Having rechristened his father's Edgartown school Thaxter Academy, Hon.

" After living in Northampton, Thaxter, a lawyer, returned home to Edgartown, where he took over the school founded by his father, Rev.

Leavitt Thaxter, who married Martha Mayhew, a descendant of Thomas Mayhew, and was an Edgartown educator described by Indian Commissioner John Milton Earle as " a long and steadfast friend to the Indians.

" By this time, Leavitt Thaxter had taken on the role, described in an act passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, as " guardian of the Indians and people of color resident at Chappequiddic and Indiantown in the County of Dukes County.

In 1961-62, Art Carney played Frank Michaelson in an English comedy by Phoebe & Henry Ephron entitled " Take Her, She's Mine " with Phyllis Thaxter as his co-star in the Biltmore Theatre in New York two seasons before his role in " the Odd Couple " in the Plymouth Theatre in New York ; the character was played by James Stewart in the 1963 film version.

At the age of 18, he played Hal Ditmar in the television play, Deal a Blow, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Macdonald Carey, Phyllis Thaxter and Edward Arnold.

His body was discovered by his friend New Hampshire poet Celia Thaxter.

Seeing their survival as a boon granted by God, the men dubbed it Boon Island, an ironic name for what poet Celia Thaxter called " the forlornest place that can be imagined.

Celia Thaxter in Her Garden, 1892, by Childe Hassam

Janet Leigh points up her role as Heflin's worried but courageous wife, while Phyllis Thaxter does well by a smaller part as Ryan's girl.

Leavitt Thaxter, Edgartown educator

Leavitt Thaxter was granted on Feb. 15, 1845, the sum of $ 50-per-year for " the support of William Johnson, an Indian of the Chappequiddic tribe.

John Smith ( 15 shares ); Ensign John Thaxter ( 16½ shares ); and deacon John Leavitt ( with 14½ shares ).

It was also presented on Lux Radio Theater three times as an hour-long broadcast: first on December 19, 1949, with Tyrone Power and David Niven, second on May 11, 1953 with Cary Grant and Phyllis Thaxter and third on March 1, 1955, again with Grant and Thaxter.

West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: " He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty.

The following year, his friend Celia Thaxter convinced him to drop his first name and thereafter he was known simply as " Childe Hassam ".

Thaxter Elliott Douglas III ( born October 31, 1957 ), better known as Thax Douglas, is an American rock poet based out of Austin, Texas.

Joseph Thaxter, and served in the State House and the Senate, was a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council and later served as U. S. Customs Collector for Martha's Vineyard.

A television adaptation for Lux Video Theatre, starring Phyllis Thaxter, was broadcast in January 1955 on NBC.

Joseph Thaxter, who was wounded in the battle, officiated as chaplain at the ceremony, offering a prayer in thanks for the colonists ' victory.

* 1921 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress ( d. 2012 )

When I came back from church at noon Mrs. Thaxter was turning into the Salter driveway.

It was Dolly and Mrs. Thaxter who were calling Via, everybody.

Actors appearing in the most episodes include Patricia Hitchcock ( Alfred Hitchcock's daughter ), Dick York, Robert Horton, James Gleason, John Williams, Robert H. Harris, Russell Collins, Claude Rains, Barbara Baxley, Ray Teal, Percy Helton, Phyllis Thaxter, Carmen Mathews, Mildred Dunnock and Alan Napier.

Peter Hobart ) and Ensign John Thaxter, representatives of Hingham's colonial residents.

Anne Thaxter Eaton, writing in A Critical History of Children's Literature, calls the book " a well-constructed tale ", with " charm and a kind of logical make-believe.

Vernon Thaxter — The middle-aged son of the richest man in town, Vernon Thaxter refuses to wear clothes.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.

* 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (" Royal Academy of History ") is founded in Madrid.

Acadia began as an extension of Horton Academy ( 1828 ), which was founded in Horton, Nova Scotia, by Baptists from Nova Scotia and Queen's College ( 1838 ).

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.

* CWM ( Chartered Wealth Manager ), CAM ( Chartered Asset Manager ), CTEP ( Chartered Trust and Estate Planner ) and CPM ( Chartered Portfolio Manager ), issued, founded and conferred by the USA Board of Standards American Academy of Financial Management ( AAFM )

Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

* 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.

Plato was the Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues who founded the Academy in Athens which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

The Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was founded in 1760 – an institution that became the Edinburgh College of Art in 1907.

There he founded The Garden, a school named for the garden he owned that served as the school's meeting place, about halfway between the locations of two other schools of philosophy, the Stoa and the Academy.

The glagolitic alphabet, however it originated, was used between 863 and 885 for government and religious documents and books, and at the Great Moravian Academy ( Veľkomoravské učilište ) founded by the missionaries, where their followers were educated.

Later that year he entered Thomas Morley's Commercial Academy, a private school founded in 1849 following the bankruptcy of Morley's earlier school.

Institutions like KM Music Conservatory founded by Oscar Winning Composer, A. R. Rahman, Calcutta School of Music, Bangalore School of Music, Eastern Fare Music Foundation, Delhi School of Music, Delhi Music Academy, and many others are dedicated to contributing to the progress or growth and supporting Western classical music.

* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.

* 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.

He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.

* University of Medical Sciences and Technology, better known as UMST, it was founded in 1996 by Prof. Mamoun Humaida as Academy of Medical Science & Technology.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998.

* 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

The Jagiellonian University, the largest university in the city ( 44, 200 students ), was founded in 1364 as Cracow Academy.