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3 unusual facts about Donald N. Sills


Donald N. Sills

He served as the first president of George Wythe College (now known as George Wythe University), and was succeeded by Oliver DeMille.

Sills has been in films, appeared on hundreds of broadcast radio and television programs, including the Phil Donahue Show, Larry King Live, and Pat Robertson’s 700 Club.

Glenn Kimber

Kimber and Donald N. Sills (founder of George Wythe College) partnered to found a for-profit university called American Founders University.


Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam

Contributed to Donald N. Levine's 'Ethiopia’s nationhood reconsidered', Análise Social, vol.

Burger King products

The expanded Burger King menu was part of a plan by then-company president Donald N. Smith to reach the broadest possible demographic market to better compete with McDonald's, and to fend off then newcomer Wendy's, who had a growing market share.

In 1978, Donald N. Smith was hired from McDonald's to help restructure the corporate operations of Burger King to better compete against his former company as well as the then up-and-coming chain, Wendy's.

Donald N. Frey

He was instrumental in promoting the first successful CD-ROM based information system, designing the dealer auto parts catalog for General Motors, by David Gump, to be distributed to dealers on CD.

As a tribute to his parents (his father was an engineer and his mother was studying engineering when the couple married) he set up the Margaret and Muir Frey Memorial Prize for Innovation and Creativity ("Frey Prize") at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in 2001.

During World War II Frey worked on the Packard V-1650 version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine for Packard Motors, the engines to be sent to England for placement in the Hurricanes and Spitfires.

National Center for Constitutional Studies

Board members of this non-profit included Skousen, William H. Doughty, Donald N. Sills, and Glenn Kimber.


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