And wasn't he an SAE?

Sudan People's Liberation Movement(SPLM) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) leader John Garang de Mabior got a doctorate in economics at Iowa State.
And he's coming here on Friday to speak about the peace talks with the Sudanese government.

Name: Dr. John Garang de Mabior. Title : Chairman, SPLM, and Commander-in-Chief, SPLA.

Born: 23 June 1945, in Buk Village of Wangkulei Payam, Bor County, New Sudan.

Tonj Elementary School: 1953-57.

Bussere Intermediate School: 1957-1961.

Rumbek Senior Secondary School, Sudan: 1961-62.

Magamba Senior Secondary School, Tanzania: 1964-65.

Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (USA): 1965-69, B.A., Economics.

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Award, 1969.

University of Dar es Salaam Research Fellow, 1969 (under the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship).

After completing research at Dar es Salaam, opted to join the Anyanya guerrillas (1970) instead of going to the University of California, Berkeley, that had granted him a Booth Fellowship for graduate studies beginning Fall of 1970 – and fought for two years with the Anyanya guerrillas.

Absorbed into the Sudanese Army from the guerrilla army with the rank of Captain as a result of the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, and became a career soldier in the Sudanese Army (1972-83).

Diploma, Infantry Officers Advanced Course (IOAC-7-74), United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning Georgia, 1974-75.

Instructor, Sudan Military Academy, 1975-76.

Commander, Battalion 105, Bor, 1976-77 (this Battalion became the nucleus of the SPLA in 1983).

Study leave (1977-1981), while remaining in the Sudanese Army.

M.A. Agricultural Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa: 1979.

Ph.D., Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa: 1981.

Promoted full Colonel, and appointed Deputy Director of Military Research, Army GHQ: 1982-83.

Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Khartoum, 1982-83, while in active army service.

Founding member of SPLM/SPLA, May 1983.

Chairman and Commander-in-Chief, SPLM/SPLA: 1983 – to the present.

The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (OLE MISS)

Famous Rebels and Noteworthy Alumni
Van Chancellor (Head Basketball Coach of the Gold Medal 2004 Winning Women's Basketball Team this year in Athens)
James Meredith (First Afro-American to attend Ole Miss in 1962)
Haley Barbour (Former Republican National Chairman and current Mississippi Governor)
Jim Barksdale (Netscape CEO)
William Faulkner (Author)
John Grisham (Author)
Robert Khayat (Washington Redskins kicker, currently the University's chancellor)
Trent Lott (Former Senator Majority Leader)
Gerald McRaney (Actor)
Archie Manning (New Orleans Saints QB)
Eli Manning (New York Giants QB; youngest son of Archie)
John S. McCain (Admiral, USN)
Shepard Smith (News Anchor)
Thad Cochran (US Senator)
Mike Moore (Former Mississippi Attorney General, noted for starting major lawsuits against tobacco industry)
David Delucci (Arizona Diamondbacks Outfielder)
Roosevelt Skerrit (Prime Minister of Dominica and one of the youngest heads of state in the World)
Bill Parsons (Head of NASA's Spaceship Programs)
Charlie Conerly (NY Giant QB)
Leonard McCoy (Fictional Character from Star Trek series--served on the Starship Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk)

Many beauty queens! Many Miss America's! :)

Also, Delt Brother John Elway one of the newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Re: Re: Well Known GEORGETOWN Alumni
 

Interesting...I thought he was on there.

Yes he was, and his little brother was a Sigma Chi and graduated last year. See? I forget these things!

Brownies...
 

JFK, Jr.
Ted Turner
Chris Berman
Tom and Tom (from Nantucket Nectars)
Laura Linney
Lisa Loeb
Duncan Sheik
Jon Spencer (he of the Blues Explosion)
Lee Lee Sobieski started, I think she may have taken a leave

Re: Re: Howard University
 

He went to the school. Can't erase a fact of history.

I thought I had read somewhere that Christine Amapour(sp?), CNN journalist, graduated from Brown.

Other SFSU folks...
 

Other notable famous folk:
Earnest Gaines (author, a Lesson Before Dying)
Gordon Biersch, of Gordon & Biersch
Guy who founded clothing store Bebe
Guy who founded E-Loan (name escapes me)
Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone)
Delroy Lindo (recent graduate, actor)
Johnny Mathis

and well...not today, but soon--me.

Josh Kelley - singer songwriter
Charles Stackhouse - NY Giants
Deuce McAlister- New Orleans Saints
Ed Bryant - US Congress
Delta Burke(?)

Just off the top of my head. Did Morgan Freeman go to Ole Miss too? I know he used to do those commercials for Ole Miss?

Famous UBC Grads
 

Nobel laureate, economist Robert Mundell
Supreme Court Justice Beverley McLachlin
past B.C. premiers Ujjal Dosanjh and Mike Harcourt
author and historian Pierre Berton
opera singers Ben Heppner and Judith Forst
composer Michael Conway Baker
educator and Man In Motion, Rick Hansen
writer William Gibson
filmmaker Bruce Sweeney
actor Nicola Cavendish
astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason
senator Pat Carney
former Canadian prime ministers Kim Campbell and John Turner
University of Victoria president Dr. David Turpin
journalists Allan Fotheringham and Stevie Cameron

No, Christine Amanpour went to the University of Rhode Island. She lived in a house with JFK Jr., however, in the Brown/RISD neighborhood. URI has a really good journalism program.

Re: Brownies...
 

They are our Brothers from Brown Charge ;)

University of Maryland
 

Connie Chung
Boomer Esiason
Ralph Freidgen -- current MD football coach
Gary Williams -- current MD basketball coach
Len Bias -- RIP
Walt Williams
Joe Smith
Jim Henson
Jayson Blair -- yay!

