Dr. Russell's Historical Timeline
History Childhood and Youth (1871-1890)
1871: May 19th – Born in Boston, MA.
1884: Russell pays his way into five years of art school by working in various capacities as a musician.
1885: 14years old – death by Black Diptheria destroying his throat – recovers by cosmic illumination informing him of the self-healing principle.
Walter Russell The Artist (1890-1920)
1894: Russell marries Helen Andrews.
1895: Russell assumes directorship of The Twilight Club.
1897-1898: Russell is Art Editor of Colliers Weekly, becomes a correspondent for Collier’s and Century, during the Spanish War.
1891: Walter Russell turns the age of 20. Russell covered the Spanish-American War during the battle for Cuba.
1900: Completes an allegorical painting entitled "The Might of Ages" – first exhibited in the Turin International Art Exposition, winning honourable mention from Italy, then exhibited throughout Europe, winning him many honours from France, Belgium and Spain, including membership to the Spanish Academic of Arts and Letters, Toledo.
1903: Commissioned by The Ladies’ Home Journal to find and paint 12 most beautiful children in the United States of America.
1905: Walter becomes a horse breeder.
1908: Walter Russell designs, as an architect, a building. Alwyn Court
1909: Walter Russell designs, as an architect, a building. 44West 77th Gothic House
1911: Walter Russell turns the age of 40
1900-1914: Russell mainly paints portraits of children. Principal instructors in art: Albert Munsell and Ernest Major of Boston, Howard Pyle of Philadelphia and Jean Paul Laurens from the Academy Julian in Paris.
1914: Russell mainly paints portraits of notables, writes books and builds numerous big buildings, some of which still exist. Together with other sculptors, architects and painters he conceived the principle of co-operative ownership
for flats in New York.
Walter Russell The Enlightened (1921-1946)
May of 1921, Walter Russell at the age of 49 years old experiences a 39 day and night period of illumination, writing down some 40,000 words given to him from the Light of Cosmic Consciousness – later published as "The Message of the Divine Iliad."
1921: Walter Russell paints The Octave Wave.
1921: Walter Russell turns the age of 50.
1922: Dr. Henry Norris Russell “checks the first astronomical charts” by Walter Russell.
Exact Date Unkown: Dr. H.H. Sheldon places a laboratory at the disposal of Walter Russell, at The New York University – in order to demonstrate his hydrogen discoveries. “I set up a demonstration laboratory in a university to prove that the elements are not different substances but are differently conditioned pressures of motion – and that the structure of the atom is based upon the gyroscopic principle." — NYU University, see 1922.
Exact Date Unknown: A. Cressy Morrison separates oxygen from nitrogen – causing The Union Carbide Company to change its basis for producing hydrogen from coal gas instead of the electrolytic process.
Exact Date Unknown: Nikola Tesla and Walter Russell meet and discuss his cosmology. This must have happened between 1921 and 1943. Russell himself evidently exerted considerable energy for years urging the research labs of Union Carbide, Westinghouse, General Electric and others to verify his atomic findings.
1921-1946: Russell and “other notable figures of his time” continued The Twilight Club, their efforts culminating in notable service organizations like “The Rotary Club”, The Lions Club, The Boy Scouts of America, and many others. The Twilight Club stood up for a right of education, for minimum wages, "truth" in advertising and much more, getting big support from Adolph Ochs, the owner of the New York Times at that time.
1926: Russell publishes his two Periodic Tables of Elements. Russell publishes "The Universal One."
1930: Russell publishes The Russell Genero-Radiative Concept; a revision of a portion of "The Universal One.
1927-1939: Walter Russell’s Lecture Series to Executives and Employees of I.B.M. (12 years) THINK: The First Principle of Business Success
1927: The Westinghouse Lamp Company provides Russell with full use of its facilities for gas transmutations – including their spectrum analyses. Russell takes up sculpting, at the age of 56, his first work being a bust of Thomas Edison. Russell publishes The Universal One.
July 21, 1930: The New York Times publishes an article of Russell’s, where he challenges the Newtonian theory of gravitation.
1931: Walter Russell turns the age of 60. January 30th, Walter Russell lives in the 450 East 50th Street, New York, N.Y. January 30th, H.H. Sheldon, from the Department of Physics of New York University, sends a letter to Walter Russell.
1934: Walter Russell publishes "The Sculptor Searches for Mark Twain’s Immortality." Walter Russell sculpting the Mark Twain Memorial.
1936: Russell lectures at The Astrologer’s Guild of America in June 1936 – published later as "The Electric Nature of the Universe" – a compact depiction of his Cosmology. (USP 1991) Russell publishes "The Self-Multiplication Principle," an excerpt from a talk. Russell writes a draft of an IBM presentation, entitled "United Industry for Universal Peace," for Thomas J. Watson, Sr. – Published in 2003 in "THINK: The First Principle of Business Success."
