ZachTheZip Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 I saw this story today about the new deputy director of the CIA being an alumni of UA, not to mention an Akron native. CIA #2 sworn in. It made me wonder who else from UA outside of athletics could be or has been considered important on a regional or national scale. I'll start it off with the two obvious ones off the top of my head: Ray C. Bliss - Former Chair of the RNC Gary Taylor - Founder of InfoCision Management Corperation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA Fan Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Professor John Green of the UA Bliss Institute is the preeminent authority on religion and politics; I see him quoted in the news allot and he also now holds a distinguished position with one of the political think tanks in Washington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Too Easy. Both of the Black Keys(great band). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 George Wallace(comedian). Number 93 on Comedy Central's list of 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Alan Bean and Edgar Mitchell, the fourth and sixth men to set foot on the moon, respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted May 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Alan Bean and Edgar Mitchell, the fourth and sixth men to set foot on the moon, respectively. Do they count? They were given honorary degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Do they count? They were given honorary degrees. That's the point of those things right?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Dan Moldea, a best-selling author and investigative journalist who received his bachelor's in English from UA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Digging this stuff up made me realize that there is just way too many politicians who have graduated from Akron. Damn law school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-mann17 Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Anthony J. Alexander, President and CEO FirstEnergy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottditzen Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 I was (wrongly?) under the impression there were ZERO household name grads of UA outside of sports...did not know about the Black Keys, Moldea and George Wallace. If that's true, very cool. You can't count the astronauts honorary degrees! John Greene (just talked to him last month) is not an Akron alum either Ph.D., Cornell University B.A., University of Colorado So, I think the award to most famous (non sports) Akron grad ever goes to..... George Wallace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 A modern day warrior Mean, mean stride Congressman Tom Sawyer Mean, akron pride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatwad Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 A modern day warrior Mean, mean stride Congressman Tom Sawyer Mean, akron pride Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 I was (wrongly?) under the impression there were ZERO household name grads of UA outside of sports...did not know about the Black Keys, Moldea and George Wallace. If that's true, very cool. You can't count the astronauts honorary degrees! John Greene (just talked to him last month) is not an Akron alum either Ph.D., Cornell University B.A., University of Colorado So, I think the award to most famous (non sports) Akron grad ever goes to..... George Wallace? Yes, George Wallace lived on the 10th floor of Bulger Hall and gave comedy shows for dormies in Robertson Hall and Dan Moldea was president of Associated Student Government (ASG) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 "CC" (as we called him) was an absolute STUD back-in-the-day: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Zip Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 If you look at the Disgtinguided Alumni Awards List or the Simonetti Business Awards you can find a lot of these individuals. John Costello is one of the more interesting people I've met to graduate from Akron. He was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Sears, the CEO of MVP.com (Michael Jordan, John Elway, and Wayne Gretzky's failed online sports product site that was sold to Dick's), CEO of AutoNation, CMO for Home Depot, CMO for Pay By Touch, and is now the CMO for Dunkin Donuts. Sandy Pianalto is the Presidnet of the Federal Reserve Cleveland and her sister Antonella Pianalto is the VP of Gov't Affairs for American Express (or was)....Andy Platt is the Chief Technology Officer at Smuckers and was one of the CTO's of the year as named by Oracle last year. Michael Berthelot is former CEO of Trans Technology and appears now to just sit on Boards for companies. Curt King is the SVP Publicity, Marketing & Corporate Communication at NBC Universal and if I remember right his wife is a form Rose Bowl Parade Queen. If you look into it you might be surprised how many people are out there with Akron ties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 If you look at the Disgtinguided Alumni Awards List or the Simonetti Business Awards you can find a lot of these individuals. John Costello is one of the more interesting people I've met to graduate from Akron. He was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Sears, the CEO of MVP.com (Michael Jordan, John Elway, and Wayne Gretzky's failed online sports product site that was sold to Dick's), CEO of AutoNation, CMO for Home Depot, CMO for Pay By Touch, and is now the CMO for Dunkin Donuts. Sandy Pianalto is the Presidnet of the Federal Reserve Cleveland and her sister Antonella Pianalto is the VP of Gov't Affairs for American Express (or was)....Andy Platt is the Chief Technology Officer at Smuckers and was one of the CTO's of the year as named by Oracle last year. Michael Berthelot is former CEO of Trans Technology and appears now to just sit on Boards for companies. Curt King is the SVP Publicity, Marketing & Corporate Communication at NBC Universal and if I remember right his wife is a form Rose Bowl Parade Queen. If you look into it you might be surprised how many people are out there with Akron ties. Then someone (not me) should update the UA Wikipedia page accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 "CC" (as we called him) was an absolute STUD back-in-the-day: No doubt about it. This stud almost single-handedly (hoovedly) put the pleasure in western pleasure horses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
you am i Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I was (wrongly?) under the impression there were ZERO household name grads of UA outside of sports...did not know about the Black Keys, Moldea and George Wallace. If that's true, very cool. You can't count the astronauts honorary degrees! John Greene (just talked to him last month) is not an Akron alum either Ph.D., Cornell University B.A., University of Colorado So, I think the award to most famous (non sports) Akron grad ever goes to..... George Wallace? Yes, George Wallace lived on the 10th floor of Bulger Hall and gave comedy shows for dormies in Robertson Hall and Dan Moldea was president of Associated Student Government (ASG) I knew both George and Dan when they were in school. George was very funny and Dan was very serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Watcher Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 Congrats on the first locked thread in months. Due mostly to Jake, but with an assist from others. Take the language and name calling elsewhere. Go Zips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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