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Long jump record?
I am new to Wiki, so don't want to attempt editing. CB Fry's 21 year long jump record is a myth. He only equalled the existing record, and that stood for just 18 months.

S.

 * Bah, this is what you get for believing Wisden. I looked up some numbers - it says Fry jumped 23 feet 5 inches in an Oxford-Cambridge match in 1892. That's 7.14 metres. In 1901, Peter O'Connor jumped 7.61 metres. So, definitely didn't last 21 years. I shall amend the page. Average Earthman 11:13, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Corrected - Fry's 23'5" was the varsity record, his world record was 23'6.5" (according to the Oxford University Athletics website). Still well beaten by O'Connor. Average Earthman 11:28, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The progression of WR was thus :

7.09 	Alfred Copland 	USA 	Washington 	Oct 11, 1890 7.17 	Charles Reber 	USA 	Detroit 	Jul 04, 1891 7.17* 	Charles Fry 	GBR 	Oxford 	Mar 05, 1893 7.21 	John Mooney 	IRL 	Mitchelstown 	Sep 05, 1894 7.235 	Meyer Prinstein 	USA 	New York 	Jun 11, 1898 7.25 	William Newburn 	IRL 	Dublin 	Jun 18, 1898 7.33 	William Newburn 	IRL 	Dublin 	Jul 16, 1898 7.48? 	William Newburn 	IRL 	Mullingate 	Jul 19, 1898 7.40 	Alvin Kraenzlein 	USA 	Philadelphia 	Apr 29, 1899 7.42 	Alvin Kraenzlein 	USA 	New York 	May 26, 1899 7.43 	Alvin Kraenzlein 	USA 	New York 	May 26, 1899 7.50 	Meyer Prinstein 	USA 	Philadelphia 	Apr 28, 1900 7.51 	Peter O'Connor 	IRL 	New Ross 	Aug 29, 1900 7.54 	Peter O'Connor 	IRL 	Dublin 	May 27, 1901 7.60 	Peter O'Connor 	IRL 	Dublin 	Jul 15, 1901 7.605 	Peter O'Connor 	IRL 	Dublin 	Jul 28, 1901 7.61 	Peter O'Connor 	GBR 	Dublin 	Aug 05, 1901

The source is http://trackfield.brinkster.net/RecProg_All.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF3&Gender=M, but you may have register to access it. O'Connor's was the first official record.

An argument usually raised in favour of Fry is that the English and American system of measurement were different. Americans at the time used to measure the length of the jump for the point where the foot last landed, while English measured it from the take off line. But the 21 years, as you have mentioned, is undoubtedly the University record. This is recorded here : http://www.achilles.org/varsitymatch/menfield/vm18.htm

S.
 * I spotted that was the varsity record - I think I looked at the same link you did. That's now noted in the article, and I'll add that his shared record was broken by Mooney. Average Earthman 09:36, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

'Related to Stephen Fry'
OK, CB Fry and Stephen Fry (the 1920's Hampshire cricketer) are related (CB was Stephen's father), but how are CB Fry and Stephen Fry the comedian related? Average Earthman 09:29, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * You've beaten me to it. I was wondering the same thing, jguk 10:12, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * And Stephen (1920s Hampshire) was father of Charles Fry, MCC president.

 * C.B. was Stephen Fry (the actor)'s great uncle (or similar) - I can't remember the details, but it was mentioned on QI so it must be true :) I'm having trouble finding another reference, though. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * For the time being, I've moved the statement "He is related to Stephen Fry" from the article. I'd be happy to have it re-added if we had a more reliable source than a comedy panel game:) and if it is true, we really should add what the relationship is - and also add it to the Stephen Fry article:) jguk 22:47, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * "more reliable source than a comedy panel game"...??? The source on said panel game was Stephen Fry himself (what more proof do you want?!), and it was broadcast on national British television.  It has since been repeated twice. Howie 23:45, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, this is insane, time to reintroduce the fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.167.143.229 (talk) 09:46, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * As no better citation has been found for 11 years, I have removed it again.  10:06, 2 August 2016 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.168.69 (talk)

It's worth noting that the family of Stephen Fry is treated in volume 20 of the Visitation of England and Wales, edited by Frederick Crisp, and no mention is made of C. B. Fry, nor- given how comprehensive that pedigree appears to be- is there any obvious place where C. B. Fry's known ancestors fit in. This is not to say there IS no link, but there's no reason that just because Stephen Fry says so, the statement has any basis in reality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.201.11 (talk) 19:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Albanian crown offer?
"It is often stated..." sounds pretty uncertain; anyone got some firm evidence either way? Loganberry (Talk) 16:17, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Neville Cardus in Fry's Wisden obit quotes CBF's autobiography :

 * In his absorbing autobiography, Life Worth Living, published in 1939, Fry told of how he very nearly became the King of Albania. His association with Ranjitsinhji led him to occupy the position of substitute delegate for India at the Assemblies of the League of Nations at Geneva, where he composed a speech delivered by Ranji which turned Mussolini out of Corfu.

 * The Albanians sent a delegation and appointed a Bishop, who bore a striking resemblance to W. G. Grace, to find an English country gentlemen with £10,000 a year for their King. Fry had the first qualification but not the second; but Ranji certainly could have provided the money. "If I had really pressed Ranji to promote me," said Fry, "it is quite on the cards that I should have been King of Albania yesterday, if not today."

Source

 * Both Cardus and Fry are known to pass off a lot of fiction as fact, though ;-)

The first comment in this talk page (about Fry's record) was my first edit in wiki :) Tintin 16:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

66 runs
I've read that C.B. Fry one hit a ball into a tree and scored 66 runs before the ball was fielded. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  19:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Mmmmm, now, if you only had a reference for that, Nicholas:) jguk 20:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Too bad I don't. It was on a small DYK card that used to come with some chocolates years back. (early 90s) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  13:40, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Relationship to Stephen Fry
I am removing the following paragraph, which appears to be subject to a revert war at present:

 * Comedian and writer Stephen Fry is related to him, as revealed on the television panel game QI. It was also revealed (to much amusement) that, as a party piece, C.B. Fry was able to jump backwards onto a mantlepiece from a standing position.

The reason I am removing it is that a comedy quiz show is not a suitable source. I saw the edition of QI in question too - and whilst Stephen Fry does say that, it is not clear whether he is saying it as a fact, or whether he is just saying it because they share a surname. Nor does he mention the relationship. Not only that Verifiability makes it clear that we should rely on published, reputable sources. A comedy quiz programme doesn't fit into that. Please do not re-insert the information without a published source - and I'd expect such a source to describe the relationship too, jguk 19:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

 * No advance on their relationship (my recollection is that Stephen does indeed claim CB as a relative, and not as a joke) but here is a source (Cricinfo, no less) for the mantlepiece claim, which should be stetted. It is mentioned in this one (referring to a Manchester newspaper).-- ALoan (Talk) 21:23, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I've just seen a programme on the BBC where Stephen Fry traced his ancesters back to his great, great grandparents. No mention of CB Fry, sadly. here for some info.  Hardly definative, but there we go! Gavinio 23:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Certainly not definitive - the TV programme traced his maternal roots. If he is indeed a relative of CB Fry, it would be an extraordinary coincidence if it wasn't through his paternal line! Dweller 09:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Idiots. In what way is it not a good source? It came from Stephen Fry himself. There was no suggestion it was a joke. What more proof do you need? This is why people can't be bothered with Wikipedia - because of pointless petty bureaucrats like you people. Pratts. (199.43.13.100 (talk) 12:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC))

It's worth noting that the family of Stephen Fry is treated in volume 20 of the Visitation of England and Wales, edited by Frederick Crisp, and no mention is made of C. B. Fry, nor- given how comprehensive that pedigree appears to be- is there any obvious place where C. B. Fry's known ancestors fit in. This is not to say there IS no link, but there's no reason that just because Stephen Fry says so, the statement has any basis in reality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.201.11 (talk) 19:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Magazine?
Didn't Fry also create a (then) famous magazine for boys? Anyone remember? Dweller 09:26, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

