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24_155 | No. 18 - Best Private K–12 Schools in America, Niche.com (2019–20) |
24_156 | No. 23 - Top 25 Private High Schools in the Country, Town & Country (2016) |
24_157 | No. 7 - The 50 Smartest High Schools in the U.S., Business Insider (2016) |
24_158 | St. John's received media attention during the U.S. presidential campaign of 2000 as part of the |
24_159 | press's reporting on the academic background of then-candidate George W. Bush when it was |
24_160 | reported—and confirmed by Bush after he had consulted with his parents, former President George |
24_161 | H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush—that he had applied to SJS as a child and had been rejected. |
24_162 | Rushmore |
24_163 | In 1998, Wes Anderson '87 directed the loosely autobiographical Rushmore, based on a screenplay |
24_164 | co-written with Owen Wilson. In directing the film, Anderson based the fictitious Rushmore Academy |
24_165 | on St. John's. As reported in The Atlantic, "When Wes Anderson scouted locations for the all-boys |
24_166 | prep school..., he looked as far as the U.K. in search of the perfect location. It wasn't until he |
24_167 | saw some photos of St. John's, his own high school, that he realized the places he had been |
24_168 | imagining were the ones he knew from going to school there." Like protagonist Max Fischer, |
24_169 | Anderson as a child had staged numerous epic action plays, with titles like The Five Maseratis and |
24_170 | The Battle of the Alamo. Seen in Rushmore are the North Campus's Quadrangle and circle driveway, |
24_171 | the Upper School library, and chapel service at the Church of St. John the Divine. Anderson also |
24_172 | used a number of students and alumni as extras in the film. |
24_173 | Clinger |
24_174 | Much of the 2015 horror comedy Clinger, directed by Michael Steves, was filmed on the middle school |
24_175 | campus at St. John's. Clinger premiered at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It |
24_176 | was announced during July that Clinger would premiere in theaters in October. |
24_177 | Notable alumni |
24_178 | Wes Anderson (1987), writer, film director |
24_179 | William Curtis Bryson (1963), Jurist, Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States |
24_180 | Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
24_181 | Katherine Center (1990), New York Times bestselling author |
24_182 | William Stamps Farish III (1957), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
24_183 | Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (1993), United States Representative (D-TX) |
24_184 | Christy Haubegger (1986), founder of Latina magazine and film producer |
24_185 | Elizabeth Holmes (2002), currently indicted founder of Theranos |
24_186 | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (1964), anthropologist |
24_187 | Molly Ivins (1962), journalist and pundit (who described herself as feeling like a "Clydesdale |
24_188 | among thoroughbreds" in comparing herself to her fellow students at SJS) |
24_189 | Ken Keeler (1979), mathematician and television writer, Late Show with David Letterman, The |
24_190 | Simpsons, and Futurama |
24_191 | Benjamin Moser (1994), Pulitzer Prize-winning author |
24_192 | Laura Moser (1995), author and political activist |
24_193 | Michael Naaman (2000), Statistician, he invented almost sure hypothesis testing, for all practical |
24_194 | purposes, resolved Lindley's paradox, and proved the multivariate DKW inequality had a beautiful |
24_195 | functional form, which was thought to be impossible until 2021; he also described the world's first |
24_196 | fully nonparametric test for multivariate probability distributions. |
24_197 | Indy Neidell (1985), historian, host of The Great War |
24_198 | Peter Roussel (1960), former deputy press secretary to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and media |
24_199 | commentator |
24_200 | Sidney Shlenker, businessman
Ashlee Vance (1996), business journalist, author |
24_201 | Carl W. Vogt (1954), 15th President of Williams College |
24_202 | Justise Winslow (2014), professional basketball player for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies |
24_203 | Wesley Hunt (2000) |
24_204 | Ryan Funk (2002), chaos theorist and mathematician who proved the Liszt-Krugendorf Conjecture |
