Together with John Gumperz, Erving Goffman and William Labov, Hymes defined a broad multidisciplinary concern with language in society.

What is now Erving was once the farm of John Erving, the first colonial in the area.

Melchionni was a key player in the 1974 ABA Championship, led by Erving, Larry Kenon, John Williamson, and Billy Paultz.

When John Carradine married Doris ( Erving Rich ) Grimshaw in 1957, she already had a son from a previous marriage, Dale, and a son from a later relationship, Michael, both of whom, along with Sonia Sorel's son, Michael Bowen, are sometimes counted among John Carradine's eight sons.

Monroe, meanwhile, sent an ambassador to Madrid, John Erving, who had to wait several months, rejected by the Secretary of State Pedro Cevallos, to the formalization of the presence of U. S. Onis.

Among his modern influences he counts the works of William James, John Dewey, Ernst Kretschmer, William Sheldon, Jay Haley, Gregory Bateson, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Raymond Wheeler, Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Rudolf Dreikurs, Milton Erickson, and Erving Goffman.

Ms Heather Du Quesnay ( Chief Executive of English Schools Foundation ( ESF ), Mr Chris Erving ( Vice Chairman of SIS School Council ) and Ms Gabrielle Sanchez ( Year 12 student and winner of the Atrium Logo design competition ) all joined Mr Silverthorne in the curtain opening ceremony of the John Wray Atrium plaque.

Notable NBA players in history include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Shaquille O ' Neal, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Bill Walton, George Mikan, Bob Pettit, Bob Cousy, Pete Maravich, Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Dave DeBusschere, Jerry Lucas, Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Elvin Hayes, Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, whose particular silhouette is featured on the NBA's logo.

** In Northern Ireland, Protestant Ulster Defence Association Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.

The two, John Weir and Billy McCaughey implicated their colleagues in a range of crimes including giving weapons, information and transport to loyalist paramilitaries as well as carrying out shooting and bombing attacks of their own.

He invited the five other brigadiers from the Inner Council to attend along with leading loyalist Michael Stone and politicians John White and Frank McCoubrey.

* John Gregg ( UDA ) ( 1957 ?– 2003 ), Ulster loyalist

The revolutionary period also contained political writings, including those by colonists Samuel Adams, Josiah Quincy, John Dickinson, and Joseph Galloway, a loyalist to the crown.

The Stevens Inquiries were three official British government inquiries led by Sir John Stevens concerning collusion in Northern Ireland between loyalist paramilitaries and the state security forces.

* John Stuart ( loyalist ) ( 1718 – 1779 ), British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the southern colonies during the American Revolution

His mother died in London, and as a loyalist clergyman he could not go within twenty miles of London, and unable to attend her deathbed ; John Thurloe asserted that Hammond went about at this time under the name of Westenbergh.

* John Connolly ( loyalist ) ( c. 1741 – 1813 ), doctor from Pennsylvania, agent of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, active during the American Revolution

In February 1462 the 12th Earl, his eldest son, Aubrey de Vere, and Sir Thomas Tuddenham, the 12th Earl's former political opponent in Norfolk and now a fellow Lancastrian loyalist, were convicted of high treason before John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Constable of England, for plotting against King Edward IV.

The same year his son-in-law, John C. Frémont, ran for President on the Republican Party ticket, but Benton was a party loyalist to the end, and voted Democratic, the Democratic candidate that year being James Buchanan.

* Mary ( Watts ) Johnson ( second cousin ), loyalist and wife of Colonel Sir John Johnson.

In 1999, former RUC officer John Weir made a sworn affidavit in which he admitted colluding with loyalist paramilitaries and implicated many other police officers and soldiers of the same.

* John Randolph ( loyalist ) ( 1727 – 1784 ), Virginia colonial leader, loyalist in the American Revolution

Following the outbreak of the French Wars from 1793, John Coker, the manorial lord of Bicester King ’ s End, formed an ‘ Association for the Protection of Property against Levellers and Jacobins ’ as an anti-Painite loyalist band providing local militia and volunteer drafts for the army.

In the report of his inquiry concerning collusion in Northern Ireland between loyalist paramilitaries and the state security forces, under " Other Matters concerning Collusion ", Sir John Stevens noted:

* John Graham ( loyalist ) ( born c. 1945 ), Ulster loyalist figure

He was part of a delegation to Downing Street in June 1996 that met then British Prime Minister John Major to discuss the loyalist ceasefire.

He was born the son of John Howe and Mary Edes at Halifax and inherited from his loyalist father an undying love for Great Britain and her Empire.

* John White ( loyalist ) ( born 1950 ), convicted murderer, Northern Ireland

* Robert John Kerr ( 1943 – 1997 ), Northern Irish loyalist

Armed Forces Day Proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

National Maritime Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island Week proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of Monday, November 13, 1961, as the State Ballet of Rhode Island Week, requesting all Rhode Islanders to give special attention to this unusual event which should contribute to the cultural life of the State.

Proclamation Thanksgiving Day by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

It was undisclosed at the time that New York State Governor John A.

Governor John Volpe interceded in the 1950s to send the last section of the Central Artery underground, through the Dewey Square Tunnel ; while traffic moved somewhat better, the other problems remained.

Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once directed the Governor General of Canada to issue an order-in-council directing that government papers be written in the British style.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

Other notable supporters include Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, billionaire and American philanthropist John T. Walton, Former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and John McCain.

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Sir John Northcott, the first Australian-born person appointed as Governor ( 1946 – 1957 ). The governor is required by the Constitution Act, 1902.

Coincidentally the first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott on 1 August 1946, was also the first Australian-born Governor of any state.

The original Certificate of Election of John Jay as Governor of New York ( June 6, 1795 )

Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.