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List Of Shimer College People
This is a list of notable students and faculty of Shimer College, a Great Books college that was acquired in 2017 by North Central College. Founded in 1853, Shimer occupied a traditional college campus in Mount Carroll, Illinois, from 1853 to 1978, and an improvised campus in Waukegan from 1979 to 2006. It then occupied a dedicated space on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago since 2006. Small throughout its existence, Shimer enrolled 141 students as of 2012. As of 2008, Shimer had 5,615 living alumni. On June 1, 2017, the college became the Shimer Great Books School of North Central College. The school was known for its Great Books curriculum, and also for its early entrance program, both of which have been in effect since 1950. Many on this list were early entrants. A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S V W Y Works cited * References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shimer College Presidents
This is a list of presidents of Shimer College, from 1853 to the present. List * A "–" indicates that the individual served as interim or acting president. File:Susan Henking 2012 awards dinner.jpg, Susan Henking, president of Shimer College 2012–2017 Final President of Shimer College File:Ed Noonan speaking.jpg, Edward Noonan, interim president of Shimer College 2010-2012 File:Thomas Lindsay walking cropped.jpg, Thomas Lindsay, president of Shimer College 2009-2010 File:Shimer Colleg President Ron Champagne.png, Ron Champagne, interim president of Shimer College 2006-2008 File:William Craig Rice Shimer College 2013.jpg, William Craig Rice, president of Shimer College 2004-2006 File:Shimer College President Don Moon.jpg, Don Moon, president of Shimer College 1978-2004 File:Esther Weinstein 1966 Recondite.jpg, Esther Weinstein, interim president of Shimer College 1974-1975 File:Ralph Conant 1976.jpg, Ralph Conant, president of Shimer College 1975-1978 File:Milburn A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Braunlich
Alice Freda Braunlich (February 1, 1888 – August 9, 1989) was an American classical philologist. Life Braunlich was born to parents of German extraction, Emilie Hedwig Hoering Braunlich and the physician Henry Uchtorf Braunlich, in Davenport, Iowa on February 1, 1888. Her father's income made it possible for Alice to study at the University of Chicago, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 1908 and a master's degree in 1909. From 1912 to 1914 she worked as an assistant for William Gardner Hale, professor of Latin. In 1913 she received her Ph.D., with a dissertation on indirect questions in the indicative mood. From 1914 to 1918, she worked as a Latin instructor at the Frances Shimer School in Mount Carroll, Illinois, which later became Shimer College. Also during this period, from 1916 to 1917, she worked at the summer school at the University of Chicago. In 1918 she took a teaching position at Davenport High School, in her home town. In 1920 she became Associate Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Dox 1885 Oxford Idaho
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American Dental Association
The American Dental Association (ADA) is an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 161,000 members. Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association and promotes good oral health to the public while representing the dental profession. The ADA publishes a monthly journal of dental related articles named the '' Journal of the American Dental Association''. Overview The American Dental Association was founded August 3, 1859, at Niagara Falls, New York,American Dental Association . ''Baltimore Sun''. August 9, 1859. p. 4. by twenty-six dentists who represented various dental societies in the United States. Today, the ADA has more than 152,000 members, 55 constituent (state-territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nathan Crouse
John Nathan Crouse (1842-1914) was a dentist in Chicago in the 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his work organizing dentists to litigate against the use of patents on dental procedures. He was a charter member of the Illinois State Dental Society, and founded the Dental Protective Association, an organization that litigated against process patents in dentistry, serving as its president until 1913. He also served a term as president of the American Dental Association, then known as the National Dental Association. Early life and education Crouse was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on September 15, 1842, the son of Daniel and Mary Crouse. He later moved with his parents to Mount Carroll, Illinois. He and his siblings first attended the common schools, and then the Mount Carroll Seminary (later Shimer College), where Crouse attended from 1859 to 1862. Crouse practiced dentistry in Mount Carroll starting in 1864, then traveled to the Pennsylvania College of Denta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Corinna
Heather Corinna (born April 18, 1970) is an author, activist, and Internet publisher with a focus on progressive, affirming sexuality. Corinna is a self-described "queer, rabblerousing, polymath." Corinna is non-binary and has advocated for accepting the diverse forms of a sexual experience and avoiding "expertitis". Biography Heather Corinna was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Chicago and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Corinna suffered sexual assault at age 12, and was homeless by age 16. Corinna has written about the role that sexual assault and other violence experienced as a youth have played in motivating their later art and activism. Corinna is a 1986 graduate of the Chicago Academy of the Arts, studying music, creative writing, and art. Corinna also attended Shimer College, then located in Waukegan, majoring in Humanities. Later, Corinna worked for several years as an early childhood educator. After working in education with developmentally disabled adults ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cooley
