Board
of Directors:
Bob
Park, chairman
Gerda Bikales (emeritus)
Dr.
Cliff Colwell
K.C. McAlpin
Dr.
Rosalie Porter
Leo
Sorensen
Dr.
John Tanton
Phil Kent
Executive Director:
Jayne Cannava
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John
H. Tanton, M.D. is the founding chairman of ProEnglish and a retired eye surgeon
from Petoskey, Michigan. He is a graduate of Michigan State
University and University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Tanton has long championed environmental issues, having
co-founded a conservancy, and served as national chair of the
population committee of the Sierra Club.
In 1983, together with the late U.S. Senator S. I. Hayakawa, he
founded U.S. ENGLISH to oppose the drift towards multilingualism
in the United States. In 1994, he joined three other former
U.S. ENGLISH board members to found ProEnglish, which was established
to defend Arizona's official English law before the United States
Supreme Court.
Dr. Tanton is a book author and the publisher of The Social Contract,
a quarterly journal of public policy. He was a 1990 recipient
of the Chevron Conservation Award. |
