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<mask> (born January 1, 1943) is an American professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE in a Legends deal. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he used the nickname "The Mouth of the South". He has managed many professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, <mask> (no relation) and Jim Neidhart (The Hart Foundation), Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Jerry "The King" Lawler, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Irwin R. Schyster, The Mountie, Earthquake, Typhoon, Dino Bravo, the Nasty Boys, The Giant, and The Honky Tonk Man. He was briefly the AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion in 1981. Before becoming involved with professional wrestling, <mask> was a member of rock band The Gentrys, best known for their 1965 top five Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Keep on Dancing". Professional wrestling career

Memphis Wrestling (1978-1985)
<mask> was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He was brought into wrestling by Jerry "The King" Lawler, who knew of <mask> because both had attended Memphis Treadwell High School.Having been asked to sing back-up with Lawler, <mask> later became Lawler's manager. After splitting from Lawler, <mask> created a stable known as the First Family of Wrestling to attack Lawler, which among others included Hulk Hogan, King Kong Bundy, "Ravishing" Rick Rude, "Leaping" Lanny Poffo, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Ox Baker, Kamala, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, The Iron Sheik and Kevin Sullivan. In 1982, <mask> earned national headlines

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 doing a program with comedian and television star Andy Kaufman. <mask>, Lawler and Kaufman would continue this feud for over a year. Around this time, <mask> became known as "The Wimp", a nickname given to him by Lawler and chanted by fans, and was the subject of the song "Wimpbusters," which was sung by Lawler to the tune of "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr.; a music video was also made featuring Lawler, announcer Lance Russell, and wrestlers such as Randy Savage, <mask>, Dutch Mantel, Tommy Rich, and Rufus R. Jones, along with footage of Lawler beating <mask> and his "First Family". In 1981 through 1984, <mask> led Austin Idol, Masao Ito, and Gilbert to NWA/AWA International titles. World Wrestling Federation (1985–1993)

In 1985, <mask>'s friend Hillbilly Jim recommended him to WWF owner Vince McMahon, who hired him.He was nicknamed "The Mouth of the South" due to his loose-lipped style, often augmented by his trademark megaphone, which he used to instruct and encourage his protégés, to discourage and annoy opponents and announcers (especially Gorilla Monsoon) and also as a weapon. <mask>'s first acquisition in the WWF was Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, then the Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, whom <mask> managed at WrestleMania. After Valentine lost the Intercontinental Heavyweight Title to Tito Santana, <mask> briefly co-managed the Dream Team (Valentine and Beefcake), until he was phased out and gave full control to "Luscious Johnny" Valiant. At WrestleMania, <mask> also managed King Kong Bundy as he defeated S.D. Jones. <mask> later traded Bundy's contract to

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texts: departure of Frenchy Martin. Then at a push-up contest between the Ultimate Warrior and Bravo, <mask> and Bravo invited a large 460-pound man from the audience – later known as Earthquake – into the ring to sit on the contestants' backs.Predictably the large man was planted in the audience by <mask> and Bravo and they eventually teamed up against the Warrior. In 1990, <mask> groomed Earthquake to be the man to beat Hulk Hogan. <mask> continued his war with his former tag team, the Hart Foundation. In 1990, he combined his protégés Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine into the short-lived team of Rhythm and Blues, though they had teamed previously as themselves when facing the Hart Foundation at WrestleMania V. In 1991, he managed The Nasty Boys to defeat the Hart Foundation for the WWF World Tag Team title at WrestleMania VII, this time using a motorbike helmet as a weapon. When the Nasty Boys lost the title to the Legion of Doom at SummerSlam 1991, <mask> sent The Natural Disasters, a team formed out of Earthquake and his former opponent Typhoon (formerly known as Tugboat), to depose the new champions. When the Disasters failed, <mask> formed a new team in early 1992: Money Inc., composed of <mask>'s protégé I.R.S. and "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.Money, Inc. defeated the L.O.D. Their title win led to the split between <mask> and the Natural Disasters, who as faces feuded with Money Inc. and exchanged the tag team titles twice in 1992. Their biggest match came at WrestleMania VIII when Money Inc. retained their titles by leaving the ring and forcing a count-out. In

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 the manager of the new champion Yokozuna who had just defeated Bret <mask> for the belt. Hogan would defeat the  new champion in a short match.At King of the Ring, <mask> was in Hogan's corner as he lost the WWF World Heavyweight Title back to Yokozuna. This appearance was <mask>'s last in the WWF, as both he and Hogan departed the company. World Championship Wrestling (1994–2001)
Following their departure from the WWF, Hogan and <mask> briefly toured Mexico. After their return, <mask> wrote music and occasionally appeared on Hogan's television show, Thunder in Paradise. Hogan then had <mask> manage him when they went to World Championship Wrestling (WCW). At Bash at the Beach in 1994, <mask> managed Hogan to win his first WCW World Heavyweight Title by defeating "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. At Halloween Havoc in 1995, <mask> turned on Hogan to help The Giant.<mask> also became the manager of the evil faction, the Dungeon of Doom, created by Kevin Sullivan. During that era, he managed Ric Flair to a 12th world title victory over Macho Man Randy Savage at Starrcade '95. After the demise of the Dungeon of Doom, <mask> recreated The First Family. After the demise of the First Family, <mask> was placed in charge of booking TBS's WCW Saturday Night show prior to the program's cancellation. <mask> wrestled on April 18, 1999 to defeat Bubba the Love Sponge by disqualification at a house show. On November 15, he wrestled WCW Monday Nitro losing to Norman Smiley in a Hardcore match. <mask> was also the first Strapmaster for the Yapapi Indian strap match in which Hulk Hogan defeated Ric

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After the sale of WCW to the then rival WWF, <mask> and a close consortium of wrestlers and investors decided to create a wrestling organization—the Xcitement Wrestling Federation (XWF)—that would replace WCW as well as take wrestling back to early 1990s style of fun, family-oriented entertainment with minimal story lines and more solid wrestling. In 2002, <mask> restarted his feud with Jerry Lawler by buying, for the XWF, part of the upstart Memphis Wrestling promotion. <mask> would wrestle for Memphis Wrestling from 2003 to 2005. He lost to <mask> in a Loser Eats Dog Food match on August 2, 2003.In 2007, <mask> appeared at the PMG Clash of Legends. On November 7, 2008, <mask> appeared at the Jerry "The King" Lawler 35th anniversary event. He also made a few appearances with Florida Championship Wrestling, WWE's developmental territory, as a color commentator in 2008. He made multiple appearances for WrestleMania Axxess during the week leading up to The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania. In May 2006, <mask> traveled to The Funking Conservatory, owned by Dory Funk Jr and Marti Funk, to shoot promos with the students. His most notable ones being with Studio Sar Ah when he discusses his move from World Wrestling Entertainment to TNA Wrestling and as well as Wrestlicious. Both promos can be found on the Studio

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 Sar Ah fan page on Facebook and as well as YouTube.<mask> continues to work at the school and shoot promos. On January 19, 2010, <mask> Piper. On January 12, 2012 he wrestled at PWS WrestleReunion VI in battle royal won by The Godfather. <mask> currently appears at various professional wrestling conventions and autograph signings around the United States. He is a staple at all of the Wrestlereunion shows, and also does various appearances as part of the VOC Nation wrestling radio program in Philadelphia on 1360 WNJC. <mask> is a regular guest on the VOC Wrestling Nation radio program on WNJC.Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2003–2011)
In October 2003 <mask> made his debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), hyping a match between Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett, which was eventually scrapped as Hogan decided to return to WWE instead. On June 19, 2005, at Slammiversary pay-per-view, The Naturals were assisted in a title defense against Team Canada by <mask>, who ran to ringside and threw his megaphone to Chase Stevens, who hit Petey Williams with it and pinned him. <mask> acted as the manager of The Naturals until October 3, 2005. On February 14, 2010, at Against All Odds, <mask> made his return to TNA as a heel by helping The Nasty Boys defeat Team 3D in a tag team match. The alliance, however, was short-lived, as on March 29, 2010, news broke that the Nasty Boys had been released by TNA following an incident at a TNA function with Spike executives present. <mask> stayed with the company following the incident, but his role was unknown. <mask> was seen on the January 20,