He did, it was called Fry's Magazine and covered boys activities such as scouting and sport. Fry acted as editor and wrote much of it himself.Johnnybriggs 05:34, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Training ship Mercury
I seem to recall that late in life, Fry is quoted as saying that what he achieved on the Mercury was his greatest achievement in life. Anyone got a source? Would be a nice addition to the article. Dweller 09:26, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Did he achieve anything, except leaving it in the control of a particularly vicious sadist? He pranced round the world enjoying himself, while she had helpless young men publicly flogged for her amusement. Seadowns (talk) 23:36, 8 July 2020 (UTC) Seadowns (talk) 15:09, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Info Box
Shouldn't there be data for some of the other sports, as well as cricket? Dweller 09:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Neville Cardus
I have books by Cardus in which he talks about Fry and I will try to embody some of that into this article. Anyone else have any similar thoughts? --AlbertMW 06:35, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Please go ahead. Since you are new here, it may help to take a look around the other cricket articles to get an idea about what the existing ones are like. Tintin (talk) 06:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Polymath
I removed the description of Fry being a polymath because there is nothing at all in the article that would even begin to make such a description plausible. If someone wants to put it back, please give your reasons. Hi There 13:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

 * It's back. See Polymath and its talk page. This article demonstrates he was a polymath beyond any debate. --Dweller 10:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It hardly makes him a polymath beyond any debate, does it? It was a throw-away comment by a journalist writing about something else entirely.  Having said that, I can see the reasons for having it in.  He's probably close to being a polymath - but I'd say his skills were less academic than most polymaths. --Gavinio 15:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I removed it. Your reference is laughable. Some sportswriter making a bald reference to Fry as a "polymath" is not authoritative in any way at all. If you would like to take the time and trouble to write the article so that the reasons for considering him a polymath are included in the article itself, a discussion might be possible.Hi There 17:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

What nonsense. Any fool can see that Fry excelled in what is, by any definition, a variety of careers. Conrary to wikipedia's definition (which I still think he comes under), the OED defines a polymath as "a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning". He certainly fits that. Superseve 13:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with this. Think about the definition of polymath and try and use a synonym in place of the word Polymath. Greek definition is "many" & "knowing", I stress knowing. You can not substitute the phrase "renaisance man" in Fry's case. If you do you open the case for other (argueably much better) sports greats such as Michael Jordan (basket ball & baseball), Ben Graham (Australian football & American football), Shaun White (Snowboarding & Skateboarding) and Bo Jackson & Deion Sanders (both American Football & Baseball). Now I have not even begun to consider triathletes, pentathletes and decathletes. I am for removal as I feel this will open a flood gate of poor choices for a title that should be hard earned.--198.240.130.75 14:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * My reading of the article is not that he was a polymath simply because he was good at a variety of sports. He was also a politician (not a party politician) who was once offered the crown of Albania, he rubbed shoulders with statesmen, and was deeply concerned about the education of youth.  Of course he knew a lot.  Your idiosyncratic argument that Fry wasn't a polymath because you think Michael Jordan is a "better" sports great completely misses the point.  --RobertG ♬ talk 14:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I've just come across the CB Fry article, I got King of Sports for Christmas. 2 things occurred to me, there are several passages (ringing phrases)which appear to have been lifted from the book - - and the word polymath as discussed above. I'm sure there is a more fitting but equally prestigious title for Fry.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, scientist, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time, and perhaps the most intelligent and capable man to ever have lived.

WG Grace was a batsman, bowler, athlete, bowls player (captained England) and a Doctor but he wasn't a polymath. So I think we need a new word.

However, Fry was apparantly called a polymath and perhaps that would be the appropriate compromise

Also I don't think Fry taught at Repton, I think he taught at Charterhouse. p97-100 King of Sport by Iain Wilton.

Johnnybriggs 05:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

He was apparently a fine classicist as well as an athlete, but somehow polymath doesn't quite seem the right word. Seadowns (talk) 23:57, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Bowled 10 balls for England?
That's rather an unusual number - did he complete someone else's over? Apepper 16:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * In those days they had five ball overs. Tintin 16:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. This is the match in which he bowled: JH (talk page) 16:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't know they had anything other than 6 or 8 ball overs! Thanks for the info.Apepper 18:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

White City
I have changed the reference to Fry competing at White City in 1894 (it wasn't built until 1908!) to Queen's Club. The details can be found in the archives of the New York Times at. Eyebeeuk (talk) 06:22, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

This King Thing
Until we have more evidence than a book about cricket, I've removed the 'King of Albania' thing. I find this account rather unlikely for several reasons - when Mussolini was turned out of Corfu, Albania's Prime Minister, the future Zog I, was already planning to become King himself and is thus unlikely to have been offering the role to anybody else. Furthermore it seems strange that predominantly Muslim Albania would send a Bishop as its delegate. And of course it has to be said that I've read many histories of Albania during the interwar period that make no mention of an offer to any foreigner to be King other than the ill-fated reign of King Wilhelm. So until a more authoritative source that answers the above questions can be shown, it's my opinion this claim should not be reproduced in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hughteg (talk • contribs) 19:51, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I will repeat below the evidence that I gleaned from Gibson's book, which I think is quite convincing:

 * In Alan Gibson's "The Cricket Captains of England" he says: After the First World War, Ranjitsinhji was elected Chancellor of the Indian Princes, and as such was a member of the Indian delegation to the League of Nations. He appointed Fry as his adviser, and as Ranji did not usually stay in Geneva very long, Fry often became a de facto representative of India, and impressed everyone very greatly with his linguistic fluency and majestic manner, even those who had not heard of cricket. Albania, a snall, newly-independent state, was looking for a king, pereferably an Englishman, and so Fry's name came up for consideration (by no means, it must be said, the only one).

 * I mentioned this story, which has often enough appeared in print, in an article in The Times some years ago, and it led to an interesting correspondence. There was one school of thought which maintained that no such offer had ever been made: that it was all a leg-pull by Ranji. Duleepsinhji... was cited in support of this view. But there was powerful evidence to the contrary, notably from Professor LF Rushbrook Williams, who succeeded to Fry's post in Ranji's service some years later. What happened, said Professor Rushbrook Williams, was that during the 1920 session of the League, at Geneva, an Albanian bishop had called on Ranji and Fry to intimate that if a candidate could be found who was ready to spend £10,000 a year in Albania, the crown would be at his disposal.

 * Fry was tempted, and believed that if he had pressed Ranji for the money, Ranji would have found it, but Ranji did not want to lose his services. Nevertheless, Rushbrook Williams concludes, "the provisional offer was undoubtedly given an airing, and it did not emanate from Ranji in the first instance."

 * A little later one of CB's daughters, Faith, who had been abroad and missed the correspondence, at the time of its publication, wrote to me and fully confirmed this account of what was known in the family, irreverently, as 'The Albanian Affair'. "I have never understood," she said, "why there have been so many variations on this theme, but they much amused my father!!"

 * This seems conclusive enough, though I could not help thinking that the variations on the theme possibly owed something to the central character himself, who liked to recount the tale, and, like all good raconteurs, would sometimes imaginatively elaborate a detail.

 * There is no need to doubt that the event is quite possible. Lord Headley, a British peer who had been converted to the Muslim religion, was approached; and ultimately it went to the unfortunate King Zog...

 * A business partner of Fry's, Christopher Hollis, wrote to me, in connection with the later versions of this story, that CB 'had a great capacity for living a fantasy life.' He went on, 'It pleased him to tell the story, and by the end I fancy that he did not know himself whether he believed it or not.' While one does not doubt the truth of this, it would be a mistake to think that Fry was a fantasist, in the sense that Walter Mitty was. His fantasies were no more than embroideries on what was already the finest silk. His achievements were real. (pp104-5 of the 1989 edition)''

 * JH (talk page) 20:22, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

That does provide some more insight, so thanks for that. However this doesn't really answer my three objections, namely:
 * 1) The improbability of a Bishop as the delegate of a Muslim nation
 * 2) The improbability of the future Zog I offering the throne to somebody else when he had designs on it
 * 3) The lack of any mention of this in any history of Albania

It seems that even the author of this piece has some doubts. However, the allegation is clearly well known, so I've ammended the main page to refer to it, while also making clear reasons why the existence and/or seriousness of this offer can be doubted. Hughteg (talk) 20:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I know very little about Albanian history, so you have the advantage of me. The story has been repeated in many cricket books, which does not make it true of course but makes it worth documenting. The main evidence for it being other than a flight of fancy by Fry or a hoax is clearly Professor Rushbrook Williams' testimony. Do we know if it's true that Lord Headley was also approached with a similar offer? If so, that would tend to lend some credence. With regard to your three points:

 * 1) Going by Wikipedia's history of Albania, the country is roughly 60% Muslim and 40% Christian, so it's a bit of a simplification to call it a Muslim country. . I don't think that there's any evidence that the bishop was necessarily a delegate. He may have been an adviser. It's not clear who was responsible for sending him to Fry.
 * 2) We don't know that Zog had anything to do with it. Was he in a dominant position at this stage (1920)?
 * 3) I don't suppose that many historians of Albania would have been aware of Fry's autobiography, where the story seems first to have beem documented. It may be that very few people were aware of the offer.

