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53 THE CAPITOL DOME Capitol Committee Renewals, Upgrades, and New Members: July through November 2017 e Society deeply appreciates all the Capitol Committee members for their continued involvement and support of its educational mission. Leadership Council ($25,000 and above) Amway Bank of America Express Scripts Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Sanofi Constitution Signers ($15,000–$24,999) Airlines for America Allergan Chevron Nestle USA Norfolk Southern Corporation PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association United Technologies Corporation Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. Constantino Brumidi Society ($10,000–$14,999) 3M Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz P.C. Business Roundtable Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Fidelity Investments National Restaurant Association Salt River Project Siemens Corporation Sysco Founder ($5,000–$9,999) Airports Council International–North America BASF Corporation CoBank ExxonMobil Corporation International Franchise Association Phillips 66 Procter & Gamble Toyota Motors North America, Inc. For more information about the many benefits available to Capitol Committee members, please contact Director, Corporate Giving Marilyn Green at (202) 543-8919 x21 or mgreen@uschs.org, or Manager of Development and Outreach Jennifer Romberg at (202) 543-8919 x23 or jromberg@uschs.org. Dr. Donald R. Kennon Two years aer Dr. Donald R. Kennon's retirement, USCHS wishes to acknowledge and celebrate his 28-year tenure as chief historian, vice president of Education and Outreach, and head of the Society's History Department, which began 30 years ago this year. Don came to the Soci- ety in 1981 with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland and a specialty in nineteenth-century American history. Aer serving as associate historian, he succeeded Dr. Richard Striner as chief historian of the Society in 1987—just in time for the celebration of Congress's bicen- tennial two years later. "One of the most productive years in the Society's history," 1989 was marked by significant addi- tions to the Society's already robust publication of books on the history of Congress. e pace and quality of the pub- lications program, which has come to include the routine publication of papers from the Society's ongoing annual history symposia, benefitted immeasurably by Dr. Kennon's scholarship and expert editing. But whether it is the Soci- ety's publications program, its Capitol Fellowship program, or its many public programs aimed at local youth groups or national and more scholarly audiences, the Society's research and education mission owes much of its success to Don's direction during well over half of its 55-year history. When informed of Don's retirement, one well-known historian burst out that it was "like the Washington Monument leav- TRANSITIONS

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