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  Sharon Percy Rockefeller, President and Chief Executive Officer of WETA TV 26 / 90.9FM
In 2000, Rockefeller was elected to the PBS Board of Directors for her fourth term.
Rockefeller is the former chairman of the Virginia Association of Public Television Stations.
In October of 1994, Rockefeller was named a recipient of the Charles Frankel Prize by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recognition of her outstanding achievements in promoting the arts and humanities in her public broadcasting career.
www.weta.org /about/officers/sharon.php   (404 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Percy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Percy is a short form of the first name Percival.
Thomas Percy (1729–1811), English poet, Bishop of Dromore, editor of the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Spectator
The House of Percy (also Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages, having gained the title Baron Percy already in 1066.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Percy   (559 words)

  
 rockefeller.senate.gov :: Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Rockefeller has devoted his life in government - first as Governor for eight years and Senator for the past 18 - to securing the best jobs and opportunities for West Virginia workers and their children.
In addition to Toyota, Rockefeller successfully brought international companies Wheeling-Nisshin Steel to the northern panhandle, NGK Sparkplugs to Pocatalico, Sino Swearingen Aircraft to Martinsburg, Tiger Aircraft to the eastern panhandle, KS of West Virginia to Jackson County, and Okuno to Wayne County.
Rockefeller is nationally known as one of the strongest advocates for health care reform.
rockefeller.senate.gov /about_jay/biography.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Hypocrisy, The Name is Rockefeller by Michelle Malkin -- Capitalism Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rockefeller: She is the wife of Sen. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, D-West Va., who is the son of John D. Rockefeller III, who was the eldest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., founder of the Rockefeller Foundation, whose legendary father was the founder of Standard Oil Company.
Rockefeller lambasted a local county board for approving the Arlington illegal alien day labor center, which she said would create a "pretty hostile environment" for her workers and high-profile guests (including some of the Beltway's leading illegal immigration apologists).
Rockefeller fears that Washington's movers and shakers will be exposed to potential menaces who have been seen on the streets brawling, leering, loitering, and otherwise thumbing their noses at civil society.
www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=2996   (874 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Sharon Percy Rockefeller Has Cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president of WETA public television in Washington and former board chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, her husband, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, said Monday.
Rockefeller said his 60-year-old wife will be undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment for the next three months.
Sharon Rockefeller's twin sister, Valerie Percy, was murdered in the Percy family's home in 1966, during the time their father was campaigning for the Senate.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/jul/25/072507014.html   (217 words)

  
 .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rockefeller has applied the same dogged determination to his passion to improve health care.
After college, Rockefeller worked for the Peace Corps in Washington, DC where he served as the operations director for their largest overseas program in the Philippines.
He is also the proud grandfather of Laura Chandler Rockefeller and Sophia Percy Rockefeller, daughters to his son John.
www.allamericanpatriots.com /m-wfsection+print+articleid-649.html   (1039 words)

  
 American Experience | Fatal Flood | People & Events
Percy ran both his law practice and plantations with a vengeance, and by the early 1900s he controlled plantations exceeding 20,000 acres.
In 1910, Percy was appointed to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate, achieving the highest public office ever held by a member of the Percy family.
Percy, whose son Will Percy headed the relief effort in Greenville, turned a blind eye to the brutal treatment of the African American laborers and their families during the crisis.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/flood/peopleevents/p_lpercy.html   (730 words)

  
 Percy Rockefeller - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878-1934) was the son of William Rockefeller.
Rockefeller also served as the director of the Remington Arms Company.
Percy Avery Rockefeller was summoned before a US Senate's Stock Exchange in 1932 Investigating Committee to answer charges of stock manipulation.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Percy_Rockefeller   (88 words)

  
 TIME.com: The St. Paul -- Apr. 19, 1926 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Percy A. Rockefeller was the first important one.
Pryor put his $150,000 split into the Owenoke Corporation, of which he, Percy Rockefeller and Frederick B. Adams are equal partners, to complete (according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof.
The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,729171,00.html   (612 words)

