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Bettye
Bettye is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Bettye Ackerman (1924–2006), American actress * Bettye Caldwell (1924–2016), American educator and academic *Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician *Bettye Collier-Thomas (born 1941), American historian *Bettye Crutcher (1939–2022), American songwriter *Bettye Danoff (1923–2011), American golfer *Bettye Davis (1938–2018), American politician *Bettye Fahrenkamp (1923–1991), American politician *Bettye Frink (born 1933), American politician *Bettye Washington Greene (1935–1995), American industrial research chemist *Bettye Kimbrell (born 1936}, American quilter *Bettye Lane (1930–2012), American photojournalist * Bettye LaVette (born 1946), American soul singer-songwriter *Bettye Stull (born 1931), American arts curator *Bettye Swann (born 1944), American soul singer See also *Betye, given name *Bette (given name) *Betty Betty or Bettie is a name, a common diminutive for the names Bethany and Elizabet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye LaVette
Bettye LaVette (born Betty Jo Haskins, January 29, 1946) is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, when her album ''I've Got My Own Hell to Raise'' was released to widespread critical acclaim, and was named on many critics' "Best of 2005" lists. Her next album, ''The Scene of the Crime'', debuted at number one on ''Billboard'''s Top Blues Albums chart and was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards. LaVette's eclectic musical style combines elements of soul, blues, rock and roll, funk, gospel, and country music. In 2020, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Life and career LaVette was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and raised in Detroit. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she did not begin singing in the church, but in her parents' living room, singing R&B and country and western music. She was signed by Johnnie Mae Matthews, a local record producer. In 1962, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Davis
Bettye Jean Davis (née Ivory; May 17, 1938 – December 2, 2018) was an American social worker and politician. She was the first African-American to be elected as an Alaska State Senator in 2000. Davis was a Democratic Party member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the fourteenth and twenty-first districts from 1991 through 1996 and the Alaska Senate, representing the K District from 2000 through 2013. During her time in the Alaska Senate she co-sponsored legislation introduced by Representative Sharon M. Cissna to address the needs of Alaska's aging adult population. Senator Davis was referred to as "the conscience of the Legislature" due to her advocacy for programs which supported vulnerable Alaskans. She was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2010. She was defeated in the 2012 general election for State Senate district M by Anna Fairclough. In April 2013 she was elected to the Anchorage School Board, a body on which she'd served non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Lane
Bettye Lane (September 19, 1930, Boston – September 19, 2012, Manhattan) was an American photojournalist known for documenting major events within the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement in the United States. She joined CBS television in 1960, and from 1962 to 1964 she was with the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Her work has been published in the '' National Observer'', ''Time'', ''Life'', and the Associated Press. Lane's work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and some of her photographs are part of the permanent collection at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work is also part of the collections of the New York Public Library and the libraries at Harvard and Duke University. Her photographs have also been utilized in documentary films and published books. Lane died on her 82nd birthday. Early life Bettye Lane (born Elisabetta Foti) was one of the eight children of Italian immigrants Luigi and Antonietta Foti. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Washington Greene
Bettye Washington Greene (March 20, 1935 – June 16, 1995) was an American industrial research chemist. She was the first African American female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company. At Dow, she researched latex and polymers. Dr. Greene is considered an early African American pioneer in science. Early life and education Bettye Washington was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She attended segregated public schools and graduated from I.M. Terrell High School around 1952. She entered Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, graduating with a B.S. in chemistry in 1955. Following her marriage to Veteran Air force Captain William Miller Greene in 1955, she attended Wayne State University in Detroit, where she earned her Ph.D. in physical chemistry working with Wilfred Heller(1962). She also taught undergraduate chemistry at this time. Her doctoral dissertation, "Determination of particle size distributions in emulsions by light scattering" was published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Kimbrell
Bettye Kimbrell (born November 22, 1936) is a master folk artist for quilting, and one of the charter members of the North Jefferson Quilter's Guild in Mount Olive, Alabama. In 1995 Kimbrell won the Alabama Folk Heritage Award, the highest honor for the traditional arts in Alabama. ''Quilter Receives State Heritage Award'' by Anne Kimzey Retrieved from the Alabama Arts website on December 3, 2009 Kimbrell received national attention in 2008 when she was one of eleven folk artists to receive the from the |
Bettye Ackerman
Bettye Louise Ackerman (February 28, 1924 – November 1, 2006) was an American actress primarily known for her work on television. Early years Ackerman was born in Cottageville, South Carolina (another source says she was born in Williston, South Carolina), the daughter of Clarence Kilgo Ackerman and Mary Baker Ackerman, and grew up in Williston, in Barnwell County in southwestern South Carolina, one of four children. She graduated from Columbia College in South Carolina in 1945 and left for New York City soon after. She studied theater at the graduate level at Columbia University in New York and pursued art studies with Joseph Mugnaini and George DeGroat at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Television From 1961 until 1966, Ackerman played Dr. Maggie Graham on the ABC medical drama ''Ben Casey''. She played Anne Frazer on '' Bracken's World'' and the original Constance MacKenzie on the daytime program ''Return to Peyton Place''. She appeared in an early episode of prime ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Crutcher