1939: Russell lecture “Space and the Hydrogen Age”, May 13th – at the annual convention of The Eastern Electronic Association (Hotel Pennsylvania, New York – published by USP October 1989).
1941: Walter Russell turns the age of 70. The American Academy of Sciences confers a doctorate to Walter Russell – (after several laboratories isolate the elements which he had foreseen: Deuterium, Tritium, Neptunium and Plutonium.
1942: Walter Russell works on the sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1943: Russell writes “A Letter to a Friend” (Robert), later published in "Caring for your Physical and Spiritual Health."
1944: Russell publishes "The Immortality of Man." Russell publishes “Power Through Knowledge” – in the essay he references the term “New Age” “…this New Age philosophy of the spiritual re-awakening of man…”
Walter and Lao Russell (1946-1963)
1946: Russell gives a talk, adapted into "The Fifth Kingdom Man," by USP in 1991.
June – Russell gives a talk, adapted into "Genius Inherent in Everyone" by USP in 1994.
Russell gives a talk - segments adapted into "The Secret of Working Knowingly with God," Published by USP in 1993. Glenn Clark publishes "The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe."
1947: Russell publishes "The Secret of Light."
1948: Russell marries Daisy Stebbing (Lao Russell). Walter & Lao Russell go on a honeymoon, whereupon Walter draws Landscape 1 and Landscape 2. Russell publishes "The Message of the Divine Iliad Volume 1." Founded The University of Science and Philosophy – a home-study university, in Swannanoa, where the Russell paintings, sculptures and historical documents were on display for 50 years.
1949: Russell publishes "The Message of the Divine Iliad Volume 2." Russell publishes "The Book of Early Whisperings" (sometimes placed as published in 1920).
1950: Walter & Lao Russell publish "The Home Study Course" (first edition).
1950s: Walter Russell gives a series of lectures in the mid 1950s to classes he conducted at Swannanoa. USP releases "Final Lecture Series." Walter Russell is unable to repeat his transmutation experiment while at Swannanoa in the 1950’s, according to scientist Dr. Shigeo Okubo, who was working with him for some reason not explained.
1951: Walter Russell turns the age of 80 – The Lecturer Address by Dr. Walter Russell At Portsmouth, Va. Armed Forces Day Celebration, May 19th, 1951, on his 80th birthday – in front of highly ranked members of the U.S. Military – talk is published as "The Dawn of a New Day in Human Relations" in 1991 by USP. Russell lecture "Caring For Your Physical and Spiritual Health" – adapted from a talk given at Swannanoa in August, 1951 (published by USP in 1994)
1953: Russell re-publishes The Home Study Course in Universal Law, Natural Science and Living Philosophy. 13th February, An Open Letter to The World of Science – sent to 350 members of our National Academy of Science and Royal Society of London, 100 Universities and 300 leading newspapers. Russell conducts a lecture series, part of which has been released as "Living a Cosmic Life from the Mind," which includes answers to questions from participating students. With the immediacy of spontaneous replies, the responses capture Walter Russell’s wit, wisdom, and depth of understanding of scientific and philosophical questions.
1954: Walter & Lao Russell publish Scientific Answer to Human Relations. August: Walter & Lao Russell publish “Newsletter of the University of Science and Philosophy”: “It will not take many years to utterly destroy the encircling protective walls which surround this planet and protect the earth from burning up by the sun’s hot rays."
1955: Walter & Lao Russell publish The World Crisis – Its Explanation and Solution. Lao Russell publishes "God Will Work With You But Not For You."
1956: Walter & Lao Russell publish The One-World-Purpose. Walter Russell talks to a group of students at Swannanoa, explaining the far-reaching effects of the efforts of the poet-philosophers who established the Twilight Club and the University of Science and Philosophy’s historic connection with that inspired group. {Consult the history of the University in The Twilight Manifesto) Released by USP as "The Twilight Club Story."
1957: Russell revises, in co-authorship with Lao Russell, "The Home Study Course" (second edition). Russell publishes, in co-authorship with Lao Russell, "Atomic Suicide."
1958: Walter Russell draws the scientific diagram “The Science of the Future is based upon God – the Creator.” Walter Russell draws the scientific diagram ”Nature’s Method of Creating Power.” Gravity Amplifying Compression Cubes which constitute the Nine Octaves of the Elements. Walter Russell draws the scientific diagram “The Cube and the Sphere are the Sole Working Tools of Creation."
1959: Fall – General Chapman, Colonel Fry, Major Sargent, Major Cripe, and others from NORAD in Colorado Springs, attend a meeting at Swannanoa, at the invitation of Walter Russell. At the meeting, Russell explains the workings of a device he proposes to build, to take advantage of the vacuum state energy, and the two directional movement of energy from gravitation, (generation), to radiation, (degeneration). During the following year, Russell, his wife, Lao, and their assistants build the device. The prototype consists of two sets of dual and magnetically-sexed coils.
