Darla Moore

Darla Dee Moore (born August 1, 1954) is an American investor and philanthropist. She is the former president and a partner of the private investment firm Rainwater Inc. and was married to Richard Rainwater, who founded the firm.
Early life and education.
Moore was born in Lake City, South Carolina, to Eugene and Loraine Moore. She was one of two daughters and was born on a farm that produced cotton, soybean, and tobacco. Her father was a schoolteacher and coach and her mother worked at the Methodist Church. In 1972, Moore completed her high school education from Lake City High school. She graduated at the University of South Carolina in 1975 with a BA in political science.
Career.
Early career.
Moore started her career in 1976, working for the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C., but decided that politics was not the field she wanted to pursue. In 1981, Moore then received an MBA from George Washington University, three years after graduating from the University of South Carolina, and joined the training program at the Chemical Bank. She eventually served as vice-chair and subsequently as the bank's managing director.
During the 1980s, Moore made a name for herself while providing debtor-in-possession financing for companies going through the bankruptcy process, specializing in bankruptcy takeovers for the company. In 1996, after running the company that he founded into deep financial trouble, T. Boone Pickens was removed by Moore as the head of Mesa Inc, which mainly dealt with the production of oil and natural gas. Once in control, she then proceeded to make a profit off the company after investing a total of 66 million dollars.
Moore was recognized in several media outlets including "Forbes Fortune, Working Woman, Worth, Wall Street Journal, and CNN". Her cover on Fortune magazine called her "The Toughest Babe in Business". She is credited with dismissing future Florida Governor Rick Scott from Columbia/HCA when a Medicare-related scandal broke.
Later career (Rainwater, Inc.).
In 1998, Moore took charge of Rainwater, Inc. She served as vice president during the early stages of her marriage to Rainwater and was named president of the company in 1993. A 1997 article in CNN Money by Patricia Sellers states: "To get a picture of Darla Moore, imagine, say, a cross between the Terminator and Kim Basinger, with a wicked South Carolina drawl. Upon first meeting, she can come across as a prima donna, tough and aloof. As she warms up she can turn fun and flirty, even girlish, though the shift is deceptive." Moore served as vice president of Rainwater Inc. until 2012.
Foundations.
Moore started the Darla Moore Foundation and Charleston Parks Conservancy.
Additional affiliations and memberships.
Moore has served on the boards of various organizations, including:
She currently serves on the following boards:
Philanthropy.
Moore has given many gifts to institutions that benefit the public. Most notable are her donations to her alma mater, the University of South Carolina, which combined constitute nearly a record-breaking amount for a private donation to a business school. Some of her gifts are:
Awards and recognitions.
Fortune Magazine named Moore one of the "50 Most Powerful Women In Business" in 1998 and 1999. Additionally in 1998, Moore was presented with the Order of the Palmetto. In 2005, Moore was named Business Leader of the Year by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and in 2007, she was inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. Moore is the first woman to be featured on the cover of Forbes magazine and was also named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business by the publication.
Miscellaneous.
In 2011, Governor Nikki Haley removed Moore from the University of South Carolina board. Moore was replaced with Tommy Cofield. In response, Moore stated, "I don't need a title or position to speak out. I just need a voice, my vision and a forum to be heard…". During this time, she convinced Governor Haley and the South Carolina state legislature to match her donation of five million dollars to a new aerospace center at the University of South Carolina, which was named in honor of Dr. Ronald McNair, who died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger mission of 1986 and was originally from the city of Lake City, South Carolina.
In 2012, Moore and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the first two female members of Augusta National Golf Club. Prior to her invitation, Moore was known to have a friendship with one of the former chairmen of Augusta, Hootie Johnson. It was her husband, Rainwater, who originally introduced Moore to the game of golf, after they first met in the early 1990s. Moore has described her excitement to join the club in a statement to "The New York Times", stating:I am honored to have accepted an invitation to join Augusta National Golf Club ... Augusta National has always captured my imagination, and is one of the most magically beautiful places in the world, as everyone gets to see during the Masters each April. I am fortunate to have many friends who are members at Augusta National, so to be asked to join them as a member represents a very happy and important occasion in my life. Above all, Augusta National and the Masters tournament have always stood for excellence, and that is what is so important to me. I am extremely grateful for this privilege.
Personal life.
Moore met Richard Rainwater on a business trip to Texas. In 1991, they were married in New York City in Park Avenue’s Brick Presbyterian Church. Rainwater’s net worth almost tripled due to his marriage to Moore, whose net worth was estimated at $2.3 billion in 2012.
From 2001 forward Moore and Rainwater lived separately, she in South Carolina, he in Texas and California. In March 2011, a court declared him incapacitated as a result of his battle with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and his youngest child, Matthew, became his legal guardian. As his illness progressed, Rainwater's primary caregiver was his brother Walter until around-the-clock nursing care became necessary. Rainwater died September 27, 2015. He was survived by his former wife, his son Todd, and two other children, Matthew and Courtney, from an earlier marriage.
Since around 2008, Moore spends most of her time in Lake City in a house built on a plantation that has been in the Moore family for six generations (in recent years she has invested around $100 million into the city). Moore has turned the farmland of her property into the Moore Farms Botanical Garden.
She also owns homes in New York City, Folsom, California, and Charleston, South Carolina. Her hobbies include being a collector, mostly of 18th-century French furniture and rare books. In addition, Moore enjoyed riding with her husband in his 1957 Chevy, an iconic automobile, before his illness began.
Moore has one sister, Lisa.


Mary Knatchbull

Mary Knatchbull (1610 – 6 March 1696) was abbess of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Ghent in what is now Belgium. Knatchbull tried to handle the convent's large debts which she inherited, but her plans were thwarted when Charles II of England borrowed money, promising its return, but failing to pay back the full amount to the convent after The Restoration.
Life.
Knatchbull was born in Kingdom of England in 1610. When she was about fourteen she was amongst the founding members of a new Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Ghent. The convent was created by her aunt Lucy Knatchbull in 1624. The convent was founded by nuns from the Brussels convent and the original four were her aunt, Magdalen Digby, Eugenia Poulton and Mary Roper. Another of the early nuns, Margaret Knatchbull, her sister, was also a niece of the abbess. The convent grew rapidly gathering new members and funds from their dowries. Her aunt led the group and she commissioned a new building on the banks of the River Scheldt which they moved to in 1628.
She rose through the ranks. Her aunt died in 1629, and by the time she was elected abbess in 1640 there was £6,000 of debt. She tackled this in two ways, firstly she reduced the convent's expenditure, but she also renegotiated the convent's debts to spread and reduce the payments necessary to service the loans.
Meanwhile the exiled Charles II was in Europe and Knatchbull enjoyed a close relationship with the King and his court. The convent played host to the court and received and passed on letters to the King's advisers including the Earl of Ormonde and Edward Hyde (later earl of Clarendon). Knatchbull communicated widely and her opinions were noted. She was considered one of the finest of abbesses and a person who played an important role in Charles II's restoration to the throne in 1660. When Charles left to return to England her called in to see the nuns. He owed them over £3,000. He gave them a token payment and reaffirmed his intention to settle his debts with thanks once her was restored to the monarchy. Knatchbull never saw the £3,000, but she did manage to obtain £1,000 after twice travelling to London to remind the new King of his dept to the nuns of Ghent. Knatchbull died in Ghent in 1696.


Rosalind Hall

Rosalind Hall is the director of the Men's Chorus and Concert Choir at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Hall is a native of Wales. She was educated at the University of London, the University of Edinburgh and London's Royal Academy of Music, receiving degrees in Voice and Piano. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal Academy in 1977. Hall moved to the United States in 1989 to pursue post-graduate studies in choral conducting at BYU. While she was a graduate student she also directed the BYU Women's Chorus. Hall received a Master of Music degree in 1993 from BYU.
From 1992 to 1999, Hall was chair of the music department at the Waterford School, where she was instrumental in helping develop the Fine Arts Academy. She became the first female director of BYU's Men's Chorus and Concert Choir when Mack Wilberg left to become the assistant director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the fall of 1999. In addition to conducting these two choirs at BYU, Hall teaches undergraduate courses in choral conducting and graduate courses in choral literature at the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications. Following the 2015 retirement of Ronald Staheli, Hall has served as the Division Coordinator for the Choral Division of the BYU School of Music.
Hall's tenure at BYU has been prolific for the choirs and marked by increased visibility for the choral program. She has led the choirs numerous times in an LDS Church general conference. In 2006, Hall and the choirs were invited to perform at the annual conference of the American Choral Directors Association, premiering the work "Dances to Life" by Wilberg. She has led the Men's Chorus through collaborative performances with high-profile performers, including Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Hollens, Alex Boyé, and Ben Rector.
Hall has produced a number of recordings with the choirs, including solo albums, composite albums with the other BYU choirs, and music videos. With the Concert Choir she produced their second solo album, "Beautiful River," in 2005. With the Men's Chorus she recorded the solo album "Praise Him" in 2005 and released an album of live concert recordings titled "Live and Kicking" in 2009. Following the October 2012 announcement by Thomas S. Monson lowering the minimum age for LDS missionary service, Hall produced a special missionary-themed album with the Men's Chorus that would be offered free of charge as a download. The album, titled "Set Apart," was released in April 2013 and subsequent free tracks have been added each year since the release. She has also overseen the creation of the choirs' first music videos, including teaming-up with BYU Vocal Point for a rendition of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" that has garnered over 25 million views on YouTube.
In 2012, Hall was selected as one of the 300 best professors in the nation by the Princeton Review.
Hall has been included multiple times on RateMyProfessors.com's annual list of top university professors, ranking 4th on the list in 2012-2013, 12th in 2013-2014, 24th in 2014-2015, 20th in 2015-2016, and 15th in 2017-2018.
In 2015, Hall and Staheli were awarded BYU's Creative Works Award by BYU president Kevin J Worthen for their "outstanding achievement in the development of creative works that have had wide acceptance and national or international distribution."


