Toensing is a surname of Germanic origin.
Those bearing it include:
The Connecticut State Board of Education is the governing body of the Connecticut State Department of Education, which oversees the public education in the state, distribute funds to the state's 166 school districts, and operates the Connecticut Technical High School System.
Richard Toensing was an American composer and music educator. He studied composition at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1967. His most notable teachers include Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett.
Victoria Ann Toensing is a lawyer and partner with her husband, Joseph DiGenova, in the Washington law firm DiGenova & Toensing.
Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in many well-received films, including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast.
Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSU) is a public university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the University of Louisiana System.
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, is an American writer, spy novelist, and former officer who worked at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of the Washington Post.
The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles.
Edward Latimer Beach Jr., nicknamed "Ned", was a highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author.
The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Most members work in academia, but about 20 percent work in government, business, or non-profit organizations.
Richard, Rich, Dick, Dickie or Dicky Moore may refer to:
The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review. The AEA was established in 1885 in Saratoga, New York by younger progressive economists trained in the German historical school, including Richard T. Ely, Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman and Katharine Coman, the only woman co-founder; since 1900 it has been under the control of academics.
Politics in Chicago through most of the 20th century was dominated by the Democratic Party. Organized crime and corruption were persistent concerns in the city.
Richard Bernard Stone was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Florida from 1975 to 1980 and later served as Ambassador at Large to Central America and Ambassador to Denmark.
Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, was a staff college for the British Army and the presidency armies of British India. It had its origins in the Royal Military College, High Wycombe founded in 1799, which in 1802 became the Senior Department of the new Royal Military College. In 1858 the name of the Senior Department was changed to "Staff College", and in 1870 this was separated from the Royal Military College. Apart from periods of closure during major wars, the Staff College continued to operate until 1997, when it was merged into the new Joint Services Command and Staff College. The equivalent in the Royal Navy was the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich and the equivalent in the Royal Air Force was the RAF Staff College, Bracknell.
Gloria Estela La Riva is an American socialist activist with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and the Peace and Freedom Party. She was previously a member of the Workers World Party. She was the PSL's 2008 presidential candidate, and ran as the PSL's presidential candidate again in the 2016 race, with Eugene Puryear and Dennis J. Banks as her running mates.
The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments which support members of the British royal family. Many members of the Royal Family who undertake public duties have separate households. They vary considerably in size, from the large Royal Household which supports the Sovereign to the household of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, with fewer than ten members. The lesser households are funded from the Civil List annuities, paid to their respective royal employers for their public duties, and all reimbursed to HM Treasury by the Queen.
Mary Maples Dunn was an American historian. Born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Dunn graduated from William and Mary College in 1954 and received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1959, where she taught and served as Dean from 1978 to 1985. She served as the eighth president of Smith College, for ten years beginning in 1985. Dunn was also the Director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 2000. She was acting president when Radcliffe College merged with Harvard University, and she became the acting Dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after the merger. Retired, Dunn became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow. She was the co-Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2002 to 2007.
The Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame was established by the Art Directors Guild in 2005 to recognize and honor the accomplishments and contributions of legendary art directors and production designers.
Marc Charles Ginsberg has served as US ambassador to Morocco from 1994 to 1998; Deputy Senior Adviser to the President of the United States for Middle East Policy (1978–1981); White House Liaison for the Department of State (1977–1978); Legislative Assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy (1970–1977); foreign policy/national security contributor to CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, BBC, Al Arabiya, CBC and Fox News. From 2000 to 2012, he was a senior vice president of APCO Worldwide and from 2002 to 2011 he was founding president of Layalina Productions, Inc. He was one of three founding directors of Sutton Place Gourmet, and practiced international corporate law in the U.S. and the Middle East from 1981 to 1993. He also served as Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Media in the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign and, in 2000, was Al Gore's co-coordinator for national security in his presidential campaign.
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