reggie, the former president of nintendo america, graduated from my high school
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Fils-Aim%C3%A9#Early_life(https://i.imgur.com/eTIQ9gD.jpg)
goowan
and while almost every university produces at least a famous individual or two and fame on that level is less noteworthy, a professor at my uni did invent MRI for which he won a nobel prize back in 2003 lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lauterbur#The_development_of_the_MRI
interestingly, jef raskin, the apple engineer who pioneered macintosh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin), graduated from both my university
and my high school lol
woah what the fuck
that is awesome. we had a female Olympian swimmer graduate from my high school but i'm having trouble remembering her name
uhhhhhhhhhhh one of my high school history teachers played for the nfl in the 80's, and the author of the Outlander series went to my college (for a while at least lmao)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_YFq9X2QM4
american hero
Charles Lindbergh... Frank Lloyd Wright... Dick Cheney
We don't talk about Dick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison_people
Ron Jaworski (better known as Jaws from ESPN) graduated from my college. Jeff Wilkins also went here and was the kicker for the Super Bowl 34 winning Rams.
terry schiavo
Jim Acosta of CNN is probably the most well-known person from my college, JMU. Maybe Steve Arhancet, who co-owns big esports group Team Liquid. there might be some sports dudes but i dont know anything about sports lol
In a less "wow, cool story!!!" note, Allison Parker, the local news reporter who was shot and killed live on-air (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Alison_Parker_and_Adam_Ward#Victims), not only went to JMU but she was a classmate of mine. I had several classes with her, one of which we sat next to each other and bounced questions on each other (it was one of my web dev classes that got me into the shit I do now); my roommate was the head editor of the school paper and worked very closely with her too. it was a very fucking uncomfortable day when I heard the news that she had been murdered awdood; she was a very kind person.
Quote from: C.Mongler on July 24, 2020, 10:05:42 AMJim Acosta of CNN is probably the most well-known person from my college, JMU. Maybe Steve Arhancet, who co-owns big esports group Team Liquid. there might be some sports dudes but i dont know anything about sports lol
In a less "wow, cool story!!!" note, Allison Parker, the local news reporter who was shot and killed live on-air (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Alison_Parker_and_Adam_Ward#Victims), not only went to JMU but she was a classmate of mine. I had several classes with her, one of which we sat next to each other and bounced questions on each other (it was one of my web dev classes that got me into the shit I do now); my roommate was the head editor of the school paper and worked very closely with her too. it was a very fucking uncomfortable day when I heard the news that she had been murdered awdood; she was a very kind person.
that is weird as hell
:(
notable alums, though
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Kline
Hmmm interesting that someone went to my high school designed a licence plate...
jesus christ cmongler that's rough
uhh, high school off the top of my head: Teddy Roosevelt, The 3 Stooges, Glenn 'the Hurricane" Schwartz lol the rapper Cassidy, and Bill Cosby - only 2 years he dropped out/transferred and didn't graduate.
as far as Penn State alum, way too many to mention I think
billy corgan went to my elementary school and middle school.
daniel tani (former astronaut) went to my high school
jim belushi went to my community college
cam and tomboh went to my high school too
Quote from: Snowy on October 09, 2020, 01:25:38 PMdid you ever fight them
Tomboh, once, that's why he stopped coming here
The whole Southern IL University basketball team got famous when it whupped Bobby Knight's Texas Tech in 2002 and the NCAA bigwigs all had to learn the word "Saluki".
https://siusalukis.com/news/2002/3/15/Men_s_Basketball_Downs_Texas_Tech_76_68_In_NCAA_First_Round.aspx
I went hunting for other celebs of Southern Illinois University and found a number of surprises. Already knew about Dick Gregory and Dennis Franz...but Melissa McCarthy? Jim Belushi? I thought Jim stayed in Chicagoland, but it's true that Carbondale is called "Little Chicago". I suppose something had to explain how he knew about Menard Penitentury for the Blues Brothers. Anyhoo...a bunch of soap opera actors were Salukis (meh). One gal who was James Garner's love interest on a Hallmark Channel production "Medal of Honor" went to my high school: Judy Ivy..er..JUDITH Ivy.
Daryl Jones of the Rolling Stones was a Saluki, as was sexy David Selby, and Richard Roundtree.