Vanessa Benelli Mosell

Vanessa Benelli Mosell (born 15 November 1987 in Prato, Tuscany) is an Italian pianist and conductor.
Biography.
Benelli Mosell began playing the piano at the age of three, starting her comprehensive musical studies and giving her first public appearance at four years old. At seven years old, she was exceptionally admitted at the International Piano Academy in Imola where she studied with Franco Scala. She gave her orchestral debut as soloist at the age of nine followed by her New York debut appearance at eleven years old with pianist Pascal Rogé, who described her as "the most natural musical talent I have encountered in my entire life". In 2007 she was invited to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to study with Mikhail Voskresensky before pursuing her studies with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London, where she graduated in 2012, generously supported by the Russell Gander Award. In addition to her piano studies, she went on studying violin, singing, score reading, composition, and conducting.
Career.
Later highlights include her debut at La Scala in Milan and Turin's Teatro Regio at the MiTo Festival; solo recitals at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Seoul Arts Center; a portrait concert at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in Ireland for RTÉ with concerti by Rachmaninov and George Benjamin; chamber music making with the Russian violinist Vadim Repin; an extensive tour of China making celebrated solo debuts at Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts, Harbin Grand Theater and Chongqing Guotai Arts Center among other venues; praised performances at Salle Gaveau in Paris, performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Orchestre Pasdeloup, and her Rachmaninov album launch recital at Salle Cortot in Paris.
2018 saw her making her debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing Ravel's Piano Concerto and concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, rejoining Southbank three months later for a performance during the 2019 Stockhausen Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. She revisited the Ravel Piano Concerto at Al-Bustan Festival in Beirut and launched the 2019 Festival Presences at Auditorium de Radio France in Paris.
Further orchestral appearances include concerts with the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Münchner Symphoniker, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Soloists, with whom she replaced Martha Argerich as soloist.
Since making debuts at New York's Lincoln Center, Tonhalle, Zürich, and London's Wigmore Hall, Benelli Mosell has given concerts and solo recitals at Hamburg's Laeiszhalle, Berliner Philharmonie, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Auditorio de Saragoza, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Auditorium de Radio France and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna, Sala Verdi in Milan, Dublin National Concert Hall, Haifa Auditorium, Seoul Arts Center, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Harbin Grand Theater, Beijing NCPA, London's Royal Festival Hall and Kings Place, La Scala in Milano, Teatro Regio in Turin, Salle Poirel in Nancy, Corum in Montpellier, Théatre de la Criée in Marseille, Bavaria's Schloss Elmau, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Usher Hall in Edinburgh.
Benelli Mosell studied conducting with Luca Pfaff in Strasbourg and won awards in festivals in Elba and Pietrasanta. As conductor she has worked with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conducting the first performance in Austria of "Incanto" (2001). She has also conducted the Divertimento Ensemble in Milan.
Benelli Mosell is internationally renowned for her performances of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Klavierstücke". Following her recording of "Klavierstücke I–IV", she was invited by the composer to study under him. She worked closely with the composer and he remains an important influence on Vanessa's music making, encouraging her passion for contemporary music and her championing of composers of today as well as the great classics.
Since becoming a key figure in the music of Stockhausen, Benelli Mosell has had collaborations with many leading contemporary composers including George Benjamin, Hugues Dufourt, Stefano Gervasoni, Martin Matalon and Marco Stroppa among others.
As a chamber music performer she collaborated with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Julian Rachlin, Vadim Repin, Massimo Quarta, Daishin Kashimoto, Radovan Vlatkovich and his frequent partner the French cellist Henri Demarquette, with whom she released the album "Echoes" for Decca, a juxtaposition of works by Philip Glass and Sergei Rachmaninoff for cello and piano.
Discography.
Benelli Mosell's debut recording "Introducing Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Virtuoso Piano Music" features music by Prokofiev, Haydn, Scriabin and Liszt and received great international praise for her "extraordinary artistic talent" and "sparkling technique in demanding music" ("Gramophone Magazine"). Her debut recording was quickly followed up in September 2012 by her second, equally acclaimed Liszt recital. In spring 2015, Benelli Mosell released her recording, and debut on the Decca label – a juxtaposition of , Stockhausen and Stravinsky and followed this in 2016 with "Light", a further disc in her Stockhausen series. She has received universal praise for her concerto debut CD of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She now has five releases for Decca Classics, most recently a disc of Debussy's "Preludes" Book I and "Suite bergamasque".
Benelli Mosell is a Steinway Artist.


Women Who Code

Women Who Code (WWCode) is an international non-profit organization that provides services for women pursuing technology careers and a job board for companies seeking coding professionals. The company aims to provide an avenue into the technology world by evaluating and assisting women developing technical skills.
In addition to training, professional evaluations, meetings, and scholarships, Women Who Code offers networking and mentorship. As of 2018, the organization has held more than 14,000 free events around the world and built a membership of over 250,000 people representing over 122 countries. The current Chief Executive Officer of Women Who Code is Alaina Percival.
History.
Women Who Code was created in 2011. It was founded as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit and approved by the IRS in November 2013 and is best known for its weekly publication the CODE Review, free technical study groups, hack nights, career development and leadership development, and speaking events featuring influential technology industry experts and investors. Since inception, WWCode has produced thousands of events worldwide and garnered sponsorship from organizations like Google, Zendesk, VMware, KPCB, Capital One, Nike, Yelp, and many others. In the summer of 2016, Women Who Code went through Y Combinator.
Key initiatives.
Women Who Code's initiatives include:


Monument to Grace Darling

The Monument to Grace Darling, in the churchyard of St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland is a Victorian Gothic memorial. The monument was designed by Anthony Salvin, with later renovations by Frederick Wilson, C. R. Smith and W. S. Hicks. Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815, the daughter of the lighthouseman at Longstone Lighthouse. In 1838, Darling became a national heroine when she and her father rescued nine people from the wreck of the "SS Forfarshire", a ship that had run aground off Big Harcar, an island off the Northumbrian coast. Darling died, aged 26, in 1842 and the monument was raised over her grave in the same year. It is a Grade II* listed structure.
History and description.
Grace Darling's rescue, with her father, of nine survivors from the "SS Forfarshire" made her a national heroine. Darling received the Gold Medal for Bravery from the Royal Humane Society, the Silver Medal for Gallantry from the precursor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a tribute fund included a contribution of £50 from Queen Victoria. Her death from tuberculosis four years later was an occasion of national mourning. Buried in the churchyard of St Aidan's, her grave was embellished by a large funerary monument designed by Anthony Salvin. Salvin's choice of Portland stone for the memorial was unfortunate, it weathered badly and by 1885 complete reconstruction was required. The original effigy of Darling was moved into the church and a replacement, carved from stone donated by William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh Castle, was designed by C. R. Smith. Further damage was caused by a storm in 1895, and the canopy was replaced to a design by W. S. Hicks. In 2013, the 175th anniversary of the rescue was commemorated with a service.
Sir Nickolaus Pevsner and Ian Richmond, in the Northumbrian edition of the "Buildings of England" describe the monument as a "Gothic shrine". The style is Decorated Gothic. The recumbent effigy of Darling lies under a three-arched canopy with "metal colonettes" and topped by finials. The monument was given a Grade II* listing designation in 1969.


Gu Xiulian

Gu Xiulian (; born December 1936) is a retired Chinese politician who was the first female provincial governor in the People's Republic of China. She served as Governor of Jiangsu from 1983 to 1989, Minister of Chemical Industry from 1989 to 1998, Vice Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress, and Chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation.
Early life and education.
Gu Xiulian was born into a peasant family in Nantong, Jiangsu Province in December 1936. The eldest of five children, she helped her parents with household chores from a young age, and did not go to school until she was nine. She studied at Nantong Girls' Normal School and then Nantong Third High School, and was offered much help from the headmistress and a fellow student, to whom she showed much gratitude after her rise to prominence.
Gu finished junior high school in 1953, during the Korean War. As one of the many young women who were at the time recruited to train as cadres, she enrolled in a police school in Shenyang, northeast China, and became a policewoman in Benxi, Liaoning Province in October 1954. At the same time she also won trophies in basketball and attended night school to earn a high school diploma. She joined the Communist Party of China in September 1956. She entered Benxi Iron and Steel College in 1958, and then transferred to Shenyang College of Metallurgy and Mechanics.
Career.
After graduating in 1961, Gu was assigned to work in China's largest nickel mine of Jinchuan, in poverty stricken Gansu Province of northwest China. She was transferred to Beijing three years later, to join her husband who was working there. While in Beijing, she worked in the Ministry of Textile Industry.
During the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution, the State Planning Commission became paralyzed, and Gu was a member of the Planning Drafting Group which took over the economic planning of China. Working directly under top leaders such as Zhou Enlai, Li Xiannian, and Yu Qiuli, Gu earned the trust of the heavily persecuted "old guard", to whom she showed respect. In 1973, she was elevated to deputy chair of the State Planning Commission in charge of light industry, including textiles. During her tenure, she encouraged the introduction of technology and investment in consumer industries such as beer brewing and synthetic fiber, meeting consumer demand while increasing government revenue. She became an alternate member of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1977, and a full member of the 12th Central Committee in 1982. She would continue to serve as a Central Committee member until the end of the 15th Central Committee in 2002.
In 1982, Gu was transferred to her home province of Jiangsu to serve as Communist Party secretary (the party chief was then called "first secretary") in charge of economy. The following year, she was elected Governor of Jiangsu by the Provincial People's Congress, making her the first female provincial governor in the history of the People's Republic of China. During her tenure, she focused her efforts on improving agricultural yields in the poorer northern Jiangsu, while encouraged the development of "village and township enterprises" in the south, taking advantage of its proximity to the major industrial center of Shanghai. The small scale enterprises helped lift peasants out of poverty and were hailed as a model for all of China. She also oversaw the development of large-scale industrial facilities such as Yizheng Chemical Fibre and Qixiashan Chemical Fertilizer Plant.
In 1989, Gu returned to the national government to serve as Minister of Chemical Industry. She set the goal of making 10 billion dollars of export revenue, and attracting 10 billion yuan of foreign investment at the end of the 20th century. She promoted the modernization of management method and technology in the industry. She visited many foreign countries, and struck deals with leading international chemical companies such as Bayer, DuPont, and Eastman to set up joint ventures in China. She served as Minister of Chemical Industry until March 1998.
Gu was Vice Chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation from 1998 to 2003, and Chairwoman from 2003 to 2008. She also concurrently served as a Vice Chair of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress from 2003 to 2008.
Family.
Gu Xiulian's husband is said to be a mathematician working for China's Institute of Atomic Energy Research. They have two sons, probably born in the 1970s.


