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Aycock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Aycock (born 1946), American sculptor * Angela Aycock (born 1973), American basketball player * Charles Brantley Aycock (1859–1912), American politician * Cora Lily Woodard Aycock (1868–1952), American political hostess * Dale Aycock (born 1935), American author * Dugan Aycock (1908–2001), American golfer * Jimmie Don Aycock (born 1946), American politician * Roger D. Aycock (1914–2004), American author * Shane Aycock (born 1974), American Sailor & Soldier (OEF & OIF) * Sharion Aycock (born 1955), American judge * Taddy Aycock (1915–1987), American politician * William Brantley Aycock (1915–2015), American educator See also * Aycock, Greensboro, North Carolina, neighbourhood * Aycock House The Aycock House (also known as the Aycock-Jamell House) is a historic house located at 410 West Church Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. Description and history Built in 1904 by Elmo Ayock, it is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946) is an American sculptor and installation artist. She was an early artist in the land art movement in the 1970s, and has created many large-scale metal sculptures around the world. Aycock's drawings and sculptures of architectural and mechanical fantasies combine logic, imagination, magical thinking and science. Biography Aycock was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1946. She studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. She subsequently moved to New York City and obtained her Master of Arts in 1971 from Hunter College, where she was taught and supervised by sculptor and conceptual artist Robert Morris. In the early 1980s, Aycock married artist Dennis Oppenheim. Work Land art Aycock's early work focused on associations with the environment. Often built into or onto the land, her environmental sculptures and installation art addressed issues of privacy and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Aycock
Angela Lynette Aycock (born February 28, 1973), later known as Sister Paula, is an American former professional basketball player. She played for two seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) before retiring to a monastic life in 2002. College career Aycock was recruited in 1991 from Lincoln High School in Dallas, Texas to play college basketball for the University of Kansas ( Kansas Jayhawks). At the time she was touted as the second-best player in the country by the Women's Basketball News Service, and was the USA Today and Dallas Morning News Texas Player of the Year. In her sophomore year, she was named team captain. As a junior, she was the Big Eight Conference co-player of the year. In her senior year, she made several All-America teams. By the end of her college career she had scored 1,978 points for Jayhawks, the third highest total in the team's history. She also turned out for the USA Women's U18 and U19 teams, in 1992 and 1993. Her U18 team won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brantley Aycock
Charles Brantley Aycock (November 1, 1859 – April 4, 1912) was the 50th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. After starting his career as a lawyer and teacher, he became active in the Democratic Party during the party's Solid South period, and made his reputation as a prominent segregationist. He became known as "the Education Governor" for his advocacy for the improvement of North Carolina's public school systems, and following his term in office, he traveled the country promoting educational causes. Early life Charles B. Aycock was born in Wayne County, North Carolina, as the youngest of the 10 children of Benjamin and Serena Aycock. His family lived near the present-day town of Fremont, North Carolina, then known as Nahunta. Though his father died when he was 15, his mother and older brothers recognized his abilities and determined that he should go to college. Aycock attended the University of North Carolina (today the University of North Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Lily Woodard Aycock
Cora Lily Woodard Aycock (October 11, 1868 – March 13, 1952) was an American political hostess, farmer, and railway executive. As the second wife of Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, she served as First Lady of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. While her husband was an outspoken white supremacist and segregationist, she was known to be rather apolitical but staunchly supported her husband's educational reforms for public schools. Aycock spent her time as first lady entertaining guests at small gatherings at the North Carolina Executive Mansion, raising her seven children and two surviving stepchildren, and instructing her children in music. Aycock was the first North Carolinian first lady to give birth at the executive mansion. After her husband's death in 1912 left her without much of an estate, Aycock made a modest income by selling tobacco from her farm in Wilson County and selling extra milk and produce from her 1-acre lot in Raleigh. She worked with her son-in-law, the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Aycock
Dale Aycock is an American author of science fiction. Aycock was born on August 1, 1935, in San Joaquin Valley, California. Her first two science fiction novels were ''Stardrifter'' and ''Starspinner'', both space operas. Aycock is a member of the South Bay Branch of the California Writers Club and the World Future Society. She lives in Los Gatos, California. Notable works ''Stardrifter'' '' Stardrifter'', also referred to as ''Star Drifter'', is a 1981 novel in which the owner of a interstellar trading company gets caught up in a conspiracy to rule the galaxy. ''Starspinner'' ''Starspinner'' is a 1981 novel in which space pilot Christopher Marlowe must stop his enemy from becoming dictator of Earth. Greg Costikyan Greg Costikyan (born July 22, 1959, in New York City), sometimes known under the pseudonym "Designer X", is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including: hex-based wa ... review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dugan Aycock
