Birthplace

Columbus, Ohio

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Education
Worthington High School
B.A. The Ohio State University, School of Journalism

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Career
Dishwasher
Bus Boy
Carpenter
Newspaper reporter and editor
Editor-in-Chief, The Lantern
Bike Messenger in NYC

Television Producer for 9 years in New York City and Los Angeles. Credits include Michael Jackson Live from Bucharest, Woodstock ’94, Woodstock ’99, Verve’s 50th Anniversary from Carnegie Hall and Columbia Records Celebrates 30 years of Bob Dylan. Wrote, produced and directed, over 175 interviews with artist ranging from Julie Andrews to Keith Richards and Bruce Springsteen, work has appeared on PBS, CBS, FOX, HBO, ABC, MTV, VH1 and the BBC as well as networks in Italy (RAI), Japan (NHK and JSB), France and Germany.

President and Owner of The Data House, a family-owned computer supplies business started in 1970 that has been transformed into a full service technology solutions provider serving the entire state of Ohio from both the Columbus and Cleveland offices. The company has received numerous awards including Hewlett-Packard Rising Star, HP Partner of the Year and Elite Partner.

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Honors, Public Service
Recreation Unlimited planning committee
3M Distributor Council Board
Board Member of Intec & Company, a national collective of independently-owned, technology businesses.

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Selected Publications
Stories for Short: A collection of Recollections from The Jockey Club 1982-1998

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Kit Kat Essays
• Degenerative Retinal Disorder In Mures Musculi: An Update  (December 2009)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (April 2018)

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Mission, Values, Dreams, Philosophy
This is it.
Play the game.
Now is the moment.
However don’t feel guilty if you really just feel like relaxing and having a milkshake.

 

 

 

 

Birthplace: 

Columbus, OH

 

 

Education:  
Dennison University, B.A. Economics
University of Michigan, J.D.
   Assistant Editor, Law Review

 

 

Career: 
Law, Justice Ohio Supreme Court

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
Served as director, president, or on board of:
Columbus Bar Foundation
First Community Church
Columbus Light Opera
University of Michigan Alumni of Columbus
Columbus Chapter of World Neighbors

 

 

Selected Publications:
Numerous articles in legal periodicals
Two published novels, Shadows of Doubt and Presumption of Guilt
Produced Playwright – CATCo Shorts Festival

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:

• Did It Really Happen? (November 2019)

• Life With Father (May 2015) 

• All In (October 2009) 

• Richard Nixon's Greatest Game (October 2005)

• Airy Nothing Comes to the Courtroom (courtroom fiction) (April 1996)

• Take Fortune by the Topknot (emblems) (November 1991)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Favorite fictional character is Eeyore, who says, “it will rain tomorrow, you can be sure of that.”

Birthplace: 

Philadelphia

 

 

Education:
Williams College - BA
University of Pennsylvania College of Medicine - MD

 

 

Family:
Wife: Barbara (45 years)
Sons: Jamie (Pam) – Columbus, OH; grandsons: John and Will
Greg (Cathy) – Charleston, South Carolina; grandkids: Lila and Fletcher

 

 

Career: 
Medical College of Ohio at Toledo (1975-1991) 
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Chief, Cardiac Surgery

The Ohio State University (1991-2003)
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, NCH

Nationwide Children's Hospital
Interim Medical Director (2007-2008)
Associate Chief Medical Officer (2008-present)
Co-Medical Director, Patient Safety

 

 

Honors- Medical:

Over 100 published papers, abstracts, and book chapters

Listed Best Doctors in America multiple years while practicing 

 

 

Honors- Humanitarian:

Multiple Paul Harris Fellowships- Rotary Clubs

Multiple “Service Above Self” awards- Rotary Club of Columbus 

Citizen of the Year, 1997- Boy Scouts of America Simon Kenton Council

Rotarian of the Year, 1999- Rotary Club of Columbus

Living Faith Award, 1998- Metropolitan Council of Churches

Presidential Citation for Humanitarian Service to Children, 1999- President of Rotary International