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On March 1, 2011, it was reported that <mask> had left Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and re-signed with WWE to work on WrestleMania-related projects. <mask> has since hosted various house shows. On August 14, 2011, <mask> made an appearance at SummerSlam, teasing a managerial position with R-Truth during a backstage segment. On April 10, 2012, <mask> made an appearance on SmackDown: Blast from the Past, where he managed the team of Heath Slater and Tyson Kidd, but ended up getting the mandible claw from Mick Foley. As of April 30, 2014, <mask> was part-owner of "Hogan's Beach", a wrestling-themed tiki-bar in Tampa, Florida. As of April 2014, <mask> was a regular cast member on the WWE Network original reality show Legends' House.<mask> appeared on the August 11 edition of Raw for Hogan's birthday celebration. In April 2017, <mask> purchased a beachfront property in Daytona Beach, Florida, and opened “<mask>’s Hall of Fame Bar and Tiki Deck“, which is a beach bar featuring an abundance of autographed pictures, wrestling paraphernalia, and at times an intercontinental championship belt. On January 4, 2021 he made an appearance on the RAW Legends Night where he was involved in a segment with Hulk Hogan, Drew McIntyre and Sheamus. Other media
His book, The Mouth of the South, was released on November 18, 2004. <mask> has also appeared in "Life: for sale" a YouTube series created by Koncrete Inc., which has Benjamin Mallah as its lead.

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Before wrestling, <mask>, as a teenager, was a vocalist in the 60s band The Gentrys, who had a million selling record with 1965's "Keep on Dancing". Before becoming The Gentrys, they were known as just "The Gents."Their production manager told them that if they did not change their name, then they would not succeed in the music industry. Later, after the leader of the group Larry Raspberry left, <mask> took over and they had a few minor hits, most notably "Why Should I Cry" and a cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl", but were never able to match the success of "Keep on Dancing." <mask> and the band were successful in the Memphis area nightclub circuit. The group was under contract to Stax Records at the time of its bankruptcy, and Stax could not properly promote them. During his years in the professional wrestling business, <mask> composed many theme songs for wrestlers in the WWF and WCW. Some of the wrestlers for whom he composed music were Honky Tonk Man, <mask>ka, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, The Rockers, The Hart Foundation, Crush, the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers, Dusty Rhodes, the Legion of Doom, the Nasty Boys, Ted DiBiase, the Mountie, Hulk Hogan, Sting, the nWo Wolfpac, and 3 Count. He also composed the themes for SummerSlam '88 (which was later reused as the theme for many early Royal Rumble events) and WrestleMania VI (which was later used for the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth events).One of <mask>'s most notable compositions is Shawn Michaels's entrance theme, "Sexy Boy." In the late 1980s, <mask> released a music album (also available on cassette tape)

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 titled Outrageous Conduct. The release consisted of comical songs done in character; such as "Barbra Streisand's Nose" and "Eat Your Heart Out Rick Springfield." In 1995, Hulk Hogan released the album "Hulk Rules, on Select Records." <mask>, as well as Hogan's then wife Linda, were a part of the band The Wrestling Boot Band and helped write and sing many of the album's songs. Television appearances

In September 2007, <mask> appeared on an episode of The People's Court as a witness for a defendant. <mask> is a close friend of Hulk Hogan and is featured on many episodes of Hogan's VH1 reality series, Hogan Knows Best.<mask> was also a judge on Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling. <mask> also appears in hair restoration advertisements for Medical Hair Restoration, as a client. He also does a comedic women's wrestling show called Wrestlicious, which can be viewed at Wrestlicious.com. <mask> appeared on the WWE Legends' House. <mask> has appeared a few times in Hulk Hogan's TV-show Thunder in Paradise. He also sang the intro music for the episode "Deadly Lessons, Pt. 1".Movie appearances
In 1967, <mask> appeared in the film It's a Bikini World as a member of The Gentrys. In 2010, <mask> appeared in the Insane Clown Posse's film Big Money Rustlas. In 2011, <mask> appeared as himself in the Canadian movie Monster Brawl. <mask> played the announcer to a wrestling tournament of eight classic monsters that fight to the death. Championships and accomplishmentsAmerican Wrestling AssociationAWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)Cauliflower Alley ClubManager's Award

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 (2015)Memphis Wrestling Hall of FameClass of 2017Pro Wrestling IllustratedManager of the Year (1987, 1994)World Class Wrestling AssociationHall of Fame (2006)World Wrestling EntertainmentWWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)Wrestling Observer Newsletter'''''
Manager of the Year (1983)
Best on Interviews (1984)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2018)

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Rear Admiral <mask>,  (born 30 September 1950) is a non-executive Director/Trustee in the 'third sector', including appointments as: inaugural Chair of the Chelmsford Cultural Development Trust; as a member of the Board of Trustees of Good Things Foundation, the UK's leading digital inclusion charity; and The Heritage Alliance, a significant advocacy body for England's heritage. Formerly a Flag Officer in the Royal Navy, he has more than twenty years' experience as a museum director and in leadership and governance of cultural bodies. In April 2011 he was appointed director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand, replacing interim director Sir Don McKinnon. His contract was twice extended by the Museum's Trust Board, but he and his wife returned to the UK at the end of 2016 to be nearer family. His successor as Director was David Gaimster. Early life and naval career
<mask> was born in Hammersmith, London, on 30 September 1950. He moved with his family from London to Cape Town, South Africa, where he attended St George's Grammar School.<mask> joined the Royal Navy as a seaman at  in 1966, aged 15, and rose to become a rear admiral in 1999, serving in a NATO appointment before leaving the service voluntarily in 2000 to take up the role of Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. During his naval career he studied at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (passing out in 1972 as the winner of that year's Queen's Sword of Honour), the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, and the Royal College of Defence Studies (1993). He was Military Assistant to the Minister of State for the Armed Forces (1989–91) and the Assistant Director of Navy Plans (Ships) (1993–96). <mask> served at sea in , , , ,  and . His commands included the minehunter  the destroyers  (1987–89) and  (1991–92), and the aircraft carrier  (1996–97). He was captain of the Third Destroyer Squadron in 1991–92 and in 1998–99 was

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 commodore of the Britannia Royal Naval College, where he was responsible for preparing new entrant officers for their careers. While Commodore at the college he founded the Britannia Museum, opening the college to public visitors for the first time.<mask> was a trustee of the historic vessel HMS Bronington between 1989 and 1999, after she was decommissioned from the Royal Navy; he was vice-president of the Bronington Trust in 1999 until the Trust ceased to exist in 2002. He edited the book HMS Bronington: A Tribute to One of Britain's Last Wooden Walls And a Celebration of The Ton Class, which was published in 1996. Museums career
<mask> was director of the National Maritime Museum between 2000 and 2007, during which time he oversaw a series of exhibitions, including Elizabeth, Skin Deep and Nelson & Napoleon. He instigated SeaBritain 2005, a partnership with Visit Britain and sixty other organisations to commemorate the bicentenary of Admiral Nelson's victory in the Battle of Trafalgar. <mask> also led a major re-structuring of collections management, including the creation of a comprehensive inventory, improved conservation facilities and a partnership project with Chatham Historic Dockyard to display and store models of ships. He initiated the £16 million Time and Space project to restore buildings at the Royal Observatory, create new galleries and education spaces, build a 120-seat planetarium – the Peter Harrison Planetarium – and generally upgrade the visitor facilities. The refurbished Royal Observatory was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in May 2007.During this time <mask> was also Director of Queens House, the Caird Library and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. From 2001 to 2007 he was chairman of a leadership working-group established by the National Museum Directors' Council. During that period he was a member of a maritime policy think-tank called the Greenwich Forum. Between 2005 and 2007 he was a member

