Bernard Schneider and Marjorie Schneider Biography:
The Apogee Foundation and a New Paradigm for the Modern Family
When we refer to the ‘modern family,’ does a simple unit of parents and children perpetuating themselves come to mind? Over the past few weeks, Richard Morrison has authored a series of articles about a different type of family: one that has taken a lot of pain and made real sacrifices to make the modern world a better place for a family beyond all borders.
The monumental work done by Dr. Bernard Schneider, his wife Marjorie Schneider, and their children, physician Susan Schneider and attorney Kenneth Schneider, has enabled them to create a new vision of the term ‘family’: a vision that has enabled them to reach out to those less fortunate, to other families, and to make them as fortunate as one family of mankind can be at its best.
Blessed with the utmost benevolent human qualities and the purest of sound judgment, the Schneiders have as a result revolutionized the world and brought about positive change in the lives of multitudes. Throughout careers devoted to the selfless service of mankind, the progenitors of this family, Bernard and Marjorie Schneider, and those who carry on their traditions, Susan and Kenneth Schneider, have forged a new type of global family that nurtures in its members the highest human values that transcend all boundaries.
While Bernard and Susan Schneider are both renowned physicians and scientists, Marjorie Schneider is an internationally recognized arts expert, and Kenneth Schneider is a leading international attorney, they have not rested on their laurels. Instead, they have rededicated the fruits of all of their extraordinary educational and practical abilities to raising future generations from all cultures to their own level and to new levels never before attained. They have called this organization of good people around the world, working together to achieve their highest potential, The Apogee Foundation.
The term ‘apogee’ means ‘the highest point, the culmination,’ and this is what the Schneiders have worked tirelessly for decades to empower others to achieve – and, in so doing, to fulfill in themselves, as well. The question now is only: will we heed the call? Can we, will we, make of our own lives something worthy of being described as the apogee of human excellence? The Schneiders have dedicated their lives to providing a model, an opportunity, for all. What will we do, in response? It is now up to the rest of us to embrace and celebrate our own highest potential as one magnificent family of mankind.
About the Author
Richard Morrison is a journalist and a professional writer presently researching and writing about leaders in arts and culture around the world, of which his present series of articles on the Schneider family and The Apogee Foundation form a part.