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  About John Flynn
John Flynn was born at Moliagul in Central Victoria on 25 November 1880, the same year famous Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly, was executed.
Flynn graduated in 1910, and was ordained as a Minister of Church in January 1911.
John Flynn, who was twice moderator General of the Presbyterian Church died in 1951 and is buried at Mt Gillen near Alice Springs, the very centre of the vast territory to which he brought communication, medical comfort and pastoral care.
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 Flynn Primary School | John Flynn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Flynn's vision finally saw the establishment of 13 flying doctor bases around Australia, which continue to spread 'a mantle of safety' across 6.9 million square kilometres, or 80 per cent of the Australian continent.
Flynn died of cancer in Sydney on 5 May 1951 and his ashes were buried at the foot of Mt Gillen, Alice Springs.
In 1956, the John Flynn Memorial Church was opened in Alice Springs as a tribute to a great Australian whose compassion, zeal and vision transformed the lives of the inhabitants of inland Australia.
www.flynnps.act.edu.au /john_flynn   (808 words)

  
 Flynn Quilt Frame Company
John took out the stitching, we cleaned it up, he hand quilted and trapuntoed it and now Custer's Last Quilt is a beautiful example of a two color quilt with feather borders.
John is honored to have been selected as one of the artists who embellished life-size fiberglass quarter horses as part of a community fund raiser for the historic downtown Billings Depot.
John's developed a technique as he goes along; the embroidered patches are applied and then background filler of printed velvet or beautiful tie silk is glued in the spaces and trimmed to size.
www.flynnquilt.com /gallery.html   (945 words)

  
 John Flynn Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Known for over 50 years as "Flynn of the Inland," John Flynn was born on November 25, 1880, in the small country township of Moliagul in central Victoria, Australia.
Flynn recognized that his hospitals and padres could do little to alleviate the agony suffered by patients conveyed by camel, horse, or buggy over hundreds of trackless miles to his out-post hospitals.
In 1939 Flynn was elected to the three-year term as Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
www.bookrags.com /biography/john-flynn   (854 words)

  
 John Flynn - Deeds, Not Words
John Flynn moved his Fifth Supervisorial District office to South Oxnard, negotiating an arrangement with a local bank for rent-free accommodations, because he saw that the area's neighborhoods and businesses were suffering from official neglect.
John Flynn's leadership was enlisted by beach and fishery activists for the removal of the outmoded Matilija Dam in order to restore health to Ventura County's steelhead fishery and beaches.
John Flynn's office is contacted by thousands of residents from his district and from all over his native Ventura County each year seeking help with problems in all facets of their lives.
www.smartvoter.org /2004/11/02/ca/vn/vote/flynn_j/paper1.html   (1200 words)

  
 John Moser, The Intellectual Odyssey of John T. Flynn
Flynn’s dissent from the unbridled optimism of the late 1920s—and his seeming prediction of the Stock Market Crash of October 1929—brought him to the attention of the editors of the New Republic, which was at the time in the vanguard of the American noncommunist Left.
And although Flynn was extremely sensitive to the need to keep pro-fascist and anti-Semitic elements out of his chapter, the enemies of America First engaged in on ongoing campaign to connect its membership with extremist groups such as the German-American Bund and the National Union for Social Justice.
William F. Buckley, the magazine’s editor, claimed that Flynn’s opposition to “militarism” was “difficult to defend in the absence of any discussion whatever of the objective threat of the Soviet Union.” Notwithstanding his views on foreign policy, Flynn had clearly made a significant ideological migration.
personal.ashland.edu /~jmoser1/flynn.html   (2114 words)

  
 American Museum of Natural History
Flynn recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a year of research and expeditions in South American and has served as elected President (1999-2001) and member of the Board/Executive Committee (1993-2002) of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the world's largest organization of professionals in this field.
In addition, Dr. Flynn has been deeply involved in integrating research with Museum exhibition and educational programs, and he recently embarked on helping to expand and enhance the world-leading fossil mammal collections at the American Museum.
Together with several doctoral students and postdoctoral scientists, Flynn's research also has focused on integrating molecular, anatomical and paleontological data in analysis of the phylogeny and diversification of major groups of mammals, and the investigation of the evolutionary relationships and patterns and rates of evolution of the mammalian order Carnivora (e.g.
www.amnh.org /science/divisions/paleo/bio.php?scientist=flynn   (833 words)

  
 John Flynn (minister) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flynn moved to Sunshine, now an outer western suburb of Melbourne as a child, where he completed secondary school in 1898, and began working as a schoolteacher.
Throughout his training, Flynn had worked in various then-remote areas through Victoria and South Australia, and his first posting after ordination was to the Smith of Dunesk Mission at Beltana, a tiny settlement 500 kilometres north of Adelaide.
Flynn married the secretary of the AIM, Jean Baird, in 1931 at the relatively advanced age of 51.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Flynn_(aviator)   (590 words)

  
 National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 159 - Reverend John Flynn and the Australian Inland Mission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Flynn was born in 1880 and educated in Melbourne.
Flynn was also concerned with providing shelter for the older population of Central Australia and in 1949 he designed the first cottage to be built at the Old Timers' Settlement in Alice Springs.
John Flynn was awarded an OBE in 1933, and served as Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church from 1939 until 1942.
www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/fs159.html   (686 words)