 * All that said, I agree that there's a very substabtial degree of doubt that the offer was ever genuinely made, and in my revision the other day I attempted to make that clear. I haven't yet read your further amendment, but I don't suppose that I will quarrel with it. JH (talk page) 20:47, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I've just googled for "Rushbrook Williams". He was evidently an important civil servant in British India and a major historian of the subcontinent. However he was not actually in Geneva in 1920 nor did he have any expertise on Albanian affairs, and if Ranji hoaxed Fry then he may have done the same to Professor Rushbrook Williams. JH (talk page) 21:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * The bishop may well have been this guy: Fan S. Noli. If that article is correct, it seems to demolish the first of the three points. JH (talk page) 21:31, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * JH, your point concerning the Bishop is well taken. My objection regarding Zogu resulted from a misunderstanding of the date of the offer - your previously stated account regarded the Albanian offer coming from 'gratitude for getting Mussolini out of Corfu', which occurred in 1923, when Zogu was the Premier and presumably would have had to approve any offer of the throne for it to be valid.  But it now seems that 1920 was the date, when Zogu was, while prominent, not in a position to veto any offer.  It further seems that Lord Headley was indeed offered the throne - his Wiki page doesn't mention it, but Time magazine, among other reasonably reputable sources, does.  In conclusion I'd say that the offer is neither definitely plausible nor implausible and the truth is likely to remain elusive.  Right now the article raises the possibility but lets the reader make up their own mind.  I'm comfortable with leaving it as it is.  (Unless somebody can find a history of Albania that mentions it). Hughteg (talk) 01:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I think that we have reached agreement. :) Incidentally, I don't know where the reference to 'gratitude for getting Mussolini out of Corfu' came from, but it wasn't from me. JH (talk page) 10:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

The Literary Man
In the introduction we mention that he was a writer, editor and publisher, but we don't seem to have anything on those activities in the body of the article, apart from one picture. Any volunteers to write a paragraph or two on this? JH (talk page) 21:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've now written something. JH (talk page) 19:17, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Averages in Fry's era
The article avers that Fry's batting average of fifty was "a particularly high figure for an era when scores were generally lower than today". How true is this, though, of the age in which batting, riding the crest of W.G.'s mighty wave, truly found its feet? Robertson-Glasgow (talk) 11:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

 * A good question. Though many pitches were good by the late 1890s, I think because they were uncovered there were more rain-affected, difficult pitches than today, so that averages tended to be rather lower. JH (talk page) 17:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

 * You're not doing a Robert on me, are you? What's this "JH" business? Robertson-Glasgow (talk) 09:35, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

 * :) It's what I've been using all along as my Wiki sig. JH (talk page) 10:06, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Books by Fry
I am almost sure I remember that Fry wrote a novel too -- called, I think, "A Mother's Son". Does anyone have more information? jake b (talk) 20:22, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right. According to his Wisden obituary, which is reproduced in his profilee on Cricibnfo: In collaboration with his wife, he wrote the novel A Mother's Son which was published in 1907. I've now added it to the article. JH (talk page) 20:40, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Casuals vs Corinthian
Corinthian FC is used, but this appears to be an error -- he played for the Casuals, but they didn't merge with Corinthian until 1939. He's listed on the Corinthian site as playing for the Casuals. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 14:39, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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Marriage
Surely there should be a mention of his marriage to one of the foulest female sadists we know of? Seadowns (talk) 2:52, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree. And it shouldn't be hard to find references to justify your description of her. (She might even already have her own Wikipedia article, though I haven't checked.) I've read that Fry was totally dominated by her. JH (talk page) 10:07, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You could start here --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:20, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

She was a very lucky sadist too, because the goddess Fortuna handed her a numerous supply of victims at her free, unfettered disposal, right up to her death. It would be unreasonable to ask for more, surely? Shouldn't the article give Fry credit for fostering his wife's enjoyment, like a good husband? Seadowns (talk) 13:11, 31 March 2018 (UTC) It's weird that the article, regarding one of his books, mentions it was 'written with his wife', but nowhere else in the article is mentioned his wife's name, or even the fact that he was married at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.115.134 (talk) 23:00, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

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Hut Records

VC Recordings trading as Hut Records was a British record label brand which was started in 1990 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin Records. Despite being wholly owned by a major label, it was classed as an independent label for the purposes of the UK Indie Chart due to the independent distribution, which was used by Virgin as a means of gaining exposure for new acts.

The label was managed by former Virgin retail assistant and Rough Trade label manager Dave Boyd, and it was originally set up as means of obtaining independent distribution for Moose and Revolver. Boyd persuaded the Virgin management to give the label complete creative control. Hut expanded by licensing Smashing Pumpkins from Caroline Records, with Boyd convincing Caroline that Hut could do a better job of promoting their Gish album than Caroline's UK arm. The next band to be signed were Verve, whose "She's a Superstar" reached number one on the indie chart. Boyd's approach was to sign "quality bands and artists with attitude" like These Animal Men, Smash and The Auteurs.

Hut Records was discontinued by Virgin Records in mid-2004 due to an overhaul of the group, 20% of the artists on Hut were dropped whilst the rest were moved to other labels within the EMI Group.

Groups or musicians associated with Hut
This is a list of musicians who have at one time been signed to Hut.

 * Acetone
 * The Burn
 * Crackout
 * The Crescent
 * Daryll-Ann
 * David Gray
 * David McAlmont
 * McAlmont & Butler (with Bernard Butler to Chrysalis)
 * Thieves
 * Drop Nineteens
 * Embrace (from Hut to Independiente Records)
 * Gomez (from Hut to Independiente)
 * Heron
 * Hobotalk
 * James Iha
 * Jepp
 * Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
 * Luke Haines
 * The Auteurs
 * Baader Meinhof
 * Marianne Faithfull
 * Moose
 * The Music
 * Neneh Cherry (from Virgin to Hut)
 * One Inch Punch
 * The Origin
 * Placebo (from Hut to Virgin)
 * Revolver
 * Richard Ashcroft (from Hut to Parlophone and then Righteous Phonographic Association Label)
 * Royal Trux
 * The Smashing Pumpkins
 * Stephanie Kirkham
 * These Animal Men
 * Toiling Midgets
 * Urban Dance Squad
 * The Verve (from Hut to Parlophone)
 * Whale
 * μ-ziq

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William Fremd High School

William Fremd High School, or Fremd (initially Palatine High School South), is a public four-year high school located in Palatine, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes James B. Conant High School, Hoffman Estates High School, Palatine High School, and Schaumburg High School. Academically, Fremd High School has also been recognized by Newsweek as one of "America's Best High Schools" and by U.S. News & World Report as one of 99 outstanding high schools in the United States with the average AP test taker in the class of 2018 taking 5.4 exams. Fremd serves the portion of Palatine that is southwest of the UP NW Line railroad tracks as well as north Hoffman Estates, west Rolling Meadows, north Schaumburg, east South Barrington and southeast Inverness. Feeder schools include Plum Grove Junior High, Carl Sandburg Junior High, Walter Sundling Junior High and Margaret Mead Junior High. Feeder elementary schools are Pleasant Hill, Paddock, Hunting Ridge, Central Road, Willow Bend, Thomas Jefferson, Marion Jordan, Fairview, and Frank C. Whiteley.

History
Fremd opened in 1961 as Palatine High School South. The school was later named after William Fremd who had been a member of the high school board of education for over 30 years and had served on school boards in the area for a consecutive period of more than 45 years. Fremd donated the land for the school. In the first yearbook the school was said to 'blend and stretch into the cornfields'. The school was the second high school to be built in Palatine, Illinois after Palatine High School. Palatine South and then Fremd originally served as the school for all Palatine freshman and sophomores while Palatine High School was the school for juniors and seniors. This plan was only in effect for three years before Fremd was expanded to serve as a 4 year high school. In the fall of 1966 the first junior class entered, and they became the first Fremd graduating class in 1968. Then Junior Cathy Klep designed the Viking logo, based on the Minnesota Vikings logo. Junior, Colleen McGrath designed the school crest, incorporating the Viking logo and modeled after her family crest. A school motto was adopted in 1995 after a contest for students. Sophomore Jessica Frank won the contest. In 2001, construction began to create a new science wing. The courtyard which stood in the center of the school was demolished. After two years of year-round construction, the new science wing was built along with a heating and ventilation facility on the roof of the building.