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texts: of the board of Creative and Cultural Skills (a Sector Skills Council for museums) and between 2009 and 2011 he was a member of the board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency. From 2007 <mask> was chief executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), of which he had been a board member during the previous year. During his tenure as chief executive the MLA was substantially restructured to improve effectiveness and reduce operating costs. The slimmed-down organisation was subsequently merged within Arts Council England.During that period <mask> was also chairman of Living Places, a grouping of UK cultural agencies which aimed to foster the benefits of cultural and sporting opportunities in the community. The five agencies involved in the project were the Arts Council England, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), English Heritage, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and Sport England. In April 2011 <mask> was appointed director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand, replacing interim director Sir Don McKinnon. In this role, he was responsible for leading a fundamental review of the museum's strategic vision, culminating in the publication of 'Future Museum' in 2012. Since then, guided by the published vision, the museum has invested substantially in its collections, professional capacities and digital resources; detailed plans for further capital investment are being laid. In October 2015 the Trust Board of the museum reported double-digit growth in audiences and high levels of customer satisfaction. In 2014 <mask> was elected to the Board of Museums Aotearoa (the association for New Zealand's museums); he was elected Chair of Museums Aotearoa in May 2015.He stepped down from the Board at the conclusion of a year as chair in May 2016. That month he announced that despite being urged to do so he had chosen not to accept the Trust


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<mask> was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007 "for services to museums", and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greenwich.In 2018 <mask> was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant Deputy Lieutenant of Essex. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and also the General Service Medal in 1977 and in 1989. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2001, of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in 2002 and of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 2004. In 2001 he became a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute; and he was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation between 2005 and 2008. Personal life
A keen yachtsman, <mask> was chief mate of the Royal Navy yacht Adventure in the first Whitbread Round the World Race. He and his wife Sarah (an Anglican Priest) have a son and two daughters and two granddaughters. Their home is in Essex on the Blackwater Estuary where they keep a sailing boat.He is a naval member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Notes

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Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College
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<mask> (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author. <mask> has written over 80 children's and young adult fiction books. <mask> has sold more than 28 million books over a career spanning four decades and has appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. Early life
<mask> was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970. He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School. He moved to the United States to attend college at New York University where he studied film and film-writing. <mask> received a BFA from New York University in 1985; with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television.Career

<mask> wrote his first book when he was 12 years old, as part of the English class in 7th grade. This became the manuscript for This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his Macdonald Hall series. <mask> was the Scholastic Arrow Book Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, he mailed his manuscript to Scholastic. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Scholastic Press in 1978 when Korman was only 14 years old. Before graduating from high school in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books. <mask> has written more than 80 books which have sold more than 28 million copies in a career that has spanned four decades. Works

Non-series books

Honey We Best Thingy Our Neighborhood (1978)
I Want to Go Home!(1981)
Our Man Weston (1982)
No Coins, Please (1984)
Don't Care High (1985)
Son of Interflux (1986)
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag (1987)
Radio 5th Grade (1989)
Losing Joe's Place (1990)
The Twinkie Squad (1992)
The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)
Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road (1994)
 The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1996)
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1997)
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game (1998)

No More Dead Dogs (2000)
Maxx

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 Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America (2003)
Jake, Reinvented (2003)
Born To Rock (2006)
Schooled (2007)
The Juvie Three (2008)
Pop (2009)
Slacker (2016)
Restart (2017)
What's His Face? (2018)
The Unteachables (2019)
Level 13: A Slacker novel (2019)
Notorious (2019)
War Stories (2020)
Unplugged (2021)
War Stories (2021)
Linked (2021)

Series

Macdonald Hall series

This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (Scholastic-TAB Publications, 1978)
Go Jump in the Pool (1979)
Beware the Fish! (1980)
The War With Mr. Wizzle (1982)
The Zucchini Warriors (1988)
Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood (1991)
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall (1995)

Bugs Potter
Who is Bugs Potter? (1980)
Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny (1983)

Jeremy Bloom
The D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School, Homework, and Life (Sort Of) (1992)
The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About Winning, Losing, and Being a Good Sport (Sometimes) (1996)

Monday Night Football
The Quarterback Exchange (1997)
Running Back Conversion (1997)
Super Bowl Switch (1997)
Heavy Artillery (1997)
Ultimate Scoring Machine (1998)
NFL Rules! Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, and Touchdowns (1998)

Masterminds series
 Masterminds (2015)
 Masterminds:Criminal Destiny (2016)
 Masterminds:Payback (2017)

Slapshots series
The Stars From Mars (1999)
All-Mars All-Stars/The Dream Team (1999)
The Face-off Phony (2000)
Cup Crazy (2000)
4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)

Nose Pickers series
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<mask> (born 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Los Angeles and currently living and working in Oakland, California. He attended Dartmouth College from 1957–59, and the University of California, Berkeley from 1959-62 where he earned his BA. Career
Beasley ranks among the most productive sculptors of the post- Henry Moore/David Smith generation of abstract sculptors. Today, <mask> is recognised as one of the most noteworthy and innovative sculptors on the American West Coast. His work can be found in the permanent collection of 40 art museums around the world, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; the Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC; the Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany; and the Islamic Museum in Cairo. 1960s
In the 1960s, <mask>'s first work consisted of welded sculptures made from broken cast iron. This work brought him national recognition when in 1961 one of his sculptures was included in the ground breaking exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the New York, Museum of Modern Art a piece which appeared in an exhibition which Philip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art of the Oakland Museum of California referred to as "seminal".The following year his assemblage sculpture "Chorus" was acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art, making <mask> the youngest artist to have work in the permanent collection. In 1961, while a student at Berkeley, <mask> joined Peter Voulkos in building one of the first sculptor-built foundries, the storied Garbanzo Works that was instrumental in the Renaissance of bronze casting in American sculpture. Following an abstract esthetic, he began casting sculptures in bronze and aluminum. In 1963, he was one of eleven artists to represent the United States at the Biennale de Paris, where French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux awarded him the purchase

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 prize. In 1968, <mask> began investigating the use of transparency as a sculptural medium. He was successful in creating small transparent sculptures in cast acrylic but experts at Dupont and Rohm & Hass were convinced that it was impossible to do castings as large as Beasley envisioned. That year, the State of California invited Beasley to participate in a competition for a monumental sculpture for the state.At first, the jury was unaware that <mask> was experimenting with transparency as a sculptural medium and invited him based on his work in cast metal. <mask> was determined to pursue transparency and proposed a monumental cast acrylic sculpture. Upon seeing <mask>'s proposal, they questioned the sculptor about its viability. He convinced them that creating what he envisioned was no problem but privately knew that he would have to invent a new process, which he did. His proposal for Apolymon, a transparent sculpture in cast acrylic won and he installed the piece in Sacramento in 1970. 1970s
Fascinated by the esthetics of transparency, <mask> worked in cast acrylic for the next ten years. In 1974, members of the undersea research community approached <mask> to see if he could adapt his technique to cast transparent bathyspheres for undersea exploration.He succeeded in creating the bathyspheres for Johnson Sea Link submersibles for Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. It was these submersibles that were deployed to locate the crew compartment on the bottom of the ocean after the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated upon liftoff in 1986. <mask> continued to make transparent sculpture for the next ten years. His transparent sculptures were exhibited widely both in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions in 1972 at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and group shows including the Salon de Mai in Paris and at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. 1980s
In 1980, <mask> turned back to metal, exploring a more formal geometry with a series of large sculptures produced in both stainless steel and aluminum. He created a number

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 of monumental commissions for public institutions including the San Francisco International Airport, Stanford University; the State of California; the State of Alaska; the Miami International Airport; the City of Eugene, Oregon; and Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. In 1987, he turned to a new direction of work involving cube-like intersecting polyhedra.While most of these were made in cast or fabricated bronze, he also created them in carved granite. This work has been exhibited worldwide in more than 100 exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Public commissions for this series have included the cities of Oakland, California; Dortmund, Germany; Mannheim, Germany; Bad Homburg, Germany; Monterrey, Mexico; Palo Alto, California; as well as the University of Oregon and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 2008, <mask> began sculpting a new series of intersecting stainless steel disks. One of this series, commissioned by the Chinese government for the Beijing Summer Olympics is 15 feet tall and remains permanently installed as part of the Beijing Olympic Park. The Expo 2010 in Shanghai also commissioned a large sculpture in this series for permanent installation in Shanghai. Publishing
<mask>ley: Skulpturen (<mask>ley: Sculpture) (The Stadtiche Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1994) monograph which includes articles by Peter Selz and Manfred Fath,
Sculpture by <mask> (The Oakland Museum of California, 2005), monograph which includes articles by Albert Elsen and Peter Frank,