  
 John Flynn - Biography - Moviefone
Serving his apprenticeship as a script supervisor for Robert Wise, John Flynn graduated to the director's chair in 1968, when he helmed the bizarre Rod Steiger vehicle The Sergeant.
Specializing in gutsy actioners, Flynn served as director for such titles as Rolling Thunder (1977), Defiance (1979), Lock-Up (1989) and Nails (1992).
One of John Flynn's least typical works was also one of his most successful: the 1980 made-for-TV feature Marilyn: The Untold Story.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-flynn/90035/biography   (115 words)

  
 SAVIANO MEDIA | JOHN FLYNN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Flynn admits that it feels almost artificial to see any of his albums – the family-centered Love Takes a Whole Box of Crayons, the Americana-flavored John Flynn, the politically charged Dragon, and now Two Wolves – as isolated entities, much like mistaking parts of a river as frozen and unchanging.
In 2001, Flynn was invited to perform before a talk by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and a leading opponent of the death penalty.
Years later, when Flynn asked him why he had never recorded the song, Kristofferson admitted that he was never able to get through it without succumbing to emotion of the lyric.
www.savianomedia.com /flynn.html   (1484 words)

  
 John Flynn - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Flynn, John (1880-1951), Australian Presbyterian minister who pioneered the Flying Doctor Service.
Flynn, Errol (1909-1959), Australian-born motion-picture actor, who won fame during the 1930s playing handsome, swashbuckling heroes in numerous...
John the Evangelist (?-ad 101), in the New Testament, one of the 12 apostles, son of Zebedee and younger brother of Saint James the Great.
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 John T. Flynn
John Flynn was born in Bladensburg, Maryland, on 25th October, 1882.
Flynn was appointed as an advisor and wrote most of the reports published by the committee.
John Flynn and other America Firsters believed that government should regulate business by preventing monopolies and cartels from controlling large sectors of the economy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAflynnJT.htm   (2310 words)

  
 Book Review -- Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn
Like many of the conservatives of his generation, Flynn was not opposed to all economic intervention in the 1930s.
But rather than see this as an "antibusiness" policy, Flynn argued that the NRA was FDR's collaboration with segments of the "big business" community that wished to control and limit market competition for their own monopolistic purposes.
In the postwar period, John Flynn was a die-hard anticommunist.
www.fff.org /freedom/0396g.asp   (1028 words)

  
 Full Biography for John K. Flynn
John, born in a house on Emily Street in Ojai, was their third child and second son.
John was honorably discharged in 1954 and returned to Santa Barbara County to continue his college education at the University of California's Santa Barbara College campus in Goleta.
John completed one more semester of teacher training at UCSB and then moved his wife and two children back to his native Ventura County where he had obtained a long-term substitute position in the Hueneme School District.
www.smartvoter.org /2004/11/02/ca/vn/vote/flynn_j/bio.html   (1063 words)

  
 MSJ - John Flynn – Dragon
He combines elements of the best folk of the 1970’s with country and other textures and does it all with a solid conviction to presenting ideas he feels are important.
The truth is, whether you agree with Flynn or not, you have to admire the way he presents his views.
Flynn closes the disc with another dramatic, but rather mellow acoustic ballad folk cut.
www.musicstreetjournal.com /johnflynndragon.htm   (1038 words)

  
 MSJ - John Flynn – Two Wolves
Mind you the majority of the disc is focused on his typical folk/country basis, but he opens it with a jazz ballad piece and finds other chances to move the boundaries of his music in new directions.
Flynn’s lyric writing is on a par with any of the folk greats of by gone eras, and I really enjoy his music, too.
Flynn’s voice still adds a touch of the folk/country texture, but overall this feels like a jazz ballad.
www.musicstreetjournal.com /johnflynnwolves.htm   (666 words)

  
 The New American - John T. Flynn: Principles First - January 31, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John T. Flynn was born on October 25, 1882 in Bladensburg, Maryland, near the nation’s capital.
Flynn contended that a conspiracy involving the mass media and the motion picture industry was assisting the forces of intervention and dishonestly smearing AFC as pro-fascist and anti-Semitic.
Flynn reported that, by mid-1941, our nation was supplying arms, ammunition, planes, and naval vessels to the British and had sent troops to Iceland to join in the British occupation of the island.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2000/01-31-2000/vo16no03_flynn.htm   (4140 words)

  
 Show Business Weekly: NYC Live: John Flynn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A supremely funny comedy writer, Flynn’s viewpoints and observations on working with "one bona fide Broadway legend and one certified pop diva" run the gamut from worshipful, awestruck, resentful, irritated, fearful to, ultimately, incredulous.
Employing the device of recalling the e-mails that he sent to friends daily during the rehearsal process, Flynn unfolds his cautionary tale of star-struck optimism with devilish delight as his sidesplitting e-mails spiral out of control.
Flynn’s brilliant construction and delivery is a comedic tour de force.
www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/180/nyclive_john_flynn.shtml   (337 words)

