The Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG7), dedicated to C.W. Francis Everitt on the occasion of his 60th birthday,took place for the first timeon the American continent at Stanford University,Stanford, California, July 24--29, 1994. The opening ceremonies began the morning of July 25with welcoming addresses by Remo Ruffini, Francis Everitt, and John Howe(on behalf of the NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin).The three Marcel Grossmann Awards were presented by Remo Ruffini and HumitakaSato.The Space Telescope Science Institute was the recipient of theinstitutional award, which was accepted on behalf of the Institute byits director Peter Stockman. The individual award recipients wereSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Jim Wilson. Each received a silver replicaof the TEST (Traction of Events in Space-Time) sculpture by Attilio Pierelli.The audience received an elegantly printedaward pamphlet includingpictures of the individual recipients and some spectacular glossyphotographs of the TEST sculpture taken by the artist Shu Takahashi,who helped design the two meeting posters and the meeting tote bag.Also included in the pamphlet was an essay by Anna Imponente(reproduced in these proceedings)about the interaction between science andart which is concretely embodied inthe TEST sculpture, the three-dimensionalextension of the Marcel Grossmann Meeting logo used in the meeting postersand other promotional materials since the fourth meeting.After the opening ceremonies, the meeting began with the first of fourpublic talks of the series "Science and Society --- Thoughts for the New Millennium."John Wheeler, acting in his capacity as the series speaker presenter,introduced Professor Chandrasekhar's talk "The Series Paintings of Claude Monet and the Landscape of General Relativity ( this talk was published in pamphlet form as the dedicationaddress for the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune,India, delivered on December 28, ). The scientific program includedfive days of 26 morning plenary talksand four afternoons of a total of 40 parallel sessions includingapproximately 400 presented papers. The idea of a volunteer rapporteur report onthe area of research associated with each parallel sessionwas introduced for the first time at this meeting.Presented either by the chairperson or someoneinvited by the chairperson, these talks had the goal ofsummarizing the state of affairs in the specific area of the session.No poster sessions were held. Instead, everyone not able to beallotted a longer time to speak was guaranteed their "at least five minutes of fame" to announce their work for furtherdiscussion on an individual level. Close to559 registered participants and 120 registered accompanyingpersons were present for the meeting during a week of truly fine weather at Stanford.Though certain parts of the long-term planning process for this meetinggot off to a late start, things seemed to come togetherat the last minute to make another successful gathering of a diversegroup of scientists from all over the world. Crucial phases of the advanced preparations were managed efficientlyby Monica Jarnot, who also hosted two special events for the accompanying persons. Organizationalmatters before, during, and after the meeting werehandled effectively by Jill Higgins, Gary Bertolucci, and theirorganization Meeting Planning Associates. The work of Nadine Brown%whose assistance in the proceedings manuscript archivingon the conference registration, participant database, and manuscript archival process was invaluable.The combined efforts of the local organizing committee chaired by Mac Keiser andmany members ofthe Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission led by Francis Everittwent into making the meeting become a reality.An enthusiastic group of graduate student volunteersboth from Stanford and around the world,coordinated by Paolo Carini, contributed to the success of the day-to-dayoperation of the conference.The evening program included the opening night organ concertby Robert Bates at the Stanford Memorial Church,the banquet, and the remaining three lectures of the Science and Society series.These were given byFang Li Zhi ("Decline of Central Totem and New Horizons"),Wolfgang Panofsky ("Copernican Humility, Change and the Creation of Purpose")and Yuval Ne'eman ("The Physical Heritage of the Cold War").The last two of these are reproduced at the end of these proceedings.The midweek banquet was held in an elegant setting amidst spectacular natural beauty at the Olympic Club in Lakeside overlooking the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco. Those present were treated to a wonderful after-dinner talkby Ken Nordtvedt recounting anecdotes about his early days at Stanford whenthe idea of the gyroscope experiment was first taking form.The meeting was closed on July 29with a reminiscence by Remo Ruffini of thedays of the renaissance of relativity and of the special role played by various individuals at StanfordUniversity in the early seventies in generating the birth of thisseries of meetings. This talk has been expanded upon in An Excursus on Experimental Gravitation from Spaceand Relativistic Astrophysics in Honour of Francis Everitt's 60'th Birthday reproduced at the beginning of these proceedings.A warm expression of thanks was given to the participants,speakers, and organizers, and to all those whose financial helpmade possible the realization of this seventh meeting.