Steven Clark Rockefeller

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Steven Clark Rockefeller
Born (1936-04-19) April 19, 1936 (age 88)
New York, New York, U.S.
Education Princeton University (BA)
Union Theological Seminary (MDiv)
Columbia University (PhD)
OccupationProfessor emeritus at Middlebury College
Spouses
Anne-Marie Rasmussen
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(m. 1959;div. 1969)​
Dori Selene Liles
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(m. 1977,divorced)​
Barbara Bellows
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(m. 1991)​
Children4
Parent(s) Nelson Rockefeller
Mary Clark

Steven Clark Rockefeller (born April 19, 1936) is an American professor, philanthropist and a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He is the second oldest son of former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and Mary Rockefeller.

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Rockefeller formerly served as dean of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. [1] He is an avid philanthropist who focusses on education, Planned Parenthood, human rights and environmental causes. He is a trustee of the Asian Cultural Council [2] and an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. [3] He has also served as a director of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. [4]

Early life and education

He is the second-oldest son of former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and his first wife, Mary Rockefeller.

Rockefeller attended Deerfield Academy and received his A.B. degree from Princeton University, where he was president of the Ivy Club and a recipient of the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize. Subsequently, he earned a M.Div. degree from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a Ph.D. degree in philosophy of religion from Columbia University. He is a professor emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont where he previously served as college dean and chairman of the religion department. [5]

Career

In 1976, Rockefeller began an intensive study of Zen Buddhism, making frequent week-long visits to the Rochester Zen Center, where he was a trustee.

He coordinated the drafting of the Earth Charter for the Earth Charter Commission and Earth Council. In 2005, he moderated the international launch of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) (2005–14) in its headquarters in New York, launched by UNESCO and attended by Nane Annan, the wife of Secretary General Kofi Annan. [6] He is Co-Chair of Earth Charter International Council and has written numerous essays on the Earth Charter, available at the Earth Charter website. [7]

Personal life

In 1959, Rockefeller married Anne-Marie Rasmussen in Søgne, Norway. [8] She was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Kristian Rasmussen, a grocer, originally from Søgne. Anne-Marie was a former employee in the Rockefeller household. They had three children:

According to a New York Times article from August 25, 1970, Rockefeller sought divorce from Anne-Marie, in Juarez, Mexico in November 1969. She remarried shortly thereafter to Robert W. Krogstad, of Maple Bluff, Wisconsin, who was also of Norwegian descent, and was the president of the Leer Manufacturing Company in New Lisbon, Wisconsin. [17] [18]

Rockefeller remarried to Dori Selene Liles, in 1977. [19] They had one daughter;

His third marriage was to Barbara Bellows on May 11, 1991.

Publications

He has edited or written three books:

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