Donna Hearne / Dr. Alvin Schmidt / Kate Price

      Donna Hearne is Executive Director of The Constitutional Coalition. She has a BA in Elementary Education from Washington University and a lifetime teaching certificate from Missouri and has taught in private and public schools. She served two Presidential appointments by President Reagan in the U.S. Department of Education and one by U.S. Secretary of Education, William Bennett, 1981-1991. For the past 23 years she has hosted a weekly radio talk show on KSIV Radio in Sf. Louis- An avid researcher, she has authored numerous publications and several books. Married, the mother of five, grandmother of thirteen, she resides with her husband, a history teacher at Westminster Christian Academy, in the St. Louis area.

      Dr. Alvin Schmidt lived his first four years in a primitive log cabin in Western Canada. At age 18 he became a member of Canada's renowned Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He is now professor emeritus of sociology at Illinois College, Jacksonville. He holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University, an M. Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in sociology. He has held full-time professorships at Concordia University, Seward, NE; Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC; Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne; and Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL. He has also taught as visiting professor at colleges and universities in Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana, and Canada.
He has published numerous articles in professional journals and a number of books: Oligarchy in Fraternal Organizations (1973); Fraternal Organizations (1980); The Menace of Multiculturalism (1997); How Christianity Changed World (2001); The Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West (2004); Dust to Dust or Ashes to Ashes: A Biblical Examination of Cremation (2005); Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions (2006), co-authored with Larry Nichols and George Mather.
      In 1992 he was elected "Fellow" in the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. The American Library Association awarded him the "Outstanding Reference Work of 1980" award for his book Fraternal Organizations. Numerous newspapers, including USA Today, and radio stations have interviewed him regarding his research and publications. He has given presentations to the Federalist Society, the national convention of the American Library Association, and the national convention of Lutherans for Life. He has appeared twice on Dr. James Dobson's "Focus on the Family" program. He is a frequent speaker at various college campus groups and church-related organizations. Recently (Nov. 2006), Lutheran Visuals, Dallas, Texas, produced a DVD on one of his presentations on Islam, titled "The Great Divide: A Christian Introduction to the Muslim Religion." He and his wife Carol have two grown sons and live in Illinois.

      Kate Price has been married to Matt Price, for 15 years and is the mother of four sons, Baruch (12), Jackson (10), Matteo (10) and. Sevey (8). In the fall of 2004, she helped co-found Operation Information, a parent based organization whose goal is to keep watch over public education in the state of Oklahoma. Recently, she became part of a new organization within the state of Oklahoma whose aim is to warn citizens in their state of the coming North American Super Corridor and all the dangers that will come with it. In the summer of 2006, she attended the UN Habitat' s World Urban Forum 3 held June 19-23 and conducted three interviews on the importance of education and the economy on globalization.