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2 unusual facts about Mary P. Sinclair


Mary P. Sinclair

Public Broadcasting Service carried the show nationally, and the transcript was printed in the Michigan Education Association's publication, Teacher’s Voice.

When Consumers Power announced their intentions to build the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on the shoreline of Lake Michigan in 1967, Mary Sinclair's background in nuclear fission technology prompted her to write a letter to the editor questioning the safety of several elements of their plan.


Gurdjieff Foundation

It was then led by Dr. William J. Welch until his death in 1999, after which it was led jointly by Paul Reynard, a painter and teacher of Gurdjieff Movements, and Frank R. Sinclair, author of Without Benefit of Clergy and Of the Life Aligned, until Reynard's death in 2005.

John A. Sinclair

John Alexander Sinclair, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1953 to 1956.

Peter J. N. Sinclair

His first job, before the university, was in the export department of Linde AG in Germany.

A former visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and Queen's University in Canada, he has also lectured in China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lesotho, Poland, Russia and the U.S. He is currently a visiting professor at The London School of Economics and University of Warwick, and chairman of the Royal Economic Society Easter School, and the International Economics Study Group.

Robert J. Sinclair

Some 250,000 of the Saab 900 convertible were sold (including the NG900) over the succeeding two decades.

Robert J. Sinclair, (March 17, 1932 — May 10, 2009) was a United States automotive industry executive who served as Chief executive officer of Saab-Scania of America from May 1979 until September 1991, where he helped improve the popularity of Saab's cars by convincing the parent company to manufacture cars with high-end options such as turbochargers and a convertible version of its Saab 900 that was designed to appeal to American consumers.

In the 1980s, Sinclair was named a Commander of the Order of the Polar Star by Sweden's King Carl Gustav XVI, the country's highest honor awarded to non-heads of state for contributions to Sweden's economy and culture.


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