Bettye Jean Crutcher (September 16, 1939 – October 20, 2022) was an American songwriter. She was a staff writer for Stax Records.Peter Barker"Bettye Crutcher, Stax Records contributor and pioneering songwriter, dies at 83" ''Tennessee News'', October 21, 2022]. Retrieved October 21, 2022. Crutcher teamed with Homer Banks and Raymond Jackson as We Three, and co-wrote "Who's Making Love" for Johnnie Taylor, which earned a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. Crutcher also wrote music for the Staple Singers, Sam & Dave, and Albert King. Early life and career Crutcher was born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 16, 1939, and started writing poems as a child. She became a nurse and was a single parent of three children when she applied to work for various record labels. After being rejected by other labels, she joined Stax Records as a songwriter in 1967, becoming their only female staffer. In 2019, she said: "Being the only female songwriter for Stax was quite an ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Swann
Betty Barton (born Betty Jean Champion, October 24, 1944), better known by the stage name Bettye Swann, is a retired American soul singer. She is best known for her 1967 hit song " Make Me Yours". Career Swann was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, one of 14 children. She grew up in Arcadia, Louisiana, and moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1963. Although some sources state that Swann was in a vocal group known as The Fawns who recorded for Capital Records in 1964, she has refuted this, saying that she sang with a trio in Arcadia by that name.Las Vegas City Life ; accessed June 24, 2015. In 1964, Swann started a solo singing career, changing her name to Bettye Swann at the prompting of local DJ Al Scott, who became her manager. After a minor hit with the self-penned "Don’t Wait Too Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Bettye Collier-Thomas (born Bettye Marie Collier, February 18, 1941) is a scholar of African-American women's history. Early life and education Collier-Thomas was born the second of three children of Joseph Thomas Collier, a business executive and public school teacher, and Katherine (Bishop) Collier, a public school teacher. She attended elementary schools in New York, Georgia, and Florida, and high school in Jamaica, New York. Her family belonged to the black middle class, with professions such as nurse, building subcontractor, and barber represented among her near relatives as well as teacher and businessman. Her great-uncle Frank Richard Veal was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and president of the historically black Allen University (South Carolina) and Paul Quinn College (Texas).Scanlon, Jennifer, and Shaaron Cosner. ''American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. She thought that she would go into law, but an 11th grade teacher inspir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Danoff
Bettye Jane Danoff (née Mims; May 21, 1923 – December 22, 2011) was an American professional golfer. She was one of the 13 founding members of the LPGA, in 1950. Danoff began playing golf at age 6. Her parents had opened a driving range and nine-hole golf course in Grand Prairie Texas. She also played under the names Bettye Mims White and Bettye Mims Danoff. The LPGA Tour was not founded until 1950. Before then, she won four straight Dallas Women's Golf Association Championships in addition to two Texas Women's Amateur Championship. In 1947, she defeated Babe Zaharias, 1 up, in the Texas Women's Open. Zaharias had won 17 consecutive tournaments before losing to Danoff. Also before her LPGA days, Danoff played exhibitions with PGA Tour stars. Danoff was a mother to three daughters who traveled with her as she played off the LPGA Tour. After the death of her husband in 1961, Danoff played in a limited number of tournaments. She was the LPGA Tour's first grandmother. Amate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Caldwell
Bettye McDonald Caldwell (December 24, 1924 – April 17, 2016) was an American educator and academic who influenced the development of Head Start. She was the 1993 recipient of the Society for Research in Child Development's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children. Biography Caldwell was born in Smithville, Texas, to Thomas and Juanita McDonald. Her family was poor, as her father was a railroad engineer who lost his job when Caldwell was young. After graduating first in her high school class, Caldwell attended Baylor University, where she was a psychology and speech major. She earned a master's degree at the University of Iowa and a doctorate in psychology at Washington University. After graduate school, Caldwell was on the faculty or staff of several universities, including Northwestern University, Washington University, Syracuse University and SUNY Upstate. While at Syracuse, Caldwell worked with pediatrician Julius Richmond on child development st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Anne Case
Bettye Anne Busbee Case is Olga Larson Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Florida State University. Her mathematical research concerns complex variables; she has also published on mathematics education and the history of mathematics. She is the editor of the books ''A Century of Mathematical Meetings'' (American Mathematical Society, 1996) and '' Complexities: Women in Mathematics'' (with Anne M. Leggett, Princeton University Press, 2005). Education and career Case graduated from the University of Alabama in 1962. She earned her Ph.D. in 1970 from the same university; her dissertation, ''On Non-Analytic Functions Related to a System of Partial Differential Equations'', was supervised by Mario O. González. She taught at the Florida Institute of Technology and then at Tallahassee Community College for nine years before joining the Florida State University faculty as an associate professor in 1982. Case was the founding director of both the undergraduate program in actuarial scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