1959-1962: Walter Russell draws scientific drawings explaining science and radiation.
1962: Russell revises, in co-authorship with Lao Russell, "The Home Study Course" (third edition).
1963: Walter Russell, shortly before his death, paints his last painting called Last Painting. May 18th – Russell is still editing “A New Concept of the Universe: A Brief Treatise on the Russell Cosmogony.”
1963: May 19th - Walter Russell re-folds (passes on) (92th Birthday, in Waynesboro, VA).
After Walter Russell’s Refolding (1963- today)
1966: Lao Russell publishes "Love" – a Scientific and Living Philosophy of Love and Sex.
1971: Secret of Light 2nd edition.
1972: Lao Russell publishes "Why You Cannot Die!" Reincarnation Explained.
May 1988: Lao Russell re-folds into the universe (passes on)
1989: USP releases "A New Concept of the Universe." October – USP releases "Space and the Hydrogen Age."
1992-1998: USP “Russell Group” published a quarterly magazine called "Fulcrum" - The Science Journal of The University of Science And Philosophy.
1998: The USP officially ends it's presence at Swannanoa. The art, sculptings, paintings, drawings and personal effects are put into storage. Papers, pictures, letters and various correspondences are archived (archives).
2004: Michael Hudak assumes the Presidency.
2014: October through September of 2015, four sculptures and six scientific paintings by Dr. Russell were on display at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
2015: Board of Directors hires Matt Presti as Director of Operations. New releases of Transmutator schematics, Optical Dynamo Generator diagrams and new Scientific Drawings never before seen; formation of the Science and Research Committee; new USP Webmaster (Ramu Shages), website and restart of USP newsletters; organization of warehouse and inventory; new series INNERVIEWS started.
2016: Matt Presti assumes the Presidency and forms the Alumni Committee to oversee student events and planning of annual Homecomings. USP Homecoming - September 17th & 18th, Afton mountain, Virginia.
2017: Matt Presti forms the Museum and Art Committee tasking it with the mission of finding a new location close to Swannanoa where the 40 tons of art and sculpture will be displayed. Darren Colomb was hired as Chief Science Officer to continue the scientific work of Dr. Walter Russell in order to construct new power multiplication generators and applicable technologies that will help transition mankind's dependency on fossil fuels and usher in a new age of transmutation for the uplift of mankind in general. USP Homecoming - October 7th & 8th, at The Historic Wayne Theatre, Waynesboro, VA. Official fundraising campaign kicks off for the Museum and Art effort.
2018: New location for the Russell Museum and headquarters for the University of Science and Philosophy is acquired through the gracious generosity of a benefactor on the Board of Directors, William C. Cranwell. Seven dedicated Russell students moved an approximate 64 tons of materials equating to 11 semi-trailers from the warehouse in Crimora, VA to the new location at 518 W. Main Street in downtown Waynesboro, VA in only nine days. Museum and Art Committee dissolved after fulfilling task. Organization of the new building taking place with the goal of a Grand Opening in 2019. View the USP's Official Press Release for more information. Richard A. Dulaney joined the Board of Directors in the November election of officers. Michael Hudak elected as Chairman of the board.
2019: Sam Spicher joined the Board of Directors at the May meeting. Matt Presti assumes the role of Webmaster for the USP. Nine months after moving into 518 W. Main Street, the University of Science and Philosophy and new Russell Museum opened its physical doors for the first time in 21 years on July 4th, Independence Day. The soft opening was followed by the Grand Opening November 1st and subsequent Homecoming, November 2nd and 3rd. The Board of Directors hired James Porter as Operations Manager in July and Michaela Presti as Operations Assistant in November to help roll out the business model for 2020 and beyond. John Bonsall received the 'Volunteer of the Year' award. A video documentary of the move, subsequent year and Grand Opening can be viewed here.
2020: The USP achieved record book sales. USP operations continued unabated despite global interruptions due to novel coronavirus restrictions. The University continued in its mission of providing spiritual growth and character development to millions of students worldwide in over 65 countries. The Third Edition of the Home Study Course was once again made available to the world and the fourth edition discontinued. USP began Home Study Course Classes and the Guest Speaker Series in July at the Mark Twain Meeting Room, and will continue into the foreseeable future. The William and Ellen Cranwell Endowment Fund was created to award scholarships to individuals worldwide beginning in 2021.
2021: Scholarship Committee was formed on March 1st to distribute awards from the William and Ellen Cranwell Endowment Fund. Matt Presti and Darren Colomb stepped down from the USP August 10th. The Board of Directors hired John Bonsall on August 11th, as the incoming President. Michaela Presti was promoted to Director of Operations (formerly Operations Assistant). Jeremy Boyer assumed the role of Operations Manager taking the place of James Porter.
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