Dick Molpus was among several younger staff members, including future Governor Ray Mabus, known as the " Boys of Spring " who helped guide Governor Winter's historic

Retirement ceremonies for the Karles were attended by United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who presented the couple with the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Navy's highest form of recognition to civilian employees.

Because of the gubernatorial succession amendment ratified in 1987, Mabus was eligible to become the first governor to serve two successive terms in more than 100 years, and he ran for reelection in 1991.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

Mabus ' residence and embassy office in Riyadh were decorated with items of interest from his home state including an Ackerman phone book on his office coffee table and the Mississippi flag next to the American flag.

He was informally sworn in on May 19, 2009, however it was not until an official ceremony at Washington Navy Yard on June 18, 2009 that Mabus was officially sworn in by the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Secretary Mabus has a presence on Facebook and frequently comments about his daily activities.

In 2009, Mabus made a cameo appearance on the US drama NCIS as an NCIS Agent named " Ray ".

* Ray Mabus, Mississippi Governor ( 1988 – 1992 )

He won the governorship of Mississippi in the 1991 election, first winning the Republican primary against state auditor Pete Johnson and in the general election against Democratic incumbent Ray Mabus.

Mabus served as the 60th Governor of the U. S. state of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996.

Following the election of Governor William Winter, he returned to Mississippi to work in the governor's office, where the youthful staff – which included Mabus, Dick Molpus, John Henegan and Andy Mullins – earned the nickname " Boys of Spring " from a rival state legislator.

Mabus was featured in a 1988 New York Times Magazine cover story titled " The Yuppies of Mississippi ; How They Took Over the Statehouse " which chronicled his challenges and successes.

Mabus has been awarded the U. S. Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the U. S. Army ’ s Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Martin Luther King Social Responsibility Award from the King Center in Atlanta, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award, the King Abdul Aziz Award from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Mississippi Association of Educators ’ Friend of Education Award.

In 1991, for the first time in over a century a Republican would become the Governor of Mississippi, when Kirk Fordice would earn 50. 8 percent of the popular vote, defeating Democrat Ray Mabus.

Fleming worked with Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus in his 1987 campaign and Mike Parker in his campaign for the U. S. Congress in 1988.

Mabus was born in Starkville and is a fourth-generation Mississippian ; he grew up in Ackerman, the only child of the owner of the local hardware store.

In 1983, Mabus was elected state auditor and served from 1984 to 1988, during which time he participated in a large FBI sting operation which recovered millions in misspent or stolen public funds.

Mabus was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and served from 1994 to 1996.

On March 27, 2009, Mabus was nominated by President Obama as Secretary of the Department of the Navy.

In April 2010 a furor arose when it was reported that Mabus made the controversial proposal to name a United States Navy warship after the late Pennsylvania Democrat, John Murtha.

Adams Island is a small rocky coastal subantarctic island embedded in thick bay ice most of the year, lying at the western side of McDonald Bay, about west of Mabus Point.

On June 15, 2009, U. S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus toured BIW's shipbuilding facilities.

Raymond Edwin " Ray " Mabus, Jr. ( born October 11, 1948 ) is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy.

Mabus began his professional career working in Washington as legal counsel to the U. S. House Agriculture Committee.

Mabus meeting with Barack Obama | President Obama in the Oval Office, June 2010.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

In the Stalag, Helion came to know and love his comrades, most of them plain folk, who, in their extremity, showed true courage and ran great risks to help each other.

Cried the guard who ran from the hut to shout to other men standing about outside.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Miss Sutherland appeared almost as another person in this scene: A much more girlish Lucia, a sensational coloratura who ran across stage while singing, and an actress immersed in her role.

She did suddenly, through the link of memory with his father, old Titus, who must have been in his nineties when Henrietta ran away.

`` We ran into a guy at the Pagan Room who guarantees we can beat the wheel.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

She left Bill in Hope with grandparents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.

Allende had two main competitors in the election — Radomiro Tomic, representing the incumbent Christian Democratic party, who ran a left-wing campaign with much the same theme as Allende's, and the right-wing former president Jorge Alessandri.

* Cybergirl Cybergirl is a cyber replicant prototype 6000, a " cyborg " from a distant planet who ran away to explore the beings she was created after, human beings.

Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons, and Lapa Piagenti, possibly the daughter of a local poet.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.

In this, he ran into conflict with Heinrich Himmler, who was police chief of the second most powerful German state, Bavaria.

The local nobility who ran the country opened the University of Göttingen in 1737 ; it soon became a world-class intellectual center.