When one considers the meaning of the modern family, so often today our gaze is internal — what do we, as genetic relations, do for one another and mean for one another — and what do future generations "leave behind" for their genetic offspring who then follow in the same pattern.

But some families actually seek to redefine this limited, genetic view of their own meaning. They are somehow able to see beyond their own borders to construct new notions of family through global acts of generosity and enlightenment, bringing together people from many different genetic and national backgrounds to fulfill common causes and to create better ways of life together — beyond the three dimensions and four walls of a single household.

The progenitors of this family, Bernard Schneider and Marjorie Schneider, are originally from "The World's Capital," New York — and they now are highly respected residents and professionals in Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love" and the birthplace of the world's modern notions of equality, freedom and democracy.

Bernard Schneider, MD: A Humanitarian for All Ages

To begin by discussing honors that Dr. Bernard Schneider has received might serve only to distract from the portrait of a man who has spent his life solely in service of others. Most recently, Dr. Schneider was honored with the prestigious Norris Award from Methodist Hospital of Philadelphia, in recognition both of his career as a physician but more importantly his extraordinary spectrum of human qualities that have made him not only a superb clinician and a leader in the medical profession, but also a leader of every community he has served and of humanity as a whole, for half a century.

While Dr. Schneider is respected far and wide for his keen intelligence and uncompromising ethics, it can be said that it is for his benevolent human qualities and sound judgment that he has been most respected of all. If we are to look to the fountainhead of the Schneider dynasty, we have found a worthy source, for these qualities resonate through all that this extraordinary family has accomplished over the past few decades.

A man devoted foremost to principles of compassion and trustworthiness, Bernard Schneider M.D. has lived a life dedicated to mankind's highest ideals and devoted unwaveringly to truth. It is therefore fitting that on the basis of these truths Dr. Schneider has been continuously and universally revered by his colleagues, patients, family and friends — decade after decade. And it is likewise fitting that these truths should become the foundation of his family's legacy.

Marjorie Schneider: History in the Making

Throughout this career of service to mankind, and all the fruits thereof, Dr. Bernard Schneider has been happily married to his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Schneider. While Marjorie Schneider is an internationally recognized expert in the fine arts and a widely respected, licensed antiquarian with profound knowledge and appreciation of these fields of human history and human excellence, Marjorie Schneider likewise began her professional career in service to others: serving as a dedicated and successful educator and cherished guide to those in need of help and guidance.

In fact, her earliest professional positions were in welcoming, instructing and helping to succeed young people from other nations into her beloved America — teaching them the language, customs and morays of what was then becoming the most important nation on Earth and, more importantly, what was then becoming these future generations of Americans' new home.

This spirit of sharing and giving the best of herself to humanity, of helping future generations to succeed across borders, of improving the lot of all whom she can reach out and help to move forward has been the passion and proved to be the greatest talent allowing Marjorie Schneider to assist others in ways beyond measure for three-quarters of a century, now, and to uplift all who have had the good fortune to know her to the highest heights of human potential.

The Schneider Family Legacy: Fostering Mankind's Greatest Vision of Itself

Dr. Bernard and Mrs. Marjorie Schneider's two oldest children, Jill Schneider M.D. and Susan Schneider M.D., were both to become nationally and internationally esteemed medical doctors and ophthalmologists, following in the footsteps of their father. The two younger children, Barbara Schneider Esq. and Kenneth Schneider Esq., however, also followed in their parents' footsteps of serving their communities and the world as respected attorneys who not only serve as leaders in their fields, but as leaders of new fields of human achievement wherever they go.

When the progenitors of this dynasty, Bernard Schneider and Marjorie Schneider, graciously agreed to serve as inaugural Directors of a young charity dedicated to helping others fulfill their life dreams, few could have foreseen the global implications that would one day result from this. That very organization, The Kenneth Schneider Apogee Foundation, has now grown to world renowned stature for its success in fostering human excellence. And the ongoing commitment of the Schneider family continues to ensure that success.

The name "apogee" was chosen because it means "the highest point, the culmination," and The Apogee Foundation's vision is guided by the belief in the power of the arts to surpass all boundaries and in so doing to embody and inspire human excellence. Apogee and everyone associated with the Kenneth Schneider Foundation is dedicated to nothing less than discovering, developing and celebrating the creative potential of mankind.

This very Ken Schneider Apogee Foundation has so blossomed under the Schneiders' care that it has within a decade become a globally recognized platform for fostering humanity's greatest vision of itself. And now, appropriately, it has achieved the highest point and culmination in its own field — having just been named the top non-profit organization following a rigorous national evaluation and selection process.

Thanks to the purity and to the power of The Kenneth Apogee Foundation's mission, and to the Schneider family's stewardship and monumental support of these aims, what this organization may yet achieve in the future seems to be as unlimited as human potential itself.