Dugan "Doog" Aycock (April 8, 1908 – March 23, 2001) was an American professional golfer and golf course designer. Aycock was a member of the PGA of America for 68 years and served as the Carolinas Section President for more than 15 years and as National Vice President (now known as district director). Aycock was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1938, Aycock designed the Lexington Country Club and was its head professional there for 38 of the next 40 years. During World War II, Aycock was the special services director of his Army unit. He smuggled golf equipment into Italy and North Africa in a shipment of kitchen fixtures, helped rebuild golf courses there, and even organized an Army tournament. Among the players who participated were Tommy Bolt and Bobby Locke. To raise money for the March of Dimes campaign against polio in 1947, Aycock came up with the idea of playing golf cross-country from Lexington, North Carolina to the ninth hole at Thomasville Golf Course; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmie Don Aycock
Jimmie Don Aycock (born November 4, 1946) is an American politician who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 54th district from 2007 to 2017. Background Don Aycock earned a Bachelor of Science degree and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University. After serving as a captain in the United States Army, he returned to Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ..., where he worked as a veterinarian, rancher, and businessman. References 1946 births Living people Members of the Texas House of Representatives Place of birth missing (living people) {{Texas-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Dee
Roger D. Aycock ( 6 December 1914 – 5 April 2004) was an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Roger Dee. He primarily wrote science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive .... Bibliography Novels *''An Earth Gone Mad'' (1954) *Marco 4 (Series) **''Wailing Wall'' (1952) **''Pet Farm ''(1954) **''Control Group'' (1960) *''Traders Risk'' (2007) *''Control Group'' (2008) *''To Remember Charlie By'' (2010) *''Clean Break'' (2010) *''Pet Farm ''(2010) *''The Anglers of Arz ''(2010) *''Problem on Balak'' (2010) *''Let the Sky Fall'' (non-science fiction, 1957) Short Stories *The Wheel Is Death (1949) *Ultimatum (1950) *Unwelcome Tenant (1950) *Slave of Eternity (1950) *Last Return (1950) *First Life (1951) *Girl from Callisto (1951) *The Watchers (1951) *Pali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharion Aycock
Sharion Marie Aycock (; born December 19, 1955) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. She served as the chief judge from 2014 to 2021 and has been on the court since 2007. She is the first female federal district court judge in Mississippi. Early life and education Aycock was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Tupelo, Mississippi and raised in Tremont, Mississippi, Tremont. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Mississippi State University with a minor in political science in 1977. She received a Juris Doctor from Mississippi College School of Law in 1980, where she graduated second in the class and was co-editor-in-chief of the ''Mississippi College Law Review''. She became a member of the Mississippi Bar in 1980. Career Aycock worked in private practice in Mississippi from 1980 to 2003 with two firms and as a solo pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taddy Aycock
Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (January 13, 1915 – January 6, 1987), a conservative Democrat from Franklin in St. Mary Parish, was the only three-term lieutenant governor in 20th century Louisiana history. He served from 1960 to 1972. Aycock failed in his only bid for governor in the 1971 Democratic primary. Few lieutenant governors in Louisiana have been elected directly to the governorship; former Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette, is a prominent exception. Aycock was born in Franklin to Clarence A. Aycock (1885–1948) and the former Inez Crask. He received his law degree in 1937 from Loyola University in New Orleans and launched his law practice in Franklin. He won the Bronze Star while serving in Europe during World War II. In 1945, Aycock married the former Elaine Champagne (1918–2011). They had six children. Speaker of the Louisiana House, 1952 Aycock was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1952 and, though a freshman member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brantley Aycock
William Brantley Aycock (October 24, 1915 – June 20, 2015) was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until 1964 and was the retired Kenan Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law. He was born in Lucama, North Carolina in 1915. A native of Lucama, North Carolina, Aycock served the University of North Carolina for nearly 40 years from his first faculty appointment in the School of Law in 1948 to his retirement as Kenan professor in 1985. He was named chancellor in 1957 and led the university in that capacity until 1964. A 1948 graduate of the UNC School of Law, Aycock was first in his class and editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review. He also holds a master's degree in history from UNC, and a bachelor's degree in education from North Carolina State University where he was president of the student body and a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Prior to entering law school, he served in the U.S. Army du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aycock, Greensboro, North Carolina
Dunleath Historic District is a neighborhood in the northeast section of the United States city of Greensboro, North Carolina. The Dunleath Historic District was named for the mansion, no longer existing, of Robert Dick, an early resident of the neighborhood. Denleath consists of many late nineteenth and early twentieth century residences and composes one of three historic districts in Greensboro. Dunleath was formerly named the Charles B. Aycock Historic District, but the name was changed in 2017. The name of a middle school in Dunleath was changed from Aycock to Swann.{{cite news , last1=Moffett , first1=Margaret , title=Greensboro's Aycock neighborhood name changed , url=https://greensboro.com/news/local_news/greensboros-aycock-neighborhood-name-changed/article_3698e817-0543-5846-b3be-467ff1caada6.html#tncms-source=login , access-date=15 June 2022 , work=Greensboro News and Record , issue=15 August 2017 Geography Boundaries Dunleath is bounded as follows: * on the north by Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
