Fred Fassert (born 1935) is most famously known as the writer of the popular song "Barbara Ann," which was originally written for the band that he was in at the time, The Regents.
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Outside the U.S., an advertising jingle associated with the product plays on the lyrics of the song "Barbara Ann", written by Fred Fassert and recorded by The Regents, and later a hit for The Beach Boys.
He won the governorship in the Democratic primary in a run-off election in 1946 by defeating Homer Rainey, who had been discharged by the regents as the president of the University of Texas at Austin in 1944 in a dispute over academic freedom.
He comes from a rich family (he is the son of Vexacion, one of the Regents) and has been raised to fight in a manner similar to ancient Spartans (a particularly disturbing SOL sequence shows a prepubescent Bosch killing a Genic five times his size at the demand of his father).
A chance meeting between Charles Munro, the chairman of the Regents Canal prior to 1816 and the long-named Committee of the Society for relieving the Manufacturing Poor led to discussions of government loans, and the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission was created under the provisions of the Poor Employment Act 1817, with powers to lend money to public schemes which would create employment for those without work.
He served as the general editor of the Regents Renaissance Drama series, and was a Guggenheim Fellow.
In 1995, the Daily Nexus filed suit against California Governor Pete Wilson and the UC Regents, alleging that the regents had illegally conspired during phone conferences to line up support for the cancellation of Affirmative Action.
He expanded the UCLA library system, enlarged the School of Medicine's basic science programs, convinced the regents of the University of California to purchase and maintain a cyclotron for the school, and founded the Jules Stein Eye Institute and a museum now known as the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Chairman Parsky oversaw the Regents’ governance of the University, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U.S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U.C. Merced campus, as well as budget and fiscal issues, including pension plans for the faculty and staff.
It was founded by Dr. Arthur Gillette and Jessie Haskins in 1897, taking on Arthur Gillette's name as the hospital's first chief surgeon, an appointment given by the regents of the University of Minnesota.
It was acquired by the Regents Canal Company in 1857, and became part of the Grand Union Canal in 1927.
During the administration of Chancellor Barnard of the University, from July, 1858, to July, 1860, Prof. Sterling was de facto head of the institution and from the latter date until June, 1867, he was acting chancellor, by authority of the regents.
Following the Regents Canal through Camden The Greenway then connects to East London through Victoria Park to the River Thames where the Woolwich Foot Tunnel ties Greenwich and the South Bank to the Jubilee Walkway at Tower Bridge and back to St James’ via Westminster.
Some Advanced Placement exams and SAT subject tests are allowable by NYSED as substitutes for the Regents Examination for that subject (e.g., AP American History in place of the U.S. History and Government Regents).
Also starting in 1890, the Secretary to the Board of Regents – then Melvil Dewey, also head of the State Library – supervised full-time inspectors of secondary schools, libraries, colleges, and other institutions reporting to the Regents.
Clark's son, William Andrews Clark, Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1919, left his library of rare books and manuscripts to the regents of the University of California, Los Angeles.
The regents of the young emperor, Empress Dowager Dou and her brother Dou Xian, favoured a more militaristic policy to the Northern Xiongnu problem.