Works
 Big Red (1974), Eugene, Oregon
 Encounter (2003–2004), Eugene, Oregon

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Documentary by KQED-TV's Spark on <mask>ley
KCBX-FM Public Radio, Part I, Interview with sculptor <mask>, (7 October 2009)
KCBX-FM Public Radio, Part II, Interview with sculptor <mask>, (14 October 2009)
KCBX-FM Public Radio, 6 July 2005 Interview with Phil Linhares, Chief Curator of Art, The Oakland Museum of California, discussing the sculpture of <mask>ly
<mask> website

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<mask> (born July 14, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher of Major League Baseball (MLB). After spending his college years at Chattahoochee Valley Community College and Auburn University, <mask> played in the major leagues for the Oakland Athletics (1999–2004), the Atlanta Braves (2005–13) and the San Francisco Giants (2014–15). With the Giants, he won the 2014 World Series over the Kansas City Royals. During his 17-season career, <mask> established himself as one of baseball's most consistent pitchers and until 2014 had never had a season where he suffered more losses than wins. <mask> was also named an All-Star four times: twice with Oakland,  once with Atlanta, and once with San Francisco. Before retiring in 2015, <mask> was the winningest active Major League pitcher, as well as one of four active pitchers with at least 200 career wins. With a win against the Oakland A's on July 26, 2015, he has won a game against every team in the majors, the 15th pitcher to do so.<mask> is one of twenty-one pitchers in Major League history to win at least 200 games, strike out at least 2,000 batters and have a winning percentage above .600. Of those twenty-one, fourteen are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. High school
<mask> attended Glenwood School in Phenix City, Alabama where in his senior season he led the team to the 1993 AISA state championship. He finished his high school career with a 12–1 record and a 1.78 ERA. Despite his record, <mask> was considered undersized by scouts at 6'0" tall and 160 pounds and was not drafted nor was he offered a scholarship to a major college. <mask>

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 decided to attend a local two-year college, Chattahoochee Valley Community College (CVCC). College
In , his freshman year at CVCC, he earned First-team All American honors while leading his team to the AJCCC Division II championship.He also led CVCC team in batting average (.385), home runs (9), RBI (42), wins (10–2), strikeouts (76), and was second on the team with a 2.76 ERA. As a sophomore, he was named Second-team All American and set a school and conference record with 117 strikeouts which also led the nation. As a hitter, <mask> batted .345 with 5 home runs, and 29 RBI. His sophomore season ERA of 1.95 was the team and conference best. Prior to his junior year, <mask> transferred to Auburn University where he would play two seasons. He is still at or near the top of many school records. In , he played all 65 games for the Tigers while both pitching and playing outfield.That season, he hit .396 with 18 home runs and 95 RBI. As a pitcher, he finished 15–2 with a 2.97 ERA to earn SEC Player of the Year and consensus All-American honors. <mask> was the first player to be named First Team All-SEC at two positions (P,OF) in the same year. He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 6th round of the 1997 amateur draft. Professional career

Oakland Athletics (1999–2004)
<mask> was drafted by the Oakland Athletics twice, in the 35th round of the 1994 MLB Draft and again in the 6th round of the 1997 MLB draft, signing in 1997. He made his Major League debut with a five inning start on June 8, 1999 against the San Diego Padres, where he allowed three earned runs in a game the Athletics eventually lost

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 5–3. He recorded his first career win in his next start, on June 13 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.He allowed only one run in seven innings of the 9–3 victory. In his rookie season, <mask> had an 11–2 mark and finished 5th in the AL Rookie of the Year vote. He became a member of Oakland's so-called "Big Three", along with left-handed pitchers Mark Mulder and Barry Zito. In 2000, he posted a career-high 20 victories along with a 4.14 ERA for Oakland. He finished second in AL Cy Young Award voting behind Pedro Martínez. Over the course of the next three seasons, <mask>'s records were 18-9 in 2001, 15–9 in 2002 and 16–7 in 2003 with a career low 2.70 ERA. In 2004, <mask> failed to pitch 30 games due to injury.He went 12–6 in 27 starts. <mask>'s record while with the A's was 92–39, and an ERA of 3.30. Atlanta Braves (2005–13)
Before the  season, <mask> was traded to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for Charles Thomas, Dan Meyer, and Juan Cruz. On August 6, 2005, <mask> won his 100th career game, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 8–1. In January , <mask> was named to the Team USA roster for the 2006 World Baseball Classic. His second season with the Braves was disappointing. He posted career-highs in losses (12) and ERA (4.86) in 2006.He returned to his earlier form in  however, finishing with a 16–10 record and a 3.33 ERA. He was in the midst of a 9-game winning streak, the second of his career, at one point in the season. <mask> struck out a career-high 13 batters on April 25 against the Florida Marlins. <mask> is one of only 7 ballplayers who pitched in the NL in 2007 who won at least 12 games in each year

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 winning pitcher in the Braves' 10,000th win in franchise history. <mask> went 16–7 with a 3.62 ERA in 2012.On October 30, 2012, <mask> had his $9 million option exercised by the Braves. On April 30, 2013, <mask> became the 113th major league pitcher to reach 200 wins, with an 8-1 victory over the Washington Nationals at Turner Field. <mask> went 7 innings, giving up only 3 hits and 1 run while recording 6 strikeouts and 2 walks. <mask> also went 2 for 3 at the plate with a double and a home run. On July 24, 2013, <mask> was pitching a 4-hit shutout against the New York Mets when Eric Young, Jr., who was trying to beat a throw to first base, accidentally stepped on <mask>'s leg above the ankle. This resulted in an ankle fracture that ended <mask>'s 2013 season. After the season, <mask> became a free agent.His record with the Braves was 113–72 with an ERA of 3.56. San Francisco Giants (2014–2015)

On November 18, 2013, <mask> agreed to a two-year, $23 million contract with the San Francisco Giants. <mask> set a franchise record by pitching  innings in the season before issuing a walk. The streak was snapped on April 25 when he walked Carlos Santana. In his first year with the Giants, he was selected to participate in the All-Star Game. Accomplishing this feat, he has made the All-Star team at least once with every team he has pitched for. On August 27, 2014 in a 4–2 team win over the Colorado Rockies at Oracle Park (then called AT&T Park), <mask> recorded his 2,000th career strikeout.<mask> started game 2 of the 2014 NLDS, a game that went 18 innings; <mask> also started the only other postseason game to

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 go longer than 16 innings while on the Braves in 2005. On October 29, <mask> became the oldest pitcher to start Game 7 of the World Series. The Giants went on to win the game, 3–2, and the series, 4–3, over the Kansas City Royals, giving <mask> the first and only World Series ring of his 16-year career. When <mask> started Game 3 in San Francisco, he became the oldest pitcher (age 39) to make a World Series debut. Prior to the 2015 season, <mask> stated it would likely be his last. Following a 4-3 win against the Oakland Athletics on July 26, 2015, <mask> became the 15th pitcher in MLB history to register at least one win against all 30 current teams. On September 26, 2015, <mask> started against Zito and the Athletics in a matchup that was arranged as a tribute to the A's "Big Three" of the early 2000s.Both pitchers received lengthy standing ovations from the sold-out Oakland Coliseum crowd (which included the third Big Three member, Mulder) upon leaving the game. Scouting report
<mask> was a sinkerballer, using that pitch about half the time and at a speed of 87-91 mph. His next-most used pitch was a cutter at 84–87. He expanded his repertoire to left-handers with a curveball (75-77) and splitter (78-81). He also had a four-seam fastball (88-91 mph). His favored pitch with two strikes to right-handed hitters was his cutter, while he stayed with the sinker to lefties. Achievements
 Professional
 2010 Hutch Award winner
 Received the Roberto Clemente Award nomination for the second year in a row on September 7, 2007.The award is given every year to a Major League Baseball player who gives outstanding

