INDUSTRIALISTS & BUSINESS PEOPLE

James Conkling
Founder of The National Academy of recording Arts & Sciences,
Also was responsible for helping create the Grammys.
Died:April 12,1998 in Sacramento,.CA ofcomplications of Pneumonia & diabetes

Bill and John Davidson
Harley Davidson Motorcycles

Lucy Fisher
Mrs. Fisher has a DIABETIC SON. Lucy is Vice Chairman, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. Lucy helps raise money for Diabetes Research.

Tom Foster
former head of Foster Poultry Farms, one of the nation's top  privately held companies, died from complications from diabetes. He was 49.  Foster died Sept. 22,1999 at his home in a  small community Of Hickman, California 90 miles ast of San Francisco. He  developed diabetes as a child, leading to heart problems, according to Ed Brown, a family  friend.  Born Oct, 24, 1949, Foster was the youngest of Max and Vedra Foster's three sons, all of whom  were raised to be involved in the family poultry business begun in 1939.  Foster took over the company at the age of 27 after his brother, Paul, died of a heart attack  after running the company for eight years beginning in 1969.  In the early years of this decade, the Fosters decided the company needed changes. They  retained ownership, but brought in a CEO and board of directors from outside the family.  With $990 million in annual sales and 7,000 employees, Foster Farms now ranks 207th on  Forbes Magazine's list of America's 500 top privately held companies.

Li Fuxiang
NEWS:May 12,2000
 China Forex Chief Dead, BEIJING (Reuters) - Li Fuxiang, the head of China's foreign exchange regulatory  body, died this week under mysterious circumstances, financial sources said on  Friday.  `He's dead,'' said one reliable source of the director of the State Administration of  Foreign Exchange (SAFE).  ``It's possibly related to something that happened before he took over at SAFE'' in  October 1998, said the source, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.  Officials at Beijing No 304 Hospital, an elite military medical  facility, said Li had checked in for treatment for diabetes on  Monday.  There was no official word on the cause of death but the   hospital's morgue confirmed it had handled a SAFE official who  leapt to his death on Wednesday. A morgue official declined to identify the man.  A consultant affiliated with SAFE said the agency had summoned staff to a meeting  on Thursday to explain Li's death, but SAFE's spokesman declined to comment on the  case.  There was no immediate confirmation of reports in the Hong Kong media and rumors  in the Shanghai foreign exchange market and on Internet chat sites that it was Li, 47,  who had committed suicide by leaping from an upper story of the hospital.  The reports had no effect on the tightly-managed Chinese yuan.   Asked about the reports Li had committed suicide, China's State Council Information  Office, which speaks for the cabinet, said it was still seeking confirmation.  Hong Kong's Ming Pao and the Hong Kong Economic Times newspapers said Li had   leapt from the seventh floor of a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday night. The Ming  Pao quoted unidentified sources and the Economic Times gave no sources for its  report.  The independent Ming Pao said rumors were circulating in Chinese financial markets  that Li's suicide might be related to ''inappropriate activities'' at his office or stress at  work.  It said there was speculation Li was being investigated for ''economic activities,'' but  gave no further details.  Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily said Li had been posted to SAFE in 1996 and had won the favor of Premier Zhu Rongji for his grasp of forex issues.  Li took over as SAFE director from Wu Xiaoling shortly after she had launched a  nationwide crackdown on foreign exchange fraud designed to stem capital flight and  ease downward pressure on the Chinese yuan during the Asian economic crisis. A fluent English speaker, Li had worked for the Bank of China, the country's main foreign exchange bank, in Singapore early in his career and later headed the bank's  New York branch. 

WL Gherra
PayLess Drugs

Howard Hughes
Industrialist

Cynthia Ice
Lotus

Ray Kroc
McDonald's Founder

Robert Wood Johnson's IV Daughter Casey
NEWS:1-12-2000 Chairman of Juvenile Diabetes Foundation  International and Chairman and CEO of The Johnson Company, is the new owner of the New York Jets. Mr.  Johnson has served as JDF's Chairman since June 1995 and has been involved with the foundation over the  past ten years. His daughter Casey has had juvenile, or Type 1 diabetes, for the past twelve years.