Stated Meeting, Washington, DC
March 9, 2009

Speakers:		Don Michael Randel is President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From 2000 to 2006, he was President of the University of Chicago. Prior to that he was a faculty member in the department of music at Cornell University, where he served as department chair, vice-provost, associate dean, then dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and, from 1995 to 2000, as provost. As a music historian, he is widely published, particularly on medieval liturgical chant, and he has also written on such varied topics as Arabic music theory, Latin American popular music, and 15th-century French music and poetry. He has served as editor of the Journal of the American Musicology Society and is editor of the Harvard Dictionary of Music 4th ed. (2003), the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (1996), and the Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1999). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001. Audio | Video (15 min.)
		David Souter is Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. A Rhodes Scholar, he was an associate at Orr and Reno in Concord, New Hampshire from 1966 to 1968, when he became an Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire. In 1971, he became Deputy Attorney General and in 1976, Attorney General of New Hampshire. In 1978, he was named an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire as an Associate Justice in 1983. He became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1990. President George H. W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat in 1990. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1997. Audio | Video (15 min.)
		Patricia Q. Stonesifer is Senior Adviser to the Trustees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she formerly served as Co-chair and Chief Executive Officer. She is also Chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to helping to create the Gates Foundation in 1997, she was a consultant to DreamWorks SKG and a Senior Vice President of the Interactive Media Division at Microsoft, with responsibility for interactive entertainment, news, information and service products, including MSN and MSNBC, Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, Microsoft's Magic School Bus Series, and Microsoft Flight Simulator. A founding board member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, she also served on the board of the GAVI Fund, which helps to provide vaccines to developing countries, and on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS. Currently, she serves on the boards of DATA/ONE (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) and Amazon.com. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2004. Audio | Video (12 min.)
		Edward L. Ayers is President of the University of Richmond. Previously Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he began teaching in 1980, he was named the National Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2003. His books include Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863, which won the Bancroft Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Prize. A pioneer in digital history, he created a teaching website The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, for which he was honored in 2001 as co-recipient of the first e-Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College. A member of the National Council for the Humanities (2000-2004), he has served as a member of the executive boards of the National Council for History Education, the Council for Library and Information Resources, and the Organization of American Historians. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001. Audio | Video (14 min.)

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