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 performances both on the field and in the community. Major League record for the longest streak of 10 or more wins and 9 or fewer losses in a season (7 straight from 1999–2005)
 2010 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award
 Four-time All-Star (2000, 2004, 2010, 2014)
 3-time Top 10 in American League Cy Young Award voting (2000–01, 2003)
 Led MLB in winning percentage (2000)
 Led AL in wins (20, 2000)
 Led AL in games started (35, 2001)
 Twice led AL in shutouts (2003–04)
 Twice second in AL in shutouts (2000, 2002)
 5-time 15-game winner (2000–03, 2007)
 3-time Athletics' Opening-Day starter (from 2001–04)
 Pitched three complete-game one-hitters: August 28, 2000, against the Chicago White Sox; May 1, 2006, against the Colorado Rockies; and May 4, 2011 against the Milwaukee Brewers. On April 30, 2013, <mask> won his 200th career game, pitching 7 innings of 1 run ball against the Washington Nationals. 2014 World Series Champion
 On July 26, 2015, <mask> became 15th pitcher to record a win against all 30 major-league clubs. College
 Won Rotary Smith Award (1997)
 Consensus All-American (1997)
 NCAA East Regional Tournament MVP (1997)
 SEC Player of the Year (1997)
 All-SEC, both pitcher and outfielder (1997)
 ABCA All-South Region, both pitcher and outfielder (1997)
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 Led NCAA in winning games (15, 1997)

Personal life
<mask> is married to the former Kim Bruner, whom he met while a student at Auburn. The couple have two daughters, Kennedie and Tess, and one son, Kade. They currently live in Auburn, Alabama.<mask> and his wife are very active with their philanthropy

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 for children, the Hudson Family Foundation. <mask> is a Christian. <mask> has spoken about his faith saying, "It's been one of those things, where anybody that's played a sport at the professional level there's always a lot of challenges. And the one thing that's always been a constant for me is Jesus Christ and my faith ... And not only that, but just being an example for other players, my teammates, my friends from home. You know I think it's one of those things where you need to be a beacon of light and just shine on people." On April 29, 2007, both <mask>'s grandmother and St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock, his college teammate at Auburn, died. He drew his grandmother's initials on the pitcher's mound before his next start, and wore them on his spikes.He also sewed Hancock's initials (JH) on his jersey. He pitched 8 innings, giving up 2 earned runs against the Philadelphia Phillies. He did not get a decision, but the Braves ultimately won, 5–2. In 2016, <mask> served as a guest instructor at both the Braves and Giants respective spring training camps. In 2016, <mask> joined Fox Sports South and Fox Sports Southeast as a part-time broadcaster for select Braves games. In 2017, <mask> returned as a spring training instructor for the Giants. He served in the same role for the Braves in 2018.In January 2020, <mask> was named the pitching coach for the Auburn Tigers baseball team. See also

 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
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<mask> is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography
Attended Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome where he earned a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, in Composition and a 1st class honors Master of Music in Film Scoring degree. He studied Conducting with Cesare Croci and Ennio Nicotra and holds a BA, magna cum laude, in Anthropology and Political Science with a published dissertation on Richard Wagner. He was a student of Giorgio Caproni, one of the greatest 20th century Italian poet, his teacher at the primary school, who influenced his musical and artistic training. Professor of Music Composition for Film and Theatre at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, <mask> is one of the founders of the ACMF, the Italian Association of Music Composers for Films. Writes music for cinema, theatre and television. Works in Italy and the United States."Personalità Europea - Oscar dei Giovani" in Rome (1983) for the theme of "TG l'Una" on "Rai Uno", and prize "Agimus" (1996) for the best original soundtrack for the short film Sera. One of the two composers who wrote the music for the CD Abbà Pater,. Work in the United States includes writing and conducting the music for films such as The Shooter (1995 film)   directed by Ted Kotcheff, Silent Trigger and Tale of the Mummy
(Best Soundtrack award at the 18th Fantafestival), both films directed by Russell Mulcahy. "Cinemusic Ravello Festival award" in 2005 for best soundtrack of the Italian TV series Orgoglio (Pride). In 2006 and

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 presented at the MAXXI National Art Museum in Rome on 12 June 2017, an “augmented music” experience in which music, painting, dance and video art are blended together in a spatial setting. The project aims to be a new synthesis and fusion among different art forms. A modern melodrama, in the most extended sense of the term, a non linear process in which the result is superior to the sum of the parts and in which each component - music, dance, painting and video art - concurs in creating an augmented reality that engrosses the spectator on a multi sensory level. "Rendering Revolution", presented by the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, took two years of planning and has received the honorable mention award from Santa Cecilia Conservatory for its exceptional scientific and artistic achievement. He is among the Italian personalities participating in the Charte 18-XXI, a collective of artists, scientists and philosophers brought together by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, artistic director of the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, with the aim of promoting international theatre, with young people and for young people, through a working method and a comparison never made before in the theatrical panorama.As a demonstration of the desire shared by various cultural personalities to create a new space for discussion and dialogue, productions from all over the world participate in the project, including the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. Private life
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<mask> was born in Olympia, Washington to <mask> and Felice Moskowitz, a dance teacher. <mask> is Jewish and is an only child. When she was 9 years old, her parents divorced and she moved to the Portland, Oregon area. In 1995, <mask> graduated from Beaverton High School. In 1999, <mask> received a B.F.A.in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Career

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Shortly after moving to New York City in 2000, <mask> was cast in the 2000 Off-Broadway revival of Godspell at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's Church in Midtown Manhattan. In 2001, <mask> performed in the national tour of Leader of the Pack. In 2002, <mask> made her Broadway debut as an original cast member in the role of Shelley, Denizen of Baltimore, which she originated, in the Tony Award-winning production of Hairspray. She was also an understudy for the roles of Tracy Turnblad, Velma Von Tussle, and Prudy Pingleton. In 2004, <mask> joined the Broadway production of the smash-hit musical Wicked as a replacement standby for Elphaba, which was played by Idina Menzel. On January 8, 2005, a day before Menzel's scheduled end of her run as Elphaba, Menzel fell through a trap door and cracked a lower rib.<mask> went on to perform that show. On January 11, 2005, <mask> took over as Elphaba full-time, where she performed opposite Jennifer Laura Thompson and then Megan Hilty as Glinda, until her last show on January 8, 2006. On January 10, she was replaced by Eden Espinosa

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 as Elphaba. In 2006, <mask> reprised the role of Elphaba in the first national tour of Wicked. Her limited engagement ended on December 30. In 2009, <mask> joined the new production of Peepshow in Las Vegas in the role of Peep Diva alongside Holly Madison. She replaced Spice Girls singer, Mel B.In 2011, <mask> wrote and starred in the musical Dear John Mayer, with music and lyrics by <mask> and book by fellow CCM graduate Eydie Faye. In 2015, <mask> portrayed the role of CeeCee Bloom in the musical adaptation of the book and movie Beaches at the Drury Lane Theater in Chicago. In 2017, <mask> played Fanny Brice in North Shore Music Theatre's production of Funny Girl. In 2018, <mask> performed in the New York City Center Encores! production of Songs for a New World. On March 18, 2019, <mask> returned to Broadway in the role of Jenna in the production of Waitress for a limited engagement through May 2019. On May 13, 2019, it was announced that <mask>'s run was extended through July 21, 2019.Singer
On December 2, 2008, <mask> released her debut solo album, Superhero, on her own label Shotime Records. The record has been described as pop rock. In February 2013, <mask>'s second album, O'Farrell Street, was released. It was produced by Tim K (Madonna, Celine Dion, Brandy), and incorporates 1960s-era soul. The record reached No. 3 on the iTunes R&B charts. In December 2014, <mask> released an EP album of blues called Shadows to Light.The record was produced by <mask> and Jake Schaefer. It reached No. 1 on the iTunes Blues charts. She performed her single "Runaway Train" on The Queen Latifah Show. Beginning in 2015, <mask> has performed with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), performing Justin Bieber's "Sorry" and

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Discography

LPs
 2008: Superhero (Shotime Records)
 2013: O' Farrell Street (Shotime Records)
 2018: Spectrum (Shotime Records)

EPs
 2014: Shadows to Light - EP (Shotime Records)
 2020: Selah - EP

Singles
 2011: "A Little Hope" (Billy-Boo)
 2012: "O Holy Night" (Shotime Records)
 2012: "Runnin' Out Of Days" (Shotime Records)
 2013: "Skywriter" (Shotime Records)
 2014: "Runaway Train" (Shotime Records)
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 2015: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Shotime Records)
 2017: "One Way to Go" (Shotime Records) – written by <mask> and Britten Newbill. Soundtracks and cast recordings
 2001: Godspell – Off-Broadway Revival Cast Recording (Varese Sarabande)
 2002: Hairspray – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Classical)
 2007: Hairspray – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New Line Records)
 2008: Enchanted – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records)
 2015: Are You Joking?, "Ain't Life Funny" – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Barb & Associates Records)
 2018: Songs for a New World -  2018 New York City Center Encores! (TV Series short) vocals in 1 episode: "A Tiny Urban Zoo"
 2017: Bloodline (TV Series) as Shayna in 1 episode: "Part 30"
 2020: Bill & Ted Face the Music as First Noble

