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- 2451: Burton Freund
- ... Phi Beta red Kappa” , the story behind the piece is that of a young Negro man standing still holding luggage, he has around his neck a Phi Beta Kappa key, which is symbolic of a college graduate with honors and fraternity (PBK) brother. This piece suggested that the only work the young man could get was as a porter, otherwise known as a red-cap. This piece was also a wood ...
- 2452: Saint John of the Cross
- ... education, and the opportunity to learn skills from local craftsmen. When he was 17, John began to work at the Plague Hospital de la Concepcion, and its founder offered to let him attend the Jesuit College, so long as he did not neglect his hospital duties. From 1559 to 1563, John studied with the Jesuits, learning Latin, Greek, and other subjects. He was offered the chance to study for the secular ...
- 2453: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... founded by Martin Luther King Jr.’s maternal grandfather. King Jr. was an ordained Baptist minister at the age of 18. King attended the local segregated public schools, where he excelled. He attended nearby Morehouse College at age 15 and earned his bachelor’s degree when he graduated. When he graduated with honors from, Crozer Seminary located in Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a doctoral ...
- 2454: John F.Kennedy: Biography
- ... Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut. In 1935 Kennedy graduated from Choate Academy when he was 18 years old. When he graduated he was voted "Most likely to succeed." By his fellow class mates. Kennedy went to College at Princeton University, but he developed Jaundice, a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when ...
- 2455: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... of Philadelphia, and improve the quality of its life. Franklin led the University of Junto in founding a library in 1731, the first ever American fire company in 1736, a learned society in 1743, a college (the University of Pennsylvania) in 1749, and an insurance company and a hospital in 1751. The group also worked to pave, clean, and light the streets and to make them safe by organizing an effective ...
- 2456: John Gough
- ... and 21 math and science subjects. During this time, I also answered questions from ladies and gentleman’s magazines. My responses appeared in print sixty times. 1772-1777 Self employed as a tutor at New College. Joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Published Meteorological Observations and Essays. 1802 Stated my law of Partial Pressures: “Experimental Essays on the Constitution of Mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam or Vapor from ...
- 2457: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... a rural schoolhouse. When she completed her education in Pine Level at the age of eleven her mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private institution. She went to Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes for eleven and twelth grade. She was unable to graduate because of her grandmother’s illness, Rosa Edwards. After her grandmother’s death she decided to return to school, but her mother got ...
- 2458: Jackie Robinson
- ... at Los Angeles. At UCLA he showed a great deal of athletic ability. He was the first student-athlete to win varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track. In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He received an honorable discharge in 1944 after he was acquitted from a court ...
- 2459: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... worked to strengthen the Navy which he believed was essential for a nation to become a world power. When America declared war on Spain in 1898 Roosevelt gathered together a group of cowboys and former college athletes who would soon form the First Volunteer Cavalry regiment. The group became known as The Rough Riders and would win international fame under the command of Colonel Roosevelt as the men led the charge ...
- 2460: Martha Graham
- ... Cumnock School of Expression after graduating from high school. There she trained in dance, drama, and self-expressions. Martha's love to study people's actions was incredibly strong. After Graham graduated from the junior college in 1916, she then enrolled in Denishawn School of Dance (182). She was recognized at the school for her talent and determination, not her potential as a dancer. When Shawn, who was the owner of ...
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