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1ideas defning a ree society

Courtesy

ofThe

Strauss

Center

Hoover Institution wecomes

Senior Feow Amy Zegart

Award-winning author and national

security aairs expert Amy Zegart callsher Hoover appointment a return to

her intellectual home

by Amy Hellman

Ggle amy Zegr d is esy

see why Hver sugh her u

ji is disiguished cdre

ellws.Shes a leading expert on the

organizational deciencies o national

security agenciesone o the

nations ten most infuential experts in

intelligence reorm. She has served on

the National Security Council, testied

beore the US Congress, provided

intelligence training to the US Marine

Corps, and advised local, state, and

ederal ocials on intelligence and

homeland security matters.

With a tenured aculty position at

UCLA and academic suitors aplenty

knocking at her door, what made

Amy decide to pack up her amily and

head or Hoover?

In many ways Amy says, her move

back to Stanord, where she earned

her MA and PhD in political science, brings her ull circle.

At Hoover, she will take her place alongside the same

Hoover scholars who advised her as part o her dissertation

committee: David Brady, Stephen Krasner, Terry Moe,

and Condoleezza Rice. Stanord also holds personal

signicance: it was here that she met the law student who

would become her husband.

Amy views the move to Hoover as a return to her

intellectual home, one that allows her to be part o a

vibrant community and recharge her intellectual batteries.

Coming to Hoover not only oers stimulating water

cooler conversation with some o the best and brightest

minds o the day, Amy says, it allows her to reocus herenergiesaway rom teaching responsibilities and toward

her scholarly interests, aording her the coveted time and

space to think deeply and concentrate on her research.

Since arriving in July, she has hit the ground running,

generating many new project ideas. The author o two

award-winning books, she has already begun writing

her next book and is collaborating on two projects

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insidefrm he direcrs desk

Greetings rom John Raisian

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I he Exhibii Pvili

Commemorating the hundred

years since the Chinese revoution

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Recommended reading romour eows

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Mee he clss 201

Get to know the newest members

o the Board o Overseers

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Spledr i he glss

Our Bradey Prize winners trea

guests to a stirring day in Napa

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Spligh ni

Securiy airs fellws

Inteectua curiosity and semotivation characterize these

miitary eows

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Ledership frum

Hoover wecomes visiting VIPs

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2 Hoover Institution

directors desk

FROM THE

IN THE ExHIBITION PAVIlION

A Century o Change: Ch

Showcasing the Hoover Institutions rich East Asian hod

a new ehibition commemorating the hundredth anniv

o the Chinese revoution o 1911 is on dispay through the

the year at the Herbert Hoover Memoria Ehibit Paviion ad

to Hoover Tower.

The outbreak o the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 191

ushered in an age o transormation in China by overthrowi

268 years o Manchu autocracy, ending more than two tho

years o euda monarchy and estabishing a repubic. Key e

eading fgures, and socia and geopoitica repercussions o

revoution are iustrated with documents, photographs,


Im pleased to present the inauguralissue o Talk o the Tower, a quarterly

newsletter designed to bring you news rom

inside the Hoover Institution. Conceived

as a vehicle or our inner circlethe

ellows who make this place what it is,

the sta who execute the vision, andour riends who support the eort

the publication will include, in broad

strokes, updates on Hoover exhibitions,

acquisitions, and publishing eorts;

news o our media and leadership

outreach eorts; and highlights o Hoover

scholarship and research initiatives.

Our aim is to build community,commitment, and engagement with

Hoover, its people, and its purposes by

providing regular, requent, and inviting

material to help you connect in positive

and meaningul ways.

Your eedback is welcome as we work to

make this publication as eective as

possible. Please let us know what you think!

Sincerely,

John Raisian,

Tad and Dianne Taube Director


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Hoover fellows are among the most well readin terms of what theyre readingand among the best read

in terms of what theyre writingin public policy circles. What theyre reading, what theyre writing

presents a sampling of both whats on the bedside tables and whats on the hard drives of our eminent scholars.