Virginia Smith Stecker International Service Award, 2000- American Red Cross

Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award, 2000- International Finalist

Service Above Self- Rotary District 6690 Award 2006

Exemplary Service Award for International Service, 2009- Rotary Club of Columbus

Service Above Self Award, 2010- Rotary International 

 

 

Other Stuff:

Inducted as an Elder in the Rafiki Clan of the Kikuyu Tribe in Kenya- one of three elders

Published writer of short stories and essays

Instrument rated pilot – 3000 hours

Washtub bassist in the Mountain Rock Band “Grassinine”

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:

• The Fourth Quarter, (May 2010) (as guest speaker, annual meeting)

• The Meaning of “Life”, (May 2016 annual meeting)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Life is short: Live, Love, Laugh, Be Grateful.

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Birthplace: 

Zanesville, Ohio

 

 

Education:  
Ohio University, B.S.J.
Kent State, M.A., PhD.

 

 

Career: 
Education, administration, and teaching
Kent State University Foundation, 1968-1972
Vice President, Hiram College, 1972-1982
President, Davis & Elkins College, 1982-1984
President, Otterbein College, 1984-present

 

 

Honors, Public Service:

Almost innumerable organizations and chairman or president of many of them

Ohio College Association, President

Board of Directors, Grant/Riverside Hospitals

American Red Cross, county of residence, President

United Way, President

 

 

Selected Publications:
Numerous as a college professor of communication and education (Hiram College, Kent State University and Otterbein College)

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:

• 359 (Historical overview of denominational colleges) (December 1995)

• And Then There Was One (Cuba in 1999) (November 2000)

• How Do You Spell Diversity? (January 2006)

• 12.24 (November 2013)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
To help others reach their potential

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Birthplace:

Ashtabula, OH

 

 

Education:   
Purdue University, BSEE
The Ohio State University, M.B.A.

 

 

Career:

Engineering. President of Sensotec, Inc., which manufactures and markets sensors and instrumentation for aerospace and industrial process measurement applications.

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
One of 10 Top Business People of the Year by Columbus Chamber of Commerce (1996)
Ohio State University College of Engineering Deans Advisory Committee
Purdue Research Foundation, Board Member
Purdue Alumni Association, Past President
Council of Technology Executives, Chair

 

 

Selected Publications:
Frequent papers at technical society meetings
Publications of articles in major journals in the field

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:
• Not in Columbus (January 1992)
• Finders Keepers or Hello Uncle (November 1998)
• Stay Tuned (December 2004)

Birthplace:

Jackson, Michigan

 

 

Education:  
DePauw University, B.A.
University of Michigan, J.D.

 

 

Career:
Partner, Emens & Wolper Law Firm
Law practice focuses primarily on corporate, family business, energy and oil and gas law, and governmental relations.  Counseled numerous clients on business planning, acquisitions and mergers, financing, family business succession and estate planning, establishing new entities (e.g. limited liability companies, limited partnerships) and director governance matters. Represented clients before state and federal regulatory agencies.
Previously Partner at Chester, Willcox and Saxbe LLP and Managing Director of another law firm for twelve years.

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
Board Member and Vice President of Audubon Ohio
Director of Ball State University Foundation and Founder of the Emens Scholars Program at Ball State University
Trustee and past Chair of the Board of Trustees of Franklin University
 

 

Former Trustee and President:

Friends of the Libraries of The Ohio State University, Battelle Youth Scholars, and the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation

 

 

Selected Publications:
Written and spoken extensively on corporate, family business, and energy and oil and gas law, as well as law firm management
Book Co-Author:  Family Business Basics:  The Guide to Family Business Financial Success (2000)

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:
• Did Nostradamus Do Scenario Planning?  (October 1996)    
• Innate, Manufactured, or Serendipitous (April 2005)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Family, friends, long-range planning, education, travel, reading and fishing

