Where in 1910 he received a Ph.D. becoming the first Korean to earn a doctor's degree from an American university. In 1910 Rhee returned home and that is the same year in which Korea was annexed by Japan. After Rhee worked at a YMCA and as a high school principal we moved to Hawaii. While in Hawaii Rhee was a spokesman for Korean independence, he spent the next thirty years in Hawaii. Then out of the blue in 1919 Rhee was elected president of the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai.
Summary * Burt’s Bees is a company that was founded in 1984 by Roxanne Quimby and Burt Shavitz in central Maine and produces beeswax-based natural skin care products and handmade crafts. * Burt’s Bees started with an investment of four hundred dollars when Quimby met Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine and an ex-photographer for Life and New York magazines * Quimby’s entrepreneurial lessons were learned at a very young age from her Harvard educated father. * Quimby started visiting all the local fairs so she could sell their products. * The first year sales were $ 81000 which seemed an unattainable amount to Quimby. * Burt’s Bee’s first big break came in 1989 at a wholesale show in Springfield, Massachusetts when one of their new creations, a teddy bear candle, was noticed by an up-scale Manhattan boutique store.
After some went by McCloy returned to the United States and in 1932 he received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. McCloy taught physical education at colleges and served at Young Men’s Christian Association locations in China and the United States between 1905 and 1930. McCloy was also a professor of physical education at the University of Iowa from 29 years. Dr. McCloy specialized in anthropometry. He also took a very active part in the professional associations of physical education, serving as president in several.
ollmer was born in New Orleans to German immigrant parents, John and Philopine (Klundt) Vollmer. His father saw to it that he learned to box and swim, both of which he excelled at. Upon his father's death, his mother returned to Germany with her children for two years, after which she returned to New Orleans in 1886, but soon thereafter decided to move her family to San Francisco. In July 1890, the Vollmer family moved across the bay to Berkeley. Before he was 20, August helped organize the North Berkeley Volunteer Fire Department, and in 1897, was awarded the Berkeley Fireman medal.
Lovett remained in this position for 26 years. Ford even sponsored a dance program for the Dearborn public schools, and soon Mr. Ford was sponsoring square dance programs in many other schools. Square dancing was then brought to numerous college and university campuses at Mr. Ford's expense. During a Sunday radio program that was broadcasted over the country, Ford hired Lovett to call dances that had been printed in the newspaper the previous week. Lovett maintained a "staff" of twelve to fourteen callers, all maintained by Mr. Ford's generosity.
Biography Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His stunning achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin has made him the best remembered athlete in Olympic history. The seventh child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his new schoolteacher gave him the name that was to become known around the world. The teacher was told "J.C." when she asked his name to enter in her roll book, but she thought he said "Jesse".
He was born in 1929 in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. His father was minister at the Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta. When he was a teenager, lets say at the age 15, he was enrolled or graduated at Moore House College. He also graduated from there in the year 1948, and, like his father soon became a minister. In the year 1953 while he doing graduate work at a Boston graduate school, Martin Luther King Jr. married Corretta Scott.
In 1875, her family moved to Boston, where they were advised to enter her into a European conservatory. Her parents opted for local training. Amy was 4 when she composed her first piano pieces while spending the summer with her grandfather in West Henniker. All four pieces were composed in her head and away from the piano, a practice she continued throughout her life. At age fourteen, Amy received her only formal training in composition with Junius W. Hill, with whom she studied harmony and counterpoint for a year.
Trisha Brown Dance Revolutionary If people say Martha Graham is the mother of Modern dance then Trisha Brown is the 1st princess of post-modern dance Born in Aberdeen, Washington 25 November 1936 Trisha Brown is one of the first few world famous post-modern American choreographers who still lives to this day. She is renowned for rejecting modern dance instead started to question a dancer’s presence in space, what could be considered as dance and in the process revolutionizing modern dance. At an early age Trisha brown was exposed to the outdoors climbing trees and playing football. It was her high school teacher Marion Hageage who ‘organized her bony knees and adolescent mind through tap, ballet and acrobatics which developed in jazz routines at assembly.’ Banes, S 1987, 77. Upon graduating high school she enrolled at Mills college where she received her formal dance training from Martha Graham, Louis horst and Merce Cunningham who she later worked with in the Judson Dance theatre.
Later Kate attended one year at the Academy of the Visitation (Koloski 3-4) from which she graduated June 1868 (Seyersted 23). Kate’s older brother Thomas O’Flaherty Jr. was born in 1848, soon after Kate’s birth a sister was born, but she lived only a short while. George O’Flaherty, Kate’s half-brother whom she adored wrote her a letter that she