Peer Berkwiz, td d Die tube Seir fellw

Chir, Kre-tube tsk frce nil Securiy d Lw

Cchir, Byd d Jill Smih tsk frce Virues free Sciey

In the past ew months Ive read two excellent books, both o which Ill be

reviewing orPolicy Review. One isAmerican Grace: How Religion Divides and

Unites Us, by political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell. It represents

social science at its best. By means o sophisticated empirical research into public

opinion and contemporary religious practice, it shows that, despite the polarization

o our politics, men and women o aith tend to be tolerant, good neighbors,

unusually charitable, and among the nations most civically minded citizens. The

other is The Idea o America: Reections on the Birth o the United States, by Pulitzer

Prizewinner Gordon Wood. In it a master historian brings to lie the array o

personalities, ideas, and social and political orces that gave birth to Americas

great experiment in liberty, democracy, and sel-government.

Im planning to complete by the end o the year two short books that grow out o my

work on Hoover task orces. Constitutional Conservatism originated in discussions

with the Virtues o a Free Society Task Force, which I cochair with (Deputy Director)

Dave Brady. It argues that in our era the essential conservative task consists in

recovering and securing the moral and political principles and presuppositions

embodied in the Constitution, and that such a task is one around which both socia

conservatives and scal conservatives can and should unite.Israel and the Struggle

over the International Law o Wargrapples with issues that are the ocus o the

National Security and Law Task Force, which I chair. This book analyzes the abuses

o the international law o war by which Israel was attacked in the Goldstone Report

and the Gaza fotilla controversy. It explains why all liberal democracies, and the

United States in particular, have an interest in conserving the law o wars original

commitment to balancing military necessity and humanitarian responsibility in the

ace o a concerted eort by international lawyers and proessors o international

law to disparage or obscure the claims o military necessity.

In addition, in September, beore the ormal beginning o the academic year,

I taught a short, intensive program in political studiespolitical philosophy, public

policy, and the oundations o the stateor outstanding Israeli undergraduates at

the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.


HOOVER FEllOWS

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MEET THE ClASS OF 2011 Hoover appoints eightto Board of Overseers

Hoover is pleased to welcome eight new

overseers to its governing body. Bringing

a wealth o business and philanthropic

experience to the responsibility o

overseeing the Institutions strategic

direction and nancial health, the

overseers are also charged with preserving

institutional independence within the

Stanord University ramework.

Each overseer serves on one or more

standing committees o the board,

including the Executive Committee,

Research Initiatives, Library & Archives,

Communications, Development, and

Finance. Overseers review strategic planning

documents and budgets and promote and

enhance the reputation o the Institution.

Elected to ve-year terms, each overseer

also contributes a minimum o $100,000

a year to the Institution.

this yers ew verseers re

Brbr M. Brre, Prdise Vlley, aZ

Wler E. Blessey Jr., Mdeville, La

Michel W. Gleb, Edgewd, Pa

Jh Jrd, Heldsburg, Ca

Crig o. McCw, S Brbr, Ca

Chrispher R. Redlich Jr., Hillsbrugh, Ca

Vicr S. trie, S Rs, CaPul H. Wick, Prl Vlley, Ca

(See biographical sketches on pages 1011)

Clockwise rom top:

Victor Trione, John Jordan,

Craig McCaw, Paul Wick,

Christopher Redlich Jr.


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Nearly 200 people gathered in Napa or aspring conerence showcasing ve Hoover ellows and

a guest dinner speaker, all winners o the prestigious

Bradley Prize, awarded or strengthening American

democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and

values that sustain and nurture it. With us were the Bradley

Foundations president and CEO, Michael Grebe; Program

Vice President Daniel Schmidt; and Dianne Sehler, director

o Academic, International, and Cultural Programs.

Thanks to our generous riends in the wine industry or

recommending and contributing the perect libations to

accompany our program. Those riends include Diane

and Rick DuNah, Judith and Dennis Groth, Tom and John

Jordan, Carolyn Martini, N. Gary Merkel and Heather Patz,

George Myers, Chris Peacock, and W. Clarke Swanson.

Standing: Senior Fellows John Taylor, Gary Becker, Victor Davis Hanson, and Shelby Steele, Proessor

Alan Charles Kors o the University o Pennsylvania, and Senior Fellow Fouad Ajami. Seated: Bradley

Foundation president and CEO Michael Grebe and Hoover Institution director John Raisian.