24_205 | through advanced statistical application of double inverse plotting and Poincaré retro-mapping. He |
24_206 | currently serves with distinction as the Chair of the Metamathematics Department at the Sorbonne. |
24_207 | Heads of School
Alan Lake Chidsey, 1946–1966
Elwood Kimball Salls, 1966–1976 |
24_208 | Thomas Read, 1976–1981
James R. Maggart, 1981–1991 |
24_209 | E. Philip Cannon, 1991–1998 (1991–1992 as interim headmaster) |
24_210 | John Allman, 1998–2009 (followed by interim headmaster Jim Hendrix, 2009–2010) |
24_211 | Mark Desjardins, 2010–2021
Daniel J. Alig, 2021 - present |
24_212 | References
- Profile
Notes
External links
History of SJS
Satellite photo of campus |
24_213 | Private K-12 schools in Houston
Independent Schools Association of the Southwest |
24_214 | Educational institutions established in 1946
1946 establishments in Texas
River Oaks, Houston |
25_0 | Forth Dimension Displays (ForthDD) is a British optoelectronics company based in Dalgety Bay, Fife, |
25_1 | United Kingdom. |
25_2 | Company overview |
25_3 | Founded in 1998 as Micropix and known later as CRL Opto and CRLO Displays, ForthDD makes high |
25_4 | resolution microdisplays and spatial light modulators (SLM). The microdisplays are used in |
25_5 | near-to-eye (NTE) applications for the military training and simulation, medical imagery, virtual |
25_6 | reality and high definition image processing industries. The SLMs are used for structured light |
25_7 | projection in 3D optical metrology and 3D super resolution microscopy. Headquartered in Dalgety |
25_8 | Bay, Scotland, ForthDD also operates sales offices in the United States, Germany and Japan, and a |
25_9 | customer support office in Germany. Previously funded by venture capitalists, in January 2011 |
25_10 | ForthDD was acquired by Kopin Corporation, a NASDAQ listed company based in Taunton, Massachusetts, |
25_11 | USA. |
25_12 | Technology |
25_13 | ForthDD's microdisplays and SLMs are based on a proprietary, high-speed, ferroelectric liquid |
25_14 | crystal on silicon (LCOS) platform, protected by a number of patents. For the generation of colour |
25_15 | and greyscale, ForthDD's microdisplays use a process called Time Domain Imaging (TDI™). This |
25_16 | process involves rendering the red, green and blue colour components which make up an image |
25_17 | sequentially over time at high speed. This happens so fast that the human visual system integrates |
25_18 | the components into a single, full colour image. This enables the microdisplays to use the same |
25_19 | pixel mirror for all three colour components, and avoids the artifacts associated with sub-pixels. |
25_20 | LCOS Technology History |
25_21 | The first LCOS device originated in 1973, followed by a development of a liquid-crystal light valve |
25_22 | ten years later. It was not until 1993, that a microdisplay with a resolution sufficient for use as |
25_23 | a display was reported by DisplayTech (now Citizen Finedevices). It was capable of full |
25_24 | red–green–blue image generation, enabled by the use of a fast-switching ferroelectric liquid |
25_25 | crystal. |
25_26 | During the early part of the 21st century, many microdisplay manufacturers focused on applying the |
25_27 | technology to rear-projection-based high-definition television (HDTV) systems. However, due to |
25_28 | developments in the manufacturing process of large-panel Liquid Crystal Display Televisions (LCD |
25_29 | TVs) and resulting drops in the cost of components, LCD based TVs matured into the more popular |
25_30 | consumer choice. By late 2007 almost all microdisplay Rear Projection Television (RPTV) |
25_31 | manufacturers had withdrawn their TVs from production. |
25_32 | As a result, a number of microdisplay manufacturers either disappeared completely or started |
25_33 | working on other technologies. Some companies diversified, whilst others concentrated on a niche |
25_34 | market instead. |
25_35 | Products |
25_36 | ForthDD is a supplier of microdisplays for Near-To-Eye (NTE) applications and spatial light |
25_37 | modulators for fringe projection systems. |
25_38 | ForthDD supplies full colour, all digital QXGA (2048 × 1536), SXGA (1280 × 1024) and WXGA (1280 × |
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