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St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
, motto_translation = For Church and For State , streetaddress = 3001 Wisconsin Ave NW , city = Washington, D.C. , country = United States , zipcode = 20016 , ceeb = 090165 , established = , type = Private, Day & Boarding, College-prep , religion = Episcopal , gender = All male , headmaster = Jason F. Robinson , grades = 4– 12 , teaching_staff = 69.6 ( FTE) (2015–16) , ratio = 8.5 (2015–16) , enrollment = 591 (2015–16) , accreditation = MSA AIMS MD-DC , publication = , team_name = Bulldogs , athletics_conference = Interstate Athletic Conference DCSAA , campus_type = Urban , sister_school = National Cathedral School , website = , coordinates = , module = St. Albans School (STA) is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in grades 4â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauvoir School
The Beauvoir School is a coeducational primary school on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C., serving students from pre-kindergarten through 3rd grade. In 1933, it was founded to prepare boys for St. Albans School and girls for National Cathedral School, which serve grades 4-12. Like the Cathedral itself and the affiliated schools, Beauvoir is overseen by the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. History In 1933, Beauvoir was established as a "separate and independent school in the Cathedral system" by the Cathedral Chapter. The principal Elizabeth Glascock Taylor, and the faculty were motivated to "make children's education more exciting so that their students would be inspired to learn." Beauvoir was initially a segregated, all-white school, but accepted its first black student in 1952. In 2008, school employees discovered that a teacher had been producing child pornography featuring students. After five years on the FBI's Most Wanted L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA program, management-related doctoral programs, and many executive education programs. It owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, case studies, and the monthly ''Harvard Business Review''. It is also home to the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center. History The school was established in 1908. Initially established by the humanities faculty, it received independent status in 1910, and became a separate administrative unit in 1913. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay (1867–1946). Yogev (2001) explains the original concept: :This school of business and public administration was originally conceived as a school for diplomacy and government service on the model of the French '' Ecole des S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Baker
Malcolm P. Baker (born c. 1970) is a professor of finance, and a former Olympic rower. Scholar athlete Baker graduated from St. Albans School and began rowing at Brown University. As a Freshman he was on a National Championship team and he became the 1991 Outstanding Male Athlete. He also earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and economics at Brown in 1992. He raced for the United States National Rowing Team in the 1990 and 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics his eight-man team finished fourth. Baker earned a M.Phil. in finance from St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 1993, and a PhD in business economics from Harvard University in 2000. At Cambridge, he helped the crew team defeat the University of Oxford in The Boat Race for only the second time in eighteen contests. Professional career Prior to graduate study he was a senior associate at Charles River Associates, and during graduate study he served as a teaching fellow at Harvar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Agronsky
Martin Zama Agronsky ( ; January 12, 1915 – July 25, 1999), also known as Martin Agronski, was an American journalist, political analyst, and television host. He began his career in 1936 working under his uncle, Gershon Agron, at the ''The Jerusalem Post, Palestine Post'' in Jerusalem before deciding to work freelance in Europe a year later. At the outbreak of World War II he became a war correspondent for NBC, working across three continents before returning to the United States in 1943 and covering the last few years of the war from Washington, D.C., with American Broadcasting Company, ABC. After the war, Agronsky covered McCarthyism for ABC; fearless against McCarthy, he won a Peabody Awards, Peabody Award for 1952. When broadcast journalism moved away from radio, Agronsky returned to NBC, covering the news as well as interviewing prominent figures, including Martin Luther King Jr. as a young man. He returned to Jerusalem for a time and won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Society Of Civil Engineers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. ( ; April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861. He previously served as secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He was an advocate for states' rights, particularly regarding slavery, and minimized the role of the federal government preceding the Civil War. Buchanan was the last president born in the 18th century. Buchanan was a prominent lawyer in Pennsylvania and won his first election to the state's House of Representatives as a Federalist. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1820 and retained that post for five terms, aligning with Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party. Buchanan served as Jackson's minister to Russia in 1832. He won the election in 1834 as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and continued in that position for 11 years. He was appointed to serve as President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Lane Johnston
Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903) acted as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861. She has been described as the first of the modern First Ladies, being a notably charming and diplomatic hostess, whose dress-styles were copied, and who promoted deserving causes. In her will, she left funds for a new school on the grounds of Washington National Cathedral. Several ships have been named in her honor, including the cutter USCGC ''Harriet Lane'', still in service, as of 2021. Status Lane is the only person to have served as First Lady to a bachelor president, Buchanan being the only U.S. president never to have married. She is among 11 women who have served as First Lady, but were not married to the president, with most of the other women being relatives of widowed presidents. Early life Harriet Lane's family was from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, ''You Think it, I’ll Say It'' (2018), as well as six novels: ''Prep'' (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep school; ''The Man of My Dreams'' (2006), a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love; ''American Wife'' (2008), a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush; ''Sisterland'' (2013), which tells the story of identical twins with psychic powers, '' Eligible'' (2016), a modern-day retelling of ''Pride and Prejudice'', and '' Rodham'' (2020), an alternate history political novel about the life of Hillary Clinton. Life and education Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld was born August 23, 1975, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the second of four children (three girls and a boy) born to Elizabeth "Betsy" Curtis (née Bascom) and Paul George Sittenfeld (d. 2021). Her mother is an art history teacher and librarian at Seven Hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
