american educators
Adam Yarmolinsky
1923 births | 2000 deaths | american academics | american educators | american jews | people from baltimore, maryland | people from new york city | place of birth missing | university of maryland, baltimore facultyProfessor Adam Yarmolinsky (1923 - 2000), son of Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, was an American academic, educator as well as a political apointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.
Besides serving in the White House, he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the Vietnam war.
W.W. Williams
1917 births | 2000 deaths | american educators | american military personnel of world war ii | baptists | deaths from cardiovascular disease | louisiana state university alumni | northwestern state university alumni | people from louisiana | people from minden, louisiana | school principals and headteachers | united states air force officers | webster parish, louisianaWayne Wynn Williams, Sr. (September 10, 1917 - September 16, 2000), usually known as W.W. Williams, was a north Louisiana educator who served as the superintendent of Webster Parish public schools from 1973-1978 and the principal of Minden High School (MHS) from 1953-1961. Under his leadership as principal, a then new high school campus was launched in 1954 on College Street in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish. During his tenure, MHS ranked in the top 1 percent in nationwide achievement examinations in English, the top 2 percent in science, the top 3 percent in mathematics, and the top 5 percent in social studies, a record not yet again matched. In August 2007, new Minden High School facilities opened once again at the same location to supplant the 53-year-old structure. By that time, the superintendent was Wayne Williams, Jr. (born 1947), the older son of W.W. Williams.
Early years, education, military
Williams, Sr., was born in Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish in western Louisiana, to Samuel Smart Williams, M.D. (1896-1985), and the former Louise Emma "Ludie" Wynn. The family moved to the community of Ida in northern Caddo Parish near the Arkansas boundary, where in 1934 Williams graduated from high school. Dr. Williams later took a position as the first physician at the Louisiana State Penitentiary near Angola in East Feliciana Parish north of Baton Rouge. He was killed thereafter in an automobile accident in Angola.