In the early 2000s, Fremd underwent several construction projects, including the replacement of bleachers in the main gymnasium, renovated tiling, and additional classrooms. The music department added a rehearsal room, larger practice rooms with more advanced sound-proof walls, and increased storage space. In the newest addition to the school, a synthetic turf football field was added. In 2016, a new pool facility was added to Fremd.

On November 2, 2015, The New York Times reported that the federal government determined that Fremd's administration violated anti-discrimination laws because "it did not allow a transgender student who identifies as a girl and participates on a girls’ sports team to change and shower in the girls’ locker room without restrictions." The New York Times added that the student in question "identifies as female but was born male."

As of 2018, Fremd is one of the largest high schools in the region, with a student body of approximately 2600. The school is also noted for its high operating costs: in the 2016–2017 school year, Fremd's district spent $18,721 per pupil, with the average teacher being paid $99,474.

Academics
In 2018, Fremd had an average SAT score of 1178.5 and a four-year graduation rate of 97.9%. The average class size is 24.7. On the mathematics portion of the SAT, 71.3% of students met or exceeded standards, while on the English/language arts portion, that figure was 68.5%. Additionally, 66.5% of students showed proficiency on the Illinois Science Assessment.

From April 1998 to September 2019, 75 students from Fremd earned the highest possible composite score on the ACT, a 36. In the same time frame, only six students earned the highest possible score on the SAT, a 1600.

In 1987, Fremd was named among the top in the nation in the United States Department of Education's National Secondary School Recognition Program. Fremd High School has also been recognized by Newsweek as one of "America's Best High Schools" and by U.S. News & World Report as one of 99 outstanding high schools in the United States. In 2006, Fremd was recognized as the 302nd best high school in the nation by Newsweek, with an average of 1.3 AP tests taken per graduating senior.

Demographics
In the 2022-2023 school year, the school had 2,708 students. 47% of students identified as non-Hispanic white, 32% were Asian, 12% were Hispanic or Latino, 5% were black or African-American, and 4% were multiracial. The school has a student to teacher ratio of 16.7, and 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

Athletics
Fremd competes in the Mid-Suburban League (west division), and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) which governs most interscholastic sports and competitive activities in the state. Its mascot is the Viking.

Fremd sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, chess, and water polo. Men may also compete in baseball, football, and wrestling, while women may compete in badminton, bowling, and softball. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors separate teams for young men and women in lacrosse. Hockey is also a club sport for men.

The boys basketball team achieved success beginning in the late 1980s. The 1983 team led by BJ Jenkins and Joe Youman made the Sectional for the first time. In 1986, Fremd made it to the Super Sectional for the first time and lost to Kendall Gill led Rich Central, 77-47. The 1988 team was the best ever, led by Jason Joseph and George Poorman. It was upset in the super sectional game by East Aurora and finished with the best record ever, 28-2. The 1989 team led by Todd Leslie returned to the super sectional game and once again lost to East Aurora. The 1993 team was the most successful ever, with a 4th place state finish. They recently celebrated their successful run with a 30 year anniversary get together. Mo Tharp coached the Vikings from 1975–2002 and established Fremd as the premiere basketball program in the northwest suburbs. Tharp was elected into the Illinois Hall of Fame.

The following teams have won their respective IHSA state tournament or meet:

The twelve state titles in girls gymnastics is a state record. The girls gymnastics team also holds state records for appearances at the state meet, top three team finishes, sectional titles, and regional titles.
 * Badminton: 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2018-2019
 * Cross Country (boys): 1969–1970
 * Gymnastics (girls): 1984–1985, 1985–1986, 1986–1987, 1993–1994, 1994–1995, 1995–1996, 1996–1997, 1997–1998, 1998–1999, 2004–2005, 2006–2007, 2007–2008
 * Hockey: 1990–1991, 1991–1992, 1992–1993. They went 73-1-1 from 1989 to 1993.
 * Soccer (boys): 1984–1985, 1997–1998
 * Swimming & Diving (boys): 1993–1994, 1994–1995
 * Basketball (girls) : 2019-2020

Activities
Fremd sponsors 60 clubs and activities ranging from cultural and artistic to academic and technological. Among the activities which are chapters or affiliates of more nationally notable groups are: BPA, Chess, Robotics, FCCLA, Model UN, Tri-M Music Honor Society, National Honor Society, Vikettes (Colorguard), and National Science Bowl.

Five activities have won their respective IHSA sponsored state competition:

 * Debate: 2004–2005 (Lincoln-Douglas)
 * Drama: 1969–1970
 * Group Interpretation: 2014–2015
 * Journalism: 2007–2008, 2011–2012
 * Scholastic Bowl: 2005–06

The Fremd Vikettes have won state titles in Team Dance Illinois, earning a First Place State Championship in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and Second Place State Titles in 2013 and 2014 for their flag/colorguard performances.

Each year, William Fremd High School hosts Writers Week, which has brought more than 200 writers to the Fremd campus since 1995 to share their work and philosophy on the writing process. Distinguished guest presenters have included Billy Collins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman; journalists Rick Bragg, Dana Kozlov, Burt Constable, and Eric Zorn; novelists Jane Hamilton, Raymond Benson, Rosellen Brown, Harry Mark Petrakis, and Frederik Pohl; poets Nikki Giovanni, Naomi Shihab Nye, and poetry slam creator Marc Smith; screenwriters Bill Kelly and Craig J. Nevius; and sportswriters Dan Roan and Mike Imrem. Presenters also include selected Fremd students and faculty.

Notable alumni

 * Born of Osiris is a progressive metalcore/deathcore band whose members Cameron Losch, Austin Krause, Ronnie Canizaro, Joe Buras, David Da Rocha, Lee McKinney, and Matt Pantelis met at and attended Fremd. Their third LP, Tomorrow We Die Alive, peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 chart.
 * brandUn DeShay is a rapper and record producer, has produced for former Young Money artist Curren$y, Chance the Rapper, Mac Miller and Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.
 * Leslie Erganian is an artist and television correspondent for the Hallmark Channel.
 * Jasen Fisher is a former child actor who co-starred in Parenthood, The Witches, and Hook.
 * Chris Fleming is an international TV host and paranormal investigator on Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters, which aired 2004–2007 on The Biography Channel; also co-hosted episodes of A&E Network Psychic Kids 2009–2010 and appeared on such shows as Larry King, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, The Haunted, and Paranormal Challenge.
 * Haley Gorecki, former professional women's basketball guard who played for the Duke Blue Devils in college and appeared in three games for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA.
 * Ryan Hartman plays for NHL's Minnesota Wild, and previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks.
 * Todd Hundley, two-time All-Star Major League Baseball catcher (1990–2003), playing most of his career with the New York Mets; briefly held single-season home run record for catchers; graduated Class of 1987.
 * Eric Leonard, former professional soccer midfielder who played for Forward Madison FC of the USL League One and the Chicago Fire FC II of MLS Next Pro.
 * Elinor Levin, member of the Iowa House of Representatives, graduated class of 2005.
 * Robert Lorenz is an Academy Award-nominated movie producer and assistant director known for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, Space Cowboys, Changeling, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino).
 * Ted Nugent is a musician and pro-gun activist with several multi-platinum albums.
 * Bette Otto-Bliesner named a notable alumni in 2008, climate scientist and one of the lead authors on assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, graduated class of 1968
 * Kris Myers is a drummer for the rock/jam band Umphrey's McGee.
 * Chris Perez played professional football in the NFL and Canadian Football League.
 * Mark Robinson is a drummer and business owner; notable acts include the Jonas Brothers, Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban; owner of Storyboard Records, an independent record label out of Atlanta.
 * Jim Schwantz is a former NFL linebacker (1992, 1994–98), primarily with the Dallas Cowboys, winning a Super Bowl ring in Super Bowl XXX; in 2009, he was elected mayor of Palatine; graduated Class of 1988.
 * Mallory Snyder is an actress/model who was featured on The Real World 13.
 * Mari-Rae Sopper was a gymnastics coach and Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer who was a victim of the September 11 attacks as a passenger on hijacked American Airlines Flight 77.
 * Mike Tauchman is an outfielder for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). Graduated class of 2009.
 * Scott Tolzien (2006) is a retired quarterback who led the Wisconsin Badgers to the Big Ten Conference co-championship and the Rose Bowl in 2010.

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Wilma Deering

Wilma Deering is a fictional character featured in the various iterations of Buck Rogers which have spanned many media over the years.

