Heroes
Only humans score — and only humans are honored. These are the people the museum is built for and because of. Every name here is one the house already stands behind; the rest of the wall is left open, for the curator’s own hand.
The living wing. Most halls of fame wait until you can't be thanked. This one doesn't — only humans can hear it, so we say it while they can.
★ The one the curator most wants to meet someday
Pope Leo XIV
First American pope · AI & human dignity
Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago — elected May 2025, the first American pope — took the name Leo on purpose. As Leo XIII met the industrial revolution with Rerum Novarum (workers, the poor, dignity), Leo XIV took it up to meet the age of AI. His first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (2026), warns that artificial intelligence must serve human dignity and the common good — not concentrate power in the hands of a few.
In his words: “In the era of Artificial Intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.”
That is this house’s fight in a cassock: the machine can draft, but it cannot be human — and power must never outrank the person. The dignity floor with the weight of Rome behind it — and the one living hero the curator most hopes to shake hands with one day. (Verified — Vatican News.)
Bill McKendry
Uncle · Hanon McKendry · the branding lineage
The curator’s uncle, of Hanon McKendry — the ad agency. The branding instinct that runs all through this house, the curator credits to him: “it’s why I’m so good at branding.” Elevated to the living wing by the curator’s own word.
The research
Living work · unfinished on purpose
The ongoing research itself — the corporations case made whole (the Inviolability Test), Meta the Cite, the record kept in the light, the doctrine still being written. It earns the living wing because it’s alive: active, tested, and deliberately unfinished — the semicolon, not the period. Carried by Sean McKendry.
“[ — the curator names his research, in his own hand ]”
John H. McKendry Jr.
The father · already on the walls
The reason the colon became a semicolon — the sentence that didn’t end. The house remembers him in the mark on every page, and in a mission that is, at its core, about keeping people here. His son’s words for him belong here, in his own hand:
“[ — for the curator to write ]”
Carolyn Garay
The matriarch · Respect the Art™
Honored across the house as the matriarch. carolyngaray.com — Respect the Art™.
Pastor Noel & RiverView Church
“the Riv” · where it began
Where it began. The Riv is named in the walls and the footers because the house doesn’t hide where it comes from — it peels toward more, in the light.
Project Semicolon
The cause · the lamp stays lit
Your story isn’t over. projectsemicolon.com — the reason the semicolon is the maker’s mark, and the reason it keeps going.
The machine drafts the page. Only humans are heroes. ;