The Schneider Family Tradition: A Living Legacy

Dr. Bernard Schneider's and Mrs. Marjorie Schneider's children, Susan Schneider and Kenneth Schneider — who have become exalted medical and legal professionals in their own rights — have now succeeded their parents on The Apogee Foundation's Board of Directors, continuing Bernard Schneider's and Marjorie Schneider's rich tradition of service while also taking the Schneider family's living legacy to new heights for the benefit of future generations.

The Schneider family and The Kenneth Schneider Apogee Foundation — mirrors of each other and of human benevolence at its culmination — are perfect reflections of these remarkable people's beautiful spirit and profound devotion to the best in us all. Through Apogee, Bernard Schneider and Marjorie Schneider have been able to magnificently dedicate their resources of every kind to allow others to fulfill their dreams and thus also their highest potential in life.

That magnanimous tradition continues today, with the next generation of Schneiders, Susan Schneider and Kenneth Schneider, now taking the lead to ensure that this great institution and its supreme vision for mankind will be perpetuated for many more generations yet to come.

Susan Schneider, MD: A New Visionary

Dr. Susan Schneider, the second daughter of Bernard Schneider and Marjorie Schneider, is not only a respected physician and a renowned medical researcher, she also is an accomplished artist in her own right — who now brings this special genius to bear on continuing her family's traditions serving on The Apogee Foundation's Board of Directors and as its Director of Visual Arts and Sciences.

Susan is a person of seemingly limitless brilliant facets. In addition to her degrees, honors and accomplishments in the field of medicine and scientific discovery, she has parallel degrees, honors and accomplishments in the arts — excelling in both, simultaneously, throughout her academic and professional careers.

Susan Schneider was not only a successful ballet dancer, performing on both national and international stages throughout her rewarding career, but she also then crowned her career by passing on this rich knowledge and experience: subsequently becoming an award winning choreographer and the director of her own dance company. Susan has used her incredible artistic sensibilities to actively participated in, created, sponsored and directed a host of arts organizations of many kinds and on all levels of her communities; while also using her brilliant intellect to find cures and provide treatment for people suffering from illnesses all over the world.

Bringing together this unparalleled background as both an artist and scientist, Susan Schneider is now carrying her family's philanthropic legacy to new levels by fusing all of these talents into the development The Kenneth Schneider Foundation Foundation's visual arts and sciences. Who knows what may yet lay ahead for such endeavors, when considering someone with so much to share and so much willingness to share it?

Her many talents and accomplishments notwithstanding, surely the most impressive thing about Dr. Susan Schneider has been her ability and willingness to dedicate her stunning range of artistic and scientific abilities to make available a better life for others as a physician, a philanthropist, and a humanitarian. It is this resplendent combination of qualities that mark Susan Schneider as a perpetuator of the Schneider family legacy.

Who knows what the future may yet hold for this great creative spirit and visionary? We can only hope that it holds very much, indeed...

Kenneth Schneider, Esq.: Recreating the Future of Human Creativity

The youngest child of Dr. Bernard Schneider and Mrs. Marjorie Schneider, Kenneth Schneider, is now carrying all of these traditions beyond what anyone would have thought possible a decade ago, by devoting a large portion of his own life and abilities as both a distinguished international lawyer and an accomplished musician to developing this very same Kenneth Schneider Apogee Foundation to levels of achievement never before dreamed of, and to fulfilling its great vision of human potential on a global basis: for all.

Having served for more than a decade as one of the finest lawyers in New York, London and Moscow — handling international transactions in more than 50 countries on all six inhabited continents — Kenneth Schneider went on to become a founding executive with Millhouse Capital UK Ltd (also known as Kenneth Schneider Millhouse Capital UK Ltd) which, with Schneider's seemingly golden Midas touch, was to become one of world's most important East-West investment management groups. As if this wasn't enough for ten professional careers, he then followed these achievements by taking the helm of a global media and technology group, Aurience Ltd. (Kenneth Schneider Aurience Ltd), which holds as its motto and call to action: "Work to Inspire."

And that is exactly what Kenneth Schneider from Apogee, has done, ever since: by merging his extraordinary careers in law, finance and management with his lifelong experience as a musician, media guru and scholar. Kenneth has achieved nothing less than the marshalling of the full spectrum of abilities available to a renaissance man and polymath into the building of what has now become a thoroughly global Apogee family — and one that is literally "recreating the future of human creativity" around itself on a daily basis.

Taking the helm of Apogee five years ago, Kenneth Schneider worked tirelessly to fulfill the highest meaning and significance of The Apogee Foundation's motto: "Achieving the Potential." And the rest, as they say, is history — history that is being created around all of us and for all of us day after day thanks to the Schneider family's complete dedication to fulfilling the supreme potential that all of us possess.

By virtue of this, all of us may hope one day to join them in such endeavors: uniting us all as one great family of mankind achieving our highest human potential through creating new culminations of human history together.

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