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Woodrow Wilson High School (Portland, Oregon)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School (IBWHS; colloquially Wells High School) is a State school, public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. The school is located in the center Hillsdale, Portland, Oregon, Hillsdale neighborhood next to Rieke Elementary. The boundary includes most of Southwest Portland, Oregon, Southwest Portland. History Wells High School (originally Wilson High School) was built in 1956, after a ballot measure was passed in 1945 providing $5 million to improve Portland's school system. Population was growing explosively, so emphasis was put on economy and ease of building, instead of on architectural style as was the norm in the earlier school buildings. Wilson High School, which was designed by the firm Edmundson and Kochendoerfer, used the technique of Lift slab construction, lift-slab construction to speed up construction. Wilson was the first building in the Northwestern United States, Northwest to use that technique. In July 2020, Portland Public S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county. Portland's population was 652,503, making it the List of United States cities by population, 28th most populous city in the United States, the sixth most populous on the West Coast of the United States, West Coast, and the third most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle and Vancouver. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, Portland metropolitan area, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th most populous in the United States. Almost half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metro area. Named after Portland, Maine, which is itself named aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian terrorism, Christian extremist, white supremacist, Right-wing terrorism, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction era, Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first Terrorism, terrorist group.Fergus Bordewich. (2023). ''Klan War: Ulysses S Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction''. Penguin Random House The group contains several organizations structured as a secret society, which have frequently resorted to terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation to impose their criteria and oppress their victims, most notably African Americans, Jews, and Catholics. A leader of one of these organizations is called a Grand Wizard, grand wizard, and there have been three distinct iterations with various other targets relative to time and place. The first Klan was established in the Reconstruction era for me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Lagano
Alicia Lagano is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Cristina Castelli on the NBC Saturday morning series '' All About Us'' (2001) and Selena on the Lifetime television drama ''The Client List'' (2012–13). Early life and education Lagano was born Brooklyn, New York. She is of Italian and Irish descent. At age ten, Lagano moved to Portland, Oregon. She later attended Beaverton High School before graduating from Wilson High School in 1997. She then moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career."Alicia Lagano" ''Filmbug''. Accessed August 21, 2010. Career In addition to her appearance in '' All About Us'', some of her other television acting credits include ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gilkey
David P. Gilkey (January 5, 1966 – June 5, 2016) was a U.S. photojournalist for National Public Radio in the United States, for whom he covered disasters, epidemics and war. It was originally reported that Gilkey and his native Afghan handler Zabihullah Tamanna were both killed during the War in Afghanistan by a rocket grenade while covering a skirmish between the Taliban and Afghan forces in the vicinity of Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. One year after their deaths, NPR clarified that a firefight with troops loyal to a Taliban leader named Mullah Ismail — not to be confused with another Mullah Ismail of the Taliban — had occurred while the reporters were on convoy and Tamanna was killed by gunfire and Gilkey by burns with smoke inhalation. Personal David Gilkey was born in Portland, Oregon, and he is the son of Alyda Gilkey and Richard (Dick) Gilkey. As a child, Gilkey wanted to be a truck driver but he took up photography because his father had a dark room and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veeva Systems
Veeva Systems Inc. is an American cloud-computing company focused on pharmaceutical and life sciences industry applications. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it was founded in 2007 by Peter Gassner and Matt Wallach. It operates with software as a service (SaaS) in the life-science industry. Veeva Systems Inc. went public on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2013. As of July 9, 2025, it has a market capitalization of US$46.1 billion. On February 1, 2021, Veeva became a public benefit corporation. This made it the first publicly traded company to convert to a public benefit corporation. On December 1, 2022, Veeva announced it would not renew its Salesforce partnership when it expired in September 2025, choosing instead to migrate Veeva CRM onto its own Vault Platform. The decision ended a 15+ year collaboration that had given Veeva approximately 80% market share in the life sciences CRM space. Acquisitions In 2015, Veeva acquired Zinc Ahead, a content management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gassner
