And as the death toll mounts, each name at the head of a new chapter is as ominous as an engraving on a tombstone.
Ms. McGovern, currently a professor at Harvard Business School, replaces Mark W. Everson, who was forced to resign in November after disclosing that he had an affair with the head of a Red Cross chapter in Mississippi.
A senior executive at the Red Cross who had been hired by Mr. Everson told board members about Mr. Everson's relationship — with a married woman who is head of a Red Cross chapter on the Gulf Coast.
Last spring the head of a local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving made national headlines with outrageous assertions that Montana drivers measure their cross-state travel in bottles of beer: a six-pack between this town and that, a case to cross the state.
Nick Dalton later informs her that Bianchi is the head of a local chapter of the Chicago Outfit.
The last abbot of St Werburgh's Abbey, Thomas Clarke, became the first dean of the new cathedral, at the head of a secular chapter.
Robert Paske is an American living in Tokyo, and is the head of a local chapter of the Saber Guild, a non-profit group who practices lightsaber choreography for charity and community events.
A lyric by Ira, printed in full, adorns the head of every chapter; a bonus CD, in a vinyl flap on the inside back cover, offers Feinstein's voice-and-piano rendition of the 12 Gershwin songs to which the chapters are linked, followed by 12 briefer spoken tracks of him discussing different aspects of the music or its origin and interpretation.
"These TV ads are out there to fool people into thinking that Muslims are just like us," said Constance Gavras, head of a Chicago-area chapter of Act!
He was an eminent psychoanalyst, who received his doctorate in Paris, and became the first black man to head a chapter of Psi Chi, the honorary psychology society.
