Also paper in the symposium: The Earliest Athapaskans in Southern Southwest: Implications for Migration, organized and chaired by Deni Seymour, Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.

Since 2008, he has chaired the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and wrote the essay on usage for the Fifth Edition of the Dictionary, which was published in 2011.

He also sat on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and chaired its Center for Advanced Film Studies.

They convinced the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, which McClatchy ’ s business partners from Orangevale created and chaired, to build a bridge across the American River at Fair Oaks in 1901.

Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

In 2004 she became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and chaired the AAAS board in 2005.

After completing almost 30 years within the ranks of the law school, Lewis eventually devoted his powers to founding the American Law Institute, in 1925, which was seated in the law school and was chaired by Lewis himself.

In 1907 the sole remaining British North American colony, Newfoundland, was granted Dominion status, although starting in 1934 it was administered by the non-representational Commission of Government, a body chaired by British officials.

Manship served on the board of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and chaired the board.

In November 1919, he chaired a meeting in support of American recognition of the newly created Soviet Union.

He had previously chaired the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Economics of Law Practice which later evolved into the ABA Law Practice Management Section.

He chaired the National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, a coalition of government agencies and nongovernment organizations, from 1967 to 1969, and served as a consultant to groups such as the American Cancer Society.

Marshall also chaired the successful state senate campaign of Robert Brown, the first African American since reconstruction to be elected to that body from outside the Atlanta metro area.

In 1854, he chaired a committee which issued an announcement, summoning leading anti-slavery politicians and citizens to a meeting at the American House in Boston ( July 7, 1854 ), to discuss the potential formation of a new party and to organize a state convention.

From 2005 to 2007, Shaw chaired the Ways and Means Trade subcommittee and was actively involved in the passage of the United States free trade agreement between a number of Central American nations and the Dominican Republic.

During the summer of 1993, Cunningham attended American University and interned on Capitol Hill for a subcommittee chaired by Senator Carl Levin.

The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943 in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States.

Fox Entertainment Group is wholly owned and controlled by the Australian / American media conglomerate News Corporation, which is chaired and part owned by the Australian / American Rupert Murdoch, since the company acquired all the stock of Fox.

He was a founding member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, served a term as the president of the American Association of University Professors, and chaired the International Astronomical Union's committee on comets and minor planets for two decades.

Mr. Zed founded and chaired the all-party Sugar Caucus opposing unfair American trade practices and also founded and chaired the all-party credit card caucus working with Canadian banks and retailers.

Hales served as treasurer and board member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and chaired the executive committee of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

In 2002-03, he chaired the Site Selection Task Force for Wayne County Chapter of the American Red Cross.

He has served on and chaired numerous scientific and academic panels, including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.

On April 2, 1919, Żorawski chaired the inaugural meeting, in Kraków, of the Mathematical Society, which soon changed its name to the Polish Mathematical Society.

He has chaired the Canadian HPC consortium, now Compute Canada and the International Mathematical Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communications ( 2002 – 2008 ).

He chaired the advisory committee that supervised preparation of Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.

* October 25 – St. Cuthbert's Society, University of Durham is founded after a general meeting, chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.

The Vienna Circle ( in German: der Wiener Kreis ) was an association of philosophers gathered around the University of Vienna in 1922, chaired by Moritz Schlick, also known as the Ernst Mach Society ( Verein Ernst Mach ) in honour of Ernst Mach.

In February 1886, he chaired a meeting at the Medical Society in Cavendish Square to establish a medical scholarship to be awarded to women.

The Law Society remains the approved regulator, although following the Legal Services Act 2007 a new body, the Legal Services Board ( chaired by David Edmonds, a government appointee ) will oversee all the approved regulators including the Bar Council, which has also divested its regulatory functions into the Bar Standards Board.

Lansdowne chaired the inaugural meeting of the London Statistical Society, and was its first president ( 1834 – 1836 ).

It was chaired by Lord Milton, President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and " upwards of 300 gentlemen " attended the meeting.

The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Walter Legge Society, chaired by Dr Daphne Kerslake, continues to keep her name alive.

The Society is governed by its Board of trustees called the Council, which is chaired by its President.

Starting in 1965, he chaired the Harvard Society of Fellows.

She founded the government funded Gender and Criminal Justice Forum at the Fawcett Society and chaired it's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System.

Newton chaired the Hansard Society Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny which ran from 1999 to 2001.

From 2004-2005 Puttnam chaired the Hansard Society Commission on the Communication of Parliamentary Democracy, the final report of which urged all political parties to commit to a renewal of parliamentary life in an attempt to reinvigorate representative democracy.

He was the principal speaker at the opening of the Anti-Slavery Society Convention in Freemasons ' Hall, London in 1840, chaired by Thomas Binney.

Lady Pitkeathley also chaired the Office for Civil Society Advisory Body until it's abolition in March 2011.

The Society is governed by its Council, which is chaired by the Society's President, according to a set of Statutes and Standing Orders.

The Society is governed by its Council, which is chaired by the Society's President, according to a set of Statutes and Standing Orders.

At this founders meeting, chaired by Servais Le Roy, those present decided upon the name of the Society — it was initially felt that the name of the Society should be the Martin Chapender Club, in memory of the noted performer, and founding member, who had recently died at the age of twenty-five.

He chaired the founding meeting of the New York Philharmonic Society in 1842.

His other recorded affiliations with internationally-focused organizations include Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs ; Member of the Global Leadership Foundation ( chaired by F. W. De Klerk ), the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention, the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons, the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe in Moscow, the Global Council of the Asia Society, the Advisory Council of Independent Diplomat, the Jury of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, the Aspen Ministers Forum ( chaired by Madeleine Albright ) and the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Economics and Peace.