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Van Til, Williams – Contemporary Education, 1986
John Lawrence Childs's career and contribution to American education is described briefly. (MT)
Descriptors: Biographies
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Runyon, Daniel – Music Educators Journal, 1981
A portrait of 92-year-old musician/writer Eulalia Buttleman and her husband, Clifford, who was the editor of "Music Educators Journal" from 1930 to 1960. (SJL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Musicians
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Mallinckrodt, Brent; Sprinkle, Mary Ann – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1991
Charles F. "Chuck" Warnath, professor emeritus and former university counseling center director, was interviewed about his personal life, early training with Donald Super, counseling center experiences, convictions about professional counseling, dedication to issues of equality, and current struggles with the progressive effects of retinitis…
Descriptors: Biographies, Counselors
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Hodges, James A. – History Teacher, 1985
How the historian George Fort Milton, who earned his keep as a newspaper publisher and editor, did history is especially interesting because his was a career different from that of the usual scholar-teacher. His life is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Historians, Historiography
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Jable, J. Thomas – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1985
Jay B. Nash's accomplishments and professional service have long been recognized by physical educators. This article examines the major forces and events that made him one of the most important leaders in American physical education. (MT)
Descriptors: Biographies, Physical Education
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Rotter, Joseph C. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1994
Summarizes the career of George Gazda and his contributions to the profession of counseling via narrative and interview formats. Includes a timeline of the significant events and experiences in George Gazda's life. (CRR)
Descriptors: Biographies, Counseling, Interviews
Presbury, Jack H.; Henderson, Morgan W. – G/C/T, 1984
The article describes a visit to the home of E. Paul Torrance and his wife Pansy. Noted are milestones in Paul Torrance's life, character, achievements, and past and current research in creativity, including the 22-year longitudinal study on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. (MC)
Descriptors: Biographies, Creativity, Creativity Research
Frazier, Nancy – New England Social Studies Bulletin, 1983
This tribute to Commager on his 80th birthday contains excerpts from interviews and biographies discussing how he arrived at his interests and persuasions, historians who have impressed him, areas in which he and contemporary historians disagree, and failures during our own era. (RM)
Descriptors: Biographies, United States History
Ashdown, Ellen A. – Crisis, 1979
Williams is an increasingly successful sculptor whose humor and optimism take form in his work. However, in his lifetime, at least, he expects that Black artists in America will continue to live in a double culture--having to prove themselves as people and then as artists. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Artists, Biographies, Blacks, Sculpture
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Mc Anany, Emile G. – Journal of Communication, 1988
Traces some of Wilbur Schramm's early influence in shaping and defining the field of communications in comparison to what the other founding fathers contributed from their external disciplinary positions, and places Schramm's career within its historical context. (MS)
Descriptors: Biographies, Communications, Mass Media
Kaschins, Elizabeth; Kemp, Jane – Library Journal, 1988
A short biography of Saint Jerome (331-420), the patron saint of librarians, describes his education, personal library, spiritual crisis, and pilgrimages. Several reasons why he is considered the patron saint of librarians are summarized. (7 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Biographies, Librarians
Acanfora, Jerry A.
The history of Black professional football is obscure, although it is known that in the early years Black and White athletes played together on basis of ability. Several Black Americans were members of early professional football teams; however, in the late 1920s, they seemed to disappear from team rosters. Each of the eighteen Black professional…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Biographies, Blacks
Dempsey, Frank J. – Horn Book Magazine, 1988
Presents an appreciation of Russell Freedman, writer of children's nonfiction. Discusses Freedman's life and the development of his craft. (ARH)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Nonfiction
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Machalek, Richard – Social Science Quarterly, 1983
Discussed are Marx's roles as a student, a journalist-scholar, a revolutionary, and a family member. Revealed is a political and intellectual figure of enormous stature and complexity, but a person typically human in passions and commitments, strengths, and shortcomings. (RM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Family Life, Politics, Socialism
Eggleston, Edward – American Book Company, 1915
This textbook aims to teach children the history of the country by making them acquainted with some of the most illustrious actors in it. The biographical method adopted offers a great advantage, by giving the younger pupil interesting glimpses of life in other times by means of personal anecdote.
Descriptors: Textbooks, United States History, Biographies
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