Dr. Margaret B. Melady - President of The American University of Rome; Chair of the Board of Regents and Marymount International School, Rome; Director of Corporate Communications of United Illuminating
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 From Left to Right: Cavaliere William Mc Ilheny, Commendatore Carmelo Cicala, Cavaliere Gemma Puglisi, Grande Ufficiale Margaret Melady, Ambasciatore Giovanni Castellaneta, Cavaliere Serena Cantoni, Cavaliere Cesarina Chiarappa Horing, Cavaliere Paola Corneo, Cavaliere Marco Troiano. Assente il Commendatore Maddalena Funicello Ferretti. |
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| Margaret B. Melady, Ph.D. Washington, DC Dr. Margaret Melady served as president of The American University of Rome from 1997 to 2003. Founded in 1969, the American University of Rome is Italy’s first American independent degree-granting university. During her tenure as president, The American University of Rome reached a record level of enrollment, more than tripling in less than six years. Under Dr. Melady’s leadership, The American University of Rome added 14 new U.S. universities to its already impressive list of study abroad programs. Margaret Melady has a rich background in university teaching and administration, corporate management and global communications. She has authored four books on social and political commentary and studies in international culture and communications and consulted with foreign and domestic clients for a Washington-based public affairs firm. Dr. Melady is a former member of the faculties of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield (CT) and the State University of New York in Oswego where she taught speech, public relations and media communications. An alumna of the College of New Rochelle where she received a B.A. degree, Dr. Melady received her M.A. from Seton Hall University. She earned the Licenza magna cum laude and Doctor of Social Sciences degree summa cum laude from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Her major study examined overseas travel as a new form of papal communications and was published by Preager in 1999 as The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II: The Pastoral Visit as a New Vocabulary of the Sacred. As Director of Corporate Communications of United Illuminating, a Connecticut public utility company, Dr. Melady was responsible for all external and internal communications including advertising and media relations. At Chesebrough-Ponds, she directed a nationwide program in state governmental affairs. She was the first woman promoted to an executive position in public affairs at Stauffer Chemical Company, where she worked in both public relations and governmental affairs. Dr. Melady produced and moderated her own radio programs at WICC, the largest commercial radio station in Connecticut. While speaking on behalf of her corporate clients, she appeared on many radio and television programs. Dr. Melady’s volunteer activities have centered in intercultural and political themes. She served as Chair of the Board of Regents and Marymount International School, Rome, Italy. She ran for statewide political office and served on state and national committees. Dr. Melady was invested in the Order of St. Gregory the Great. She received the Cross of Merit with Star from the Order of Malta and the Robertus Bellarmino Medal from the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 2003, both Seton Hall University and John Cabot University awarded her a doctor of humane letters honoris causa. |
http://philosophy.cua.edu/Board%20of%20Advisors/Bios.cfm (Proof Positive)
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Prof. Luigi Vittorio Ferraris - Ambassador; Member o/t Italian Council of State and Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs; President of the Italian Centre for International Conciliation Studies and the Diplomatic Studies Association, Rome, Italy
http://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/pre...es/2006/mai_06/ (second from right)
http://www.60019.it/index.mv?fname=60019ru..._art=1140512731 (second from left)
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http://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/pre...es/2006/mai_06/ (second from right)
http://www.60019.it/index.mv?fname=60019ru..._art=1140512731 (second from left)
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| Luigi Vittorio Ferraris Luigi Vittorio Ferraris is Professor at the Universities of RomaTre, Rome and Aosta and a member of the Italian Council of State and Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He was previously professor at the University of Luiss. Rome and Trieste and other and an Italian diplomat and Ambassador of Italy in several countries. Luigi Vittorio Ferraris is author or coeditor of four books and author of more than 400 essays in Political Affairs. |
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| MEETING OF THE ORDER'S DIPLOMATIC CORPS Milan, 3 June 2000 Within the framework of the development of the Order's diplomatic service and in response to the acknowledged need to enhance its communications and information, the Grand Chancellor, Amb. Count Don Carlo Marullo di Condojanni convened the Order's ambassadors accredited to the countries of Europe and Africa for a working meeting and exchange of ideas to plan the Order's diplomatic action worldwide. The two working sessions were also attended by heads of the Order's diplomatic missions on the other continents and heads of national bodies as observers. Two personalities of the international diplomatic world, Amb. Bernard Dorin and Amb. Prof. Luigi Vittorio Ferraris, talked about the general themes and organisational problems of the Order's international structures, their needs and developments in the respective governments. Specific issues were examined by working groups which were set up during the meeting and which will continue their work afterwards. The assembly was chaired by the Grand Chancellor, head of the Order's Diplomatic Service, and co-ordinated by the Secretary General for Foreign Affairs, Amb. Francesco Guariglia. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, subject of International Law, is present with its humanitarian action in over 100 countries on all continents. It maintains diplomatic relations on a level of embassy with 85 States, of which 23 are in Europe and 31 in Africa. It has diplomatic missions in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Monaco, in the European Council and Commission of the European Communities. It is a Permanent Observer to the General Assembly of the United Nations and, as such, maintains permanent delegations in international organisations in New York, Geneva, Paris, Rome and Vienna. |
http://www.orderofmalta.org/notizia.asp?ID...a=18&idlingua=5 (Proof Positive)
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Lewis E. Lehrman - Founder o/t Investment Firm L. E. Lehrman & Co; Chairman of The Lehrman Institute; Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co.; Teacher, Author and Businessman 
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cnp.php http://rightwing.wikia.com/wiki/Heritage_Foundation/source2
http://www.learn-usa.com/relevant_to_et/Se...e_Influence.pdf SMOM by mention: http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/cia-drugs/Msg00961.html http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891113.html http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-13255813.html Social Network Diagram: http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_LEHRMAN_LEWIS_E Sources:
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He wrote a book with Ron Paul in the nineties called THE CASE FOR GOLD. See the Ron Paul thread in AGENTS OF DECEPTION for more.
