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Duane Calvin Acker (March 13, 1931 – December 13, 2024) was an American academic who served as the president of Kansas State University from 1975 to 1986. [1] Acker attended Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University and held B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in animal husbandry.
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Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson (January 20, 1883 - December 9, 1968) was an Atlantic City political boss, sheriff of Atlantic County, businessman, and crime boss who was the leader of the political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government from the 1910s until his conviction and imprisonment in 1941.
D'Amato married Betty Jane Creamer on June 4, 1949. The couple had two children and remained married until Creamer's death in 1972. In 1976, their son Angelo was charged with the murder of a co-worker at the D'Amato home in Ventnor. After his release from prison, Angelo was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on October 7, 1983, for the ...
[2] A funeral and memorial service was held at Truro Cathedral on 24 November 2009. [3] On 21 September 2010, his widow, Christina Schmid, was a contributor in a programme in BBC Radio 4's Soul Music series about Gabriel Fauré's Requiem with conductor David Willcocks. The Requiem was performed at the memorial service for Schmid. [5]
The Press of Atlantic City is the fourth-largest daily newspaper in New Jersey. Originally based in Pleasantville , it is the primary newspaper for southeastern New Jersey and the Jersey Shore . The newspaper designated market runs from Waretown in southern Ocean County (exit 69 on the Garden State Parkway ) down to Cape May (exit 0).
Adolph W. Schmidt was born in 1904 and raised in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. [1] He was educated at Princeton University and Harvard Business School. [2] He met his future wife, Helen "Patsy" Mellon (great-granddaughter of Thomas Mellon, founder of the Mellon Bank), during a fox hunt at the Rolling Rock Club in the Ligonier Valley. [3]
Gladys Leonore Schmitt (May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – October 3, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American writer, editor, and professor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Described by the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in 1942 as one of the city's "literary lights, [ 3 ] her second novel, David the King became a Literary Guild selection which rose ...