Shelby Steele with Susie and

George Fugelsang

Michael Grebe and Dianne Sehler o

the Bradley Foundation

Dixon and Sara Browder fank

Sally Herrick

Jane Dwight and Bill Henderson

Victor Davis Hanson and

Jane Ann Blessey

Bruce and Sheila Bastl with

Shelby Steele

Board Chair Herbert Dwight and

John Raisian

Bradley Foundation CEO

Michael Grebe

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Hoover Institution

Pursuing programs o study that broaden their perspectives in

their respective military services and in their understanding osocietal issues and oreign policy arenas, the National Security

Aairs Fellows contribute substantially to the lie o the Hoover

Institution, studying alongside Hoover ellows, presenting data

gleaned rom years o military service, and participating generally

in the daily activities o the Institution and the broader university.

By design, the research ocus or the year is selected by the

individual ellows in consultation with their respective service

coordinators, allowing them the reedom to select topics o

relevance to contemporary military and international concerns.

The ellows are encouraged to read, think, and conduct research

beyond the level required in their previous operational and

technical experience, to produce a research paper, and, i asked, to

present their research ndings to Hoover scholars and associates.

More than 120 midcareer military men and women have had the

privilege o pursuing a yearlong course o research at Hoover

since the programs inception in 1969. Selected by the branch o

the military in which they serve, the ellows represent the best and

brightest o our uniormed sentry.

National SecurityAffairs Fellows

Intellectual curiosity and self-motivation characterize

the National Security Affairs Fellows that Hoover is

privileged to host annually from each branch of the

United States military and the Department of State.

nil Securiy airs

fellws led pel

discussi Hvers

Sprig Rere Military

Engagement in an

Uncertain World: Todays

CircumstancesTomorrows

Challenges. Picured rm

le righ re Direcr Jh

Risi ( he pdium),

Clel JP McGee, Lieue

Clel Mier Rls,

Cmmder Dvid Sly,

Lieue Clel Bred

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Clel Lei Eckhlm.

the 20112012 clss il securiy irs ellws icludes

Mark Cassayre, US Department of State

Lieutenant Colonel Michael Chandler, US Army

Lieutenant Commander Manuel Hernandez, US Navy

Lieutenant Colonel John O. Howard, US Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Matteo G. Mooch Martemucci, US Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph J. Russo, US Marines

SPOTlIGHT



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lEADERSHIP FORUMVstng Vips

In MEMoRIaM

Hver murs he rece lss

hree members he Brd

overseers:

Richrd Cll, Psde, Ca

Born October 17, 1924, Dick

passed away March 11, 2011, at

the age o eighty-si. A member o

Hoovers Board o Overseers since

1998, Dick graduated rom both

Stanord University and Stanord

Medica Schoo. He served as an

ofcer in the US Navy during theKorean War and then attended

Harvard University to continue his

medica education. Dick was the

internationa corporate medica

director o the Union Oi Company, a

position he hed or thirty-fve years.

He was aso a visiting proessor at

UClA, UC-Berkeey, and UC-Irvine

and taught at USCs Schoo o

Medicine. An engaged community

eader, Dick initiated groundbreaking

programs in feds ranging rom

medicine to music as president o

the Seaver Institute.

Lerd Ely, Pl al, Ca

Born October 2, 1923, leonard

passed away Apri 29, 2011, at the

age o eighty-seven. A egendary

fgure in phianthropy and civic

eadership, leonards roots in the

Pao AtoStanord community go

back severa generations. He was

the grandson o Stanords third

Engaging the public policy community with Hoovers

ideas defning a ree society has been a priority or

more than a decade.

Now, in addition to developing relationships with themedia elite, Hoover has inaugurated a pilot initiative to

engage policy and opinion leaders directly, and already

some o the best and brightest have come knocking.

Employing the media ellows model, which invites

leading journalists to spend meaningul time among

president, Ray lyman Wibur, andthe son o a Stanord proessor.

A graduate o Pao Ato High Schoo

and Stanord University, where he

earned BA and MBA degrees, he

served as a US Air Force piot in

Word War II. His business ventures

incuded Ey Motor Company,

leonard Ey Company, and Atherton

lease Company. leonard was

invoved in many community

agencies and was a supremey

capabe undraiser. He had served

on Hoovers board since 2002.

Willim Lweberg,

S frcisc, Ca

Born August 14, 1926, in Ochtrup,

Germany, Bi passed away Apri 2,

2011, at the age o eighty-our. A

survivor o seven Nazi concentration

camps, Bi immigrated to San

Francisco, rising to eadership

positions in the civic and Jewish

communities. President Ronad

Reagan appointed him vice

chairman o the US Hoocaust

Memoria Counci, and he heped

shepherd the creation o theHoocaust Museum in Washington,

DC. A successu commercia rea

estate deveoper, his pride and

patriotism incuded US Army service

during the Korean War. He served

the boards o San Francisco Opera,

the San Francisco Commission on

Aging, and the Jewish Community

Federation. He had been a Hoover

overseer since 2005.

