Leadership

Vice President - Georges Michelson-Dupont was born in Paris, France, in 1947. He married Marlène, who is a reader of The Urantia Book, in 1971, and they have 2 grown daughters. He is an electro-metallurgist engineer. Georges and Marlène own a company that manufactures high-end lighting fixtures and furniture.

Georges’s father introduced him to The Urantia Book in the early 1960s. Georges was a member of the team which spent fifteen years revising and correcting the French translation. 

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as president of an association of French readers, Georges organized several international conferences for readers of The Urantia Book, which took place in France in 1986, 1989, 1992, and 1995. He also organized and hosted the first conference for translators in 1989.

In 1994, the Trustees of Urantia Foundation appointed Georges and Marlène to the position of representatives of Urantia Foundation for the French-speaking countries. Georges became a Trustee of Urantia Foundation in September of 1995 and in 1996 became the first president of the French association of the Urantia Association International (UAI). In 1999 Dorothy Elder and Georges launched the Urantia Book Internet School (UBIS).

Today, Georges is the vice president of Urantia Foundation and the Manager of Translations.

Judy has been a student of The Urantia Book since 1973, when her sister introduced her to the book. She has attended and hosted study groups, is a charter and board member of Idaho Urantia Association, and has served on the Board of Urantia Association of the United States (UAUS) and the board of Urantia Association International (UAI). Judy served as an Associate Trustee of Urantia Foundation and was elected a Trustee in 2008.

Judy lives in Boise, Idaho, U.S.A., where she, her husband, and their family work together in a heating and air conditioning business, which they founded in 1976. While raising her family, Judy served as a volunteer and board member in various local organizations associated with her daughter and son’s activities. Today she especially enjoys spending time with her grandchildren.

President - Mo, father of five, lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife Jennifer. During the last thirty years Mo has served on the board of directors of sixteen for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. He is 59 years old and has spent most of his life in the food industry.   

Mo began reading The Urantia Book in 1969 after spending two years living and attending school at a Catholic monastery. He has hosted a Urantia Book study group since 1972. During the past twenty-seven years Mo has served on the boards of three organizations solely dedicated to The Urantia Book. He has been a Trustee of Urantia Foundation since 1998. 

Line is French Canadian and lives in the country town, Ste-Sophie, Québec, Canada. She is married, a mother of two sons, and a grandmother of two girls. She has worked in a telecommunication company as a service and sales representative.

She has been a reader of The Urantia Book since 1996, the day she felt God in her soul, transforming her and giving her a deep meaning and purpose in her life. Service was the key word and there began her conscious journey.  She has been involved in the Urantia movement since 2001 and has traveled with her husband, Gaétan Charland, to many countries around the world serving the Urantia Revelation.

Line is a member of the representative council of Urantia Association International and is vice president of the Urantia Canadian Association.  She has held many positions in the local association of Québec and is presently the membership chair and communication chair.  She is the editor of the monthly newsletter and translates Tidings into French.

She has organized spiritual seminars and conferences, facilitated workshops, and co-hosted a study group with her husband for the past 13 years. Line also volunteers in her local community for a group of people suffering from anxiety and panic attacks.

Everyday she learns that it is more important to love than to be right.

Merritt has been reading The Urantia Book since 1968. He was a charter member of the Rocky Mountain Spiritual Fellowship, co-founder and Academic Officer of the Boulder School for Students of The Urantia Book,and is the author of The Call of the Spirit (1984, 2008). He recorded one of the published audio versions of The Urantia Book, has been tracking and analyzing typographical issues in the text of The Urantia Book for many years, and is a member of the Standard Reference Text committee. Out in the real world, he is the IT Director for a large organic foods manufacturer. Merritt lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Jeanney, and any of their four daughters who happen to be 'visiting' at the moment.

The Urantia Book with its profound, advanced teachings became a part of Ralph and wife Betty's life in the fall of 1967 while a medical missionary in Ghana. Its impact was immediate and continues to grow after more than 40 years. Words cannot express his gratitude for having found the book early in his parental and professional careers.

Ralph and Betty have two adult children, both readers, and three grandchildren. Betty is a recently retired public school teacher, reading specialist, and Ralph will be a retired radiologist at the end of 2009, terminating 45 years of medical practice.

In addition to his regular practice, his professional experiences include Director of Radiology Residency Program, appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor, Education Committee Member, Chairman, Department of Radiology, Member of Board of Trustees, Guthrie Healthcare System, Editor-in-Chief of Guthrie Journal, Secretary, Vice President, President of Medical Staff, of more than 200 physicians.

Betty and Ralph have hosted study groups in their home for many years. They have recently completed their first course as team Teacher/Facilitators for Urantia Book Internet School, a deeply inspirational experience. They also serve on the board of UBIS. Ralph is a founding member and executive board member, presently serving as president for New York – Pennsylvania Urantia Association. They have hosted bi-annual association meetings in their home for the past 11 years. He has served on various national committees and Foundation initiatives.