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Strother Family
Strother may refer to: Surnames *Ann Strother (born 1983), American basketball coach and former player * Cynthia and Kay Strother, singing siblings known as the Bell Sisters *Dean C. Strother (1908–2000), U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander-in-chief of NORAD * David Hunter Strother (1816–1888), American magazine illustrator and writer * Deon Strother (born 1972), American football player *Dora Dougherty Strother (1921–2013), World War II pilot *Emily Vielé Strother (1866–1959), American writer *George Strother (1783–1840), American politician and lawyer *James F. Strother (1811–1860), American politician and lawyer, son of George Strother *James F. Strother (West Virginia politician) (1868–1930), lawyer, judge, and U. S. Representative from West Virginia, grandson of James F. Strother *Percy Strother (1946–2005), American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter *Raymond Strother, American political consultant Given names * Strother Martin (1919†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Strother
Ann Elise Strother (born December 11, 1983) is an American basketball coach, and former professional player, most recently for the Indiana Fever. Strother played at the collegiate level for the Connecticut Huskies, helping the team to two national titles. Early life Strother spent her childhood in eastern Iowa. Her family moved to Castle Rock, Colorado when she was in 8th grade. Strother was introduced to basketball by her father Kenneth, who played at the University of Northern Iowa for a semester. She became so good at basketball that she received her first college-recruiting letter from the University of Iowa, when she was only in eighth grade. High school She went to Heritage High School for two years then transferred to Highlands Ranch High School where she helped the basketball team to win two Colorado State Championships. Strother was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2002 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored nine points. Strother wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother Martin
Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal of the warden or "captain" of a state prison camp in the 1967 film '' Cool Hand Luke'', in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of '' 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes''. Early life Martin was born in Kokomo, Indiana to Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin. For a short time, the Martins lived in San Antonio, Texas, but soon returned to Indiana. As a child, he excelled at swimming and diving. He was nicknamed "T-Bone Martin" because of his diving expertise. At 17 he won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. He served as a swimming instructor in the United States Navy during World War II and was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother Field
Strother Field is a public airport in Cowley County, Kansas, six miles southwest of Winfield and north of Arkansas City. The airport is jointly owned by the two cities. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. History An airport, jointly owned by Arkansas City and Winfield, was under construction in April 1942 when the United States Army Air Forces indicated a need for a training airfield by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Gulf Coast Training Center. Strother Army Airfield was rushed to completion with the first class of cadets scheduled to arrive for basic training in Vultee BT-13 Valiant aircraft on December 14, 1942. Military use of Strother Field ended in October 1945 and it was turned over for civil use. Today, the site is Strother Field and Industrial Park. Remaining wartime structures include the runways, two hangars, two link training buildings, a tetrahedron wind cone, two ruins si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother Creek
Strother Creek is a stream in southwest Iron and northern Reynolds counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary to the Middle Fork of the Black River. The stream headwaters arise in southwestern Iron County just south of Buick and the Buick Mine and east of Missouri Route KK. The stream flows south for about one-half mile then turns to the east to flow adjacent to the Iron-Reynolds county line and crossing the county line a number of times. The stream reaches its confluence with the Middle Fork Black River just south of the county line and west of Missouri Route 49 and about two miles northwest of Edgehill.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 56, The upper portion of the stream contains several tailings pond areas from the mines near its source. The source area is at and the confluence is at . The confluence is at an elevation of . Strother Creek has the name of the local Strother family. See also *List of rivers of Missouri List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother Army Airfield
Strother Army Airfield was a World War II training base of the United States Army Air Forces Central Flying Training Command (CFTC), and later II Fighter Command. It is currently the city-owned Strother Field. History Strother Army Air Field was a joint enterprise of the proximate cities of Winfield and Arkansas City to build a municipal airport which evolved, by the force of events, into construction of an Army airfield dedicated to basic flying training. At a joint meeting on 6 February 1941 the two city commissions approved construction of an airport comprising some 240 acres with a 100 x 100-foot hangar. Authority to issue bonds had already been granted by the Kansas legislature. During the course of 1941 the Federal government's interest in this site for the establishment of an Army flying school became known. A site selection board of officers met at Arkansas City, 11 April 1942, and inspected the proposed airport site. In its report three days later, the board approve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Strother
