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Dee Brock
Dee Brock (born June 7, 1930) is an American educator, model, and cheerleading director. She is the founder and first director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Brock was hired by Tex Schramm in the early 1960s to create a cheerleading squad for the Dallas Cowboys. She brought the squad to the Cowboys first Super Bowl appearance in 1971 at Super Bowl V. Originally a co-ed squad consisting of high school students, the squad was later rebranded by Brock as an all-girl group. She was responsible for racially integrating the squad in 1965. Brock was an educator in Texas and taught in the public schools. She was a teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School (Dallas), Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas until 1966 and helped found Dallas College El Centro Campus, the first campus of Dallas College. She went on to serve as senior vice president of educational programming and director of adult-learning programming at PBS in Washington, D.C. Early life Brock was born on June 7, 1930, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covington, Oklahoma
Covington is a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 477 at the 2020 census. Geography Covington is located in southeastern Garfield County at (36.307490, -97.588379). Oklahoma State Highway 74 passes through the center of town as First Street, leading north to Garber and south to Oklahoma City. Enid, the Garfield County seat, is to the northwest via OK 74 and U.S. Route 412. Oklahoma State Highway 164 leads southeast, then east to Perry. According to the United States Census Bureau, Covington has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 553 people, 224 households, and 159 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 259 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 93.49% White, 3.98% Native American, 0.18% Pacific Islander, 0.18% from other races, and 2.17% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.27% of the population. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Dior
Christian Ernest Dior (; 21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, Christian Dior SE, which is now owned by parent company LVMH. His fashion houses are known all around the world, specifically "on five continents in only a decade" (Sauer). He was the second child of a family of seven, born to Maurice Dior and Madeleine Martin, in the town of Granville. Dior's artistic skills led to his employment and design for various well-known fashion icons in attempts to preserve the fashion industry during World War II. Post-war, he founded and established the Dior fashion house, with his collection of the " New Look" revolutionising women's dress and contributing to the reestablishment of Paris as the centre of the fashion world. Throughout his lifetime, he won numerous awards for Best Costume Design. Upon his death in 1957, various contemporary icons paid tribute to his life and work. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County, Texas, Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the List of cities in Texas by population, 33rd most populous city in Texas and List of United States cities by population, 299th in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan area, Greater Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 198th most populous metropolitan area in the United States, U.S. and List of Texas metropolitan areas, 16th in Texas after Waco metropolitan area, Waco and the Bryan–College Station, College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Times Herald
The ''Dallas Times Herald'', founded in 1888 by a merger of the ''Dallas Times'' and the '' Dallas Herald'', was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas, Texas ( USA) area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, for local and regional reporting. As an afternoon publication for most of its 102 years,Handbook of Texas Online"Dallas ''Times Herald''," Retrieved January 7, 2009. its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers, the reliance on television for late-breaking news, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival ''The Dallas Morning News'' after the latter's parent company bought the rights to 26 United Press Syndicate features that previously had been running in the ''Times Herald''. MediaNews Group bought the ''Times Herald'' from the Times Mirror Company in 1986; Times Mirror had owned the paper since 1969. MediaNews sold the paper in 1988 to a company f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Reporting
In journalism, the society page of a newspaper is largely or entirely devoted to the social and cultural events and gossip of the location covered. Other features that frequently appear on the society page are a calendar of Charitable organization, charity events and pictures of locally, nationally and internationally famous people. Society pages expanded to become women's page sections. History The first true society page in the United States was the invention of newspaper owner James Gordon Bennett Jr., who created it for the ''New York Herald'' in 1835. His reportage centred upon the lives and social gatherings of the rich and famous, with names partially deleted by dashes and reports mildly satirical. Mott et al record that "Society was at first aghast, then amused, then complacent, and finally hungry for the penny-press stories of its own doings." Bennett had in fact been reporting such news since 1827, with articles in the ''New York Enquirer''. In the period after the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Mitchell (Dallas Cowboys)
Suzanne Mitchell (7 July 1943 – 27 September 2016) was an American artistic director and public relations professional who served as the director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from 1976 to 1989. She was responsible for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders rise in popularity and their status as sex symbols. Mitchell was also responsible for creating the role of goodwill ambassadors for the cheerleaders, requiring them to volunteer in orphanages, hospitals, and at telethons to boost public image and organized their involvement in touring with United Service Organizations. Early life and education Mitchell was born in Fort Worth, Texas on July 7, 1943. She was raised in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Her mother, Nell Mitcham Mitchell, was a nurse. Her father, Colonel Willis Wilson Mitchell, was a commercial pilot for American Airlines and a retired military officer who served as third in command under General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Africa during World War II. Mitchell was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texie Waterman
Texie Jane Waterman (November 25, 1931 – October 14, 1996) was an American choreographer, dancer, and dance teacher. She was the first choreographer for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Early life Waterman was born in Dallas on November 25, 1931, to Robert Harold Waterman and Texie Willis Waterman. She attended Highland Park High School. Her mother was a dance instructor who co-founded the Dallas Civic Ballet. Waterman grew up taking dance classes and, at the age of 17, started teaching dance in various towns in Texas, including Mineola. Career Waterman performed in summer musicals and, by the time she was twenty years old, she was performing on Broadway in New York City. In the 1950s, she was a dancer at the Copacobana and Versailles nightclubs in New York City. She also danced on Sid Caesar's variety show '' Your Show of Shows''. Waterman eventually moved back to Dallas and took up teaching in the two dance studios owned by her mother. She owned her own dance studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Stadium
Texas Stadium was an American football stadium located in Irving, Texas, a suburb west of Dallas. Opened on October 24, 1971, it was known for its distinctive hole in the roof, the result of abandoned plans to construct a retractable roof (Cowboys linebacker D. D. Lewis once famously said that "Texas Stadium has a hole in its roof, so God can watch His favorite team play"). The stadium was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys for 38 seasons, through 2008, and had a seating capacity of 65,675. In 2009, the Cowboys moved to AT&T Stadium in nearby Arlington. Texas Stadium was demolished on April 11, 2010, by a controlled implosion. History The Cowboys had played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas since their inception in 1960. However, by the mid-1960s, founding owner Clint Murchison, Jr., felt that the Fair Park area of the city had become unsafe and downtrodden, and did not want his season ticket holders to be forced to go through it. Murchison was denied a request by may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