Carmen Balthrop
Bonnie Bernstein
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Connie Chung, news anchor-woman with CBS, NBC, and CNN
Boomer Esiason, former NFL quarterback turned television broadcaster.
Robert Forward, physicist who authored 200 research papers, and science fiction writer known for 11 novels, including Dragon's Egg
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets
Jack Kelley
William McCool, NASA astronaut, killed on Columbia mission STS-107
Aaron McGruder, comic strip creator of The Boondocks
Robert M. Parker, Jr., wine critic
George Pelecanos
Judith Resnik, Ph.D. 1977, NASA astronaut, killed on Challenger mission STS-51-L
David Simon
Kathleen Turner, Academy Award nominated movie actress, twice winner of the Golden Globe
Scott Van Pelt, anchor for the television show SportsCenter on the ESPN network
Randy White, former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee

Morgan Freeman and Delta Burke did not go to Ole Miss, however, they are very strong supporters of Ole Miss. Mr. Freeman has been a spokesperson for Ole Miss for many years now. Delta Burke has relatives here and she is very connected with the University in many ways.

General Ricardo S. Sanchez is a graduate of TAMUK


if I think of anyone else, I'll let you know

Colleges (and not, like, community colleges) have commercials?! :eek: :confused:

This must be post grad because she went to UCLA for undergrad.

Both Ball State and IUPUI have commercials on Indianapolis local stations. They are both kinda scary commercials. Also Butler has a commercial they air during basketball games when they are televised. It's not a very good commercial though.

Yeah i was going to say she ( Keri Strug) went to UCLA

Delta Burke Didn't go to Ole Miss her character Suzanne Sugarbaker on "Designing Women" went to Ole Miss and her character Suzanne was also a Pi Phi on that show too.... she didn't go to college after graduation she went to Europe to model

Her husband Gerald Mcraney went to Vanderbilt or Ole Miss

Our broadcasting school has placed many of our graduates in top 50 markets as reporters and anchors. I know at least one of them that has been an anchor on CNN radio for many years.

Keith Traylor (sp) of the Chicago Bears

I have seen Iowa State University TV Commercials before.

University of Oregon alums:
Ken Kesey (writer)
Chuck Palahniuk (writer - Fight Club)
Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight (co-founders of Nike)
Ann Curry (Today show)
Steve Prefontaine (runner)
Ahmad Rashad (football/sportscaster)
Dan Fouts (football/sportscaster)
Joey Harrington (QB for the Detroit Lions)
AJ Feeley (QB for the Miami Dolphins)

I'm sure there are more, but this is off the top of my head. My stupid school doesn't put out a list.

I've seen lots of ISU commercials, plus many for all of the smaller schools throughout Iowa. During various college basketball games, I think I've seen commercials for every Big XII school and I've seen a bunch for Big Ten schools.

IU has commercials. I think all the Big Ten schools have commercials that are played during halftime of the broadcasts of football and basketball games.

So does the Big East, including Georgetown.

Also, for some reason, our School of Nursing and Health Studies has commercials, too.

Oh, by "commercials," I don't mean the ones created by and for the AD...I think every school has those.

I mean, the "Go to X University!" where a mix of diverse students talk about their experience and there's an 800 number on the screen at the end.

Miami University used to have billboards on the highways of Ohio promoting Miami and it's diversity. they found all 10 non-whites that go there and stuck them up there.

Louisiana Tech:

Carl Malone

Terry Bradshaw

Carl Malone's twin girls ( I know they play for the basketball team, just don't know if they graduated)

The head coach for Baylor's women's basketball team

and most importantly........ ME:D


Louisiana State University:

Shaq

Spelman College
 

Notable alumna of Spelman College include:

Marian Wright Edelman (founder and leader of the Children's Defense Fund)
Keisha Knight Pulliam
Author Pearl Cleage
Author Tina McElroy Ansa
Author Alice Walker (former student)
Bernice Johnson Reagon (founder of group, Sweet Honey in the Rock)
Marcelite Harris--Retired Major General in the Air Force; was once highest ranking woman in AF
Varnette Honeywood--Artist who's work appeared frequently on the Cosby Show.
Shaun Robinson--actress and anchor on Access Hollywood
Latonya Richardson Jackson--actress
Audrey Manley--former acting Surgeon General
Tanika Ray--host of SoapNet
Danica Tisdale--Miss Georgia 2004
Countless community and corporate movers and shakers


me, abaici, WenD & AKA-Monet!! :D

That sounds like the Republican National Convention!

Re: Howard University
 

Re: Re: Howard University
 

I was talking about her going to Howard's Divinity School.

Clarion U of PA
 

Well, WWE star and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle graduated from Clarion. Also, Kim Lemon, of WGAL-TV, Lancaster, PA, and Hundai Attay (I know I didn't spell her name correctly) works for CNN in Hungary, I think. That's about all I know.

Re: Clarion U of PA
 

hate bringing this back up, but I thought he went to Iowa?

Pitt people, how could we have forgotten our future Hemingway: Michael Chabon!!

I loved Wonderboys!!!!!

Actually she was at UCLA and transferred to Stanford for her BA and Masters. She is also a Theta and from what my friend says, a biaaaaatch in real life.

-Rudey

Re: Re: Clarion U of PA
 

Are you maybe thinking of recent Olympic Gold Medalist Cael Sanderson? He is an alum of Iowa State.

Marist College
 

Rick Smits
He's on an NBA team, dunno which one though. I think it's Indiana. I really don't follow sports that much...