  
 Amazon.com: John Flynn: Music: John Flynn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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john flynn is just the most amazing and talented artist i have heard in recent years.
John Flynn's debut CD is the type of music to enjoy on an autumn afternoon before a roaring fire, with mulled apple cider in hand.
www.amazon.com /John-Flynn/dp/B000003QLT   (815 words)

  
 The John Flynn Band - Allen, TX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John and the Band attended the Unitiy Awards in Davenport, IA last week and started the night off with a rocking rendition of "My Soul Rejoices." The awards were awesome and featured a bunch of great Catholic Musicians, inspirational awards and some great fellowship with old friends.
John will be touring the tropical island of Guam and performing a variety of concerts from December 11-18th.
John and the boys travel to visit our friends at St. John's LifeTeen in Westminister, MD for a Parish Concert.
www.thejohnflynnband.com   (395 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Two Wolves: Music: John Flynn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Flynn is the kind of musician for whom protest music isn't a revived fad, dusted off and carried on the back of the war in Iraq, but a way of life, an activist's call for peace.
Still, Flynn benefits from two wisely chosen covers: Kris Kristofferson's luminous "Hall of Angels" (with a cameo vocal from the writer) and Phil Ochs's sad and haunting "Pleasures of the Harbor." Flynn is no special shakes as a vocalist, but one turns to him for conscience, not crooning.
While John Flynn has drawn ovations as well as invective from audiences unaccustomed to this sort of candor, he has never before put the pieces together with the insight reflected on Two Wolves.
www.amazon.com /Two-Wolves-John-Flynn/dp/B000FUF6R2   (1021 words)

  
 The John Flynn College:index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Named after The Very Reverend John Flynn, founder of the Australian Inland Mission and the Aerial Service which later became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, our college seeks to ensure that you are able to develop and grow in a supportive environment and enjoy the entire university experience.
The John Flynn College is affiliated with the Uniting and Lutheran Churches and has its foundations firmly based on Christian values.
Here at The John Flynn College, our vision is to provide a setting in which students can study and relax in a caring and safe environment, enjoying maximum personal freedom, while respecting the rights of others who live in close proximity.
www.jcu.edu.au /office/accom/john_flynn/jfc.htm   (717 words)

  
 John T. Flynn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flynn was probably the most important single activist and publicist of the Old Right from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Flynn was one of the founders of the America First Committee which opposed Roosevelt’s foreign policy.
Flynn became an early and avid supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy in great part because McCarthy shared his contempt for the eastern Cold War elite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_T._Flynn   (802 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOHN FLYNN: Dragon - from jkloss
John Flynn began writing songs professionally after graduating from Temple University in the 80's.
Flynn regularly sells out the Philadelphia region's premier listening rooms, The Tin Angel and The Point, and at the invitation of the Philadelphia Phillies, frequently appeared at Veterans Stadium.
In fact, on September 28th, 2003, John had the honor of being the last performer to ever appear at the Vet, which is scheduled for implosion in 2004.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/johnflynn/from/jkloss   (531 words)

  
 references - The John Flynn Band - Allen, TX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John is joined by an amazing team of musicians, the JFB, that will musically lift the hearts and spirits of the faithful.
"John Flynn combines a deep faith in Christ, a strong commitment to family and an obvious love for the Church in all that he does.
John did a terrific job and focused on the most important thing, our relationship and devotion to Jesus and the liturgy that we have to celebrate his sacrifice and our wedding to Him.
www.thejohnflynnband.com /custom_page.cfm?category=4&page=137&active=137   (826 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOHN FLYNN: Cry Out - from sacredheartradio
John Flynn is the father of seven children and has been Catholic all of his life.
Featuring nationally known keyboard player Eymard Furtado, drummer John Carruth, bass player Wes Stephenson and international champion bagpiper Tyler Duncan on the Irish Small Pipes, The John Flynn Band will astound you with their musical virtuosity and lift your heart and spirit with their witness and their prayerful presence.
Led by songwriter John Flynn, the JFB will have you dancing with wild abandon one moment and lifting your voice in prayer the next.
cdbaby.com /cd/flynnjohn/from/sacredheartradio   (609 words)

  
 Meet John Flynn
John Flynn didn't start out as a quilter.
After several years of quilting, John sold his construction company and began Flynn's Quilt Frame Company, selling not only frames that John designed, but also John's books, templates, and template making supplies.
John and his wife, Brooke, currently reside in Montana.
www.quilt.com /Artists/JohnFlynn/JohnFlynn.html   (428 words)

  
 John Flynn Hospital
John Flynn-Gold Coast Private Hospital is a 268 bed acute hospital located at Tugun, which is on the southern end of Queensland’s Gold Coast, within five minutes of the Gold Coast airport,
Nestled in a hilltop position with sweeping ocean and rural views, John Flynn hospital offers a peaceful environment conducive to good health and recovery.
A member of the Ramsey Health Care Group of over 40 hospitals, the doctors at John Flynn have been using HIFU for the treatment of prostate cancer for over a year.
www.asiahifu.com /JohnFlynn.htm   (170 words)

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