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William Leonard Pickard (born October 21, 1945) is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) manufacturing case in history. In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over while driving a Ryder rental truck and a follow car.
The last time William “Doc” Pickard and I talked, about 18 months ago, he was starting work on a book about 100 Black entrepreneurs from 1850 to 1950 — people most of us never heard of who ...
Dr. William F. Pickard is known for his beginnings as the first Black franchisee of a McDonald's before founding a multi-billion-dollar business. Michigan Chronicle co-owner, entrepreneur ...
In June 2024, Real Times and Michigan Chronicle co-owner William Pickard died. [9] Pickard was known for being influential businessman in Detroit, [9] where Real Times Media and the Michigan Chronicle are headquartered. [10] [11]
William Leonard Pickard earned a scholarship to Princeton University but dropped out after one term, instead preferring to hang out at Greenwich Village jazz clubs in New York City. In 1971, he got a job as a research manager at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, a job he held until 1974.
25th president of University of Detroit Mercy: James Monroe Gregory: 1872 Professor of Latin at Howard, Dean of the Howard Collegiate Department Lena Hill: 1997 provost of Washington and Lee University [40] Edison O. Jackson: President, Medgar Evers College: Charlene Drew Jarvis: 1964 M.S. President, Southeastern University; daughter of Dr ...
Pickard is a surname, an Anglicised version of Picard, originally meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France. Notable people with the surname include: Al Pickard (1895–1975), Canadian ice hockey administrator and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
The Authority began taking over Detroit schools in September 2012. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Covington resigned as chancellor on July 13, 2014, with an interim, Veronica Conforme, appointed the next day. [ 5 ] After the last remaining candidate dropped out on November 4, 2014, Conforme was named chancellor the next day.