Warm Up 4/18/16 ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION IN YOUR JOURNAL. WHAT IS THE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT YOU HAVE EVER ACHIEVED?

Walter Cunningham  He was an astronaut for NASA  Was the pilot for the Apollo 7 flight  Navy pilot also flew planes for the Marine Corps

Michael DeBakey  Creator of the MASH unit which is a mobile army surgical hospital.  Innovator of the coronary artery bypass surgery.  Pioneer in filming surgical procedures to use for teaching.  Surgical practice until his death at the age of 99 years old in 2008.

Denton Cooley  Him and his team have performed more heart transplants than any group in the world.  He served in the US Army.  Worked with Michael DeBakey then became his rival and broke off all collaboration with him.

Benjy Brooks  First woman pediatric surgeon in Texas.  First woman at Harvard to be accepted into the Department of Surgery.  One of only 3 pediatric surgeons in Texas in 1960 and the only woman.  Worked in the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston and St. Joseph’s Hospital.  Taught and conducted research at Baylor University.

Michael Dell  Sold computers directly from the manufacture instead of using a retail chain.  Named youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company at age 27.  Largest PC computer manufacture in 2001.

Howard Hughes Senior  Capitalized on the discovery of oil at Spindletop.  Petroleum business entrepreneur and pioneer.  Started the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, producing oilfield equipment.  Earned a fortune working in the oil business.

Assignment  For the assignment we will be writing down each person’s accomplishments they had in their lifetime and also their line of work.  You will write down all the accomplishments you can find on the paper I hand out in the boxes that go for that person.  You may use your electronic device to search up more accomplishments that each person had.  This is individual work.