Through all the versions of Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering has maintained some clear characteristics. She is a sometimes-romantic interest for Buck, always a loyal defender of Earth, and an attractive and smart woman. She is generally depicted as brave with a penchant for getting herself into trouble. As with other science fiction heroines from the pulp science fiction genre and others, she has sometimes been depicted as a damsel in distress but more often as an assertive adventurer. In this way, her character resembles that of Dale Arden of the Flash Gordon comic books and movie serials, and also the character Lois Lane from Superman.

Pulp origins
Wilma Deering appears in the very first Buck Rogers story, the novella Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928), and the basic elements are present. She is depicted as adventurous, heroic and beautiful, and a romantic interest for the hero.

Comic strip
Wilma features in the Buck Rogers comic strip from its inception, as she is the first person of Earth to meet Buck when he awakens in the 25th century. Depicted from the start as a love interest, Wilma is initially almost a stock character heroine just as Dr. Elias Huer is a stock "brainy scientist". However, her character does develop over time into the more familiar spunky adventurer.

1939 serial
The character Wilma Deering was featured in the 1939 Buck Rogers movie serial which starred Buster Crabbe. The role of Wilma was portrayed by Constance Moore, in what would come to be her first highly recognized film role. In the serial, Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade awaken in the 25th century to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Wilma Deering, who is a lieutenant in this incarnation, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces. In this serial, Wilma is essentially the faithful sidekick, and her relationship with Dr. Huer is akin to that of a daughter.

1950 series
Lou Prentis played Wilma Deering in the 1950 ABC series.

1979 movie and series
Colonel Wilma Deering was portrayed by actress/model Erin Gray in the 1979 movie and subsequent NBC television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Initially, Wilma was depicted as a cold, aloof military officer and starfighter pilot, with little interest in Captain Rogers. However, she quickly warmed to him and, throughout the weekly series, Wilma Deering's character became warmer, sexier and more humorous. Often, it was Wilma who came to the rescue of Buck, as opposed to the other way round. Erin Gray has commented that her role as Colonel Deering was an inspiration for many women who watched the program, particularly with regard to careers in the military. She also commented that she was aware of the highly sexualised one-piece uniform she wore and its effect on the show's male audience. She was once described by Clive James as Wonder Woman with brains.

Revisions to the program in its second season changed Wilma from the central role of a colonel directing Earth's space defense, to more of a co-pilot role on the spaceship Searcher. This change was never entirely explained, but along with Buck and Twiki, hers was the only character viewed central enough to migrate to the revamped series.

After the release of the film in 1979, Erin Gray initially opted not to reprise the role for the weekly television series and actress Juanin Clay was cast in the role. However, Gray then decided she would continue with the role. Clay appeared in an episode of the series as Major Marla Landers, a Wilma Deering-type character, in the episode "Vegas in Space" (1979).

Buck Rogers XXV roleplaying game
The character Wilma Deering in the Buck Rogers roleplaying game is a more dystopic figure, in keeping with the themes of the game.

In the role playing game, Wilma is a native of the Chicagorg Arcology on Earth, and is described as an 8th level Terran warrior and a freedom fighter. Both her parents were killed by RAM, the evil organization that runs the corrupt Earth government in the game. Her biography indicates she was imprisoned for attacking RAM installations, and escaped later becoming a privateer. After several months, Wilma returned to Earth to officially join NEO, the rebel organization, and resumed her effort to free her home world from RAM.

This version of Wilma is a tall woman with strawberry blonde hair and an explosive temper, and once again is both a foil and love interest for Buck Rogers.

Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future
Another incarnation of Wilma Deering appears in the novel Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future (1995) by Martin Caidin. This version of Deering is said to be a top pilot in the Space Corps, and continues the tradition of falling in love with the time-displaced test pilot, Buck Rogers.

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Talk:Tubular bells

Miscellaneous old comments
Ortolan88:

I agree that's an important sentence, but it was kind of confusing since a glockenspiel also produces a pure tone and wind chimes are often hollow.

Flamurai 06:37, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The difference between tubular chimes and glockenspiel is one of tone quality, not purity. Tubular chimes have overtones more like those of much larger bells. I think the article is contrasting these two instruments against the group of instruments with less definite pitch, like the mark-tree. Wind chimes tend to have definite pitches and would come into the definite-pitch group.

dmhball 83.138.136.92 20:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

image link to dawsonsonline.com - this was submitted by an anon poster on 5 December but surely isn't fair use. Tim Pierce 19:24, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Posted image, reomveing photo wanted tag
I posted a picture I took of a set of Tubular Bells. So, if there are no objections, I will remove the "photo wanted" tag at the top of the talk page. --Bjornredtail 06:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Dude! NPOV-city! Somebody called "Abide with me" "beautiful." Cut that out.

Article Name
Can someone tell me why this is called 'tubular bell'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.31.80.94 (talk) 03:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Uh... perhaps because it's a bunch of tube-shaped objects that happen to produce bell sounds? :P 4.235.9.185 (talk) 06:44, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

 * They are technically bells in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification, and are normally called tubular bells (plural). Andrewa (talk) 23:16, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Move proposal
I agree, Tubular Bell sounds ridiculous, as if you were only going to play one note.
 * Move to Tubular bells -- always referred to in the plural as the instrument is most often a set of tubular bells. Badagnani (talk) 09:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Marky1991 (talk) 23:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Change the Mike Oldfield's album to "Tubular Bells (album)" or something like that and change this page name to "Tubular Bells". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.17.151.176 (talk) 20:44, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I was about to raise an RM for this, to move from the interim name of tubular bells (instrument) over the top of the many redirects that are the only history of Tubular bells. But as we have two votes in favour above, and one oppose from an anon with no other contributions who gives no rationale and seems unaware of policy on article names, I think I'll be bold and just move it. This will require admin powers but I think it's valid in the circumstances, as we have rough consensus already, so WP:SNOW seems to apply. Andrewa (talk) 23:07, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

bar chime pointer
"Bar chime" redirects here, but "bar chimes" redirects to "mark tree". That discrepancy makes no sense. Both should point to the same page, preferably to "mark tree," as that is what people usually mean when they talk about "bar chimes". I would do it myself but I don't know how to do redirects. 76.169.152.2 (talk) 03:27, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

 * Agree there was a problem. Fixed I think, bar chime now points to the DAB at chimes, which I think is the best we can do pending creation of an article on the sort of bell or chime you find on a bar counter, which may be the primary meaning of bar chime. But bar chimes is a common name for a mark tree, so it probably should remain a redirect there. Hatnote added. Andrewa (talk) 23:01, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

HS
My bad. Good catch. Andrewa (talk) 02:12, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Instrument Range
According to numerous sources, including Musser's product description of their Tubular Bells (or "Chimes", as they call them), the playing range of Tubular Bells is actually C5-G6. Basically, this article is right about the range, but not about the octave. I'll leave it as-is for now, but if I don't hear any objections any time soon, I'll go ahead and change it, and add a citation. Belac1 (talk) 16:31, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually, now that I think about it, it doesn't really make sense for Musser to say it's that high. When I think about the sound, it actually makes more sense for Musser to be wrong!--Belac1 (talk) 17:10, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay, figured out the problem. Chimes are written an octave lower than they register, so the article is right, at least so far as writing is concerned, and the Musser page is right as far as actual sound is concerned. This information should probably be added to the article, to help avoid further confusion in the future. Belac1 (talk) 21:58, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Yes, it should definitely be added. Good catch. Andrewa (talk) 19:15, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Classification
The tubular bells are classified as keyboard percussion (see keyboard percussion instrument) so I added that as a category. Just like the xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel and marimba, the chimes use the same layout as the keyboard.--Kevjgav (talk) 18:50, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

modes
An explanation of 'modes' is needed for laypersons. HuPi (talk) 13:39, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

citation request
"Chimes are often used in concert band pieces (e.g. "Eiger" by James Swearingen[citation needed])" The request for a citation here is misplaced. If any citation is required, it is for the statement about 'often used', not that the example composition includes tubular bells, that is, the citation should not be inside the. The cited composition is itself evidence of the truth that it uses tubular bells, but as a single example it does not verify the 'often used' statement.