  
 Percy page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Thomas Percy (1729-1811), English poet, Bishop of Dromore, editor of the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Spectator
The House of Percy (also Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages, many of whom have held the titles of Earl of Northumberland or Duke of Northumberland to this day.
Miller was born June 3, 1924, in Shelby County, near Findlay, the son of Roy Frederick and Nonia Alice Adams Miller.
www.potpurpedia.com /P/Percy.php   (607 words)

  
 life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness
Here in the Washington, DC area, we have WETA, located in Arlington, VA. WETA's Chief Executive Officer is one Sharon Percy Rockefeller, who, you might surmise by her name and high position in an outfit that actually sucks money from the rest of us, is one of those limo libs.
Cutting to the chase, Rockefeller just could not let her WETA minions and guests mingle with Latinos who didn't happen to be on a hunger strike against The Cruel White Man in Napa Valley; Latinos who were merely attempting to get some kind of work to feed their families.
WETA's Chief Executive Officer, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, who made an almost unprecedented appearance at the board meeting, was stinging in her rebuke to board members.
tzaddik.us /lilpoh/archives/000693.html   (644 words)

  
 mhp: The House of Bush: Born in a Bank
Percy A. Rockefeller took direct control of the Remington Arms Company, appointing his own man, Samuel F. Pryor, as the new chief executive of Remington.
Percy Rockefeller and Samuel Pryor's Remington Arms supplied machine guns and Colt automatic pistols; millions of rifles to Czarist Russia; over half of the small-arms ammunition used by the Anglo-American allies in World War I; and 69 percent of the rifles used by the United States in that conflict.
Walker became the bank's president and chief executive; Averell Harriman was chairman and controlling co-owner with his brother Roland "Bunny" Harriman, Prescott Bush's close friend from Yale; and Percy Rockefeller was a director and a founding financial sponsor.
www.modernhistoryproject.org /mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BushCh01   (4637 words)

  
 Overhills
By 1919, Kent’s withdrawal from the investment and Jordan’s death created the opportunity for W. Averell Harriman and Percy Avery Rockefeller (nephew of John D. Rockefeller), also avid sportsmen and frequent club guests, to take over the bulk of the investment and begin the construction of private vacation residences on the grounds.
the period included “Croatan”, built by Isabel Stillman Rockefeller for her grandchildren; as well as riding polo and hunt stables, hunting dog kennels, a tennis court, a paddle tennis court and a bath house on Overhills Lake.
Percy Rockefeller died in 1934 and the last fox hunt on the estate was held shortly after the death of his wife, Isabel, in 1935.
www.bragg.army.mil /culturalresources/overhills.htm   (896 words)

  
 The Far Left - America's Debate
Recently testifying before the county board, WETA CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller (Democratic Senator Rockefeller's wife) predicted a "pretty hostile environment" for Channel 26 and FM 90.9 employees who could be accosted by day laborers (mainly immigrant Hispanic men waiting for work) while walking from one building to another.
Sharon Percy Rockefeller are representatives of the "far left".
Sharon Percy Rockefeller has served the public broadcasting community for nearly twenty-five years as a leader and policy maker.
www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2941   (2469 words)

  
 Will The Daughter In Law Of Percy Rockefeller Be Our Next President? - Sean Hannity Discussion
He husband is the illegitimate Son of one Percy Rockefeller who was Gov. Of Arkansas.
Seldom mentioned, although known: the Rockefellers own and operate Arkansas, a very poor, backward state that is quite sizeable with a comparatively small population.
Several terms before Bill Clinton held that position, Winthrop Rockefeller was Arkansas Governor; Winthrop being the grandson of John Davison Rockefeller, founder of what some call the evil empire of Standard Oil.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=33792   (1068 words)

