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Wallace, James M. "A Gary School Survives: Angelo Patri and Urban Education." History of Education Quarterly 45, no. 1 (2005): 96–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2005.tb00028.x.
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Angelo Petraglia, born in 1876 in the Salerno Province of Italy, the first child of Nicola and Carmela Petraglia, spent his first five years in Piaggine, a small mountain village, and in 1881 sailed to New York City with his mother, his uncle, and a younger sister. His father had preceded them to America to find work and a place to live. The family name was changed to Patri, perhaps by immigration authorities. The sister died shortly after their arrival in America, but three other sisters were born soon after.
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Uwera, Charlotte. "Coming out of a deep hole after a life of trials." Torture Journal 24, no. 2 (2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/torture.v24i2.111626.
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My name is Charlotte Uwera. I was born in 1969. I studied until primary six. My father was a mason and my mother a cultivator. I am one of six siblings. Three of my siblings died during the genocide and the fourth one faced a normal death. Only my big sister and I survived the genocide.
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Hepner, Gershon. "ABRAHAM'S INCESTUOUS MARRIAGE WITH SARAH: A VIOLATION OF THE HOLINESS CODE." Vetus Testamentum 53, no. 2 (2003): 143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853303764664580.
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AbstractVerbal resonances suggest that Abraham's claim that Sarah is his half-sister in Gen. xx 13 indicates that he violates the prohibition of sibling incest in Lev. xx 17. This observation links Abraham not only to Amnon who has an incestuous relationship with his half-sister Tamar but to David who has an incestuous relationship with his halfsister Abigail after the death of her husband Nabal. The narrative of the conception of Moab, the son born to Lot after his unwitting incestuous relationship with his younger daughter, precedes the narrative in which Abraham admits that Sarah is his half-sister and is followed by the birth of Isaac, suggesting that the Torah implies that Isaac is no less the product of an incestuous relationship that violates the Holiness Code than Moab, an ancestor of David and Perez who is born as a result of an unwitting incestuous relationship between Judah and Tamar.
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Lusek, Joanna. "Siostry Klemensy od Wniebowzięcia (Janiny Wójcik) wspomnienia z zesłania (1940–1946)." Medycyna Nowożytna 27, no. 2 (2021): 139–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/12311960mn.21.017.15245.
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Sisters Klemensa of the Assumption (Janina Wójcik) memories of exile (1940–1946) Sister Klemensa of the Assumption, Janina Wójcik (1893–1982), was born in Nowy Sącz, to the family of Ignacy – a railwayman and Jadwiga née Zwierzyńska. She graduated from the Private Teachers’ Seminary in Tarnów, gaining qualifi cations to teach manual labor in elementary schools. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in 1917. She made her perpetual profession in 1925. Before the outbreak of World War II, she worked in the monasteries in Wirów, Szymanów, Jarosław, Słonim, Niżniów and Maciejów as an economist, refectory and vestress. After the outbreak of World War II, she was forced to leave the monastery in Maciejów. She stayed briefl y in Lviv. In 1940, she was deported to the Mariinsky Autonomous Socialist Republic of the USSR. She worked in the canteen in Nowa Strojka, then in the hospital in Joszkar-Oła. In the 1970s, Sister Klemensa wrote down retrospective memoirs entitled “Memoirs from Russia of Sister Klemensa of the Assumption (Janina Wójcik). My memories of the last war (1939–1946)”. They count 25 single-sided pages. They include the time of deportation, with particular emphasis on information about the work performed. Sister Klemensa returned to Poland, to Nowy Sącz in 1946.
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FLOYD, B. "HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS OF DA-AN BOYS: DID SISTERS REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?" Journal of Biosocial Science 37, no. 3 (2004): 287–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932004006674.
