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2 unusual facts about Donald R. Gardner


Donald R. Gardner

The guest speaker at his retirement was GEN James T. Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, who referred to him as "the last Confederate general still on active duty" due to his research on America's Civil War.

He also holds a Master of Arts degree in History from Memphis State University.


Abraham B. Gardner

Gardner then studied law and became an attorney and business owner in Bennington, Vermont, including serving as President of the Eagle Square Manufacturing Company and the Bennington and Rutland Railroad.

Albert Alphonso Ridge

On May 23, 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Ridge to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated by Archibald K. Gardner.

All Glocks Down

"All Glocks Down" was the first single released from Heather B.'s debut album, Takin' Mine.

Arthur Gardner

A. D. Gardner (Arthur Duncan Gardner, 1884–1977), professor of medicine at Oxford University

Astra Film Festival

Throughout the decades, AFF Sibiu was honoured to present Portrait programmes of the world’s greatest documentary filmmakers: John Marshall (USA), David MacDougall (Australia), Robert Gardner (USA), Kim Longinotto (UK), Michael Yorke (UK), Mircea Săucan (Romania-Israel), Leonard Retel Helmrich (Holland), and Bob Connolly (Australia).

Avalon Rail

The company was founded in 2000 by former employees of Northern Rail Car Corporation, a railcar manufacturer then owned by William E. Gardner, who also owns the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad.

Battle of Driniumor River

Four U.S. soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor (all posthumously), for acts of outstanding valor during the battle; Private Donald R. Lobaugh and Staff Sergeant Gerald L. Endl of 32nd Division, and Second Lieutenants George W. G. Boyce, Jr. and Dale Eldon Christensen of 112th Cavalry Regiment.

Catastrophism

In a paper published in Icarus in 1975, William K. Hartmann and Donald R. Davis proposed that a catastrophic near-miss by a large planetesimal early in Earth's formation approximately 4.5 billion years ago blew out rocky debris, remelted Earth and formed the Moon, thus explaining the Moon's lesser density and lack of an iron core.

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation

Ambassador Richard N. Gardner, former US Ambassador to Italy and Spain, professor of law at Columbia University

David Gardner

David P. Gardner (born 1933), president of the University of California and also president of the University of Utah

Deltahedron

M. Gardner Fractal Music, Hypercards, and More: Mathematical Recreations, Scientific American Magazine.

Donald Johnston

Donald R. Johnston (1947–1969), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Donald Peterson

Donald R. Peterson (born 1923), professor emeritus of psychology at Rutgers University

Donald R. Bensen

He also wrote a number of media related novels, including works based on the Gunsmoke television series, and novelizations of William Goldman's screenplays for the 1979 films Mr. Horn and Butch and Sundance: The Early Days.

Bensen was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.

Donald R. Dwight

He also served as a South Hadley town meeting member, director of the J. Russell and Co. and the New England Daily Newspaper Association, trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank, chairman of Massachusetts Newspaper Information Service, treasurer of the Concord Monitor and the Valley Photo Engraving Corp., and president of the Edwardsville Intelligencer.

Donald R. Heath

During his tenure as Ambassador to Vietnam, Heath advocated and carried out American policy under Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that helped set the stage for American military involvement.

From 1920 to 1929, Heath held consular positions in Romania, Poland, and Switzerland.

Donald R. McMonagle

After F-4 training at Homestead AFB, Florida, he went on a 1-year tour of duty as an F-4 pilot at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea.

McMonagle received a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University-Fresno in 1985 and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 2003.

Donald R. Norland

He was later deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires at in Conakry, Guinea.

Edward Gardner

Edward W. Gardner (1867–1932), American balkline and straight rail billiards champion

Fred Gardner

Frederick D. Gardner (1869–1933), American coffin and hearse manufacturer

Frederick D. Gardner

The only political office he ever sought was a single term as governor, and he narrowly won the election of 1916.

Freeport, Pennsylvania

Donald R. Lobaugh, U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II

Fulbright Hearings

Testimony by John W. Gardner (Chairman of Common Cause, Washington, D.C.) on the swing in public opinion regarding Vietnam war; support for announced withdrawal date and schedule whereby prisoner releases would be phased with stages of withdrawal; need for reassertion of congressional power and influence vis-a-vis the Executive Branch.

Gastrolobium

In the 1930s and 1940s C.A. Gardner and H.W. Bennetts did considerable work identifying other species in Western Australia - leading to the publication of The Toxic Plants of Western Australia in 1956.

Guy Gardner

Guy B. Gardner (1920–1980), head football coach for the Howard Payne University Yellow Jackets

If Headz Only Knew

"If Headz Only Knew" was the second single released from Heather B.'s debut album, Takin' Mine.

John Naisbitt

In the world of politics he was assistant to the Commissioner of Education under President John F. Kennedy and served as special assistant to HEW Secretary John Gardner during the Johnson administration.

Lyndall Urwick

Burleigh B. Gardner criticized span of control as prohibiting democratic participation within the organization.

M. C. Gardner

The only odd group in the Whitman Canon were those poems that were added to editions after his death, by executor Horace Traubel: "Old Age Echoes."

National Commission on Excellence in Education

It was chaired by David P. Gardner and included prominent members such as Nobel prize-winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg.

Paul E. Meehl

In 2005, Donald R. Peterson, a student of Meehl's, published a volume of their correspondence.

Richard Gardner

Richard N. Gardner (born 1927), former American ambassador to Italy and Spain

Richard N. Gardner

While living in Washington D.C. in the 1960s, the Gardners were next-door neighbors and close friends to future US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her then-husband, journalist Joseph Medill Patterson Albright.

Simon Trumper

At the World Series of Poker he has had a 4th place finish in the 2001 $3,000 No Limit Hold-Em event (which also featured Johnny Chan and Kathy Liebert; and a 5th place finish in the 2005 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha event (which also featured Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein (who lost a critical pot to Simon, and then complained about it in his blog.), Erik Seidel and Julian "The Kid" Gardner.

Wilbur J. Cohen

President Lyndon B. Johnson elevated him to Under Secretary in 1965, and he was served as the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1968, following the resignation of John W. Gardner, because to be a Vietnam .


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