Sidney Hyman, Esq., a Gary native, National Book Award Recipient, former speech writer for JFK and Editor of The Aspen Institute Quarterly. Three of his books were chosen by Yale librarians for the White House Library c: 1961.

Kay Rosen, a native of Texas and a Miller Beach artist and linguist, whose minimalist use of words in art is found in museums across the country and exhibited in galleries around the globe.

Joseph A. Morris Esq., a Gary native who served under Ronald Reagan as Director, with the rank of Assistant Attorney General of the United States, of the Office of Liaison Service; General Counsel to the United States Office of Personnel Management: Chief of Staff and General Counsel of the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C. Also, U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Geneva, Switzerland); and serves on B'nai B'rith's International Board of Governors.

Rabbi Albert T. Plotkin, is a South Bend native. He is a Notre Dame alumnus, author, and namesake of both the Plotkin Judaica Museum and the new headquarters of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society.

Maia Wechsler, a native of Gary, is a journalist and director of "Sisters in Resistance," which was awarded "Best Documentary" at the Women's Film Festival in Seattle. The piece was named on of the outstanding documentaries of 2001 by the Academy Awards Documentary Screening Committee.

Hugh Fink, a native of Indianapolis, won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Program while working on "Saturday Night Live." His work includes appearances on "The Late Show with David Letterman," co-producer of "The Drew Carey Show" and writing for Steve Martin's Academy Awards monologues.

Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, lives in Carmel, and is a Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is a founder and past president of the American Association of Echocardiography, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Lawrence Einhorn, MD, of Indianapolis, is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Indiana University in Indianapolis. He is the Associate Editor for Medical and Pediatric Oncology Investigational New Drugs.

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Ph.D. is a noted Judaica and Holocaust scholar, author, and was the Director of the Born's Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is currently the director of the newly established Institute of Jewish Culture and Arts in Bloomington.

Robin Rich is the Rapid Response Coordinator for District 7, United Steel Workers of America and currently resides in Miller Beach in Gary.

Hurmann Gurfinkel, a German born sculptor, for many years resided in Valparaiso. He was awarded Germany's highest civilian award in 2000.

Cary Shafer, a native of Fort Wayne, is a noted sculptor now based in NYC. He added the finishing gargoyles to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and has done restoration work at the White House.

Martin Katz, a native of South Bend and now of Beverly Hills, is known as the Jeweler-to-the-Stars whose sensational baubles often dress up the Academy Award presenters.

Melvin Klein, Esq., a Gary native, is the author and noted columnist for The Corpus Christi Caller Times, and Horation Alger award recipient in 1996.

Ronald D. Cohen, Ph.D., is a Grammy nominee for best historical album, producing "Best of Broadside 1962 - 1988" and IUN's definitive William A. Wirt Platoon School historian, and co-author of IU Press' best seller Moonlight in Duneland. He is a resident of Gary's Miller Beach neighborhood since 1970.

Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, of Indianapolis is a noted children's author. She is a Sagamore of the Wabash, and is the first ordained reconstructionist female rabbi.

Carol A. Pollard, a native of South Bend, the quintessential sister and human rights activist who established an international organization, Citizen's For Justice, Inc., to free her brother Jonathan Pollard. She is an international lecturer motivating numerous world leaders and government bodies to support her cause.

Golda Spiera Werman, PH.D., was born in Berlin and raised in the U.S., where she earned a doctorate in English. She made Aliya with her family from Bloomington in 1967, and served as the Indiana University's Overseas Studies Director in Jerusalem until 1991, and subsiquently for the University of Wisconsin.

Robert Werman, PH.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurobiology at Hebrew University, made Aliya with his family from Bloomington in 1967. His Notes from a Sealed Room, by Illinois University Press, chronicled the Persian Gulf War from Jerusalem and the departure of the IU students.

Todd M. Endelman, Ph.D., Judaic scholar and National Jewish Book Award recipient for The Jews of Georgian England. He lived in Indianapolis, and is presently the Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Judith E. Endelman, formerly of Indianapolis, is the Chief Curator of the Henry Ford Museum, and author of The Jewish Community of Indianapolis: 1849 - Present; an out-of-print tome by IU press now selling for as much as $250!

Douglas Zipes, MD, of Carmel, is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Brannert Research Institute of Indianapolis.