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This study further examined the negative association between boys’ growth and the presence of sisters within a relatively affluent community in Taipei, Taiwan. Among 596 boys born in 1976–77, differences in height and log-transformed weight were judged using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with measurement age as a covariate, and parental education level (four levels), number of sisters (0, 1, 2 or 3+) and number of brothers (0, 1, 2+) as predictors. The relative importance of birth order and sibling sex was examined among the near majority of boys with one sibling (47%, 278/596). The sibling composition variable was defined using mutually exclusive categories representing individuals with one sibling: either one older or younger brother or sister. All boys contributed information before leaving middle school at a mean age of 14·9±0·4 years SD. The results were compared with similar analyses of data for 154 of these same boys for whom measurements were available from primary school entry at a mean age of 6·4±0·3 years SD onward. Results were also compared with data for a cohort of 153 boys who entered primary school later in 1986. Results confirm that boys from the Da-an area born in the mid-1970s who did not have sisters were significantly taller (2·2–2·5 cm, p≤0·008) and heavier (3·0–3·9 kg, p≤0·016) than those with one or two sisters. However, the 26 boys with three or more sisters, most of whom were last-born, were somewhat taller than those with one or two sisters. The same curvilinear relationships in height and weight appeared both among boys as they prepared to leave middle school and among the subset also measured just after entering primary school. When numbers of sisters were statistically controlled, the presence of two or more brothers was also significantly negatively associated with mean stature, but not weight, among middle school boys. Analyses among boys with one sibling revealed that birth order was associated with mean stature, but only if the sibling was female; an older sister was associated with a greater deficit in mean stature than a younger sister. Evidence of rising educational expectations, continued declines in family size with fewer gender-related differences in numbers of siblings, and a clear secular increase in body size in this community among children entering primary school from 1982 to 1986 suggest a possible explanatory model.
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Jagur-Grodzinski, Joseph, and Stanislaw Penczek. "Michael Szwarc. 19 June 1909 — 4 August 2000." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 52 (January 2006): 365–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0025.
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Michael Szwarc was born in Będzin, an industrial town in the south of Poland, as an only son of a Jewish family. Michael received his pre–college and college education in Warsaw and in 1932 received his degree in chemical engineering from the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. After graduation he married in 1933 Maria Frenkel (Marysia), whose brother married his younger sister Rala. From 1933 to 1935 he worked in Poland as a chemical engineer. In 1935 he emigrated to Palestine (today's Israel) and after a year was joined there by his sister and brother–in–law. Two of his three children were born during his stay in Jerusalem, where he was engaged in research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from which he gained a PhD in organic chemistry. In late 1945 he went to England, where he joined the group under Professor Michael Polanyi FRS in Manchester.
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Lusek, Joanna. "A Work Built to Last…" Biografistyka Pedagogiczna 5, no. 2 (2020): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.36578/bp.2020.05.23.
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Sister Wanda Garczyńska of God’s Will (1891–1954) was born in Lviv. She grew up in a home with patriotic traditions. She attended the educational institutions in Niżniów and Jazłowiec and the Wanda Niedziałkowska Women’s High School in Lviv. During World War I, as a volunteer nurse, she worked in military hospitals in Kiev and Lviv; she also helped in orphanages for children, and organized scouting activities. Her passion and life mission was teaching. In 1919, she graduated from the Teachers’ College in Krakow, and in 1925—from the Higher Courses for Teachers in Lviv. In 1926, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. After that, she taught in the schools of the Immaculate Conception in Jazłowiec and Jarosław.
 In 1934, she became the head of the private primary school of the Congregation at 59 Kazimierzowska Street in Warsaw’s [Warszawa] Mokotów district. From 1940, when the facility was closed by the German authorities, until she left before it was burnt down in mid-August 1944, the school held secret classes covering the secondary school curriculum for girls and boys, and secret university lectures. At Kazimierzowska, help was provided to Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto, displaced persons from the nearby bombed houses and refugees. In March 1983, the Yad Vashem Institute of National Remembrance awarded Sister Wanda Garczyńska posthumously with the Righteous Among the Nations Medal.
 After the end of World War II, Sister Wanda Garczyńska organized a female gymnasium and a boarding school in Wałbrzych-Sobięcin. In June 2012, the Educational Foundation named after sister Wanda Garczyńska was established there. Its task is to support the unemployed, the poor, single mothers with children and to implement programs for the promotion of professional activation and health, as well as to support educational activities.
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Guilbert, Nathalie, and Karine Marazyan. "MOTHER SINGLEHOOD AT FIRST BIRTH AND MORTALITY RISKS OF FIRST- AND LATER-BORN CHILDREN: THE CASE OF SENEGAL." Journal of Demographic Economics 84, no. 1 (2018): 41–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dem.2018.1.
