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Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship
The Friar Society is the oldest honor society at the University of Texas at Austin. Origins The Friar Society was founded in 1911 by Curtice Rosser and Marion Levy. Eight members were initially selected in the charter group. Originally, four men were chosen from the junior and senior classes every year on the basis of a significant contribution to The University of Texas. Twenty-five years later, the Friars decided to start taking larger classes to accommodate the growing size of the university. Women were first admitted to the Friar Society on March 25, 1973. In April 2011, the Friar Society celebrated the 100 year anniversary of its founding. Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship The Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship is an annual award given to a UT professor who has demonstrated excellence at the undergraduate teaching level. With a prize of $25,000, the award is the largest monetary award annually given to a UT professor. In 1982, the Friars decided to create a teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The University Of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 graduate students and 3,133 teaching faculty as of Fall 2021, it is also the largest institution in the system. It is ranked among the top universities in the world by major college and university rankings, and admission to its programs is considered highly selective. UT Austin is considered one of the United States's Public Ivies. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $679.8 million for fiscal year 2018. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the LBJ Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Barefoot Sanders
Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. (February 5, 1925 – September 21, 2008) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was best known for overseeing the lawsuit to desegregate the Dallas Independent School District. Early life and education Sanders was born in Dallas, Texas to H.B. Sanders, and the former May Elizabeth Forrester. "Barefoot" was the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, Dennie Barefoot. Early in his life, Sanders went by "H.B." He graduated from North Dallas High School in 1942. He served in the United States Navy during World War II between 1943 and 1946. While attending the University of Texas, Sanders was elected student body president in 1947. He was affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, Blue Key, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Delta Kappa and the Texas Cowboys. Sanders received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barr McClellan
Oliver Barr McClellan (born 1939 in Cuero (aka Rawhide), Texas) is an American entrepreneur, counsel and author who became widely known by his 2003 book ''Blood, Money & Power'' on the Kennedy assassination. He has also written on globalization. Life Barr McClellan lived in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1944–1951. He spent time in the oilfield swamps and learned soccer. He also survived an airline crash in Mexico City in 1946. He graduated from Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1957 (class president, graduation speaker), then enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin where he won the O. Henry and William Jennings Bryan literary awards. He graduated with honors, BA, with special honors in international studies, 1961, JD, 1964. In 1966, McClellan joined a legal firm in Austin, Texas. At that time, the firm was run by a number of partners, including Edward A. Clark. In 1972, McClellan became a full partner in the firm. After one year as University Attorney, McClellan establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Keeton
Robert Ernest Keeton (December 16, 1919 – July 2, 2007) was an American lawyer, jurist, and legal scholar. As a law professor at Harvard Law School and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts he was known for his work on torts, insurance law, and practical courtroom tactics.Hevesi, Dennis"Robert E. Keeton, 87, Author of Influential Law Treatises, Is Dead."''New York Times'' 4 August 2007. Keeton, with Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Virginia School of Law, played a key role in the advancement of no-fault automobile insurance. Education and legal career Keeton was born in Clarksville, Texas. He was the second youngest of five children of William Keeton (who owned a general store) and Ernestine Teuton Keeton. One of his brothers, W. Page Keeton, also became a prominent lawyer and educator. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benno C
Benno may refer to: People Mononym * (927–940), saint * (1049–1061) *Benno I of Osnabrück (bishop, 1052–1067) *Benno of Meissen (bishop, 1066–1106), saint *Benno II of Osnabrück (bishop, 1068–1088) *Benno of Santi Martino e Silvestro (fl. 1082–1098), cardinal * Benno (bishop of Cesena) (1123–1141) * (1126–1139) * (1230–1242) First name * (1861–1936), German racecar driver * Benno Adam (1812–1892), German painter * (1912–1967), German physician * (1904–1986), Swiss conductor and composer *Benno von Arent (1898–1956), German film director * (1876–1944), German industrialist * (1933–2010), German mathematician *Benno Baginsky (1848–1919), German physician * (died 1936), German entrepreneur and politician * (1860–1938), German painter * (died 1942), German footballer * (1883–1916), German painter *Benno Besson (1922–2006), Swiss actor and director * (1571–1625), member of the Fruitbearing Society * (1869–1965), Austrian industrialist * (182 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Homer Elkins