(*resigned, 1991; reelected 2013)

 

 

Birthplace: 

[Luke, what's your birthplace? -- Artie] 

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Education:  

B.A., English, University of Cincinnati
 

Career: 
Editor, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Editor, The Columbus Dispatch
President, Ackerman and Feck Press, Inc.
Senior Vice President, public affairs and corporate communications, AEP
 

Public Service:
Lieutenant, U.S. Army, on a Nike (surface-to-air guided missile) site in Chicago
First Board President, The Thurber House
Communications Chair, United Way of Central Ohio
Board member, Associated Press Managing Editors

 

 

Honors:
Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
Inducted into the Hall of Fame of Journalism Department, University of Cincinnati
Received the First Amendment Award from the Columbus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 

 

Selected Publications:
Yesterday's Cincinnati (various editions)
Real People, Real Crises
Cincinnati's Music Hall
American Electric Power: A Century of Firsts
Golf For Beginners: History, Lore and Love of the Game (For Beginners)
Portraits of Power: The Men and Women of the New AEP 

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:

• In the Nick of Timeless, April 2015

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams: 

[Luke, anything for here? Or anything else? -- Artie]

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Birthplace: 

Columbus, Ohio

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Education:  

The Ohio State University, B.S. 1960

Career: 
The Ohio State University Alumni Association, Inc.,

President and CEO EMERITUS

President DLH, LLC

Secretary: Association Board of Directors Alumni Advisory Council

Student Loan Foundation, Inc.
 

Publisher:

Ohio State Alumni Magazine

 

Honors, Public Service:

Distinguished Service Award, The Ohio State University

Past Chair, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education

(CASE), Washington, D.C.

Distinguished Service Award, CASE District 5 Frank Ashmore Award, 

CASE International

Past President, Council of Alumni Association Executives

Founding Chair, Self-Governing Alumni Forum

Past President, OSU Faculty Club Past Chair, University eProNet Inc.

Palo Alto, California

The Ohio State University Foundation Board

Past Secretary,  KitKat Club

Who's Who in America

Who's Who in Education

Who's Who in the Midwest

Past Chair, Big Ten Alumni Directors

Past President, Columbus Rotary Club

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Selected Publications:
Chapters in Handbook of Alumni Administration and 

Handbook of Institutional Advancement 

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:

• Confession of a Closet Geek (October 1995)

• Clubbing with Restraint (February 2000)

• BANG! (March 2006)

• Ready, Set, Stop! (March 2014)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams: 

To esteem others as better than myself, thanking God for my family, friends, and profession.l

Birthplace: 

Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Education:  
Harvard University, B.A. 
Columbia University, M.B.A.

 

 

Career: 
Real Estate Investments

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
Various boards, both religious and community
Visiting Committee of Asian Export Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Committee for European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:
• One Cup or Two: A Survey of Chinese Export Porcelain Trade with Europe 1600-1800 (January 1991)
• Fire & Light: A survey of No. European Candlesticks from 1300-1700 (April 1997)
• The Mendoza Discovery (February 2006)

Birthplace:

Jamestown, New York

 

 

Education:  
Case Institute of Technology, B.S.
California Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
 

Career: 
Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University
Former Director, Astronomer, Research Associate, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Former Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory
Former Deputy Director, National Optical Astronomy Observatories
Former Interim Project Scientist, Gemini International 8-m Telescopes Project
Chair and Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of Astronomy

 

Honors, Public Service:
Council of American Astronomical Society, 1985-1988
Chair of Telescope Allocation Committee, Hubble Space Telescope
Chair of Visiting Committee, Space Telescope Science Institute, 1997
Numerous other committees

 

Selected Publications:
Numerous articles in professional journals on the discovery and evolution of distant quasars, on the spectroscopy of stars, X-ray sources, and on emission-line galaxies.
Popular article on quasars in Scientific American
Edited conference proceedings on quasars and contributed article on quasars in The Farthest Things in the Universe.