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'Secretive' Order of Knights seek new Grand Master.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/f...icle3337347.ece
February 8, 2008
The Order of the Knights of Malta, the powerful, wealthy and mysterious Roman Catholic body that traces its origins to the Crusades, has begun a papal style search for a new leader to combat its “secretive” image after the death of its Grand Master.
Fra Andrew Bertie, 78, the first Briton to head the order and a descendant of the exiled Stuarts, died in a clinic, in Rome where the order has been based for the past 174 years. Elected Grand Master in 1988, he recently complained that the Knights’ charitable activities were overlooked by “conspiracy theorists” who suspected that its humanitarian missions in Iraq and Afghanistan were a cover for “mercenary” activities.
Last month in his traditional New Year's Day address, he said that “misinformation” about the Order of Malta was putting the lives of its volunteers “in grave danger”.
Addressing diplomats accredited to the order, he blamed “confusions created by the media, careless of verifying their sources,” which he said could have “mortal consequences.” He said: “Terrorism — or more exactly, terrorists — deliberately attack civilian populations, including women and children; they make no distinction between combatants and civilians. . . Humanitarian workers on the ground, among whom are members and volunteers of the Order of Malta, are perceived as legitimate targets. They are attacked, ransomed, kidnapped, in occurrences that are becoming more and more frequent; numbers of them have lost their lives.”
He complained that “new conspiracy theories have sprung up over recent months associating the sovereign Order of Malta with a private society of mercenaries which it is said are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for a foreign government. These assertions have absolutely no factual basis.”
The order has 12,500 members worldwide and is run by the “Council Complete of State”, an inner core made up of some sixty “professed knights” who have taken monk-like vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
They have begun behind-the-scenes consultations that will culminate in a conclave of the council to vote on a new Grand Master, “in about six months' time” according to insiders. Grand Masters, like Popes, are elected for life. There is no equivalent of the white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney however, since the votes cast are not burned but kept in the order’s archives.
Grand Masters must be able to prove “noble lineage” going back at least two centuries. “The vote is secret, and stays secret until the new Grand Master has revealed his identity to the Pope,” a source said.
Born in 1929, Bertie was educated at Oxford and the University of London and served in the Scots Guards before joining the order in 1956. He worked as a schoolteacher and a financial journalist before taking his vows in 1981. His mother, Lady Jean Crichton-Stuart, was a descendant of the Stuarts.
A charming but intensely shy man, Bertie once told The Times at his frescoed palazzo on Via Condotti near the Spanish Steps that the order had “nothing to hide”. On the other hand its procedures are arcane and aristocratic, with members wearing black robes embroidered with a white eight-pointed cross. On the order’s 900th anniversary in 1999 it, briefly, opened the doors of its complex on the Aventine Hill, where visitors can normally do no more than bend to peep through a keyhole that frames a distant view of St Peter’s.
The order, whose full title is the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta, has 93,000 volunteers involved in humanitarian and charity work around the world — often in conflict zones — ranging from ambulances and disaster relief to maternity hospitals and homes for disabled children. It issues its own passports and stamps, and has diplomatic relations with 99 countries and permanent observer status at the United Nations.