Rita Jaima Paru

Rita Jaima Paru is a Papua New Guinean food entrepreneur, who previously ran the company Dial-a-Lunch.
Career.
Rita Jaima Paru was born in Papua New Guinea where she went to Marianville High School. She attended the Papua New Guinea University of Technology in 1997, but dropped out following the birth of her daughter. Following the birth of a second child a year later, and began catering out of her home to provide for them. She reinvested some of the money earned in courses in marketing, tourism and sales. She launched the business Dial-a-Lunch in 2000, but it closed down three years later.
In 2008, Paru successfully applied for the Australia-Pacific Technical College scholarship after seeing an advertisement in a newspaper. She went to Vanutu where she studied Commercial Cookery. Upon her return, she worked as duty manager at the Beachside Brasserie in Port Moresby, but wanted to work in the kitchen and so moved to the Napanapa Oil Refinery as senior chef and was promoted to head chef.
She became the Cafeteria manager at the Bank of Papua New Guinea in 2013, and became the retail manager for IPI Catering at the University of Papua New Guinea in the following year. She returned to working on Dial-a-Lunch that year, and was nominated for the Entrepreneur Award in the 2014 Westpac Outstanding Women Awards. She catered an event at the Helifax hangar at Jacksons International Airport a week later, and was offered a commercial space by a local businessman. This enabled her to expand the business greatly around the city. Paru retired from the business in August 2017, handing it over to her eldest daughter.


Stella Holt

Stella Holt (November 26, 1899 – August 28, 1967) was an American theater producer. She served as managing director of the off-Broadway Greenwich Mews Theater in New York City for 15 years. Holt was known for being one of the first producers in New York to use racially integrated casts.
Early life and education.
Beatrice Holtzer was born in 1899, and later changed her name to Stella Holt. She lost her sight at age 17, but said that she found her blindness "no real handicap."
Holt graduated from Cornell University and initially found employment as a social worker before becoming frustrated by her inability to create meaningful change on behalf of her clients. She shifted her focus to putting on art exhibitions, and said "I found, if any, that my talent lay in organizing."
Career.
Greenwich Mews Theater.
Holt became managing director of the Greenwich Mews Theater in 1952, and went on to produce 38 plays at the theater. She would select which plays to produce by going through submissions with her life partner Frances Drucker, a former high school teacher with whom she had a 20-year relationship. Her preference was for "plays of serious content, poetic quality". She was skeptical of the over-reliance on spectacle in other productions of the time, and professed her desire to "follow the project of the author in a straightforward way."
Under Holt's leadership, the theater produced plays by Alice Childress, Padraic Colum, René Marqués, and Sean O'Casey. Its production of "Monday's Heroes", a play written by Lester Pine, featured a young Zina Bethune in her first acting role. Playwright Tennessee Williams praised her production of his "Orpheus Descending", which he preferred over the film adaptation and previous Broadway production. Actors Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, and Gilbert Price were among those seen on the stage at the Greenwich Mews.
Holt produced the work of many leading Black writers at the Greenwich Mews Theater, including Langston Hughes, Loften Mitchell, and William Branch. Her theater was one of only a few producing shows with integrated casts, which was seen as "experimental" at the time. In 1955 she presented Alice Childress's first full-length play, "Trouble In Mind," which is a specific critique of the experiences of Black artists in the white-dominated theater industry"."
In 1965, the Cuban-born director Gilberto Zaldívar joined Holt as an associate producer at the Greenwich Mews, becoming co-producer with Drucker after Holt's death.
Collaboration with Langston Hughes.
Holt produced Langston Hughes's play "Simply Heavenly" in 1957, with a budget of $4,200 and a cast of 17 actors, including Mel Stewart and Claudia McNeil. The production transferred to Broadway after 44 performances.
Holt next collaborated with Hughes as a co-producer on "Jerico-Jim Crow" in 1964.
In 1965 she brought his "Prodigal Son" to the Greenwich Mews under the direction of Vinnette Carroll. "Prodigal Son" drew large crowds in New York, and buoyed by this success Holt put together a European tour. The touring production was plagued by financial issues, including late payment of the touring company. Holt was largely blamed for these problems, and according to playwright Isaiah Sheffer, "some of her business practices were, to put it mildly, highly questionable ... I saw enough hanky-panky and cutting of corners to wonder about her ethics."
In the year before her death, she and Langston Hughes had planned to rename her theater The STELLA Holt/Langston Hughes Theater. Langston Hughes died suddenly on May 22, 1967, and Stella passed only 3 months later the same year, on August 28. It was said she died of a broken heart and “followed him to his grave.”
Death.
Holt died on August 28, 1967 at age 50 of a heart attack at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City.
Her memorial service was held at her theater. Paul Robeson sang her favorite song, “To Dream The Impossible Dream.”


Teodosia Osir

Teodosia Osir, also Teddie Osir, is a Kenyan lawyer and corporate executive, who serves as the General Counsel and Head of Corporate Affairs at Kenya Airways, an international airline based in Nairobi, the capital and largest city in that East African country.
Background and education.
She is a graduate of the University of Nairobi School of Law, where she obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Law, awarded by the Kenya School of Law. Later, from 1986 until 1987, she studied at the University of the West Indies, at its campus in Cave Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados, where she graduated with a Higher Diploma in Legislative Drafting. In 2007, she obtained a Diploma in Employee Relations, from the National University of Singapore.
Career.
Teodosia Osir is a professional lawyer and a member of the Kenya Bar. She has worked in various capacities in the past 20 years, both inside and outside of Kenya. For about one year, from October 2006 until October 2007, she was an Associate Director at "David Lawrence and Associates", a corporate recruitment company for C-Suite executives, based in Singapore.
From November 2007 until March 2011, for a period of about three and one half years, she worked as a contract specialist for Qatar Airways. She was then hired by Kenya Airways as the Head of Legal Services, serving in that capacity from April 2011 until November 2017. In this position, for over six years, she handled all the company commercial transactions, including equipment purchases and leases and related matters.
In November 2017, the company , created a new department named "Department of Corporate Affairs", charged with handling (a) public relations (b) investor relations (c) legal matters (d) supervise KQ’s strategy and (e) special projects. Teodosia Osir's position was elevated to General Counsel and she was appointed to head the new department.
Family.
Teodosia is married to Ellie Osir and together are the parents of a son, Jeremy Ominde Osir, who majored in economics at the University of North Carolina, in the United States.


Meenakshi Thampan

Meenakshi Thampan is an Indian politician, a member of the Communist Party of India from Thrissur district, Kerala. She was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kodungallur Assembly Constituency in 1991 – 1996 &1996–2001. She was the member of Kerala State Women's Commission.


