Board of Directors
Richard Henry Lee
A graduate of Sewanee, Richard served as an educator, with an emphasis upon vocational education as an option for young people at the high school and post-secondary level. He remains an earnest critic of the notion that the four-year Liberal Arts college model constitutes the gold standard for all young people entering high school.
He has served as a teacher in Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, where he retired as a vocational school administrator. A resident of Cambridge for over twenty-five years, he now resides in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Catesby Leigh
Catesby Leigh writes about public art and architecture, with much of his work concerning institutional buildings and civic monuments. He has contributed critical commentary to publications including City Journal, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, National Review, Modern Age, the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard. He is a co-founder, past chair and past research fellow of the National Civic Art Society, which seeks to perpetuate the classical and other humanistic traditions in design as essential to creating and maintaining a public realm worthy of the nation. After graduating from Princeton, Leigh spent most of the 1980’s as South America correspondent for the Atlanta-based Cox Newspapers chain. Visiting many cities and towns in the region, he grew increasingly interested in traditional architectural environments. His first architectural articles appeared in 1991.
John Ryan
He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Business and its Law School.
He was first elected the President of it’s College Young Republican Club, then to
higher offices of the National CYRs before being appointed it’s first Executive Director. John was also named The Outstanding College Young Republican in the Nation for 1965- 1967. Elected as the District of Columbia’s Young Republican National Committee Man and worked in the 1968 Nixon Presidential Campaign. Drafted in early 1969, John was a legal clerk In the US Army during which he also held several part time jobs included the weekend doorman at Clydes, a very popular Georgetown eatery , and was admitted to the DC Bar. Upon his discharge from the Army, John held several positions in the Executive Branch, including that of a Special Assistant US Attorney in DC, before serving as a Legislative Staff Director to two United States Senators. He then joined the pharmaceutical industry serving as a senior counsel.
Among John’s varied interest are, US history, Victims of Communism, travel, especially to the west and UFOs.
Elaine Y. Schadler
Elaine worked as a field education researcher for the National Assessment of Education Progress and was a presidential appointee to the National Council of Educational Research. She attended the University of Connecticut and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. She did further graduate work at Temple University (M.A.) and the University of Pennsylvania (ABD). She was the cofounder of Educational Enrichments and hosted a variety of gala events in Washington, D.C.
Robert A. Schadler
Robert was a Merit Scholar and GM Scholar at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and an Earhart Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught as an adjunct at Rutgers University and the Institute of World Politics. He was an editor of The Intercollegiate Review and Managing Editor of The Political Science Reviewer before entering into over a decade of public service at the U.S. Information Agency and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has been involved with a variety of educational organizations including the Center for Civil Education, the Fund for American Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial, the Center for Islam and Democracy among others.