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  2. Oregon Public Employees Retirement System - Wikipedia

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    Website. oregon.gov/pers. The Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) is the retirement and disability fund for public employees in the U.S. state of Oregon established in 1946. Employees of the state, school districts, and local governments are eligible for coverage. A health insurance plan for covered retirees was added to the program in 1987.

  3. Vanderbilt Trophy - Wikipedia

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    Four Vanderbilt Trophy champions have successfully defended the title without change in personnel (intact), on five occasions: 1938, 1945, 1956–57, and 1976. The triple winners from 1955 to 1957 were B. Jay Becker, John R. Crawford, George Rapée, Howard Schenken, Sidney Silodor, of whom Becker and Silodor were the 1944–45 winners with ...

  4. Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia

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    Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (Mrs. Hamilton Twombly) (1854–1952) Townhouse at 684 Fifth Avenue, New York (1883). Designed by John B. Snook, who also designed her sister Lila Webb's townhouse next door. Demolished. [4] Florham, Convent Station, NJ, "Florham" in Convent Station, New Jersey, in 1894 to 1897.

  5. State Employees Credit Union - Wikipedia

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    State Employees' Credit Union was originally incorporated on June 4, 1937 by employees of the State of North Carolina. The credit union began with $437 in assets and 17 members and was first operated from the basement of Raleigh's Agriculture Building. [6] By 1960, the credit union grew to serve over 70,000 members and had assets of almost $25 ...

  6. Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi - Wikipedia

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    She was born Gladys Moore Vanderbilt in 1886, the seventh and youngest child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice Claypoole Gwynne. Her father was the president and chairman of the New York Central Railroad and part of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She grew up in the Vanderbilt family mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City and at ...

  7. Long Island Motor Parkway - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. April 1, 2002. The Long Island Motor Parkway, also known as the Vanderbilt Parkway, Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, or Motor Parkway, was a limited-access parkway on Long Island, New York, in the United States. It was the first highway designed for automobile use only. [2] The parkway was privately built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II ...

  8. Vanderbilt Reef - Wikipedia

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    Vanderbilt Reef. The tip of Vanderbilt Reef visible above the water, with a navigation beacon. Vanderbilt Reef is a rocky outcropping in Lynn Canal, a fjord in Alaska, United States at 58°35′31″N 135°0′55″W. The outcropping is visible just above the water's surface. On October 25, 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamer SS Princess Sophia ...

  9. Amy Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    Amy Osborne Vanderbilt (July 22, 1908 – December 27, 1974) was an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette . [1] The book, later retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette , has been updated and is still in circulation.