Bruner is currently research professor of psychology and senior research fellow in law at New York University. As Professor of Psychology at Harvard in the 1970s, he helped found the Center for Cognitive Studies. He also helped conceive the Head Start program, aimed at the education of disadvantaged youth.

Having served as Watts Professor of Psychology at Oxford University in England, Bruner is currently research professor of psychology at New York University. He has written books including The Process of Education (1960), On Knowing (1962), Acts of Meaning (1990) and 1996's The Culture of Education.

Sir Henry Chadwick

Chadwick was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1979-83 and now is a Professor Emeritus at that University.

Chadwick's writings include his books: Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition (1966) and Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church (1991). He also contributed to the Oxford History of the Classical World (1986).

Chadwick has been instrumental in British theology during the past four decades. He was knighted in 1989.

William Herbert Foege

Foege, a graduate of Harvard's School of Public Health, is the director of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.

Foege has been involved with international public health since serving as an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta from 1962-64.

Since the 1960s, he has helped the populations of Nigeria, India, Thailand, Zaire and the United States combat communicable disease. Eradicating smallpox and coordinating relief for local populations have been two of his lifelong professional goals.

Quincy D. Jones. Jr.

A composer and producer of music, Jones is a perennial favorite at the Grammy Awards--he has won 26 times out of 77 nominations--and was chosen to give yesterday's Class Day address. (See story, page A-3.)

Jones was born in Chicago and began his professional career as a jazz musician. He branched out into arranging and producing music and in recent years has written scores for 33 motion pictures and worked with stars of popular music such as Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson.

Arthur Miller

Miller is one of the foremost American playwrights of the 20th century. He is known for his willingness to challenge the status quo, including the political status quo, in his plays.