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    William Alton Jones (April 19, 1891 – March 1, 1962), was president of the oil and gas conglomerate Cities Service Company (now CITGO). He was an influential...
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  • Alton Jones may refer to: W. Alton Jones (1891–1962), American industrialist and philanthropist Alton Jones Jr., American bass fisherman Alton Jones (racing...
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  • The W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center (1971–1995) was a non-profit research and education center on 10 Old Barn Road in Lake Placid, New York. The Center...
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  • The W. Alton Jones Foundation was a charitable foundation, and a sponsor of environmental causes. It was originally involved in sponsoring the arts, particularly...
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  • director for the Brainerd Foundation and was a program officer for the W. Alton Jones Foundation, both prominent environmental grant making foundations. She...
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    Jewelry District, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich. The university offers bachelor's degrees,...
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  • Larry May is an American philosopher and author. He is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of several books...
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    W. Alton Jones, multimillionaire, former president and chairman of Cities Service Company and close personal friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Jones was...
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  • Friedman (born April 7, 1945) is an American philosopher. She holds the W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. In 1967, she received...
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  • philosopher specializing in feminism, political philosophy and ethics. She is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee...
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  • Wolverhampton W. Alton Jones (1891–1962), American industrialist and philanthropist Ernest Jones (trade unionist) (William Ernest Jones, 1895–1973), British...
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    Oil and the Texas Pipe Line Company. The WEP was led by Burt Hull and W. Alton Jones, both with extensive backgrounds in the industry, with Oscar Wolfe as...
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    three years, starting in 1990, with the W. Alton Jones Foundation. In 1991, as a fellow of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, she brought a group of 21 scientists...
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    Alton Wayne Roberts (April 6, 1938 – September 11, 1999) was an American murderer and white supremacist. Roberts, a member of the White Knights of the...
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    by the Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Committee (formed in 1993 by the W. Alton Jones Foundation), the total expenditures for U.S. nuclear weapons from 1940...
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    school. Webb City has a lending library, the Webb City Public Library. W. Alton Jones, industrialist, philanthropist, President of CITGO (1940–1953) Gordon...
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    by the Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Committee (formed in 1993 by the W. Alton Jones Foundation), calculated that total expenditures for U.S. nuclear weapons...
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  • millions of dollars needed to open the permanent home for the TCA, W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center at Lake Placid, New York. A few of the medical advances...
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  • Clabaugh at the Telecommunications Cooperative Network approached the W. Alton Jones Foundation to get funding for technology services for a group of the...
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    familiar sight across much of the nation. During this time CEOs such as W. Alton Jones and Burl S. Watson ran the company. Cities Service Company inaugurated...
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    and librettist. Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation grant, and is the recipient...
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  • Immunology in Basel, Switzerland. Sato was recruited as director of The W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center, Lake Placid, New York (1983 to 1992). His vision...
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    University (1972), Henry Luce Professor, Wellesley College (1980), W. Alton Jones Professor, Vanderbilt University (1982), Professor of Philosophy, University...
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    Battlefield Preservation Association and 264 acres (107 ha) from the W. Alton Jones Foundation.: 42  The Gettysburg Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit...
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  • professor of Comparative Literature Marilyn Friedman – philosopher, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy Bill Frist – Majority Leader (2002–2007); U.S. Senate...
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  • (born September 19, 1967) is an American philosopher, author, and was W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University until moving to UCLA...
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    a research associate at Global Outlook, who went on to work for the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and founded the Advancing Green Chemistry Institute, and...
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  • American actor (b. 1895) Richard L. Conolly, American admiral (b. 1892) W. Alton Jones, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1891) Arnold Kirkeby...
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  • nephrologist Gordon H. Sato (B.S. 1951) – biochemist; former director of the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center; founder of the Manzanar Project[citation needed]...
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    Artist Residency grants, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, San Francisco's W. Alton Jones award, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award, and a USA...
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