- Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984) was an American film director. He became one of the major filmmakers of the 1970s through his innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence, as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre. Peckinpah's films generally dealt with the conflict between values and ideals, and the corruption and violence of human society. - George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22,1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S. Patton Jr. in the film "Patton", as well as for his flamboyant performance as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". - John Milius
John Milius (born April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. A former student at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, Milius started his movie career in a student film contest in 1967, for which he won first prize on his entry "Marcello I'm Bored". Milius wrote, co-wrote and/or directed popular and critically acclaimed films such as "Apocalypse Now", … - Paul Coverdell
Paul Douglas Coverdell was a United States Senator from Georgia and was also the director of the Peace Corps from 1989 until 1991. He was elected for the first time in 1992 and re-elected in 1998. He died while still in the Senate of a cerebral hemorrhage. Coverdell, a Republican, was often described as a quiet, soft-spoken man, but he left profound marks on the governments of both the state of Georgia and the nation in a relatively brief period of time. - David Merrick
David Merrick (November 27 1911 - April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer. Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law. In 1940 he left his legal career to become a successful theatrical producer. He often was his own competition for the Tony Award, … - Zhou Long
Zhou Long is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Zhou lived for many years in New York City. He studied composition with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky at Columbia University, earning his DMA in 1993. He is the Music Director of the New York-based Music from China Ensemble. His wife is the composer Chen Yi. As of 2006, both Zhou and Chen are professors of composition at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music. - William Garwood
William Garwood (April 28 1884 - December 28 1950) was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s. Earlier in his film career between 1911 and 1913 Garwood starred in a number of early adaptions of popular classics including "Jane Eyre" and "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1910), "Lorna Doone", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "David Copperfield" (1911), "The Merchant of Venice" (1912), … - King Baggot Baggot
King Baggot (born November 7, 1879 - died July 11, 1948) was an American motion picture pioneer actor, screenwriter and director. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he went to New York City with the intention of becoming a Broadway actor. In nearby Fort Lee, New Jersey he began a film career in 1909 as an actor in silent films with Carl Laemmle at his IMP Studios. Within two years he began writing scripts and directing, all the while becoming a major star in the U.S., … - F. Richard Jones
Frank Richard Jones (September 7, 1893 - December 14, 1930) was an American director and producer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Jones was sixteen years old when he became involved in the fledgling film industry in his hometown with the Atlas film company. A technician, Jones worked in the film laboratory and other departments but his real interest lay behind the camera, creating the visual product. - John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing several classic films, "The Maltese Falcon", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Key Largo", and "The African Queen". - Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, Felix Slatkin, and his mother was Eleanor Aller, the cellist with the quartet. His brother, Frederick Zlotkin, is a cellist. He studied at Indiana University and Los Angeles City College before attending the Juilliard School where he studied conducting under Jean Paul Morel. His conducting debut came in 1966, and in 1968, … - Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas (born July 27, 1948) is an American actress and director in television and motion pictures. She was born Betty Thomas Nienhauser in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She worked as an artist and taught school in Chicago before deciding to pursue a career in show business. Thomas joined The Second City comedy group and appeared in the films "Tunnel Vision" (1975), … - Steve York
- Robert T. Kuhn
Robert T. Kuhn (born April 5 1937 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is the former president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, having held that office from March to August of 2001. He currently serves on the LCMS Board of Directors. - Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actress and television director. - Rhonda Vincent
Rhonda Vincent is an American bluegrass singer and an accomplished mandolin, guitar and fiddle player. She was born July 13, 1962, in Kirksville, Missouri, United States, where she still lives. Her musical career started as a child in her family's band, The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned almost four decades. She achieved success in the bluegrass genre in the 1970s and '80s, … - Nancy J. Cozean
Nancy J. Cozean is the mayor of the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. She was elected in 2003. During her tenure the city has experienced significant economic growth and its first sustained population growth in nearly 50 years.{State of City reports 2003-2006). In 1996 she made her first venture into politics, challenging the Republican incumbent NY State Assemblyman Tom Kirwan and was narrowly defeated. - Marlin Perkins
Richard Marlin Perkins (March 28, 1905 - June 14, 1986) was a zoologist, best known as a host of the television program "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom." - Karen Pearlman
Karen Pearlman (b. 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA) is a contemporary filmmaker, choreographer, writer, artistic director, and educator currently living and working in Australia. A former dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and former Co-Artistic Director with Richard James Allen of That Was Fast and Tasdance, Pearlman holds an M.A. in Editing from AFTRS (the Australian Film Television and Radio School), and is a lecturer there. - William H.T. Bush
William Henry Trotter "Bucky" Bush (born July 14, 1938 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is the youngest son of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the younger brother of former President George H.W. Bush, and the uncle of current President George W. Bush. He got a BA from Yale University in 1960 where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society. He was a fraternity brother in Psi Upsilon with John Negroponte, … - David Robertson
David Robertson (born 19 July 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American conductor, currently serving as the Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. - Damon Evans
