Background
Monks, Robert Augustus Gardner was born on December 4, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of G. Gardner and Katherine (Knowles) Monks.
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The fate of corporations, the decisions they make or fail to make, is inextricably tied to the financial well-being of millions of shareholders - and these people are not just professional investors but also retired school teachers, policeman and factory workers. Yet, corporations are not meaningfully accountable to them. The business news is a chronicle of a mighty few effecting the fortunes and lives of a powerless many. This book discusses the realities of power and accountability and capitalist responsibilities for those that wield power.
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Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources of five of the largest Benedictine monasteries in northern France and Flanders, with comparisons to others, over a period of nearly four centuries. The book opens up new perspectives on important problems of power, in particular the idea and practice of accountability. In a violent society, medieval lords tried to delegate power rather than share it—to get their men to prosecute justice or raise money legitimately, rather than through extortion and pillage. Robert F. Berkhofer III explains how subordinates were held accountable by abbots administering the extensive holdings of Saint-Bertin, Saint-Denis, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Saint-Père-de-Chartres, and Saint-Vaast-d'Arras. As the abbots began to discipline their agents and monitor their conduct, the "day of reckoning" took on new meaning, as customary meeting days were used to hold agents accountable. By 1200, written and unwritten techniques of rule developed in the monasteries had moved into the secular world; in these practices lay the origins of administration, bureaucratic power, and governance, all hallmarks of the modern state.
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government official company executive Corporate director
Monks, Robert Augustus Gardner was born on December 4, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of G. Gardner and Katherine (Knowles) Monks.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1954. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1958. Student, Trinity College, Cambridge (England) University, 1955.
Associate, Goodwin Procter and Hoar, Boston, 1958-1964;partner, Goodwin Procter and Hoar, Boston, 1965;vice president, Gardner Associations, Inc., 1965-1968;also board directors, Gardner Associations, Inc.
president, Sprague Securities (formerly C.H. Sprague & Son Company), 1968-1971. Chairman finance committee Sulpetro of Canada, Ltd., 1973-1975. Member Executive Committee Boston Company, 1976-1981.
Member Executive Committee Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company, 1976-1981, chairman, 1979-1981-. Board directors Lambert Brussels Capital Corporation, New York City, Tyco laboratories, Inc., Exeter, N.H. Advisor Mitsubishi International Corporation, New York City, since 1987.
United States delegate United Nations Environmental Program, 1973. Director Office Energy Resources, State of Maine, 1974-1975. Member Vice president Bush's Commision on Deregulation, 1981-1982.
Presl. appointee director Synthetic Fuels Corporation, 1981-1984. Administrator Office Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs, unites states department Labor, 1984-1985. Presidential appointee retirement thrift investment board Federal Employee Retirement System, 1986-1988.
Appointed chairman Committee to Study Maine State Retirement System, 1987-1988. Appointed to Senate (California) Commission Corporation Governance Shareholder Rights and Securities transactions, since 1986.
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Finance chairman Massachusetts Republican State Committee, 1967-1968. Delegate Republican National Convs., 1968, 80. Republican candidate for United States Senate from Maine, 1972, 76.
Member Rep.Nat. Committee, 1977-1978. Chairman Maine Republican State Committee, 1977-1978. Chairman Reagan-Bush Fundraising for New England, 1980.
President, founder Institutional Shareholders' Superior vena cava syndrome, 1985-1990, Lens, Inc., since 1990. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Millicent C. Sprague, July 2, 1954. Children: Melinda Monks Campbell, Robert Carnegie Sprague.