The statement implies that other genres of music are less likely to use tubular bells. Orchestral Chimes are used frequently in orchestral music, and a dozen or so examples are listed at the end of the article. I wonder why no request has been made for a citation of each of these ? Further examples are: Holst, The Planets, "Saturn"; Musorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an exhibition, "The Great Gate at Kiev"; Puccini, Tosca, Acts I and II; Wagner, Parsifal, final scene. Here is the 'citation' if one is required: 92.3.194.40 (talk) 18:51, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Similarly, "The Smashing Pumpkins' 1994 recording "Disarm" uses tubular bells to create a haunting mood.[citation needed]". The fact that this piece uses tubular bells is best verified by listening to the music or examining the score - music publisher or discography would be the required citation, but is it really necessary to be so pedantic ? Whether or not it creates a haunting mood is subjective, and not a matter of fact even if most people agree with it. It might be true to say that it was 'intended' to create a haunting mood - the composer/musician would have to be cited in that case I suggest.92.3.194.40 (talk) 19:13, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

In popular music
Are there tubular bells in Amy Winehouse's "Rehab"? PurpleChez (talk) 13:20, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

 * And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bells_(symphony) Ansgarjohn (talk) 11:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Dates?
This article says they were invented 1860-1870 and then goes on cite compositions that use them from the 1850s. Are the compositions dates wrong? The first appearance of the instrument incorrect? The compositions scored for something else (church bells?) and then retroactively changed to chimes. This section is nonsensical as-is. Ryukin (talk) 17:27, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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Grace Marks

Grace Marks (c. 1828 – after c. 1873) was an Irish-Canadian maid who was involved in the 1843 murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Her conviction for the murder of Kinnear was controversial and sparked much debate about whether Marks was actually instrumental in the murder or merely an unwitting accessory. Marks was the subject of Margaret Atwood's historical fiction novel Alias Grace and its adaptations in other media.

Early life
Marks was born and raised in Ulster, Ireland. Her father, John Marks, was a stonemason and an abusive alcoholic. She, along with her parents and eight siblings, immigrated to Upper Canada in 1840, when Grace was twelve. Her mother died on the ship en route to Canada and was buried at sea.

Murders
Marks was employed as a maid in the house of Yonge Street farmer Thomas Kinnear, who was in a sexual relationship with his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. In July 1843, Kinnear and Montgomery were murdered by James McDermott, a servant. Kinnear was shot and Montgomery, who was pregnant at the time of her death, was hit on the head with an axe and subsequently strangled before being dismembered and hidden under a large tub. Under the alias "Mary Whitney", Marks fled with McDermott to the U.S., but they were apprehended in Lewiston, New York, and deported to Toronto. It remains unclear whether Marks took part in the double murder.

Marks was tried with McDermott for the murder of Kinnear. A trial for Montgomery's murder was to follow, but was deemed unnecessary as both defendants were convicted of Kinnear's murder and sentenced to death. Before McDermott was hanged, he insisted that Marks was, "an evil genius who masterminded the double murder, then feigned mental illness in order to avoid the gallows". Marks's sentence, however, was commuted to life in prison which she served in Kingston Penitentiary. At one period (May 4, 1852 – August 18, 1853) she was committed to an asylum but was later returned to Kingston Penitentiary. In 1872, after almost thirty years of incarceration, Marks was pardoned and moved to upstate New York. After that she disappeared from the historical record.

Popular portrayal
What is known of Marks on the historical record comes primarily from Susanna Moodie's book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush. She is the subject of Margaret Atwood's historical fiction novel Alias Grace and played by Sarah Gadon in the 2017 television adaptation directed by Mary Harron. Alias Grace was adapted for the stage by Jennifer Blackmer and premiered at the Rivendell Theater in Chicago on September 1, 2017.

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Talk:William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

Questions
Did he possess any property in Ireland?--Anglius 21:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

If General Howe "succeeded" as commander-in-chief of British troops in North America between 1775–1778, why did the Treaty of Paris (1783) result in the recognition of the North American colonies as "thirteen free and sovereign States"? This article verges on NPOV in it's celebration of a "very capable", "daring, aggressive" British officer "knighted after his successes" seeking "to crush the" Americans. To me, this article reads as very Anglocentric in it's celebration of a 18th Century British war hero seeking to crush resistance to British colonial rule. The North Americans defeated General Howe -- why does Wikipedia describe Howe as a successful hero? 66.17.105.226 01:10, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Much offensive content on this page
Needs many deletions, such as "Howe sucks nut all night long". These people need to get a life. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 143.220.15.2 (talk) 14:29, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

What was the point of Deletion?
What was the point of deleting the entire section about Howe and the Revolutionary War? Surely it would have made more sense to edit the section to create a more balanced article, rather than simply deleting it because of an alleged pro-British POV. Now there is no section about Howe and the Revoltutionary War which is silly considering it is what he is most famous for. 81.157.42.49 (talk) 08:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

 * The section was deleted in this piece of vandalism, nearly seven months ago. I have put the section back with the wikilinks and footnotes. Graham 87 04:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Dalliance in Philadelphia
Shouldn't some mention be made that while wintering in Philadelphia in 1777 Howe was distracted somewhat because of his affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Loring? This was quite public knowledge at the time. Poems were even written about the affair. There also seemed to be a lot of partying going on among the British officers. This would also seem to be a distraction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.255.145.144 (talk) 05:52, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Germantown Near-Defeat
From all I've read, the balance of the war changing and France entering was because of Saratoga, not because of a British victory in taking the capital and repulsing a counter-attack. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.250.142 (talk) 16:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

date of birth -- what about old & new style?
At top of article is

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC (10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814)

1729 is before England and its colonies changed from old style to new style calendar (which was done in 1752). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 17:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Reverting on edits of American War of Independence
American War of Independence is favoured in Britain and in the infobox it looks like the American War is a battle of the Seven Years' War. Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon (talk) 06:26, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see what you mean now, especially regarding the list layout. Sorry about that; I've just reverted myself. Graham 87 06:46, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks. Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon (talk) 06:49, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Sir William Howe
A casual or new reader, seeing the title of this article, might well assume that this is the "Lord Howe" mentioned in histories of the American War of Independence. (I'm coming here after discovering that the original author of the Revolutionary War section of the Staten Island article had certainly made that mistake.) I'm going to add a note to the lead indicating that in that context he's referred to as Sir William Howe. Binabik80 (talk) 15:35, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Opinionated?
This sentence seems too opinionated and should be rephrased as a fact or statement: "He did, however, spend a fair amount of time at the gambling tables, and allegedly established a relationship with Elizabeth Lloyd Loring, the wife of Loyalist Joshua Loring, Jr. Loring apparently acquiesced to this arrangement, and was rewarded by Howe with the position of commissary of prisoners." Camsargent8 (talk) 18:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

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Gunship (video game)

Gunship is a combat flight simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1986. In the game, controlling a simulated AH-64 Apache helicopter, players navigate through missions to attack enemy targets and protect friendly forces. Commercially and critically successful, Gunship was followed by Gunship 2000 and Gunship!.

Gameplay

The game features missions in five regions, including the U.S. (training), Southeast Asia (1st Air Cavalry Division), Central America (82nd Airborne Division), Middle East (101st Airborne Division) and Western Europe (3rd Armored Division). After selection of region, style, and enemies, the pilot is assigned a primary mission and a secondary mission. These could include such objectives as "Destroy enemy headquarters" or "Support friendly troops" (i.e. destroy targets near friendly forces). The latter would be an easier mission, because the battle would be fought closer to friendly lines.

The pilot then arms the Apache helicopter gunship, usually selecting AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles (guided missiles that destroy "hard" targets such as bunkers and tanks), FFARs (Folding Fin Aerial Rockets; unguided rockets that destroy "soft" targets such as infantry and installations), and HEDP (High-Explosive, Dual-Purpose) rounds for the 30 mm cannon (an all-purpose weapon with a maximum range of 1.5 km); in Central America, the Middle East, and Western Europe, AIM-9 Sidewinders would also be standard equipment, usually as a backup air-to-air weapon in case of cannon failure.

Patient players might move in short jumps, crouching behind hills to block the enemy's line of sight and suddenly popping up to attack. More aggressive players generally fly fast and erratically to evade enemy fire, flying in low to deliver devastating cannon attacks at close range. Since flight time is a component of the mission evaluation, either method has its advantages. The latter, however, can be rather dangerous against 1st Line enemies whose fast reaction times can cause the chopper to be pummelled with relentless fire.

Most enemy fire, especially small caliber, is deflected by armor, but some will cause systems damage. After enough damaging hits, the structural integrity will fail, causing a general power failure that requires the pilot to use autorotation to land safely. An emergency landing by a seriously injured pilot in enemy territory causes him to become Missing in Action. If the pilot lands without serious injury, he can escape back to base and live to fight another day.

There is no defined time limit in the game. A player can return to any number of Forward Area Resupply Points to be rearmed, refueled and damage repaired. Returning to the Home Base will end the mission. Ideally, the pilot completes both missions, knocks out other targets, and makes it back to base within 20 minutes.