Awards and honors
 2010: Independent Music Award, Best R&B Song for "Superhero" from Superhero
 2015: Jeff Award, Best Lead Actress in a Musical, nominee, for her role as CeeCee Bloom in the musical Beaches at Drury Lane Theater, Chicago
 2017: IRNE Award for her role as Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl at North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, Massachusetts

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Further reading

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1977 births
American musical theatre actresses
American stage actresses
University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni
American women singer-songwriters
Living people
People from Beaverton, Oregon
Independent Music Awards winners
Jewish American actresses
Jewish American songwriters
Jewish singers
LGBT rights activists from the United States
Singer-songwriters from Oregon
Beaverton High School alumni
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<mask> (; born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer and cryptologist. <mask> worked at Simutronics Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri from 1990–2014, and in 2015 was Senior Producer at Black Gate Games in Nashville, Tennessee. She is Chairperson Emerita and one of the founders of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games group, has contributed or been editor in chief on multiple IGDA State of the Industry white papers, and was one of the Directors of the Global Game Jam from 2011–2014. As of 2020 she works as a management consultant at Accenture. <mask> has published a book of exercises on classical cryptography, and maintains cryptography-related websites about topics such as Kryptos, a sculpture at the Central Intelligence Agency containing an encrypted message, and another on the world's most famous unsolved codes. She has given several lectures on the subject of cryptography, and according to the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW she is "generally considered the leading Kryptos expert in the world." In 2010, bestselling author Dan Brown named a character, Nola Kaye, in his novel The Lost Symbol after her, in an anagram pattern.Early life and education
<mask> was born in Santa Monica, California, the older of two children to <mask>, a Polish-American mathematician, and Elsie Ivancich, a Croatian-American dance ethnologist at UCLA. <mask> graduated in 1976 from University High School, and then enrolled as an undergraduate at UCLA, but dropped out near the end of her freshman year. <mask> joined the United States Air Force, working as an avionics technician at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom and Beale Air Force Base in California. After choosing not to re-enlist, she studied digital electronics at Yuba College—a

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 two-year community college—but did not obtain a degree. Career

Online games
In the 1980s, she became involved with the growing BBS culture. In 1989, while she was working as a temporary legal secretary in Los Angeles, this interest overlapped into the early multiplayer games, such as British Legends on CompuServe and Simutronics' GemStone II on GEnie. In 1990, <mask> moved to St. Louis and began working for the online game company Simutronics.Simutronics launched its own website, play.net, in 1997 with <mask> as General Manager of Online Games, managing Simutronics' online community. <mask> was the product manager for GemStone III, executive producer for the Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess-based multiplayer game Alliance of Heroes, and worked in a variety of production and development roles on most of Simutronics' other products, including CyberStrike, Modus Operandi, DragonRealms, HeroEngine, Fantasy University, and Tiny Heroes. She is a founding member of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games SIG and edited four of their annual White Papers on various aspects of the online game industry, such as "Web and Downloadable Games" and "Persistent Worlds." Games
<mask> held a variety of production and development roles during her 24 years at Simutronics. Games that she worked on include:
 GemStone III
 GemStone IV
 DragonRealms
 CyberStrike
 CyberStrike 2
 Alliance of Heroes (originally Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes)
 Modus Operandi
 Orb Wars
 Fantasy University
 Tiny Heroes

Cryptography

<mask> has written books and articles about cryptography, and been interviewed on radio and television about related subjects such as Kryptos, the Smithy Code, and Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes. In an interview with GIGnews.com,

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 <mask> said that in the year 2000 she cracked the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, an amateur cryptographic puzzle created by a hacker group, and that this launched her public interest in high-profile ciphers. Because of the location of Kryptos on CIA grounds, physical access to the sculpture is restricted.According to Wired News, in 2002, <mask> gave a presentation to CIA analysts about steganography and Al-Qaeda, and "[i]n 2002, <mask> was one of the lucky few who saw [Kryptos] in person", and "she also made rubbings of the text". Based on her visit, she launched the beginnings of what became a comprehensive website about the sculpture, and also became co-moderator of a Yahoo Group that is attempting to decipher the encrypted messages on the sculpture. In 2003, <mask> organized a team which solved the ciphers on Kryptos'''s sister sculpture, the Cyrillic Projector. Alt URL Alt URL

When Kryptos sculptor Jim Sanborn chose to release information about an error on the sculpture in 2006, he contacted <mask> to make the announcement. In July 2007, <mask> appeared on the PBS program NOVA scienceNOW, as an expert on Kryptos, and in 2009, contributed two articles about the sculpture for the book Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel, a companion book to author Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol. <mask> had assisted Brown with the research for the novel, and Brown named a character in the novel after her. The character "Nola Kaye" is an anagrammed form of "Elonka".In 2006, <mask> compiled a book of several hundred exercises in classical cryptography, which was published in the United States as The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms, and in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles. The book

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 also includes a few details about several unsolved codes, such as Kryptos. In 2013, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by <mask>, the NSA released documents which show the NSA became involved in attempts to solve the Kryptos puzzle in 1992, following a challenge by Bill Studeman, Deputy Director of the CIA. The documents show that by June 1993, a small group of NSA cryptanalysts had succeeded in solving the first three parts of the sculpture. Public speaking
<mask> has given talks on Kryptos and the Cyrillic Projector'' at the National Security Agency's Cryptologic History Symposium, Def Con, Shmoocon, Notacon, PhreakNIC, and Dragon*Con, and has also given lectures at the International Game Developers Conference. She has been invited to be a co-host on the Binary Revolution webcast three times. In October 2012, she was the guest of honor at Archon.In 2021, she gave a TEDx talk on cryptography, "2000 years of ordinary secrets". Personal life
<mask> is a Wikipedia editor who has made tens of thousands of edits. Works and publications
 (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2002. PDF
 (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2003. PDF
 (editor) IGDA Web & Downloadable Games White Paper, 2004. PDF
 (editor-in-chief) IGDA Persistent Worlds White Paper, 2004. PDF

References

External links

 January 2003 Unfiction interview with <mask> <mask>

1958 births
American information and reference writers
American people of Croatian descent
American video game designers
Living people
MUD developers
Recreational cryptographers
People from Santa Monica, California
Puzzle designers
University High School (Los Angeles) alumni
United States Air Force airmen
American people of Polish descent
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<mask> (, born 24 August 1987) is a Slovene professional ice hockey centre and captain for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). The 11th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> became the first Slovene to play in the NHL upon making his debut in 2006. <mask> has spent his entire NHL career with the Kings, has led the team in scoring in all but two seasons and is fourth in franchise history in points, goals, and assists, scoring his 1,000th career point in 2021. Following the 2015–16 season, he was named the Kings' captain. Noted for both his offensive and defensive play, <mask> was awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the best defensive forward in the NHL in 2016, as well as the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for gentlemanly play the same year. He won his second Selke trophy in 2018. Kopitar played junior hockey for his hometown team HK Acroni Jesenice before moving to Sweden at age 16 to play in a more competitive league.He spent one season with the junior teams of the Södertälje SK organization, and then with the senior team of the top-level Elitserien. He moved to North America to join the Kings in 2006, one year after he was drafted, and finished fourth in the Calder Memorial Trophy voting for the league's top rookie. <mask>'s offensive talent was immediately apparent when he joined the Kings, though his defensive style developed in later seasons and he has become recognized for his two-way play, being a finalist for the Selke Trophy 3 times, winning twice. In 2018 he was a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy. Praised as one of the best players in the League, <mask> won the Stanley Cup championship with the Kings in 2012 and 2014, leading the playoffs in points on both occasions (tied with teammate Dustin Brown in 2012). Internationally, <mask> has represented the Slovenian national team in several junior and senior tournaments, as well as at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He also played for Team Europe at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.Playing career

