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Bruce Ritter (February 25, 1927 – October 7, 1999) was a Catholic priest and one-time Franciscan friar who founded the charity Covenant House in 1972 for homeless teenagers. By the 1980s, it had grown to an $87 million agency, operating numerous large centers in New York and six other major United States cities, as well as locations in ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Prescott E. Bloom, Illinois state senator [3] Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure; Chief of Protocol of the United States; U.S. Ambassador to Hungary; Jefferson R. Boulware, Illinois state representative and lawyer [4] Robert L. Burhans, Illinois state legislator and lawyer [5] John Edward Cassidy, Illinois Attorney General
Bruce Sussman. Class of 1971, Songwriter and librettist. Treat Williams, Class of 1973, actor (Hair, Prince of the City, TV's Everwood) Richard Plepler, Class of 1981, CEO of HBO; Jennifer Gareis, Class of 1992, actress (TV's The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless) Spliff Star, Class of 1996, rapper and hypeman for MC Busta Rhymes
Mary Rose McGeady, DC (June 28, 1928, Hazleton, Pennsylvania - September 13, 2012, Albany, New York) was an American Catholic religious sister with the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul who was widely acknowledged for her work with homeless youth in the United States.
Henry W. Austin, Illinois state legislator and businessman [16] David Axelrod, political strategist and former White House official; Ralph H. Barger, Illinois state legislator [17] Bruce Barton, author and advertising pioneer; congressman from New York (1937–1940) Redd Griffin, Illinois state legislator (1980–1982) [18]
Marc Bryan-Brown/WireImage John Ritter’s family members and famous friends are still honoring the late star 20 years after his death. The John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health hosted their ...
The Chicago Sun-Times has claimed to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, [4] which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire of 1871. [5]