There is no ending to Gunship. Promotions stop once a pilot makes Colonel, although he can continue amassing medals, such as the Purple Heart, Air Medal, Bronze Star, Silver Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and the Medal of Honor and retire with a final promotion to Brig. General. No medals in this game are prerequisites for earning others (the requirement of shooting down two Hinds in one mission for the Medal of Honor led some to believe that it was not possible to earn it before earning lower medals). Repeated medals are harder to earn than the first one. The criteria for winning medals is based on types of targets destroyed, number of targets destroyed, objectives met, time elapsed, and sometimes whether or not the pilot is wounded. As in real life, medals in this game can be awarded posthumously.

Development and release
MicroProse intended Gunship to simulate an urban helicopter akin to Blue Thunder, but found that city graphics were too difficult. It instead used tools developed for F-15 Strike Eagle to create another military simulation. The game was released in 1986 for the PC DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, FM Towns, MSX, PC-98, Sharp X68000, and ZX Spectrum.

Gunship was also ported to the Sega Genesis by U.S. Gold only in Europe in 1993. However, this version of the game differed from the others by featuring more arcade-style gameplay and horizontal shoot 'em up stages.

Reception
Gunship was MicroProse's third best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. By 1989, Gunship's sales had surpassed 500,000 units.

Info magazine gave Gunship for the Commodore 64 five stars out of five, describing it as "without qualification, the best combat flight simulator ever released for an 8-bit computer!" Praising its graphics, weapons, sound, controls, physics, and documentation, the magazine concluded that it was "PRIME!" Computer Gaming World stated "this reviewer heartily recommends Gunship ... A five-star rating (my highest) is well-deserved." In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title three stars out of five, stating that "When initially released, this was THE helicopter simulation".

Gunship received the Origins Award for "Best Screen Graphics in a Home Computer Game of 1986". It won the award for best simulation game of the year according to the readers of Crash. In 1987, Computer Gaming World named Gunship as its action game of the year, in 1988 the game joined the magazine's Hall of Fame for games highly rated over time by readers, and in 1996, the magazine ranked it as the 102nd best game of all time.

Reviews

 * Jeux & Stratégie #46

Legacy
A follow-up game, Gunship 2000, was released by MicroProse for several platforms between 1991 and 1996. Its successor, Gunship!, followed in 2000 for Microsoft Windows only.

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Talk:William Fremd High School

Votes for deletion history
from VfD:

Not notable. --Carnildo 06:40, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * This high school is pretty well-known, at least in the Chicago area. And I tend to think that schools in general merit articles if someone is interested enough to write about them. That said, the article as it stands now is too short and doesn't really tell much about the school, so I abstain for now. If it were expanded/improved, I'd change my vote. — [[User:Knowledge Seeker|Knowledge Seeker দ (talk)]] 08:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Very short of info at the moment. I tend to think separate short articles (or padded out articles with only a short bit of really useful info) are more confusing than a collated overview, so merge with Palatine, Illinois which already refers to the school under the heading Education. Average Earthman 14:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete without signs that the school is notable and possessing an unique identity. Drive through restaurants are too common to merit an article, but The Varsity in Atlanta, as the largest drive-through in the world (serving something like 50,000 lbs. of beef a year), would be unlike others, commented upon in song and story, etc., and would merit an article.  Boston Latin School is the oldest public HS in America, so it has some claim to fame aside from being a school where people go.  Does this?  Not provided by the article. Geogre 15:00, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Trouble with listing schools is, like assholes and opinions, everybody has one and we all think out alma mater is worthy of inclusion. Well, mostly they're not.  They are mostly located somewhere that already has an entry and (just as we don't list every single hospital and clinic) we shouldn't list the school but write about the significant schools in any given area.  Accordingly, delete. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 16:54, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, a noteworthy stub on William Fremd High School. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 17:17, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, a good school stub. - SimonP 17:39, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems more notable than other stubs on obscure fictional characters that get lovingly cultivated around here. Katefan0 19:04, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. In principle, high schools are notable (and as Katefan0 mentioned, even more notable than Johnny Zhivago). Wyss 19:41, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Schools are inheritantly notable. --Andylkl 20:07, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Improv 22:28, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Disagree with "Not notable". RustyCale 23:07, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Significant updates have been made to the site and more is expected.
 * Above comment left at 16:29, 9 Dec 2004 by User:TheAznSensation.
 * Keep and respectfully disagree with this VfD listing. —[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 00:24, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. Never sure about schools... P Ingerson 00:36, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, willing to change vote if someone can actually rewrite to demonstrate notability, but I don't think that's been shown yet. And what the h--- is "the infamous Brown's Chicken Massacre"? This is not the sort of thing that makes me look favorably on an article. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:52, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Go re-read what you just asked again. Then reconsider.  —[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 02:23, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep.--JuntungWu 02:51, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, I still think it'd be more useful merged into the Palatine article (see vote above) but if we do keep it, for pity's sake can we lose the mission statement? Average Earthman 12:12, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable.  Oh, and Todd Hundley never held the record for homeruns by a catcher. Indrian 02:13, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Are you absolutely sure about that?  —[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 02:18, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * He broke the single-season record. The implication of the wording used in the article is that he broke the career record. I changed the article to specify. Indrian 02:24, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification. —[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 02:30, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-encyclopedic. Gamaliel 02:23, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Del.Mikkalai 08:40, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability is not actually a criterion according to the deletion policy. Is it verifiable? I see references there - David Gerard 03:56, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a verifiable and accurate entry. William Fremd High School happens to be a well-known public school in the midwest and is considered to be among the best in the nation. - Mastasnypa 12:51, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * keep. Yuckfoo 08:56, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Few articles meet the high bar of notability required to be encyclopedic The Steve  05:01, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Recycling Troll 21:13, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Can we get a redirect for the word "Fremd" to this page? Thanks

end moved discussion

Picture request
Can somebody post a picture of the building or the mascot please? --TheAznSensation 03:19, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) Ok I added two pictures myself since nobody was willing to do it. Better pictures are out there but I couldn't find them. --TheAznSensation 05:39, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Infobox
Here is the template for the school's infobox. If anyone can find the time or effort to place it in the article, it would be greatly appreciated. --TheAznSensation 06:19, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Fremd's stance on Wikipedia
I would like to point that it is the major consensus of the Fremd teaching staff that Wikipedia is “the worst source you can possibly use” and “the last place you would want to look for information.” I am a student currently attending the school (Who just happens to be writing this on a school computer) and my English class was informed of this yesterday. Apparently the staff equates the site to a lawless, anarchic wasteland where anything goes and that the articles listed there are comprised of nothing but lies, misinformation, vandalism, and a whole slew of garbage that doesn’t go through any moderating or any sort of quality control at all.

Somehow I find this sentiment rather ironic, sad, offending, and ignorant all at the same time. --209.7.119.160 15:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Article Quality
Almost the complete article is complete plagarism from the Fremd website. I do not know enough about the school, having only been there once, to change it, but it needs a rewrite.Omnijohn 00:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I completely agree with Omnijohn and will work to rewrite and cite sources of information in the article. I did attend the school and will try my best to remain objective. Rmcii 17:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? I wrote this article from my experience, knowledge, and understanding of William Fremd High School. I used the school's website as a resource on only a small portion of the article, do not make statements regarding the origins of the rest of the article when you have little substance in your argument. --TheAznSensation 22:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Look at the page again (maybe need to look through history). See all those references, and "need reference" ... its better to reference where the info came from than just rewrite info from the school/district website.  Statements like, "one of America's top 100 schools according US News & Weekly Reports" may fly on their website, but we'd like to have actual references here!  Some of the copying controversy comes from other edits where some bloke (the same one who seems to run http://www.fremdrobotics.com/) thought he could setup a temporary website for a bunch of student activities and link them all from here.  The info on those pages was a direct copy of info here (making it questionable if he wrote the data their and copied it here, or vice versa)  Rmcii 14:20, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

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Koçi Xoxe

Koçi Xoxe (pronounced ; 1 May 1911 – 11 June 1949) was an Albanian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. He was supported by Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito during efforts to bring Albania into the Yugoslav federation. After Albania's leader, Enver Hoxha, established the country's independence with the support of the Soviet Union, Xoxe was arrested, tortured and executed.

Life
Xoxe was born in 1911 in Negovan, near Florina in Greece, back then part of the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Negovan (today Flampouro/Φλάμπουρο) had a majority of Orthodox Albanians, many of whom sided with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and a minority of Aromanians (Vlachs). His descent is disputed, however, it is believed that Xoxe was of Tosk Albanian descent. According to other sources, Xoxe was purportedly of Bulgarian or Macedonian origin, as suggested by some Slavic authors. However, there is limited evidence to support these claims.

