J. Russell Bellamy, President
J. Larry Allums
Laura Baldwin
Albert C. Black, Jr.
John R. Castle, Jr.
Rex Cumming
Barry M. Golden
David Griffin
Sharon A. Harris
Clyde Henderson
Kim Hiett Jordan, Life
Sue L. Maclay
Joseph R. Mannes
Nancy Cain Marcus, Life
Margaret McDermott, Life
Nelda Cain Pickens
A. Steven Raab
Anne Reeder
Betty Regard
Joanne H. Stroud, Life
Gail Thomas, Life
Fred C. Wilkinson
Nancy J. Allen
Randy D. Gordon
Ronald M. Mankoff
Mary Jane Ryburn
Stewart H. Thomas
Mr. Bellamy has worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. since 1968 after obtaining a degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame. He began serving The Dallas Institute in 2007 as Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Bellamy has served as a board member and member of the Executive Committee of Dallas YMCA Community Services for over 30 years. He has also served as Chairman of the YMCA Casa Shelter Committee, which provides a safe, temporary, 16 bed shelter to youth ages 10-17, who are in crisis for up to 30 days. In 2008, he was awarded the George L. Allen YMCA Distinguished Leadership Award. Bellamy also serves as Treasurer of the Santa Fe Art Institute. He and his wife, Betty, have four children: Aaron, David, Anne, and Lindsey. Back To Top
Dr. Larry Allums is Executive Director of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. He earned his M.A. in Literature in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Literature and Political Philosophy in 1978 from the University of Dallas' Institute of Philosophic Studies. He came to the Dallas Institute in 1997 from the University of Mobile, where he was Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has edited a volume of essays on epic poetry, The Epic Cosmos, and published articles on ancient Greek and Roman literature, Dante, and writers of the American Southern renascence, including William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Caroline Gordon. Under his leadership, the Dallas Institute continues to emphasize its longstanding work with elementary and secondary school teachers and principals and in the area of urban issues. During his tenure, he has directed the creation of several new Institute programs, including the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, the annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Symposium, the Dallas Festival of Ideas, and the Environmental Forum. Back To Top
Mr. Black was the first African American Chairman of the Dallas Regional Chamber. Albert founded On-Target Supplies & Logistics in 1982 and has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. He leads On-Target's strategic development, establishes company goals, manages strategic political and social involvement, and oversees the development of corporate culture.
Albert was included in Black Enterprise Magazine's Top 100 Minority Companies for 2005, 2006, and 2007. He has received three Texas Instruments Supplier Excellence Awards and is a recipient of the 30th Congressional District Award for outstanding achievement in the field of business. As the advisor and board member of many corporations and organizations in Dallas, Albert is an influential figure in the city of Dallas and Dallas County politics. Along with Institute Board member John Castle, he has been a strategic advisor to the Institute's annual MLK Symposium and is now a member of the MLK Advisory Council. Albert is married to Gwyneith Black and lives in Oak Cliff. They are the parents of three children. Back To Top
John R. Castle, Jr., is a private practice attorney and former Executive Vice President of EDS Corporation. He is a member of the American, Texas, and Dallas Bar Associations and a Fellow of the Texas Bar Association. He was appointed by Governor Perry in 2004 to serve on a nine-member Council for the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), and he is a member of the Boards of the Dallas Foundation (presently Chair) and The Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. He is former President of the Board of the Dallas Institute and presently serves on its Board of Directors, and he currently serves on the Dallas Institute's Martin Luther King, Jr., Symposium Advisory Council.
Mr. Castle is also a Board member of CitySquare, Paul Quinn College, and the Trinity Forum, an international leadership academy, and he chairs the Advisory Board of On-Target Supplies and Logistics in Dallas. He received a Bachelor's degree and his law degree from the University of Texas. He lives in Dallas with his wife Dorothy. Back To Top
Rex Cumming grew up in Dallas and entered business as his vocation. He has given generously over the years of this time and resources to advance many worthwhile causes. In October 2003, Rex served as co-chair of Two by Two for AIDS and Art. This event raised $1.5 million to help fund American Foundation for AIDS Research and support of the Dallas Museum of Art. A successful businessman, Rex has founded, built, and invested in numerous companies, worked on various City of Dallas commissions and boards, and currently sits on the Board of Directors of several technology companies and non-profit organizations. He lives in Dallas. Back To Top
Mr. Golden's practice is focused on commercial litigation, principally in the areas of class actions, antitrust and intellectual property. In 2001, he served as a prosecutor for three months in the Dallas County District Attorney's Office Lawyers on Loan program. Through this program, civil law firms donate the time of their litigation associates to the District Attorney's Office, while the associates obtain extensive trial experience. As a prosecutor, Mr. Golden tried approximately 20 cases before juries, serving as the lead attorney in 10 of them. He also led in approximately 10 bench trials/evidentiary hearings.