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 <mask> began playing for the youth team of his hometown, HK Acroni Jesenice. He split the year between the team's under-18 and junior clubs, and also appeared in 11 games for the senior team HK Kranjska Gora of the Slovenian Ice Hockey League. <mask> had four goals and four assists in the senior league, and recorded 76 points in 14 games for the Jesenice under-18 team and 27 points in 20 games for the junior club. He led the Slovenian Ice Hockey League in scoring at the age of 16, and Swedish scout Lars Söder recruited Kopitar for the Elitserien in 2004 (Söder had originally discovered Kopitar when he was 13 at the 2001 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Vuokatti, Finland). The Slovenian Ice Hockey League did not have a high enough skill level, so Kopitar decided that if he wanted to improve his career prospects, he would have to leave the country. He was offered a chance to play in Sweden for Södertälje SK, eventually joining their junior team where he led the League in scoring, with 49 points (28 goals, 21 assists) in 30 games. Prior to the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> was ranked the top European skater by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau.After his first season in Sweden, he was chosen 11th overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 2005 Draft. Unlike most top-ranked prospects, <mask> was not at the draft, but in Sweden playing in preseason games. Some members of the team had a party for the draft, including Niclas Bergfors, who was selected 23rd overall by the New Jersey Devils. Prior to the NHL Draft, <mask> was also selected in the CHL Import Draft by the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He declined to move to North America, however, hoping to further his development by continuing to play against professionals in the Elitserien, rather than against major junior players in the WHL. Los Angeles Kings (2006–present)

Early career in Los Angeles (2006–2011)
<mask> signed an entry-level contract with the Kings on 7 September 2005, but returned to play in Sweden for another season. The next

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 Kings' most valuable player, and led the team in scoring for the third-straight year. <mask> made his Stanley Cup playoff debut that season, as the Kings qualified for the postseason for the first time since 2002. The Kings lost in the Western Conference Quarterfinals to the Vancouver Canucks, and Kopitar finished tied for third on the team with five points in six games. The 2010–11 season saw <mask> play in his 325th consecutive NHL game, which set a new Kings team record, passing Marcel Dionne on 15 March 2011. However eleven days later, <mask>'s season and ironman streak came to an abrupt end at 330 games after he suffered a broken ankle. Despite the injury setback, <mask> led the team in scoring for the fourth straight season with 73 points, and was named the team's most valuable player for the second time.Stanley Cup titles (2012–2014)
In the 2011–12 season, <mask> led the Kings in scoring with 76 points, including a career-best 51 assists. The Kings won the Stanley Cup as playoff champions, their first title in team history. <mask> finished tied with Kings captain Dustin Brown to lead the team in playoff scoring, with each having 20 points from 20 games played. <mask> became the first Slovenian-born player to win the Stanley Cup. In recognition of this, <mask> was named as the 2012 Slovenian male Athlete of the Year. The 2012–13 NHL season was delayed due to the NHL lockout, so <mask> joined his younger brother Gašper on Mora IK of the Swedish second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan, signing a contract with the team for the 2012–13 season. He played 31 games for Mora, scoring 34 points, before the NHL lockout ended in January 2013.A shortened, 48-game NHL season commenced, <mask> recorded 42 points in 47 games to once again lead the Kings in scoring, and was named the team's best defensive player. The 2013–14 season saw <mask> lead the team in scoring for the seventh consecutive season, with 70 points, and was named both the team's most valuable player and best defensive player. He also was a finalist for

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 the Frank J. Selke Trophy as best defensive forward in the NHL for the first time. In the playoffs, <mask> led the entire league in scoring, recording 26 points in 26 games, as the Kings won their second Stanley Cup championship. Selke Trophy wins and continued success (2015–present)
The next season saw Kopitar tie Marcel Dionne as the only player in Kings history to lead the team in scoring eight times, having scored 16 goals and 48 assists for 64 points. Kopitar was a finalist for the Selke Trophy again, and also for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded for sportsmanship. During the 2015–16 season <mask> signed an eight-year contract extension with the Kings.It would pay him an average of $10 million per season until the end of the 2023–24 season. He finished the season with 74 points, setting a team record by leading the Kings in scoring for a ninth consecutive season. <mask> also was awarded both the Lady Byng and Frank J. Selke Trophies, the first player from the Kings to win either award. He also won the Bill Libby Memorial Award as the most valuable player on the Kings for the fifth time. On 16 June 2016, <mask> was named the captain of the Kings, replacing Dustin Brown. In his first season as captain of the Kings, <mask> saw his production drop, and he finished with 52 points, second on the team and ending his nine-year streak of leading the team in scoring. <mask> returned to form in the 2017–18 season scoring a career-high 35 goals and 57 assists for 92 points, helping the Kings get back to the playoffs.After the season, <mask> was a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy and was awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the second time in his career. The following season, on April 1, 2019, in a game against the Calgary Flames, Kopitar played his 1,000th NHL game. On May 5, 2021, <mask> recorded his 1,000th career point, becoming the 91st player to reach the mark. On October 14, 2021, <mask> kicked off the Kings' home opener scoring 3 goals and 2 assists for 5 points against the Vegas Golden Knights,

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 setting a franchise record for most points in a home opening game; the feat was last achieved by Jari Kurri in the 1991-92 home opener. <mask> would get the first star for NHL player of the week, after scoring a goal for the next 3 games following the home opener. International play

<mask> first played in an international tournament when he participated in the Division I (second level) tournament of the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships for the Slovenian national junior team. He appeared in five games and recorded three points.The following year he appeared in the 2004 U18 tournament and the 2004 World Junior Championships. Slovenia competed in Division I at both tournaments, one level below the top division. <mask> scored six goals and eight points in five games during the under-18 tournament and finished second overall for goals scored and third for points, leading Slovenia in both categories; at the World Juniors he had one goal and one assist in five games. In 2005 <mask> appeared in three international tournaments for Slovenia; he took part in the U18 Championship, World Juniors, and the senior World Championship, his first tournament with the Slovenian national team. Slovenia competed at the Division I level for both junior tournaments, but at the top level for the senior championship. He would play his last junior tournament in 2006 at the Division I level, with six points in five games. At the 2006 World Championship he played for Slovenia at the top level and recorded three goals and nine points in six games, tying for fifth among scoring leaders.Slovenia was relegated to Division I for 2007, where <mask> had 13 assists and 14 points, leading the tournament in both categories. Back in the top division for the 2008 IIHF World Championship, <mask> appeared in five games and had four points to lead his team, though Slovenia was once again relegated. Slovenia qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi; as the qualifying games were held during the NHL season <mask> was unable to participate, though

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 his father Matjaž coached the team and Gašper played in the matches. Though Gašper was part of the team that secured qualification for Slovenia, he was not named to the Olympic roster. <mask> helped Slovenia reach the quarterfinals of the tournament by scoring two goals and one assist. <mask> was also named to play in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey for Team Europe, which includes players from most of Europe (the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, and Sweden have their own teams). Prior to the announcement <mask> had expressed excitement towards the concept, which was to be introduced during the tournament, noting that as a Slovenian he had few opportunities to play in tournaments like this.Playing style

<mask> is known in the NHL as one of the most effective two-way forwards, in that he is effective both as an offensive and defensive player. He won the Frank J. Selke Trophy, which is given to the best defensive forward in the NHL, in 2016, after being a finalist for the award in both 2014 and 2015. He is known for being skilled at taking faceoffs, with one of the highest averages in the league during his career. He is also skilled at offence, and currently leads the Kings in team scoring from 2008 to the present (except 2016-17). Personal life
<mask> was born in Jesenice, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia) to Matjaž and Mateja <mask>. Matjaž played hockey for HK Acroni Jesenice, winning the league title three times, and was a member of the Yugoslav and Slovenian national teams. He also coached HK Acroni Jesenice of the Austrian Hockey League during the 2006–07 season and the Slovenian national team from 2010 until 2015.Mateja worked at the family restaurant, Hrušica, a village about five kilometres from Jesenice. When Kopitar was four, his father first taught him how to skate; Matjaž built an ice rink in their backyard in Hrušica, and Kopitar would play there whenever he could. Kopitar has a brother, Gašper, who is five years younger. Gašper also plays hockey; when the <mask> family moved to Los Angeles, Gašper


