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unusual facts about Frank W. Cyr


Thomas Built Buses

In 1939, Dr. Frank W. Cyr of New York, who became known as "The Father of the Yellow School Bus", hosted a 7 day long national conference of industry and school leaders which established 44 important safety standards and the yellow color for school buses all across the United States.


Battle of Agua Dulce

The General Council alternately gave command of the expedition to James Fannin and Frank W. Johnson.

Bay Island

Children in the neighborhood attend three schools depending on grade level: John B. Dey Elementary School, Great Neck Middle School, and Frank W. Cox High School.

Carl Weiss

Felix Pavy was defeated for lieutenant governor by Paul N. Cyr of Iberia Parish, who thereafter turned against Long.

Frank King

Frank W. King (1912–1988), Democratic leader and member of the Ohio Senate

Frank Lewis

Frank W. Lewis (1912–2010), cryptographer and crossword compiler

Frank W. Bubb, Sr.

He was a part of the team that developed the cyclotron that produced the first batch of plutonium for the then secret program only referred to as the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb.

Frank W. Fries

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Frank W. Lewis

Frank Waring Lewis (August 25, 1912 – November 18, 2010) was an American cryptographer and cryptic crossword compiler.

Frank W. Milburn

He retired from military service in April 1952 and worked briefly as the athletic director at Montana State University.

Frank W. Parker

The paper's editor and publisher, Carl Magee, was subsequently tried and convicted of criminal libel.

Frank W. Warner

In 1914–1915 and again in 1917 Warner served as a missionary among the Sioux and Assiniboine at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Frank W. Wheeler

In 1864, he moved with his parents to East Saginaw, Michigan and attended the Saginaw High School and the Ypsilanti State Normal School (now (Eastern Michigan University).

Goliad massacre

On February 27, 1836, Urrea's advance patrol surprised Frank W. Johnson and about 34 men, initiating the Battle of San Patricio, where they killed about 10 and took 18 prisoners.

Harry K. Knapp

In 1906, New York Governor Frank W. Higgins appointed him Chairman of the New York State Racing Commission.

Humorama

In addition to the cartoons, the magazines also displayed black-and-white photos of pin-up models, including Bettie Page, Eve Meyer and stripper Lili St. Cyr, plus actresses, including Joi Lansing, Tina Louise, Irish McCalla and Julie Newmar.

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr

Attorney General John Ashcroft argued that the new federal laws stripped him of the authority to grant St. Cyr a waiver.

Jerry Giesler

Giesler also won acquittal for Lili St. Cyr, Charlie Chaplin, gangster Bugsy Siegel, producer Walter Wanger–accused of shooting an agent who was paying too much attention to actress Joan Bennett, Wanger's wife, and Buron Fitts, a district attorney accused of improper conduct.

Maria Domenica Mazzarello

The next morning, more out of a concern for worrying her already exhausted companions, she was able to get up, see the missionaries off, and then journey with her remaining Sisters to their house and orphanage in St. Cyr.

Military history of the United Arab Emirates

Most are graduates of the United Kingdom's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with others having attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Royal Military College, Duntroon and St. Cyr, the military academy of France.

Prince Nashimoto Morimasa

In 1903, he went to the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr at St. Cyr, France, but returned to Japan the following year and served with his regiment as a captain under General Yasukata Oku in the Russo-Japanese War.

Richard Beere

He appears as a character in Monk and Knight (1891) by Frank W. Gunsaulus.

San Patricio, Texas

With the approval of the General Council, Texas revolutionaries James Grant, Frank W. Johnson and Robert C. Morris collaborated on plans to lead an assault on the Mexican town of Matamoros.

Taylor Daily Press

Earlier called the Taylor Press, it was published from 1959-1974 by Frank W. Mayborn, the late publisher of the Temple Daily Telegram and the Killeen Daily Herald.

Tempest Storm

Along with Lili St. Cyr, Sally Rand, and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best known burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960s.

Temple Daily Telegram

The Telegram is locally owned and operated by Frank Mayborn Enterprises, under editor and publisher Anyse Sue Mayborn, the widow of Frank Mayborn.

Thomas M. Hatfield

His current scholarship includes writing the biography of James Earl Rudder, war hero and president of Texas A&M University (1958–1970) to be published by the Texas A&M Press in 2011 and the memoir of Frank W. Denius, war hero and philanthropist.


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