Ralph Atkin ( born Jeffery Ralph Atkin in 1943 ) is the founder of SkyWest Airlines in the United States.

Ralph is also the father of professional skateboarder James R. Atkin.

* Ralph Atkin Biography

A team of executives led by Ralph Atkin, founder of SkyWest Airlines in the United States, was installed, which also included Brian Presbury, the former CEO of Kenya Airways.

* 1990 — Red Brick Systems, founded by Ralph Kimball, introduces Red Brick Warehouse, a database management system specifically for data warehousing.

Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still editor and publisher, and music critic, Ralph J. Gleason.

The Professional Association of Diving Instructors ( PADI ) is the world's largest recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson.

Other members included theorist Raoul Vaneigem, the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, the Italo-Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the English artist Ralph Rumney ( sole member of the London Psychogeographical Association, Rumney suffered expulsion relatively soon after the formation ), the Danish artist Asger Jorn ( who after parting with the SI also founded the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ), the architect and veteran of the Hungarian Uprising Attila Kotanyi, and the French writer Michele Bernstein.

In the late 1980s Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition, building from his 1988 presidential run, with Republican activist Ralph Reed, who became the spokesman for the Coalition.

The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.

Shoshone was founded in 1910 by Ralph Jacobus " Dad " Fairbanks, a Death Valley businessman.

The Northwestern Connecticut Community College was founded in 1965 by Winsted residents, including Ralph Nader's older brother, Shafeek.

Ralph Leroy Nafziger founded Interstate in 1930 in Kansas City as a wholesaler selling bread loaves wrapped in gingham wrapping to grocery stores.

Alma was founded in 1853 by Ralph Ely.

Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.

In 1968, Ralph Bakshi, along with producer Steve Krantz, founded Bakshi Productions, establishing the studio as an alternative to mainstream animation by producing animation his own way and accelerating the advancement of female and minority animators.

* Elms Plantation – dating from 1682, Elms Plantation was founded by Ralph Izard.

In 1240, Ralph Frisburn, on his return from the Holy Land, founded a Carmelite monastery under the patronage of Richard, Lord Grey of Codnor: the first of the order to be founded in Europe.

Public Citizen was founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, headed for 26 years by Joan Claybrook, and is now headed by Robert Weissman.

It was founded by Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on Technology.

UB was founded by Ralph Ungermann and Charlie Bass.

In the late 1960s, animator Ralph Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz founded Bakshi Productions, establishing the studio as an alternative to mainstream animation by producing animation his own way and accelerating the advancement of female and minority animators.

ARDC was founded by Georges Doriot, the " father of venture capitalism " ( former dean of Harvard Business School and founder of INSEAD ), with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton ( former president of MIT ), to encourage private sector investments in businesses run by soldiers who were returning from World War II.

Here, with Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord, Pinot Gallizio, Asger Jorn, Walter Olmo, Ralph Rumney and Elena Verrone the Situationist International was founded on July 28.

Ralph de Rochester founded the Augustinian priory which came out of a chapel for three canons, later expanded to seven or more regular canons.

The Nanofactory Collaboration, founded by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle in 2000, is a focused ongoing effort involving 23 researchers from 10 organizations and 4 countries that is developing a practical research agenda specifically aimed at positionally-controlled diamond mechanosynthesis and diamondoid nanofactory development.

Two years later, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in Boston by a group that included George Thorndike Angell, John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Saltonstall, and William Gordon Weld.

* October 23 – Award-winning composer and Hollywood songwriter Ralph Rainger (" Thanks for the Memory ") is among 12 people killed in the mid-air collision between an American Airlines DC-3 airliner and a U. S. Army bomber near Palm Springs, California.

" Truman also did not make time to present the 1948 award to Trans World Airlines CEO Ralph Damon or Brazilian aviation pioneer Francisco Pignatari The award to Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe in 1946 was the only one presented without debate.