Fort Strother was a stockade fort at Ten Islands in the Mississippi Territory, in what is today St. Clair County, Alabama. It was located on a bluff of the Coosa River, near the modern Neely Henry Dam in Ragland, Alabama. The fort was built by General Andrew Jackson and several thousand militiamen in November 1813, during the Creek War and was named for Captain John Strother, Jackson's chief cartographer. History Creek War On November 1, 1813, General Jackson reached the area of Ten Islands and began construction of Fort Strother. The fort was rectangular in shape and had blockhouses at each corner. It also included a supply building, eight hospital huts, and twenty-five tents. While constructing the fort, Jackson received news of a large number of Red Sticks that were in the village of Tallasseehatchee. He instructed General John Coffee to attack the village, resulting in the Battle of Tallushatchee. After the Battle of Tallushatchee, Red Stick warriors under the command of Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee's Summit, Missouri
Lee's Summit is a city located within the counties of Jackson (primarily) and Cass in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. As of the 2020 census its population was 101,108, making it the sixth-largest city in both the state and in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Origin of name The "Town of Strother" (not to be confused with a town of the same name in Monroe County) was founded by William B. Howard in October 1865. He named it for his wife, Maria D. Strother, the daughter of William D. Strother formerly of Bardstown, Kentucky. Howard came to Jackson County in 1842 from Kentucky, married Maria in 1844, and by 1850 he and Maria had and a homestead five miles (8 km) north of town. Howard was arrested for being a Confederate in October 1862, near the beginning of the Civil War, and after being paroled he took his family back to Kentucky for the duration of the war. After the war ended he returned and, knowing that the Missouri Pacific Railro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother, Missouri
Strother is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee .... History A post office called Strother was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1938. The community has the name of French Strother, a local educator. References Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{MonroeCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore (his first name is the alphabetic character "J" – not an abbreviated "J.") is a computer scientist. He is a co-developer of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm, Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm, and the Boyer–Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm. He made pioneering contributions to structure sharing including the piece table data structure and early logic programming. An example of the workings of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm is givein Moore's website Moore received his Bachelor of Science (BS) in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Available at thEdinburgh Research Archive in computational logic at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1973. In addition, Moore is a co-author of the ACL2 automated theorem prover and its predecessors including Nqthm, for which he received, with Robert S. Boyer and Matt Kaufmann, the 2005 ACM Software System Award. He and others used ACL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother M
Strother may refer to: Surnames *Ann Strother (born 1983), American basketball coach and former player * Cynthia and Kay Strother, singing siblings known as the Bell Sisters *Dean C. Strother (1908–2000), U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander-in-chief of NORAD * David Hunter Strother (1816–1888), American magazine illustrator and writer * Deon Strother (born 1972), American football player *Dora Dougherty Strother (1921–2013), World War II pilot *Emily Vielé Strother (1866–1959), American writer *George Strother (1783–1840), American politician and lawyer *James F. Strother (1811–1860), American politician and lawyer, son of George Strother *James F. Strother (West Virginia politician) (1868–1930), lawyer, judge, and U. S. Representative from West Virginia, grandson of James F. Strother *Percy Strother (1946–2005), American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter *Raymond Strother, American political consultant Given names * Strother Martin (1919†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Strother
Raymond D. Strother (October 18, 1940 – October 1, 2022) was a nationally known Democratic political consultant, originally from Port Arthur, Texas. Background Reared in a politically active lower-middle-class home, Strother graduated in 1958 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, renamed in 2002 as Memorial High School. Strother won a track scholarship to Northwestern State University, then Northwestern State College, in Natchitoches, Louisiana. After two years, the administration asked him to leave NSC because of his political activities. He transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. There he became the advertising director and then the editor of ''The Daily Reveille'' student newspaper. While in Baton Rouge to complete his Master of Arts degree in journalism, Strother was a night reporter and photographer for the Associated Press. His 1965 thesis at LSU correctly predicted that in the future the outcome of political campaigns would depend more on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Sisters
The Bell Sisters were an American singing duo, popular in the 1950s, consisting of the sisters Cynthia and Kay Strother, who adopted their mother's maiden name of Bell. History The sisters are the daughters of Eugene Rex Strother (1908–1988) and Edith Marie Bell (''maiden''; 1912–1992). They have four sisters and one brother. The duo were discovered and a week later signed by RCA Records after appearing on October 31, 1951 on local Los Angeles television program, "Peter Potter's Search for a Song," singing "Bermuda", which was written by Cynthia, who had appeared as a solo artist twice before on the program, singing other self-penned compositions. But it was on October 31, 1951, that Joe Happy Goday (1910–1997), owner and founder of music publisher Goday Music, Inc., took an interest in the song "Bermuda". The hit single recording of "Bermuda" for RCA peaked at Number 7 in 1952, having a three-month run on the Hit Parade, and eventually selling one million copies. It was fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
