1.   A longtime Zen Buddhist, Gere is the founding chairman of Tibet House in New York, and is frequently seen with the Dalai Lama.

2.   After leaving the Globe, Winship became founding chairman of the International Center for Journalists.

3.   He asked Anscombe to organize a separate department of statistics, of which he became the founding chairman.

4.   He was the founding chairman of the Union College Foundation, and a contributor to Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and the Association for Retarded Citizens.

5.   He was also the founding chairman of the State Board for Chiropractic, the licensing agency.

6.   He was also the founding chairman of Cable in the Classroom, an industry initiative to provide equipment and programming to schools, free of charge.

7.   Jonathan served as founding chairman of Temple Solel and founded the Valley Shakespeare Theatre.

8.   Peter Malkin, a lawyer and the founding chairman of Greenwich Green and Clean, a civic organization, also agrees with Ragland.

9.   Posvar was the founding chairman of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which advises the government on response to national emergencies.

10.   She was a founding chairman, with Dore Schary, of Friends of Democracy, which championed human rights after World War II.