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- Organization: Boston Mensa
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- Date: 24 Mar 94 08:08:18 GMT-5
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- Keywords: MENSA, MIND, IQ, INTELLIGENCE, GENIUS, SOCIETY, ORGANIZATION,
- CLUB, SOCIAL, SCHOLARSHIP, GIFTED
- Subject: Mensa - FAQ: What famous people are members of Mensa? [Monthly]
- Summary: This posting contains the answers to many Frequently Asked
- Questions (FAQs) about Mensa. It should be read by anyone
- who wishes to post to the rec.org.mensa newsgroup, or anyone
- that desires information about the Mensa society.
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- Archive-name: mensa/famous
- Version: 1.3
- Last-Updated: Jul 17, 1993
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- These are the answers to some of the frequently asked questions (FAQ) in
- rec.org.mensa. Before posting a message asking a question, read this
- article. Chances are the answer is in here, or one of the other Mensa
- FAQ articles.
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- This article includes answers to:
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- 11) What famous people are in Mensa?
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- Other articles include the answers to:
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- Question Archive-Name Posted
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- 1) What is Mensa? mensa/faq BiWeekly
- 2) Who is Mensa For? " "
- 3) Why Should I Join Mensa? " "
- 4) What are Members of Mensa Like? " "
- 5) What does "Mensa" mean? " "
- 6) What are the Qualifications for Mensa? mensa/join BiWeekly
- 7) How do I apply for Membership in Mensa? " "
- 8) How do I Re-Join Mensa? " "
- 9) Where do I get more Information? " "
- 10) What other High-IQ Societies are there? mensa/high-iq Monthly
- 12) What is the Mensa test like? mensa/test Monthly
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- You may retreive copies of this article and the other answers to Mensa
- FAQs by anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu. Those without FTP
- access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with:
- "send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources"
- in the body to find out how to do FTP by e-mail.
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- Comments? Suggestions? Corrections? Send e-mail to rom-faq@miracle.com
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- SOME PROMINENT MENSA MEMBER PROFILES
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- As this list suggests, Mensa is a remarkably diverse organization.
- While Some Mensans noted here are well known, many others lead
- interesting lives out of the public eye.
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- DONALD PETERSEN: Former chairman of Ford Motor Company. Has B.S.
- degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
- He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi (honorary engineering society)
- and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (natural sciences). During his
- career at Ford, he was involved in the development of two of Ford's most
- successful cars--the Mustang and the Maverick--as well as the Mark III
- and the Fairlane. He is also a high-performance driver, having trained
- at the school run by retired racing champion Bob Bondurant. Petersen
- was born on a farm in the Midwest and raised during the Great
- Depression. Influenced by the hardship and economic instability his
- family endured, he used his intelligence to pursue a secure life in the
- corporate environment.
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- ALAN RACHINS: Plays Douglas Brachman in TV hit "L.A. Law." He left the
- Wharton School of Finance against his father's wishes to pursue an
- acting career. During the '60s he was in the cast of "Oh Calcutta," a
- highly controversial play where cast members appeared nude on stage.
-
- BOB SPECTA: Professional domino toppler. As a high school senior, he
- originated the "domino toppling" category in the Guinness Book of World
- Records. He travels internationally doing domino shows and races and
- has appeared on network TV programs and in commercials. An accomplished
- athlete, Specta is a veteran of 12 triathlons.
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- ADRIAN CRONAUER: Radio personality and subject for the move "Good
- Morning Vietnam." Started his radio career at 12 in his hometown of
- Pittsburgh, PA, where he hosted a children's amateur hour. Worked as a
- DJ at various radio stations and in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He
- is also a lawyer. Cronauer was originally attracted to Mensa because of
- the work they do for gifted children.
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- GLORIA LA ROCHE: Captain and instructor for United Airlines. Product
- of a dysfunctional home, she used intelligence and perseverance to
- achieve her childhood dream of becoming a pilot. She says it was
- extremely difficult for a woman like herself to break into the male
- dominated world of commercial aviation.
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- MARILYN VOS SAVANT: Listed in the Guinness Hall of Fame for having the
- world's highest recorded I.Q. (228). She is the wife of Robert Jarvik,
- inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart. She also writes "Ask
- Marilyn," a weekly column that appears nationally in "Parade" magazine.
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- GEENA DAVIS: Actress. Currently co-starring with Susan Sarandon in the
- movie hit "Thelma & Louise." Received an Academy Award nomination for
- her role in "The Accidental Tourist."
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- HENRY MILLIGAN: A boxer and a scholar, 1983 National Amateur
- Heavyweight champion who fought and won against Olympic heavyweight gold
- medalist Henry Tillman. He once fought Mike Tyson in a televised fight.
- Milligan recently worked his way through NYU Business School acting in
- commercials (e.g., for "Sports Illustrated" sneaker phone promotion).
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- JOHN N. MOORE: University of Virginia law professor who specializes in
- international law. The Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. hired him to
- help the emirate recover damages inflicted since the August 1990
- invasion by Iraq.
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- MELL LAZARUS: Draws syndicated newspaper comic strips "Momma" and "Miss
- Peach." President of national Cartoonist Society, he has also published
- two novels and is now writing his third.
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- JUDGE ELLEN MORPHONIOS: Nicknamed "Maximum Morphonios" for her strict
- rulings in Florida. Former model and beauty queen (Coconut Harvest
- Maiden and Miss Southern Florida) and local radio personality, once said
- she "enjoyed being a sex symbol." As a young mother and a legal
- secretary, she passed a Florida exam that allowed her to enter law
- school without an undergraduate degree.
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- PATRICIA PRATTIS JENNINGS: Pianist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. She
- is the symphony's first black member and has performed internationally.
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- RICHARD BOLLES: Author of the world's top selling job-hunting book,
- "What Color is Your Parachute?" Revised annually, the book has been on
- the New York Times Best Seller List for 228 weeks. Bolles has two new
- books in progress--one on relationships, one on spirituality. He is an
- ordained Episcopal priest who graduated from Harvard University cum laud
- with a physics degree.
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- VELMA JEREMIAH: She is a retired attorney who graduated fourth in her
- law school class at age 47 and was one of the first women partners in a
- major Oregon law firm. She is a grandmother, a working standup comic,
- and currently chairwoman of Mensa International.
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- JEAN AUEL: Best-selling author of "Clan of the Cave Bear", "Valley of
- Horses", "The Mammoth Hunters", and "Plains of Passage". A former
- technical writer, she turned her attention to fiction, buttressed by
- much historical and anthropological research, touring areas she was to
- write about and teaching herself to make stone-age tools.
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