Kenneth W Bleakley had a distinguished 29-year career as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer which included serving as President George H.W. Bush's Senior Deputy U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Deputy Chief of Mission in San Salvador, Director of U.S. Operations in Central America and Director of the U.S. International Refugee Program. He was President of the American Foreign Service Association and Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity.

After retiring from the Foreign Service he was a founder and past president of Fonemed LLC, which provides nurse advice services throughout North America and the Caribbean. He graduated from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and held a Master's Degree from American University. An avid skier, poker player and boatsman, Ken lived a full life of gusto and determination.

Stanley Weiss enrolled in Georgetown University School of Foreign Service after service in the U.S. Army between 1944 and 1946.

After graduation from Georgetown, he moved to Mexico to establish mining operations, eventually becoming the largest supplier of magnesia in North America. Later, he was involved with the Soviet - American Trading Corporation (SATC) to import Soviet chromium. At one time, SATC was responsible for 80% of U.S./Soviet trade.

In addition to his business interests Mr. Weiss was actively involved in various organizations, Including:

• Founder - Business Executives for National Security
• Board of Visitors - Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
• Advisory Board - RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy
• Advisory Board - International Crisis Group

After service in World War I, Halleck A. Butts graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1921 and was the first President of the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon National Professional Foreign Service Fraternity at Georgetown. Prior to his graduation, he was appointed U.S. Trade Commissioner at the American embassy in Tokyo and later became the U.S. Commercial Attaché. He served at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo from 1920 to 1933.

During World War II, he was Chief of the Japan Section in the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration. He was also associate professor of economics at Duke University, detailed to the Army Finance School to lecture on Far Eastern economics and on Japan's financial institutions and fiscal policy. He was also a lecturer at the Army Civil Affairs Training Schools at Harvard and Northwestern Universities,

He joined the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF – later renamed the National Defense University) in July 1944 as Assistant Director of Research, Foreign Economic Resources Group and then served as Foreign Economic Advisor to the Army Service Forces (ASF). While there, he also returned to Georgetown as an associate professor of economics. After World War II, while still teaching at Georgetown, Mr. Butts became Chief of the Economic Potential Branch of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (now known as the National Defense University). He then served his country at the Central Intelligence Agency.