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Helen Elizabeth Nash (8 August 1921 – 4 October 2012) was a pediatrician known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the medical field. She began her career at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, and later worked at the Saint Louis Children’s Hospital.
She was a trustee emerita of Washington University in St. Louis and Webster University, and was Chair of Law Day 2000 for the American Bar Association. In 1997, she received the Distinguished Lawyer Award from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis ; Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas , who had stayed with Wilson while studying for ...
His mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska (name changed to Rachel Deborah Shilsky, and later to Ruth McBride Jordan; April 1, 1921 – January 9, 2010), was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. James was raised in Brooklyn 's Red Hook housing projects until he was seven years old and was the last child Ruth had from her first marriage, the last child of Rev ...
Margaret died in 2002 after a series of heart and lung-related illnesses. In 1985, the princess, who was a heavy smoker, had surgery to remove part of her left lung, according to a Washington Post ...
Three members of the Desloge family have been "Queen of Love and Beauty" at the Veiled Prophet Ball, a debutante ball held in December in St. Louis: Anne Kennett Farrar Desloge (daughter of Joseph Desloge Sr.) in 1946, her cousin and goddaughter Diane Waring Desloge (daughter of William L. Desloge) in 1962, [35] and Katherine Falk Desloge ...
The award-winning actor James Earl Jones died Monday at his home in Dutchess County, New York. He was 93. Deadline was the first to report the news, which was confirmed by Jones’ representatives ...
James J. Whalen (March 5, 1927 – September 6, 2001) was an American psychologist and educational administrator who served as president of Ithaca College from 1975 to 1997. [ 1 ] Biography
Margaret Hamilton in 1979 When she wasn't acting or spending time with her son, Hamilton served on the Beverly Hills Board of Education from 1948 to 1951 and taught Sunday school.