  
 Tuned in to the USA - A Woman's View
For the past 13 years, Sharon Rockefeller has worked full time as President/ CEO of WETA, the flagship public broadcaster of educational, informational, cultural and public affairs programming in the nation's capital.
Rockefeller has remained a keen political advocate for women’s issues.
Sharon is proud to be the third generation of Rockefellers to join the board of the Museum of Modern Art.
www.awomansviews.com /special/0403_rock.htm   (931 words)

  
 mhp: Soviet Russia
As a reward for his intervention, the Rockefellers appointed Mackenzie King head of the Rockefeller Foundation dept. of Industrial Research at a salary of $30,000 a year (the average wage in the U.S. at that time was $500 year).
John D. Rockefeller instructed his press agent, Ivy Lee in 1925 to promote Communism in the U.S. and to sparkplug a public relations drive which culminated in 1933 with the U.S. government recognition of Soviet Russia.
When Nelson Rockefeller was nominated for vice president in 1967, Pravda indignantly denounced his critics, saying that charges against Rockefeller were designed only to discredit him, and that the accusations came from ultra right wing organizations.
www.modernhistoryproject.org /mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=WorldCh02   (7297 words)

  
 National Gallery of Art | Press Office
Rockefeller has served the public broadcasting community for more than 25 years, primarily as president and chief executive officer of WETA, Washington’s flagship public television and radio stations since 1989, as well as a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for 12 years, including four years as chair.
Rockefeller was born in 1944 in Oakland, California, and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
She and her husband, Senator John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, have four children and reside primarily in Washington, DC.
www.nga.gov /press/2005/releases/trustees.shtm   (1278 words)

  
 LPVA - Editorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The other night on the ROCKEFELLER run " Public Broadcasting " (paid with my tax money thanks to Sharon Percy ROCKEFELLER's husband Senator John D. ROCKEFELLER IV) was a show on the World Trade Center entitled "Center of the World".
The two ROCKEFELLERS got this pseduo-corporation called the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to pay for the World Trade Towers.
The small businessmen all lost their battles to ROCKEFELLER appointed judges and their private property was condemned.
www.lpva.com /Archives/Editorial/Pauli/20040910.shtml   (658 words)

  
 Press Releases
Washington, D.C. - Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president and chief executive officer of WETA, will be awarded CINE’s highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, for her contributions as a major cultural force in education, fine arts and women’s issues.
The award, which recognizes Rockefeller’s leadership in public broadcasting for more than 25 years, will be presented at the CINE Golden Eagle Gala on April 22 at the Grosvenor Auditorium of the National Geographic Society.
Rockefeller has been president and CEO of WETA, Washington, D.C.’s flagship public television and radio stations, since 1989.
www.weta.org /about/news.php?release=12   (323 words)

  
 Bush book: Chapter -1-
Rockefeller (class of 1900), paid special attention to Prescott's class of 1917.
Percy Rockefeller and Samuel Pryor's Remington Arms supplied machine guns and Colt automatic pistols; millions of rifles to Czarist Russia; over half of the small-arms ammunition used by the Anglo-American allies in World War I; and 69 percent of the rifles used by the United States in that conflict.@s4
Walker became the bank's president and chief executive; Averell Harriman was chairman and controlling co-owner with his brother Roland ("Bunny"), Prescott Bush's close friend from Yale; and Percy Rockefeller was a director and a founding financial sponsor.
www.tarpley.net /bush1.htm   (4520 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Sharon Percy Rockefeller Has Cancer
"Sharon is a fighter, and I know she's going to beat this," Jay Rockefeller said in a statement.
Sharon Rockefeller has served as president and CEO of WETA since 1989.
She was West Virginia's first lady when Jay Rockefeller was governor from 1977 to 1985, before he joined the Senate.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/jul/25/072507014.html   (244 words)

