Bill Parsons|director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center;
Pedro Rodriguez|director of test laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center; 

Thomas Abernethy | U.S. representative;
William Allain |governor;

Thomas F. Frist, Sr|cardiologist, founder of Hospital Corporation of America;
Arthur Guyton| physiologist, author of Textbook of Medical Physiology;

Jim Barksdale| CEO, Netscape ;
Harold Burson| founder of global PR/public affairs firm Burson-Marsteller;