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The Winton M. Blount Elementary School in Montgomery County, completed in 2003, is named in his honor. Located on the city's rapidly growing east side, it is one of the largest elementary schools in the region. The Blount Undergraduate Initiative, a liberal arts honors program for Blount Scholars, was started at the University of Alabama ...
Charles Barkley Lucas Black Winton M. Blount Jimmy Buffett. Spencer Bachus, representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district 1993–2015 (Vestavia Hills) Mary Badham, actress ; David Baker, activist ; Locy Baker, Alabama House of Representatives 1994–2010 ; Hank Ballard, singer
Vera Gissing (born Věra Diamantová; 4 July 1928 – 12 March 2022 [1]) was a Czech-British writer, translator, and one of "Winton's children", the children saved by the actions of Nicholas Winton. Her sister, who accompanied her on the kindertransport , was the diarist and nurse Eva Hayman .
In his campaign for re-election to a third term, James faced strong opposition in the Republican party primary from Winton Blount III, a fellow conservative and a millionaire businessman whom James was documented referring to as a "fat monkey." [22] He sharply criticized James's close ties to the Christian right. James struggled through the ...
Mináč got the idea for "a film about what preceded the war from the perspective of a child" from stories recounted by his mother. For further inspiration, he visited Prague's Jewish Museum and read Vera Gissing's Pearls of My Childhood, which briefly mentioned Nicholas Winton rescuing hundreds of children before the war.
Whitton was born on Fort Meade, Maryland, a US Army base in the suburbs of Baltimore.She spent many of her formative years in Japan; her father was an Army colonel, and her mother was a nurse.
Tanya Trotter (née Blount) is an American actress, musician and author. She began her career as a teen actress, appearing in the 1993 film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit . She went on to release her debut album Natural Thing (1994), which featured the songs " Through the Rain " and " I'm Gonna Make You Mine ".
He met his wife Denise when they were children at school. When he was 18 and recovering from a car accident, they reconnected as she was a student nurse. They married when Winton was 21 and she was 20, and had three children together. [6] Winton's younger brother, Andrew Winton, is a musician and a high school chaplain.