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Colorado
Colorado (
i/kɒləˈrædoʊ/ or /kɒləˈrɒdoʊ/) is the US state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Southwestern United States, and the Mountain States. Colorado is the 8th most extensive and the 22nd most populous of the 50 United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,116,796 on July 1, 2011, an increase of +1.74% since the 2010 United States Census.
The state was named for the Colorado River, which early Spanish explorers named the Río Colorado for the red colored (Spanish: colorado) silt the river carried from the mountains. On August 1, 1876, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado as the 38th state. Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it was admitted to the Union in 1876, the centennial year of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Kentucky
Kentucky (i/kɨnˈtʌki/), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the Upper South of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the fact that bluegrass is present in many of the pastures throughout the state, because of the fertile soil. It made possible the breeding of high-quality livestock, especially thoroughbred racing horses. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park; the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States; and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River. It is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States, the largest free-ranging elk herd east of Montana, and the nation's most productive coalfield. Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, bluegrass music, automobile manufacturing, tobacco and college basketball.
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Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo) is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering 27,425 square miles (71,000 km2), occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico. It is the largest land area assigned primarily to a Native American jurisdiction within the United States.
In English, the initial name for the area was "Navajo Indian Reservation," governed since 1923 by the "Navajo Tribal Council." On April 15, 1969, the official name on the seal used by the government was changed to "Navajo Nation," stating that from that day on "all correspondence, stationary [sic], letterheads [...] of the Navajo Tribe use the designation 'Navajo Nation' to locate the tribe." In 1994, a proposal to change the official designation from "Navajo" to "Diné" was rejected by the council. They said the name Diné represented the time of suffering before the Long Walk, and that Navajo is the appropriate designation for the future.
In Navajo, the geographic entity with its legally defined borders is known as "Naabeehó Bináhásdzo." This contrasts with "Diné Bikéyah" and "Naabeehó Bikéyah" for the general idea of "Navajoland." More importantly, neither of these designations should be confused with "Dinétah," the term used for the traditional homeland of the Navajo people, situated in the area between the mountains Dookʼoʼoosłííd (San Francisco Peaks), Dibé Ntsaa (Hesperus Mountain), Sisnaajiní (Blanca Peak), and Tsoodził (Mount Taylor).
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Texas
Texas (i/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.
During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.
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Amos Alonzo Stagg
Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. He served as the head football coach at Springfield College (1890–1891), the University of Chicago (1892–1932), and the College of the Pacific (1933–1946), compiling a career college football record of 314–199–35. His Chicago Maroons teams of 1905 and 1913 have been recognized as national champions. He was also the head basketball coach for one season at the University of Chicago (1920–1921), and the head baseball coach there for 19 seasons (1893–1905, 1907–1913).
At University of Chicago, Stagg also instituted an annual prep basketball tourney and track meet. Both drew the top high school teams and athletes from around the United States.
Stagg played football as an end at Yale University and was selected to the first College Football All-America Team in 1889. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951 and was the only individual honored in both roles until the 1990s. Influential in other sports, Stagg developed basketball as a five-player sport and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959.
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Angelo Drossos
Angelo Drossos (October 31, 1928 – January 9, 1997) was the owner of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team from 1973 to 1988, from its time in the American Basketball Association through the ABA-NBA merger and into its years in the National Basketball Association. Drossos received the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 1978 and was instrumental in bringing the three-point field goal to the NBA. He died at age 68 in 1997 after battling supranuclear palsy.
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Bill Bowerman
William Jay "Bill" Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 24 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers. During his 24 years as coach at the University of Oregon, the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every season but one, attained 4 NCAA titles, and finished in the top 10 in the nation 16 times. He is the recipient of the Oxford Cup, Beta Theta Pi's greatest honor.
Bill Bowerman was born in Portland, Oregon. His father was former Governor of Oregon Jay Bowerman; his mother had grown up in Fossil. The family returned to Fossil after the parents divorced in 1913. Bowerman had an older brother and sister, Dan and Mary Elizabeth "Beth"; and a twin brother, Thomas, who died in an elevator accident when he was 2 years old.
Bowerman attended Medford and Seattle schools before returning to Medford for high school. He played in the high school band and for the state champion football team his junior and senior years. Bowerman first met Barbara Young, the woman he would marry, while a high school student, in Medford.
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Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the situation comedy The Bill Cosby Show. He was one of the major characters on the children's television series The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby has also acted in a number of films.
During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered to be one of the decade's defining sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which aired eight seasons from 1984 to 1992. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. He also produced the spin-off sitcom A Different World, which became second to The Cosby Show in ratings. He starred in the sitcom Cosby from 1996 to 2000 and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things for two seasons.
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Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler "Bobby" Bowden (born November 8, 1929) is a retired college football coach. He coached the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons. During his time at Florida State, Bowden led FSU to an Associated Press and Coaches Poll National Title in 1993 and a BCS National Championship in 1999, as well as twelve Atlantic Coast Conference championships since FSU joined the conference in 1991. After a difficult 2009 season and amid questioning fans, Bowden announced his retirement from FSU on December 1, 2009, just weeks after his 80th birthday. His final coaching appearance was the 2010 Gator Bowl game on January 1, 2010, with a 33–21 victory over his former program, West Virginia.
Bowden finished his career second in all-time wins by a Division I-FBS coach with 389 wins. A March 6, 2009 NCAA ruling requiring Florida State to "vacate wins for any games in which an ineligible player participated," threatening to remove as many as 14 of Bowden's wins from the 2006 and 2007 seasons in relation to an academic scandal; Florida State appealed the ruling. The NCAA upheld the ruling on January 5, 2010. Upon final investigation by Florida State University it was determined that Bowden was to vacate 12 wins, bringing his final career record to 377–129–4.
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Byron White
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football halfback and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until his retirement in 1993. He was married to Marion Lloyd Stearns in 1946 and the father of two children, Charles (Barney) Byron White and Nancy Pitkin White.
White was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was raised in the nearby town of Wellington, Colorado, where he obtained his high school diploma in 1930. He made a point of returning to Wellington on an annual basis for his high school reunions up until 1999 when his physical health worsened significantly. He died in Denver at the age of 84 from complications of pneumonia. He was the first and only Supreme Court Justice from the state of Colorado.
After graduating at the top of his Wellington high school class, White attended the University of Colorado at Boulder on a scholarship. He joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and served as student body president his senior year. Graduating in 1938, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford and, after having deferred it for a year to play football, he went on to attend Hertford College, Oxford.
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David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard served as President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) from 1976 to 1981. He was also chairman of the Board of Regents from 1973 to 1982. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.
David Packard was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and attended Centennial High School, where early on he showed an interest in science, engineering, sports, and leadership. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934, where he earned letters in football and basketball and attained membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society and was a Brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society. Stanford is where he met two people who were important to his life: Lucile Salter and William R. "Bill" Hewlett. Packard then briefly attended the University of Colorado before he left to work for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned to Stanford from New York, where he earned a master's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1938. In the same year, he married Lucile Salter, with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie. Lucile Packard died in 1987.
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Donold Lourie
Donold B. Lourie (August 22, 1899 – January 15, 1990) was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions there and for several other businesses. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Lourie to a position in the State Department, and he served in that capacity for one year. Lourie attended Princeton University where he was a star quarterback, and he was named a consensus All-American as a junior. Lourie was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.
Lourie was born on August 22, 1899 in Decatur, Alabama. He grew up in Peru, Illinois where he attended LaSalle-Peru High School. He then attended boarding school at the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, but was constantly bullied.[citation needed] He played football there, and in his junior season in 1916, scored the winning touchdown against his school's "ancient rival", Andover. On the first play in the fourth quarter, he went around the left end to rush 33 yards for the game's only score.
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Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign. Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and Douglas MacArthur were the first father and son to each be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the U.S. Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.
Douglas MacArthur was raised in a military family in the American Old West. He attended the West Texas Military Academy, where he was valedictorian, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was First Captain and graduated top of the class of 1903. During the 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz, he conducted a reconnaissance mission, for which he was nominated for the Medal of Honor. In 1917, he was promoted from major to colonel and became chief of staff of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In the fighting on the Western Front during World War I, he rose to the rank of brigadier general, was again nominated for a Medal of Honor, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven times.
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Earl Blaik
Earl Henry "Red" Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989) was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at Dartmouth College from 1934 to 1940 and at the United States Military Academy from 1941 to 1958, compiling a career college football record of 166–48–14. His Army football teams won consecutive national championships in 1944 and 1945. Blaik was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1964.
Blaik was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Blaik, a blacksmith and carriage maker who emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland in 1883. In 1901 the family moved to Dayton, Ohio, where his father became a contractor.
He played college football for three seasons at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio under Chester J. Roberts, George Rider and George Little and two seasons at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he became a third-team All-American. Following his graduation in 1920, Blaik served in the United States Cavalry for two years. After his military service, Blaik married and worked in the construction business with his father.
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George Steinbrenner
George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930 – July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. During Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership from 1973 to his death in July 2010, the longest in club history, the Yankees earned seven World Series titles and 11 pennants. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries made him one of the sport's most controversial figures. Steinbrenner was also involved in the Great Lakes shipping industry.