Around 1937 he emerged among others, such as Enver Hoxha and Koço Tashko, as prominent communists of Albania.

In the post-World War II era, Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito sought to exert his country’s influence over Albania through military support to Hoxha in an attempt to absorb Albania. Xoxe, who headed the Ministry of the Interior and the secret police, the Sigurimi, was supported by Tito. Joseph Stalin reportedly told Milovan Djilas, a leading figure in Yugoslavia, that Yugoslavia should “swallow up” Albania.

Hoxha began to fear Xoxe as a rival to his own power. After Xoxe ordered the arrest of moderates with anti-Yugoslav sentiments, including Sejfulla Malëshova, Tito attacked Hoxha in a letter to the Albanian Politburo. Hoxha responded by traveling to Moscow with Nako Spiru and returned with a formal trade agreement with the Soviet Union without consulting Tito.

Tito began to develop a more assertive policy towards the Soviets, which angered Stalin. Over time, Stalin began to side with Albania as a supportive bulwark against Tito. The Soviet Union began to increase Moscow’s presence in the country, spending specialists in mining and oil refining. Xoxe accused Spiru of subversion and, eventually, Spiru was found dead of a gunshot wound in his apartment under suspicious circumstances.

Tito planned to send two army divisions into Albania under the pretense of protecting it from a Greek invasion, a move that angered Moscow. He then pushed Xoxe to convene a meeting of the Central Committee where he expelled Hoxha’s supporters and pushed a motion to combine Albania’s economy and military with Yugoslavia’s. Hoxha fought back with Soviet support and cancelled his agreements with Yugoslavia and expelled the country’s advisors. Xoxe attempted to save himself by declaring his support for the Soviet Union and arresting supporters of Tito in the government. The Central Committee, however, flipped on Xoxe, stripping him of his posts and expelling him from the party. In November 1948, he and many others were arrested.

The Soviets wanted to paint Tito as the mastermind of anti-Marxist and anti-Albanian activities with the trials of Xoxe and the others. Xoxe was tortured in prison repeatedly until he confessed to conspiring with Tito against the Albanian government. In May 1949, he was placed on trial where he confessed to having been recruited by Zog I of Albania, as well as British intelligence and that Tito was an agent of the west. Xoxe was sentenced to death and was hanged on June 11, 1949.

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Morningside University

Morningside University is a private university affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located in Sioux City, Iowa. Founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morningside University has 21 buildings on a 68 acre campus in Sioux City (area population 143,157 in 2008). The Morningside College Historic District, which includes most of the campus, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Morningside College officially became Morningside University on June 1, 2021.

History
A group of Sioux City business leaders and Methodist ministers established the University of the Northwest in 1889 to provide educational, cultural and economic growth in the community. The location of the campus was the northern section of the farm of Edwin C. Peters, the founder of the suburb of Morningside. The university was plagued with financial problems, and it became a victim of the financial Panic of 1893. It closed in 1894, the same year that the Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated Morningside College and took over the campus. Charles City College in Charles City, Iowa, was a German Methodist college that was absorbed into Morningside College in 1914.

Historic district
Part of the campus has been set aside in 1997 as a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the time of its nomination it contained 26 resources, which included nine contributing buildings, one contributing site, five contributing objects, nine non-contributing buildings, and one non-contributing object. The focus of the district is a broad hilltop that overlooks the Missouri River valley. Charles City College Hall (1890), Lewis Hall (1900), the Vice President's House (pre-1914), Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (1914), Lillian Dimmitt House (1921), Dimmitt Residence Hall (1926), Jones Hall of Science (1948), Alice Gymnasium (1949), Roadman Hall (1953), and O'Donoghue Observatory (1953) are the contributing buildings. The contributing objects are The Spoonholder (1908), a curved cement bench with footpad and backrest; Class of 1922 Sundial; and the three Harmony Lane Lampposts.

This is the largest concentration of educational buildings in Sioux City, and it also contains some of the best examples of Richardsonian Romanesque, Italianate, and Moderne architecture in the city. The district is also linked to the Morningside neighborhood, which was developed as a streetcar suburb. When the University of the Northwest was being developed, there was a conscious effort to pattern it and the neighborhood after Northwestern University and Evanston, Illinois.

Athletics
The Morningside athletic teams are called the Mustangs (formerly known as the "Maroon Chiefs"). The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) since the 2003–04 academic year. The Mustangs previously competed as an NAIA Independent during the 2002–03 school year; and in the defunct North Central Conference (NCC) from 1922–23 to 2001–02, which was affiliated in the NCAA Division II ranks.

Morningside competes in 27 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading, dance and eSports.

Accomplishments
The Mustangs women's basketball team won back-to-back NAIA Division II National Championships in 2004 and 2005. They also won the National Championship in 2009 with an undefeated 38–0 record. Most recently, the Mustangs won the NAIA Division II Women's Basketball National Championship in 2015 with a 37–1 record. Morningside's Jake Stevenson won the NAIA 184 lb Wrestling Championship in 2007, and John Sievert won the 197 lb Championship in 2013. The football team was coached from 1948–1950 by Pro Football Hall of Fame coach George Allen.

The 2018, 2019, and 2021 Morningside Mustangs football teams had undefeated seasons and won NAIA national championships. The Morningside Mustangs dance team won their first national title in 2022. The dance team also set a national record for highest score at a dance nationals with a 92.31.

Student life
Morningside University is on a 68 acre campus in the residential neighborhood of Morningside in Sioux City, Iowa. Student organizations include: student government, honor societies, service groups, religious organizations, musical ensembles, student publications, and three national fraternities ( Alpha Omicron Pi women's sorority, Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, and Acacia). The campus is also home to two nationally renowned music fraternities, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (men's) and Mu Phi Epsilon (co-ed nationally, but strictly women for this campus). Morningside's Department of Mass Communications has a weekly newspaper, the Collegian Reporter, it shares a public-access television cable TV as MCTV, and operates a radio station 24 hours a day at 92.9 on the FM dial, KMSC, Fusion 93.

Residence halls
Dimmitt Hall is the third oldest building on campus. It was named for Lillian Dimmitt, the 26-year Dean of Women. Roadman Hall was built in the mid twentieth century. It houses about 150 students. The dormitory is named after Earl Roadman, president of the college from 1936 to 1956. In 2005, two apartment-style dormitories opened for upperclassmen, the Waitt and Poppen Halls. Lags Hall, a third apartment-style facility, was added in 2007.

Additions since 2005
In 2005, the Hickman Johnson Furrow Library was renovated and a central campus green space and new maintenance facilities were built for $26 million.

The first addition came in the form of the central campus Hilker Green Space. Work began in the summer of 2006 and it opened in late summer of 2007. The space is designed as a split-level area featuring the grand two-level Lieder Family Fountain. Walkways and a 10 ft access path cut through the upper-lawn making their way by Lewis Hall connecting the Hickman Johnson Furrow Learning and Olsen Student Centers. Near Eppley Auditorium, the Buhler Outdoor Performance Center was built.

A softball complex was added in Fall 2005.

Notable alumni

 * Shirley Booz, dancer and model
 * George Everett "Bud" Day, a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Kory DeHaan, MLB outfielder
 * Anthony Fieldings, football player
 * Ira N. Gabrielson, first director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 * Stanley L. Greigg, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from northwestern Iowa
 * Matthew C. Harrison, 13th and current president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
 * Daryl Hecht, Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
 * Jerry Johnson, football player
 * William G. Kirchner, Minnesota state legislator
 * Gayle Knief, football player
 * Utu Abe Malae, Gubernatorial Candidate for American Samoa.
 * Herb McMath, former NFL defensive tackle
 * Al McIntosh, editor who was featured in Ken Burns' The War
 * Emory Parnell, actor
 * Pauline Phillips and Eppie Lederer, identical twin sisters of the notable newspaper columns "Dear Abby" and "Ask Ann Landers", are Morningside College alumni. Known as the "Friedman twins" during their time at Morningside, they wrote for the school's long-running newspaper, the Collegian Reporter
 * Cory Roberts, President, CEO, and Chairman of the board of Propath
 * Harry E. Siman, member of the Nebraska State Senate
 * Trent Solsma, football player
 * Paul Splittorff, baseball player
 * Samuel A. Stouffer, sociologist
 * Harry Webber, football player
 * Brandon Wegher, football player
 * Carl O. Wegner, Minnesota state legislator

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