About 2, 000 people attended, including Bono, Dikembe Mutombo, Michael W. Smith, Richard Stearns ( President of World Vision ), and David Beckmann ( President of Bread for the World ).

Denver took a positive step in rebuilding by drafting 7 – 2 Georgetown University center Dikembe Mutombo in 1991.

Building on the shot-blocking power of Mutombo and teammate Alonzo Mourning, Georgetown fans created a " Rejection Row " section under the basket, adding a big silhouette of an outstretched hand to a banner for each shot blocked during the game.

Ewing's successor as the starting center at Georgetown, Dikembe Mutombo, who played most of his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets and Atlanta Hawks, was less adept offensively, but proved an even more dominant defender.

The two winners born outside the country — Mutombo in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Olajuwon in Nigeria — both played U. S. college basketball ( Mutombo at Georgetown and Olajuwon at Houston ).

Also, on March 2, 2007, in a win over the Denver Nuggets, at the age of 41, Mutombo became the oldest player in NBA history to record more than 20 rebounds in a game with 22.

After contemplating retirement and spending the first part of 2008 as an unsigned unrestricted free agent, on December 31, 2008, Mutombo signed with the Houston Rockets for the remainder of the 2008 – 2009 season.

Mutombo, who had not played basketball before arriving in the U. S. from his native Zaire on a USAID scholarship, was among the greatest shot blockers in NBA history, leading the NBA in blocked-shots five consecutive years, in the course of a career in which he ranked second in the history of the league in blocked shots, behind only Hakeem Olajuwon.

He ranks fourth on the Hoyas'all-time blocked shots list with 255, behind Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo.

Feeling the team needed an established center to advance deep into the playoffs, Philadelphia acquired Dikembe Mutombo from the Atlanta Hawks in a deal that sent Ratliff, Nazr Mohammed, Toni Kukoč, and Pepe Sanchez to Atlanta ( Sanchez was reacquired later in the season after the Hawks waived him ).

McDyess would be the face of the franchise for the next few years, as Mutombo would leave after the 1995 – 96 season for the Atlanta Hawks, Ellis would miss the majority of the next few seasons due to recurring knee and leg injuries, and Abdul-Rauf was traded to the Sacramento Kings prior to the 1996 – 97 season.

During the 2004 offseason, he was involved in yet another trade, one that sent him and Jamal Crawford to the New York Knicks for Dikembe Mutombo, Frank Williams, Othella Harrington and Cezary Trybanski.

Prior to the 2004 – 05 season ( after four seasons in Chicago ), Crawford was traded, along with Jerome Williams, to the Knicks for Dikembe Mutombo, Othella Harrington, Frank Williams and Cezary Trybanski.

She was brought to the United States by NBA star and fellow countryman, Dikembe Mutombo, and his brother Tshitingo Mutombo, who personally appealed to the government officials in Zaire for permission to bring her to the U. S.

* June 25 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo ( born June 25, 1966 ), commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a retired Congolese American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA.

* Ilo Mutombo, brother of Dikembe Mutombo, played college basketball for USI and co-starred with Kevin Bacon in the movie " The Air Up There ".

* Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player

The 2000 – 01 76ers featured the NBA's MVP ( Iverson ), the NBA's coach of the year ( Brown ), the Defensive Player of the Year ( Mutombo ), and the Sixth Man of the Year ( Aaron McKie ).

Thompson coached many notable players, including Patrick Ewing, Sleepy Floyd, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo and Allen Iverson.

In the second game of the first round of the 2009 NBA playoffs, Mutombo suffered a knee injury that kept him out for the remainder of the postseason.

But Mutombo spent most of that season with a nagging injury that limited him to just 24 games.

Mutombo would have a successful rookie year, finishing runner-up to Larry Johnson for the NBA rookie of the year that season.

Led by Mutombo, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf ( who changed his name from Chris Jackson prior to the season ), and Ellis, Denver would finish with its first winning season since the Doug Moe era at 42 – 40.

