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HEROES
St. Franchis of Assissi, Roma Catholic Saint
Budha, Spiritual Leader of Budhism
Cesar Chavez, Founder of United Farm Workers
Dorothy Day, Founder of Catholic Worker
Mohandas Gandi, Spritual Father
Fethullah Gülen, Muslim Interfaith Scholar
Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakai International
Martin Luther King, Preacher/Civil Rights Activist
Dalai Lama, Exiled Spiritual Leader of Tibet
Nelson Mandela, S. African Anti-Apartheid Movement
M. Jalaleddin Rumi, Islamic Scholar of 12th century
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Islamic Scholar of 20th Century
Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic Nun, Humanitarian Worker
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Laureate
SPEAKERS
Ms. Victoria Smith, Loyola University
Dr. Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University
Mr. Myron Crockett, Loyola University
Mrs. Pamela Smith, Christian Scientist Church
Mrs. Cathie Eustis, Atlas Interfaith Foundation
Mr. Erik K. Heard, C.R. Manager, Barnes & Noble
Dr. Richard B. Griffin, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU
Mr. Carl Hasan, Bryan ISD, Board of Trustees Member
Mr. Dimitrije Kostic, Greens Party President
Dr. Betty J. Dabney, Environmental & Occupational Health
Rev. Benjamin K. Aurand, St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Ms. Suzan Mertyurek, Texas A&M University
Ms. Juliet Jurkovskis, Graduate student at TAMU
Dr. Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr. Brian Davies, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr. Jose Macias, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr. Gaye Johnson Okoh, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr. Marian Aitche, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr. Lester Kurtz, University of Texas-Austin
Dr. Richard Deats, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Dr. Michael Province, Southern Methodist University
Dr. Ruben Nabito, Southern Methodist University
Dr. Isabel Collora, Catholic Church, Dallas
Dr. Jennifer Turpin, University of San Francisco
Dr. Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post
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The Institute of Interfaith Dialog organized a series of conferences to present the lives, views and works of some of those heroes in order to present them to the contemporary society as exemplary personalities to emulate and honor. The work still remains to be completed. Our responsibility is to follow those footsteps, and leave similar or better work to be emulated by all for a better, peaceful and prosperous future for all.