Kit Kat Essays:
• Guest Star (December 1997)
• Seeing Back To The Beginning (October 2003)
• The Road to Tucapel (February 2012) 

A Genius of a Different Kind  (April 2022)

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:  To develop a forefront program in astronomy and astrophysics at Ohio State and make the results of this exciting science available to the citizens of central Ohio.

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Birthplace:

Kent, Ohio

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Education:  
Kent State University

 

 

Career: 
Chairman and CEO, The Pizzuti Companies

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
1994 Central Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year 
1995 Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award
1997 Building Industry Association Citizen of the Year
1998 Kent State University Distinguished Alumnus Award
2000 Columbus Award- Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce
    NAIOP Developer of the Year
    Installed in the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame
2001 Person of Vision- Prevent Blindness Ohio
Member, Board of Trustees, Children’s Hospital 
Member, Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce, 
Board of Directors, Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Past Chairman, Kent State University 
Past Chairman, Ohio Arts and Sports Facilities Commission 
Chairman, Board of Trustees, Wexner Center Foundation

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:
• Much More Than Mickey Mouse, 1988

Birthplace:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

 

Education:  
Denison, B.A., Economics
Harvard Business School, M.B.A. (Baker Scholar)
The Ohio State University, Honorary Doctorate, Business Administration

 

Career: 
Chairman, Diamond Hill Capital Management
Past Chairman, 5/3 Bank
Past Chairman, Fifth Third Bank, Central Ohio
Past Chairman, State Savings Company
Past Chairman, Bank One, Cambridge, Ohio
Past Director, Midland Insurance Co., Worthington Foods, Inc., Talman Savings,
Bank One of Cambridge, Abercrombie & Fitch & Intimate Brands, Inc,

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
Director of:  The Limited, Inc.; Jeffrey Company; Progressive Corporation
Served as Chair of Ohio State University Hospitals Board and member of 
Children’s Hospital Board
Served as workout chair of the thrift industry’s trade association for two years, resulting in a merger of an association now called America’s Community Bankers.  Also served as President of the Federal Reserve Board’s Thrift 
Institutions Advisory Council
Vice Chair, The Columbus Foundation

Selected Publications:
Commentary:  The Savings and Loan Crisis, Law & Policy, Vol 15, No. 3, July ‘93
Washington’s Emerging Attitude Toward Real Estate Lending, Professional 
Report: Publication by the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors, Jan/Feb ‘93
Publisher, Proceedings of Jefferson Township

 

Kit Kat Essays:
•  Reflections of a Confederate Dalmatian Owner (1990)
•  The Other Sophie’s Choice (or Pareto Revisito) (January 1997)
•  As Thy Purse Shall Bear (March 2003)
•  The Heffalump Trap (1964-1975) (2010)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Living in a world of different types of people makes life interesting, not to mention vaguely threatening.

Birthplace: 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

 

Education: 

Ohio State University, BS

 

 

Career: 
Author

Prior to being a full-time writer for the past 31 years: founder and chairman of the board of Shook Associates Corporation and American Executive Life Insurance Company.

 

 

Honors: 
Author of five New York Times best-sellers. Guest on more than 1,000 radio and television shows including The Today Show, The David Susskind Show, The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, the Disney Channel, CNN. Books have been featured on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, and others. Mary Kay on People Management was studied at the Harvard Business School. Member of board of directors of Value City Department Stores, 1991-2002.

 

 

Public Service/Community Service:
Chairman of the board-American Cancer Society (Franklin County) 2000-2002; ACS board member (1985-2002); 1994 Volunteer of the Year-American Cancer Society; past board member of Opera/Columbus; Players Theater of Columbus and member of the Columbus Adopt-a-School Program.

