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Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:54 pm to Porker Face
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:54 pm to Porker Face
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Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:56 pm to LSUNV
You tell me, although I am wary leaving this task up to your poor level of reading comprehension
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In 1959 he took a position with Cordis Corporation, where his career took a decidedly different turn. There, as Staff Physicist, he became the originator and systems/electronic designer of a pacemaking program that would eventually yield the world’s first implantable, remotely programmable digital pacemaker. While the concept for such technology was widely known and discussed, it was Walter’s work on Corids’ “Atricor” device that enabled the first prosthetic device to automatically control a physiologic parameter. This innovation dramatically altered life for the hundreds of thousands of patients who would ultimately benefit from Walter’s implantable device and its technological descendants.
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This post was edited on 5/6/13 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:59 pm to Porker Face
You tell me, although I am wary leaving this task up to your poor level of reading comprehension
I will just leave this here
LINK
I will just leave this here
LINK
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:04 pm to LSUNV
It says co-inventor in the damn title of your link. That proves so much!
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:07 pm to Porker Face
Reading is fundamental! Read the whole story. It names the other guy further down.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:12 pm to Porker Face
Keller designed and holds the patent on the first implantable atrial synchronous heart pacemaker. That is close enough for me, whether the Washington Post obit editor got their shite right is irrelevant.
Inventors hold patents
Inventors hold patents
This post was edited on 5/6/13 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:16 pm to Porker Face
BUSINESS
Bernard Madoff, former American businessman, convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme (attended, but did not graduate)
Winton M. Blount, Chairman of Blount International and former Postmaster General
David G. Bronner, Director Alabama Pension Systems
Samuel DiPiazza, former Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers
James M. Fail, chairman of Bluebonnet Savings Bank
Joe McInnes, Dir - Ala Dept of Transportation; Exec Vice President-Blount International
Janet Gurwitch, former Executive Vice President of Merchandising at Neiman Marcus, co-founder of Gurwitch Products, the manufacturer of Laura Mercier Cosmetics
Thom S. Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources
Marvin Mann, former president and CEO of Lexmark International
Neal Selman, former Executive Vp and Executive Creative Director of Draftfcb
Dana R. Garmany, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Troon Golf
ENTERTAINMENT
Norbert Leo Butz, Broadway actor
Debra Marshall, former WWE and WCW diva
Cristin Duren, Miss Florida USA 2006
Jim Nabors, actor
Ray Reach, jazz pianist, singer, arranger and composer, director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
Steve Sample, Sr., jazz arranger, composer and educator
Sela Ward, actress
Tom Cherones, director of Seinfeld
Madeline Mitchell
Ashley Crow, actress
Madeline Mitchell, Miss Alabama USA 2011 and Miss USA 2011 (2nd runner-up)
Michael Emerson, actor
Sonequa Martin-Green, actress
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, and SOCIAL ACTIVISM
William Brockman Bankhead, US House of Representatives (1917-1933), (1933-1940), Speaker of the House (1936-1940)[5]
Maryon P. Allen, United States Senator from Alabama (1978), wife of James B. Allen[6]
James B. Allen, United States Senator from Alabama (1969-1978)[7]
John W. Abercrombie, United States Congressman from Alabama (1913-1917) and President of the University of Alabama (1902-1911)[8]
Cynthia Bathurst, 1974, animal rights activist and founder/director of Safe Humane Chicago[citation needed]
Bill Baxley, Lt Governor of Alabama 1983–1987
Robert J. Bentley, current Governor of Alabama, elected 2010
Don Black, founder of Stormfront[citation needed]
Hugo Black, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–1971)
John A. Caddell, lawyer, later president pro tempore of the Board of Trustees[citation needed]
H. L. Sonny Callahan, U.S. House of Representatives Alabama's 1st district, (1985-2003)
N. Lee Cooper, 1997-1998 President of American Bar Association
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., federal judge whose opinions were critical to the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., (1857–1929), member of House of Representatives
Morris Dees, civil rights attorney, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Carl Elliott, Alabama's 7th congressional district representative, 1949 to 1965
Jim Folsom, governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and 1955 to 1959
Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity International
Charles Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama (1979–1983, 1983–1987)
Lino Gutierrez, Diplomat, United States Ambassador to Argentina (2003-2006), United States Ambassador to Nicaragua (1996-1999)
Howell Heflin, 1971-77 Ch J Ala Sup Ct, 1978-97 United States Senator from Alabama - grad law school 1948
Vivian Malone Jones, first African-American graduate
Stephanie Kopelousos, Transportation Secretary, Florida Department of Transportation (2007-2011).