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AbstractThis paper investigates the extent to which being born to a single mother affects a child’s survival rate in Senegal, a context where girls’ premarital sexual relationships are still widely stigmatized. It also examines whether any negative effect persists up to affecting the survival rate of children of higher birth order born after the mother has married. Using data from Demographic and Health Survey, we find that the mortality rate is higher for first-born boys, but not for first-born daughters, whose mother was single at the time of their birth, and lower for second-born children whose sister, but not brother, was born out of wedlock. The latter effect is actually driven by children from older cohorts of women. Therefore, strategies to mitigate the negative consequences of the stigma associated with a premarital birth seem to exist but vary with the gender of the child born premarital in Senegal. In addition, persisting negative effects appear to have decreased over time. Potential channels through which boys born from a single mother are at a higher risk of death in the country are discussed. Overall, our findings indicate that social programs targeting single mothers, especially when they gave birth to a boy, would help avoiding dramatic events as the death of a child.
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Yamamura, Hirohei, and Shun-Ichi Nakamura. "Yasutomi Nishizuka. 12 July 1932 — 4 November 2004." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 52 (January 2006): 219–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0016.
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Yasutomi Nizhizuka was born in Seido Village, Muko–gun (now City of Ashiya), Hyogo–Prefecture, on 12 July 1932, as the second son of Yasunobu and Nobuko Nishizuka. His elder brother, Yasuaki (1922–95, pathologist, President of Aichi Cancer Center), was 10 years old, his eldest sister, Hiroko, was aged 8, his elder sister, Fumiko, was 5, and he was a heterozygotic twin with his sister Junko. His mother, Nobuko, was from the Ijichi family, a huge landlord, which traced its roots back to a powerful family of the Heian Era (eleventh century). When Yasutomi was an infant, he was so weak that his parents were not sure that he would survive to adulthood. He had intussusception (ileus) when he was six months old. He barely survived after emergency surgery at Daido Hospital in Osaka. Since then, he frequently suffered from diseases associated with stomach ache. He was always weak and ailing.
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Rickard, Ian J. "Offspring are lighter at birth and smaller in adulthood when born after a brother versus a sister in humans." Evolution and Human Behavior 29, no. 3 (2008): 196–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.01.006.
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Skeel, Sharon. Catherine Littlefield. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190654542.001.0001.
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Born in Philadelphia in 1905, Catherine Littlefield first learns dancing from her mother, Caroline (called Mommie), who was an expert pianist, and from a local dancing master, C. Ellwood Carpenter. As a teenager, Catherine becomes a Ziegfeld dancer and takes lessons from Luigi Albertieri in New York. She returns home in 1925 to help Mommie teach at the Littlefield School (among her students is Zelda Fitzgerald) and stage dances for women’s musical clubs and opera companies. William Goldman hires Catherine to produce routines in commercial theaters throughout Philadelphia and becomes her boyfriend. Catherine, Mommie, and Catherine’s sister, Dorothie, travel to Paris so the sisters can study ballet with Lubov Egorova. They become friendly with George Balanchine in Paris and help him establish his first American school and company when he comes to the United States in 1933. Catherine marries wealthy Philadelphia attorney Philip Leidy and founds her Philadelphia Ballet Company in 1935. She choreographs—and her company presents—the first full-length, full-scale production of Sleeping Beauty in the United States as well as popular ballet Americana works such as Barn Dance and Terminal. Her company’s European tour in 1937 is the first ever by an American classical ballet troupe. Catherine loses some of her protégées to the newly formed Ballet Theatre and disbands her company after the United States enters World War II; she then choreographs Broadway musicals, Sonja Henie’s Hollywood Ice Revues, and Jimmy Durante’s NBC television show before dying in 1951 at age forty-six.
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Greene, Dana. “A Definite and Peculiar Destiny”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037108.003.0002.