Wilson Homer "Bull" Elkins (July 9, 1908 – March 17, 1994) was an American educator and university administrator. Career Elkins served as the president of the University of Maryland from 1954 to 1970, and then was president of the 5 campus University of Maryland System from 1970-1978. Elkins received an A.B. and an M.A. from the University of Texas in 1933, where he was also a star college football quarterback. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a Ph.D. Elkins served as the president of San Angelo Junior College from 1938 to 1948. He left San Angelo to become president of Texas Western College in El Paso until beginning his tenure at the University of Maryland in 1954. At the University of Maryland, Elkins emphasized rigorous academic standards. In 1957, he created the "Academic Probation Plan," threatening 1,550 students—18 percent of the undergraduate enrollment—with expulsion because their grade point averages were lower than a C. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coneway
Peter Richard Coneway (April 13, 1944 Harlingen, Texas – November 13, 2020 Houston, Texas) was an investment banker, a member of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System for a six-year term, and the American Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2006 until 2008. Biography He grew up in Harlingen, Texas, the son of Albert Earl Coneway, the city attorney and Clara Laroux "Sue" Durham Coneway. Coneway was a running back for the Harlingen High School Cardinals football team. He earned a BBA in 1966 from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and in 1969, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Career Coneway served in several leadership positions for Goldman Sachs for whom he worked from 1969 until he retired as general partner in November 1992. Those positions included resident manager of the Houston office, becoming resident partner in 1978. In 1987 and 1988, he was managing director of the company's Tokyo o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Louis McLelland
Stanley Louis McLelland (1945-2020) was an American businessman and diplomat from San Antonio, Texas. He became a director of Nustar GP LLC in October 2005. He had also served as director of Nustar GP Holdings since July 2006 and as a director of two privately held companies since November 2003 and June 2004, respectively. He was a senior executive with Valero Energy Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power. It is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Throughout the United States and Can ..., he also served as executive vice president and general counsel from 1990 to 1997. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica from 1998 through 2001. Since 2001 he was retired and lived in Austin, Texas. He died on November 11, 2020. References 1945 births Living people American energy industry businesspeople Ambassadors of the United States to Jamaica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto R
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Von Dohlen
Timothy Donald Von Dohlen is an American former politician. Van Dohlen was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1970, and held the 42nd house district seat for a single two-year term. He then represented the 39th house district for five consecutive terms, until 1983. Von Dohlen returned to state house from 1991 to 1993, as the legislator from the 31st district. Throughout his tenure as a state legislator, Von Dohlen was affiliated with the Democratic Party and lived in Goliad Goliad ( ) is a city in Goliad County, Texas, United States. It is known for the 1836 Goliad massacre during the Texas Revolution. It had a population of 1,620 at the 2020 census. Founded on the San Antonio River, it is the county seat of Gol .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Von Dohlen, Tim Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives People from Goliad, Texas 20th-century American politicians Place of birth mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyndi Taylor Krier
Cyndi Taylor Krier (born July 12, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician. Early life and career Krier was born in Beeville, Texas, and spent much of her childhood in Dinero, Texas. She attended San Antonio College and Trinity University before ultimately enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a degree in journalism in 1971. Krier was involved with the Republican Party. She received her J.D. degree from University of Texas School of Law in 1975 and was admitted to the Texas bar. Krier worked on the staff of U.S. Senator John Tower and Counselor to the President Anne Armstrong. She became a private attorney in San Antonio, Texas. Political career Krier successfully ran for a San Antonio area seat in the Texas Senate in 1984. In the 69th Texas Legislature from 1985 to 1987, she was the only female senator. Krier was elected to a second term in 1988. She was elected to two terms as County Judge of Bexar County, serving from 1993 to 2001. Later life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Farabee
Ray may refer to: Fish * Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin Science and mathematics * Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point * Ray (graph theory), an infinite sequence of vertices such that each vertex appears at most once in the sequence and each two consecutive vertices in the sequence are the two endpoints of an edge in the graph * Ray (optics), an idealized narrow beam of light * Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state Arts and entertainment Music * The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s * Ray (musician), stage name of Japanese singer Reika Nakayama (born 1990) * Ray J, stage name of singer William Ray Norwood, Jr. (born 1981) * ''Ray'' (Bump of Chicken album) * ''Ray'' (Frazier Chorus album) * ''Ray'' (L'Arc-en-Ciel album) * ''Rays'' (Michael Nesmith album) (former Monkee) * ''Ray'' (soundtrack), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
