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  John Ward Studebaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Ward Studebaker (June 10, 1887-July 26, 1989) served as U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1934 to 1948.
Studebaker was best known, while Commissioner of Education, for his work on public forums.
Believing that public discussion as civic education was the key to renewing democracy, he first ran a series of forums in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932-1934, then instituted the Federal Forum Project, 1936-41 until just before the outbreak of WWII.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ward_Studebaker   (170 words)

  
 Studebaker-Packard Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While Studebaker was the larger of the two companies, Packard's balance sheet and executive team were seen in the eyes of many to be stronger than the South Bend company's.
The situation was considerably more dire than Nance and his team were led to believe; Studebaker's break-even point was an unreachable 282,000 cars at a time when the company had barely sold 82,000 cars in 1954.
The Packards (for 1957 and 1958) were essentially Studebaker Presidents with excessive amounts of bright work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Studebaker-Packard_Corporation   (579 words)

  
 John Harvy Staatz
JOHN HARVEY STAATZ, M. The community of Bushton in Rice County has known and appreciated the services of Dr. Staatz as a capable physician and surgeon for the past seventeen years.
John F. Staatz homesteaded 160 acres of land there, and later district school No. 1 of Dickinson County was established on a part of his farm.
John Harvey Staatz grew up in his native town of Enterprise and graduated from the local high school in the spring of 1892.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/kansas/genweb/archives/1918ks/bios/staatzjh.html   (822 words)

  
 Ward Churchill Exploits Indians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ward Churchill has made the claim to be Indian more disputable and disreputable than ever before.
John Ross, chief at the time, later decided the program was inadvisable, and in 1996, all such memberships were revoked, and the records were destroyed.
Ward Churchill has made a career out of accusing the United States of committing genocide against Indians and other minorities, but he advocates the non-existence of the Indian race.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17172   (681 words)

  
 Centenarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John L. Hines (1868-1968), General, Chief of Staff US Army
John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972), 2nd US senator to reach 100 years
John Linus Paschang (1895-1999), bishop of Grand Island, Nebraska
www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/centenarian.html   (738 words)

  
 Chicago
At that time there were many industries and warehouses, including Montgomery Ward, which used north river and rail, as well as horse-drawn wagons and the rapidly growing truck fleet to move freight in and out of the district.
John Krieter and I persuaded our parents that we could go to the city on our own.
Although John was older, he had been to the city very few times, so I was the navigator.
www.borchert.com /john/chicago.htm   (3817 words)

  
 Birth of I-CHRIE - International Council on Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education
During the Roosevelt era, the U.S. Office of Education was led by Commissioner John Ward Studebaker.
Studebaker was a strong proponent of education for work, and vocational education did well during his administration (Brown, 1983; Pickett, 1957; Smith, 1967).
John B. Pope, an adult education specialist with the U.S. Office of Education, was named Conference Leader, while Adams served as Conference Chair.
www.chrie.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3296   (5729 words)

  
 More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story - Thomas E. Bonsall
The Studebakers had always been industrialists in the sense that they made their living by manufacturing things, albeit on a small scale.
The fortunes of the Studebaker family were transformed with it.
Studebaker wagons and carriages were long noted for their quality and popularity, and so, too, were Studebaker automobiles.
www.sup.org /book.cgi?book_id=3586   (691 words)

  
 St. Joseph County, Indiana History Chapter Two
The father of the Studebaker brothers, John Studebaker, was the son of Peter Studebaker, Jr.
John lived in Adams County near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where in 1830 he bought property in which he built a brick house and a shop where he pursued his trade as a flsmith and wagon maker.
J.M. was the last of the Studebaker brothers to die on March 16, 1917 in South Bend, at the age of 83.
www.centerforhistory.org /indiana_stjoe_history2.html   (3373 words)

  
 Wilson County Kansas Genealogy Queries 1996
John W. Married Sarah E. Sinclair in Macoupin County, IL and moved to Johnson Co.
William, James C. John P. and Rice MORGAN were early settlers of the area along with their sisters Lucinda HUTCHENSON and Sarah GLASSCOCK.
Children were William born 1868, IL; John born 1871, TX; Effie L. Apr 1873 IL; Miles born 1875 IL; Leona born 1879 IL.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/wilson/1996/q96.html   (1940 words)

  
 TIME.com: Double & Triple Shifts -- Jul 8, 1940 -- Page 1
John Studebaker, key man in this key job, is lean, spectacled, a wiry bundle of energy.
Nevertheless, Commissioner Studebaker was confident that the nation's school system could handle the new load.
Studebaker emerged from his conference with a plan to run the nation's vocational schools on double and triple shifts, starting this summer.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,795057,00.html   (467 words)