Peter Cooley (born November 19, 1940) is an American poet and Professor of English in the Department of English at Tulane University. He also directs Tulane's Creative Writing Program. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Shimer College, the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. He is the father of poet Nicole Cooley. Career Prior to joining Tulane, Cooley taught at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He was the Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1981. Poetry and awards Cooley has published several books of poetry with the Carnegie Mellon University Press Carnegie Mellon University Press is a publisher that is part of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The press specializes in literary publishing, in particular, poetry. It is headquartered within the Dietrich .... He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003. On August 14, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Collier Cool
Lisa Collier Cool (6 July 1952) is an American journalist and author who writes on health-related topics. Education Born Lisa Collier, Cool began collegiate studies in the early 1970s at Shimer College. She later transferred to Columbia University in New York, where she graduated in 1975. Career Cool worked as a literary agent prior to becoming a full-time freelance, magazine article writer in 1984. Several of her subsequent books drew on her insights as an agent. She has also written for the ''AP, Glamour, Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's Bazaar'', ''Reader’s Digest'', ''Essence, Prevention'' and ''Writer's Digest''. In 1997, Cool co-wrote the book ''Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live With Them, and When to Leave Them'' with Carole Lieberman. The book has since been translated into several languages. The 2001 book '' Beware the Night'', written by Cool and New York City police officer Ralph Sarchie, was adapted as the motion picture ''Deliver Us from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Caspe
Lynda Caspe is a painter, sculptor, and published poet. She was a founding member of the Bowery Gallery in New York City in 1969. She was director of the Bowery Gallery from 2001-2010. Biography Caspe majored in English at the University of Chicago, graduating with an AB in 1961. Prior to attending the University of Chicago, she studied at Shimer College, a small Great Books college then closely affiliated with the university, where she attended as an early entrant. She then earned her MFA in painting at the University of Iowa. from 1964-1965 she studied at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter in Paris, France. Returning to the United States, she then spent two years studying at the New York Studio School. Work Caspe has shown at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Museum of Biblical Art (Dallas Texas, 2015), Hebrew Union College Museum (New York City, 2015), The Derfner Judaica Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Gallery of the Borough President of New York, Scott Strin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel James Campbell
Samuel James Campbell (June 18, 1892 in Mount Carroll – September 3, 1981 in Tucson) was a prominent banker, businessman and civic leader in Mount Carroll, Illinois, in the first half of the 20th century. He operated several farms that raised Angus cattle and owned the Kable News Company of Mount Morris, Illinois, a national distributor of magazines. He headed the boards of trustees of Shimer College for more than 20 years, and was also chairman of the board at Beloit College. Campbell's Mount Carroll residence, built in 1925 when he was the vice president of the Carroll County State Bank, is now part of the Mount Carroll Historic District. It was designed by architect Carroll A. Klein. Early life and education Campbell received a certificate in music from Shimer College in 1909; although it was then almost exclusively a girls' preparatory school, Shimer allowed occasional male day students. Campbell subsequently studied at Beloit College through 1913, and received a Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Bruder
Ron Bruder is an American entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder of Education for Employment (EFE), a network of affiliated locally-run nonprofits which create public-private partnerships with employers to train youth in technical and soft skills and place them in jobs. The network has local affiliates in Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia and capacity-building support organizations in the United States and Spain. EFE has supported over 155,000 youth (59% women) to enter the world of work. In 2011 Bruder was named on the ''TIME 100'' list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He lives in Westchester County, New York. Background Childhood Born in Brooklyn, Bruder was a part of a Jewish family that had migrated to the United States from Eastern Europe in the early half of the 20th century. Both of his parents worked, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