Damon M. Evans is the Athletic Director (AD) at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. After graduating from Gainesville High School in Hall County, Georgia, Evans played football for UGA from 1988 to 1992 and graduated from the Terry College of Business in 1992 with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in finance and earned his Master of Education (M.Ed.) in sports management from UGA in 1994. - Lou Henson
Lou Henson (born January 10, 1932 in Okay, Oklahoma, USA) is a former collegiate basketball coach. Henson began his coaching career at Las Cruces High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Henson was head coach of the varsity for four seasons, and won state championships in 1959, 1960, and 1961. He started coaching at the college ranks in 1962 at Hardin-Simmons University. In 1966, he took over at his alma mater, New Mexico State University. - Pappy Waldorf
Lynn O. Waldorf (October 3, 1902 - August 15, 1981), better known as "Pappy" Waldorf, was a Hall of Fame college football coach. Waldorf began his major college career as head football coach at Oklahoma A&M from 1929 to 1933. In his five seasons at Oklahoma A&M Waldorf went 34-10-7, won three Missouri Valley Conference championships, and never lost to arch-rival Oklahoma. In 1932, Waldorf was also promoted to Director of Athletics at the school. - Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Hill Jenkins (12 May 1910-1 May 1984) was an American arranger who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements. Jenkins worked with the Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, among other singers. - Frank Broyles
John Franklin "Frank" Broyles (born December 26, 1924 in Decatur, Georgia) is a former NCAA football player, coach, and broadcaster, and the athletic director for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. On February 17, 2007 he announced retirement plans effective December 31, 2007. - Britt Boyse
Britt Powell Boyse is a former beauty pageant contestant from Kansas City, Missouri who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. In 1994 Boyse competed in the Miss Missouri pageant as Miss Northwest Missouri and placed first runner-up to Ann Marie Sun. Later that year she won the Miss Missouri USA title, and was crowned alongside her sister titleholder Melana Scantlin, Miss Missouri Teen USA 1995. - Julie Scott
Julie Scott, S.R.C., M.A. (St. Louis, Missouri, August 24, 1958 -), is the Grand Master of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis. Other positions she holds, apart from Grand Master, are: *President and Chief Executive Officer of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of AMORC *Director of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, … - Doug Weaver
Douglas W. Weaver (born 1930) was a college football coach and athletics director. As head football coach at Kansas State from 1960 to 1966, his teams were notoriously awful and posted two of the longest losing streaks in college football history. He later achieved positive acclaim as the athletic director at Michigan State University. Weaver was used to success on the football field, starring as a center on Michigan State's great early 1950s teams. - Nellie Tayloe Ross
Nellie Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 - December 19, 1977) was an American politician, the governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the National Mint for many years. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. She is also to date the only woman to have ever served as governor of Wyoming. - L. Patrick Gray
Louis Patrick Gray III was acting director of the FBI from 1972-73. Gray was nominated as permanent director by Richard Nixon in 1973 but his nomination was withdrawn after he admitted to destroying documents given to him by White House counsel, John Dean. His deputy director W. Mark Felt admitted in 2005 to being Deep Throat, the famous source of leaks to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. - Oswald Hoffmann
Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (December 6 1913 - September 8 2005) was an American clergyman and broadcaster who was best known as a speaker for "The Lutheran Hour", a long-running radio program affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. - William Hedgcock Webster
William Hedgcock Webster (born March 6, 1924) was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1987 to 1991. He was a former federal judge who ascended to the CIA after his successful coups against the New York mafia families while director of the FBI under President Jimmy Carter. - Keylee Sue Sanders
Keylee Sue Sanders was Miss Kansas Teen USA and Miss Teen USA 1995. Sanders first won the Miss Kansas Teen USA title in late 1994. In August 1995 she was crowned Miss Teen USA in the national pageant televised live from Wichita, in her home state of Kansas. As Miss Kansas Teen USA, Sanders was part of the Vanbros organization, and she would retain links with that group after she gave up her crown. - Dick Bestwick
Dick Bestwick (b. 1930) is a former American football coach who served as head coach of the University of Virginia from 1975-1981 finishing with a career record as a head coach of 16-49-1. A native of Grove City, Pennsylvania, he played football and graduated from North Carolina in 1952. Dick went on to receive his Masters in Education from Penn State. - John A. Gordon
General John Alexander Gordon (born August 22, 1946, in Jefferson City, Missouri) was deputy director of central intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C. He served as the President's Homeland Security advisor from 2003 to 2004. Gordon entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1968. - Kevin White
Dr. Kevin White (born September 25, 1950) is the Director of Athletics at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He has held this position since March 13, 2000. He held similar positions at Arizona State University, Tulane University, the University of Maine, and Loras College. White is a career educator, having started as a high school coach and teacher at Gulf High School, in New Port Richey, Florida. - Jim Hart
James Warren Hart (born April 29, 1944 in Evanston, Illinois) was an American football quarterback in the NFL for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 through 1983 and the Washington Redskins in 1984. From 1974-'76 he guided the Cardinals to 3 straight 10+ win seasons along with back to back division crowns in 1974 & '75. He was also selected to the Pro Bowl four times 1974-'77. Hart was named the NFC Player of the Year by UPI, … - Chris Long
Chris Long (born John Christopher Long in Washington, DC on December 8, 1973) is the Sports Director at Waterman Broadcasting Corporation's NBC2 WBBH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Naples/Fort Myers, Florida. He has held this position since November 1, 2006. Currently Long, Grant Lodes and Sean Bennett comprise the NBC2 Sports team. Long previously worked as NBC2's Weekend Sports Anchor and prior to that a Sports Photographer and Reporter. - William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. He was previously a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 1980, where he was elected President of the Faculty.
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