• 1: Home
• 2: About Us
  • 2.1: Mission Statement
  • 2.2: History
    • 2.2.1: Clarence K. Streit
    • 2.2.2: Streit Council Early Leaders
    • 2.2.3: Background to the Writing of Union Now
    • 2.2.4: Federal Union, Inc.
      • 2.2.4.1: Federal Union Inc. In 1941
    • 2.2.5: The Atlantic Union Committee
    • 2.2.6: Trends Toward a Union of Democracies
    • 2.2.7: Photo Gallery
  • 2.3: Board of Directors
  • 2.4: Former Directors
  • 2.5: Advisory Board
  • 2.6: Staff
  • 2.7: Fellowships
  • 2.8: Internships
• 3: Programs
  • 3.1: Policy Studies
    • 3.1.1: G8/G20 Summits 2010
    • 3.1.2: Transatlantic Energy and Environment
    • 3.1.3: Transatlantic Security
    • 3.1.3: Transatlantic Community
    • 3.1.4: Transatlantic Economy
  • 3.2: Research Areas
    • 3.2.1: Atlantic Union
    • 3.2.2: Union of Democracies
    • 3.2.3: Atlanticism
    • 3.2.4: Federalism
  • 3.3: Mayme and Herb Frank Scholarship Program
  • 3.4: Policy Initiatives
    • 3.4.1: Strengthening Atlantic Institutions
    • 3.4.2: Community of Democracies
• 4: Events
  • 4.16: Academic and Policy Events
  • 4.17: Streit Council Sponsored Events
• 5: Publications
  • 5.1: Freedom & Union
  • 5.2: Research Papers, Articles, Commentaries
    • 5.2.1: Transatlantic Community
    • 5.2.2: Transatlantic Security
    • 5.2.3: Transatlantic Economy
    • 5.2.4: Transatlantic Energy and Environment
  • 5.3: Books by Streit Council Board Members
  • 5.4: Publications by Streit Council Advisory Board Members
  • 5.5: Publications by Clarence Streit
  • 5.6: Publications – Early Leaders
  • 5.7: A Foreign Policy for the United States
  • 5.8: For a Union of the West
• 6: Resource Center
  • 6.1: News Archives
  • 6.2: Links of Interest
• 7: Contact Us
  • 7.1: Join Our Mailing List
  • 7.2: Donations

Former Directors

Jane Elligett Leitner
Henry Luce, III
Richard C. Olson
Charles Patrick
Neal Potter
Miller Upton
Randall G. Upton

Jane Elligett Leitner joined Federal Union and served continuously on the Boards of Federal Union/AUD/SC from the 1950s onward. In 1989 Jane initiated and coordinated the AUD project that drafted the Illustrative Constitution for a Union of the EC, NATO, OECD, and OSCE Democracies. She served as Chair of the AUD Board of Directors from 1991 to 1992, and also worked as a school administrator.

Henry Luce III was a supporter of Streit's ideas from 1948 on, and served on the Boards of AUD/SC from 1983 to 1988, and from 2003 to 2005. He served as president of the Henry Luce Foundation from 1958 to 2001, and was publisher of Fortune magazine from 1968 to 1969, and of Time magazine from 1969 to 1972. His accomplishments are highlighted in Who's Who in America.

Richard C. Olson had been a journalist, congressional aide and business executive. Upon receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the University of Arizona in 1950, he became a reporter and editor for the Tucson Daily Citizen. In 1955, he opened a public relations firm in Tucson and, collaterally, managed the congressional district office of Rep. Stewart L. Udall of Arizona. In 1961, he joined the staff of Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona as Legislative (later Executive) Assistant. In 1971, he was named editor of the Living Wilderness and Director of Information of the Wilderness Society. In 1976, he returned to the House of Representatives as Special Assistant to Majority leader Jim Wright of Texas, where he served as Chief of Staff for the House in a seven-month conference to produce the Energy Security Act of 1980. In 1982, he was named Director of Corporate Government Relations for DynCorp, a diversified technical services company, and later served as Vice President for Public Affairs. Mr. Olson served for more than 20 years on the board of the Association to Unite the Democracies, where he sponsored the Initiative for World Security, which then became the Next Century Initiative.

Charles Patrick served as President of AUD from 1991 to 1994. Earlier in his career he was Assistant to the President of Rutgers University, New Jersey and Director of Public Information and Education at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been an artist throughout his career establishing art galleries in the United States and overseas. Presently he is a Professor of Marketing at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Neal Potter has been a member of Federal Union/AUD/SC continuously since 1940, serving as chief volunteer in the Federal Union national office in 1942-45, and as editor of Federal Union World in 1943-45. Neal took part in forming United World Federalists (WFA) in 1947, and became an AUD Board member in the early 1990s. Neal has also served as chief Executive of Montgomery County (MD), 1990-94, and as a County Council member, 1970-90 and 1994-98. As an economist, Neal headed the Income Analysis Section of the Office of Price Administration 1940-45 and was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1946-47) and Washington State College (1947-50). As Research staff at the Resources for the Future (1955-70), Neal authored three books, on U.S., world, and Antarctic resources.

Miller Upton, Ph.D., served as CEO and Chairman of the Federal Union/AUD Boards from 1976 to 1980. He was the first CEO to follow Clarence Streit in that position. He was also an Associate of the Council for a Community of Democracies, and was President Emeritus of Beloit College (Wisconsin). He served as Chairman of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO from 1971 to 1975, and as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation at the 18th UNESCO Biennial Conference in 1974. He taught at Lake Forest College, Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis, where he served also as Dean of the School of Business. Dr. Upton was also a former President of the American Finance Association.

Randall G. Upton graduated from Beloit College in 1966 and earned his JD and LLM degrees from Georgetown University in the 1970s.  As a State Department Foreign Service Reserve Officer assigned to the US Department of Commerce, he served on numerous delegations to international organizations of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland .  He also served as the Senior Commercial Consul in Australia assigned to the US Consulate General in Sydney. Following his assignment in Sydney, he remained in Australia for 24 years with the American Chamber of Commerce and several national businesses.  A sports enthusiast, he managed his own sports consulting firm for 18 years.  Randall returned to the USA in 2003 to take up his current position at Beloit College where he works in the office of External Affairs and where he serves as an international education advocate and liaison for the College.