Whitman explained to a family friend that the catalyst for his decision to join the Marines was an incident that had occurred the month prior to his enlistment when his father had beaten him and thrown him into the family swimming pool, almost drowning him, after he had returned home drunk after an evening socializing with friends.

Although Whitman's grades improved somewhat during his second and third semesters at the University of Texas, the Marine Corps deemed his academic performance unacceptable and returned Whitman to active duty in February, 1963.

On this occasion, Whitman returned to active duty at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to serve the remainder of his five-year assignment.

In December 1964, Whitman was honorably discharged from the Marines and returned to the University of Texas, this time enrolling in the architectural engineering program.

" Osgood refused to republish the book and returned the plates to Whitman when suggested changes and deletions were ignored.

In 2011, Whitman Drama returned to the Edinburgh Fringe under the company name Ophiuchus Rising to perform The Laramie Project.

She owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts, a very popular restaurant that featured home cooking in the 1930s.

A joint funeral service for Charles Whitman and his mother, Margaret, was held at his home parish of Sacred Heart in Lake Worth on August 5, 1966.

It is also home to St. Anthony's High School and Walt Whitman High School.

As the county seat, Colfax is also home to the Whitman County Courthouse and the Whitman County Jail.

* Austin is the home of Headquarters Company H, commanded by Hank Whitman, Senior Captain.

Country villas, frame row houses, and the occasional brick row house dotted the countryside, and one of them was home to poet Walt Whitman, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper.

Whitman died on December 14, 2011, at age 98, at home in the apartment above his bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, in Paris.

In 1884, for example, he loaned $ 500 to poet Walt Whitman to help him purchase his home in Camden, New Jersey.

The team played its home games at several different venues in eastern Massachusetts: mainly in stadium on the campus of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, but also at Whitman-Hanson High School in Whitman, Massachusetts, and at Bowditch Stadium in Framingham, Massachusetts.

* 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

Other Friedman tunes include " The Ballad of Charles Whitman ," in which Friedman lampooned Whitman's sniper attack from the University of Texas at Austin's Main Building tower on August 1, 1966.

The Judson Dance Theater, located at the Judson Memorial Church, New York ; and the Judson dancers, notably Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Simonne Forti, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, Steve Paxton and others ; collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver.

By the turn of the 20th century, the last group of passenger pigeons, all descended from the same pair, was kept by Professor Charles O. Whitman at the University of Chicago.

The last attempt to breed the remaining specimens was done by Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, which included attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs.

His thesis was The distribution of the binomial coefficients modulo p. He became a professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

* 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

Whitman Books also published three hardcover novels aimed at young readers and based upon the series.

Charles Oldfather, Herk Harvey and Charles Whitman, all at one time professors at The University of Kansas, were cast as farmers.

degree in physics and mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

** Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 people and wounds 31 from atop the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower, after earlier killing his wife and mother.

When the pioneers were told at Fort Hall by agents from the Hudson's Bay Company that they should abandon their wagons there and use pack animals the rest of the way, Whitman disagreed and volunteered to lead the wagons to Oregon.

* August 1, 1966: University of Texas Massacre Charles Whitman climbs atop the observation deck at the University of Texas-Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31 during a 96-minute shooting rampage.

Three of the fatalities were killed inside the university's tower, with 11 others murdered after Whitman fired at random targets from the 28th floor observation deck of the Main Building before Whitman was shot and killed by Austin Police Officer Houston McCoy.

Prior to commencing the mass murder at the University of Texas ( where he was a student ), Whitman had murdered both his wife and mother in Austin.

The Whitman brothers regularly attended Mass with their mother and all three brothers served as altar boys at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.

In September 1953, at the age of twelve years and three months, Whitman also earned the rank of Eagle Scout.

As a result of the nurturing and goading from his father, Whitman became an accomplished pianist at the age of twelve.

Whitman entered the mechanical engineering program at the University of Texas on September 15, 1961.

Perhaps because he was free of the discipline and routine he had experienced while stationed at Guantanamo Bay, plus his courtship of a fellow student whom he later married, Whitman was initially a poor student whose grades were largely unimpressive.

This last hobby earned Whitman his first encounter with police when, shortly after his enrollment at the University, he and two friends were observed poaching a deer: a passer-by noted Whitman's license plate number and reported the incident to police.

On one occasion in 1962, as he and a fellow student named Francis Schuck, Jr. browsed at the Main Building of the University of Texas, Whitman remarked: " A person could stand off an army from atop of it ( the tower ) before they got him.

Whitman then began to fire upon people walking upon Guadalupe Street, where he first shot and injured a 17-year-old newspaper delivery boy named Alex Hernandez, before fatally wounding a 17-year-old girl named Karen Griffith with a shot to the shoulder which destroyed Griffith's right lung.

To the rear of the intersection of 24th and Guadalupe Street, Whitman targeted two 21-year-olds named Oscar Royvela and Irma Garcia as the pair walked towards the university's biology laboratory.

Directly in front of the entrance to the West Mall on Guadalupe Street, two 18-year-old students named Paul Sonntag and Claudia Rutt had taken refuge behind a construction barricade alongside a teenager named Carla Sue Wheeler when Whitman had begun firing upon people on and around Guadalupe Street.

Other artists who created Happenings besides Kaprow include Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Whitman, and Wolf Vostell: Theater is in the Street ( Paris in 1958 ).

The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855.

About this time Holden was introduced to the writings of Walt Whitman and became friends with James William Wallace and a number of the members of Bolton's Whitman society known as the " Eagle Street College ".

* Poet Walt Whitman lived at 99 Ryerson Street while working on Leaves of Grass.

Gluckman helped locate Dia ’ s present Chelsea building on West 23rd Street for a planned Cy Twombly museum, a performance space for Robert Whitman on West 19th Street, and the Mercantile Exchange on Harrison Street for Young and Zazeela.