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Dottie
Dottie or Dotty is a feminine given name or nickname (most often a short form of Dorothy) which may refer to: People * Dottie Alexander (born 1972), keyboardist for of Montreal, an American indie pop band * Dotty Attie (born 1938), American painter and printmaker * Dottie Wiltse Collins (1923–2008), American pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Dottie Green (1921–1992), American player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Dottie Hunter (1916–2005), Canadian player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Dotty Lynch (1945–2014), American academic, journalist and political pollster * Dotty Mack, star of the 1950s American variety television series ''The Dotty Mack Show'' * Dottie Martin (born 1937), First Lady of North Carolina * Dottie Peoples (born 1950), American gospel singer * Dottie Pepper (born 1965), American golfer (as Dottie Mochrie) and television golf broadcaster * Dottie Rambo (1934–2008), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie West
Dorothy Marie Marsh West (October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. West's career started in the 1960s, with her top-10 hit, " Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965, the first woman in country music to receive a Grammy. In the early 1970s, West wrote a popular commercial for the Coca-Cola company, titled " Country Sunshine", which reached number two on ''Billboard's'' Hot Country Singles in 1973. In the late 1970s, she teamed up with country pop superstar Kenny Rogers for a series of duets that took her career to new highs, earning platinum-selling albums and number-one records for the first time. Her duet recordings with Rogers, "Every Time Two Fools Collide", " All I Ever Need Is You", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Rambo
Dottie Rambo (March 2, 1934 – May 11, 2008) was an American gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy winning solo artist and multiple Dove award-winning artist. Along with ex-husband Buck and daughter Reba, she formed the award-winning southern Gospel group, The Rambos. She wrote more than 2,500 songs, including her most notable, "The Holy Hills of Heaven Call Me", "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need", "We Shall Behold Him", and "I Go To the Rock". As a songwriter, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Carol Channing, Sandi Patty, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Rhonda Vincent, Vestal Goodman, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Solomon Burke, and George Jones are among those who have recorded her songs. Her songs have appeared in movies such as Undertow. It’s very common to find hymnals that include Dottie’s compositions. The Gaither Homecoming series have featured/covered dozens of her songs; moreover, she has appeared in five of the Gaither Homecoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Peoples
Dorothy "Dottie" Peoples (born August 12, 1950) is an American gospel singer from Dayton, Ohio. After completing high school, she toured with gospel pioneer Dorothy Norwood, a member of the Caravans. After a stint in jazz, she relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta in 1979, and returned to her gospel roots. She has been dubbed "Songbird of the South." Career Peoples performed with Widespread Panic at the inaugural Bonnaroo Music Festival and with Dorothy Norwood Dorothy Norwood (born May 29, 1935) is an American gospel singer and songwriter. She began touring with her family at the age of eight, and in 1956, began singing with Mahalia Jackson Mahalia Jackson ( ; born Mahala Jackson; October 26, 1911 � .... She sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1996 Olympics, "He's an On Time God" at the memorial service for John Lewis, and at the 2020 Stellar Awards. Peoples has an honorary Doctor of Sacred Music from the Global Evangelical Christian College, part of the Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Green
Dorothy M. "Dottie" Green (April 30, 1921 – October 26, 1992) was an American professional baseball catcher for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) from 1943 through 1947, and a team chaperone from 1947 until the league ended in 1954. Listed at and , she batted and threw right-handed. Despite similarities, Green was not the inspiration for Geena Davis's character, Dottie Hinson, in the 1992 film ''A League of Their Own''; Dottie Hinson was loosely based on Green's teammate, Dottie Kamenshek. Early life A native of Natick, Massachusetts, Green grew up as an all-round athlete. She started playing baseball with the boys of the neighborhood when she was about eight or ten years old. Later she attended and graduated from Natick High School, and was a competent athlete in any sport she could find to play. During her senior year at school she was captain of the girls' field hockey, basketball, and softball teams. Following her graduatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Alexander
Dorothy "Dottie" Alexander is the former keyboardist for of Montreal, an American indie pop band formed in Athens, Georgia and fronted by Kevin Barnes. Biography Dottie received her bachelor's degree at the University of Georgia at Athens. Prior to moving to Athens, Dottie graduated from Westover Senior High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1990. On July 26, 2009, long-time boyfriend and of Montreal video editor and stage performer Nick Gould proposed during an of Montreal show at the Hollywood Bowl. The wedding took place in May 2010. Projects Prior to joining , Dottie was in a local Athens, Georgia band with James Huggins III called Lightning Bug vs. Firefly. Both Dottie and James joined of Montreal in 1998. Besides being a steady member of , she also played in Elephant 6 stalwarts Great Lakes. In 1997, Dottie contributed to Kindercore Kindercore Vinyl is a vinyl record pressing plant based in Athens, Georgia. It began as an independent record label, founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Pepper
