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词条 Neil Albert Salonen
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Neil Albert Salonen (born 1946) is president of the University of Bridgeport, a private university in Bridgeport, Connecticut.[1] He is a member of the Unification Church and became the president of the Unification Church of the United States in 1972.[2] In 1974 he led the National Prayer and Fast Committee, a group founded by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon to support United States president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.[3] In 1976 Salonen met with Senator Bob Dole to defend the Unification Church against charges made by its critics, including parents of some members.[4] In that year he was president of the Freedom Leadership Foundation, an anticommunist and pro South Korean propaganda organization, as well as church president.[5] In 1980 Salonen was succeeded as the president of the American church by Mose Durst.[6] In 1997 he served as master of ceremonies at a blessing ceremony for about 20,000 engaged and married couples presided over by Rev. and Mrs. Moon and held in Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington D.C..[7] In 2002, Salonen was selected to serve on the Presidents Leadership Group, "a body of higher education presidents and chancellors who have declared their commitment to student substance abuse prevention."[8]

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1. ^For university presidents, it's more than academic, Stamford Advocate, August 31, 2009
2. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OkwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sZ8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2588,1555363&hl=en Church members think of Rev. Moon as father], Rock Hill Herald, Associated Press, September 13, 1975
3. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nz0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5mYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7287,3024455&dq=neil-salonen&hl=en Nixon Backers Open 72 Hours of Prayer on Capitol Steps], Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Associated Press, July 23, 1974
4. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7hIyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cOUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3636,2969007&hl=en Dole meeting with Moon aide called cordial], Lawrence Journal-World, February 24, 1976
5. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MEUSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R-EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,7021262&dq=neil-salonen&hl=en The Moonies: What are they really like?], Eugene Register-Guard, August 28, 1976
6. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pOAiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D8wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2026,3495731&dq=neil-salonen&hl=en Moonie change seen], Modesto Bee, May 8, 1980
7. ^[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/wedd97.htm At RFK Moon Presides Over Mass Wedding], Washington Post, November 30, 1997
8. ^University of Bridgeport President Neil Salonen to serve as a national leader in Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, University of Bridgeport press release, March 22, 2002.
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9 : 1946 births|Living people|People from Bridgeport, Connecticut|American Unificationists|American people of Finnish descent|University of Bridgeport faculty|American university and college presidents|American anti-communists|Cornell University alumni
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