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  Claude Brinegar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claude Stout Brinegar (born December 16, 1926) was the third United States Secretary of Transportation, serving from February 2, 1973 to February 1, 1975.
Brinegar was Secretary of Transportation during the 1973 oil crisis.
In 1980-81 Brinegar was on Ronald Reagan's transition team.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_S._Brinegar   (165 words)

  
 American President
Claude S. Brinegar was born December 16, 1926, in Rockport California.
Brinegar was senior vice president of Union Oil Company of California and a member of Union Oil's board of directors and executive committee.
Brinegar served as U.S. secretary of transportation from 1973 to 1974.
www.americanpresident.org /history/richardnixon/cabinet/transportation/claudebrinegar/h_index.shtml   (104 words)

  
 Claude S. Brinegar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Brinegar was a Research Assistant with the Food Research Institute in Stanford, California, and an Economic Consultant to the Emporium-Capwell Corporation in San Francisco, California.
Brinegar was born December 16, 1926, in Rockport, California.
Brinegar was a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Mental Health Association from 1964 to 1965.
www.ford.utexas.edu /library/exhibits/cabinet/brinegar.htm   (368 words)

  
 A House on the Move
In December, Brinegar and Bartholomew officially deeded a house, which was on Route 27 between Orne's Hill and Ice House Road in West Boothbay Harbor, to the Boothbay Region YMCA.
Brinegar and Bartholomew say that in acquiring the house next door to theirs, they are simply restoring the property to nearly the size it was before 1868, the year the land was divided.
When the house is gone and the land is cleared of debris, Brinegar and Bartholomew will landscape the property to blend in with the plantings around their present house.
boothbayregister.maine.com /1999-02-25/house_move.html   (763 words)

  
 Memorial Church Organs - The Katharine Potter-Brinegar Organ
In 1993 - soon after the death of his wife, Katharine Potter-Brinegar -- Claude S. Brinegar, came to Memorial Church expressing his desire to support the organ program through a generous gift in her memory.
After discussions with Paul Fritts and Company of Tacoma, Washington, we decided to construct an instrument for use int he new side chapel, but also capable of being moved to other locations on the main floor of the church building.
Brinegar commissioned the construction of this Renaissance-style organ as a fitting memorial in her name.
www.stanford.edu /group/memchu/memchu/brinegar.html   (596 words)

  
 Whitman v. State Highway Commission of Missouri
The federal defendants are Claude S. Brinegar, Secretary of Transportation of the United States (successor to John A. Volpe) and Norbert T. Tiemann, Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation (successor to F.C. Turner).
Plaintiffs allege that they were and are the owners of various outdoor advertising structures (billboards) located pursuant to leases negotiated with the property owners, on property adjacent to U.S. Highway 54 prior to the improvement project.
Brinegar, supra, held only that actions based upon violations of § 301 are barred, and not actions based on other portions of the URA.
www.scenicflorida.org /law/whitmanvhwycommmo.html   (13795 words)

  
 The Corporate Library - CEO Contract Study - CSX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If, at the time of the meeting, any nominee should be unable to serve as a director, such votes will be cast for such substitute nominee as may be nominated by the Board of Directors.
Brinegar is a director of Maxicare Health Plans, Inc. Mr.
Brinegar was a director of Conrail Inc. through August 22, 1998.
www.thecorporatelibrary.com /companies/c/csx/CSX_DEF_19990316.htm   (4283 words)

  
 Biographical Sketches of the Secretaries of Transportation
On December 1, 1972, President Richard Nixon chose Claude Stout Brinegar, age forty-five, to succeed Volpe, and become the nation's third Secretary of Transportation.
While Secretary, Brinegar confronted railroad revitalization and proposed regulatory reforms that the collapse of the Northeastern railroads made necessary, reauthorization of the federal highway program, and the impact of transportation on energy consumption and the environment, triggered by the energy shortage of 1973-74.
When Gerald Ford said that he intended to seek the Presidency in his own right, Brinegar, not wanting to be part of a reelection campaign, resigned, effective February 1, 1975, and returned to the Union Oil Company, where he was elected senior vice president and member of the Executive Committee.
dotlibrary.dot.gov /Historian/bios.htm   (3233 words)

  
 CSX Shareholders Elect Board of Directors
Elected to the board were Elizabeth E. Bailey; H. Furlong Baldwin; Claude S.
Brinegar; Robert L. Burrus Jr.; Bruce C. Gottwald; John R. Hall; E. Bradley Jones; Robert D. Kunisch; James W. McGlothlin; Southwood J. Morcott; Charles E.
Rice; William C. Richardson; Frank S. Royal; and John W. Snow, chairman, president and chief executive officer of CSX.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-27-2000/0001203245&EDATE=   (170 words)

  
 Office of XXX: Staff
In 1971, the Stanford Board of Trustees became the first governing body of a major academic institution to adopt a statement on investment responsibility, according to A Chronology of Stanford University and its Founders by Karen Bartholomew, Claude Brinegar and Roxanne Nilan.
In their 2001 publication, published by the Stanford Historical Society, the authors write that the statement says, “that in the majority of cases, obtaining maximum financial return is the board’s primary fiduciary duty.
Throughout the 1990s, investment responsibility discussions focused on the health risks, as well as marketing and sale, of both tobacco and alcohol to minors.Over a period of eight years, Stanford implemented several proxy voting guidelines and eventually eliminated holdings in core tobacco companies due to adverse market conditions.
www.stanford.edu /dept/ucomm/apir/history   (450 words)

