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Wright Junior College
Wilbur Wright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago. Part of the City Colleges of Chicago system, it offers two-year associate's degrees, as well as occupational training in IT, manufacturing, medical, and business fields. Its main campus is located on Chicago's Northwest Side in the Dunning neighborhood. History Wilbur Wright College was established in 1934 by the Chicago Board of Education as one of the system of three city junior colleges designed to serve the post-secondary educational needs of Chicago residents. For a three-year period during World War II, the U.S. Navy leased the facilities and trained thousands of men as part of the Electronics Training Program. The college remained in its initial location at 3400 N. Austin Ave. until moving to a new campus in 1993. In 1966, Wright and the other city colleges were reorganized into a new community college district, named the City Colleges of Chicago, with its own Board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community College
A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries: many community colleges have an "open enrollment" for students who have graduated from high school (also known as senior secondary school or upper secondary school). The term usually refers to a higher educational institution that provides workforce education and college transfer academic programs. Some institutions maintain athletic teams and dormitories similar to their university counterparts. Australia In Australia, the term "community college" refers to small private businesses running short (e.g. 6 weeks) courses generally of a self-improvement or hobbyist nature. Equivalent to the American notion of community colleges are Technical and further education, Tertiary and Further Education colleges or TAFEs; these are institutions regulated mostly at state and territory level. There are also an increasing number of private providers colloquially called "col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Franz
Dennis Franz Schlachta (; born October 28, 1944), known professionally as Dennis Franz, is an American retired actor best known for his role as NYPD Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series ''NYPD Blue'' (1993–2005), a role that earned him a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He also portrayed two different characters on the similar NBC series ''Hill Street Blues'' (1983, 1985–1987) and its short-lived spinoff, ''Beverly Hills Buntz'' (1987–1988). Early life Franz was born October 28, 1944, in Maywood, Illinois, the son of German immigrants Eleanor ( Mueller), a postal worker of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and Franz Ferdinand Schlachta, who was a baker and postal worker of German & Polish descent. He has two older sisters, Heidi (born 1935) and Marlene (born 1938). Franz is a 1962 graduate of Proviso East High School in Maywood. During his high school years, he was active in baseball, football and swimming. He at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Page
Bill Page (September 11, 1925 – April 26, 2017) was an American reed player, band leader, and entrepreneur who was best known for his work in the Lawrence Welk Band. Early life Page is a World War II veteran of the European theater, serving in the US Army. He attended Wright Junior College (now known as Wilbur Wright College). Early musical career Page played with Del Courtney and Boyd Raeburn before joining the ''Lawrence Welk Show'' in 1951. Lawrence Welk Show 1950s newspapers give differing total numbers of woodwind instruments he could play, but among them were six saxophones, four clarinets, flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn and bassoon. He was often featured in numbers in which he played several instruments accompanied by Welk's orchestra. On the 26 October 1957 broadcast, Welk boasted that Page could play "sixteen" instruments, with Page then playing the 1951 song "Am I In Love?" on eleven of them. After the Lawrence Welk Show Page left the Lawrence Welk Show in 1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Offen
Ronald C. “Ron” Offen (October 2, 1930 – August 9, 2010) was an American poet, playwright, critic, editor, and theater producer. He received an A.A. from Wright College in Chicago and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Biography Offen lived most of his life in Chicago and worked as an insurance investigator, editor, freelance writer, and theater producer. With R. R. Cuscaden he was the co-editor of ''Mainstream: A Quarterly Journal of Poetry'' (1957), one of the first publishers of Richard Brautigan. He was also co-editor with Cuscaden of ''Odyssey: Explorations in Contemporary Poetry and the Arts'' (1958–59), which published the early work of Charles Bukowski, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), David Ray, and others. He was a reviewer and executive editor of ''Chicago Literary Times'' (1962–1965), poetry editor of ''December'' (circa 1970–72), and columnist (“Poetry Beat”) for the ''Chicago Daily News'' (1974–75). From 1970 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Novak
Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American retired film and television actress and painter. Novak began her career in 1954 after signing with Columbia Pictures and quickly became one of Hollywood's top box office stars, appearing in such hit films as ''Picnic'' (1955), ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' (1955) and '' Pal Joey'' (1957). She is widely known for her performances as Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller ''Vertigo'' (1958) with James Stewart. The film had mixed reviews from critics upon release, but is now recognized as one of the greatest films ever made. Other notable films include ''Bell, Book and Candle'' (1958), '' Strangers When We Meet'' (1960) and ''Of Human Bondage'' (1964). Although still young, Novak withdrew from acting by 1966 and has only sporadically worked in films since. She appeared in ''The Mirror Crack'd'' (1980), and had a regular role on the primetime series ''Falcon Crest'' (1986–1987). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hampton
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist. He came to prominence in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. As a progressive African American, he founded the antiracist, anticlassist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Hispanics), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. A Marxist–Leninist, Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying, "nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” In 1967, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified Hampton as a radical threat. It tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among black progressive groups and placing a counterintelligence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akua Njeri
