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==Signatories== Academics and other prominent persons were signatories to the document, attesting "We who sign ''Humanism and Its Aspirations'' declare ourselves in general agreement with its substance": === Notable signatories=== *[[Philip Appleman]] (poet and distinguished professor emeritus of English, Indiana University) *Khoren Arisian (senior leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture) *[[Bill Baird (activist)|Bill Baird]] (reproductive rights pioneer) *[[Frank Berger]] (pharmacologist, developer of anti-anxiety drugs) *Howard Box (minister emeritus, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, Tennessee) *[[Lester R. Brown]] (founder and president, [[Earth Policy Institute]]) *August E. Brunsman IV (executive director, [[Secular Student Alliance]]) *Rob Buitenweg (vice president, [[International Humanist and Ethical Union]]) *[[Vern Bullough]] (sexologist and former co-president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union) *David Bumbaugh (professor, Meadville Lombard Theological School) *Matthew Cherry (executive director, [[Institute for Humanist Studies]]) *Joseph Chuman (visiting professor of religion, [[Columbia University]], and leader, Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, New Jersey) *Curt Collier (leader, Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, New York) *Fred Cook (retired executive committee member, International Humanist and Ethical Union) *Carl Coon (former [[U.S. Ambassador to Nepal]]) *[[Richard Dawkins]] *Charles Debrovner (president, NACH/[[The Humanist Institute]]) *[[Arthur Dobrin]] (professor of humanities, Hofstra University and leader emeritus Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, New York) *[[Margaret Downey]] (president, Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia) *[[Sonja Eggerickx]] (vice president, Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen, Belgium, and vice president International Humanist and Ethical Union) *[[Riane Eisler]] (president, Center for Partnership Studies) *[[Albert Ellis (psychologist)|Albert Ellis]] (creator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and founder of the Albert Ellis Institute) *Edward L. Ericson (leader emeritus, Ethical Culture) *Roy P. Fairfield (co-founder, Union Graduate School) *[[Antony Flew]] (philosopher) *[[Levi Fragell]] (president, International Humanist and Ethical Union) *[[Jerome Isaac Friedman]] (Nobel Laureate, Physics) *[[Arun Gandhi]] (co-founder, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence) *Kendyl Gibbons (president, [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association]]) *Sol Gordon (sexologist) *Ethelbert Haskins (retired treasurer of the Humanist Foundation) *[[Jim Herrick]] (editor, the New Humanist) *[[Pervez Hoodbhoy]] (professor of physics at [[Quaid-e-Azam University]], Islamabad, Pakistan) *Fran P. Hosken (editor, Women's International Network News) *Joan Johnson Lewis (president, National Leaders Council of the American Ethical Union) *Stefan Jonasson (immediate past president, [[HUUmanist]]s) *Larry Jones (president, [[Institute for Humanist Studies]]) *[[Edwin Kagin]] (founder and director, [[Camp Quest]]) *Beth Lamont (AHA NGO representative to the United Nations) *[[Gerald A. Larue]] (professor emeritus of Biblical history and archaeology, University of Southern California) *Joseph Levee (board member, [[Center for Inquiry|Council for Secular Humanism]]) *Ellen McBride (immediate past president, [[Ethical movement|American Ethical Union]]) *[[Lester Mondale]] (retired Unitarian Universalist minister and signer of Humanist Manifestos I and II) *[[Henry Morgentaler]] (abortion rights pioneer) *[[Stephen Douglas Mumford|Stephen Mumford]] (president, Center for Research on Population and Security) *William Murry (president and dean, [[Meadville Lombard Theological School]]) *Sarah Oelberg (president, HUUmanists) *Indumati Parikh (president, Center for the Study of Social Change, India) *[[Philip Paulson]] (Church-state activist) *[[Katha Pollitt]] (columnist, the Nation) *Howard Radest (dean emeritus, the Humanist Institute) *[[James Randi|James "Amazing" Randi]] (magician, founder of the [[James Randi Educational Foundation]]) *Larry Reyka (president, the Humanist Society) *David Schafer (retired research physiologist, U.S. Veterans Administration) *[[Eugenie Scott]] (executive director, [[National Center for Science Education]]) *[[Michael Shermer]] (editor of [[Skeptic (American magazine)|''Skeptic'' magazine]]) *James R. Simpson (professor of international agricultural economics, Ryukoku University, Japan) *[[Warren Allen Smith]] (editor and author) *Matthew les Spetter (associate professor in social psychology at the Peace Studies Institute of Manhattan College, NY) *[[Oliver Stone]] (Academy Award-winning filmmaker) *John Swomley (professor emeritus of social ethics, St. Paul School of Theology) *Robert Tapp (dean, the Humanist Institute) *Carl Thitchener (co-minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and of [[Canandaigua, New York]]) *Maureen Thitchener (co-minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canandaigua, New York) *[[Rodrigue Tremblay]] (Emeritus professor of economics and of international finance, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada) *[[Kurt Vonnegut]] (novelist) *John Weston (ministerial settlement director, Unitarian Universalist Association) *[[Edward O. Wilson]] (professor, [[Harvard University]], and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner) *[[Sherwin Wine]] (founder and president, [[Society for Humanistic Judaism]]) ===Nobel laureates=== 22 Nobel laureates were among the signatories: *[[Philip W. Anderson]] (Physics, 1977) *[[Paul D. Boyer]] (Chemistry, 1997) *[[Owen Chamberlain]] (Physics, 1959) *[[Francis Crick]] (Medicine, 1962) *[[Paul J. Crutzen]] (Chemistry, 1995) *[[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]] (Physics, 1991) *[[Johann Deisenhofer]] (Chemistry, 1988) *[[Jerome I. Friedman]] (Physics, 1990) *[[Sheldon Glashow]] (Physics, 1979) *[[David J. Gross]] (Physics, 2004) *[[Herbert A. Hauptman]] (Chemistry, 1985) *[[Dudley Herschbach]] (Chemistry, 1986) *[[Harold W. Kroto]] (Chemistry, 1996) *[[Yuan T. Lee]] (Chemistry, 1986) *[[Mario J. Molina]] (Chemistry, 1995) *[[Erwin Neher]] (Medicine, 1991) *[[Ilya Prigogine]] (Chemistry, 1977) *[[Richard J. Roberts]] (Medicine, 1993) *[[John E. Sulston]] (Medicine, 2002) *[[Henry Taube]] (Chemistry, 1983) *[[E. Donnall Thomas]] (Medicine, 1990) *[[James Dewey Watson]] (Medicine, 1962) ===Past AHA presidents=== * Edd Doerr * Michael W. Werner * Suzanne I. Paul * Lyle L. Simpson * Bette Chambers * [[Lloyd Morain|Lloyd L. Morain]] * Robert W. McCoy * [[Vashti McCollum]] ===AHA board members=== * [[Mel Lipman|Melvin Lipman]] (president) * Lois Lyons (vice president) * Ronald W. Fegley (secretary) * John Nugent (treasurer) * Wanda Alexander * John R. Cole * [[Tom Ferrick]] * Robert D. Finch * John M. Higgins * Herb Silverman * Maddy Urken * Mike Werner === Drafting committee === * [[Fred Edwords]] (chair) * Edd Doerr (also included above as a past AHA president) * Tony Hileman * Pat Duffy Hutcheon * Maddy Urken
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