Known as a hands-on baseball executive, he earned the nickname "The Boss." He had a tendency to meddle in daily on-field decisions, and to hire and fire (and sometimes re-hire) managers. Former Yankees manager Dallas Green gave him the derisive nickname "Manager George."
He died after suffering a heart attack in his Tampa home on the morning of July 13, 2010, the day of the 81st All-Star Game.
Steinbrenner was born in Rocky River, Ohio, the only son of Rita (née Haley) and Henry George Steinbrenner II. His mother was an Irish immigrant who had changed her name from O'Haley to Haley. His father was of German descent and had been a world-class track and field hurdler while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in engineering in 1927, first in his class. The elder Steinbrenner later became a wealthy shipping magnate who ran the family firm operating freight ships hauling ore and grain on the Great Lakes. George III was named after his paternal grandfather, George Michael Steinbrenner II. Steinbrenner has two younger sisters, Susan and Judy.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College. Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as the Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, eight of them as the Republican Minority Leader.
As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over arguably the weakest economy since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's incumbency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. In 1976, Ford narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but lost the presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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Harold Alfond
Harold Alfond (March 6, 1914 – November 16, 2007) was an American businessman who founded the Dexter Shoe Company and established the first factory outlet store.
Alfond was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1914, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Simon and Rose Alfond. Harold, his brother, David, and four sisters, Anne, Bertha, Gladys and Grace grew up in Swampscott and attended Swampscott schools. In high school, Harold was an outstanding athlete and developed his passion for sports.
After graduating from high school in 1934, Alfond got a job at Kesslen Shoe Company in Kennebunk, Maine, where his father worked. In a short time, he rose from odd shoe boy to factory superintendent. In 1940, Alfond and his father bought a shoe factory in Norridgewock, Maine, and founded Norrwock Shoe Company. They sold the company to Shoe Corp. of America in 1943 and Alfond stayed on as president for 25 years.
In 1956, Alfond left, purchased an old woolen mill in Dexter, Maine and founded Dexter Shoe Company. There, he produced shoes for the private label catalog market, supplying stores such as Sears, JC Penney, Spiegel, and Montgomery Ward & Co.. Although Dexter was successful from the beginning, Alfond tired of being controlled by a few large customers and decided to go into the "branded" business.[citation needed] He developed a line of shoes under the Dexter name, hired a sales force and began selling to independent shoe stores across the country.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank. America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.
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Irving Azoff
Irving Azoff (born December 13, 1947) is an American personal manager, representing recording artists in the music industry such as Christina Aguilera, Journey, Jewel, the Eagles, X Japan, Bush, REO Speedwagon, Seal, David Archuleta, Alter Bridge, Van Halen, 30 Seconds to Mars, Neil Diamond, New Kids on the Block, Steely Dan and New Edition. Azoff is chairman and founder of Azoff Music Management Group, Inc. In late 2008, he became chairman and CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment. He is now Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment. He topped Billboard's 2012 Power 100 and was named the most powerful person in the music industry. Azoff is also currently on the board of Clear Channel Communications.
He began promoting and booking bands during his college years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked as an agent, personal manager, concert promoter, movie producer, independent record label owner, merchandiser, music publisher, and CEO of a record company. He moved to Los Angeles with his first clients, Joe Walsh and Dan Fogelberg. He then joined Geffen Roberts management where he began working with the Eagles. After David Geffen sold Asylum Records to Warner Music, the management company splintered and Azoff left with the Eagles as his own client.
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Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.
Before entering politics, Kemp was a professional quarterback for 13 years. He played briefly in the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL), but became a star in the American Football League (AFL). He served as captain of both the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills and earned the AFL Most Valuable Player award in 1965 after leading the Bills to a second consecutive championship. He played in the AFL for all 10 years of its existence, appeared in its All-Star game seven times, played in its championship game five times, and set many of the league's career passing records. Kemp also co-founded the AFL Players Association, for which he served five terms as president. During the early part of his football career, he served in the United States Army Reserve.
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Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. The example of his character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
In addition to his cultural impact, Robinson had an exceptional baseball career. Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Championship. He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. In 1997, Major League Baseball retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams.
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Jim Brown
James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. He is considered to be one of the greatest professional athletes the U.S. has ever produced.
James Nathaniel Brown was born to Theresa (a housekeeper) and Swinton Brown (a professional boxer).
At Manhasset Secondary School, Brown earned 13 letters playing football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball and running track. According to the New York Times:
Mr. Brown credits his self-reliance to having grown up on St. Simons's island, an all-black community off the coast of Georgia where he was raised by his grandmother and where racism did not affect him directly. At the age of 8 he moved to Manhasset, N.Y., where his mother worked as a domestic. It was at Manhasset High School that he became a football star and athletic legend.
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Jim Swink
Jim Swink (born March 14, 1936 in Sacul, Texas) is a former All-American halfback at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
Swink grew up in Rusk, Texas, which led to his nickname, "The Rusk Rambler". He is remembered as one of the all-time greatest running backs in Southwest Conference history, and led the Horned Frogs to consecutive conference championships in 1955 and 1956, which resulted in trips to the Cotton Bowl Classic.
While he was named an All-American as a junior and senior, his best season came as a junior in 1955. That year, he rushed for 1,283 yards, which was second-best in the nation, and led the country with 125 points scored. His best game came against rival Texas in Austin, when he rushed 15 times for 235 yards and scored 26 points in a 47-20 rout of the Longhorns. That year, he finished second to Howard Cassady of Ohio State in the voting for the Heisman Trophy.
After finishing his degree at TCU, he decided to forgo playing in the National Football League and instead went to medical school. In 1960 he joined the American Football League's Dallas Texans for their inaugural season. He later practiced medicine in Fort Worth as an orthopedic surgeon. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980, and in 1982 was presented with a Silver Anniversary Award by the NCAA for career achievements outside of football. In 2005, he was awarded the Doak Walker Legends award.
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Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (pronounced /pəˈtɜrnoʊ/; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), often referred to as "JoePa", was an American college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for nearly 46 years, from 1966 through 2011. At the time of his death he held the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football coach with 409 and was the only FBS coach to reach 400 victories. He coached five undefeated teams that won major bowl games and, in 2007, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. Despite his achievements as a coach, Paterno's career ended abruptly in 2011 after he was fired for his "failure of leadership" in the child sex abuse scandal surrounding his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Paterno was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Brown University, where he played football both as the quarterback and a cornerback. Originally planning to be a lawyer, he instead signed on as an assistant football coach at Penn State in 1950, persuaded by his college coach Rip Engle who had taken over as Penn State's head coach. Sixteen years later, in 1966, Paterno was named as Engle's successor. Before long, he had coached the team to two undefeated regular seasons in 1968 and 1969. He went on to win two national championships—in 1982 and again in 1986. In all, he led the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl appearances with 24 wins all while turning down offers to coach NFL teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots. Paterno became the winningest coach in Division I history on October 29, 2011.
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John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was combat aviator in the Marine Corps and one of the seven elite US military test pilots to be selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (more commonly referred to as "NASA") to test fly and operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft outside of the mesosphere at altitudes above 115 miles (185 km) and at speeds exceeding 5,000 miles per hour (8,000 km/h) to become the first officially recognized American (US) astronauts. He flew the Friendship 7 mission on February 20, 1962. In 1965, Glenn retired from the military and resigned from NASA so he could be eligible to stand for election to public office. As a member of the Democratic Party he was elected to represent Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999.
Glenn received a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. On October 29, 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on Discovery (STS-95). As of 2012, Glenn and M. Scott Carpenter are the last living members of the Mercury Seven.
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John McGillicuddy
John Francis McGillicuddy (December 30, 1930 – January 4, 2009) was an American banking industry executive who oversaw the merger between Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Chemical Bank in the early 1990s.
McGillicuddy played football for Harrison High School (New York) and then attended Princeton University on a football scholarship, playing defensive back on the college's undefeated football teams in 1950 and 1951. His roommate at Princeton was fellow football player Dick Kazmaier, who won the Heisman Trophy for 1951. John McGillicuddy later attended Harvard Law School and was hired by the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett after serving in the United States Navy.
He was hired by Manufacturers Trust Company in 1958. He was elected to serve as the bank's president in 1971 at age 40, making him one of the youngest people to run a major banking company, after his predecessor R. E. McNeil, Jr. announed that he would be stepping down.
During New York City's fiscal crisis during the 1970s, McGillicuddy helped organize the financial aid needed to bail out the city. He later played a key role in the late 1970s in the Bailout of Chrysler, working to organize the government loan guarantees that helped that company avoid bankruptcy.
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John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.
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Justin Whitlock Dart
Justin Whitlock Dart, Sr. (August 17, 1907 – January 26, 1984) was considered the "boy wonder" of the drug store industry. In college Dart had played football for Northwestern University.
After marrying Ruth Walgreen, Dart became an executive with his father-in-law's (Charles Walgreen) company, the Walgreens Drugstore chain. At Walgreens, he introduced the concept of placing the pharmacy counter at the back of the drug store, which not only provided privacy for medical concerns, but forced patrons to walk past many items for possible purchase.
