1.   Among the beneficiaries of his philanthropic works was Sinai Hospital in Detroit, where he was a founding director.

2.   As a founding director, McBride helped to develop a curriculum to educate artists in new imaging and multimedia technologies.

3.   As its founding director, Ms. Heiss has always been responsible for every project, inside and out.

4.   At his death, he was distinguished professor of psychology and a founding director of the Center for the Study of Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities.

5.   Before joining Mount Sinai, he was the founding director of the Division of Aging at Harvard Medical School and chief of gerontology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

6.   Born in Santos, Brazil, Ferreira is the founding director of the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England in Cambridge.

7.   After teaching French for a time, he moved to Cooperstown, N.Y., and became a founding director of the Glimmerglass Opera.

8.   After that he became founding director of the East African Wildlife Advisory Service.

9.   Butler is editor in chief of Geriatrics magazine and was a founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.

10.   Davidsen was also the founding director of the Center for Astrophysical Sciences, which helps organize large astronomical projects at Johns Hopkins.