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At Caltech, Geneticist Beadle has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology division since 1946.
John Candy, one of the school's most famous alumni, said during one of his annual visits to the school, " My success is simply rooted in the values and discipline and respect for others that I was taught at Neil McNeil.
The school's football team plays in Don Shula Stadium, named after one of the school's most famous alumni.
John Hancock, the famous signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, signed the school's articles of incorporation.
In 1912 Neville Cardus, subsequently to become famous as a music and cricket journalist, was appointed the school's assistant cricket professional.
The school's most famous proponent and contributor Han Fei Zi ( 韓非子 ) believed that a ruler should use the following three tools to govern his subjects:
* Steven Stanzak, a New York University student famous for living in the school's library from September 2003 to April 2004.
The school's most famous ensemble is its band, simply named Christ's Hospital Band.
Two of the school's most famous athletic alumni are former Notre Dame basketball coach and current ESPN sportscaster Digger Phelps, who played basketball at Rider from 1959 to 1963 and Jason Thompson who played basketball at Rider from 2004 to 2008 and was drafted by the Sacramento Kings with the 12th pick of the 2008 NBA Draft while never winning a MAAC championship or appearing in the NCAA Tournament.
Other famous pupils at Richard Hale School are listed on that school's page.
Set in the Malvern Hills, the school's location owes much to Malvern's emergence in the nineteenth century as a fashionable spa resort, appreciated for its unpolluted air and the healing qualities of its famous spring water.
' The gate ' () refers to the school's famous arch and, by a synecdoche of, the school itself, whilst also being a pun on the name of the school's founder, Sir John Port.
The Hall of Fame, known casually as " The Wall ," refers to the upper frieze in the school's auditorium, where the last names of famous alumni are painted.
The largest of all stained glass windows is in the rear of the chapel, over the entrance and reads a famous quote from one of the school's founders: " We have lit a candle in the wilderness that will never be extinguished.
Jiang Chunfang ( 姜椿芳 ), one of the most famous Russian translators in China and the first chief editor of the Encyclopedia of China was appointed as the school's first president.
* Xavier ( X )-after St. Francis Xavier, the famous Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, and the school's patron.
Among the school's famous alumni is Dr. Booker T. Washington, who became an educator and later founded Tuskeegee Institute, another college supported by the AMA.
Former Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, are among the school's list of famous alumni.
Hodson, who later became famous for Hodson's Horse, supervised the construction of the school's first buildings and is still commemorated by the annual Hodson's Run, a competition between the school's houses.
The school's most famous performing staple is its Glee Club.

school's and basketball
After graduating from PJC in spring 1939, Robinson transferred to UCLA, where he became the school's first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track.
The 2006 US reality series Knight School focused on students at Texas Tech University vying for a walk-on ( non-scholarship ) roster position on the school's men's basketball team under legendary coach Bob Knight.
** University of Dayton Arena, the school's basketball arena
Winfield's 1972 Minnesota team won a Big Ten basketball championship, the school's first in 53 years.
* Josh Pace-former Syracuse University basketball guard during the school's first National Championship in 2003 ; he currently plays professional basketball overseas
Warren Elementary School operated in the old high school building for many years, its basketball team having adopted the old high school's nickname ; " Lightning 5.
Tri-Central's other notable information / achievements are: High Ability / honors instruction at all grade levels, 2012 Tri-Central High School seniors received in excess of $ 750, 000 in awards and scholar-ships, senior trip to Washington D. C. and New York City, musical productions by the school's elite choir, and instrumental performances by the schools state recognized gold rating marching band, and concert band, 8 AP classes with many students scoring 3 and above on AP exams — 10 % more than last year — ranked 13th in the state, state recognition for percentage of students enrolled in AP classes — only 35 schools recognized, state recognized academic team, Dual Credit courses as well as access to many on-line courses, 11 school-wide computer labs and 4 student computers in each elementary classroom, elementary athletic opportunities in youth soccer, cheerleading, football, basketball, and wrestling, Elementary music, art, computer technology and physical education classes each week, Accelerated reading K-12 and operation Drop Everything And Read in the secondary, and this reading program is year-round for the middle and high school.
The school's boy's basketball team won the MSHSL Class A State Championship in 2009.
The school's team is the Fertile Falcons, which includes softball, baseball, basketball, volleyball and football.
The school's sports programs ( represented by their mascot the Trojan ) have seen considerable success over the past few years with the baseball and boy's basketball teams each winning their respective district and conference championships during the years of 2002-2004, with the baseball team taking 1st place at the MSHSAA Class 1A State Championship in 2003 and 4th place in 2004.
The school's teams have combined to win five state championships including volleyball ( 1986, 1999 ) men's basketball ( 1985 ), women's basketball ( 2000 ) and men's track and field ( 2009 ).
Fredericksburg High athletic teams were known as the " Freddies ," and won multiple championships in basketball and baseball in the now defunct Wayne County " B " League, despite being one of the smallest school's competing.
The school's marching and concert band won national recognition in the 1950s and boys basketball and cross country teams won state titles.
Though lacking a football team, the high school's athletes participate in such sports as basketball, baseball, softball, track and field, golf, cross-country sprinting.
Since 2004, the school's sports teams have made three state tournament appearances in boys ' basketball, one in girls ' basketball, three in golf, and two in football.
The school's basketball team were U14 national champions in 2000 and U19 national champions in 2003.
From 1948 – 2003, Urbana took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the primary venue after 1963 being the Assembly Hall, the school's basketball arena.
There he inspired the " White Shirted Legion " ( the tradition of wearing white shirts to the school's games, so as to make fans more visible ), and lead his team to the Michigan Class A high school basketball championship in 1958.
He was on Canterbury's baseball, basketball, and football teams, became the editor of the school's newspaper, and participated in choral and debating clubs.
Wake Forest is generally regarded as a competitive program in men's basketball, frequently qualifying for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship ( 22 times in the school's history ).