Dart divorced his first wife, Ruth Walgreen, and left the Walgreen company shortly after. In 1943, Dart took control of the Boston-based United Drug Company. The chain operated under the Ligget, Owl, Sonta, and Rexall brands. Soon, Dart rebranded the stores under the Rexall name.
After 35 years, Dart sold his stake in Rexall in 1978. During these years, Dart had acquired stakes in Avon, West Bend Housewares, Duracell, Ralph Wilson Plastics, Archer Glass and Hobart, which were collectively known as Dart Industries.
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Keith Jackson
Keith Jackson (born October 18, 1928) is an American former sportscaster, known for his long career with ABC Sports (1966–2006), his coverage of college football (1952–2006), his style of folksy, down-to-earth commentary, and his distinctive voice, with its deep cadence, and operatic tone considered "like Edward R. Murrow reporting on World War II, the voice of ultimate authority in college football."
Keith Jackson was born on October 18, 1928 and grew up on a farm outside Carrollton, Georgia, near the Georgia-Alabama state line. The only surviving child in a poor family, he grew up listening to sports on the radio. After enlisting and serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he attended Washington State University under the G.I. Bill. Jackson began as a political science major, but he became interested in broadcasting. He graduated in 1954 with a degree in Speech Communications.
Though best known for his college football broadcasts, Jackson announced numerous other sports for ABC throughout his career, including Major League Baseball, NBA basketball, boxing, auto racing, PGA Tour golf, the USFL, and the Olympic Games. He briefly worked college basketball with Dick Vitale. Jackson also served as the pregame/halftime/postgame anchor for ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII in 1988. During his onair tenure he is credited with nicknaming the Rose Bowl as "The Grandaddy of them All" and Michigan Stadium as "The Big House".
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Lowry Mays
Lester Lowry Mays (born 24 July 1935) is the founder and current chairman of Clear Channel Communications.
Lester Lowry Mays was born on July 24, 1935 in Harris County, Texas, USA to Lester T. Mays and Mary Virginia Lowry. Mays attended the A&M College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), where he received a B.S. in petroleum engineering. After his 1957 graduation from Texas A&M, Mays joined the Air Force, where he served as an officer. Upon his discharge from the Air Force, Mays earned an MBA from Harvard University. He became an investment banker, rising to Vice President of Corporate Finance during his ten years at Russ & Company.
In 1972 Mays founded the San Antonio Broadcasting Company, which became Clear Channel Communications. The company purchased its first radio station, KEEZ-FM in San Antonio in 1972. He and his business partner Red McCombs bought a second San Antonio Station, WOAI in 1975. This station was considered a "clear channel" station because no other station operated on its frequency and its 50,000 watt signal could be heard hundreds or even thousands of miles away on a clear night. Over the next several years, the company bought ten more struggling radio stations and turned them profitable, usually by switching their formats to religious or talk programming. The company went public in 1984. In 1988, they bought their first television station.
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Max Winter
Max Winter (1903 – July 26, 1996) was a Minneapolis businessman and sport executive. Winter was born in Austria-Hungary and his family emigrated to the United States in 1913 and settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Winter graduated from high school in 1922. He attended Hamline University on a basketball scholarship.
In 1933, Winter opened The 620 Club with his brother Henry and boxing manager/promoter Ernie Fliegel as equal partners. Located at 620 Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis, the restaurant specialized in turkey and by the late 1950s was selling more of it than any other eatery in the United States. The club closed in 1965.
In 1947, Winter became part owner with Ben Berger, Sid Hartman, and Morris Chalfin and assumed the general manager duties of the new Minneapolis Lakers in the National Basketball League. By the mid 1950s, Winter was interested in attracting a pro football team to Minneapolis. He attempted to get an expansion team in the National Football League, when that failed Winter and his partners joined with the newly created American Football League in the fall of 1959. By 1960, with creation of the AFL, the NFL decided to expand to both Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Winter and his group pulled out of the AFL and received an NFL expansion team that began in the 1961 season. The team was named the Minnesota Vikings in September 1960.
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Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was a coach in American football and a major figure in the development of the National Football League. A seminal figure in the game's history, Brown is considered the "father of the modern offense", and one of the greatest football coaches of all time, achieving success at every major level—high school, college, and professional—and introducing numerous innovative coaching methods still in use today. He is also credited with founding both the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals franchises, with the former named after him and the latter naming their stadium in his honor.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Brown's family moved to Walshingham when he was nine. His father, Lester, a dispatcher for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, was described as "very meticulous, serious-minded and highly-disciplined," all of which characterized Brown's later approach to coaching. Brown graduated from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio in 1925, having played varsity quarterback in the wake of Harry Stuhldreher (one of Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen).
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Pete Dawkins
Peter Miller Dawkins (born March 8, 1938) is a Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Army Brigadier General, and Republican candidate for Senate. He is the former vice chairman of Citigroup Private Bank.
At age 11, he was successfully treated for polio with aggressive physical therapy. After earning a scholarship, Dawkins entered Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. There he was an all-league quarterback, and captain of the baseball team. He graduated from Cranbrook in the class of 1955 and was accepted for admission by two major institutions of higher learning.
Accepted by Yale University, Dawkins chose instead to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point. He won high honors, serving as Brigade Commander, President of his Class, Captain of the football team, and a "Star Man" in the top five percent of his class academically. A cadet is considered outstanding if he attains one of these positions. Dawkins was the only cadet in history to hold all four at once. He was featured in Life Magazine and Reader's Digest. Even before his graduation, many predicted the bright young man would make General and perhaps even be Army Chief of Staff. Dawkins was selected for the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award as a halfback for Army in 1958, and an All American under coach Earl Blaik. He was also an Assistant Captain for the hockey team. At Oxford, he won three Blues in rugby and is credited with popularizing the overarm throw (originally called the "Yankee torpedo pass") into the lineout.
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Peter Holt
Peter M. Holt (born July 26, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is a businessman. He is the CEO of Holt Cat, the largest Caterpillar dealership in the United States and chairman, CEO, and owner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which owns the 4-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, the WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars, the AHL's San Antonio Rampage, and the NBA Development League's Austin Toros.
Peter Holt is the great-grandson of Benjamin Holt, who developed the first practical track-type tractor 100 years ago. The Holt family’s history in San Antonio, Texas began in 1933, when Peter’s great uncle, William K. "Bill" Holt, moved to San Antonio to start a Caterpillar dealership. He had no heirs, so Bill invited B.D. Holt (Peter’s father) to get involved in the business. In 1961, B.D. Holt moved to Corpus Christi, Texas and started his own Caterpillar dealership.
Peter Holt, a Peoria, Illinois native, lived in San Antonio as a child before moving to Corpus Christi. After high school in Corpus Christi, Peter Holt went into the United States Army, serving two years, including a one-year tour of duty as an infantryman in Vietnam. He ended his military duty as a Sergeant (E5) with a Silver Star and three Bronze Star Medals for Valor and a Purple Heart for wounds received.
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Phil Knight
Philip Hampson "Phil" Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American business magnate. A native of Oregon, he is the co-founder and chairman of Nike, Inc., and previously served as the chief executive officer of Nike. By 2011, Knight's stake in Nike gave him an estimated net worth of US$14.4 billion, making him the 47th richest person in the world and the 19th richest American.
A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business, he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the schools; Knight gave the largest donation in history at the time to Stanford's business school in 2006. A native Oregonian, he ran track under coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, with whom he would co-found Nike.
Phil Knight is the son of "a lawyer turned newspaper publisher", William W. Knight, and his wife Lota (Hatfield) Knight. Growing up in the Portland neighborhood of Eastmoreland, he attended Cleveland High School in Portland. According to one source, "When his father refused to give him a summer job at his newspaper [the Oregon Journal], believing that his son should find work on his own, Buck went to the rival Oregonian, where he worked the night shift tabulating sports scores and every morning ran home the full seven miles."
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Red McCombs
Billy Joe "Red" McCombs (born 1927) is the founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group in San Antonio, Texas, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Vikings, and the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He was named one of Forbes magazine's top 400 richest Americans in 2005.
In 2012, the San Antonio Express-News reported McCombs' net worth at $1.4 billion. He was ranked the 913th richest man in the world. Two other San Antonio men, Charles Butt of the H-E-B supermarket chain and Rodney Lewis, a natural gas driller, were placed above McCombs on the list.
McCombs was born in 1927 in Spur, Texas. His nickname "Red" comes from his hair color. He briefly attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he played football (lineman and receiver) before serving in the United States Army in 1946 and 1947. After completing his Army stint, McCombs enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, attending the business school and law school. While at the University of Texas, McCombs was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He married his wife, the former Charline Hamblin in 1950. In the early 1950s, McCombs sold cars at George Jones Ford in Corpus Christi, leaving college to do so. In 1958, he and his fellow salesman, Austin Hemphill, moved to San Antonio to create Hemphill-McCombs Ford, which was the foundation for what ultimately became the Red McCombs Automotive Group.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate work at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937, and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife, Pat Nixon, moved to Washington to work for the federal government in 1942. He subsequently served in the United States Navy during World War II. Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist, and elevated him to national prominence. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1952 election. Nixon served for eight years as vice president. He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and lost a race for Governor of California in 1962. In 1968, he ran again for the presidency and was elected.
