Walter Beebe is the Chairman of the New York Open Center, a nonprofit holistic learning center that seeks to integrate the intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual elements of life, which he founded in 1983 . By 2007 it was teaching over 10,000 participants annually. For 40 years he was an active attorney admitted to the New York, Federal, and U.S. Supreme Courts. Among several present and former nonprofit Boards of Directors, he served the Bank Street College of Education, the Interfaith Center of New York and the Near East Foundation, as well as corporate clients. In 1989, he created Garden Associates to advise other nascent centers similar to the Open Center.

Academic Credentials

• B.A, Harvard University, 1962 (cum laude)
• LL.B., Stanford University, 1965

Professional History

• Partner, Jacobs Persinger & Parker

Professional Service (present and former)

• Board of Directors, Westar Institute
• President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, New York Open Center
• Board of Directors, Interfaith Center of New York
• Board of Directors, New Jersey Steel Corporation
• Board of Directors, Von Roll of America, Inc. and subsidiaries
• Board of Directors, Bank Street College of Education
• Board of Directors, Sunbridge College
• Board of Directors, Near East Foundation
• Board of Directors, Greyston Foundation
• Co-Host, White House Commission on Alternative Medicine

Personal

 Married, 5 children, 8 grandchildren