The University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university in Arlington,Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Texas System in 1965.
Hugo Francis Bezdek was a Czech American athlete who played American football and was a coach of football,basketball,and baseball. He was the head football coach at the University of Oregon,the University of Arkansas (1908–1912),Pennsylvania State University (1918–1929),and Delaware Valley College (1949). Bezdek also coached the Mare Island Marines in the 1918 Rose Bowl and the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League (NFL) in 1937 and part of the 1938 season. In addition,Bezdek coached basketball at Oregon and Penn State (1919),coached baseball at Arkansas (1909–1913),Oregon (1914–1917) and Penn State (1920–1930),and served as the manager of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates (1917–1919). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954.
Frank William "Menty" Keaney was an American football,basketball,and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. As a college men's basketball coach,he was known as the architect of modern "run-and-shoot" basketball and the inventor of the fast break.
The Rhode Island Rams are the athletic programs of the University of Rhode Island,based in Kingston,Rhode Island,United States. The Rams compete in the NCAA's Division I as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The football team,however,competes in the Colonial Athletic Association of the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision,as the A-10 does not sponsor football. The program's athletic director is Thorr Bjorn.
Francis Julius LeMoyne was a 19th-century American medical doctor and philanthropist from Washington,Pennsylvania. Responsible for creating the first crematory in the United States,he was also an abolitionist,founder of Washington's first public library,co-founder of the Washington Female Seminary,and an instrumental benefactor to the LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School,to which he made a $20,000 donation in 1870.
The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston,Rhode Island,United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in the village of Kingston in southern Rhode Island. Satellite campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Downtown Providence,the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence's Jewelry District,the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett,and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich.
Michael Alan Rice,is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and former state representative from South Kingstown,Rhode Island. A Democrat,he served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives,representing the 35th district,encompassing the village of Kingston and West Kingston,and parts of the neighborhoods of Tuckertown,Wakefield and Peace Dale. Rice was first elected in November 4,2008 and served from January 3,2009 to January 3,2011.
Daniel E. Doyle,Jr. is the founder and Executive Director of the now-defunct Institute for International Sport. In 2016,Doyle was convicted of embezzling funds from the institute,and he is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence.
The Rhode Island Rams baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of Rhode Island,located in Kingston,Rhode Island,United States. The program has been a member of the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference since the start of the 1981 season. Since the 1966 season,the program has played at Bill Beck Field,located on the university's campus. The program has appeared in two NCAA Tournaments. It has won two conference tournaments,three regular season conference titles,and three regular season division titles. Three former Rams have appeared in Major League Baseball.
John Barlow was an American entomologist and college administrator. For 35 years,he was the chairman of the Zoology Department of Rhode Island State College and was twice interim president of the college.
Thomas Stephen Crawford (1900-1987) was an American chemical engineer known for his research in coal,coal tar and coal gasification. He was a long-serving (1945-1968) dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island,and namesake of Crawford Hall at the university.
Frank James Newman,Jr. was a US education reformer and administrator who produced the Newman Reports,two ground-breaking reports on higher education in the United States that were published in 1971 and 1974. He served as the eighth President of the University of Rhode Island (1974–1983).
George Hill Mathewson Lawrence was an American botanist,writer and professor of botany who helped establish the 'Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium',the Hunt Botanical Library and the Huntia journal. He was also an avid book collector,including books on the history of Rhode Island,historic books and botanical art.
John Forbes Hogan was an American architect from Providence,Rhode Island.
Walter H. "Barney" Reynolds,served seven consecutive terms as 30th Mayor of Providence,Rhode Island,totaling fourteen years of service. He served from 1951 until 1965.
Tyrese Jeffrey Martin is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Rhode Island and Connecticut.
David Marlin Dooley is an American chemist with expertise in organometallic compounds,and university administrator who has served as Provost of Montana State University and the eleventh President of the University of Rhode Island.
John Hosea Washburn (1859-1932) was an American chemist with expertise in agricultural chemistry,and university administrator who served as the founding president of Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts from 1892 to 1902,and director of the National Farm School from 1902 to 1917.
Howard Edwards (1854-1930) was an American educator with expertise in American literature,and university administrator who served as the third president of Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts from 1906 to 1930;at 24 years,he was the longest-serving president of the university.
Francis Henry "Fran" Horn (1908-1999) was an American educator with expertise in English literature and higher education who served as a university administrator at several institutions in the Eastern United States,and served as president of several colleges and universities,including the Pratt Institute from 1953-1957,the University of Rhode Island (URI) from 1958 to 1967,Albertus Magnus College from 1968-1970,and the American College of Switzerland from 1972-1975. While serving as president of the University of Rhode Island,he oversaw the founding of two graduate schools,the Graduate Library School and the Graduate School of Oceanography,as well as the establishment of the URI Faculty Senate,and he managed rapidly increasing student enrollments and ambitious building projects on the URI campus. Despite his success in guiding the numerous building projects and building the national and international reputation of the university,he fell into political disfavor with the university's board of trustees primarily for his political aspirations,leading to his forced resignation from URI in 1967. Horn was elected as a member of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1967,and he spend his retirement years after 1983 at his home in Kingston near the URI campus.