After witnessing his mother's adultery with his father's best friend, Ralph must survive not only boarding school but also his beloved father's remarriage to Ruby, a fast-talking American Airlines stewardess, and his father's gradual descent into alcoholism.

* Peer, Elizabeth and Ralph II ( 1972 ).

Gripenberg ( 1956 – 1959 ), followed by Ralph Enckell ( 1959 – 1965 ), Max Jakobson ( 1965 – 1972 ), Aarno Karhilo ( 1972 – 1977 ), Ilkka Pastinen ( 1977 – 1983 ), Keijo Korhonen ( 1983 – 1988 ), Klaus Törnudd ( 1988 – 1991 ), Wilhelm Breitenstein ( 1991 – 1998 ) and Marjatta Rasi ( since 1998 ).

Ralph H. Baer, inventor of television video games and the Magnavox Odyssey console, released in 1972, created the first video game joysticks in 1967.

In 1972 they moved to San Francisco and formed Ralph Records.

It was not until 1972 that Magnavox released the first home video game console which could be connected to a TV set — the Magnavox Odyssey, invented by Ralph H. Baer.

* June 21 – Ralph Craig, American athlete ( d. 1972 )

Ralph Cook Craig ( June 21, 1889 – July 21, 1972 ) was an American athlete, winner of the sprint double at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

by Ralph Manheim, Delacorte Press, New York, 1972

As she matured, she demonstrated a strong affinity for the plays of Henrik Ibsen, as Irene in When We Dead Awaken ( Cambridge, 1968 ), as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts ( Edinburgh, 1972 ), Aase in Peer Gynt ( BBC, 1972 ) and as Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman ( Old Vic, 1975 ), in which she appeared with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft.

The Hornets ' most consistent state-level athletic success has come in wrestling, in which five students have won a total of seven individual state titles ( Ralph Edwards and Gary Pierson in 1972, Ethan Harris in 2005, Danny Coyne in 2006, and a three-year unbeaten run by Steven Bradley from 1996 to 1998 ).

In 1972, Maurice added vocalist Jessica Cleaves, a former member of the R & B group The Friends of Distinction, Ronnie Laws on the flute and saxophone, rhythm guitarist Roland Bautista, keyboardist Larry Dunn, percussionist Ralph Johnson, and vocalist and Denver native Philip Bailey to the group.

One of his last film appearances was in a star-studded 1972 version of Alice in Wonderland with Ralph Richardson, Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore, among others.

In 1972, he retained the title knocking out Ralph Charles in seven in England, and then, Pruitt resurfaced again, this time with the world Welterweight title on the line.

In 1957 Hodges set the NL record for career grand slams, breaking the mark of 12 shared by Rogers Hornsby and Ralph Kiner ; his final total of 14 was tied by Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey in 1972, and broken by Aaron in 1974.

It was also translated into Esperanto in 1972, by Ivy Kellerman Reed and Ralph A. Lewin, Winnie-La-Pu.

In 1972, Ralph Yarborough made a comeback effort to win the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator as a challenger of Republican Senator John Tower, who as a young man had once circulated Ralph Yarborough stickers.

Ralph Lauren released Polo's famous short sleeve mesh shirt with the Polo logo in 1972.

These stories served as the basis for a pair of film adaptations produced by Steve Krantz, Fritz the Cat 1972, directed by Ralph Bakshi, and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat 1974, directed by Robert Taylor.

Animator Ralph Bakshi directed a film adaptation of Fritz the Cat, released in 1972 to much success.

Ralph was founded in 1972, shortly after the group had moved to San Francisco, when the band realized that they were the only people who would be willing to publish their work.

* Numerous artists have used Te Whiti as a subject or inspiration, among them Colin McCahon ( with his painting Te Whiti, Tohu ) and Ralph Hotere ( Te Whiti drawing-painting ), both of which were produced for a 1972 exhibition about Te Whiti, " Taranaki Saw it All ".

)" She had married Ralph Dressler July 14, 1969 ; they were divorced October 31, 1972.