In 1997 he graduated from the University of Virginia Law School where he was on the Editorial Board for Virginia Environmental Law Journal and member of Phi Delta Phi. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Writer's Garret, and is a participant in a variety of programs sponsored by the Southern Methodist University School of Law, including its Mock Trial Competition, the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, the Adopt-a-Law-Student Program, and the Mock Interview Program. He currently serves as Publicity Chair for the 2000 Jingle Bell Run, a race benefiting Carter Bloodcare. Back To Top
As founder and president of David Griffin & Company Realtors, Mr. Griffin has translated his early curiosity and his personable nature into a 22 year career in residential real estate. Since founding David Griffin & Company Realtors in 1982, David has directed the sale of over $800 million in residential real estate. His company has established itself as the leading broker in marketing intown developments and has focused on the redevelopment of the close-in neighborhoods of the city. During the past year the firm's business has grown almost 20 percent and the sales force has increased to over 50 agents.
Mr. Griffin is currently on the Board of the Friends of the Katy Trail and has served on the Boards of the USA Film Festival and the Southwest Film Archives. He has also chaired projects for the Dallas Parks Department and Preservation Dallas, and is a member of his church's choir. Mr. Griffin is a graduate of Highland Park High School and Southern Methodist University where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English. His hobbies and interests include studying Italian and architectural history; singing; painting, drawing and sculpting; reading; and traveling. Back To Top
Sharon A. Harris earned her Bachelor's degree in English from Texas Tech and Master of Humanities from the University of Dallas in 1998 with a thesis on Faulkner directed by Dr. Louise Cowan. She taught for 29 years--English and Spanish--and coached Academic Decathlon and Ready Writing, in three different public high schools. She has taken temporary leave from the classroom to study fulltime in the rhetoric and composition PhD program at Texas Christian University, where she helps to supervise undergraduate tutors in the Writing Associates Program. In March and May 2010, Harris read papers at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. During her years in the high school classroom, the single most important experience was the 1990-91 Summer Institutes of the Teachers Academy of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The other two signal opportunities were the Texas Exes Award for Outstanding High School Teacher awarded in 2006 by the University of Texas Ex-Student Association, and the Nancy Cain Marcus Fellowship to the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar in 2005. Harris currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Dallas Institute's Teachers Academy. Back To Top
Clyde Henderson is a communications specialist in the Office of Media Services in the Dallas Independent School District. A native Texan, Henderson was born in Port Arthur, Texas, and is one of 10 siblings. He has lived in Denton, Austin and Dallas. Henderson has worked in the communications field for a number of years as well as in the education field. While in Austin, he worked at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in the student services department that handled college loans and at the Texas Education Agency in the communications division where he handled media calls, press conferences, event planning, and served as the staff photographer.
His current duties in the Dallas ISD Office of Media Services include writing news releases and media advisories and posting them to the district's web site. Other duties include responding to media calls, e-mailing local media, coordinating and setting up press conferences, setting up the board room and auditorium for board meetings and assisting in coordinating and planning district-wide events. His duties also include interfacing with all departments throughout the school district when planning various events and being a staff photographer. Henderson serves on the Superintendent's Golf Scholarship Classic Planning Committee, and the Safety and Security Committee.
Henderson loves to cook, enjoys jazz music, traveling abroad and throughout the United States, and is a true golf enthusiast. He began playing golf in 1987 and has enjoyed every minute of being associated with the game. Henderson serves on the board of the First Tee of Dallas as vice president of its executive committee as well as chairperson of the nominating committee. In addition, he chaired the Bridge Network annual golf tournament in 2006 and will chair the upcoming tournament in 2007. He has been an active member of the Pro-Duffers Golf Club for three years and serves on the organization's tournament and social committees. At Brookhaven Country Club, he is a member of the Ambassadors Committee. For fun, he collects original hickory shaft golf clubs that he finds while antique shopping with his wife. In his spare time, Henderson relishes spending time with his family, especially his wife and daughter. Back To Top
Sue Maclay is a former member and President of the Board of Directors at the Dallas Institute. She and her husband Doug, also a former Institute Board member, live in Highland Park. A civic leader for many years, Sue has served on the boards of several non-profits in a variety of capacities. As President of the Institute, Sue initiated and supervised a number of strategic additions to the organizational structure, including the streamlining of Board job and committee descriptions and the implementation of Institute staff evaluation procedures. Back To Top
Nancy Cain Marcus currently serves on the Board of Directors of Westwood Trust (NYSE), Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, Trinity Trust, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and is a Life Trustee and Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Ms. Marcus also served three terms as a trustee of The University of Dallas, where she was a member of the Executive Committee, and one term as a trustee of The Hockaday School. Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Ms. Marcus Commissioner on the State of Texas Commission on 21st Century Colleges and Universities, and she served as well on the Board of Visitors of Trinity College at Duke University and the Executive Board of Southern Methodist University Libraries; she remains a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College at Columbia University and on the Advisory Boards of the World Affairs Council and of the Dallas Women's Foundation.