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This chapter details the early life of Denise Levertov. Denise was born in Ilford, on October 24, 1923, to Beatrice Spooner-Jones and Paul Levertoff. Her older sister Olga was nine. Eight months after Denise's birth the Levertoffs bought five-bedroom, brick, semidetached house at 5 Mansfield Road in Ilford not far from Lenox Gardens and nearby Cranbrook Road, the main street, and close to the large Valentine and Wanstead parks. The Levertoff household was a hive of activity. Since neither daughter attended school, everyone was generally at home. They had few connections to the surrounding community and no extended family with whom they regularly interacted. Their Welsh, Russian, and Jewish cultural origins set them apart. Nonetheless, wayfarers of every sort—Jewish booksellers, Russian and German scholars, musicians, and Jewish refugees all passed through their home. Everyone in the family read, to themselves and to others. Every room of the house was filled with books, some of which were bought by Paul Levertoff as a secondhand “lot” from Sotheby's.
Book chapters on the topic "Born after sister"
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Jeune, Bernard, and Michel Poulain. "Emma Morano – 117 Years and 137 Days." In Demographic Research Monographs. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9_18.
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AbstractEmma Morano was born on 29 November 1899 in a small mountain village in Piemonte, and died on 15 April 2017 in Verbania on Lake Maggiore (100 km north of Milano). She was the daughter of Giovanni Morano, a miner; and Mathilde Bresciani, aged 24, a weaver. She was the first child in the family, and her arrival was followed by the births of seven siblings, four sisters and three brothers, all of whom she all survived. On 16 October 1926, Emma Morano married Giovanni Martinuzzi, but they separated a few years later after the death of their child. For more than 30 years, she worked in a jute factory. She then worked for about 20 years in the kitchen of a Marianist boarding school until she retired at the age of 75. After retirement, she lived in a small two-room apartment. In her final years, her hearing and sight were greatly reduced, but she could recognise faces and could communicate when spoken to loudly. She seemed to remember both past events and more recent ones. She had never been hospitalised, but had been treated for gastrointestinal bleeding and for urinary infections. She took no drugs regularly except laxatives. In the archives of four municipalities in the region, we obtained copies of the death certificates of her parents, the birth certificates of all of her siblings, her marriage certificate, and the birth and death certificates of her child. We found no inconsistences in the documents.
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Bryson, Megan. "Little White Sister." In Goddess on the Frontier. Stanford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804799546.003.0004.
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This chapter examines Baijie’s next form, Baijie Amei, which developed in the fifteenth century after the Dali kingdom had become part of the Ming dynasty. Baijie Amei’s legend shows how Dali elites drew on Chinese historiographical conventions in formulating a local Bai ethnic identity. According to her legend, Baijie Amei was born from a giant plum and conceived Duan Siping, founder of the Dali kingdom, after touching a dragon. This story mirrors Chinese tales about great rulers that claim dragon paternity, but diverges from Chinese conventions by giving Baijie Amei her own miraculous birth. Chinese officials accepted that male rulers could have miraculous births, but not that their mothers could, too. Baijie Amei remained a powerful symbol for Bai elites in Dali who claimed direct descent from her and worshiped her as a goddess that linked them to the illustrious Bai lineage of Dali’s independent history.
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Chapman, Con. "A Sax Is Born." In Rabbit's Blues. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653903.003.0002.
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This chapter provides data regarding Cornelius Hodges’s birth and traces his family history to his grandparents’ generation. Confusion as to the exact spelling of his last name (“Hodges,” not “Hodge”) is resolved by reference to his birth certificate. Census records reveal that, contrary to prior accounts of his life, he had not one sister but three, all older. The change in his name from “Cornelius” to “Johnny” is discussed, along with the seven nicknames that he was given by colleagues. The chapter also details the history of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, neighborhood where he was born—Cambridgeport—and of the South End of Boston, to which the family would move when he was twelve, after a stop in North Cambridge that has been overlooked in prior accounts of his life.
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Newell, Quincy D. "When a Child." In Your Sister in the Gospel. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199338665.003.0002.
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Jane Elizabeth Manning was born in southwestern Connecticut, the child of a freed slave. Although Jane’s family owned their home, her father’s death in 1825 was an economic blow. This may have been the reason that Jane was sent to work at a young age, likely as an indentured servant. As a young woman she gave birth to a son. She never identified the child’s father, and her silence suggests that her pregnancy was the result of sexual assault. Jane joined the Congregational Church in 1841, and then joined the Mormon Church in the winter of 1842–1843 after hearing an LDS missionary preach.
