He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter ; saxophonist Andrew Love of The Memphis Horns ; soul singer / songwriter William Bell and Earth, Wind, & Fire's Maurice White.

He was survived by his wife, the former Margaret James, whom he married about 1955 ; two sons, Rubel Phillips, Jr., and wife Melinda of Round Hill, Virginia, and Dr. William James Phillips and wife Alison of Jackson, Mississippi ; two granddaughters, and two brothers, William Maurice Phillips and wife Joan of Corinth, Mississippi and Frank Price Phillips of Memphis, Tennessee.

The Brundtland Commission provided the momentum for the 1992 Earth Summit / UNCED, that was headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

He also had some public support for his staying on in the War Cabinet for the duration, which was strongly backed by Sir Maurice Hankey, former WW1 Colonel and member of both WW1 & WW2 War Cabinets.

A member of Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français from age 20, Maurice Duverger completed his studies in from the Bordeaux Department of Law in 1942, before lecturing in law at Poitiers in 1942, and Bordeaux in 1943 ( where he would, in 1948, found the Institut d ' Études Politiques as its first director ).

Jean Michel Jarre was born in Lyon on 24 August 1948, to composer Maurice Jarre and French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor France Pejot.

In an event unique in the history of the Académie, he was received as a member by his own brother Maurice, who had been elected in 1934.

; Maurice Roy ( full member of the Académie française ): for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.

The Brundtland Commission set up by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the pioneer of sustainable development, provided the momentum for first Earth Summit 1992 – the United Nations Conference on Environmental Development ( UNCED ), that was also headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission – and also for Agenda 21.

Former board member Maurice ' Pete ' Callaway, a member of the Pleasantville City Council, was accused of accepting $ 13, 000 in bribes as part of the scheme.

Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE ( 22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012 ) was a singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry.

As a literary critic and early member of Académie Goncourt, he ' discovered ' Maurice Maeterlinck and Marguerite Audoux and admired Remy de Gourmont, Marcel Schwob, Léon Bloy, Georges Rodenbach, Alfred Jarry, Charles-Louis Philippe, Émile Guillaumin, Valery Larbaud and Léon Werth ( cf.

* Amy Luckenbach-American who lived in Italy, founding member of Burattini A Spasso, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are

In 1969, Maurice White, a former session drummer for Chess Records and former member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, joined two friends in Chicago, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead, as a songwriting team composing songs and commercials in the Chicago area.

In 1972, Maurice added vocalist Jessica Cleaves, a former member of the R & B group The Friends of Distinction, Ronnie Laws on the flute and saxophone, rhythm guitarist Roland Bautista, keyboardist Larry Dunn, percussionist Ralph Johnson, and vocalist and Denver native Philip Bailey to the group.

Additionally, in 1975 Maurice established a production company called Kalimba Productions to which he signed artists such as his former bandleader Ramsey Lewis, singer Deniece Williams ( a former member of Stevie Wonder's Wonderlove backup group ) and girl group The Emotions, who had a run of hits with Stax Records from 1969 to 1974.

In 1710, he started in practice in Boston, Lincolnshire, becoming a member of Spalding Gentlemen's Society ( founded by his friend Maurice Johnson II ), before returning in 1717 to London.

* Maurice Lemaître ( 1926 –), member since 1950, and still actively pursuing his own approach to Letterism.

Peet eventually became known as a member of the children's story book triumvirate, including Maurice Sendak and Dr. Seuss.

At Cambridge he took a distinguished part in the debates of the union, and, became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, forming friendships with Frederick Denison Maurice and Richard Trench.

The Royals ' twelve-year stay in Rochester featured the services of nine future members of the Basketball Hall of Fame, one member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a Hollywood Walk of Famer: Al Cervi, Bob Davies, Alex Hannum, Les Harrison, Red Holzman, Arnie Risen, Maurice Stokes, Jack Twyman, Bobby Wanzer, Otto Graham, and Chuck Connors.

Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg ( Henry Maurice ; ; 5 October 1858 – 20 January 1896 ) was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.

* Maurice Goldman ( 70 °), physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences

Fanny Reinach's mother was a member of the Ephrussi family whose cousin Maurice was married to Béatrice de Rothschild.

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

After coming back to Paris in May 1941, he participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme et Liberté with other writers de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Toussaint Desanti and his wife Dominique Desanti, Jean Kanapa, and École Normale students.

In the 1880s, there was a debate between those, such as Georges Clemenceau ( Radical ), Jean Jaurès ( Socialist ) and Maurice Barrès ( nationalist ), who argued that colonialism diverted France from the " blue line of the Vosges " ( referring to Alsace-Lorraine ), and the " colonial lobby ", such as Jules Ferry ( moderate republican ), Léon Gambetta ( republican ) and Eugène Etienne, the president of the parliamentary colonial group.

Commanded by Emil Maurice, and known as the Stabswache ( Staff Guard ), the original group consisted of eight men and was modeled after the Erhardt Naval Brigade, a violent Freikorps of the time.

In 1929 the satellite group around the journal Le Grand Jeu, including Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Maurice Henry and the Czech painter Josef Sima, was ostracized.

A permanent group of party members who would serve as the Saalschutz Abteilung ( hall defense detachment ) for the DAP gathered around Emil Maurice after the February 1920 incident at the Hofbräuhaus.

Twelve issues of the main French edition of journal Internationale Situationniste were published, each issue edited by a different individual or group, including: Guy Debord, Mohamed Dahoiu, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Maurice Wyckaert, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Asger Jorn, Helmut Sturm, Attila Kotanyi, Jørgen Nash, Uwe Lausen, Raoul Vaneigem, Michèle Bernstein, Jeppesen Victor Martin, Jan Stijbosch, Alexander Trocchi, Théo Frey, Mustapha Khayati, Donald Nicholson-Smith, René Riesel, and René Viénet.

* R & B vocal group The Zodiacs, led by Maurice Williams.

One group, Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. formed to provide education and organize preservation efforts.

His election, which surprised his contemporaries, was engineered by a group of fellows led by Maurice Cowling, then the leading Peterhouse Historian.

Feeling that their role in the group had diminished following the arrival of the fiddles, the brass section of Paterson, Speare and Maurice left.

When the 23 year-old Albert Einstein started a study group, the Olympia Academy, with his two younger friends, Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht, he suggested that the first book to be read was Pearson's The Grammar of Science.

By 1896, the unity of the group had already begun to break: The Hommage à Cézanne, painted by Maurice Denis in 1900, recollects memories of a time already gone, before even the term Nabis had been revealed to the public.

Meanwhile, most members of the group — Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard — could stand, artistically, on their own.

Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group ; at the time, however, they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

Among the artists who considered themselves Nabis was Maurice Denis, whose journalism put the aims of the group in the eye of a progressive audience, and whose definition of painting — " a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order " — expressed the Nabis approach.

The band has received 20 Grammy nominations ; they won six as a group and two of its members, Maurice White and Bailey, won separate individual awards.

With only Verdine left, Maurice decided to re-form the group.

The album Head to the Sky was released in the spring of 1973 and gave the group their first two legitimate hit singles, " Evil ", co-written by Maurice and Philip, and " Keep Your Head to the Sky ", both of which reached the top 30 and the top 60 on the R & B and pop charts, respectively.

As some of the band's songs required lower register vocals than Bailey's, and due to the success of " Evil ", Maurice altered his role in the group to incorporate that of lead vocalist.