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Girard College is an independent college preparatory five-day boarding school located on a 43-acre campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school was founded and permanently endowed from the shipping and banking fortune of Stephen Girard upon his death in 1831.
Joseph Girard III (born November 27, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Nevėžis Kėdainiai of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). He played for Glens Falls High School in New York , where he became the state's all-time leading scorer.
Stephen Girard (born Étienne Girard; May 20, 1750 – December 26, 1831) was a French-born American banker and philanthropist. Born in Bordeaux , Girard subsequently immigrated to the Thirteen Colonies where he established himself in the American banking industry .
An advocate of militant protest, Moore organized demonstrations against workplace discrimination at construction sites in Philadelphia in 1963 and 1964, [4] and is best remembered for leading a picket against Girard College in 1964, which hastened the desegregation of that school. [5]
Johnson was born in Ashley, Pennsylvania, on November 10, 1924, [1] [2] to Russell Kennedy Johnson (1901–1932) and Marion Wenonah Smink Johnson (1902–1976).. Johnson was the eldest of seven siblings: Kenneth Walter Johnson (1925–2012), David Reed Johnson (1926–1976), Lois Marion Johnson (1927–1928), Lorraine Johnson Crosby (1928-2015), Marion Joan Johnson Reeves (1930–2010), and ...
Alisa Childers (born Alisa Noelle Girard; April 17, 1975) is an American author and singer, known as a member of the all-female Christian music group ZOEgirl. Career [ edit ]
Girard Cavalaz (1225–1247), Italian troubadour from Lombardy Girard Desargues (1591–1661), French mathematician and engineer, considered one of the founders of projective geometry Girard "Gerry" McDonald (born 1958), American ice hockey player
The region was named after Cecil Bassett Moore (April 2, 1915 – February 13, 1979) who was a Philadelphia lawyer, activist in the Civil Rights Movement who led the fight to integrate Girard College, president of the local NAACP, and member of Philadelphia's City Council. [2]