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Lerner, Robert E. "Fine Fever." In Ernst Kantorowicz. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691183022.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on with Josefine von Kahler, described as “the most ardent amorous attachment” in Ernst Kantorowicz's life. “Fine” (pronounced “feenah”) was born Josefine Sobotka of Jewish parents in 1889. In 1884, her father had moved with his family from Bohemia to Vienna, where he cofounded a successful malt manufacturing business. Fine married Erich Kahler in November 1912. However, the marriage was not carnal and Erich insisted from the start that they lead independent lives. Kantorowicz met Fine in Berlin in the autumn of 1918 through his sister and brother-in-law. However, after May 1920, the couple saw each other rarely and ended their relationship in 1921.
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Cassidy Parker, Elizabeth. "Interlude." In Adolescents on Music. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190671358.003.0002.
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For every moment of my life, I perceive a soundtrack. Whether there actually is music playing, there is always expression and emotion to everything, and to me that is what music is all about. I was adopted the day after I was born. I don’t know where I came from, but where I landed always had music. My parents didn’t play much, and they weren’t all that good. Neither were their parents. In fact, when I was around 2 or 3 years old, my grandmother came to our house on Long Island and played “Für Elise” on our baby grand. She learned it when she was about 10 years old. It didn’t sound great. However, the story my family always tells me is that once she left, I played the melody on the piano and corrected her mistakes. After hearing this, my sister, who only knew “Heart and Soul,” decided to teach me the melody, which I not only managed to learn, but I learned the chords as well. I was around three....
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Otis, Jessica J. "Jill Nerby and Aniridia Foundation International." In Aniridia and WAGR Syndrome. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195389302.003.0016.
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Jill Nerby was the first to welcome me to Aniridia Foundation International (AFI) when I joined. Shortly after beginning to volunteer for AFI’s members’ newsletter, I approached Jill about doing this book. Instantly she approved of my idea and told me if I needed anything to let her know. She has been instrumental in shaping the book’s content and eliciting the participation of all the doctors and professionals. Her support and wisdom have helped create this informative book for you, and they have meant a great deal to me. She is caring and friendly to all. Jill inspires us to strive towards goals for AFI and in our own lives. Here is her inspiring personal life story and the tale of how she began Aniridia Foundation International (formally the USA Aniridia Network). Jill Ann Nerby was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1961 to her parents, Dennis and Sullen Nerby. She was officially diagnosed with aniridia when she went for her three-week check-up. Jill’s parents were told that she was only the second person in the state of Wisconsin to be diagnosed with aniridia. Dr. George Worm realized something was wrong with her eyes and sent her to a well-known ophthalmologist in Chicago, Illinois, with experience in aniridia. This doctor tested Jill for glaucoma and found that she had been born with it. She was then put on eye drops, since the doctor felt Jill was too young to have surgery. Jill’s parents were devastated, since she was their first child and the family’s first grandchild. They did not even know if she could see and thought she might be blind already. They asked many people and sisters at the Catholic convent to pray for Jill. Today Jill has a younger sister, Marybeth, and a younger brother, Jeff; they do not have aniridia. Jill says growing up was challenging at times. Kids would sometimes tease her, leave her out, or pick her last.
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Brown, Jeannette E. "Chemists Who Work in Industry." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0006.
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Dr. Dorothy J. Phillips (Fig. 2.1) is a retired industrial chemist and a member of the Board of Directors of the ACS. Dorothy Jean Wingfield was born in Nashville, Tennessee on July 27, 1945, the third of eight children, five girls and three boys. She was the second girl and is very close to her older sister. Dorothy grew up in a multi- generational home as both her grandmothers often lived with them. Her father, Reverend Robert Cam Wingfield Sr., born in 1905, was a porter at the Greyhound Bus station and went to school in the evenings after he was called to the ministry. He was very active in his church as the superintendent of the Sunday school; he became a pastor after receiving an associate’s degree in theology and pastoral studies from the American Baptist Theological Seminary. Her mother, Rebecca Cooper Wingfield, occasionally did domestic work. On these occasions, Dorothy’s maternal grandmother would take care of the children. Dorothy’s mother was also very active in civic and school activities, attending the local meetings and conferences of the segregated Parent Teachers Association (PTA) called the Negro Parent Teachers Association or Colored PTA. For that reason, she was frequently at the schools to talk with her children’s teachers. She also worked on a social issue with the city to move people out of the dilapidated slum housing near the Capitol. The town built government subsidized housing to relocate people from homes which did not have indoor toilets and electricity. She was also active in her Baptist church as a Mother, or Deaconess, counseling young women, especially about her role as the minister’s wife. When Dorothy went to school in 1951, Nashville schools were segregated and African American children went to the schools in their neighborhoods. But Dorothy’s elementary, junior high, and high schools were segregated even though the family lived in a predominately white neighborhood. This was because around 1956, and after Rosa Park’s bus boycott in Montgomery, AL, her father, like other ministers, became more active in civil rights and one of his actions was to move to a predominately white neighborhood.