Autherine Lucy, (1956), first African-American student to be admitted to the University after winning in Lucy v. Adams; suspended after 3 days due to racial hostilities; her expulsion was overturned in 1980, and in 1992, she earned her Masters degree in Elementary Education
Champ Lyons, Jr, Assoc Justice, Ala Sup Ct 1998-present; grad Law School 1965. lyons
John Malcolm Patterson, Governor of Alabama 1959-63, Grad Law Sch 1948
Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama (2003–2011)
Percy Saint, attended University of Alabama (1888-1890); state district judge (1920-1924) in Franklin, Louisiana, and Attorney General of Louisiana (1924-1932)[citation needed]
Jeff Sessions, United States Senator from Alabama, 1997-present, grad Law Sch 1973
Richard Shelby, United States Senator from Alabama, 1987-present, grad both undergrad & law school (1963)
Don Siegelman, Governor of Alabama (1999–2003)
Donald W. Stewart, United States Senator from Alabama, 1979-1981
Ira B. Thompson, Alabama State Representative
George Corley Wallace, Governor of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983–1987)
Robert Smith Vance, Federal Appellate Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Chaired and de-segregated State Democratic Party, Assassinated December 16, 1989
Michael G. Vickers, United States Department of Defense, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, 2007-Present.
JOURNALISM AND LITERTURE
Mel Allen, sportscaster for the New York Yankees, best known as the "legendary voice of the Yankees' organization" and first host of This Week in Baseball
Rece Davis, ESPN sports analyst
Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing
Winston Groom, author, "Forrest Gump"; graduate 1965
Joe Scarborough,currently the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC
Kathryn Stockett, author, The Help
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, and ENGINEERING
Jimmy Wales - co-founder of Wikipedia
Mohammad Ataul Karim, World Renowned Physicist
Lafayette Guild, Medical Director for Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War and a pioneer in the research of yellow fever.
Timothy Leary, psychologist, writer and drug activist
Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., 11th Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor of Van de Graaff generator
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia
E.O. Wilson, entomologist known for work on evolution and sociobiology; Pulitzer Prize winner
Louis Rosen, nuclear physicist, the "father" of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
Justin Hill, founder of the Alabama Lunar Rover Project
Eugene Allen Smith (A.B. 1862), American geologist; president of the GSA 1913
Bernard Madoff, former American businessman, convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme (attended, but did not graduate)
Winton M. Blount, Chairman of Blount International and former Postmaster General
David G. Bronner, Director Alabama Pension Systems
Samuel DiPiazza, former Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers
James M. Fail, chairman of Bluebonnet Savings Bank
Joe McInnes, Dir - Ala Dept of Transportation; Exec Vice President-Blount International
Janet Gurwitch, former Executive Vice President of Merchandising at Neiman Marcus, co-founder of Gurwitch Products, the manufacturer of Laura Mercier Cosmetics
Thom S. Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources
Marvin Mann, former president and CEO of Lexmark International
Neal Selman, former Executive Vp and Executive Creative Director of Draftfcb
Dana R. Garmany, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Troon Golf
ENTERTAINMENT
Norbert Leo Butz, Broadway actor
Debra Marshall, former WWE and WCW diva
Cristin Duren, Miss Florida USA 2006
Jim Nabors, actor
Ray Reach, jazz pianist, singer, arranger and composer, director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
Steve Sample, Sr., jazz arranger, composer and educator
Sela Ward, actress
Tom Cherones, director of Seinfeld
Madeline Mitchell
Ashley Crow, actress
Madeline Mitchell, Miss Alabama USA 2011 and Miss USA 2011 (2nd runner-up)
Michael Emerson, actor
Sonequa Martin-Green, actress
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, and SOCIAL ACTIVISM
William Brockman Bankhead, US House of Representatives (1917-1933), (1933-1940), Speaker of the House (1936-1940)[5]
Maryon P. Allen, United States Senator from Alabama (1978), wife of James B. Allen[6]
James B. Allen, United States Senator from Alabama (1969-1978)[7]
John W. Abercrombie, United States Congressman from Alabama (1913-1917) and President of the University of Alabama (1902-1911)[8]
Cynthia Bathurst, 1974, animal rights activist and founder/director of Safe Humane Chicago[citation needed]
Bill Baxley, Lt Governor of Alabama 1983–1987
Robert J. Bentley, current Governor of Alabama, elected 2010
Don Black, founder of Stormfront[citation needed]
Hugo Black, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–1971)
John A. Caddell, lawyer, later president pro tempore of the Board of Trustees[citation needed]
H. L. Sonny Callahan, U.S. House of Representatives Alabama's 1st district, (1985-2003)
N. Lee Cooper, 1997-1998 President of American Bar Association
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., federal judge whose opinions were critical to the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., (1857–1929), member of House of Representatives
Morris Dees, civil rights attorney, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Carl Elliott, Alabama's 7th congressional district representative, 1949 to 1965
Jim Folsom, governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and 1955 to 1959
Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity International
Charles Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama (1979–1983, 1983–1987)
Lino Gutierrez, Diplomat, United States Ambassador to Argentina (2003-2006), United States Ambassador to Nicaragua (1996-1999)
Howell Heflin, 1971-77 Ch J Ala Sup Ct, 1978-97 United States Senator from Alabama - grad law school 1948
Vivian Malone Jones, first African-American graduate
Stephanie Kopelousos, Transportation Secretary, Florida Department of Transportation (2007-2011).
