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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 ...
The Pompeiian Villa is a historic house in Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.. It was built in 1900 for Isaac Ellwood, and designed by architects George C. Nimmons and William K. Fellows. [2] It belonged to James Hopkins, the vice president of the Diamond Match Company, [3] from 1901 to 1903, when it was sold to George Craig for 10% of Texaco.
Gordon Todd Skinner, who was known by his friends as Todd, [1] grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.His biological father was Gordon H. Skinner, a chiropractor.Skinner's mother was a businesswoman named Katherine Magrini, who ran a spring manufacturer, Gardner Springs Company [2] and a candy company, Katherine's Spring Gourmet Chocolates.
Gulfport Shipbuilding Corporation (also called Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works) was a shipbuilding company at Port Arthur, Texas, formed as Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works opened in 1930. For World War II Gulfport built Tank Barges a Type B ship and Tugboats a Type V ship. The shipyard closed in 1985. [1] Notable ship: USS Pinola (ATA-206)
Apr. 8—Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) announced in a press release on Monday that they have named Dr. Jeremy Pickard as their next Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Pickard will ...
Port Arthur Independent School District is a public school district based in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. The district serves most of Port Arthur and a portion of Groves . In 2012, the school district was rated " academically acceptable " by the Texas Education Agency .
With the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy calling for cancer-warning labels on alcoholic beverages after outlining a direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk, ...
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.