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Dr. Charles Sydnor President and CEO, Central Virginia Educational Telecommunications Corporation Charles Sydnor, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of Central Virginia Telecommurdcations Corporation (CVETC), a public broadcasting entity comprised of five television stations serving central and northern Virginia and a public radio station serving central Virginia. Sydnor began his career as an history instructor at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He continued his teaching career as a visiting professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., in the summer of 1974 and as an assistant to an associate professor at Longwood College in Farmville, Va., from 1972 to 1980. In 19"/5, Sydnor began a nine-year association with public television -- working as an independent project producer and writer for WCVE-TV ('PBS), one of the stations operated by the CVETC in 1Lichnaond, Va. Over these years, he produced several documentaries, including the award-winning "Adolf Hitler: 1889-1945," which won the James Harvey Robinson Prize of the American Historical Association. Sydnor also produced and hosted "Below the Line," a weekly instructional, international affairs program that was broadcast in ~chmond and Northern Virginia for use in high schools in 66 counties in Virginia. In 1980, Sydnor began working on the administrative side of higher education as assistant to the president of Hampton-Sydney College in Hampton-Sydney, Va. He leR this position in 1982 to work as the executive assistant to Chuck Robb, then governor of Virginia. After two years in Gov. Robb's office, he moved back to higher education when he became president of Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va., in 1984. He served in this office until accepting his current position at CVETC. An expert on the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Sydnor also has worked for the Department of Ju gtice since 1981 as a consultant and expert witness on matters concerning Nazi Germany. Sydnor received his bachelor's degree from Emory and Henry College and his master's degree and doctorate from Vanderbiit University. He spent a year studying in the Federal Republic of Germany on a dissertation fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Guy Vander Jagt Attorney, Baker & Hostetler Guy Vander Jagt is an attorney with Baker & Hostetler, concentrating his practice in the areas of tax, trade and legislative law. Prior to joining the firm, he served more than 25 years.as a member of the U.S. House ofl~,epresentatives, representing Michigan's 9th congressional district. Vander Jagt was elected to the first of his 14 terms in 1966 after se.rving in the Michigan State Senate from 1965 to 1966. During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Vander Jagt rose to the second ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee and to the ranking Republican seat on the Trade Subcommittee, the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee and the Health and Human Resources Subcommittee. Vander Jagt also served 1 g years as the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. In this position, he campgigned on behalf of congressional candidates in all 50 states and consulted regularly with Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush and their cabinets. A native of Cadillac, Mich., Vander Jagt is a graduate of Hope College in Holland, Mich., and Yale University Divinity School in New Haven. Conn. He has served as a minister in the Presbyterian and Congregational churches. ARer earning his law degree from the University of Michigan. he practiced with the law firm of'Warner, Norcross, and Judd until his election to the Michigan State Senate:

Among h~s numerous prot'essionaJ ~ccomplishments, ~v'ander .laSt was awarded a Knighthood in the House ot'Ora.nge by (~ueen .lulianna or'the Netherlands in 191~6. He also is an inspirational speaker and has addressed national business and association conventions and colleges and urdversities. 12

Morton Downey, Jr. The Morton Do~vney, Jr. Show. Morton Downey, Jr., is currently a national radio talk show host on the "Major Networks, Inc." system out of Chicago, Illinois. As one of the best kno~,n radio and television personalities in America, IvIorton Downey, Jr. has, according to Phil Donahue, "'Changed the face of TV and radio and made it possible for us to stretch the envelope. We need entertainers like Morton Downey, Jr." Aside from his tremendous success as a radio and TV talk show host. Morion Do~naey, Jr. has also made great strides in other aspects of the entertainment community. He's published over 400 songs, starred in more than halfa dozen feature films and two "Movie-of-the-Week's." This native New Yorker has been called arrogant, outrageous and inflammatory, but Sally Jesse Raphael prefers to call him, "One of the nicest men in show business." As a man who causes change, facilitates thinking and brings boiling issues of interest to the surface, his radio network prefers to call Morton Downey, Jr. a revolutionar-a' and "America's Radio Mouth for the '90's!" William C. Anton Chairman and Founder ofAnton Airfood, Inc. Bill Anton is a 24 year veteran of the restaurant hospitality industr) and serves as Treasurer and as a Director of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. As Chairman ofAmon Airfood, Inc., Bill Amon operates 17. highly successful restaurant Bar mid Grill concepts in four airports around the United States -- Washington National, New York LaGuardia, New York JFK International and in Bakersfield, California. In addition to those now in operation, Anton Airfood is scheduled to operate in 2 new airports per year in 1995 and 1996, adding an additional 12 units. Bill Anton also proudly serves as a member of the Corporation on the Public Relations Committee of the Culinary Institute of America and is active in many community service and charity organizations around the countD'.