* Jim Rayburn, founder of non-denominational Christian youth organization Young Life

Like other hosts of the day, Trebek made several guest appearances as panelist or player on other shows ; one of his guest appearances was on a special week of NBC's Card Sharks, in 1980, where he and several other game show hosts ( including Allen Ludden, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Jack Clark, Gene Rayburn, and Jim Lange ) competed in a week-long round robin tournament for charity.

The hosts who participated in that event were Allen Ludden, Gene Rayburn, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Tom Kennedy, Alex Trebek, Jack Clark and Jim Lange.

Young Life was founded by Jim Rayburn in 1941.

Jim Rayburn, Jr ( 1909-1970 ) was an ordained Presbyterian minister and the founder of Young Life.

Rayburn's personal journals were published in 2008 as The Diaries of Jim Rayburn.

* Rayburn, Jim: The Diaries of Jim Rayburn ( 2008 ) Rayburn's personal journals, edited and annotated by Kit Sublett Morningstar Press and Whitecaps Media ISBN 978-0-9758577-7-9

* Rayburn, Jim III ; From Bondage To Liberty-Dance, Children, Dance a biography by his son ( 2000 ) ISBN 0-9673897-4-7

* The Jim Rayburn Foundation

* The Diaries of Jim Rayburn

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* Jim Rayburn, founder of Young Life

Jim Rayburn started the organization on Oct. 16 1941 in Dallas TX.

* Rayburn, Jim: The Diaries of Jim Rayburn ( 2008 ) Rayburn's personal journals, edited and annotated by Kit Sublett Morningstar Press and Whitecaps Media ISBN 978-0-9758577-7-9

* A " Game Show Hosts " special featuring Gene Rayburn, Gary Owens, Tom Kennedy, Dennis James, and Jim Lange, plus Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows co-author Fred Wostbrock.

His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.

The only regular panelist was Match Game host Gene Rayburn, who occupied the lower-left square ; Bauman, in turn, filled that seat during Match Game.

He first appeared on Robert Q. Lewis's The Name's the Same ; Rayburn frequently sat in for regular panelist Carl Reiner, lending a comic touch to the panel.

However, around this time Entertainment Tonight allegedly reported that Rayburn was 70 years old ; he was in fact only 69, however this was still several years older than most producers thought he was.

Coppell has uniquely convenient automobile transportation ; no freeways go directly through the city, but the entire perimeter is served by SH121 and the Sam Rayburn Tollway ( west and north ), Interstate 635 ( south ), and the President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 35E ( east ).

Rayburn was instrumental to LBJ's ascent to power, particularly his unusual and rapid rise to the position of Minority Leader ; Johnson had been in the Senate for a mere four years when he assumed the role.

Rayburn alone determined who received an invitation to these gatherings ; to be invited to even one was a high honor.

He was himself readily accessible to members ; historian Anthony Champagne of the University of Texas at Dallas, a Rayburn scholar, views the Speaker as a " bridge between the northern and southern members " of the Democratic Party.

* Obituary, NY Times, November 16, 1961, Rayburn Is Dead ; Served 17 Years As House Speaker

In addition to the main campus which is located on 430 acres, the university maintains a agricultural research center for beef, poultry, and swine production and an equine center ; an observatory for astronomy research, an 1, 072-hectare ( approximately 2, 649-acre ) experimental forest in southwestern Nacogdoches County and a forestry field station on the Sam Rayburn Reservoir.

Their bodies then were tied in plastic sheeting and buried in any one of four places: a rented boat shed ; a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula ; a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn ( where his family owned a lakeside log cabin ); and a beach in Jefferson County.

On July 7, a 15-year-old named Homer Garcia, whom Henley had met at his driving school, phoned his mother to say he was spending the night with a friend ; he was shot and left to bleed to death in Corll's bathtub before he was also buried at Lake Sam Rayburn and on July 12, a 17-year-old Orange County youth named John Sellars was shot to death and buried at High Island Beach.

* Gene Rayburn — Announcer for The Tonight Show ; host of The Match Game and other game shows

During a 1955 episode of the game show Make the Connection, Muggs appeared with Joanne Cottingham, who served as his babysitter ; the panel was supposed to attempt to guess her relationship to the chimp, but after Muggs was introduced, he spent most of the segment running all over the set ( as well as behind it ) until host Gene Rayburn finally called the game and awarded Cottingham the show's maximum $ 150 payoff by default.

Among the young pages who've helped the NBC-tour customers and studio-audience members at the Radio City Studios before going on to media success have been original Today Show host Dave Garroway and longtime Today personality Willard Scott ; original Tonight Show creator / host Steve Allen and his announcer / sidekick Gene Rayburn ; broadcast journalist Ted Koppel ; TV host Regis Philbin ; TV producer Marcy Carsey ; actress Kate Jackson ; and movie / broadcasting mogul Michael Eisner.

From 1962 to 1969 Rayburn hosted The Match Game.

From 1944-1947, he worked as chief speechwriter for the Democratic National Committee, where he was a special assistant to its chairman Robert E. Hannegan, and prepared speeches for him, as well as for various Democratic politicians, such as Harry Truman, Tom Clark, Henry Wallace, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn and Estes Kefauver.

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* November 16 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ( b. 1882 )

Gene Rayburn ( December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999 ) was an American radio and television personality.

Lake used the same signature long-thin Sony ECM-51 telescoping microphone Rayburn used during the CBS version, and the set was rebuilt to be almost an exact match of that used from 1973 – 1978.

On November 26, 2006 the network broadcast an hour-long documentary titled The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank featuring rarely-seen footage of the 1960s version, many odd or memorable moments from the main 1973 – 1982 runs, plus interviews with Rayburn, Somers, Dawson, DeBartolo, producer Ira Skutch, and others involved in the show's production.

Some of the past Chairmen of the Board of Commissioners include Mark Chastain ( 2009 – 2010 ), Jerry Farist ( 2005 – 2008 ), and Rayburn Smith ( 1997 – 2004 ).

Kinder was the birthplace of the late Mayor J. Rayburn Bertrand of Lafayette, who served from 1960 – 1972 and presided over the near doubling of the municipal population.

* Doris Packer ( 1904 – 1979 ), actress ( played Mrs. Rayburn, Theodore Cleaver's principal in the television series Leave It to Beaver )

" Sixty " Rayburn, a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Senate ( 1951 – 1996 ) was born in Sumrall in 1916.

Samuel Taliaferro " Sam " Rayburn ( January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961 ) was a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives for 17 years, the longest tenure in U. S. history.

Rayburn had married once, to Metze Jones ( 1897 – 1982 ), sister of Texas Congressman Marvin Jones and Rayburn's colleague, but the marriage ended quickly.

* Lewis L. Gould and Nancy Beck Young, " The Speaker and the Presidents: Sam Rayburn, the White House, and the Legislative Process, 1941 – 1961 " in Raymond W. Smock and Susan W. Hammond, eds.

* Gene Rayburn ( 1917 – 1999 ), U. S. host of TV's Match Game

* Sam Rayburn ( 1881 – 1961 ), U. S. Speaker of the House

The college's previous presidents are Robert G. Rayburn ( 1955 – 1965 ), Marion Barnes ( 1965 – 1978 ), Martin Essenburg ( 1978 – 1987 ), Frank A. Brock ( 1987 – 2002 ), and Niel Nielson ( 2002-2012 ).

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