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Evelyn Glick
Evelyn Grollman Glick (December 1910 – ) was an American golfer and philanthropist. She was a dominant player in women's golf in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was born Evelyn Grollman in Leonardtown, Maryland, the daughter of Simon Grollman and Bessie Flora Karp Grollman. She graduated from Western High School in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Maryland State Normal School, then became a teacher in Baltimore area elementary schools. In 1931 she married Maurice Glick, a lawyer and real estate agent. Glick did not take up golfing until 1940, and she began playing regularly at the Woodholme Country Club, founded in 1927 by Baltimore's Eastern European Jewish community. The next year she was Woodholme's Women's Club champion, and went on to win so many championships around the eastern United States (and twice in Cuba) she was dubbed the "Collector of Titles". Glick was not known for the distance of her drives, never driving over 210 yards, but for the precision of her short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game. Courses typically have either 9 or 18 Glossary of golf#Hole, ''holes'', regions of terrain that each contain a ''cup'', the hole that receives the ball. Each hole on a course has a teeing ground for the hole's first stroke, and a putting green containing the cup. There are several standard forms of terrain between the tee and the green, such as the fairway, rough (tall grass), and various Hazard (golf), ''hazards'' that may be water, rocks, or sand-filled Glossary of golf#Bunker, ''bunkers''. Each hole on a course is unique in its specific layout. Many golf courses are designed to resemble their native landscape, such as alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Maryland School Of Pharmacy
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