Ashley Marinaccio

Ash (Ashley) Marinaccio (born January 9, 1985) is a theatre director, filmmaker, performer, and playwright.
She is the founder and founding Artistic Director of "Project Girl Performance Collective", which rebranded in 2011 under the name of Girl Be Heard. The mission of the organization is to provide young women with a platform to create theatre around pressing feminist and socio-political issues. Under her leadership, Girl Be Heard has received international attention, awards and accolades for its theatre productions that place the stories of young women at the forefront of the work. In 2012, she gave a TEDx talk at Columbia University's TEDxTeachersCollege entitled "Give it Up for Rush Limbaugh", about her career trajectory and work with Girl Be Heard. In 2013, she was the youngest artistic director to receive the Lucille Lortel "Women's Visionary Award" from the "League of Professional Theatre Women". Ashley left Girl Be Heard in 2016.
Marinaccio is the creator and host of the digital documentary series "Stage Left", which was expected to debut in 2021. "Stage Left" examines the impact of theatre and performance on local communities. She is the creator, host and director of several episodes.
She is a co-founder of Co-Op Theatre East alongside Robert A.K. Gonyo and Casey Cleverly. Co-Op Theatre East is a New York City-based theatre company that works to create theatre that challenges the socio-political status quo. Notable works with Co-Op Theatre East have included the 2010 production of "'My Name is Rachel Corrie" at the Kraine Theatre in New York City's East Village which utilized two actresses in the title role of Rachel Corrie.
She is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC, BAM/Kennedy Center's Professional Development Program, Old Vic/New Voices Directing Lab, American Theatre Wing's Springboard NYC, and The Civilians Field Research Team.
Ash completed her BA in theatre directing and sociology/anthropology at Pace University in 2007, her MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her scholarly research examines documentary theatre, the role of theatre in war zones, and practical applications of theatre in times of conflict. Ash has contributed to numerous scholarly publications as a writer and photographer. She is a member of the theatre and performing arts faculty at Pace University's School of Performing Arts and at Hunter College.
Works.
Directing.
Some of her directing credits include:
Playwriting.
Some of her playwriting credits include:


Khadija Mushtaq

Khadija Mushtaq is a Pakistani academic administrator and educator. She is the chancellor of Roots Ivy International University and chief executive officer of the Roots School System.
Education.
Mushtaq completed a Master of Economics degree with a specialization in development studies and monetary policy from Quaid-i-Azam University.
Career.
Mushtag began her career as a teacher. She is an advocate for starting education at an early age. Mushtaq is the chief executive officer of Roots School System (RSS). Mushtaq founded and leads of the University of London International Programme at RSS. She is principal of the largest RSS campus, in Defence Housing Authority, Islamabad.
Mushtaq is the chancellor of Roots Ivy International University.
Mushtaq is an activist and patron to several non-governmental organizations including the 'Liberating the Girl Child Foundation'.
Personal life.
Khadija has two kids.One of them studies at Roots Ivy International.


Ros de Lanerolle

Ros de Lanerolle (22 January 1932 – 23 September 1993), also known as Rosalynde Ainslie, was a South African activist, journalist and publisher. Having settled in Britain in the 1950s, she campaigned actively against apartheid, and later became a pioneering figure in women's publishing in the UK, called by Florence Howe "the doyenne of feminist publishers".
Life and career.
Jennifer Rosalynde Ainslie was born in 1932 in Cape Town, where she went to school and attended the University of Cape Town, before moving to London, England, in 1954 as a graduate student of English literature. A radical socialist, she became increasingly involved with the politics of Southern Africa, and on a 1958 visit to Northern Rhodesia, hoping to meet South African trade unionists working there, she was taken into custody, declared undesirable, and deported.
She became London representative of the anti-apartheid quarterly journal "Africa South", edited by Ronald Segal, and interacted closely with other South African exiles, including Ruth First, with whom she formed a close 20-year friendship. De Lanerolle was a member of the Boycott Movement (others included Peter Koinange, Claudia Jones and Steve Naidoo) founded in London on 26 June 1959, campaigning around the call by Albert Luthuli to boycott South African exports. In 1960 she was a prime initiator, together with Vella Pillay and Abdul Minty, of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in Britain, and was its first secretary. She wrote two important pamphlets, published by AAM: "Unholy Alliance" (1961), analysing the support that the British military and business community and government gave to the white-minority Verwoerd regime (the pamphlet was launched at a press conference in London in 1962 by Irish writer and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, who contributed the Introduction), and "The Collaborators" (with Dorothy Robinson, 1964), revealing the intricacies of the financial politics of apartheid.
Publishing career.
In 1966, her book "The Press in Africa: Communications Past and Present" was published by Gollancz in London and Walker and Company in New York. She also did freelance editing work for Heinemann's African Writers Series, acknowledged by editorial director James Currey as the "most important single person at this time" in the South African network. She began working for Ernest Hecht's Souvenir Press in 1975, and in 1981 moved to the Women's Press (co-founded in 1977 by writer and publisher Stephanie Dowrick and entrepreneur Naim Attallah), where she was managing director and commissioning editor, publishing authors including Rosalie Bertell, Alice Walker, Ellen Kuzwayo, Joan Riley, Caesarina Makhoere, Emma Mashanini, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, Merle Collins, Pauline Melville, Farida Karodia, and many others. As Helen Carr has observed: "The Women’s Press in Britain ... built up by Ros de Lanerolle, a South African who had earlier been much involved in opposition to apartheid, from the beginning had a policy of publishing work by black and what were then referred to as Third World writers." She was a founder member of the Feminist Book Fair and helped found the organisation Women in Publishing (WiP), campaigning to improve the position of women in the book trade. In 1992 she was awarded WiP's Pandora Prize for her contribution "to raising the status of women in publishing".
De Lanerolle left the Women's Press in 1991 after a decade at the helm. She was already ill when in 1993 she made the second of two visits to South Africa since her name was removed from the banned list; she was planning new publishing ventures that would be compensatory and beneficial to Black Africans, and had launched her new company, Open Letters, with Alison Hennegan and Gillian Hanscombe as co-directors. De Lanerolle was also a co-originator of the Orange Prize for Fiction by women. At the time of her premature death from cancer in 1993, aged 61, she was "at the height of her career as a feminist publisher".
Personal life.
In 1960, she married Sri Lanka-born Accha de Lanerolle, and they had two children: son Indra and daughter Ayisha.


Mariana Gheorghe

Mariana Gheorghe (born 1956) is the first woman general manager of Petrom. Since the 15 June 2006, Mariana Gheorghe was the general executive director of PETROM, replacing Gheorghe Constantinescu who was named councilor for the president of OMV, Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer.
Biography.
Education.
Mariana Gheorghe graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in 1979. Ten years later she graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest in 1989 and she took the Corporate Finance Program at the London Business School in 1995.
Professional experience.
Mariana Gheorghe started her career in 1979, working in two Romanian companies, Policolor and Chimica / Romferchim until 1991. Between 1991 and 1993, she worked for the Romanian Ministry of Finance, where she was second-in-command to the General Director of the International Finance Department. Beginning in 1993, she worked for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, first as Associated Banker, Main Banker and then as Senior Banker for Southeastern Europe, Caspian Region and Caucasus. After Petrom was privatised in 2004, Mariana Gheorghe became a Member of the Administration Council of Petrom representing EBRD until the 15th of June 2006 when was named General Executive Director of Petrom. Since the 17th of April 2007, Mariana Gheorghe also holds the position of President of the Petrom Directorate, following the adoption of a dual governing system by Petrom.
Organization memberships.
The Foreign Investors Council (FIC) reunites 123 multinational companies, represented by presidents and executive directors. Since its inception, the Foreign Investors Council has been a constant presence in the dialogue regarding economic growth, the increase of investments and the development of the business environment.


Lani Jackson

Lani Jackson is a New Zealand stuntwoman best known for her work in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.


Maria Sofia De la Gardie

Maria Sofia De la Gardie (1627 – 22 August 1694) was a Swedish noble, countess, courtier, banker and industrialist entrepreneur. She is most known for her industrial enterprises, and she has been referred to as the first female grand entrepreneur of her country. She served as "överhovmästarinna" to Queen Christina of Sweden.
Biography.
Early life.
Maria Sofia De la Gardie was born to count Jacob De la Gardie and Ebba Brahe. She was the sister of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, the favorite of Queen Christina, Queen of Sweden and the sister-in-law of Princess Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken, the cousin of the queen. She was born and raised in Swedish Estonia, where her father was governor of Reval.
In 1643, she married baron Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna (1613–1648), nephew of regent Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) who succeeded her father as governor of Estonia. As was the custom in 17th century Swedish nobility, she kept her own name also after marriage. Both her own family and the family of her spouse was extremely wealthy. During his absence, she managed his estates.
Life at court.
After the death of her spouse in 1648, she became the guardian of her two underage daughters and responsible of the vast estates of the family. After the death of her father in 1652, she was given the responsibility of several estates also after him, making her one of the greater landowners in Sweden.
Maria Sofia was described as a great beauty, temperamental, forceful and talented, and could speak both French and German fluently. She was close to her brother Magnus Gabriel, the favorite of the monarch, and it was possibly because of him that she was showered with gifts from the monarch. She was given an allowance which helped her sort out her affairs, and her late spouse was posthumously granted the title of count, giving her the title and rank of precedence of countess at court. In 1651, she was appointed head lady-in-waiting, first with the title Court Mistress ("Hovmastarinna") but soon with the title Chief Court Mistress ("Overhovmastarinna"), the highest office for a female at the royal court, though it was split on several people during the reign of Christina. She often hosted the queen at her residence Tyresö Palace, were the monarch liked to hunt.
In 1649, there was reports of a possible marriage with the heir to the throne, future King Charles X of Sweden. The Danish ambassador reported about them in November that year. The plans was never realized, but the rumors continued until 1652. They were possibly staged by Queen Christina of Sweden as a way of avoiding the pressure of Christina to marry Charles. In reality, they are not considered to have been serious if they did occur. It is however known that she was proposed to by the Duke of Croy. Maria Sofia had many suitors but preferred to stay unmarried.
It is known that she passionately supported her brother when he fell from grace in 1653, but this does not seem to have affected neither his nor her own position. With some exceptions, such as Ebba Sparre, lady Jane Ruthven and Louise van der Nooth, Christina did not show any interest in her female courtiers, and generally mentions them only to express contempt over their femininity and portray herself as more masculine than them. After the abdication of Christina in 1654, Maria Sofia left court to devote her life to her industrial interests, for which she has become known in history.
Industrial activity.
Maria Sofia De la Gardie resided in Tyresö Palace, from where she managed her estates around the Baltic Sea. On her brothers suggestion she made a study trip to the Netherlands, to study the industrial life. She was interested in cattlebreeding and gardening. She managed glovemaking and a brassmakery. Her most successful enterprise was a textile industry: by the energy of waterfalls on her estate, she manufactured the broadcloth and textiles which equipped to the army.
During the 1650s, De la Gardie engaged in banking activity and competed with her competitor, Stockholms Banco, by taking up large loans in the bank and then using the sums by lending it to the customers in her own bank: this was initially very lucrative, but eventually, problems enabled the Stockholms Banco to confiscate and sell her banking security.
Maria Sofia De la Gardie took part in the pacification of Skåne by acquiring several estates there after it had been incorporated into Sweden in 1658. In 1667, she bought Krapperup Castle and managed a colliery for export. She built ships, exported timber and grain, founded papermills and fabricated linseed oil.
During the famous Katarina witch trial in Stockholm in 1676, the main witness Lisbeth Carlsdotter, inspired by the Gävle-Boy, tried to implicate her and her sister-in-law Maria Eufrosyne for witchcraft. This accusation was not taken seriously and never brought to trial, but rather, it damaged the credibility of the witness to such a point which eventually led to the end of the whole witch hunt.
At the Great Reduction of King Charles XI of Sweden in the 1680s, most of her and her brothers property was confiscated by the crown, something which affected her deeply. She died in 1694.