In 2001, Nancy Cain Marcus received a Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation to serve as a United States Public Delegate to the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, a post she held for one year beginning September 10 on the eve of the national tragedy. Dr. Marcus holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas, where she has taught the Greek and Roman Epic portion of the University's required course on the Literary Tradition. She is a core faculty for the Dallas Institute's Teachers Academy and Principals Institute programs. Back To Top
A. Steven Raab is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The InSource Group, a Dallas-based company that provides a full range of technology resources including technical staff, project solutions and outsourcing services. The InSource Group helps companies and people perform better together, bridging the gap between potential and performance. The InSource Group was founded in 1992. In 1995, in conjunction with the founder of InSource, Steven started a company whose mission was to provide interim technical staff to companies on a project basis, a service that InSource did not provide. Later that year, the two companies merged to form The InSource Group.
Steven has a long and diverse management and sales background in the technical, financial, and real estate industries. He began his technical career at IBM, where he held various line and staff management positions in sales and vertical industry markets over a period of 17 years. In September, 1974, Steven moved to Dallas with IBM and he has lived here ever since. Prior to joining The InSource Group, Steven served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Sales and Marketing, for B.R. Blackmarr & Associates, a management and information technology consulting firm. Steven has also held the office of Executive Vice President for such companies as RealTime Financial Systems, Inc, Champion Savings and Loan, and Ramco Custom Homes, in addition to starting and operating his own custom home building company.
Philanthropic activities are an important part of Steven's personal life. For the past several years, his main focus has been serving on the board of Dallas Social Venture Partners, as former Chairman. He also served on the board and is a past chairman of Mothers Against Teen Violence. In addition to philanthropy, Steven is keenly interested in geopolitics and world affairs and is active in the World Affairs Council of Dallas. He is also a member of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, and is a series subscriber to Arts and Letters Live, TITAS, the Tate Lecture Series and many of the other wonderful arts venues in Dallas. An avid outdoorsman, he is involved in shotgun sports, motorcycling, fly-fishing, running and, most recently, equestrian sports. Steven has a son and grandson and he and his wife Ginny also share a passion for their two Golden Retrievers, Jake and Harley. Back To Top
Anne Reeder is a native Dallasite who has a long history of service. Following is a brief overview of some of her many charitable involvements. She is Development Chair of YWCA and immediate past chair of the Y's Centennial Celebration, its largest fundraiser. She also is rolling off the Board of CIS Dallas (Communities in Schools) after several years of service. She has over 20 years experience with Crystal Charity Ball activities, having chaired Charity Selection, Children's Books, and the Fashion Show. She is also Ball Coordinator for the current year. She is on the Opera's Women's Board and is Philanthropy Chair for Kappa. She is past president of the Board of Artreach and is founder and past president of the Park Cities Recycling Coalition. She was a 20-year active member of the Junior League, in which she served in four Board positions, including Ball Chairman.
Other current support groups in which she is active are the Genesis Alliance, Family Place Partners, Friends of Interfaith Housing, CMC Women's Auxiliary, Equest Auxiliary, and Women of the Arboretum. For the last two years, Anne has been a member of both Institute 100 and its planning committee, and she served as the 2008-9 and 2009-10 chair of the Institute 100 committee. Coincidentally, her grandparents lived at 2719 Routh Street, which she visited regularly as a young girl. Back To Top
Dr. Joanne Stroud is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute, Director of Institute Publications, and Editor of the Gaston Bachelard Translation Series, which consists of seven works on elemental imagination written by the 20th century philosopher of science and which Joanne is on the verge of completing after two decades. The 2002 Bachelard Symposium she chaired in Dallas, "Matter, Dream, and Thought," attracted international attention. She received her M.A. and Ph.D in Psychology and Literature from the University of Dallas and lectures in Dallas, New York City, and Connecticut. She has taught literature and psychology and is author of The Bonding of Will and Desire, the four-volume series Choose Your Element, and Time Doesn't Tick Anymore. Back To Top
Dr. Gail Thomas is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute and creator of its Center for the City. She served as the Institute's Founding Director for seventeen years and has throughout her career been a strong advocate for the active presence of the humanities in the life of the city. Dr. Thomas has taught at The Dallas Institute, Schumacher College in the United Kingdom, and The University of Dallas, where she directed the Center for Civic Leadership. She was instrumental in the creation of Pegasus Plaza in downtown Dallas and also led the successful effort to recreate the Flying Red Horse landmark sign in downtown Dallas. A recipient of the Kessler Award, she currently serves as President and Executive Officer of the Trinity Trust Foundation, whose mission is to raise private funds to implement the "Balanced Vision Plan" for the Trinity River Corridor and coordinates with the City of Dallas and the Trinity Commons Foundation in the effort to build public support, secure public funding and build the project. Back To Top
