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2 unusual facts about Blatt


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Solomon Blatt, Jr., federal district judge in South Carolina and former trustee of the University of South Carolina

Leah Blatt Glasser, American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College


...And the Native Hipsters

The Patterns became the Native Hipsters in 1979 when they recorded "There Goes Concorde Again", a 6:45 minute song featuring Blatt repeating with "childlike enthusiasm" the refrain "Ooh, look, there goes Concorde again", with reference to sightings of the famed "silverbird".

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Oklahoma Policy Institute

In 2010, Blatt replaced Matt Guillory as Executive Director, and the organization's main office was moved from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Tulsa.

Solomon Blatt, Jr.

While at the University, Blatt was a member on the boxing team and competed in the lightweight class.

As a trustee, Blatt served on the athletic committee and was instrumental in getting Frank McGuire to become the basketball coach at the University.

Solomon Blatt, Sr.

Blatt married Ethel Green on March 20, 1920 and they had one son, Solomon Blatt, Jr. Blatt served for 53 consecutive years in the legislature and was honored by the Council of State Governments as the longest serving state legislator in the nation.

Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Professor Howard Blatt, Hawkins’ friend and mentor at Howard, informed him of a special scholarship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Wawelberg Group

The Germans announced, in the June 18, 1921 Amts-Blatt der Königlichen Regierung zu Oppeln (Official Gazette of the Opole District), a reward of 10,000 Reichsmarks for information about the perpetrators of the attacks.


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