Karen Linder

Karen A. Linder (born 1960) is an American business leader, investor, author and artist. She serves as CEO and president of Tethon 3D, a 3d printing company, and as principal of Linseed Capital, a private investment firm. Her book, "The Women of Berkshire Hathaway," was published in 2012 by John Wiley & Sons.
Business activities.
3D Printing.
Linder is founder and CEO of Tethon3D, a privately held company based in Omaha, Nebraska that develops materials for ceramic 3D printing and provides modeling, scanning and printing services. Notable projects include producing ceramic materials for artificial reef ecosystems, unique construction materials, and a ceramic resin composite for use in stereolithography 3D printing.
Entrepreneurship.
In 2012, she founded Linspiration, Inc., a consulting service to mentor and educate entrepreneurs. This activity was folded into Linseed Capital, a company she co-founded, that now has provided support to more than 20 portfolio companies in the Midwest. She was a co-founder of the Pipeline Entrepreneurship Fellowship, a three-state organization which provides intensive mentoring to entrepreneurs with high-growth potential. She is a board member of the Nebraska Angels, and of SkyVu Entertainment a leading mobile gaming company. and board advisor to Flywheel, a web design and hosting company.
Books and communications.
Linder is author of "The Women of Berkshire Hathaway", published in 2012, which examines broad trends of women in corporate America and looks at case studies within Berkshire Hathaway, a company once dominated by men. She notes that although women continue to lag far behind men as CEOs and board members, there has been a marked increase in recent years in the number of female business leaders in the United States. Linder has written and edited numerous scientific articles, chapters and books. She was founding editor of the "Journal of Cytotechnology", and is a past president of the American Society for Cytotechnology.
Linder mentors the leaders of numerous companies, and advises on approaches to secure angel funding. She frequently lectures on the subject of increasing the business leadership roles of women, and has been a speaker for programs sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Community service.
Linder has served on various arts and educational organizations, including the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the KANEKO, a leading cultural center in Omaha. In June 2014 she was elected to the board of governors of Nebraska Wesleyan University. She is also an accomplished artist, and her paintings and sculptors feature contemporary landscapes and unique floral patterns, housed in more than 100 institutional and private collections.
Awards, personal and family.
In 2013, she was recognized as “Investor of the Year” in the Midwest. In 2014 Linder and her husband received the Entrepreneurial Leadership Award for their work in supporting new companies in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. In June 2014, Linder was one of ten women honored by the Women's Center for Advancement for her work, achievements and lifelong commitment to helping women and children stay safe. The same year Linder was recognized by the Omaha Magazine as a “Renaissance Women” because of her diverse contributions to business, science and the arts In 2020, she was inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame. She is married to James Linder, M.D., a physician and business executive.


Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award

The Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award, also known as the Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award is a prize given annually by the Geological Society of America to "...women who have made a significant impact on the geosciences with their Ph.D. research." The award is named in memory of Doris Malkin Curtis, first female president of the GSA, and sponsored by Subaru.
Recipients of the award are listed below.


Ruth Gipps

Ruth Dorothy Louisa Gipps (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor, and educator. She was one of the most prolific composers in Britain at the time of her death, having written five symphonies, seven concertos, and numerous chamber and choral works. She founded both the London Repertoire Orchestra and the Chanticleer Orchestra and served as conductor and music director for the City of Birmingham Choir. Later in her life she served as chairwoman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.
Life and career.
Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea, England in 1921 to Bryan and Hélenè (Johner) Gipps. Her mother was principal of the Bexhill School of Music. Ruth was a child prodigy, winning performance competitions in which she was considerably younger than the rest of the field. After performing her first composition at the age of 8 in one of the numerous music festivals she entered, the work was bought by a publishing house for a guinea and a half. Winning a concerto competition with the Hastings Municipal Orchestra began her performance career in earnest.
In 1937 Gipps entered the Royal College of Music, where she studied oboe with Léon Goossens, piano with Arthur Alexander and composition with Gordon Jacob, and later with Ralph Vaughan Williams. Several of her works were first performed there. Continuing her studies at Durham University led her to meet her future husband, clarinettist Robert Baker. At age 26, for her work, "The Cat", she became the youngest British woman to receive a doctorate in music.
She was an accomplished all-round musician, as a soloist on both oboe and piano as well as a prolific composer. Her repertoire included works such as Arthur Bliss's Piano Concerto and Constant Lambert's "The Rio Grande". When she was 33 a shoulder injury ended her performance career, and she decided to focus her energies on conducting and composition.
An early success came when Sir Henry Wood conducted her tone poem "Knight in Armour" at the Last Night of the Proms in 1942. Gipps' music is marked by a skillful use of instrumental colour, and often shows the influence of Vaughan Williams, rejecting the trends in avant-garde modern music such as serialism and twelve-tone music. She considered her orchestral works, her five symphonies in particular, as her greatest works. Two substantial piano concertos were also produced. After the war, Gipps turned her attention to chamber music, and in 1956 she won the Cobbett Prize of the Society of Women Musicians for her Clarinet Sonata, Op. 45. In March 1945, she performed Glazunov's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the City of Birmingham Orchestra as a piano soloist while also, in the same program, performing in her own Symphony No. 1 on cor anglais under the baton of George Weldon.
Her early career was affected strongly by discrimination against women in the male-dominated ranks of music (and particularly composition), by professors and judges as well as the world of music criticism. Because of it she developed a tough personality that many found off-putting, and a fierce determination to prove herself through her work.
She founded the London Repertoire Orchestra in 1955 as an opportunity for young professional musicians to become exposed to a wide range of music. In 1957 she conducted the Pro Arte Orchestra. She later founded the Chanticleer Orchestra in 1961, a professional ensemble which included a work by a living composer in each of its programs, often a premiere performance. Later she would take faculty posts at Trinity College, London (1959 to 1966), the Royal College of Music (1967 to 1977), and then Kingston Polytechnic at Gypsy Hill. In 1967 she was appointed chairwoman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.
In London, her address was 20 Heathcote Road, St Margaret's, Twickenham. On her retirement, Gipps returned to Sussex, living at Tickerage Castle near Framfield until her death in 1999, aged 78, after suffering the effects of cancer and a stroke.
Discography.
Recordings of the music of Ruth Gipps include:


Lilian Sperling


Grace G. Costavas Murphy

Grace G. Costavas Murphy (sometimes referred to as Grayce Costavas Murphy) was Michigan’s first African American female lawyer. She graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1923. Upon being sworn in as an attorney in Wayne County the same year, Murphy became the first African American female admitted to practice law in Michigan. She died in 1932.


Maki Miyamae

 is a Japanese pop singer, and the oldest member of the group Coco. She was born in Tōkamachi, Niigata, but grew up in Tokyo. Miyamae was a member of Coco from September 1989 until the group's dissolution in 1994. She worked as a solo singer for a while but she left the entertainment industry in 2004 to attend Le Cordon Bleu. She is now a professional chef and food education instructor, running her own restaurant, "CAFE RESTAURANT M.NATURE", in Aoyama, Tokyo.


Lillian Richard

Lillian Richard (March 23, 1891 – July 2, 1956) was an African-American actress best known for portraying Aunt Jemima.
Biography.
She was born March 23, 1891, in Hawkins, Texas, the fifth of eleven children born to Derry Richard and his wife Cornelia (née Washington). She grew up in the nearby community of Fouke, Texas. One of her siblings was George Richard, grandfather of Stanley Richard, a retired safety for the San Diego Chargers and the Washington Redskins.
In 1910, Richard went to Dallas, working initially as a cook. Circa 1912, she married Golden Leflore, who died roughly two years later of tuberculosis.
In 1925, she was contracted by Quaker Oats Company to portray the Aunt Jemima character, demonstrating pancakes and other products. Her job "pitching pancakes" was based in Paris, Texas.
She married James Diggs in 1935.
Her career with Quaker Oats lasted 23 years. After she suffered a stroke circa 1947–1948, she returned to Fouke. Relatives cared for her until her 1956 death. She outlived her husband, and had no children.
In 1995, the Texas Legislature passed a resolution declaring Hawkins the "Pancake Capital of Texas". A Texas Historical Marker was placed in Richard's name on June 30, 2012.