Hoover ellows and research key issues in the library and archives, Hoover

is now identiying and inviting policy leaders rom both political parties

to consult with ellows and, when appropriate, to deliver public remarks to

the Hoover and Stanord communities. A typical schedule will include a

roundtable with those ellows with expertise in issues that are o particularinterest to the visitor, with the emphasis on customizing sessions to address

specic policy challenges.

Down the line, senior legislative sta may also participate in the Leadership

Forum. We anticipate a robust slate o visitors in the coming year as the

election season unolds.

The following policy leadersvisited Hoover in 2011

Gverr Hley Brbur, Luisi

Huse Speker Jh Beher

Huse mjriy leder Eric Cr

Governor Jon Huntsman, Utah

Ser Jh Kerry

Gverr tim Pwley, Mies

Cgressm Mike Rgers

Gverr Mi Rmey, Msschuses

Top: House Speaker John Boehner meets with Director John

Raisian and a panel o Hoover ellows this spring.

Bottom: Governor Tim Pawlenty greets Overseer Carl Larson

during a recent visit to Hoover.


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Hver Isiui welcmesSeir fellw amy Zegr

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one which reunites her with Krasner, who advised her during her graduate school days, and

another with Stanords Center or International Security and Cooperation, where she is an aliated

aculty member.

Amys bookFlawed by Design, which chronicles the development o the Central Intelligence Agency,

Joint Chies o Sta, and National Security Council, won the highest dissertation award in political

science.Spying Blind, which examines why American intelligence agencies ailed to adapt to the

terrorist threat beore 9/11, won the National Academy o Public Administrations Brownlow Book

Award. She has also published inInternational Security, Political Science Quarterly, and other leading

academic journals. In addition, she serves on the editorial boards o Terrorism and Political Violence

andIntelligence and National Security. Her commentary has been eatured on national television and

radio shows and in theNew York Times, Washington Post, andLos Angeles Times.

A ormer Fulbright scholar, Zegart received an AB in East Asian studies magna cum laude rom

Harvard University. She serves on the FBI Intelligence Analysts Association National Advisory Board

and the Los Angeles Police Departments Counter-terrorism and Community Police Advisory Boardand is a lietime member o the Council on Foreign Relations.

Amys past associations with Hoover include serving as a visiting ellow, research ellow, and

contributor to the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. Her bookEyes and Spies:

Congress and the U.S. Intelligence Community, due out this all, grew out o her work with the task orce.

What makes this place unique and highly desirable is that the institutional walls are relatively low,

Amy said. As such, Hoover promotes wonderul interdisciplinary collaboration among its scholars.

To me, its an intellectual Eden.

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posters, maps, pamphlets,

artiacts, sound recordings, andmoving images.

Among the highlights o the

nearly two hundred items on

display are Herbert Hoovers 1900

prediction o a great uprising

in China; 1910 photographs o

Chinese troops training in the

elds o central Caliornia in

juxtaposition to a letter rom Sun

Yat-sen, the ather o the republic,

to Stanord alumnus Homer Lea;

and a Japanese poster depicting

playul Japanese and Chinese

siblings next to gruesome images

o Shanghai in shambles during

the Second Sino-Japanese War

and desperate appeals by the

Chinese government to Herbert

Hoovers administration to

stop Japans invasion. Also on

exhibit are documents recently

deposited at Hoover by the

amilies o Chiang Kai-shek, T. V.

Soong, and H. H. Kungall three

brothers-in-law o Sun Yat-sen

including minutes o meetings

between Premier T. V. Soong and

Stalin in 1945 and selections rom

Chiang Kai-sheks diaries ater the

generalissimo met with Herbert

Hoover in 1946.

The exhibit is open to the public

Tuesday through Saturday,

11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and is ree o

charge. Parking on campus is

ree on Saturdays.


