In the 1979 movie classic Breaking Away he played the part as himself where the students are being lectured on their behavior at the dining hall where they fought the Cutters (a reference to stonecutters who worked in the limestone quarries in southern Indiana).
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The presentation was a particularly special occasion, because it was Ryan who, as president, created the University Medal in 1982, bestowing it first on Thomas T. Solley, director of the IU Art Museum.
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Alcock Island is for Sir John W. Alcock (1892–1919), who, with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight on June 14–15, 1919.
He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin.
Garrett is named for the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad John Work Garrett.
On February 13, 1962, in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U.S. Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Ryan was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 14th congressional district to the 87th Congress.
John J. Ryan, known as Jack, head football coach at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin
John W. Boehne (1856–1946), U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1913
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress, but was elected to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John W. Weeks and served from April 15, 1913 to March 3, 1915.
John W. Patterson (1872–?), nicknamed Pat, African American baseball player and team manager 1893–1907
John W. A. Sanford (1798 - 1870), United States Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia
John W. Skinner (1890–1955), headmaster of Culford School, 1924–1951
John W. Snow (born 1939), American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Stanton, founder and former CEO of Western Wireless Corporation
John W. Tait (born 1945), Egyptologist and Edwards Professor for the Institute of Archaeology at University College London
Aldridge’s work includes one of the first favorable notices of Joseph Heller’s novel Something Happened and several essays on the creative strengths of Norman Mailer.
He is the paternal grandson of John W.E. Bowen, Sr., former President of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, former Professor of Music at Clark College in Atlanta.
He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress.
He was for many years an active Republican, but joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872, and was a delegate to the Liberal Republican National Convention in Cincinnati which nominated Horace Greeley for President.
Cranford was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1899.
He was instrumental in building the Eastern Shore Railroad and served as president, connecting it to the fishing town of Somers Cove which was growing rapidly due to the seafood industry there.
His birthplace, the John Marshall Warwick House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
During this time, he supervised the construction of the Ritz Hotel, the Waldorf Hotel, the Morning Post Building, three London Underground stations, the Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the Lancaster Town Hall.
In 1970 Gallivan was a key figure in the effort to push through the U.S. Congress, The Newspaper Preservation Act, legislation intended to protect papers with joint operating agreements from anti-trust laws that might have forced some competing papers out of business.
Greer authored legislation prohibiting members of the Ku Klux Klan from wearing masks and legislation authorizing a 1% sales tax for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
Langley was elected in March 4, 1907 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses where he became known as "Pork Barrel John." He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).
Maddox was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1905).
John W. Meldrum did not travel to Yellowstone until July 1894 making his way via train, coach, wagon and horseback from Laramie via Salt Lake City, Henry's Lake and the Madison River.
The Unity of Popper's Thought. In Paul A. Schilpp (ed.): The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Book I. La Salle, Illinois 1974 (Open Court), ISBN 0-87548-141-8, pp.
When John North suffered financial failure in the Panic of 1857, his business interests were purchased in 1859 by his friend, Charles Augustus Wheaton, who had moved to Northfield from Syracuse on the advice of the Norths after the death of Wheaton's first wife.
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He is the founder of the cities of Northfield, Minnesota, and of Riverside, California, where John W. North High School and the John W. North Water Treatment Plant are named after him.
He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth Congresses and served from April 2, 1918, until his death in Chicago, Illinois, on May 4, 1923.
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Rainey was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Martin.
A successful real estate broker from Huntersville, North Carolina, Rhodes represented North Carolina's Ninety-Eighth House district (northern Mecklenburg County) for two terms (2003–2007).
He was married three times, to Kitty, Linda Kuechler, and Michele Metrinko, and had ten children including John W., Jr., James, Catherine, Patrick, Ted, Jeff, Michele, Monique, Michael and Marc, as well as eleven grandchildren, John III, Jamie, Fontayne, Charlie, Rachel, Katie, Sarah, Emma, Kaitlyn, William, and Morgan.
Rosa is a pilot with more than 3,600 flying hours in the A-7, A-10, the Hunter and Jaguar aircraft, F-16, F-117A, HH-60G and HC-130.
His fiction has also appeared in The Stinging Fly, Books Ireland and The Journal of Irish Literature.
Woolley was born to Edwin D. and Mary W. Woolley, the first of Edwin's seven wives, in Newlin, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
John W. Weeks (1860–1926), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of War
John W. Woolley (1831–1928), American Latter Day Saint and one of the founders of the Mormon fundamentalism movement
He worked as a Special Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in Birmingham, Alabama under John W. Kirklin and in the University of Oregon under Albert Starr.
A lifelong, active Republican, Bates broke with the party to endorse Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis in 1924 because of Republican opposition to American participation in the League of Nations.
He is also credited as a voice-over actor in the 1991 animated series Little Shop, based on the film Little Shop Of Horrors, in which he voiced the character Paine Driller.
Also in 1871, Captain John W. Barlow, a military member of the Hayden expedition ascended the peak on August 10, 1871 and named it Mount Sheridan to honor the general.
The series was created by Dave Cooper and J. Ryan and was originally called "Pig Goat Banana Mantis".
Reprinted in 2002 by Midnight House, including an essay by D. H. Olsen, titled "Honor, Sadism and Dysfunction: The Dark, Demented World of R. R. Ryan"
In one of these, on November 9, 1862, Union General John W. Geary undertook a reconnaissance mission from Harpers Ferry.
He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.
He served as Bishop of Buffalo from 1868 until his death in 1896.
Nevertheless, he published first stories by luminaries such as Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell, Jr., Clifford D. Simak, and E.E. "Doc" Smith.
Jordan sought re-election in the new 10th Milwaukee County district (16th and 23rd wards), and was defeated by Republican John W. Eber, who received 3829 votes to Jordan's 2618.