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Roger Staubach
Roger Thomas Staubach (born February 5, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Hall of Fame former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969 until 1979. Staubach was instrumental in developing the Cowboys into becoming one of the best teams of the 1970s and led the team to nine of the Cowboys' record-setting twenty consecutive winning seasons. Staubach led the Cowboys to their first Super Bowl victory and as a result he was named MVP in Super Bowl VI. Staubach was described by legendary Cowboys head coach Tom Landry as "possibly the best combination of a passer, an athlete and a leader to ever play in the NFL."
Staubach first achieved national attention when he was named the starting quarterback of the Navy football team in 1962. He was hailed by Navy coach Wayne Hardin as "the greatest quarterback Navy ever had." He helmed the team for three seasons, leading the Midshipmen to two victories in the Army–Navy Game and an appearance in the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic. In addition to earning the Heisman trophy by the seventh largest point margin, Staubach was elected to the College Hall of Fame in 1981.
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Ron Kramer
Ronald J. Kramer (June 24, 1935 – September 11, 2010) was a multi-sport college athlete and professional American football player. Before embarking on a career in the National Football League, he lettered in football, basketball, and track at the University of Michigan in the 1950s. Playing at end for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1954 to 1956, Kramer was a three-time All-American. Following his days at Michigan, Kramer was selected in the first round of the 1957 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. He played for the Packers for seven seasons (1957, 1959–1964) and three more with the Detroit Lions (1965–1967). Kramer was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978. His football jersey number at Michigan (#87) was retired upon his graduation.
Kramer began his sports career playing for East Detroit High School in Eastpointe, Michigan. In the tradition of Michigan athletes, he is considered to be ranked among the best. A three-sport athlete (football, basketball and track), Kramer led both the football and basketball teams in scoring for two years. Altogether, Kramer won a total of nine varsity letters in his three sports—the maximum number possible, as freshmen did not have athletic eligibility at the time.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (
/ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
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Tommy Franks
Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945) is a retired general in the United States Army. His last Army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on 6 July 2000 and served until his retirement on 7 July 2003.
Franks was the U.S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001. He also led the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Born Tommy Ray Bentley in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and adopted by Ray and Lorene "Pete" Parker Franks, Tommy Franks graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas one year ahead of First Lady Laura Bush. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he was a brother of Delta Upsilon International Fraternity. He dropped out of college after two years due to subpar grades and lack of motivation. Franks decided to give himself a "jolt" and joined the United States Army, reportedly nursing a hangover while at the local recruiter's office.
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Zygi Wilf
Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf (born April 22, 1950) is the principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.
Zygi Wilf was born in Germany on April 22, 1950. His parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf, are both Holocaust survivors from Poland. The Wilf family immigrated to the United States from Europe in the early 1950s and settled in Hillside, New Jersey. After a brief stint as used car salesmen, Joseph and his brother Harry Wilf began purchasing apartment buildings and renting units. Eventually, the brothers began building single-family homes and founded Garden Homes. A successful real estate developer, his two main family-run businesses, Garden Homes and Garden Commercial Properties, have constructed some 25,000 homes in 39 states across the country since 1955; the two entities and their affiliates own and manage 25,000,000 square feet (2,300,000 m2) in retail and business property.
Zygi Wilf attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, earning a bachelor's degree in economics in 1971, and later graduated from New York Law School in Manhattan. He also received a honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson's 69th Commencement Ceremony in May 2012.
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Famous quotes by Red McCombs:
"and at that time we'll sit down and discuss whether or not Mike wants to work out an extension. If he [loses the rest of his games], I'm still going to exercise the option. Mike is going to stay with me as long as he wants to."
"At this point, I don't see relocation as a viable alternative, because the league has said, 'You've got to make it work [in Minnesota].' The league knows I'd be very happy to be in L.A., but I'd also like to be here with a new stadium."
"You've humiliated all suite attendants with your performance tonight!"
"I damn sure wish it hadn't happened until the season was over. He's under contract with us and he's obligated to us. Right now, everyone's saying the right things. We'll just see how it works out. The bottom line is we don't know."
"Let's face it. I would love to be in L.A.,"
"It's a bit disingenuous to tell somebody in the middle of June that one of the reasons they purchased the club was the organization and the roster and everything that had been put in place. Then, when they get to be 1-4 and have a few bumps in the road, say the former owner was at fault. I don't want to get into a kicking match with Mr. Wilf. I never have kicked him, and I would appreciate it if he didn't kick me."
"I don't know what Mr. Wilf has been smoking,"
"I don't see them as an obstacle. I see them as a plus, ... I know that can change. And he doesn't always prevail. You've got to get 23 votes, and Mr. Tagliabue doesn't vote."
"It's unfortunate that it took these circumstance to get these games over here, but it will show San Antonio is ready for a team."
"It looks a little better every day."
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Red McCombs Tribute Video 2011
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The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce produced and played this at the 2011 Pathfinder luncheon on June 8. It really captured some great moments in Red'...
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The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce produced and played this at the 2011 Pathfinder luncheon on June 8. It really captured some great moments in Red'...
Red McCombs interview Part 1
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Red McCombs interview Part 1.
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LHN - TX Football - All Access: Red McCombs Ranch
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LHN gets an inside look at the Texas Football team as they join Red McCombs on his ranch for BBQ and fishing.
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LHN gets an inside look at the Texas Football team as they join Red McCombs on his ranch for BBQ and fishing.
- published: 06 Sep 2012
- views: 6080
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RISE 2010 - Red McCombs
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Red McCombs Keynote.
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Red McCombs, Distinguished Alumnus, discusses why he gives to UT Austin
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The legendary businessman and donor to The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on how giving has changed the business school and his life.
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The legendary businessman and donor to The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on how giving has changed the business school and his life.
- published: 31 May 2011
- views: 166
- author: HookedonTexas
LHN - Special - All In
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Tomorrow, they will RISE. Narrated by Red McCombs.
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Tomorrow, they will RISE. Narrated by Red McCombs.
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 13059
- author: longhornnetwork
Red McCombs Toyota Employee Spotlight!
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Red McCombs Toyota Employee Spotlight! Anselmo "Mo" Rivera, has been an employee off and on at Red McCombs Toyota since 1989. Mo, is ready to help you find y...
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Red McCombs Toyota Employee Spotlight! Anselmo "Mo" Rivera, has been an employee off and on at Red McCombs Toyota since 1989. Mo, is ready to help you find y...
- published: 02 Oct 2012
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Why Should You Choose Red McCombs Superior Hyundai?
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Why should you buy a car from our dealership? Let us tell you!
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Why should you buy a car from our dealership? Let us tell you!
- published: 07 Aug 2012
- views: 76
- author: pjmarkkim
Red McCombs interview 2
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- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 05 Mar 2013
Red McCombs interview 2.
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Red McCombs Ford #1.mpg
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General Manager Shawn Berry and Sales Managers Alex Lynd, Chris Siniff, Chad Bowman, Bitz Dauer, and Mike Barraza Dressed like Cheerleaders to Win the Spirit...
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General Manager Shawn Berry and Sales Managers Alex Lynd, Chris Siniff, Chad Bowman, Bitz Dauer, and Mike Barraza Dressed like Cheerleaders to Win the Spirit...
- published: 03 May 2011
- views: 210
- author: markgredmac
Red McCombs - Motivational Speech 2012
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Red McCombs speech to the University of Texas football team when they visited the Red McCombs ranch. Set to the sights of the game vs Baylor (Oct 20, 2012) A...
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Red McCombs speech to the University of Texas football team when they visited the Red McCombs ranch. Set to the sights of the game vs Baylor (Oct 20, 2012) A...
- published: 21 Oct 2012
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Red McCombs Scion Austin Heatwave (fireman style)
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Red McCombs Scion Austin Heatwave.
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Red McCombs Gala - Herb Kelleher speaks
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 was a historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebra...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 was a historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebra...
- published: 25 Apr 2011
- views: 97
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
Red McCombs Toyota 2013 Avalon Walk Around!
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- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
Presenting the 2013 Toyota Hybrid Avalon! Rudy, Rickie, and Corey give you a walk around of the 2013 Toyota Hybrid Avalon. They each point out their favorite...
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Presenting the 2013 Toyota Hybrid Avalon! Rudy, Rickie, and Corey give you a walk around of the 2013 Toyota Hybrid Avalon. They each point out their favorite...
- published: 01 Feb 2013
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Red McCombs addresses Subiendo Students
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Red McCombs, founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nugge...
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Red McCombs, founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nugge...
- published: 22 Aug 2011
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Red McCombs Toyota Pick Your Payment - Tel-Edge Advertising
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- published: 16 Dec 2009
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Red McCombs Gala - Tribute
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- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 28 Apr 2011
Thursday, May 13, 2010 was an historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebr...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 was an historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebr...
- published: 28 Apr 2011
- views: 69
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
Red McCombs Gala - Don Evans
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- Duration: 12:04
- Updated: 29 Sep 2011
Thursday, May 13, 2010 was an historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebr...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 was an historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebr...
- published: 28 Apr 2011
- views: 30
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
Red McCombs Ford
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
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- published: 24 Jun 2012
- views: 27
- author: lwstunts
GivingCity Austin interviews Red McCombs
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- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 02 Dec 2010
Noted philanthropist, Red McCombs, was honored at the May 16, 2009, grand opening celebration of the YMBL's newest Sunshine Camp facility. McCombs describes ...