Alexandra Pruner

Alexandra “Alie” Pruner is an American business executive, who currently serves as a senior advisor at global financial services firm Perella Weinberg Partners where she was Chief Financial Officer and Partner from 2016 through November 2018. She is known as one of the founders of energy boutique investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., where she also served as CFO before the bank combined with Perella Weinberg in 2016.
Personal life and education.
Pruner is originally from Chicago and attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She went on to attend Brown University where she earned a bachelor's degree in economics. She is married to David Pruner, Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, who also serves as an Adjunct Professor in Management and Finance at Rice University, and has two children.
Business career.
Pruner's first job in financial services was at Shearson Lehman Brothers, where she worked as a vice president in New York. She later spent several years as a Director of Investor Relations, first at NUI Corporation and then at the Houston Exploration Company. In 2002, Pruner was named Publisher of World Oil magazine and promoted to Senior Vice President of Gulf Publishing Company.
In 2007, Pruner co-founded Tudor Pickering, Holt & Co., where she helped oversee the company's growth from 20 to 150 employees during her first few years at the firm. Pruner became a Partner and CFO of Perella Weinberg Partners in 2016, after Tudor Pickering combined with the firm.
Pruner founded the Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy & Technology in 2003, one of the largest women's events in the oil and gas industry.
Awards and board positions.
Pruner served as an independent director on the Board of Anadarko Petroleum. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Plains All American (NYSE: PAA and PAAGP), NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG), as well as CPPIB-backed Encino Acquisition Partners. In 2018, Pruner was named one of the “25 Most Influential Women in Energy” by Oil & Gas Investor magazine. She was named CFO of the Year for a medium-sized private company by Houston Business Journal in 2013.
Pruner chairs the Advisory Council for Brown University's Economics Department and received an Alumni Service Award from Brown for her continuing service to the University.
Philanthropy.
Pruner currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Houston Zoo and served on the Executive Committee of United Way of Greater Houston, a nonprofit organization tackling key social issues in the community. She previously served as Co-Chair of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society at the United Way organization. She also has served as the President of the Houston Symphony Endowment.


Victoria Collado

Victoria Collado is a Cuban–American director. She assistant directed John Leguizamo's "Latin History for Morons" on Broadway, and has directed for Repertorio Español, MCC Youth Company, Sheen Center, Juggerknot Theatre Company, and Miami New Drama among other institutions. Collado was named a 2018-2020 resident of the WP Lab at WP Theater. Other recent directorial credits include "That Rebel That"; "El Cruce Sobre el Niagara"; "El Burlador de Sevilla"; "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"; "The Crocodile's Bite"; "Amparo;" and "The Cubans" at the Colony Theatre"." She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Florida International University.
"Amparo".
"Amparo", an immersive theatrical performance written by Vanessa Garcia (artist) and produced by Havana Club, is inspired by the true story of Cuba's Arechabala family. The work showcases Jose Arechabala's original arrival on Cuban soil, the family's founding of Havana Club Rum, and the Cuban government's eventual seizing of the company followed by the Arechabalas' forced exile. The show debuted to limited audiences in Miami and New York, and is expected to expand to greater audiences in 2019.


Barbara Gaines (director)

Barbara Gaines is an American theatre director, impresario, and actress. She is the founder and current Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Life and career.
Gaines grew up in the suburbs of New York City and is the daughter of a film director. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1968, she worked as an actress in New York City and Chicago. She also taught Shakespeare classes for actors in Chicago before founding the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) in 1986. With the company she has directed more than 30 plays by William Shakespeare; productions which have garnered more than 35 Joseph Jefferson Awards (3 times for Gaines personally as Best Director) and 3 Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2008, the company was awarded the prestigious Regional Theatre Tony Award.
She directed the Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2010 production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth".
In 2016, Gaines adapted and directed "Tug of War", a 2-part series based on Shakespeare's history plays.
Outside of her work with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines is currently a member of the Shakespearean Council for the Globe Theatre in London. She has also served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, is a member of Chicago's Cultural Affairs Advisory Board, and is a Life Trustee of Northwestern University.
Other awards.
In 2005, she was named an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Her other honours include honorary doctorates from Dominican University and Lake Forest College, the Spirit of Loyola Award from Loyola University Chicago, and the Public Humanities Award from the Illinois Humanities Council.


Katharina Gerlachin

Katharina Gerlachin (also "Gerlach", b. c. 1520, d. 1592) was a German printer in Nuremberg. She acted as director of the Berg & Neuber printing house, founded c. 1542 by her husband Johann vom Berg and Ulrich Neuber, from 1564 until her death.
Born Katharina Bischoff, she married one Nicolas Schmid in 1536. She had a daughter named Katharina in 1539, and after her first husband's death in 1540, as "Catherina Schmidin", she married Johann vom Berg in 1541. The birth of a daughter, Veronica, is recorded for 1545.
After vom Berg's death in 1563 she married his junior partner Dietrich Gerlach (d. 1575).
From 1564 until 1568, the company's prints appeared under the name of Gerlach & Neuber. In 1568, Neuber dissolved the partnership and opened his own shop. After her third husband's death in 1575, she continued to sign as printer until her death in 1592. Ownership of the printing workshop passed to her grandson Paul Kauffmann in 1601.
Her printing house is notable for producing numerous early music prints.
In 1582, she was sued by the Berg printers of Munich over copyright (in the terminology of the time, "privilege") of a work by Orlando di Lasso.


Hazel Joan Bryant

Hazel Joan Bryant (September 8, 1939 – November 7, 1983) was an American actress, opera singer, director, and playwright. She founded the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art in 1969 and served as the executive director until 1983. Bryant died of a heart attack the same evening she spoke at the United Nations.
Education and training.
Bryant studied and performed music at the Peabody Preparatory School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Bryant received a degree in theater administration from the Columbia University School of the Arts.


Anna Mastro

Anna Mastro is an American film director, music video director and television producer.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Mastro graduated from the University of Washington at the age of nineteen. She became a protege to director McG, working as his assistant on the Wonderland Sound and Vision productions "Fastlane", "" and "The O.C.".
As a television producer, she worked on the reality series "Pussycat Dolls Present".
As a music video director, she directed videos for the artists Train, Leona Lewis, Alex Band, Carbon Leaf, Kristen Kelly, Victoria Justice and The Pussycat Dolls. In 2008, she directed the short film "Matter" starring Amanda Righetti. In 2011, she directed the short film "Bench Seat" starring Cassie Scerbo and written by Neil LaBute. The film earned a Short Grand Prix nomination at the Warsaw International Film Festival.
In 2012, she directed the "Gossip Girl" episode "Save the Last Chance", one of the final four episodes of the series.


Anne Montgomery (peace activist)

Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, (20 November 1926 – 27 August 2012) was an American non-violent activist and educator of young children who was part of the Plowshares movements and campaigned against the US government for peace. Aside from teaching, she worked with the poor, advocated for peace and the Catholic Worker Movement.
Early life.
Anne Montgomery was born on November 20, 1926 in San Diego California to a small family. She had one sibling, a younger brother. Montgomery was born into a Navy family which meant that she moved around a great deal during her childhood. She attended Eden Hall Academy of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, Pennsylvania and Manhattanville College, graduating with a bachelor's and master's degree. She later earned a second master's degree from Columbia University in New York.
Society of the Sacred Heart.
In 1948, when Montgomery was 22 years old, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) in Albany. She made her first vows in 1951 and her final vows in 1956 in Rome. She taught at the Covenant of the Sacred Heart in New York City from 1959-1969 and at Street Academy of Albany in 1970. In 1975, she began educating children with learning disabilities. In the late 1970s, she returned to New York City to work with high school dropouts in East Harlem.
In the late 1970s, Montgomery joined the Catholic Worker House in New York, which was part of the Catholic Worker Movement. She was also a part of the Little Sisters of the Assumption in East Harlem. She became an advocate for peace, determined to disarm nuclear weapons using nonviolent tactics.
Activism.
Plowshares Movement.
In 1980, Montgomery joined the Plowshares Eight which was an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement. The movement often consisted of members calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Some members of the movement damaged nuclear weapons and military bases to directly disarm the facilities. Montgomery was among the first that were arrested for these acts, and served time in prison. She participated in several other Plowshares movement actions, including one in 2009, at the age of 83.
In 1987 Montgomery helped write and edit a book titled “Swords into Plowshares” which is about the nonviolent direct action for disarmament, peace, and social justice.
Other peace activism.
In the late 1970s, Montgomery became a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), and the Pax Christi, which is the national catholic peace movement. Throughout the 90s, she travelled to places of conflict in Iraq, West Bank, Hebron, and the Balkans. In January 1991, she protested against the US bombing Iraq. She supported the Gulf Peace Team Camp on the Iraq-Saudi border which was there to provide a nonviolent presence before and during the initial stages of the war, and in 2000 she fasted for a month to show her disapproval of US support for the UN sanctions against Iraq.
In 2005, she participated in a 70-mile walk and a four-day fast and vigil with the organization witness against torture, which worked toward the closing of the Guantanamo Naval Base.
Anne Montgomery said the following regarding her peace activism: “civil disobedience is, traditionally, the breaking of a civil law to obey a higher law, sometimes with the hope of changing the unjust civil law. … But we should speak of such actions as divine obedience, rather than civil disobedience. The term ‘disobedience’ is not appropriate because any law that does not protect and enhance human life is no real law.”
Later life and death.
In 2012 Montgomery won the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts one week before her death. She died on August 27, 2012, at the age of 85 at Oakwood in Sacred Heart, Atherton, California.