Soon after the injury, Mutombo announced he had played his last games in the NBA.

A cornerstone in the Nuggets ' frontcourt, Mutombo became one of the league's best defensive players, regularly putting up big rebound and block numbers for five years with the club while averaging about 11 points a game.

At the end of Game 5, Mutombo fell to the ground, holding the ball over his head in a moment of joy.

Mutombo continued to put up excellent defensive numbers with his new team.

The Hawks traded Mutombo to the Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia 76ers in February 2001 for their injured center Theo Ratliff, as the Sixers needed a replacement stellar big man to compete with Western Conference powers Tim Duncan or Shaquille O ' Neal, should they reach the finals.

Mutombo most recently played as a reserve behind Yao Ming, forming one of the NBA's most productive center combos.

In his first season with the Rockets ( 2004 – 05 ), Mutombo averaged 15. 2 MPG, 5. 3 RPG, and 4. 0 PPG.

In the 2007 – 08 season, Mutombo yet again received extensive playing time when Yao went down with a broken bone and averaged double digits in rebounding as a starter.

The additional playing time gave Mutombo the opportunity to continue accruing blocked shots at a record-setting pace.

On January 10, 2008, in a 102 – 77 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers, Mutombo recorded 5 blocked shots and surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in total career blocked shots.

Mutombo is currently second only to Hakeem Olajuwon.

He attended New York University before switching to Georgetown University in Washington.

With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service ( B. S.

Having spent his formative years in France, where he attended the American School of Paris, he returned to the United States to attend the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966.

He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D. C.

Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor ( already nicknamed " Lady Bird ") of Karnack, Texas on November 17, 1934, after having attended Georgetown University Law Center for several months.

President Ulysses S. Grant grew up and attended grade school in Georgetown.

Lintons Ford was left to Sister Mary Baptista, a member of the Linton Family who attended Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington D. C.

Prince Turki received formal education at prestigious schools in New Jersey, and later attended Georgetown University, while Prince Saud is an alumnus of Princeton University.

Social registers and society pages listed the privileged, who mingled in the same private clubs, attended the same churches, and lived in neighborhoods — Philadelphia's Main Line and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods ; New Jersey's Princeton ; Florida's Palm Beach ; Fairfield County, Connecticut ; Manhattan's Upper East Side ; Westchester County, New York ; and the North Shore of Long Island ; Boston's Beacon Hill ; Georgetown, Washington D. C .; and Chicago's Lake Forest are all examples.

He attended public schools, Minneapolis School of Business, and Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. Howard served as a clerk in the post office in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1901.

Minton received his basic education in a two-room schoolhouse in Georgetown, which he attended through eighth grade.

After high school, Iverson attended Georgetown University for two years, where he set the school record for career scoring average ( 22. 9 points per game ) and won Big East Defensive Player of the Year awards both years.

Eisner attended Harvard High School ( now Harvard Westlake ), Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California's film school.

He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, the Jesuit boys school in North Bethesda, Maryland.

He attended the Georgetown University Law Center and graduated in 1976.

After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, he attended Villanova University for his freshman year, then transferred to Georgetown University, from which he graduated with an honors BA in English in 1997. Cooper became fluent in French at Georgetown and spent six months as an exchange student in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Between 2003 and 2007, Groton graduates attended the following nine colleges most frequently ( in order ): Harvard University, Georgetown University, Brown University, Trinity College, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, Yale University, Vanderbilt University, and Tufts University.

In Washington, D. C., John, Jr. attended Georgetown Preparatory School and then the House Page School when he served as a page for the U. S. House of Representatives from 1938 to 1943.

He then attended Georgetown University in Washington, D. C., where he graduated with a J. D.

He attended Duke University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity, graduated from Georgetown University and obtained his law degree from Loyola University.

Born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, LoBiondo attended Georgetown Preparatory School, and received a B. A.

Wimsatt was born in Washington D. C., attended Georgetown University and, later, Yale University, where he received his Ph. D.