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Noted philanthropist, Red McCombs, was honored at the May 16, 2009, grand opening celebration of the YMBL's newest Sunshine Camp facility. McCombs describes ...
- published: 20 May 2009
- views: 273
- author: GivingCityAustin
Red McCombs Toyota-Red
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- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
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- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 24
- author: massmediamktg
Red McCombs Toyota- Nationwide Clearance Event
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- Duration: 0:33
- Updated: 04 Aug 2012
Red McCombs Toyota's Tundra Special-- Buy any New Toyota Tundra and receive 0%APR for 72 Months! Click, Surf, Buy Now at http://redmccombstoyota.com/ Red McC...
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Red McCombs Toyota's Tundra Special-- Buy any New Toyota Tundra and receive 0%APR for 72 Months! Click, Surf, Buy Now at http://redmccombstoyota.com/ Red McC...
- published: 04 Aug 2012
- views: 53
- author: RedMcCombsToyota
Community Conversations: Red McCombs
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- Duration: 50:05
- Updated: 04 Mar 2013
A conversation with B.J. "Red" McCombs, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, St. Mary's University Red McCombs is an esteemed entrepreneur with successful ventures in au...
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A conversation with B.J. "Red" McCombs, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, St. Mary's University Red McCombs is an esteemed entrepreneur with successful ventures in au...
- published: 04 Mar 2013
- views: 3
- author: stmarysrattlers
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Red McCombs interview Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:55
- Updated: 05 Mar 2013
Red McCombs interview Part 1.
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Red McCombs Tribute Video 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 07 Sep 2012
The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce produced and played this at the 2011 Pathfinder luncheon on June 8. It really captured some great moments in Red'...
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The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce produced and played this at the 2011 Pathfinder luncheon on June 8. It really captured some great moments in Red'...
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 168
- author: rbridgs1
RISE 2010 - Red McCombs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:07
- Updated: 07 Jan 2011
Red McCombs Keynote.
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LHN - TX Football - All Access: Red McCombs Ranch
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:50
- Updated: 22 Feb 2013
LHN gets an inside look at the Texas Football team as they join Red McCombs on his ranch for BBQ and fishing.
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LHN gets an inside look at the Texas Football team as they join Red McCombs on his ranch for BBQ and fishing.
- published: 06 Sep 2012
- views: 6080
- author: longhornnetwork
Red McCombs, Distinguished Alumnus, discusses why he gives to UT Austin
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 31 May 2011
The legendary businessman and donor to The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on how giving has changed the business school and his life.
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The legendary businessman and donor to The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on how giving has changed the business school and his life.
- published: 31 May 2011
- views: 166
- author: HookedonTexas
Red McCombs interview 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 05 Mar 2013
Red McCombs interview 2.
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GivingCity Austin interviews Red McCombs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 02 Dec 2010
Noted philanthropist, Red McCombs, was honored at the May 16, 2009, grand opening celebration of the YMBL's newest Sunshine Camp facility. McCombs describes ...
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Noted philanthropist, Red McCombs, was honored at the May 16, 2009, grand opening celebration of the YMBL's newest Sunshine Camp facility. McCombs describes ...
- published: 20 May 2009
- views: 273
- author: GivingCityAustin
Red McCombs interview Part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:02
- Updated: 05 Mar 2013
Red McCombs interview Part 3.
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McCombs invests, F1 site revealed - 6 pm News
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 05 Mar 2013
The new Formula One racetrack planned for Austin is backed by Red McCombs.
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The new Formula One racetrack planned for Austin is backed by Red McCombs.
- published: 27 Jul 2010
- views: 424
- author: kxan
LHN - Special - All In
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- Duration: 1:19
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
Tomorrow, they will RISE. Narrated by Red McCombs.
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Tomorrow, they will RISE. Narrated by Red McCombs.
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 13059
- author: longhornnetwork
Red McCombs Ford Truck Month - Tel-Edge Advertising
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 22 Aug 2010
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- published: 16 Dec 2009
- views: 649
- author: TELEDGEADVERTISING
Access McCombs: Counter-Interviewing Dean Gilligan
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 08 Mar 2011
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ Texas entrepreneur and philanthropist Red McCombs turns the tables and interviews Dean Tom Gilligan of the McCombs School of B...
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http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ Texas entrepreneur and philanthropist Red McCombs turns the tables and interviews Dean Tom Gilligan of the McCombs School of B...
- published: 24 Apr 2009
- views: 179
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
Red McCombs YouTube
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
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- published: 06 Dec 2011
- views: 16
- author: McCombsPTRS
Red McCombs Gala - Introduction
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- Duration: 1:06
- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
Red McCombs was the guest of honor at a gala held May 13, 2011 to mark the 10th anniversary of his $50 million gift to the school. More than 340 alumni and f...
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Red McCombs was the guest of honor at a gala held May 13, 2011 to mark the 10th anniversary of his $50 million gift to the school. More than 340 alumni and f...
- published: 25 Apr 2011
- views: 46
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
Red McCombs Congratulates Carolyn Farb
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 20 Aug 2010
Red McCombs congratulates Carolyn Farb on her induction to the Philanthropy World Hall of Fame.
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Red McCombs congratulates Carolyn Farb on her induction to the Philanthropy World Hall of Fame.
- published: 12 Aug 2008
- views: 305
- author: Carolyn Farb
Red McCombs Scion Austin Heatwave (fireman style)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
Red McCombs Scion Austin Heatwave.
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Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:06
- Updated: 23 Apr 2010
Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns.
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Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns.
- published: 14 Apr 2010
- views: 85
- author: pkhallin
Red McCombs Ford.mpg
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 03 May 2011
Before anyone could announce a winner we proclamed victory!!!!
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Before anyone could announce a winner we proclamed victory!!!!
- published: 03 May 2011
- views: 29
- author: markgredmac
Red McCombs Gala - Red McCombs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:07
- Updated: 28 Apr 2011
Thursday, May 13, 2010 was an historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebr...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 was an historic day for the McCombs School of Business as Dean Tom Gilligan, alumni and friends honored Red McCombs with a gala celebr...
- published: 28 Apr 2011
- views: 31
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
LHN - McCombs School of Business Venture Expo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 08 Nov 2012
The McCombs School of Business' Venture Expo allows UT grad students the opportunity to work with real companies on real problems. This valuable experience i...
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The McCombs School of Business' Venture Expo allows UT grad students the opportunity to work with real companies on real problems. This valuable experience i...
- published: 08 Nov 2012
- views: 141
- author: utaustintexas
Red McCombs Toyota Pick Your Payment - Tel-Edge Advertising
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
Red mccombs interview Part 1by kxan 573 views; 319. Watch Later The Auto Warehouse Chicago Second Hand Cars Automobile Loan Bad Credit Car Calculatorby autowarehousechicago 544 views; 155. Watch Later Con Red mccombs Toyota vamos a hablar en tu idiomaby Mayela Gonzalez 540 views; 031. Watch Later Red mccombs Ford Truck Month TelEdge Advertisingby TELEDGEADVERTISING 612 views; 739. Watch Later thehossusmc TSHIRTS Limited Runby thehossusmc 1305 views; 254 ...
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Red mccombs interview Part 1by kxan 573 views; 319. Watch Later The Auto Warehouse Chicago Second Hand Cars Automobile Loan Bad Credit Car Calculatorby autowarehousechicago 544 views; 155. Watch Later Con Red mccombs Toyota vamos a hablar en tu idiomaby Mayela Gonzalez 540 views; 031. Watch Later Red mccombs Ford Truck Month TelEdge Advertisingby TELEDGEADVERTISING 612 views; 739. Watch Later thehossusmc TSHIRTS Limited Runby thehossusmc 1305 views; 254 ...
- published: 16 Dec 2009
- views: 2179
- author: TELEDGEADVERTISING
Red McCombs Toyota Employee Spotlight!
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- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Red McCombs Toyota Employee Spotlight! Anselmo "Mo" Rivera, has been an employee off and on at Red McCombs Toyota since 1989. Mo, is ready to help you find y...
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Red McCombs Toyota Employee Spotlight! Anselmo "Mo" Rivera, has been an employee off and on at Red McCombs Toyota since 1989. Mo, is ready to help you find y...
- published: 02 Oct 2012
- views: 52
- author: RedMcCombsToyota
Red McCombs Ford - Dan Osborne
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:28
- Updated: 25 Aug 2010
Red McCombs Ford Automotive Dealership in San Antonio Texas presents Dan Osborne, a member of the Internet Team.
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Red McCombs Ford Automotive Dealership in San Antonio Texas presents Dan Osborne, a member of the Internet Team.
- published: 24 Sep 2009
- views: 271
- author: lh3021
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Red McCombs Tribute Video 2011
The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce produced and played this at the 2011 Pathfinde...
published: 06 Jul 2011
author: rbridgs1
Red McCombs Tribute Video 2011
The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce produced and played this at the 2011 Pathfinder luncheon on June 8. It really captured some great moments in Red'...
