RADM Kleber Sanlin "Skid" Masterson, Jr., was born in San Diego, California. He and his wife, Sara Cooper Masterson, have two sons, Thomas Marshall Masterson, M.D. and John Cooper Masterson, Esq. RADM Masterson completed his undergraduate studies at the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated with a B.S. in General Engineering in 1954. He received his M.S. in Physics from the United State Naval Postgraduate School in 1961, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1963. Additionally RADM Masterson was graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School in 1980. A Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy during his career, RADM Masterson is also a retired vice president and partner of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and retired senior vice president of Science Applications International, Inc.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati (President General)
• The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (former President)

Authorships (Partial List)

The Book of Navy Songs, editor, Naval Institute Press, (1954, still in print).

• "Compilation for Two Computers with NELIAC"; Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 32, 607 (1960).
• "The Influence of Diffusion Losses on the Probe Potential in a Dense Plasma," with G. Ecker; 13th Gaseous Electronics Conference, 12-15 October 1962, Monterey, California.
• "Nuclear Matter Calculations and Phenomenological Potentials," with K.A. Brueckner, Physical Review 128, 2267 (1962).
• "Probe Theory in Dense Plasma," with G. Ecker and J. J. McClure; University of California Radiation Laboratory Report 10128, 21 March 1962.
• "Properties of Finite Nuclei," with A. M. Lockett; Physical Review 129, 776 (1963).
• "Uncoupled Nuclear Matter Approximation"; Physical Review 135, 776 (1963)
• "Energy of a Many Particle Normal System," with K. Sawada; Physical Review 133, B595 (1965).
• "Numerical Methods for the Many-Body Theory of Finite Nuclei"; Methods of Computational Physics, Vol. VI, edited by B. Alder, S. Fernbach and M. Rotenberg. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. (1966) "The President and Advisors on Science Policy" in "The President: Defense and Diplomacy, The Miller Center Forums, 1981, Part IV," edited by Kenneth W. Thompson, University of Virginia Press (1981).

Listed In

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012, Marquis Who's Who
• Who's Who in America 2011, Marquis Who's Who
• Who's Who in the World - 27th Edition 2010, Marquis Who's Who
• Dictionary of International Biography - 35th Edition, International Biographical Centre

Other Notes

• Awards: Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3 awards), Navy Commendation Medal (3 awards, 2 with Combat "V")
• Past President, Old Town Civic Association, Alexandria, Virginia
• Past Chairman, Historic Alexandria Resources Commission

Michael Scott Swisher was born in Stillwater, Minnesota. He attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota. 

He has worked as the Director of the First State Bank & Trust since 1999, the Director of Universal Financial Services since 1991 and as the Director of the Valley Agencies, Inc., since 1991. He currently serves as their Chairman.

Memberships

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (past President, MN Society)
• General Society, Sons of the Revolution (past President, MN Society)
• General Society of the War of 1812 (past President, MN Society)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General)
• Sons of Colonial New England (Honorary Governor General)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)
• National Society Sons of American Colonists (Governor General)
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Commander)
• National Gavel Society
• General Society of Colonial Wars 
• Order of Founders and Patriots of America
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Military Order of the Stars and Bars
• National Order of the Blue and Gray
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America
• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
• National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne
• National Society of Americans of Royal Descent
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Military Order of the Crusades
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta
• Descendants of Templar Knights
• Order of Three Crusades
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
• Order of the Norman Conquest
• National Guild of St. Margaret
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen
• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families
• National Society of Saints and Sinners
• Hereditary Society of Teachers
• Order of the House of Wessex
• Order of Alba
• Order of the First Families of Maine
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire
• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy

Chivalric

• Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
• Knight Commander, Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni
• Grand Cross, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem

Civic/Charitable

• Chairman, Religion and Society Foundation
• Director, the Lakeview Hospital Foundation
• Secretary, the John Quincy Adams Foundation
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
• Helen Keller Sight Award, Minnesota Lions Eye Bank
• Member, Advisory Council of the Hereditary Society Community of the USA
• Kentucky Colonel

Social and fraternal

• University Club of Saint Paul, Minnesota
• University Club of San Francisco, California
•  The Arts Club of Washington, D.C.
•  St. John’s Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M., Stillwater, Minnesota
•  St. Paul Lodge No. 3, A.F, & A.M., St. Paul, Minnesota
•  Prometheus Lodge No. 851, F. & A.M., California
•  The Morgan Lodge No. 9816, E.C., Malvern, Worcestershire
•  York Rite Bodies, St. Paul & Minneapolis
•  Scottish Rite (32º), Valley of Minneapolis 
•  Stillwater, Minnesota Lions Club
•  Rolls Royce Owners’ Club
•  Morgan Sports Car Club

Listings  

• The Social Register, 1999 – present 
• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2018              

Merry Ann T. Wright was elected as the President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for the term of 2010-2013 at the 119th DAR Continental Congress, the annual convention, in July 2010. Wright has been a DAR member for 43 years with a distinguished service and professional background. She comes into the role after serving the National Society at every level, including being one of the first Presidents General to have also served on the NSDAR professional staff. These positions give her a unique understanding and expertise of management of this multifaceted membership organization.

Wright grew up in New Woodstock, New York, and now resides in Leland, North Carolina with her husband Lawrence F. Wright. She is the mother of two sons and two stepsons and grandmother of four. Mrs. Wright attended Franklin College of Indiana and University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Her career has included, among other things, serving in the roles of Development Director, NSDAR; President and CEO of the American Lung Association of Mid-New York; and as a French teacher. In addition to Wright’s extensive DAR service, she is also very active in her church and community, including serving on boards of local charities and being a past member of the Rotary Club and Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Wright was the first NSDAR Director of Development, being recruited by the organization to launch its first development department in 1998. She served in that position for nine years, building the foundation of successful funding initiatives that thrive today. Prior to that, Wright served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of the American Lung Association of Mid-New York in ten upstate New York counties for 13 years after serving for three years as their Development and Public Relations Director.

Wright retired as the NSDAR Director of Development in order to assume the second highest volunteer leadership position in the organization, the NSDAR First Vice President General, from 2007-2010. Her additional extensive national leadership service in the Daughters of the American Revolution include 12 years on the National Board of Management (the governing board of the Society), eight different national chairmanships, and four different national vice chairmanships.

This varied executive experience gave her liaison and oversight over such key committees of the Society as Public Relations and Media, the annual convention of DAR, Development, Long Range Planning, Personnel, Investment, Finance, and Special Projects and Events. She also spent six years on the Technology Advisory Committee, which was a driving force behind the digitization of millions of the National Society’s genealogical records.

She has distinguished service in New York State, including serving as State Regent of New York, as well as many other state offices and chairmanships. She was twice honored as the DAR New York Outstanding Junior and was named one of eight division finalists for National Outstanding Junior of the year. 

Additionally, Mrs. Wright is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, and is listed in the 1979 edition of Outstanding Young Women of America.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary President General)
• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots
• National Gavel Society