Tora Augestad

Tora Karen Elisabeth Augestad (born 10 December 1979) is a Norwegian mezzosoprano, musical conductor and actor. One of Norway's most established classical singers, she focuses on jazz, musical theater, contemporary music, and cabaret. Her stage debut was the lead role in "Annie" in 1994, and won the Norwegian talent competition in 1993 at TV 2. Augestad has received Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) and other awards for her albums. She is a frequent collaborator of Norwegian composer Marcus Paus.
Background and education.
Augestad was born in Bergen, educated at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo and the Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm and has studied singing with such as Torsten Föllinger and Ståle Ytterli, both classical music and jazz. She holds a master's degree in cabaret singing at Norges Musikkhøgskole with particular emphasis on Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill and American cabaret.
She is the daughter of Program 81/82 vocalist Kate Augestad.
Career.
Augestad sang in Det Norske Solistkor (2000–2005) and the vocal band Pitsj (1999–2006). She is the lead singer in the ensemble Music for a While, with the record release "Weill Variations" (2007). They released their second album "Graces that refrain" (2012) accompanied by a tour in Norway. Their third release was the album "Canticles of Winter" (2014).
Augestad has been a soloist at the show "The Source: Of Christmas" with "The Source", participated in various cabarets and operas is and has been an actor/singer at "Teater Ibsen" in Skien as well as at the Riksteatret. She conducted the "Norges ungdomskor" (200-06). She is singing in the trio BOA, has been a soloist with various orchestras and ensembles, including the Oslo Sinfonietta during the "Oslo Kammermusikkfestival".
Augestad moved to Berlin in 2007, and has been currently working with some of Europe's leading ensembles for contemporary music including Ensemble Modern and Klangforum Wien. 15 October 2010 she was a guest on the Beat for beat, a program at NRK1.
In 2008 she portrayed the Grand High Witch in the children's opera "The Witches" by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus; the role was written for her.
Since 2009 she has worked with the Swiss star director Christoph Marthaler. She has participated in the following of his productions at the opera in Basel: as soloist in "Wüstenbuch" (opera by Beat Furrer), in "Meine faire Dame – ein Sprachlabor", and "Lo Stimolatore Cardiaco".
Augestad had her debut in 2012 at the Zürich Opera in a new production by Christoph Marthaler with soloist Anne Sofie von Otter among others.
In 2018 Augestad and the Oslo Philharmonic released the album "Portraying Passion: Works by Weill/Paus/Ives", with works by Kurt Weill, Marcus Paus and Charles Ives. Musicologist Ralph P. Locke highlighted Augestad's recording of Paus' "Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra", based on poetry by Dorothy Parker, as one of the "best opera and vocal music" works in that year, and noted that it "proved to be one of the most engaging works" in recent years; "the cycle expresses Parker's favorite theme: how awful human beings are, especially the male of the species." Augestad won the 2018 Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) in the Classical class for the album.
At the 2019 concert "Paus meets Cohen", Augestad and NyNorsk Messingkvintett performed new works by Ole Paus and Marcus Paus.
In 2020 Augestad released the mini-album "Good Vibes in Bad Times", a song cycle by Marcus Paus that reconceptualizes texts by Donald Trump as poems.


Kalena Bovell

Kalena Bovell is an American conductor. As of 2020 Bovell, who has both African-American and Hispanic ancestry, is the only African-American/Hispanic conductor in the United States. She is currently Assistant Conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
Biography.
Bovell grew up in Los Angeles after her parents moved there from Panama. She began singing at the age of nine and came to classical music when she joined a beginning strings class at age eleven. Being seven years self taught, her first private lesson occurred when she was 18. Bovell played the violin. She discovered her love of conducting as a sophomore at Chapman University which she graduated from in 2009. She attended graduate school at The Hartt School.
Work.
Bovell has worked as the Orchestra Director at the Loomis Chaffee School and in 2015 staged the "Swan Princess", an adaptation of "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky.
In 2017, the "Chicago Tribune" wrote that her skill at conducting "Slavonic Dances: Opus 46 No. 2 and Opus 72 No. 7" by Antonín Dvořák was "brilliant."
Bovell became the assistant conductor for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 2019. Bovell is the only African-American and Hispanic conductor in the United States.


Lena Cymbrowitz

Lena Cymbrowitz (January 1, 1957 – August 21, 2000) was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly. She represented Assembly District 45, which included the Brooklyn communities of Flatbush, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach, and a portion of Brighton Beach.
Cymbrowitz (née Azizo) was born in Egypt and came to the United States with her parents. She had a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. Prior to her election she worked in fundraising and marketing.
In November 1998, she was elected in the 45th District to the New York State Assembly. This made her the first Sephardic Jew ever elected to state office.
She had two children (Jay and Jennifer) with her husband Steven Cymbrowitz. She died on August 21, 2000, after a long battle with cancer.


Jessica Ewing

Jessica Ewing is an American innovator and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of the children’s book subscription startup Literati founded in Austin, Texas.
Early History.
Jessica Ewing was born in Michigan. She completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she studied mathematics and artificial intelligence.  While at Stanford, she worked in the White House as a research assistant for the senior economic adviser to the president.
Google.
After graduating Stanford with a degree in Symbolic Systems, Ewing joined Google and became a senior product manager. During her first year at the company, she was Marissa Mayer’s deputy. She later worked under Sundar Pichai.
She co-authored eight patents while with Google. Some of the patents protected inventions for: module specification for a module to be incorporated into a container document, and methods and system for sharing gadgets between users.
Ewing also helped launch iGoogle, which let users customize the Google homepage. Fast Company named her one of Google’s “12 Most Innovative Minds”.
In 2009, Ewing left Google and moved to Hawaii to begin work on a novel.
Literati.
Upon finishing her novel, Ewing began reaching out to literary agents and publishing houses but found the experience incohesive. The publishing process, she thought, could be better organized. To address this concern, Ewing built a platform designed to connect writers with publishers and agents. This platform was called Excerpt.
Throughout the process of pitching to investors, Ewing’s platform went through several different iterations.  Eventually, Ewing decided to narrow her focus to children’s books, and in 2016, she founded the company called Literati. Literati is a children’s book club and subscription service that delivers a curated selection of children’s books to members each month. Ewing is the CEO.


Ebba Sundstrom Nylander

Ebba Sundstrom Nylander (February 26, 1896 — January 5, 1963) was an American violinist and conductor, director of the Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago in the 1930s. She may have been the first American-born woman to conduct a full symphony orchestra.
Early life.
Ebba Sundstrom was born in Lindsborg, Kansas, a settlement of Swedish-immigrant farmers where her father was a carpenter. Both of her parents were musical, as founders of Lindsborg's Bethany Oratorio Society. She learned piano and violin as a child, and began performing for audiences and teaching violin when she was still a young teenager. She studied at the Minneapolis School of Music under Richard Czerwonky.
Career.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Sundstrom maintained a busy performing schedule, regularly appearing on stages in Chicago and Minneapolis, and in live radio concerts. She also taught violin at the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago. In 1929, she took over from Ethel Leginska the director position with the Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago. After seven seasons conducting the orchestra, she took leave in 1937 for "study and travel". She did not return to the conductor's post, but by 1941 was teaching at North Park College, and conducting the school's orchestra, until she resigned from North Park in 1951.
Sundstrom often played with and for Swedish-American cultural groups, including the United Swedish Singers of Chicago, The Swedish Old People's Home Society, and the American Daughters of Sweden. She was one of the first members of Altrusa in Chicago, and appeared on Altrusa programs as a presenter. She was president of the Women's Music Club.
Personal life.
Ebba Sundstrom married Victor T. Nylander, a dentist who taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1920 to 1937. They had a son, Reinhold Nylander, born in 1930. She was widowed when Victor died in 1962. Ebba Sundstrom Nylander died in 1963, aged 66 years.


