N|150: They Went to Nebraska
Curt Bright
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02/04/2019
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's notable alumni are featured in a music video by The String Beans.
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- [00:00:00.270]["They Went To Nebraska" By The String Beans]
- [00:00:08.470]♪ Smack in the middle of our great nation ♪
- [00:00:11.870]♪ Is a school with a reputable reputation ♪
- [00:00:16.091]♪ For alumni with grit and lots of glory ♪
- [00:00:19.969]♪ In every imaginable category ♪
- [00:00:24.336]♪ Whoa, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:00:28.153]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:00:31.157]♪ Henry Beachell saved millions with his hybrid rice ♪
- [00:00:34.986]♪ Charles Bessey was chancellor not once but twice ♪
- [00:00:39.093]♪ The Oracle of Omaha invests his cash ♪
- [00:00:42.891]♪ And we're the alma mater of Papa Flash ♪
- [00:00:47.358]♪ Oh oh, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:00:51.170]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:00:54.035]♪ Johnny Carson was the king of late night ♪
- [00:00:57.847]♪ Roxanne Gay really, really, really knows how to write ♪
- [00:01:01.970]♪ Ted Sorensen wrote for JFK ♪
- [00:01:05.998]♪ And George Beadle zapped mold with X-rays ♪
- [00:01:10.418]♪ Oh oh, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:01:14.219]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:01:17.257]♪ Dirk Obbink reads stuff from ancient times ♪
- [00:01:20.958]♪ Jim Thompson wrote films and novels all about crime ♪
- [00:01:25.289]♪ Edith Clements pioneered botany ♪
- [00:01:28.588]♪ And was Nebraska's first female PhD ♪
- [00:01:33.478]♪ Whoa, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:01:37.218]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:01:40.548]♪ Black Jack Pershing led in World War I ♪
- [00:01:44.562]♪ Willa Cather's novels were second to none ♪
- [00:01:48.322]♪ Rachel Lloyd studied sugar beets ♪
- [00:01:51.652]♪ And Evan Williams gave the whole wide world the tweets ♪
- [00:01:56.501]♪ Whoa, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:02:00.253]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:02:03.287]♪ Bob Kerrey was our 35th governor ♪
- [00:02:07.481]♪ A Navy Seal and U.S. senator ♪
- [00:02:11.282]♪ Gladys Henry Dick was quite an achiever ♪
- [00:02:14.742]♪ She developed a vaccine for scarlet fever ♪
- [00:02:19.572]♪ Whoa, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:02:23.321]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:02:26.639]♪ Ben Kuroki flew in World War II ♪
- [00:02:30.169]♪ Betty Clements was a pilot and neurologist, too ♪
- [00:02:34.009]♪ Alan Heeger won a Nobel Prize in chemistry ♪
- [00:02:37.741]♪ And Patsy Mink ran for Congress in Hawaii ♪
- [00:02:42.449]♪ Oh, aloha Nebraska ♪
- [00:02:46.349]♪ Aloha Nebraska ♪
- [00:02:49.600]The first female professor at NU
- [00:02:53.020]Taught from 1877 to 1902
- [00:02:56.873]Clayton Yeutter ran the national GOP committee
- [00:03:00.820]And Bion Arnold built the subway in New York City
- [00:03:05.157]New York City?
- [00:03:07.555]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:03:09.715]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:03:12.845]♪ The Reverend Hiram Hisanori Kano ♪
- [00:03:16.231]♪ Was the saint of Nebraska and Colorado ♪
- [00:03:20.160]♪ Aaron Douglas painted African-American themes ♪
- [00:03:23.795]♪ Louise Pound led our first female basketball team ♪
- [00:03:28.675]♪ Whoa-Oh, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:03:32.385]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:03:35.505]♪ Mari Sandoz wrote about life on the plains ♪
- [00:03:39.175]♪ Charlie Greene won gold at the Olympic games ♪
- [00:03:43.025]♪ Beverly Keever covered the war in Vietnam ♪
- [00:03:46.814]♪ And Matt Waite got a Pulitzer for PolitiFact.com ♪
- [00:03:51.505]♪ Whoa, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:03:55.465]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:03:58.564]♪ Alvin Johnson started The New School in 1919 ♪
- [00:04:02.205]♪ Edith Abbott was the country's first female dean ♪
- [00:04:05.995]♪ Leta Hollingworth advanced child psychology ♪
- [00:04:09.905]♪ And Barbara Hendricks sings operatically ♪
- [00:04:14.855]♪ Whoa, they went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:04:18.424]♪ They went to Nebraska ♪
- [00:04:21.384]♪ We have pioneers in plants and entomology ♪
- [00:04:25.277]♪ Leaders in social work and iconography ♪
- [00:04:29.515]♪ Yes each and every Husker stands out from the crowd ♪
- [00:04:32.785]♪ Making Nebraska strong and Nebraska proud ♪
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