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Early life. Cathleen was born on January 23, 1904, in Manhattan, New York City. She was the only daughter of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925) and his first wife, Cathleen (née Neilson; 1885–1927). [2] Her father had a country home known as Sandy Point Farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Before her parents' eventual divorce in 1920 ...
James F. Blumstein is an American legal and health scholar. He is a professor at Vanderbilt University and is cited by the university as "among the nation's most prominent scholars of health law, law and medicine, and voting rights." [1] He has worked at the law faculty of the university since 1970, teaching health policy and law as well as ...
Rankings from AP Poll. The 2002 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented the Vanderbilt University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by head coach Bobby Johnson in his first year as the head coach, the Commodores finished with a 2–10 record for the season.
Clark Lea (born November 11, 1981) is an American football coach who has been the head football coach at Vanderbilt since 2021. He previously served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Notre Dame from 2018 to 2020. Lea began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006 and ...
Vanderbilt Commodores baseball. The Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team is an American National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college baseball team from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The team participates in the Eastern division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and plays its home games on campus at Hawkins Field.
One Vanderbilt is a 73-story supertall skyscraper at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for developer SL Green Realty, the skyscraper opened in 2020. Its roof is 1,301 feet (397 m) high and its spire is 1,401 feet (427 m) above ground, making it ...
Vanderbilt quarterbacks have played prominent roles in American society off the gridiron as well. Irby Curry, the starting quarterback for the "point-a-minute" 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, served in World War I after graduating in 1916, dying in aerial combat in France. Rand Dixon was a decorated World War II veteran.
Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. After working with his father's business, Vanderbilt worked his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry, effectively transforming the geography of the United States.