Jessie Bonstelle

Laura Justine "Jessie" Bonstelle (November 1871 – October 14, 1932) was an American theater director, actress, and drama company manager. Encouraged by her mother, she sang and performed in the theater from a young age; she went on to become a famous leading lady and made several performances on Broadway. Later she became a director, managing many stock companies, directing Broadway productions and training many young performers who went on to be famous actors. In 1925 she founded her own theater in Detroit. Reorganized in 1928 as the Detroit Civic Theatre, it was one of America's first civic theaters, and her methods influenced community theater projects elsewhere. She has been described as "one of the pioneering women stage directors in the early twentieth century".
Early life.
Bonstelle was born to Helen and Joseph Bonesteel on her father's farm near the town of Greece, New York, the youngest of their eight children. Her exact date of birth is unknown, and she kept it a secret, but it was sometime in November 1871. Originally named Bonesteel, later in life she changed it to Bonstelle after, according to legend, seeing it misspelled like that on a theater marquee.
Bonstelle's mother, who herself had wanted to be an actress, home-schooled her in reading, writing, singing, dancing, and even in reciting Shakespeare. Jessie's first public performance was singing temperance songs in church at the age of two years. Helen gave her daughter a passion for acting by often taking her to theaters in nearby Rochester. Around the age of ten Jessie auditioned for critic Thomas Keane, and with his encouragement she left on tour with a production of "Bertha, the Beautiful Sewing Machine Girl", a melodrama. After returning home from California she briefly studied at Nazareth Academy, a convent school in Rochester. In 1886 she returned to the stage, working for local opera house owner Edward D. Stair and touring in his productions.
Career.
After the death of her parents in 1890, Bonstelle went to New York City, and in 1891 she joined the company of Fanny Janauschek, with whom she toured for a season. In 1892 she worked as an understudy and chorus member in Augustin Daly's company, but the season left her exhausted. However, in 1893, she married the actor Alexander Hamilton Stuart: 20 years her senior, and Janauschek's leading man. Happily married, together they worked in Philadelphia's Forepaugh Stock Company for two years, before moving to Rochester, where Bonstelle played various roles and became an established leading lady. She was the leading lady of Philadelphia's Standard Stock Company during the 1898–99 season. Stuart died in 1911; Bonstelle would never remarry.
Bonstelle performed in three productions on Broadway, including Elizabeth Jordan's "The Lady from Oklahoma", which Bonstelle herself produced in 1913. Her acting received mixed or poor reception from "New York Times" critics, and according to some she "lacked creative depth".
In 1899, while playing with the Biancke Sisters, Bonstelle produced Heimat by Hermann Sudermann. This was its first performance in the United States, and only the second in English. Later she received a letter from Sudermann in which he thanked her for performing his work. Her career as a manager and director began around 1900 when Jacob J. Shubert offered her the management of a stock company in Rochester. This company, the Lyceum stock company, based at Rochester's Lyceum Theater, included some prominent actors and future stars, such as Orrin Johnson, Margaret Wycherly and Charles Hutchison.
She spent the next five years managing, directing and acting there, but also appeared from time to time in Philadelphia and toured at least once in Canada. Moreover, she occasionally directed for the Shuberts in New York, and was associated with Frederick Freeman Proctor's 125th Street Theater in Harlem. Bonstelle said that her dedication was partly inspired by the death of Janauschek in 1904, realizing that what she did for the theater was lasting. From 1906 she managed stock companies at the Star Theater in Buffalo, and from 1910 also at Detroit's Garrick Theater, moving weekly between the two cities. She usually put on plays which had recently been successful on Broadway, but not those which she saw as immoral. The most popular production she directed was an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" by Marian de Forest. Bonstelle researched the play herself, traveling to Boston to view personal papers provided by Alcott's family and talking to her friends. The production toured nationally in 1911, with four companies performing in different places at the same time, and had a "successful and lengthy run" on Broadway in 1912. It was also performed in London after World War I. From 1912 to 1917 she was a director at the Northampton Municipal Theater in Massachusetts.
Bonstelle sold her stake in the Garrick Theater in 1924. She and her company founded the Bonstelle Playhouse in Detroit, which opened on January 1, 1925. Backed by a syndicate led by a patron of hers, she bought a former synagogue on Woodward Avenue, Temple Beth El, for $500,000 and commissioned C. Howard Crane to renovate it. At first she carried on producing mostly Broadway-style plays. However, the company did perform classics, including modern-dress productions of "Romeo and Juliet" in 1926 and "Hamlet" in 1927, among the first to put on such performances. In February 1928 Bonstelle began a campaign to gain community support for the theater. A fund of over $200,000 was raised by donations from the public and Bonstelle made an agreement with local authorities to make the playhouse the city's unofficial premier theater. Later that year the group became known as the Detroit Civic Theater. In her plan for the theater she emphasized the importance of providing the public with the best drama, including both classics and modern works, and improving young people's knowledge of dramatic literature. Funded by public subscription, it had ticket prices as low as $1.50. Performances included works by Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The theater also played a religious role. Bonstelle used it in an effort to improve understanding and co-operation between the church and the theater, holding multi-denominational religious services there during Lent, and she stated that her plays, while avoiding being preachy, were intended to have a positive moral influence on the audience. Local clergy publicly praised her work with the theater.
In June 1932 Bonstelle went to Hollywood; possible reasons include a desire to direct films, to found an acting school, or to explore the possibility of a new stock company. She returned to Detroit after falling ill and learning she had cancer. There she began a campaign to keep open the Civic Theatre, which was adversely affected by the Great Depression, but became seriously ill. Aided by her secretary, she continued to campaign for and run the theater until her death on October 14, 1932, when she suffered a heart attack at the home of relatives in Detroit. On October 16 her body lay in state at the theater and the "New York Times" reported that twenty-five thousand people went to see her bier. A memorial service was held there which thousands attended and at which mayor Frank Murphy spoke. She was buried in Rochester next to her husband.
Character.
Bonstelle was a perfectionist who was passionate about her work. She ran grueling rehearsals and kept control over the direction, even on productions she was not directing. However, she was willing to help actors if they were struggling, and was respected for her passion and drive.
Reception and legacy.
Bonstelle had a wide reputation; according to Brooks Atkinson: her "industry in the theater [was] famous throughout Eastern America". However, Broadway critics did not rate her directing highly. In Detroit, though, drama critics praised her greatly, and few of her 165 plays were poorly reviewed; however most of these critics were in fact either friends of Bonstelle or employees of Stair.
Bonstelle's Playhouse was one of America's first civic theaters, and, uniquely in the 1920s, a profitable one. Though it closed in 1933, a year after her death, due to the rise of the movie industry and the Depression, it was purchased by Wayne State University in 1956 for the use of its theater department. In 1963 it was renamed the Bonstelle Theatre in her memory. Bonstelle's approach gained nationwide attention and she was interviewed by authorities from other cities which wanted information about her plan. Her theater influenced the future Federal Theatre Project.

List of heads of government of Vietnam

The following is a list of the heads of government of modern Vietnam since 1945, from the establishment of the Empire of Vietnam to the present day.


Panjab Castes

Panjab Castes is a book based on the census report of the Panjab Province by Sir Denzil Ibbetson, published in 1916. The census of the Panjab Province was carried out by Sir Denzil Ibbetson of the Indian Civil Services in 1881 and his report was published in 1883.


Xu Wan

Xu Wan (died 902) was a general during the late Tang dynasty who served and later turned against the warlord Qian Liu.
Early life.
Xu Wan initially followed warlord Sun Ru, but after Sun Ru was destroyed by warlord Yang Xingmi in 892, Xu Wan took many of his soldiers east to join warlord Qian Liu.
Rebellion.
In fall 902, Xu along with Xu Zaisi (許再思) rebelled against Qian, put Qian's home base Hang Prefecture under siege, and with the support of opportunist warlord Tian Jun almost destroyed Qian. Qian had to send a son to rival warlord Yang Xingmi as hostage in exchange for military assistance. Yang agreed, and Yang's general Li Shenfu defeated and captured Xu. Xu was delivered to Qian, who executed him.


Chen Wei (dissident)

Chen Wei () (born 21 February 1969) is a Chinese dissident and human rights activist. In December 2011, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for inciting subversion.
Biography.
Chen was born 21 February 1969 in Suining, Sichuan. Chen was one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, when he was a mechanical engineering student at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He was imprisoned in Qincheng prison and released in January 1991.
In May 1992, Chen was arrested again for commemorating the Tiananmen Square Protests and organizing a political party, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Chen was a signatory of Charter 08, a manifesto demanding the right of free association and the end to one-party rule.
2011 arrest.
On the morning of 20 February 2011 Chen followed a police invitation for tea but did not return. The Suining City Public Security Bureau released a document on the evening of 21 February, stating that he had been criminally detained for "inciting subversion of state power." Officers and security guards later searched his home, confiscating a computer, two hard drives and a USB drive, and then held him at the Suining City Detention Center.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders reported on 17 December 2011 that Chen's case had been transferred to the Suining Municipal Intermediate People's Court at the end of November 2011. Authorities reportedly attempted to prevent Chen's wife from hiring lawyer Liang Xiaojun. Liang was ultimately only permitted to see Chen once, while his other lawyer, Zheng Jianwei, saw him only twice before the trial. Chen told his lawyer that he had not broken the law and that he had merely been exercising the right guaranteed to all Chinese citizens under the Chinese Constitution to express their views. Chen's lawyer was told that the trial would be held within one week.
On 23 December 2011, the Suining Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Chen to nine years in prison after he was convicted of "incitement to subversion" over four essays he wrote and published online. The essays were said to contravene article 105 of China's criminal code.
The European Union ambassador to Beijing, Markus Ederer, said the EU was "deeply concerned" about Chen's sentence and "we encourage political debate rather than the use of criminal law as a means to resolve diverging political opinions". Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release. Human Rights Watch condemned the arrest as part of China's most severe crackdown on activists in a decade, and called for an immediate response from the international community.


Haveri

Haveri is a town in Karnataka, India, and it is the administrative headquarters of Haveri District. Haveri is famous for its cardamom garlands and Byadagi red chillies. Around 25 km away, there is a place called Bada, which is the birthplace of the poet Kanakadasa.
The name Haveri is derived from the Kannada words "haavu" and "keri", which means "place of snakes".
It is said that Haveri had around 1000 mathas (sacred religious places; Kannada - ಮಠ) in ancient days. One of the famous mathas is "Hukkeri Math".
Haveri is 7 hours away from Bengaluru by train. By road, it is about 340 km from Bengaluru on NH-48 towards Mumbai. It is located 307 km north of the port city Mangalore.
Tourist attractions of Haveri.
The centre of Western Chalukya architectural developments was the region including present-day Bagalkot, Gadag, Koppal, Haveri and Dharwad districts;
"Siddheshwara temple" at Haveri a staggered square plan with "dravida" articulation and superstructure, 11th century CE. Miniature decorative "dravida" and "nagara" style towers at Siddheshvara Temple in Haveri
Geography.
Haveri is located at . It has an average elevation of 572 metres (1876 feet).
Education.
There are a number of private, aided and government schools and colleges that offer courses in PU, degree and master's degrees.
There is also a new govt medical college started in haveri in 2020.
Demographics.
 India census, Haveri had a population of 67102. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Haveri has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 76%, and female literacy is 64%. In Haveri, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.