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Wh heyre redig, wh heyre wriig


Lrry Dimd, Seir fellw

Direcr, Ceer Demcrcy, Develpme, d he Rule Lw,freem Spgli Isiue r Ieril Sudies

Pressr, by curesy, Scilgy d Pliicl Sciece

I recommend Abbas Milanis riveting new biography, The Shah, which I read when it came out a ew months ago. Its the

denitive historical account o the shahs rise, rule, and all, based on voluminous original research and written with

a dramatic fair that accentuates the tragedy o his (and Irans) squandered opportunities to enter the modern world.

I recently nished and really enjoyed Ian McEwans withering and oten hilarious satirical novel,Solar. And I nished Francis Fukuyamas

stunning new book, The Origins o Political Order, which is the most important book on political development in at least a generation and a

really great read.

This summer I lectured in the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program o the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule o Law, which

brings midcareer proessionals rom diverse transitional countries to Stanord or three weeks o intensive training and discussion on issues opolitical and economic development. I am also editing a book on liberation technology, another on democratic development in Taiwan, and

a third (with Abbas Milani) on the prospects or democratic transition in Iran. And I am working on a new book about democracy that brings

together a number o my essays over the last two decades with new chapters analyzing the global progress o democracy since the mid-1970s

and how to promote democracy eectively.

Crlie Hxby, Seir fellw

Sc d Dy Bmmer Pressri he Schl Humiies d Scieces

Member, Kre tsk frce K12 Educi

Like most proessors who train PhD students, my reading consists mainly o the latest writing in my eld. Still, I like to

read broadly and reread some classics every year. This summer, I reread Horaces Odes and Epodes, which I believe

to be the greatest lyric poetry o Western civilization. I also wrestled with the major critical work on the magnicent

French classicist painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665); I highly recommend Denis MahonsNicolas Poussin or those who want to read one

truly insightul book. With Winston ChurchillsHistory o the English-Speaking Peoples on my reading list or years, I nally got around to it.

These volumes should be mandatory reading or anyone interested in oreign policy or military history. They are eccentric yet replete with

brilliant insights about what made the Anglosphere politically and economically dominant or two centuries. Finally, recent reads important

to my work includeBig-Time Sports in American Universities, in which Charles Clotelter argues persuasively that college sports are not a mere

sideline but play an important role in American higher education, and The Venture Capital Cycle, in which Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

explain the crucial economic role played by venture capitalists.

I am currently completing a ew books. The Role o Markets in Education, based on my Clarendon Lectures in Economics (February 2011),

argues that educational institutions unctioning in strong markets are more productive or several reasons: they reveal inormation and ensure

that schools incentives are based on acts; they promote good governance and incentives; and they orce universities to ocus on their most

productive activitybeing venture capitalists in human capital. Because nearly all educational markets are some hybrid o ree markets and

regulation, I use concrete examples to show how we can derive the best rom markets in an environment where ree markets are politically or

socially ineasible. I am also completing a book on how education aects economic growth (with Philippe Aghion). Ours is the only work to

take this question seriously as a causal matter. Finally, I am polishing a monograph or Hoover on K12 school nance, an understudied topic

that aects more government spending each year than national deense or Social Security.



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our new overseers:Mee he Clss 2011


Brbr M. Brre, Prdise Vlley, aZ

Barbara has held many leadership positions in

business, government, and community service. An

instrument-rated pilot, her cosmonaut training in

Russia culminated in certication as an astronaut. In

addition, she served in both the Ronald Reagan and

George W. Bush administrations, including a term as

US ambassador to Finland. A director o the Aerospace

Corporation, Hershey Trust, and RAND, she also serves

on the Smithsonian National Board and the Pentagons

Deense Business Board. Barbara is ounding chairman

o Valley Bank o Arizona; CEO o the American

Management Association; and partner in a Phoenix lawrm. Earning her bachelors, masters, and law degrees

at Arizona State University, the universitys Barrett

Honors College bears her amily name.

Wler E. Blessey Jr., Mdeville, La; Big Sky, Mt;

Desi, fL; Crmel, Ca

Walter owns and operates Blessey Marine, one o the

youngest and largest multiaceted inland tank barge

and towing vessel feets in the United States, employing

more than six hundred people. Previously, he owned

and operated thirteen automobile ranchises thatemployed a thousand people, earning distinction as the

largest car dealer in Louisiana and Mississippi. Inducted

into the Louisiana Business Hall o Fame in 1999, he

has participated in many nonprot activities in New

Orleans and currently serves on the Board o Directors

o Junior Achievement. With undergraduate and

graduate degrees rom Tulane University, Walter also

attended the University o Edinburgh and the University

o Washington.

