Under former athletic director Lew Perkins, the department's budget increased from $ 27. 2 million in 2003 ( 10th in the conference ) to currently over $ 50 million thanks in large part to money raised from a new priority seating policy at Allen Fieldhouse, a new $ 26. 67 million eight-year contract with Adidas replacing an existing contract with Nike, and a new $ 40. 2 million seven-year contract with ESPN Regional Television.

He recorded the soundtrack for Porky's Revenge !, supplying the main theme, " High School Nights ," and was the musical director for a television special starring Carl Perkins, with assorted guests including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Rosanne Cash.

Perkins left the BBC in 1988, to become a director of Hat Trick Productions, an independent television and radio production company.

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

In 1887, Perkins director Michael Anagnos sent graduate Anne Sullivan to teach Helen Keller in Alabama.

The special features included some of the following ; " The Diary of Anne Frank: Echoes From the Past " featurette, a press conference with director George Stevens, MovieTone news announcing public appearances by Millie Perkins, a screen test, and an audio commentary by Millie Perkins and George Stevens Jr, the director's son.

When Perkins announced on December 15, 1982, that he was leaving the Giants at the end of the season to become head coach and athletic director at the University of Alabama, the Giants announced that Parcells would succeed him as head coach.

Perkins ' first husband was Chicago actor and director Terry Kinney ; the couple divorced.

The ISR threatened Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University with legal action when assistant director Robert Martino put up a website criticizing star-naming companies, despite it being factually correct.

Baird told George Perkins Marsh that he sought to be the director of the National Museum and that he had intentions to expand on the collections within the museum en masse.

Two years later, Geoffrey Perkins became company director, and helped to produce shows such as Father Ted, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The managing director of IRN is Tim Molloy, who succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009.

Long-time sports director Gil Santos retired after 38 years with the station on January 30, 2006 ; after a week-long fill-in by Bob Lobel, Walt Perkins took over as morning sports anchor on February 7.

Marlin Perkins, who gained fame as the host of the television program Zoo Parade and later, Wild Kingdom, was director of the zoo from 1944 until 1962.

After being hired as a curator of the Buffalo Zoological Park in Buffalo, New York, Perkins was eventually promoted to director in 1938.

Perkins was the host of Zoo Parade, a television program that originated from the Lincoln Park Zoo on NBC station WNBQ-TV ( now WMAQ-TV ) when he was the director there.

* Numerous people have been named after Presley, several of them becoming quite well known themselves: Elvis Mitchell, a former motion picture and arts reviewer and staff writer for the New York Times, Elvis Stojko, a Canadian who was the three-time World Figure Skating Champion ; Elvis Crespo, a salsa and merengue musician ; Elvis Dumervil, a former University of Louisville All American football player, now with the Denver Broncos ; Elvis Perkins, a musician who is the son of actor Anthony Perkins ; and Elvis Polanski, son of movie director Roman Polanski.

A number of notable comedy movers and shakers have produced the programme, including John Lloyd ( Blackadder producer and deviser of QI ), TV executive Geoffrey Perkins, Have I Got News for You producer Harry Thompson and writer and director Armando Iannucci.

Perkins chaired the committee, and Altmeyer served as technical director.

A reluctant state legislature granted Bryant a charter to build a railroad with Bunker Hill monument director Thomas Handasyd Perkins as the principal financier and owner of a majority of the shares.

Perkins also worked at WBTR-TV, an independent Baton Rouge television station, as a reporter and later as news director.

* Michael Anagnos ( 1837 – 1906 ), philanthropist and director of Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind.

Dr. Clark has served as teacher and principal in Oklahoma high schools, as teacher and athletic director at Raymondville, Texas, High School, as an instructor at the University of Oklahoma, and as an associate professor of education at Fort Hays, Kan., State College.

* Moshe Bar ( neuroscientist ), neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at Harvard Medical School

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

He is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen.

Wallach took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator.

Graduates of world-renowned Łódź Film School include some of the icons of the world cinematography, e. g., Roman Polanski ( Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Frantic, The Pianist ) and Krzysztof Zanussi ( a leading director of the so-called cinema of moral anxiety of the 1970s ).

Sir Lawrence Bragg, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, where Watson and Crick worked, gave a talk at Guys Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in The News Chronicle of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled " Why You Are You.

With the help of Mises, in the late 1920s Hayek founded and served as director of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, before joining the faculty of the London School of Economics ( LSE ) in 1931 at the behest of Lionel Robbins.

Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with his graduation from Pitt in 1933, he remained active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as its director from 1934 to 1938, while at the same time enrolling in the University of Pittsburgh Law School.

" Hafed Al-Ghwell, a Libya expert and director of communications at the Dubai campus of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, commented " This is a regime with a long history of killing people in jail and then claiming it was suicide.

Broke and working as a musician in New York City after returning from Paris in 1976, Jarmusch applied on a whim to the prestigious Graduate Film School of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts ( then under the direction of Hollywood director László Benedek ).

After Robinson's retirement from baseball, his wife, Rachel Robinson, pursued a career in academic nursing — she became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

In London, Philby enrolled at the School of Slavonic languages to learn Russian, helped by his father, a friend of the director.

However, Brando left to study at the American Theatre Wing Professional School, part of the Dramatic Workshop of The New School with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and at the Actors Studio.

He also became director of the Transnational Institute ( TNI is an independent research institute based in Amsterdam ), and taught at the School of International Service of the American University, in Washington, D. C.

Some Chinese scholars such as Zhou Tianyong, the vice director of research of the Central Party School, argue that gradual political reform as well as repression of those pushing for overly rapid change over the next thirty years will be essential if China is to avoid an overly turbulent transition to a middle class dominated polity.

As Rolf Wiggershaus recounts in The Frankfurt School, Its History, Theories and Political Significance ( MIT 1995 ), Lazarsfeld was the director of a project, funded and inspired by David Sarnoff ( the head of RCA ), to discover both the sort of music that listeners of radio liked and ways to improve their " taste ", so that RCA could profitably air more classical music.

* Ephrem the Syrian, ( c. 306 – 373 ), Syriac speaking deacon, hymnographer, theologian, director of the School of Edessa

Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer had spent much time in his youth in the New Mexico area, and suggested the Los Alamos Ranch School on the mesa.

Subsequently, Rickover became chief of a new section in the Bureau of Ships, the Nuclear Power Division, and began work with Alvin M. Weinberg, the Oak Ridge director of research, both to establish the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and to begin the design of the pressurized water reactor for submarine propulsion.

Professor Christopher Smith, director of the British School at Rome, said that the discovery was " the clearest example yet found of mason ’ s marks of the time.

According to Kevin Benson, the 10th director of the school, " The first ' official ' reference to the School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) graduates as Jedi Knights was on 12 May 1992 during a meeting of the Committee on Armed Services Military Education Panel in Washington D. C ." Congressman Ike Skelton stated, " we all know that the real stamp of approval came when General Schwarzkopf requested SAMS graduates, sometimes referred to as ' Jedi Knights ," be sent to his headquarters in Riyadh to assist in developing the campaign plan.