  
 Media Watch -- 11/01/1989 -- Revolving Door: WETA's Democratic Pick
The Board of Trustees for WETA-TV and radio elected Democratic Party official Sharon Percy Rockefeller President and Chief Executive Officer of the Washington, D.C. PBS stations.
Appointed to the Board of Directors for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1977 by President Carter, she served as Chairman from 1981 until Reagan appointees managed to replace her in 1984.
The wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and daughter of former Senator Charles Percy, a liberal Republican from Illinois, she resigned in September as a member of the Democratic National Committee.
secure.mediaresearch.org /news/mediawatch/1989/mw19891101rd.html   (441 words)

  
 Sharon Percy Rockefeller has cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Also, I got the impression the Percy family wasn’t too keen on solving the murder fearing it was going to turnout to be a family embarrassment.
The Percy family had money up the wazzoo (sp?) to investigate this forever.
Wasn't Winfield Rockefeller of Arkansas diagnosed with cancer recently.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1450395/posts   (1004 words)

  
 George Bush Geneology - Eugenics-by-Warfare: Samuel Bush, Remington Arms, Rockefeller Pawn, Merchants of Death, WWI,
Frank Rockefeller, the brother of John D. and William who went into Great Lakes iron ore and steel, preceded Samuel Bush as Buckeye’s president from 1905 to 1908, which gave Bush a tie to the Rockefeller family, with its Standard Oil and National City Bank holdings.
Business was business and Rockefeller was well funded and understood the value of controlling the supply chain, and the Merritts just simply lost out in the great depression of the era.
Du Pont's GM and Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey collaborated with I.G. Farben, the Nazi chemical cartel, to form Ethyl GmbH.
ecosyn.us /Bush-Hitler/Blogspot/Samuel_Bush/Remington_Arms.html   (4202 words)

  
 Rockefeller - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Rockefeller family, founded by John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937) and his brother William Rockefeller (1841-1922), made a fortune in the oil business during the latter part of the 19th century through their Standard Oil Company.
The family became one of the great philanthropic families in the United States, and members have held high public offices including Vice President of the United States, held by Nelson Rockefeller.
The Rockefeller family originated from a small settlement in Germany called Rockenfeld, which suggests that it is named after them or they took their name from the settlement.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php?title=Rockefeller&...   (138 words)

  
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Percy Rockefeller William Rockefeller Shareholders - National Bank of Commerce N. Morgan ----------------------------------------------- M.T. Pyne Equitable Life - J.P. Morgan Percy Pyne Mutual Life - J.P. Morgan J.W. Sterling H.P. Davison - J. Morgan NY Trust/NY Edison Mary W. Harriman Shearman & Sterling A.D. Jiullard - North British Merc.
He maintains a residence on Sutton Place in New York City, and as head of "The London Connection," can be said to be the single most influential banker in the world.
Henry Schroder Banking Corp., J. Henry Schroder Trust Co., Rockefeller Center, Inc., Equitable Life Assurance Society (J.P. Morgan), and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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 Sherman Skolnick's Report
The Rockefellers like to own and operate entire states with a sizeable geography, good natural assets, and a relatively small population.
That way, if need be, to win a so-called "election", they could more or less find it cheap to buy all the votes they may need to install their people.
In simple terms, the backward state of Arkansas, controlled by the Rockefellers, with Rockefeller-agent calling himself "Bill Clinton" (or whatever his real name is), became the shuttle point for the Red Chinese in America.
skolnicksreport.com /rcsp.html   (1957 words)

  
 Michelle Malkin
Last summer, Rockefeller Foundation-funded writer David Bacon published an article sympathetic to illegal alien workers and critical of federal enforcement of employer sanctions against companies using illegal alien labor.
Rockefeller is also the chief executive officer of WETA, the leading PBS station in the Washington, D.C., area — and broadcasting home to such signatures programs as "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" and "Washington Week."
Across the country, from Long Island to Phoenix to Hollywood., law-abiding citizens have lodged similar complaints against government-supported illegal alien day labor sites — which have increased harassment, traffic, and crime in their neighborhoods.
www.jewishworldreview.com /michelle/malkin080603.asp   (750 words)

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