school's and alumni
Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all of whom were alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's first library.
At one point, he reads aloud a long roster of the school's fallen alumni, and, defying the modern world he sees as soulless and lacking transcendent values of honour and friendship, dares to include the name of a German former master who has died fighting on the opposite side.
The school's most notible alumni is Terrell Zachery who played on the 2010 Auburn University College Football National Championship team.
His former home is a prominent part of the campus, visible from the entrance and serving as the school's alumni center.
The school district is trying to raise $ 30 million from alumni to improve the high school's athletic facilities.
The Harvard Law Review was first published in 1887 and has been staffed and edited by some of the school's most notable alumni.
Standing in the precincts of Westminster Abbey in central London, and with a history stretching back to the 11th century, the school's notable alumni include Ben Jonson, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, Edward Gibbon, Henry Mayhew, A.
Among the school's alumni are a US Supreme Court Justice, several state Supreme Court Justices and supreme court justices of foreign countries, as well as several founders of law firms, university presidents and deans, business entrepreneurs and politicians.
More recently, despite opposition from some students and alumni, the university administration abandoned the unique tartan scheme and adopted red and white as the school's athletic colors.
In 2003, the Wall Street Journal ranked Bowdoin among the top twenty colleges and universities in the United States based on the percentage of the school's alumni who attend a " top-five " graduate program in business, law, or medicine.
The school's alumni organization has a full-time executive director and offices at the school.
It intends to improve the school's golf teams, provide a laboratory for students in turf grass courses, and give boosters and alumni a new reason to visit the campus.
The success of so many St. Paul's alumni in the life of Hong Kong and other communities because of this training testifies to the far-seeing wisdom of the school's founders.
The school's alumni include 20 Rhodes Scholars and two Nobel Prize winners: physicist John Polanyi and economist Michael Spence.
The school was long an institution that targeted commuter students from the Boston area, however in the school's pursuit of a national legacy, that function has been forgotten as the number of commuter students enrolled dropped from well over 50 % to a mere three students, according to statistics published by the alumni magazine.
The original academy building burned early in the school's history, and the school operated in a church for 44 years until a new school building was built in 1888. Notable alumni of the Black River Academy include U. S. President Calvin Coolidge ; Rotary founder Paul P. Harris ; John Garibaldi Sargent, who was U. S. Attorney General during Coolidge's presidency ; and Vermont governor William W. Stickney.
In an unusual development, the Ohio State Faculty Council, urged by the head of a university alumni group, refused the Rose Bowl bid by margin of 28 to 25, using the rationale that the school's academic reputation was suffering because of over-emphasis on the football team.
The school's primary corridor on the ground floor is the focal point for the more public spaces, which include the performing arts center, student commons, alumni conference room, cyber cafe, and journalism suite.
The board, whose members are appointed and elected from amongst alumni, parents of students past and present, and the wider UCC community, selects the college's principal to manage the school's annual operation and head an executive committee composed of vice-principals, department heads, and administration staff.
Issued more regularly, Old Times is the school's alumni magazine, which reports on the lives of Old Boys, and highlights recent and upcoming events.

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