  
 State Officials
I feel very strongly that the Legislature and governor is becoming a rich men's and women's club," said commissioner Jim Green, a retired Bay Area labor official who made the motion for the raises.
In addition to Green, commission members voting for the pay increase included Johnny Zamrzla,a roofing contractor from Lancaster; Andrew Hopwood, a small-business owner from Southern California; and Thomas Dominguez, an investigator with the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Voting against the raises were Brinegar, Bavaro and Larkin.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1998-March/001535.html   (1054 words)

  
 CSX Names Three Former Conrail Board Members to its Board of Directors
He was elected a director of Merc-Safe in 1968 and is a director of Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, GRC International Inc. and the St. Paul Companies.
Brinegar served as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 1973 to 1975 and played a key role in the creation of Conrail.
He served as a director of Conrail Inc. from 1990 to August 1998.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-06-1998/0000765995&EDATE=   (308 words)

  
 Pay hike for state leaders: Davis rejects 6% raise voted by salary panel ...
Commissioners supporting the raises said California needs to keep pace with such other big states as New York, which pays its governor $179,000 a year, according to commission figures.
"I think we should try to keep salary levels up with the times," said Claude Brinegar, a retired oil industry executive who chairs the pay panel and made the motion for the raises for the governor and other officials.
But Brinegar said, "Our loyalties are not to the governor.
www.peoplesadvocate.org /news/032400.html   (853 words)

  
 The Quintus Curtius Snodgrass Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In a 1963 paper, Claude S. Brinegar used statistics to compare the Snodgrass letters to works known to be written by Mark Twain.
The one Brinegar used is quite simple in concept--just compare the distributions of word lengths for the two authors.
If these distributions are very different, we'll conclude that the two authors are probably two different people.
faculty.roosevelt.edu /currano/M238/Twain.htm   (583 words)

  
 Memorial Church gets organ-ized
A specialist in 17th-century French organ music, Bates is a former Stanford graduate student in musicology.
This Sunday, he'll give a dedication concert at Stanford to mark the arrival of the university's newest and smallest organ: a 9-foot-tall Renaissance-style chamber organ, built by Paul Fritts and donated to the church by alumnus Claude Brinegar.
The hand-carved organ is built from walnut, oak, ebony and maple woods.
www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/cover/1996_Apr_19.ARTS19.html   (702 words)

  
 www.GovExec.com - Team Bush (6/29/05)
"His name is Claude Brinegar; he's president of Union Oil of California."
Haldeman took the news back to Nixon, who said, "His name doesn't sound Catholic to me." Haldeman checked back with Malek, who assured him that not only was Brinegar Catholic, he was also Irish, a quality also missing from the Cabinet's ethnic makeup.
Haldeman wrote: "So Claude Brinegar was appointed secretary of Transportation because he was an Irish-Catholic, and two weeks after he was in office, he informed us he was a German Presbyterian."
www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0605/062905mm.htm   (1945 words)

  
 B.H. Yacht Club
They thank all those who called about their safety, especially Elsie Plummer, and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.
We haven't heard from the rest of our California contingent, Claude Brinegar and Karen Bartholomew in Stanford, Sally Murray in Calistoga, or Bruce and Jodie Willard in Santa Barbara.
We assume the fires spared them and their property.
boothbayregister.maine.com /2003-11-06/b_h_yacht_club.html   (749 words)

  
 FHWA By Day - August 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Candidates will be rated on the basis of education and preliminary training (20 percent), responsible experience in engineering and fitness (30), and responsible experience in highway engineering (50).
Secretary of Transportation Claude Brinegar administers the oath of office to Lester P. Lamm, who succeeds Martin F. "Pat" Maloney as Executive Director.
Lamm, a native of Hull, MA, began his career with BPR in 1955.
www.fhwa.dot.gov /byday/fhbd0808.htm   (295 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His ...
Right, but they needed a Catholic, so Fred Malek, who surfaced here as a fellow at the Institute of Politics in '75, got all enthused about Claude Brinegar, the president of Union Oil of California, young and Catholic and from the West Coast, Malek said.
"His name doesn't sound Catholic to me." But Malek assured him that "he's Irish too." So after two weeks in office, Brinegar, the Irish Catholic appointee, revealed that he was a German Presbyterian.
That doesn't exactly sound like ol' Bob was leaping to the defense of the Nixon administration.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=149346   (1367 words)

  
 Chester R. Bender, Admiral, United States Coast Guard
On October 13, 1972, Admiral Bender received the Distinguished Service Medal from Secretary Volpe for exceptionally meritorious service in his post as Commandant.
He was presented a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Distinguished Service Medal by Secretary of Transportation Claude S. Brinegar at change-of-command ceremonies, May 31, 1974.
Updated: 9 December 2000 Updated: 9 February 2001 Updated: 16 February 2003 Updated: 6 December 2004
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /bender.htm   (1511 words)

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