  
 Useless Facts
"John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.
Studebaker was the only major car company to stop manufacturing cars whilemaking a profit on them.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse.
www.johnquinn.com /facts.html   (16307 words)

  
 My Fifty Years at Notre Dame 10
Long before John XXIII, some of my interests fell within ecumenism, and in the Autumn of 1958 I used in a speech the words "our ecumenical destiny" which now must be the aim of mankind.
Since 1942, a wider-based credit union is open to all employees and is an immense success; unless football noses it out, the credit union is the most democratic campus institution, thanks to the nature of credit unions and co-ops and to the courage and sacrifices of many members.
Four or five local professors and one priest attempted to launch a farmer-labor group, and this had some success in a neighboring county where indigenous leadership was discovered.
archives.nd.edu /ward/ward10.htm   (2620 words)

  
 My Fifty Years at Notre Dame 1
In South Bend we scarcely glanced at the Studebaker plant and soon were wiggle-waggling on the Hill Street car, no wonder of the world to me though less jolty than a wagon, and as we made the last lap we passed a man with a horse conveying my trunk to the seminary.
Dan seminarian saluted me: "Ward, you were damn good last night, but I thought you'd break your leg!" All seminarians and a big percentage of lay students attended debates.
Before I reached the house, Dr. Wilfred Ward, whose father was a theologian and an associate of Cardinal Newman and whose daughter, Maisie Ward Sheed, eventually my was my friend and gave lectures at Notre Dame on Newman.
archives.nd.edu /ward/ward01.htm   (4829 words)

  
 Tempe 2000 Mini Reunion, 11-13 February 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Location: Studebaker's (480-829-8617), 1290 N Scottsdale Rd, Tempe AZ Dates: Feb 11, 2000 7pm-1am
John Prunier '65 - Karen Rogg '80 - Dary Matera '73
Following photos and material contributed by John Prunier '65
www.whoa.org /reunions/00tempe   (85 words)

  
 Shelved Holdings 5
Thayer, John B. "The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic." 1940.
Lawrence, John H. "Alpha Particle and Proton Beams in Therapy." October 1963.
Linfoot, John A. "The Alpha Particle or Proton Beam in Radiosurgery of the Pituitary Gland for Cushing's Disease." September 19, 1963.
www.acu.edu /academics/library/cfm/collectdonner/donncollS5.html   (5155 words)

  
 TIME.com: $70,000,000 If -- Apr. 27, 1936 -- Page 1
A thin, wiry lowan of 49, U. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker points with pride to the Public Forums, modeled after the oldtime New England town meeting, he ran three years ago as Des Moines' Superintendent of Schools.
Adult education is Commissioner Studebaker's strongest interest, and he believes that public discussion is the foundation of any adult program.
The current issue of School Life, organ of Commissioner Studebaker's Office of Education, reports that more than 1,000 forums are still functioning, concentrated chiefly in the East and Midwest.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,770187,00.html   (429 words)

  
 Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He did not write a full systematic theology, as John Calvin had done, but he wrote considerably both during his fifteen year pastorate and while he was a professor at Leiden.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Lyman Beecher was the son and grandson of a flsmith.
Whitefield and John Wesley broke with each other over Calvinistic-Arminian issues in 1741, but they soon mended their differences enough to establish a peaceful truce, and at a memorial service in England after Whitefield's death, John Wesley praised his colleague as a great man of God.
twtministries.com /pages/bios.html   (6567 words)

  
 Peace Bibliography I-Q   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Jacobs, Ida T., and John J. DeBoer, eds., Educating for Peace, A Report of the Committee on International Relations of the National Council of Teachers of English, D. Appleton-Century Co., NYC, 1940.
Lewis, John, The Case Against Pacifism, with a new introduction for the Garland ed.
O'Sullivan, John, and Alan Meckler, eds., The Draft and Its Enemies: A Documentary History, Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1974.
www.centeronconscience.org /biblio_I-Q.htm   (12137 words)

  
 Budweiser Blues Bash 2004 : History of the Bash
Erwin helps book piano legend Blind John Davis who, tragically, passes away enroute to the Chicago’s O’Hare airport on his way to Charleston.
The group manages to book John Jackson, Cephas & Wiggins, and Beausoleil before eventually folding up its tent (still exists as only a folk dance club).
Erwin invited Koko Taylor, John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys, Guitar Gabriel, Big Boy Henry, Chubby Carrier, Skeeter Brandon, Jimmy Walker, and Lightnin’ Wells, and a handful of local and regional acts, as well making room for Shrimp City Slim (Erwin & his band) and of course Billy Branch & SOB’s.
www.bluesbash.com /2004/history.php   (1148 words)