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 joined a junior team sponsored by the Kings. He then played for the Portland Winterhawks of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) and the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League (USHL), before turning professional with Mora IK in Sweden. Kopitar's grandmother taught English at a local high school, and both Kopitar and his brother learned to speak English from her. Kopitar speaks five languages: Slovene, Serbian, German, Swedish, and English.He enjoys playing soccer and is a declared supporter of Slovenian soccer club NK Maribor. Kopitar is renowned in Slovenia due to his hockey exploits, with a government-sponsored website declaring that after he won the Stanley Cup in 2012 he was "the most recognised Slovenian sportsman." As a youth, he played in the 2000 and 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a team from Slovenia. He also hosts an annual charity golf tournament that benefits various groups, mainly youths. <mask> lived with his parents until moving to Sweden, where he lived alone in an apartment. After his first season in the NHL, the rest of <mask>'s family joined him in Los Angeles; Kopitar bought a home in Manhattan Beach in 2014. <mask> met Ines Dominc in Slovenia in 2005; they married in July 2013.Their first child, a daughter named Neža, was born on 14 March 2015. Their second child, son Jakob, was born 5 October 2016. Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs
Bold indicates led league

International

YoungStar Games

All-Star Games

All statistics are taken from NHL.com. Awards and honours

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Ethnic Slovene people
Frank Selke Trophy winners
Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winners
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Mora IK players
National Hockey League All-Stars
National Hockey League first round draft picks
Olympic ice hockey players of Slovenia
Slovenian ice hockey centres
Södertälje SK players
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A. C<mask> (born <mask>.; 4 Nov 1923 – 5 April 2002) was an American writer – important in Texas literary matters as a memoirist, fiction writer, historian, poet, and influential book critic in Dallas. As a newspaper journalist, he had been a book critic and editor of the Editorial Page for the Dallas Times Herald when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, which galvanized his role at the paper to help untangle and lift a demoralized city in search of its soul. Leaving full-time journalism in 1968, <mask> went on to become a prolific author of books, notably on Texas lore and history. His notoriety led to stints in radio and TV as talk-show host. By the 1980s, his commentaries were being published by major media across the country. He had become a sought-after source for Texas history, anecdotes, cultural perspective, facts, humor, books, and politics. When the 1984 Republican National Convention was held in Dallas, <mask> granted sixty-three interviews about Texas topics to major media journalists.<mask>'s 1990 book, Taking Heart – which examines the experiences of the first patient in a new heart transplant center (himself) – made The New York Times Editors Choice list. Career

In 1948, <mask> began working as a cub reporter for the Abilene Reporter-News and wrote book reviews and articles for the entertainment section. From 1952 to 1957, <mask> owned and operated the Abilene Book Store, located at 365 Cypress Street, across the street from the Paramount Theater – its slogan: "The Book Center of West Texas." In 1957, he began teaching journalism at Hardin-Simmons University. <mask>, in his teens, was

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 known as "A. C." So, in 1953, he legally changed his name from <mask> to A. C. and dropped the Jr. In 1960, <mask> became a book editor for the Dallas Times Herald; and in 1963, the Times Herald promoted him as Editor of the Editorial Page, a role he performed until 1965. Of the Kennedy assassination, <mask> wrote:

<mask> left the Times Herald in 1968 to pursue a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and to devote more time to writing books.From 1968 to 1969, <mask> was the executive editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, a publication of the Texas State Historical Association. In 1969, he served as President of the Texas Institute of Letters while working on his doctorate at The University of Texas at Austin. In 1968, <mask> was awarded a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin which included a six-month stay at Paisano, a ranch 14 miles southwest of Austin purchased by J. Frank Dobie for use as a writer's retreat. The award and retreat led to <mask>'s first book, A Personal Country. In the 1980s, <mask> wrote a weekly column on Texas history for the Dallas Morning News. From 1986 to 1992, <mask> served as Founding Coordinating Director of the Center for Texas Studies at the University of North Texas in Denton. He retired as emeritus director.James Ward Lee, PhD (born 1931) – an author, professor of English at North Texas since 1958, former chairman of the English Department, and co-director of the center – called <mask> "The Dean of Texas Letters." Annually, <mask>'s hometown of Abilene, Texas presents the A.C. Greene Award to a distinguished Texas author for

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 lifetime achievement during the West Texas Book Festival. Past winners include John Graves, Sandra Brown, Elmer Kelton, <mask>, John Erickson, and many others. Family and growing up
<mask> gave much credit for his love of reading, writing, and storytelling to his maternal grandmother, Maude E<mask> (1879–1961). Besides being a writer and poet, she was also an amateur painter. She was a prize-winning and published poet and author, and from 1926 to 1946, a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Abilene, Texas. She was a pioneer in the Texas literary scene.Maude was born Maude Elfie <mask> in 1879 in Youngsport, Texas.. Later, she changed her name from Elfie to Elizabeth and used Maude E<mask> as her name the rest of her life] and, in 1921, became a widow of <mask> <mask> (1872–1921). She remarried in 1945 to <mask> Tileston (1871–1952). Maude, known to the family as "Mibby", regularly took A. C<mask> to the library for full days while she worked. <mask> claims that the library had been his babysitter. Maude's mother, <mask> Dockray <mask> Longley, had become a widow of John Lytle <mask> in 1888 and remarried <mask> (1816–1907), a veteran of the Texas Revolution and father of three sons by a previous marriage, one of whom was gunman Bill Longley. A. C. was married twice, first in 1950 to Betty Jo Dozier (1925–1989). They had three sons and a daughter: <mask>, <mask> (1955–2005), Eliot Bruce, and Meredith Elizabeth.<mask>'s parents – <mask> <mask>. (born in Wills Point, Texas, in 1902), and Johnnie <mask> (born in Beaumont, Teas, in 1906) – were killed in 1964 in a two-vehicle accident while traveling

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 from Beaumont to Dallas (after visiting their son <mask> and his new wife, Mary Welch, in New Orleans). Their car had been hit by an 18-wheel truck doing 80 mph on U.S. 69, five miles south of Rusk, Texas. <mask> was  at the time. His only living sibling, David Michael <mask> (1938-2015), who later moved to New York City, was . A. C. and David had a brother John Lytle, but he had died  months of age in 1935. A. C.'s four children ranged from  to . In 1989, <mask>'s wife Betty lost her battle with cancer.He subsequently remarried Judy Dalton Hyland (née Julia Hall Dalton; 1933–2012), who in 1979 had divorced John Walton Hyland, M.D. Judy was the daughter of the former governor of Missouri, John Montgomery Dalton. Through that marriage, he gained two stepdaughters: Julia "Julie" Elizabeth Hyland and <mask> Hyland. Judy died 8 August 2012 in Austin. Selected published works

Books (1st editions)

Literary criticism by Greene

Poetry

Stage plays, screenplays and opera
The last captive: A Screenplay Manuscript (1991)
A Cherished Design: The Creation of the University of Texas (1981)
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery: A Screenplay (1989)

Oral histories
 Transcript: Dallas Mayors Oral history Project, No. 7, co-authored with <mask>, Oral History Program, East Texas State University

Selected articles
 Upwardly Mogul: Move Over, Hollywood. Make Way for <mask>.<mask>? Texas Monthly November 1976 pps. It is a feather of the West Texas Book Festival and is sponsored by Friends of the Abilene Public Library, the Abilene Reporter-News, and the Scripps Howard Foundation. Chautauqua Award for lifetime achievement

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 in preserving history, Dallas County Heritage Society
 1998 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Texas Book Festival, hosted by Laura Bush

Formal education
 1940 – Graduated from Abilene High School
 Attended Phillips University
 1948 – Bachelor of Arts, Abilene Christian University
 1968 – Did post-grad work at The University of Texas at Austin, towards a PhD

References
General references
Talking with Texas Writers: Twelve Interviews by Patrick Bennett (interviews with Larry McMurty), A. C<mask>, John Graves, et al., Texas A&M University Press (1980)
Biography Index: A Cumulative Index to Biographical Material in Books and Magazines, H.W. Wilson Company, New YorkVol. 17: September 1990—August 1992 (1992)  Vol. 29: September 2003—August 2004 (2004)
Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields, Gale Research, DetroitVolumes 37–40, 1st revision (1979)  New Revision Series: Volume 14 (1985)  New Revision Series: Volume 92 (2001)

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1923 births
2002 deaths
American columnists
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