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 week long visits to the Zen Center in Rochester, where he was a trustee. He has edited and authored a number of books:

The Christ and the Bodhisattva (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies). Edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., and Steven C. Rockefeller. State University of New York Press (1987)
Rockefeller, Steven C. John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism. Columbia University Press (1991)
Spirit and Nature -- Why the Environment Is a Religious Issue: An Interfaith Dialogue. Edited by Steven C. Rockefeller and John C. Elder. Beacon Press (1992).

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. He married a second time; they have one child. His wife now is Barbara (nee Bellows) Rockefeller.

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[edit] Further reading

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

[edit] External links

The Cousins A 1984 New York Times (TimesSelect) profile of prominent members of the fourth-generation Rockefellers.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund website

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Ancestors	Johann Peter Rockefeller (1682–1763) (Arrived in America ca.1723) • (Grandson) William Rockefeller • Godfrey Rockefeller (1745–1818) • Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller (1784–1857) • William Avery Rockefeller

William Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906)	Lucy Rockefeller • John Davison Rockefeller (m.) Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller • William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. • Mary Ann Rockefeller • Franklin Rockefeller • Francis Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937) William Rockefeller (1841–1922)	Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller Strong • Alice Rockefeller • Alta Rockefeller Prentice • Edith Rockefeller McCormick (m.) Harold Fowler McCormick • John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (m.) Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich Lewis Edward Rockefeller • Emma Rockefeller McAlpin • William Goodsell Rockefeller • John Davison Rockefeller • Percy Avery Rockefeller • Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge

Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong (1866–1906) Alta Rockefeller Prentice (1871–1962) John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960) ---- William Goodsell Rockefeller (1870–1922) Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882–1973)	Margaret Strong John Rockefeller Prentice • Mary Adeline Prentice Gilbert Abby Rockefeller Mauzé • John D. Rockefeller III (m.) Blanchette Ferry Hooker • Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (m.1st.) Mary Todhunter Clark (m.2nd.) Margaretta Fitler Murphy • Laurance Spelman Rockefeller • Winthrop Rockefeller • David Rockefeller ---- James Stillman Rockefeller • John Sterling Rockefeller Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln (m.) Frederic Walker Lincoln, Jr. • Avery Rockefeller • Winifred Rockefeller Emeny • Faith Rockefeller Model Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr.

John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972) ---- John D. Rockefeller III (1906–1978) Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908–1979) Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) Winthrop Rockefeller (1912–1973) David Rockefeller (1915) ---- ---- Faith Rockefeller Model (1909–1960)	Abra Prentice Wilkin ---- John Davison ("Jay") Rockefeller IV • Hope Aldrich Rockefeller • Alida Rockefeller Messinger Rodman Rockefeller • Steven Clark Rockefeller • Michael Rockefeller • Mark Fitler Rockefeller Laura Spelman Rockefeller Chasin • Marion French Rockefeller Winthrop Paul Rockefeller David Rockefeller, Jr. • Neva Rockefeller Goodwin • Peggy Dulany • Eileen Rockefeller Growald ---- ---- Robert Model

Jay Rockefeller (1937) ---- Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000) Steven Clark Rockefeller (1936)	Justin Aldrich Rockefeller ---- Meile Louise Rockefeller Steven C. Rockefeller, Jr.