  
 GREENCASTLE BANK JOB
This is the correct story told for the first time in best selling book Dillinger, The Hidden Truth, in which a more detailed account is told.
It happened like this: A fl studebaker pulls up next to the Central National Bank of Greencastle and double parks on Jackson Street.
Harry Pierpont walks up to the fourth teller and asks Ward Mayhal for change for a twenty dollar bill.
www.johnniedillinger.freeservers.com /custom4.html   (373 words)

  
 Studebaker, index.php - Jalopnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He reports that the Chicago to St. Louis lunch run has some really fast portions to it, roads where it would be theoretically possible to do 200+.
He's gonna try to have the parts overnighted and see if they can't get the last two days of the rally in back in the Studebaker, which is currently travelling in Richard Rawlings' Gas Monkey Garage trailer.
Coop lamented in the comments on the post that he wanted to run the race, but his license points had just returned to normal.
www.jalopnik.com /cars/studebaker/index.php   (1075 words)

  
 University of Alberta Libraries
Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston and Co. c1930, ix, 341p.
McMackin, Frank Joseph, John A. Marsh and Charles E. Baten.
Knight, Frederic Butterfield, John Ward Studebaker and Gladys Tate.
www.library.ualberta.ca /print2004/index.cfm?file=/contentcms/education/bibliography/sebi0014.html   (4650 words)

  
 Genealogy Data
Studebaker, Sharon L. Birth : 21 Mar 1945
Studebaker, Paul E. Birth : 26 May 1947
Studebaker, Dennis E. Birth : 6 Oct 1948
www.fortunecity.com /boozers/ship/208/dat132.htm   (205 words)

  
 Index to Finding Aids - Special Collections - The University of Iowa Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John served in the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War, and later lived in Burlington, Iowa.
*PRATT, JOHN W. Diaries of John W. Pratt, 1862-1865.
Relates his feelings and experiences with the 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/manuscriptsP.html   (564 words)

  
 idaho mountain express : Middle Fork's a world unto itself :  December 11 - 17, 2002
Wagoner’s poems are interspersed through the book, as are essays by Studebaker.
Writer and kayaker Greg Moore recounts a kayak trip down Loon Creek, a tributary to the Middle Fork, with Al Reynolds and John Ward, Sun Valley residents credited with the first descent of Loon Creek in 1980.
There are essays on the geology of the canyon and some of the history of the Native Americans who lived there.
www.mtexpress.com /2002/02-12-11/02-12-11leidecker.htm   (586 words)

  
 IHC - 2002 Annual Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Keith and Rowena Ward, Auburn, AL In memory of Harriet S. McConnel and Adelaide Blakeslee, Oregon
John Matthew and Judy McKay, Sahuarita, AZ Kathleen McClenahan, Boise
Keith and Rowena Ward, Auburn, AL Connie Weaver, Boise
www.idahohumanities.org /reports   (5162 words)

  
 communigator - Fall 2002
John Freeman, “Grief and Sorrow: When Pictures Are Worth More Than A Thousand Words,” in the collection, How We Fashioned the Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon into Learning Opportunities, Modern Language Association.
John Kaplan, “The Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship,” international touring photo exhibition, Museum of Science, London, October, 2001.
John Kaplan and Kurt Kent, “Documenting A Dying Culture,” University of Florida Today, March 2001.
www.jou.ufl.edu /Pubs/Communigator/fall2002/publications.htm   (2522 words)

  
 Scholarships Available for Undergraduates in Animal Sciences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The purpose of this scholarship shall be to assist worthy students enrolled in the Department of Dairy and Animal Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University who display special interest and talent in Animal Husbandry, and particularly in the field of meats.
The purpose of this award shall be to honor and recognize outstanding achievement by undergraduate students who are enrolled in the Department of dairy and Animal Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University.
First preference for funding shall be for the support of the twenty Angus heifer calves that will be donated by Robert A. Kinsley.
www.das.psu.edu /indexV6.cfm?pagedefs=scholarships/_incPgDefsV6.cfm   (2356 words)

  
 Inventory of the Frank Porter Graham Papers, 1908-1972
Additions received from Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in December 1990 (Acc.
98717); John Parker of Chapel Hill, N.C., in September 2000 (Acc.
Sinclair Lewis); Thompson, Holland; Thompson, John B.; Thompson, Lawrence Sidney; Thompson, Randall; Thompson, Robert L.; Thompson, William Taliaferro; Thomson, Charles Alexander; Tigert, John James; Tillett, Charles William, Jr.; Tillett, Gladys (Mrs.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/01819.html   (2372 words)

  
 We call it a National Community Youth Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
By: Idaho State Board of Education John Ward Studebaker
John's rural athletic program has been selected by PAYS for the national...
SMYAL youth have recently spoken at SMYAL fundraising events, and at community forums such as the National Black Justice...
www.rollingfelony.com /car-books-reviewed/B0008CBGSA.html   (286 words)

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