Dottie Pepper (born August 17, 1965) is an American professional golfer and television golf broadcaster. From 1988 to 1995 she competed as Dottie Mochrie, which was her married name before a divorce. She won two major championships and 17 LPGA Tour events in all. Amateur career Pepper was born in Saratoga Springs, New York; her father, Don, was a major league baseball player, who appeared on the cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' as a "rookie to watch", along with Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, in 1968. Her career began with big amateur victories in her home state of New York. She won the 1981 state amateur and the 1981 and 1983 New York Junior Amateur titles. She was a member of the 1981 Junior World Cup team and low amateur at the 1984 U.S. Women's Open. She attended Furman University, where she earned five collegiate victories and was named All-American three times. Professional career She joined the LPGA Tour in 1988 and won 17 official events on the Tour, including two major cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Wiltse Collins
Dorothy Wiltse "Dottie" Collins (September 23, 1923 – August 12, 2008) was an American professional baseball pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1944 to 1948 and 1950. Collins played her rookie season (1944) for the Minneapolis Millerettes and spent the rest of her career with the Fort Wayne Daisies. Known as the "Strikeout Queen," she set multiple AAGPBL records throughout her career and led the league with her winning percentage, fielding percentage, and strikeouts. Collins helped form the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league Players Association in 1987 and held many different positions during her tenure with the association. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) had over 500 women's baseball players from the years 1943 to 1954. With only a few exceptions, baseball games were played extremely similarly compared to the games Major League Baseball (MLB) players would play in. Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Hunter
Dorothy "Dottie" Hunter (January 28, 1916 – August 17, 2005) was a Canadian first basewoman who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. A member of several halls of fame, Hunter was one of 68 players from Canada to participate in the extinct All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Early life Hunter was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She grew up in a home where sports were considered of vital importance, as her father was a prominent soccer player and coach. She started playing playground games, and played whatever sport the boys were playing, baseball, softball or basketball. There were no teams for girls and the boys would let her play with them. Finally, only 280 girls were invited to the final try-outs at Wrigley Field in Chicago, where 60 survived the final cut. Enticed with salaries ranging from $55 to $150 per week, the initial group of women would form four teams – the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, Rockford P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Martin
Dorothy Ann "Dottie" Martin (''née'' McAulay; born January 21, 1937) is an American educator and real estate broker who, as the wife of Governor James G. Martin, served as the First Lady of North Carolina from 1985 to 1993. As first lady, she supported protections for children and substance abuse prevention efforts. Martin also relandscaped the grounds of the North Carolina Executive Mansion and contributed to the establishment of a program within the North Carolina Department of Transportation for planting wildflower beds along state highways. She also served as the chairwoman of the North Carolina Commission on Child Victimization and the North Carolina Commission on the Family. Early life and education Martin was born on January 21, 1937, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Benson Wood McAulay and Dorothy Louise Gill McAulay. She grew up in North Carolina and in South Carolina. She attended Queens College and the University of South Carolina with plans of becoming a directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy (given Name)
Dorothy is a female given name. It is the English vernacular form of the Greek Δωροθέα (''Dōrothéa'') meaning "God's Gift", from δῶρον (''dōron''), "gift" + θεός (''theós''), "god". . It has been in use since the 1400s. Although much less common, there are also male equivalents in English such as ''Dory'', from the Greek masculine Δωρόθεος (''Dōrótheos''). ''Dorofei'' is a rarely used Russian male version of the name. The given names '' Theodore'' and '' Theodora'' are derived from the same two Greek root words as Dorothy, albeit reversed in order. The name grew in use among Christians due to popular legends surrounding Saint Dorothy of Caeserea. The name was at one time viewed as the English equivalent of the etymologically unrelated Russian name '' Daria'' or its diminutive ''Dasha''. Traditional English diminutives include, among others, ''Do'', ''Dodi'', ''Dodie'', ''Doe'', ''Doll'', ''Dolley'', ''Dollie'', ''Dolly'', ''Dora'', ''Dori'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dotty Attie
Dotty Attie (born 1938, Pennsauken, New Jersey) is an acclaimed feminist painter, and the co-founder of the first all-female cooperative art gallery in America, A.I.R. Gallery. Her work has been widely exhibited and is in many major museum collections, including the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery in London. She also has the rare distinction of having an all-female punk rock band named after her. Attie currently resides in New York, New York. Education and early work Attie discovered her interest in art at an early age, as she found that she was interested in drawing. She was heavily influenced by her father, who brought her to art classes in Philadelphia and provided her with art books, most notably ones with illustrations of works by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres."The First Act: An Archaeological Adventure from J. and Armand Tour the World," ''Wadsworth Atheneum'', January 1, 1980. Although her favorite living artist happens to be Gerhard Richter. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dottie Potter Zenaty
Dottie Potter Zenaty was the field hockey coach at Springfield College from 1970 to 2003, amassing a record of 377 wins, 233 losses and 43 ties in 34 seasons. Zenaty was inducted into the New Agenda Northeast Hall of Fame in 1989, the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990 and the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2003. She was named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut and ... Field Hockey Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2000. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American female field hockey players 21st-century American women {{US-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
