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Among the Members Being a few of the several score members who are known internationally, but are not known as members of the Corps. Dominic Ventura (American) Noted mountain climber and explorer, Ventura joined the Four Lamas of Kipotala in their search for the lost valley of Shambhallah in the wastes north of Tibet. While he has refused extensive explanation of the events of that journey, it is believed that expedition was key to the worldwide radio disruption of 1931 and extensive display of northern lights into the temperate latitudes. Friends have reported that Ventura now sports a series of small tattoos behind his knees, inside his elbows and at his hips and shoulders, which were not there prior to the Kipotala expedition. Since his induction in 1932, Ventura has made himself available to members on issues of eastern mysticism, Tibetean buddhism and the pantheon of central Asian demons . Murdock Pertwee (Canadian) An unsually quiet member of the Corps, Mr. Pertwee is a cryptologist, specializing in mathmatical codes and calculations. His calculations revealed an impending problem with negotiations with Imperial Germany during the Great War and he went into the field in the Alcayce-Lorrainne region to release several key prisoners of war who could have given a new weapon to Germany. While quietly granted a pension and some small land holdings in his province of British Columbia, Pertwee spends most of his time in San Francisco, brooding over a new code that has emerged from central Europe. Ram Sing Dhoul (Tibetean) An associate of Dominic Ventura, Ram Singh is a converted Sihk to a unique brand of Tibetean mysticism who offers valuable advice on the more relgiious and spiritual events with which members have found themselves involved. Schooled in England during the reign of Victoria, Ram Singj has lived in Tibet and Northern India for the past several decades, allying himself with Ventura during the Kipotala expedition. Several times during the year he will ask members to assist him in a ceremony he called "Rattling the Locks" – which usually becomes an excellent social function with Ram Singh as host.. Stephan Willis (American-Irish) A devoted servant of Matthew Goodwin, Willis has taken command of the Goodwin assignments several times when his employer was unable to lead his team. In 1929, Willis was responsible for physically removing the grandaughter of a former American president from the compound of a zealot Bedouin chieftan who held her for ransom. His efforts made it possible for British forces, who had held back for fear of harming the houng lady, to launch their full attack upon the fanatic mullah and his followers. Willis was later credited with defending the passengers of the Graf Zeppelin from an attempted take over by sky pirates over the Mediterranean. Willis is a fun fellow, easy going and fond of quiet relaxation efore the private lounge fireplace. Nina Packard (American) A popular actress in early talking pictures, Miss Packard distinguised herself before the nominating committee by publically foiling an assassination attempt on the Governor of California, and then actively chasing the band of assassins into the sewers beneath Los Angeles, a dramatic battle worthy of her most ambitious melodrama on the silver screen. It is rumored that she recently served the US Departmetn of War by touring the Spanish and North African regions and returning with a report that may have delayed another war in the cauldron that is today's Europe. Miss Packard has joined with other members of the Corps in several adventures in the past few years, some of which she will discuss over dinner with new members.. Duchess Isabela Sloan (Italian) Most famous as a member of the Sloan-Thomas expedition into the interior of French West Africa, Mrs. Sloan, the wife of Sir David Sloan, the discoverer of the Tombs of Karan in the Sudan. After the misadventure of the expedition, Duchess Sloan survived the pursuit of the Dohabi tribesmen for more than 600 miles to the coast of colonial Africa to safety. With the jewel encrusted scarab of Khatawo, she eluded her purserers through forest, savannah and plantations from the deep Niger valley to the port at Aanan. After her Isabela boarded a ship to London, she began the memoir of her adventure – which was published shortly after she delivered the artifact in her husband's name to the Royal Geographic Society. She was inducted into the Corps during her second expedition to find her missing husband. Matthew Goodwin (American) A cattleman from Wyoming by choice, Goodwin was called to save his son from a group of Mexican outlaws when the Sonoran officials proved too "reluctant" to take any action against the bandits. Goodwin, with a team of four hand-picked associates from the neighboring ranches, made their way into the Sonoran mountains, rescued Goodwin's son, and created enough of an international incident that the Mexican government was forced to send in a major detatchment of the army to fight the bandits. The probllem was sovled and Goodwin has since been engaged to help other parents in extraction of loved ones from criminal hands. Sgt. Julius Pulanski (American-Polish) This police detective from the Buffalo Police Department gained a fair amount of notariety when his investigation into a series of mutilation killings along the shores of Lake Erie revealed a network of murder-for-hire gangsters based out of Cleveland. A four-state pursuit and shoot out in Henderson Crossing, Pennsylvania marked him as a hero to the press. His subsequent work with New York and Chicago police departments resulted in an invitation to join the Corps, which he accepted in 1931. Dev Shumski (Latvian) Once denounced publically as an anarchist, Shumski took part in the destruction of a fanatic army of royalists in centeral Europe during the financial collapse following the Great War. While public credeit for the defeat of the private army was given to another, Corps members know that it is Shumski who masterminded the collapse of the growing threat to European peace. "It was noth enough," he will tell new members, "there is another, greater threat, even as we speak." Shumski travels extensively but can often be found in San Francsico, deep into his brandy and brooding over his most recent findings Dr. Noble Armstrong (English) Noted surgeon and chemist, Dr. Armstrong fearlessly entered the plague fields of Asia in the 1920s to identify the source of a series of diseases that threatened to lay waste to the vast populations of China and India, and spread into the civilized world in the flood of increasing trade with those countries. Dr. Armstrong discovered the plague to be the creation of an warlord mastermind and that the Asian exposures were merely test runs for a planned invasion of the Western world. With a few good friends, the support of the Corps and a few far-sighted governments, Armstrong entered into the walled city of the despot in the great wastelands of the Siberian tundra, and turned the madman's weapon of plague against its creator and his followers. The good doctor consults with Corps members regularly and maintains a small network of agents worldwide to detect any similar use of dark medical sciences against humanity..