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 168
- author: rbridgs1
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RISE 2010 - Red McCombs
Red McCombs Keynote....
published: 07 Jan 2011
author: RISEGlobalOrg
RISE 2010 - Red McCombs
Red McCombs Keynote.
- published: 07 Jan 2011
- views: 117
- author: RISEGlobalOrg
7:50
LHN - TX Football - All Access: Red McCombs Ranch
LHN gets an inside look at the Texas Football team as they join Red McCombs on his ranch f...
published: 06 Sep 2012
author: longhornnetwork
LHN - TX Football - All Access: Red McCombs Ranch
LHN gets an inside look at the Texas Football team as they join Red McCombs on his ranch for BBQ and fishing.
- published: 06 Sep 2012
- views: 6080
- author: longhornnetwork
1:39
Red McCombs, Distinguished Alumnus, discusses why he gives to UT Austin
The legendary businessman and donor to The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on how...
published: 31 May 2011
author: HookedonTexas
Red McCombs, Distinguished Alumnus, discusses why he gives to UT Austin
The legendary businessman and donor to The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on how giving has changed the business school and his life.
- published: 31 May 2011
- views: 166
- author: HookedonTexas
2:11
GivingCity Austin interviews Red McCombs
Noted philanthropist, Red McCombs, was honored at the May 16, 2009, grand opening celebrat...
published: 20 May 2009
author: GivingCityAustin
GivingCity Austin interviews Red McCombs
Noted philanthropist, Red McCombs, was honored at the May 16, 2009, grand opening celebration of the YMBL's newest Sunshine Camp facility. McCombs describes ...
- published: 20 May 2009
- views: 273
- author: GivingCityAustin
2:52
McCombs invests, F1 site revealed - 6 pm News
The new Formula One racetrack planned for Austin is backed by Red McCombs....
published: 27 Jul 2010
author: kxan
McCombs invests, F1 site revealed - 6 pm News
The new Formula One racetrack planned for Austin is backed by Red McCombs.
- published: 27 Jul 2010
- views: 424
- author: kxan
1:19
LHN - Special - All In
Tomorrow, they will RISE. Narrated by Red McCombs....
published: 31 Aug 2012
author: longhornnetwork
LHN - Special - All In
Tomorrow, they will RISE. Narrated by Red McCombs.
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 13059
- author: longhornnetwork
0:31
Red McCombs Ford Truck Month - Tel-Edge Advertising
031. Kinsel Ford Truck Month Commercialby kinselfordlincoln 484 views. 1055. First Gear Tr...
published: 16 Dec 2009
author: TELEDGEADVERTISING
Red McCombs Ford Truck Month - Tel-Edge Advertising
031. Kinsel Ford Truck Month Commercialby kinselfordlincoln 484 views. 1055. First Gear TrucksREAD DESCRIPTIONby curottocanmaster82 14528744 views. 101. Ford Truck Monthby castruccialexandria 741 views. 211. givingcity Austin interviews Red mccombsby givingcityaustin 269 views. 1340. Desert Proofing the Ford Raptor Dirt Every Day Episode 2by motortrend 94797 views. 026. Dodge Truck Monthby tracyjamesstephens 473 views. 359. Red mccombs Ford1mpgby markgredmac 201 views ...
- published: 16 Dec 2009
- views: 649
- author: TELEDGEADVERTISING
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Access McCombs: Counter-Interviewing Dean Gilligan
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ Texas entrepreneur and philanthropist Red McCombs turns the...
published: 24 Apr 2009
author: UTMcCombsSchool
Access McCombs: Counter-Interviewing Dean Gilligan
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ Texas entrepreneur and philanthropist Red McCombs turns the tables and interviews Dean Tom Gilligan of the McCombs School of B...
- published: 24 Apr 2009
- views: 179
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
2:21
Red McCombs YouTube
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published: 06 Dec 2011
author: McCombsPTRS
Red McCombs YouTube
Watch Later Propel Tax 15Bby mccombsptrs5 views · Red mccombs interview Part 3 902. Watch Later Red mccombs interview Part 3by kxan127 views · Red mccombs interview 2 912. Watch Later Red mccombs interview 2by kxan183 views · Red mccombs interview Part 1 855. Watch Later Red mccombs interview Part 1by kxan537 views · Red mccombs Story Vid ... CHARLES BUTT AND RED MCCOMBS Come to the Rescueby icsanantonio196 views · givingcity Austin interviews Red mccombs 211 ...
- published: 06 Dec 2011
- views: 16
- author: McCombsPTRS
1:06
Red McCombs Gala - Introduction
Red McCombs was the guest of honor at a gala held May 13, 2011 to mark the 10th anniversar...
published: 25 Apr 2011
author: UTMcCombsSchool
Red McCombs Gala - Introduction
Red McCombs was the guest of honor at a gala held May 13, 2011 to mark the 10th anniversary of his $50 million gift to the school. More than 340 alumni and f...
- published: 25 Apr 2011
- views: 46
- author: UTMcCombsSchool
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Make 'Mime' A Red Bull
A short 3D animation created for the Red Bull Canimation Competition 2011. It stars a litt...
published: 15 Nov 2011
author: Steven McCombe
Make 'Mime' A Red Bull
A short 3D animation created for the Red Bull Canimation Competition 2011. It stars a little mime artist who discovers the wonders of Red Bull. Made with love, tears and not much sleep! Many thanks to Sian Lindsay for the voiceover.
Please visit the film on the official Red Bull Canimation site and leave me a 'like' and a comment too! Many many thanks
http://canimation.redbull.co.uk/gallery#32170753
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Don Strange-Red McCombs
Don Strange of Texas, Inc. is a full service catering company, specializing in authentic a...
published: 02 May 2011
author: Mark Thomas Films
Don Strange-Red McCombs
Don Strange of Texas, Inc. is a full service catering company, specializing in authentic and original Texas cuisine. Big or small, formal or casual, we are committed to delivering a unique and unforgettable dining and entertainment experience.
With over 58 years of experience in off-premise catering, out team will help you find the perfect location and do everything necessary to create a unique event. Whether entertaining 20 friends for a special occasion, 2,000 for a convention, planning a wedding or a company picnic, we will lead you through every step to assure a wonderful experience.
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Highlight - McComb at Arlington
Highlights: Panthers vs Red Devils...
published: 17 Dec 2011
author: WOSN
Highlight - McComb at Arlington
Highlights: Panthers vs Red Devils
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Highlight - Arlington vs McComb
Highlights: Red Devils take on the Panthers...
published: 07 Mar 2012
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Highlight - Arlington vs McComb
Highlights: Red Devils take on the Panthers
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Red McCombs Congratulates Carolyn Farb
Red McCombs congratulates Carolyn Farb on her induction to the Philanthropy World Hall of ...
published: 12 Aug 2008
author: Carolyn Farb
Red McCombs Congratulates Carolyn Farb
Red McCombs congratulates Carolyn Farb on her induction to the Philanthropy World Hall of Fame.
- published: 12 Aug 2008
- views: 305
- author: Carolyn Farb
5:06
Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns
Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns....
published: 14 Apr 2010
author: pkhallin
Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns
Red McCombs Talks Philanthropy and Importance of Participation in Giving Campaigns.
- published: 14 Apr 2010
- views: 85
- author: pkhallin
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Red McCombs Ford.mpg
Before anyone could announce a winner we proclamed victory!!!!...
published: 03 May 2011
author: markgredmac
Red McCombs Ford.mpg
Before anyone could announce a winner we proclamed victory!!!!
