SPS Posting #6; These notables will not be in any order (alphabetically or chronologically) and in some cases no school dates were given. Many thanks to Wikipedia for information. L picture John Jacob Jack Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912), often dubbed Jack Ass in the press,[2] was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family. In April 1912, Astor earned a prominent place in history when he embarked on the ocean liner RMS Titanic, which hit an iceberg four days into its voyage and sank in the early hours of April 15. Astor was among the 1,514 people on board who did not survive.[3] He was the richest passenger aboard the Titanic, and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time. R Picture E. Digby Baltzell (November 14, 1915 – August 17, 1996) was an American sociologist, academic and author. He became an eminent professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and was credited with popularizing the acronym WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). His work shed new light on the ruling elite of America, changing public perceptions of American society and history. James Bond did not graduate but he was the name-sake for Ian Fleming’s fictional spy.
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