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Jack Holt
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Before joining the Misys team, Jack Holt was at Medaphis (now PerSé) where he built the help desk organization for their Physician Billing Services group. At Misys Healthcare Systems, Physician Systems business unit, he held various management roles within Client Support for the Misys Tiger™ product and continued on to manage all Client Services for the Misys Vision/Optimum™ product line. Most recently, after a long, successful history with Physician Systems, Mr. Holt joined the Hospital Systems business unit in June 2002 and quickly demonstrated the talent to lead this organization.
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Jack Holt first headed the Victorian trainers' list in the 1918-1919 season and was leading trainer twelve times. Because of this success he was dubbed "The Wizard of Mordialloc". Some of his successful horses were: Eurythmic, Heroic, Mistico, Sir Ibex, Lilypond, Second Wind and Easingwold. With these horses he won most of Australia's most important races including the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, St Leger Stakes, Victorian Derby, Sydney Cup, W. S. Cox Plate the Doncaster Handicap and Newmarket Handicap. The jockeys who rode for him included Frank Dempsey, Bill Duncan, Bill Foulsham, 'Darby' Munro, Theo Lewis, Bill Williamson and 'Scobie' Breasley.
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The success of the Merlin inspired Yachting World to commission Jack Holt to design and build a new low cost dinghy that would allow children to enjoy sailing. Built using a plywood chine construction the Cadet began a revolution in sailing, reducing the cost while broadening the sports appeal. The GP14, which followed in 1950, was the first boat to be sold in kit form.
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the young man intends to exile himself to an island, but he winds up bringing along Alma (Seena Owen), who he has saved from unhappy circumstances. Even more complications arise when hotel proprietor Schomberg (Wallace Beery), who is jealous of Heyst, sends a group of crooks after him. The arrival of these evil characters, led by Ricardo (Lon Chaney), inspires Heyst to drop his father's philosophies and save the girl. This story was based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, but -- as is all-too common in the world of cinema -- instead of the book's tragic ending (both Alma and Heyst died), the pair live happily ever after. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
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The success of the late Jack Holt, one of Australia's greatest trainers and an inaugural inductee into Australian Racing's Hall of Fame, led to the establishment of the now world-renowned St Vincent's Institute. Jack Holt was a true philanthropist, and stories abound of his quiet generosity to those in need. Following his death in June 1951, the John Holt Medical Research Endowment - a perpetual charitable trust fund formed through the Sisters of Charity at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne - was established with a bequest of 200,000 Pounds.
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When a sympathetic Union colonel (Jack Holt) helps a Confederate officer (John Boles) escape from custody to visit his family, they're both arrested and sentenced to be executed. Now, their only hope lies in the efforts of the Confederate man's charming daughter, Virgie (Shirley Temple), and loyal servant, Uncle Billy (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson), who've decided to take their case straight to President Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.).
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