The order traces its origins to the 11th century when merchants from the Republic of Amalfi financed a hospital run by monks in Jerusalem to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land. The order dates its founding to 1099 when the monks took on a military role to protect the pilgrims. When the Crusaders were forced out of the Holy Land by Saladin after the fall of Acre, the order moved to Cyprus, then Rhodes and ultimately to Malta, where the knights reinforced the harbour at Valletta with the massive ramparts of Fort St Angelo, enabling them to withstand sieges by the Ottoman Turks, notably in 1565.
The Knights were eventually forced out of Malta by Napoleon, making their final move to Rome. To mark the 1999 anniversary Malta allowed the order to re-possess Fort St Angelo on a 99-year lease. The Grand Commander of the order, Fra Giacomo della Torre, was sworn in as interim head. The Grand Master, who is addressed as “Your Highness”, carries the title of prince and is considered by the Vatican to be equal in rank to a cardinal.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/f...icle3337347.ece
February 8, 2008
The Order of the Knights of Malta, the powerful, wealthy and mysterious Roman Catholic body that traces its origins to the Crusades, has begun a papal style search for a new leader to combat its “secretive” image after the death of its Grand Master.
Fra Andrew Bertie, 78, the first Briton to head the order and a descendant of the exiled Stuarts, died in a clinic, in Rome where the order has been based for the past 174 years. Elected Grand Master in 1988, he recently complained that the Knights’ charitable activities were overlooked by “conspiracy theorists” who suspected that its humanitarian missions in Iraq and Afghanistan were a cover for “mercenary” activities.
Last month in his traditional New Year's Day address, he said that “misinformation” about the Order of Malta was putting the lives of its volunteers “in grave danger”.
Addressing diplomats accredited to the order, he blamed “confusions created by the media, careless of verifying their sources,” which he said could have “mortal consequences.” He said: “Terrorism — or more exactly, terrorists — deliberately attack civilian populations, including women and children; they make no distinction between combatants and civilians. . . Humanitarian workers on the ground, among whom are members and volunteers of the Order of Malta, are perceived as legitimate targets. They are attacked, ransomed, kidnapped, in occurrences that are becoming more and more frequent; numbers of them have lost their lives.”
He complained that “new conspiracy theories have sprung up over recent months associating the sovereign Order of Malta with a private society of mercenaries which it is said are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for a foreign government. These assertions have absolutely no factual basis.”
The order has 12,500 members worldwide and is run by the “Council Complete of State”, an inner core made up of some sixty “professed knights” who have taken monk-like vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
They have begun behind-the-scenes consultations that will culminate in a conclave of the council to vote on a new Grand Master, “in about six months' time” according to insiders. Grand Masters, like Popes, are elected for life. There is no equivalent of the white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney however, since the votes cast are not burned but kept in the order’s archives.
Grand Masters must be able to prove “noble lineage” going back at least two centuries. “The vote is secret, and stays secret until the new Grand Master has revealed his identity to the Pope,” a source said.
Born in 1929, Bertie was educated at Oxford and the University of London and served in the Scots Guards before joining the order in 1956. He worked as a schoolteacher and a financial journalist before taking his vows in 1981. His mother, Lady Jean Crichton-Stuart, was a descendant of the Stuarts.
A charming but intensely shy man, Bertie once told The Times at his frescoed palazzo on Via Condotti near the Spanish Steps that the order had “nothing to hide”. On the other hand its procedures are arcane and aristocratic, with members wearing black robes embroidered with a white eight-pointed cross. On the order’s 900th anniversary in 1999 it, briefly, opened the doors of its complex on the Aventine Hill, where visitors can normally do no more than bend to peep through a keyhole that frames a distant view of St Peter’s.
The order, whose full title is the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta, has 93,000 volunteers involved in humanitarian and charity work around the world — often in conflict zones — ranging from ambulances and disaster relief to maternity hospitals and homes for disabled children. It issues its own passports and stamps, and has diplomatic relations with 99 countries and permanent observer status at the United Nations.
The order traces its origins to the 11th century when merchants from the Republic of Amalfi financed a hospital run by monks in Jerusalem to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land. The order dates its founding to 1099 when the monks took on a military role to protect the pilgrims. When the Crusaders were forced out of the Holy Land by Saladin after the fall of Acre, the order moved to Cyprus, then Rhodes and ultimately to Malta, where the knights reinforced the harbour at Valletta with the massive ramparts of Fort St Angelo, enabling them to withstand sieges by the Ottoman Turks, notably in 1565.
The Knights were eventually forced out of Malta by Napoleon, making their final move to Rome. To mark the 1999 anniversary Malta allowed the order to re-possess Fort St Angelo on a 99-year lease. The Grand Commander of the order, Fra Giacomo della Torre, was sworn in as interim head. The Grand Master, who is addressed as “Your Highness”, carries the title of prince and is considered by the Vatican to be equal in rank to a cardinal.
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