Steven C. Rockefeller

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Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936) is the second oldest son of former United States Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and his first wife, Mary Rockefeller; he is a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family.

Rockefeller received his BA from Princeton University, where he was president of The Ivy Club, his Master of Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Columbia University. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont where he previously served as Dean of the College and chairman of the religion department.

In 1976, he began an intensive study of Zen Buddhism, making frequent weeklong visits to the Zen Center in Rochester, where he was a trustee.

His personal philosophy focuses on education, which includes support for Planned Parenthood and contributions to human-rights and environmental causes. He was at one time directly involved with the Wendell Gilley Museum, a small institution on Mount Desert Island in Maine that houses one of the world's great collections of wooden carvings of American birds.

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) (2005-2014) in its headquarters in New York, launched by UNESCO and attended by Nane Annan, the wife of Secretary General Kofi Annan.[1]

Rockefeller is active in the field of philanthropy and is a trustee of the Asian Cultural Council and an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has also served as a director of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

In 1959 he married Anne Marie Rasmussen in Søgne, Norway. Anne Marie was a former au pair in the Rockefeller household, to whom he had three children. They divorced and his wife now is Dori Rockefeller; they have one child.

[edit] Further reading

  • Rasmussen, Anne-Marie. There was Once a Time of Islands, Illusions, and Rockefellers. New York and London: Harcourt Brace, 1975.

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