Peter P. Gassner (born February 26, 1965) is the CEO and co-founder of Veeva, a company supporting processes in the pharmaceutical industry. With a net worth of US $5.25 billion, he is ranked 494th by ''Bloomberg'' on the list of billionaires worldwide. He is a member of the board of directors of Zoom Video Communications. Early life Gassner grew up in Portland, Oregon, the son of Swiss immigrants. His father owned a machine shop. Peter is the third of six children. When he was 8 years old, he worked as a paperboy. He later worked mowing lawns, in a restaurant, and then, in high school, he had a roofing business. In high school, he was also captain of the wrestling team. A math teacher recommended that he take a computer science class, which influenced his career. Gassner kept starting and stopping college, taking extended breaks in Hawaii, Australia, and Thailand, where he worked as a trekking guide. When he was 21 years old, he was robbed of all his belongings while hitchhiki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boaz Frankel
Boaz Frankel (born May 24, 1982) is an American television personality who hosted and co-created the television show ''Clips & Quips'' and created the video series ''The Un-Road Trip'', slated to become a television series on Halogen TV in 2011. He is also the curator of The Kazoo Museum in Beaufort, South Carolina and owner of one of the largest collections of kazoos in the world. Early life and education Frankel was born and raised Portland, Oregon, to Jewish family. He attended the Portland Jewish Academy and graduated from Wilson High School in 2000. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2004 with a degree in dramatic writing. Career College television While studying at NYU Frankel co-created a late-night talk show, ''On The Cusp'', that became the most popular program to ever air on NYU TV. In 2004, in his final year at Tisch, Boaz appeared on the ''Today Show'''s "The Intern" segment where he went on to win the top prize. Also durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon State Senate
The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the State legislature (United States), statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon. Along with the lower chamber Oregon House of Representatives it makes up the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 30 members of the state Senate, representing 30 districts across the state, each with a population of 141,242. The state Senate meets in the east wing of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, Salem. Oregon, along with Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, and Wyoming, is one of the five U.S. states to not have the office of the Lieutenant governor (United States), lieutenant governor, a position which for most upper houses of State legislature (United States), state legislatures and for the United States Congress (with the vice president) is the head of the legislative body and holder of the casting vote in the event of a tie. Instead, a separate position of Senate president is in place, removed from the state executive branch. If the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Burdick
Virginia Burdick (born December 3, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oregon, who served seven terms in the Oregon State Senate. She represented Tigard and Southwest Portland in Senate District 18.Biography at Oregon Legislature website Early life and education Burdick is a native of Portland, where she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from the in 1969 and her masters in journalism from the |
OregonLive
''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. West Coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. The Sunday edition is published under the title ''The Sunday Oregonian''. The regular edition was published under the title ''The Morning Oregonian'' from 1861 until 1937. ''The Oregonian'' received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the only gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The paper's staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the award for Editorial Writing in 2014. In late 2013, home delivery has been reduced to Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Bunch
Kenji Bunch (born July 27, 1973) is an American composer and violist. Bunch currently serves as the artistic director oFear No Musicand teaches at Portland State University, Reed College, and for the Portland Youth Philharmonic. He is also the director of MYSfits, the most advanced string ensemble of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony. Known for "amalgamating traditional American musical forms... and European-based classical music," Bunch's work for chamber ensemble, orchestra and ballet often incorporates elements of hip hop, jazz, bluegrass and funk to critical acclaim. Over sixty American orchestras have performed his music. His film credits include ''The Bellman Equation'' and ''The Argentum Prophecies.'' His discography includes recordings on Sony/BMG, EMI Classics, Koch, Kleos Classics, RCA, Naxos, Pony Canyon, GENUIN, Capstone, MSR Classics, Innova, ARS, and Crystal labels. Education Bunch graduated from Wilson High School (Portland, Oregon) in 1991 having performed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOIN
KOIN (channel 6) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Salem, Oregon, Salem–licensed The CW, CW owned-and-operated station KRCW-TV (channel 32). The two stations share studios in the basement of the KOIN Center skyscraper on Southwest Columbia Street in downtown Portland; KOIN's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon, neighborhood of the city. History Radio origins KOIN began as a radio station at 970 AM that went on the air November 9, 1925, as KQP; the station changed its call sign to KOIN on April 12, 1926.KOIN History from the station's website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
