas, the last of 12 children. Her father was a share cropper. She earned her bachelor's degree, on scholarship, from Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1967.
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David R. Goode is the retired Chairman, President, and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation . Other directorships: Caterpillar Inc.; Delta Air Lines,... Inc.; Georgia-Pacific Corporation; Norfolk Southern Railway, and Texas Instruments Incorporated. Goode has been a director of Caterpillar since 1993. He is also on the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines. He attended Duke University and Harvard Law School. He was chosen as the Railroader of the Year by industry trade journal Railway Age for 1998 and again in 2005. The Norfolk Southern office building in midtown Atlanta was named in his honor in 2005. He is also known for ending the steam program of the Class J 611 and Class A 1218 in 1994.
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