Michel W. Gleb, Edgewd, PaMichael serves as president and trustee o the

Sarah Scaie Foundation and treasurer and trustee

o the Carthage Foundation. Beore joining the

oundations, he practiced law, rst with Kirkpatrick

& Lockhart LLP and then with Morgan, Lewis &

Bockius LLP in Pittsburgh and Jakarta, Indonesia.

His practice included various aspects o corporate

law. Michael serves as chairman o the board o the

New to the Board o

Overseers are (top to

bottom) Barbara Barrett,

Walter Blessey Jr., and

Michael Gleba



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the United States, ultimately becoming president in 1987 and

chairman in 1997. Following his retirement in 2007, Chris

devotes much o his time to various civic, charitable, and

business organizations, including Stanord Hospital and

Clinics and Conservation International. His previous service

work includes terms as president o the National Association

o Waterront Employers, the Los Angeles Steamship

Association, the General Stevedore Council, and the Long

Beach Chapter o the Boys Club o America. A Stanord

graduate, Chris also attended Harvard Business School.

Vicr S. trie, S Rs, Ca

A graduate o Stanord University, Vic earned his MBArom UC-Berkeley and served as a lieutenant in the US

Navy beore launching his management career. He

currently serves as chairman o the Caliornia-based

Luther Burbank Savings. He is also president o Vimark,

a vineyard management and real estate development

rm, and coproprietor o Trione Winery. Among his many

involvements in community service, Vic is chairman o

the executive committee o Empire College and a trustee

o the Navy Memorial Foundation in Washington, DC. He

serves on the advisory board o the Stanord Institute or

Economic Policy Research, is a member o StanordsHumanities and Sciences Council, and is a trustee or

numerous philanthropic boards.

Pul H. Wick, Prl Vlley, Ca

Paul leads the Seligman Technology Group, a team o

investment proessionals in New York and Caliornia,

part o Columbia Management Investment Advisors, LLC.

Beore assuming this leadership position, Paul serially

managed a number o Seligman unds, including the

Seligman Communications and Inormation Fund, one o

the largest and oldest US technology mutual unds; theSeligman Global Technology Fund; and the Seligman

Frontier Fund, a small-cap mutual und with technology

exposure. With expertise in the semiconductor and

electrical capital equipment industries as well as sotware

and computer hardware sectors, Pauls insight and outlook

on the technology industry are requently eatured in the

nancial media. He earned both his BA and MBA rom

Duke University.

Commonwealth Foundation or Public Policy Alternatives;

he is on the board o several other public policy

organizations as well. He received his JD cum laude and

MBA with honors rom Duquesne University in Pittsburgh

and his BS in industrial management with university

honors rom Carnegie Mellon University.

Jh Jrd, Heldsburg, Ca

Since 2005, John has served as CEO o Jordan Vineyard

& Winery, bringing a resh perspective to the pursuit o

excellence in the Jordan brand, rom environmental

stewardship to precision arming practices to hospitality

and a commitment to quality. Beore joining the amilybusiness, John practiced law, rst at a Santa Rosabased

law rm and then at a private rm he opened in Sonoma

County. He remains a partner in the law rm o Smith &

Dollar, is a part-time proessor at Empire College o Law,

where he received his law degree, and is a lieutenant in

the US Navy Reserve. A graduate o Occidental College, he

earned his MBA rom the University o San Francisco.

Crig o. McCw, S Brbr, Ca

Craig, who built McCaw Cellular Communications into

the nations leading provider o cellular services and soldthe company to AT&T in 1994, is chairman and CEO o

Eagle River, a strategic investment rm ocused on the

communications industry. A career communications

executive, Craig is also president o the Craig & Susan

McCaw Foundation, which supports a variety o

educational, environmental, and international economic

development projects. A Stanord graduate, he serves

on the boards o the Nature Conservancy, the Horatio

Alger Association o Distinguished Americans, and

the Friends o Nelson Mandela Foundation. Previous

board service includes Conservation International, theGrameen Technology Center, the National Security

Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and the

Academy o Achievement.

Chrispher R. Redlich Jr., Hillsbrugh, Ca

From an entry-level position, Chris worked his way up

through the ranks o the Marine Terminals Corporation, the

largest contract stevedore and ocean terminal operator in



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Talk of the Tower, Fall 2011

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