Other honorary alumni award-winning filmmaker include Costa-Gavras, skier Nancy Greene Raine, Milton Wong, Doris Shadbolt, dancer and choreographer Judith Marcuse, economist Jeffrey Sachs, Peter Gzowski, Douglas Coupland, Romeo Dallaire, Canadian businessman Stephen Jarislowsky, Iain Baxter, American agriculturalist Cary Fowler, Martha Piper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rick Hansen.

* March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40, 000 km, 26 month Man in Motion tour which raises $ 26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.

In the summer of 1977 Rick Hansen, working with the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association, invited Fox to try out for his wheelchair basketball team.

Rick Hansen commented that the run challenged society to focus on ability rather than disability.

Canadian Paralympic athlete Rick Hansen, who had recruited Fox to play on his wheelchair basketball team in 1977, was similarly inspired by the Marathon of Hope.

* Rick Hansen, 18 December 1987 ( CBC Archives video clip )

The township of Hansen was originally named Stalin after Joseph Stalin, but was renamed in 1986 when Ontario MPP Yuri Shymko successfully had a private member's bill passed through the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to rename the township in honour of athlete Rick Hansen, who was in the midst of his international Man in Motion tour at the time.

On February 12, 2010 Nancy Greene lit the Vancouver Olympic cauldron along with fellow Canadian sport icons Steve Nash, Rick Hansen, Catriona Le May Doan and Wayne Gretzky.

The 1965 demo features Jim Morrison on vocals, Ray Manzarek on piano and background vocals, John Densmore on drums, Rick Manzarek on guitar, Jim Manzarek on harmonica and Patricia " Pat " Hansen ( née Sullivan ) from Patty and the Esquires — the band she had with Chuck Hansen, whom she later married -- on bass guitar.

* August 26 – Rick Hansen, paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries

for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, and Rick Martel vs. Stan Hansen for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.

The song was written for the Canadian athlete Rick Hansen who, at the time, was traveling around the world via his wheelchair to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries, a trip called the " Man in Motion Tour.

Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Rick Hansen grew up in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Hansen is currently president and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation, which has generated more than $ 200 million for spinal cord injury-related programs and Hansen was noted as " the driving force " in the development of the 48 million dollars iCORD houses, an information network designed to track and record " best practices " in spinal cord treatment across the country and internationally, as well as the Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry, allowing doctors and experts across the country to share vital information on what works and what doesn't for specific kinds of spinal cord injuries.

Rick Hansen Foundation programs including the Rick Hansen Institute ( formerly the Spinal Cord Injuries Solutions Network ) and the Rick Hansen Wheels In Motion and Ambassador programs are also located in the centre.

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

* 2007: On September 16, 2007, hunter Rick Jacobs captured an image of a supposed Sasquatch by using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree, prompting a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to say that it was likely an image of " a bear with a severe case of mange.

It was this season when the Orioles made a trade that brought them players such as Tippy Martinez and Rick Dempsey.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

The team's commitment to contend was complete when Green made a midseason deal on June 15 to shore up the starting rotation due to injuries to Rick Reuschel ( 5 – 5 ) and Sanderson.

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Dhrystone was published in Ada, with the C version for Unix developed by Rick Richardson (" version 1. 1 ") greatly contributing to its popularity.

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the controversial hypothesis that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience ( NDE ) phenomenon.

During the 1990s, deprogrammer Rick Ross was sued by Jason Scott, a former member of a Pentecostal group called the Life Tabernacle Church, after an unsuccessful deprogramming attempt.

During the 1990s, Rick Ross, a noted cult intervention advocate who took part in a number of deprogramming sessions, was sued by Jason Scott, a former member of a Pentecostalist group called the Life Tabernacle Church ( part of United Pentecostal Church International ), after an unsuccessful forcible deprogramming.

In January 2003, a 95-year old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the Rick McKay documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, where she was also honored with a " Legend in Film " award.

Her friend Rick McKay said that " she just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep ... she just kind of gave out.

Genosha first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 235 ( October 1988 ), and was created by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

The album was produced by Rick Rubin and featured David Hidalgo and Matt Sweeney on guitar as well as Chad Smith on drums and Benmont Tench on keys and piano.

Rick Turner, the Cheshire County Archaeologist, was notified of the discovery and succeeded in finding the rest of the body, which later became known as Lindow Man.

" His replacement was former WERE ( 1300 AM ) host Rick Gilmour.

Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song " Public Enemy Number One " Rubin had heard from Andre " Doctor Dré " Brown.

Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin had already left the label by then ; taking his place alongside Russell Simmons was Lyor Cohen, the son of Israeli immigrants who had run Rush Artist Management since 1985.

( However, George King had given MVP votes to two pitchers just the season before: Rick Helling and David Wells ; King was the only writer to cast a vote for Helling, who had gone 20 – 7 with a 4. 41 ERA and 164 strikeouts.

* Rick Smith ( ice hockey ) ( born 1948 ), professional hockey player

Rick Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Northolt to Cyril Frank and Mildred Helen Wakeman.

* Rick Springfield ( born 1949 ), pop singer

* Rick Mast ( born 1957 ), American NASCAR driver

She has one elder brother, Rick ( born 1955 ), and two younger sisters, Dedee Pfeiffer, a television and film actress, and Lori Pfeiffer ( born 1965 ).

Robert Rick McCammon ( born July 17, 1952 ) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama.

* Slick Rick ( Richard Walters )-hip-hop musician, born in Wimbledon and moved to The Bronx, New York

* Rick Ross the rapper was born in Coahoma County in 1976.

* Rick Monday, born in Batesville, major league baseball player

* Rick Jore, Member of the Montana House of Representatives, was born and resides here.

* Cardiak ( born 1988 ), music producer for 50 Cent, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Meek Mill and Lloyd Banks.

* Rick Gomez ( born 1972 ), actor who portrayed Sgt.

* Rick Gomez ( born 1972 ), actor best known for portraying Sgt.

* Rick Cerone ( born 1954 ), former Yankee catcher who played for eight major league baseball teams, and was part of the New York Yankees for seven years.

* Rick Porcello ( born 1988 ), pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.

* Rick Cerone ( born 1954 ), former MLB catcher who played most of his career with the New York Yankees

Rick Bonnell, a National Basketball Association writer for the Charlotte Observer, was born and raised in the Village of South Corning.

The couple hosted Cheney at a private political fundraiser for Republican Senator Rick Santorum who was up for reelection in 2006 against former state treasurer Bob Casey, Jr. who was born and raised in Scranton, a city just north of Jackson Township.

* Rick Hardcastle ( born 1956 )-outgoing member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 68

* Rick Cerone ( born 1954 ), former catcher for the New York Yankees.

* Rick Allen ( drummer ) ( born 1963 ), British musician with the rock band Def Leppard

* Rick Allen ( keyboardist ) ( born 1946 ), American musician

* Rick Allen ( organist ) ( born c. 1940 ), Grammy nominated blues, rock and R & B organist and pianist

* Rick Allain ( born 1969 ), North American ice hockey coach