Autherine Lucy, (1956), first African-American student to be admitted to the University after winning in Lucy v. Adams; suspended after 3 days due to racial hostilities; her expulsion was overturned in 1980, and in 1992, she earned her Masters degree in Elementary Education
Champ Lyons, Jr, Assoc Justice, Ala Sup Ct 1998-present; grad Law School 1965. lyons
John Malcolm Patterson, Governor of Alabama 1959-63, Grad Law Sch 1948
Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama (2003–2011)
Percy Saint, attended University of Alabama (1888-1890); state district judge (1920-1924) in Franklin, Louisiana, and Attorney General of Louisiana (1924-1932)[citation needed]
Jeff Sessions, United States Senator from Alabama, 1997-present, grad Law Sch 1973
Richard Shelby, United States Senator from Alabama, 1987-present, grad both undergrad & law school (1963)
Don Siegelman, Governor of Alabama (1999–2003)
Donald W. Stewart, United States Senator from Alabama, 1979-1981
Ira B. Thompson, Alabama State Representative
George Corley Wallace, Governor of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983–1987)
Robert Smith Vance, Federal Appellate Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Chaired and de-segregated State Democratic Party, Assassinated December 16, 1989
Michael G. Vickers, United States Department of Defense, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, 2007-Present.
JOURNALISM AND LITERTURE
Mel Allen, sportscaster for the New York Yankees, best known as the "legendary voice of the Yankees' organization" and first host of This Week in Baseball
Rece Davis, ESPN sports analyst
Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing
Winston Groom, author, "Forrest Gump"; graduate 1965
Joe Scarborough,currently the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC
Kathryn Stockett, author, The Help
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, and ENGINEERING
Jimmy Wales - co-founder of Wikipedia
Mohammad Ataul Karim, World Renowned Physicist
Lafayette Guild, Medical Director for Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War and a pioneer in the research of yellow fever.
Timothy Leary, psychologist, writer and drug activist
Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., 11th Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor of Van de Graaff generator
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia
E.O. Wilson, entomologist known for work on evolution and sociobiology; Pulitzer Prize winner
Louis Rosen, nuclear physicist, the "father" of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
Justin Hill, founder of the Alabama Lunar Rover Project
Eugene Allen Smith (A.B. 1862), American geologist; president of the GSA 1913
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:18 pm to TabledTiger
You guys are the cats pajamas
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:20 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Bernard Madoff, former American businessman, convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme (attended, but did not graduate)
way to start off that list strong
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:54 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Finally! After a full page of LSU penis envy someone restored some order to this discussion
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:56 pm to Porker Face
nobody even wants to talk about the school they went to while looking at the masters of the sec
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:58 pm to c on z
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No one being put on the moon.
No care.
Believe it or not only one SEC alum actually walked on the moon (John Young from Georgia Tech, then an SEC school).
Posted on 5/6/13 at 5:01 pm to Porker Face
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Finally! After a full page of LSU penis envy someone restored some order to this discussion
I'll put together a list later.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 5:06 pm to Porker Face
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LSU penis envy
Posted on 5/6/13 at 5:16 pm to Buck_Nasty
He said "LSU penis envy", not Louisiana. stAte and UCA fans are holding Arkansas back obviously
Posted on 5/6/13 at 5:34 pm to Porker Face
Some would say this list is made even more impressive because of the disadvantage of attending/occurring at the University of Arkansas.
But I'm not some.
But I'm not some.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:07 pm to SEC. 593
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Some would say this list is made even more impressive because of the disadvantage of attending/occurring at the University of Arkansas.
You think being among the world's best and brightest in Fayetteville is a disadvantage?
I suppose it could be: if a UA graduate doesn't win a Nobel by age 25 they are removed from Senior Walk. I see your point now!
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:46 pm to Porker Face
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You think being among the world's best and brightest in Fayetteville is a disadvantage?
I suppose it could be: if a UA graduate doesn't win a Nobel by age 25 they are removed from Senior Walk. I see your point now!
Which UA Alumni won a Nobel Prize?
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:50 pm to SEC. 593
:crickets:
Posted on 5/7/13 at 12:42 pm to Porker Face
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So keep laughing at those "redneck cousin-frickers up among the hills",
You see, you yourself admit everyone's laughing
at the perception of the University of Arkansas
as being redneck cousin #!*&&#Ss. No one is running to their computer, (except the neck) to try and legitimize their university. All SEC schools are outstanding flagships of their state, and have many successful and famous alums. You obviously have an inferiority complex, probably because of your state, not your University.
To be honest. Arkansas is probably the last state
in the SEC we would choose to live. Sorry, but thats the truth. And you would probably be better served worrying about your own success,
rather than trying to ride the coattails of other people you don't even know.
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