Akua Njeri (formerly known as Deborah Johnson; born 1949/50) is an American writer, activist and former member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Njeri was present at the December 4, 1969, police raid in which her fiancé, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark were killed at the Chicago apartment she and Hampton shared. She is the mother of their son Fred Hampton Jr., born after his father's assassination. Early life Njeri was born and grew up in Chicago, becoming a political activist at age 12. Throughout her teen years she participated in civil rights marches and protests against housing conditions in Chicago. As a 17-year-old student at Wilbur Wright College, Njeri was a member of the Black Student Union that hosted speaker Fred Hampton, chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. Njeri recalls that her first conversation with Hampton was about poetry. While she wrote her own poetry, Hampton said that he was interested only if the poetry was about "the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Nergard
Charles Lester Nergard (February 6, 1929 – November 9, 2017) was an American politician who represented parts of the Treasure Coast in the Florida House of Representatives from 1967 to 1976 and 1978 to 1990 Early life and education Nergard was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1929 and moved to Florida in 1956. He attended Schurz Junior College, Wilbur Wright College, and George Williams College. Nergard served in the United States Air Force. Career He represented a St. Lucie County-based district on the Treasure Coast from 1967 to 1976 and from 1978 to 1990. During his time in the Florida House, Nergard was also a part-time real estate agent. While he served the 76th district, he succeeded Donald H. Reed Jr. Personal life He was married to Catherine Misheck, also a native of Chicago. They had two children. Nergard and his family were members of the Lutheran faith. Nergard died in Port St. Lucie, Florida Port St. Lucie is a city in St. Lucie County, Florida, United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Morris (actor)
Eric Morris (born November 19, 1931) is an American actor, acting teacher and author who founded his own theory of acting based on the works of Lee Strasberg and Martin Landau. Eric's passion for truth and authenticity drove him to create the Eric Morris System of Acting, which provides actors with concrete techniques to explore their own psychology as the underlying source of their challenges - and unique gifts - as actors. Early life His parents were Russian Immigrants. His father emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1912. Morris lived with his family in various apartments in a neighborhood inhabited chiefly by Jewish immigrants from Russia or Poland until, in seventh grade, when his father bought a house. He spent some years as a Boy Scout, attaining the rank of Star Scout. He was a soda jerk at Walgreens, and at age fourteen spent some Saturdays doing stand-up comedy at a mafia nightclub. After a false start and a detour in therapy, Morris returned to Wright Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Lesnaw
Judith Lesnaw is an American virologist, photographer, and inductee of the University of Kentucky's Hall of Fame. She was the first woman hired into Biology, the first woman to be tenured, and the first molecular biologist at the University of Kentucky. Early life and education Lesnaw was born in Chicago, Illinois and received her Associate of Arts from Wright Junior College. She then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and a doctorate in Biology (1969) with a focus in Virology, and postdoctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Research and career Lesnaw began working and researching at the University of Kentucky in 1974, where she became known as the "Virus Master" by her students. She particularly focused on viral proteins in order to develop gene therapy agents. She was also a member of the NIH Medical Biochemistry Study Section and co-program leader in the Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky. She currently is prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Lechowicz
Thaddeus S. "Ted" Lechowicz (December 20, 1938 – January 5, 2009) was an American politician and businessman. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lechowicz went to Weber High School in Chicago. He received his associate degree from Wright Junior College and then in 1960 received his bachelor's degree in economics from North Park University. Lechowicz also did graduate work at DePaul University. Lechowicz served in the United States Army and was a first lieutenant. He worked in systems analysis and programming for the Cook County, Illinois Circuit Courts and was involved with the Democratic Party. Lechowicz served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983. He then served in the Illinois Senate from 1983 to 1993. Lechowicz also served in the Cook County Board of Commissioners The Cook County Board of Commissioners is a legislative body made up of 17 commissioners who are elected by district, and a president who is elected county-wide, all for four-year terms. Cook Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Insul
Sally Insul (October 3, 1916 – August 4, 2008) was an American actress who appeared in over fifty different television and film roles during her career. Insul was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She wrote and directed her first play when she was 16 years old. She received her degree from Wilbur Wright College, but also trained at the Goodman Theatre, one of Chicago's oldest theatrical institutions. Insul's television credits included roles in well known series including ''The X-Files'', ''Wings'', ''Baywatch'', ''Golden Girls'', ''Gilmore Girls'', ''Frasier'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''My Name is Earl'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' and ''Seinfeld''. Her film credits included ''The Wedding Planner'', ''The Wedding Singer'', ''L.A. Confidential'', ''Primary Colors'' and Old School. Later in her career, she appeared as Aunt Peggy in the 2006 film, ''Click'', opposite Adam Sandler. She was also regularly cast in a series of film roles by the Coen brothers. Despit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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