- published: 03 May 2011
- views: 29
- author: markgredmac
photo: AP / Aaron Favila
05 Mar 2013
Manila. Members of a major Philippine Muslim rebel force who were meant to have disarmed in the 1990s as part of a peace pact are involved in deadly battles in Malaysia, the group’s leader said on Tuesday. Nur Misuari, who founded the Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1960s, confirmed “freedom fighters” from his group were part of the militia sent by a self-proclaimed sultan to claim the Malaysian state of Sabah....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: US Army / Edward N. Johnson
06 Mar 2013
North Korea has threatened to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean War, citing a US-led push for punishing UN sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing US-South Korean joint military drills. The threat came on Tuesday as the United States, with Chinese backing, introduced a draft UN resolution to punish North Korea for its nuclear test on February 12 ... 415 Source.. Agencies. Share. Send Feedback ... China ... News ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)
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06 Mar 2013
6 March 2013 –. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged an end to violence and encouraged dialogue among all parties to peacefully resolve the situation in Sabah, Malaysia ... Mr ... News Tracker. past stories on this issue ... Source....(size: 1.3Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysian security forces attacked a group of armed Filipinos early Tuesday to end the group's three-week occupation of a Borneo village, the prime minister said after the siege turned violent and became Malaysia's biggest security crisis in years ... The Philippine government asked Malaysia on Monday to exercise maximum tolerance to avoid further bloodshed ... 9 ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
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06 Mar 2013
Zeenews Bureau. London. Along with the Latin Americans, the world on Wednesday mourned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died of cancer at the age of 58. And many leaders from around the world sent their condolences. After Chavez’s demise, according to leading news agencies, the United States of America is now focused on hopes of new ties with Venezuela. Chavez was seen as a hero by some for his socialist programs, his anti-U.S ... ... ....(size: 7.8Kb)
Business Journal
06 Mar 2013
W. Scott Bailey Reporter/Project Coordinator- San Antonio Business Journal Email . Twitter. Circuit of the Americas is renaming its new 14,000-seat amphitheater ... The live music venue will now be called the Austin360 Amphitheater. It’s part of the Circuit of the Americas motorsport development, located in Southeast Austin. San Antonio businessman Red McCombs is the lead investor in the Circuit of the Americas development ... W ... ....(size: 7.1Kb)
my SA
05 Mar 2013
Early Monday, it looked like Graham Weston, co-founder and chairman of Rackspace Hosting Inc., again had been locked out of the billionaires club. Forbes magazine posted its latest list of the world's billionaires online Monday, which included six San Antonians. Weston, who celebrated his birthday Monday, wasn't one of them. Until he was ... 360 — that the magazine released in September ... 418 ... 960 a year ago ... “Red” McCombs, 85, is ranked No....(size: 3.3Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
Early Monday, it looked like Graham Weston, co-founder and chairman of Rackspace Hosting Inc., again had been locked out of the billionaires club. Forbes magazine posted its latest list of the world's billionaires online Monday, which included six San Antonians. Weston, who celebrated his birthday Monday, wasn't one of them. Until he was ... 360 — that the magazine released in September ... 418 ... 960 a year ago ... “Red” McCombs, 85, is ranked No....(size: 3.3Kb)
Austin American Statesman
04 Mar 2013
Lonnie Kauppila’s RBI double in the bottom of the ninth inning pushed Stanford past Texas 2-1 Sunday in Palo, Alto. The Longhorns (6-5), who have lost four straight, were swept at Stanford for the second straight year. The Cardinal (9-2) took the lead in the first inning on Justin Ringo’s RBI groundout ... The Longhorns will be back at Red McCombs Field to play a doubleheader against Louisiana-Lafayette at 5 p.m. Wednesday. ....(size: 1.9Kb)
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04 Mar 2013
Seven billionaires call the San Antonio area home, according to Forbes magazine's latest list of the world's billionaires, posted online Monday. The official list will be published in the magazine's March 25 edition. H-E-B Chairman and CEO Charles Butt, 75, remains the richest San Antonian, listed at No. 157 in the world with a net worth of $7.4 billion. A year ago, Forbes had listed Butt at No ... 418 ... “Red” McCombs, 85, is ranked at No ... 913....(size: 2.4Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
01 Mar 2013
Business Journal
27 Feb 2013
Jeff Bounds Senior Staff Writer- Dallas Business Journal Email . Twitter . Twitter . Google ... A Cinsay official wasn’t immediately available for comment Wednesday. The business, whose board includes San Antonio billionaire Red McCombs, in December 2011 was named to Forbes magazine’s list of America’s “most promising companies.” Jeff covers technology, telecommunications, banking and finance ... Dallas ... T ... J.C....(size: 6.2Kb)
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26 Feb 2013
(Source ... Feb. 26, 2013. AUSTIN, Texas - Seismos, a services company that provides real-time analysis of oil and gas flows, won the 2013 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition(TVLIC) hosted by The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business ... EduSex ... For more information, contact.Renee Hopkins, Red McCombs School of Business, 512 471 6746; Ramiro Palma, Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs, ramiro.palma@mccombs.utexas.edu....(size: 4.6Kb)
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23 Feb 2013
Bexar officials elected countywide have made their intentions known. All of the incumbents intend to seek re-election in 2014 ... Here's the 2014 rundown.. County Judge ... Precinct 2 Commissioner ... He may again draw opposition ... “I have already secured my first huge supporter who is doing a fund-raiser for me, and that is Red McCombs, on April 11,” she said, adding that she's amused by persistent whispers that she might run for attorney general....(size: 3.9Kb)
my SA
19 Feb 2013
Red McCombs, a man of similar age, wealth and humble beginnings, saw all of that firsthand. McCombs and Buss didn't always see things the same way ... So when McCombs lured Larry Brown with the biggest payday in NBA coaching history at the time, Buss protested. McCombs' response came with humor. “We can switch situations,” McCombs told him, “if you like.”. When McCombs owned the Spurs, he talked to Buss three or four times a month....(size: 4.1Kb)
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18 Feb 2013
“It's the committee's will ... San Antonio businessman Red McCombs, a member and contributor to TexasOne, is a major investor in the $400 million racecourse, which received a $25 million grant from the state's tax-supported Major Events Fund. McCombs said he was not aware that TexasOne bought a hospitality suite at the race but said the group “would have been stupid not to have” because of the wealthy, worldwide clientele who attended....(size: 6.0Kb)
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17 Feb 2013
“Red” McCombs believes will never come true. “There isn't anything else that is going to develop around it,” McCombs said of the AT&T Center ... Given the location of the AT&T Center, McCombs and Wolff agree that the post-Duncan Spurs could struggle to attract fans if they don't win. “The key is to keep them competitive,” McCombs said ... Wolff echoed McCombs' comments....(size: 8.7Kb)
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16 Feb 2013
“Red” McCombs believes will never come true. “There isn't anything else that is going to develop around it,” McCombs said of the AT&T Center ... Given the location of the AT&T Center, McCombs and Wolff agree that the post-Duncan Spurs could struggle to attract fans if they don't win. “The key is to keep them competitive,” McCombs said ... Wolff echoed McCombs' comments....(size: 8.8Kb)
| Red McCombs | |
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| Born | 1927 Spur, Texas USA |
| Residence | San Antonio, Texas |
| Occupation | Billionaire businessman |
| Spouse | Charline Hamblin McCombs (married 1950) |
| Children |
Three children |
Billy Joe "Red" McCombs (born 1927) is the founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group in San Antonio, Texas, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Vikings, and the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He was named one of Forbes magazine's top 400 richest Americans in 2005.
In 2012, the San Antonio Express-News reported McCombs' net worth at $1.4 billion. He was ranked the 913th richest man in the world. Two other San Antonio men, Charles Butt of the H-E-B supermarket chain and Rodney Lewis, a natural gas driller, were placed above McCombs on the list.[1]
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Biography[link]
McCombs was born in 1927 in Spur, Texas.[2] His nickname "Red" comes from his hair color.[3] He briefly attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he played football (lineman and receiver) before serving in the United States Army in 1946 and 1947. After completing his Army stint, McCombs enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, attending the business school and law school. While at the University of Texas, McCombs was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He married his wife, the former Charline Hamblin in 1950. In the early 1950s, McCombs sold cars at George Jones Ford in Corpus Christi, leaving college to do so. In 1958, he and his fellow salesman, Austin Hemphill, moved to San Antonio to create Hemphill-McCombs Ford, which was the foundation for what ultimately became the Red McCombs Automotive Group.
McCombs entered the energy industry in the 1960s, resulting in the Houston-based McCombs Energy. He has also been involved in real-estate through the Koontz-McCombs development company. In 1972, McCombs partnered with Lowry Mays to purchase WOAI radio in San Antonio. The station was the launching point for Clear Channel Communications.
He has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Southwestern University and Chairman of the University of Texas's M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The business school at the University of Texas was renamed the Red McCombs School of Business in recognition of a fifty million dollar donation to the university.
McCombs is the recipient of the Texas Legend Award from the Texas Automobile Dealers Association and the Living Legend award from the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce. He has also been honored by the American Academy of Achievement, San Antonio Business Hall of Fame, San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame, Texas Business Hall of Fame, and the College Football Hall of Fame. He has received honorary degrees from Southwestern University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Texas Lutheran University. He also sits in the board of eCommerce firm Cinsay Inc.
Sports ownership[link]
McCombs' first entry into sports came in 1972, when he joined Angelo Drossos and several other San Antonio businessmen in leasing the struggling Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association and moving them to San Antonio as the Spurs. The Spurs proved to be a runaway hit, leading Drossos and McCombs to tear up the lease agreement and buy the team outright after only one year.
Two years after taking the Spurs into the NBA, McCombs sold off his stake in the Spurs and bought another former ABA team, the Denver Nuggets. He held onto the team until 1985. In 1988, he bought controlling interest in the Spurs from Drossos, selling them to current owner Peter Holt in 1993.
In 1998, McCombs bought the Minnesota Vikings for US$250 million. After an unsuccessful attempt to replace the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, McCombs sold the team to new (and current) owner Zygi Wilf before the 2005 football season.[4]
He was also actively involved in thoroughbred racing and breeding for many years as a major partner in Walmac Farm, a leading American breeding farm, in Lexington, Kentucky.[5]
Controversy[link]
McCombs is also noted for his development plans at Wolf Creek ski area in southern Colorado. The planned resort has drawn opposition from environmentalists. McCombs has been unsuccessful in his attempts to sway the United States Forest Service to permit the development to get started.[6] McCombs then attempted to build a 50,000-acre (200 km2) casino resort at Navajo Canyon on Lake Powell. The local Navajo Nation chapters, local government officials, all unanimously rejected the casino proposal and any projects by Red McCombs.[7]
Formula One[link]
On July 27, 2010 McCombs announced his financial backing for bringing Formula One to Austin, Texas. A new Formula 1 track will be built in southeastern Travis County to host the event under a ten-year contract from 2012 to 2021.
