When the MSO was initially formed in 1997, the board running it included David Levy, Tony Buzan, and Raymond Keene, David Levy being the original founder of the MSO concept.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

When David Keene ( at the time Chairman of the American Conservative Union ) questions Glass ' description of minibars and the drunken antics of Young Republicans at a convention, Kelly backs his reporter when Glass admits to one mistake but says the rest is true.

When Sloan entered his position at The Philadelphia Press his newspaper drawings reflected the style of Leech, Charles Keene, and George du Maurier.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

When it reconvened in January 1868, the Senate disapproved of his action, and reinstated Stanton, contending Johnson had violated the Tenure of Office Act.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).

* Martin, James P. When Repression Is Democratic and Constitutional: The Federalist Theory of Representation and the Sedition Act of 1798.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

# When the newly elected Reichstag first convened on March 23, 1933, ( not including the Communist delegates, since their party had already been banned by that time ) it passed the Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), transferring all legislative powers to the Nazi government and, in effect, abolishing the remainder of the Weimar constitution as a whole.

When the Witchcraft Laws were replaced, in 1951, by the Fraudulent Mediums Act, Gerald Gardner went public, initially somewhat cautiously.

When Ray found himself unable to subscribe as required by the ‘ Bartholomew Act ’ of 1662 he, along with 13 other college fellows, resigned his fellowship on 24 August 1662

When the house was ready to pass the Act for dissolution, Mr. Crew who had been as forward as any man in beginning and carrying on the war against the last King, moved, that before they dissolved themselves, they would bear their witness against the horrid murder, as he called it, of the King.

When it reached the House of Lords, the Lords re-included the Licensing Act, and returned the bill to the Commons.

When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to begin the process of becoming a U. S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern boundary differed slightly from that used in the Northwest Ordinance: the border was to be " an east and west line drawn through the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line Canada ; thence with the same, through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.

When the original Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1960 as the Twins, Major League Baseball decided to expand a year earlier than planned to stave off threats of losing its exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act.

When this Act expired in 1856 a Select Committee was appointed by the Lords in 1857 to look into the question.

When the Southern-dominated Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, requiring law officials in free states to aid efforts to recapture slaves, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada, where slavery was prohibited.

When Canada patriated its constitution with the passage of the Canada Act of 1982, the existing British North America Acts were either repealed, or " modernized " and retitled as " Constitution Acts " in Canada.

When accommodations were made in the Quebec Act in 1774 to address this and other issues, religious concerns were raised in the largely Protestant Thirteen Colonies over the advance of " popery ".

When eventually Harrison was paid the money owing to him, it was by a special Act of Parliament rather than the Board of Longitude.

When the Calverts regained control of Maryland, the Act was reinstated, before being repealed permanently in 1692 following the Glorious Revolution.

" In Act II, a double chorus combines the policemen's dogged tune, " When the foeman bares his steel " and the soaring line for the women, " Go, ye heroes, go to glory ".

When they married after co-habiting for several years all children born previously were subsequently legitimated by Act of Parliament.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.