 

 

Selected Publications:
Author of 55 published books—54 non-fiction, one fiction, all selected by author. Published in more than 40 languages. Titles of books include: The IBM Way, Honda: An American Success Story, Turnaround: the New Ford Motor Company, Miracle Medicines, The Greatest Sales Stories Ever Told, The Perfect Sales Presentation, Hardball Selling, The Pep Talk, The Customer Rules, Predatory Marketing, Longaberger (NYT #1 bestseller), and Mary Kay on People Management (NYT #1 bestseller); contributing editor-Success Magazine-4 years.

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:
• The Business of America is Business  (November 2018)

• Brand New (October 2011)

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams: 

• I am only as happy as my least happy child and grandchild.

• The best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother. 

Birthplace:

Unknown

 

 

Education:
University of Toledo College of Law, J.D., cum laude
Vanderbilt University, B.A., English
 

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Career: 
Kegler, Brown (1986-present)

 

 

Honors: 

Recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer® by Law & Politics magazine.
Included in The Best Lawyers in America® and Business First’s "The Verdict"
Leadership Columbus Hall of Fame
Columbus Bar Association’s Community Service Award
AFL-CIO Community Service Award

Public Service/Community Service:
Roger has served as his firm’s community service chair and has been actively involved in the Columbus community. He currently is a member of the board of trustees of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, the Executive Committees of the YMCA of Central Ohio and the Executive Board of the Columbus Jewish Foundataion. His previous community activities include serving as Chair of the Boards of Trustees of Leadership Columbus, United Way of Central Ohio, The Community Shelter Board, and FIRSTLINK; as well as President of the Athletic Club of Columbus, and as a board member of the Columbus Bar Foundation, Temple Israel and Columbus School for Girls. He is also a member of the board of directors of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company and the Vanderbilt Alumni Association.

 

 

Publications and Presentations:
Liabilities of Directors and Officers Under State and Federal Law, Ohio State Bar Association CLE Institutes
Presenter on securities laws at Columbus Bar Association and Ohio Division of Securities Seminars

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:
• Back to the Future - Part 2  (February 2018)

• Back to the Future, January 2012. (Here is the HundredUp website Roger mentioned.) 

 

 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only true thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Birthplace:

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

Education:   
University of Michigan, Undergraduate and M.D.
 

Career: 
Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
 

Honors, Public Service:
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University
Medical Director, Central Ohio Mental Health Center
CEO and Medical Director, Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry/Director of Child Psychiatry, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry/Director of Child Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Board Examiner in psychiatry and child psychiatry
Consultant to numerous agencies serving children and families in central and southeastern Ohio
 

Selected Publications:
A dozen publications in child development and behavioral pathology
 

Kit Kat Essays:
•  Effects of Television on Education (March 1992)
 

Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
1)  A society that really cares about its children
2)  The relationship between personal responsibility and freedom

Birthplace:

Washington, D.C.

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Education:  
Bachelor of Architecture 
The Ohio State University

 

 

Career: 
President, Wandel & Schnell, Architects Inc. (1970-present)
Schooley Cornelius Schooley, Architects/Engineers
University of Virginia, School of Architecture
Richard Eiselt, Architect
Dan Carmichael, Architect

 

 

Honors, Public Service:
Trustee/Secretary. Grandview Heights Public Library
President, Central Community House
Board, Greater Columbus Arts Council
President, Columbus Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
President, Columbus Neighborhood Design Assistance Center
Chairman, Architects Fellowship, United Church of Christ

 

 

Awards:
Merit Award: Longaberger Alumni House, Columbus Chapter AIA
Honor Award: Columbus Board of Realtors, Columbus Chapter AIA
Honor Award: 12th Avenue Parking Garage & Botany and Zoology
Greenhouse Honor Award, Architects Society of Ohio
Honor Award: Ives Hall Remodeling for the School of Architecture, 
Columbus Chapter AIA

 

 

Kit Kat Essays:

* An Island Nation (January 2018)
• Three To Remember (November 2012)
• When Is This This? (February 2003)
• How Did We Get Here? (November 2006)

 

 

Favorite Quotations
Click here for the quotations Bob read to Kit Kat during his presidential year (2009-2010). 

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