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. "All in the Family." In A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.003.0021.
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If you amble through the curving lanes of Burlington’s Aspen Grove Cemetery, designed by Aldo’s Grandfather Starker, you will come upon the Starker family vault nestled on a woody knoll. Pines and oaks guard simple stones inset in the grass marking the graves of Aldo and Estella. Aldo had returned to the land and family that had first instilled the land ethic within him. Then Clara Leopold died within a few months of her beloved eldest. Marie, Carl, and Frederic Leopold remained active in Burlington and in local conservation, with Fred becoming nationally renowned for his work with wood ducks. Thankfully for Estella, shortly after losing her husband, new grandbabies arrived on the scene, with new children for Luna and his wife Carolyn, Nina and her husband Bill, Carl and his wife Keena (Starker and Betty also had a child born that year). Though bowed by grief, Estella was made of the same strong stuff as her New Mexican ancestors, and after a few years, she slowly built back her life, now solo. Nina recalled, “Mother grew into her own person,” even traveling to Cuba and to Germany with her family. But Estella also continued to tend to the Shack land, as it tended to her. “Cultured, gentle, talented” as the Madison Free Press described “Stella”, she started to speak out publicly about local conservation issues while kindly serving as “an adopted grandmother” and mentor to graduate students and neighbors. In 1973, Northland College awarded Mrs. Estella Bergere Leopold an honorary doctorate of science. The degree was presented to her at the familiar haunts of the Wildlife Ecology Department. About two years later, in January 1975, on a visit to her family in Santa Fe, Estella grew ill and died at the age of eighty-five, a couple of days after her husband’s birthday. Her burial in Burlington next to Aldo, her sister Dolores, and twice brother-in-law, Carl, symbolized the integral intertwining of the Leopold and Luna-Otero-Bergere families.
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Hoffmann, Roald. "Trying to Understand, Making Bonds." In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199755905.003.0004.
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In 2007, on the occasion of my 70th birthday, Bassam Shakhashiri organized a symposium for me at the Boston meeting of the American Chemical Society. The session was entitled “Roald Hoffmann at 70: A Craftsman of Understanding.” I began my talk with thanks to many. That section has been shifted to the end of this chapter. I was born in a happy young Jewish family in unlucky times, 1937. In that war, most of us perished, 3800 of the 4000 Jews of Złoczów, now Zolochiv in Ukraine. Among those who were killed were my father, three of four grandparents, three aunts, and so on. I just want to show you three photos which relate to that time, one old and two recent. The last 15 months of the war we were hidden by a good Ukrainian man–Mikola Dyuk, the schoolteacher in the small village of Univ. The first year we were in an attic of the schoolhouse, the second year in a storeroom with no windows, maybe 6 x 10 feet, on the ground floor. Here are two photos from 2006, when my sister, my son, and I visited Univ. Here is the attic in which we were hidden, with its one window. The storeroom, a passageway, another ground floor room are gone, rebuilt into a new classroom of Univ’s school. It’s a chemistry classroom. Such is fate. Under the plank floor we dug a bunker to sit in if the police came to the house. I was five and a half when we went in. And nearly seven when we went out. Here’s a photo of me, a few months after we came out. We survived. Some of us. Good people helped us, I tell their story. I am also the speaker for the dead—the three million Polish Jews who were killed do not have good stories to tell, or photos to show. We built a new life, in refugee camps where I read of Marie Curie and George Washington Carver, and then came to America in 1949.