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ "Six Antonio billionaires make Forbes list," San Antonio Express-News, March 18, 2012, "Glance" section, p. 3
- ^ http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/mccombs/about/bio.asp
- ^ http://www.nsidesa.com/business/index.php?id=83&option=com_content&task=view
- ^ "L.A. story". CNN. 2004-10-27. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/michael_silver/10/27/vikings.mccombs/. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ Crist, Steven (1988-06-25). "HORSE RACING; Risen Star Likely To Retire After '88". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/25/sports/horse-racing-risen-star-likely-to-retire-after-88.html.
- ^ Kohler, Judith (2008-02-21). "Forest Service calls Wolf Creek deal a 'fresh start'". Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8324523?source=rss.
- ^ http://www.gallupindependent.com/2009/01January/012909exoticlivestock.html
External links[link]
- Biography at McCombs School of Business - UT Austin
- Biography from UT Austin Alumni stories
- "Red McCombs Gives $50 Million To UT Business School" (Press release). http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/mccombs/gift/.
- Interview on The BusinessMakers Show
- Forbes 2006 profile on Billy Joe McCombs
- Red McCombs Automotive Group
- Red's battle against alcoholism
| Preceded by Roger Headrick 1991–1998 |
Owner of the Minnesota Vikings 1998–2005 |
Succeeded by Zygi Wilf |
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| Name | McCombs, Red |
| Alternative names | McCombs, Billy Joe |
| Short description | NFL team owner |
| Date of birth | 1927 |
| Place of birth | Spur, Texas USA |
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| Herbert D. Kelleher | |
|---|---|
 Herb Kelleher at the 2007 Tony Jannus Awards |
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| Born | (1931-03-12) March 12, 1931 (age 81) |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University New York University |
| Known for | Founder of Southwest Airlines |
Herbert "Herb" Dwight Kelleher (born March 12, 1931) is the co-founder, Chairman Emeritus, and former CEO of Southwest Airlines (based in the United States).
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Early life and career[link]
Kelleher was born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 12, 1931 and raised in Audubon, New Jersey, where he graduated from Haddon Heights High School.[1] He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University where he was an Olin Scholar and where his major was English and his minor Philosophy, and a Juris Doctor from New York University where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar.[2] At Wesleyan he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is married to the former Joan Negley and they have four children.
Career[link]
The Kellehers moved to Texas intending to start a law firm or a business. Kelleher and one of his law clients, Texas businessman Rollin King, created the concept that later became Southwest Airlines on a cocktail napkin in a San Antonio, Texas restaurant. From its birth in 1971 — after overcoming a year's worth of legal challenges from competitors who tried to keep it grounded — Southwest succeeded by daring to be different: offering low fares to its passengers by eliminating unnecessary services and avoiding the "hub-and-spoke" scheduling system used by other airlines in favor of building traffic in such secondary airports as Albany, Chicago-Midway (instead of Chicago-O'Hare) and Orange County.
Some of the notable characteristics of Southwest during its early years included an innovative 10 minute turnaround, airhostesses in hotpants, and free bottles of alcohol with every ticket.
During his tenure as CEO of Southwest, Kelleher's colorful personality created a corporate culture which made Southwest employees well known for taking themselves lightly—often singing in-flight announcements to the tune of popular theme songs—but their jobs seriously. Southwest has never had an in-flight fatality. Southwest is consistently named among the top five Most Admired Corporations in America in Fortune magazine's annual poll. Fortune has also called him perhaps the best CEO in America. Mr. Kelleher was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2004.
On July 19, 2007, Southwest Airlines announced that Kelleher would step down from the role of Chairman and resign from the board of directors in May 2008, though he would remain a full time employee for another five years.[3] Kelleher ultimately stepped down as chairman on May 21, 2008. Immediately following, Southwest Airlines named current CEO, Gary C. Kelly the new Chairman of the Board of Directors.[4]
In July, 2010 Kelleher was appointed Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas board of directors for 2011.[5] Kelleher's term will expire in 2013. Previously, he had served as Deputy Chair.[6][7]
Awards[link]
- Tony Jannus Award for outstanding leadership in the commercial aviation industry, 1993.[8]
- Bower Award for Business Leadership, 2003.
- L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation, 2005.
Charles Lindbergh Award for Excellence in aviation, 2006. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington
References[link]
- ^ Blackwell, Charles W. "Flying High with Herb Kelleher: A Profile in Charismatic Leadership.", Journal of Leadership Studies, June 22, 1999. Accessed November 2, 2007. "Graduating from Haddon Heights High School where he distinguished himself as an athlete and student body president, Kelleher's first job was at Campbell Soup Company where he worked for six summers, joining his dad who was General Manager."
- ^ http://www.cnbc.com/id/43713818
- ^ Kelleher leaving Southwest nest | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News
- ^ Southwest Airlines Names New Chairman of the Board
- ^ "Fed Announces Chairs of Regional Banks for 2011". The Wall Street Journal. July 19, 2010. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/07/19/fed-announces-chairs-of-regional-banks-for-2011/.
- ^ http://dallasfed.org/news/releases/2009/nr090121.cfm
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=187854&ticker=LUV:US
- ^ "Tony Jannus Award past recipients". Tony Jannus Society. http://www.tonyjannusaward.com/legacy/. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
External links[link]
- PBS - Chasing the Sun - Herb Kelleher
- Business Week - Herb Kelleher on the Record
- Forbes - Southwest Airlines: Profit for peanuts
- Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
- Herb Kelleher leadership
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| Don Evans | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938 - 2003 Merchantville, New Jersey, United States |
| Spouse | Frances Gooding Chapman (divorced) |
Donald Thomas "Don" Evans (April 27, 1938–October 16, 2003) was a noted African-American playwright, theatre director, actor and educator.
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Early life and education[link]
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1938, Evans was an only child, raised by his mother, Mary Evans. After serving in the United States Marine Corps, he attended Cheyney State College, where he majored in secondary English education. He went on to Temple University, earning an Master of Arts in education and an Master of Fine Arts in theater arts.
Career[link]
In 1971 Evans began teaching at Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), where he chaired the Afro-American Studies Department from 1971 to 1983. During this time, Evans directed such plays as The Taking of Miss Janie by Ed Bullins and August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He also taught courses in African-American literature and drama, jazz, and playwriting. Evans was a visiting professor at nearby Rutgers University and Princeton University, and worked from 1978-1998 with his friend and fellow playwright August Wilson in forming the Black Theatre Summit at Dartmouth College, from which was formed the African Grove Institute for the Arts.
Theatre[link]
Don Evans studied acting, directing, and playwriting at the Hagen-Berghof Studios in New York City from 1969 to 1970, during which time he also taught English and Drama at Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey. An integral part of the Black Arts movement of the 1970s, Evans had his first plays, the one acts Orrin and Sugarmouth Sam Don’t Dance No More performed in 1972 at the Crossroads Theatre, a professional playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1976 he wrote It’s Showdown Time, a raucous adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.[1] In 1978, Evans wrote Mahalia, his first musical, a portrait of Gospel vocalist Mahalia Jackson. Louis, Evans' musical portrayal of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, was written in 1981. Other works include The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show a tragi-comic look at a middle-class black family, and A Lovesong for Miss Lydia, [2] described by the New York Times as "a Pinteresque encounter of two elderly people." Evans wrote his final play, When Miss Mollie Hit the Triple Bars, in 1999. It was based on the life of his mother, Mary.
Over the course of his career, Don Evans received playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey Council of the Arts, and the New Jersey Historical Society. Evans has a total of six plays in publication, and a total of eighteen have been produced the world over, in such countries as Germany, England and Hong Kong. He also served, from 1983 to 1988, as artistic director for the Karamu House in Cleveland, Ohio. Don Evans was honored as AMPARTS Fellow for the United States Information Agency to India in 1984. He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack on October 16, 2003 at his home in Merchantville, New Jersey.
Quotations[link]
- "I see myself writing in the tradition of Shaw and Moliere. I'm very much aware that I come from a street tradition, but my work came about because of writers I love, especially Shakespeare." [3]
- "I've always tried to make college theater something multiracial and multicultural -- a living art form. But no one pays serious attention to black college kids who love the theater. They perform in isolated groups. In terms of craft, their work isn't seriously appraised."
- "What's painful is that all artists are part of a nonracial community. If you're good, you're good, and you should be evaluated, irrespective of race."
List of Plays[link]
Published
- Sugarmouth Sam Don't Dance No More
- The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown
- The Prodigals
- One Monkey Don't Stop No Show.
Produced
- Orrin
- Sugarmouth Sam Don't Dance No More
- Matters of Choice
- It's Showdown Time
- A Lovesong for Miss Lydia
- Louis (musical based on the life of Louis Armstrong)
- Mahalia (musical biography of Mahalia Jackson)
- One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
Unpublished
- What Harriet Did
- Honky Tonk
- When Miss Mollie Hit the Triple Bars
Notes and references[link]
External links[link]
- Playbill article
- Karamu House Official Website
- Biography, partial list of plays City-Data
- Globe News Wire article
- Website for the Unity Theatre Ensemble
- Tribute Site for Don Evans
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| Date of birth | 1938 |
| Place of birth | Merchantville, NJ, United States |
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