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Burgin Independent Schools
Burgin may refer to: People * Diana Lewis Burgin, American author and professor of Russian * Elise Burgin (born 1962), American tennis player * Elizabeth Burgin, American patriot during the American Revolutionary War * Eric Burgin (1924–2012), English cricketer and footballer * Graham Burgin (born 1948), Australian rules football player * Leslie Burgin (1887–1945), British politician * Melchior Bürgin (born 1943), Swiss rower * Mona Burgin (1903–1985), teacher and active in the Girl Guiding movement * Rachel Burgin (born 1982), Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, United States * Richard Burgin (violinist) (1893–1981), Polish-American violinist * Richard Burgin (writer), American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic * Romus Burgin (born 1922), WW II veteran and author * Ted Burgin (1927–2019), English soccer player * Victor Burgin (born 1941), English writer, artist * William O. Burgin (1877–1946), United States Representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Lewis Burgin
Diana Lewis Burgin is an author, and Professor of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Boston; she received her B.A. in Russian from Swarthmore College, her M.A. & Ph.D. from Harvard University's Slavic Languages and Literatures Department. She has been teaching Russian at University of Massachusetts, Boston since 1975. She is the daughter of Richard Burgin (violinist), Richard Burgin and Ruth Posselt, who married on July 3, 1940. She has published a narrative poem "Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse" (Slavica Pub, 1989; ) describing her father's biography. Works * * "After the Ball is Over: Sofia Parnok Creative Relationship with Marina Tsvetaeva", ''Russia Review'', Vol. 4, 1988 * "Sofia Parnok and the Writing of a Lesbian Poets Life", ''Slavic Review'', 51/2, 1992, pp. 214–231 * * * Poetry * Books * ''Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse'', 1989, Slavica Pub, * Translations * * Citations ''The Twentieth-century Russian Novel'', David C. Gillespie, page 148' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burgin (writer)
Richard Burgin (June 30, 1947 – October 22, 2020) was an American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic. He published nineteen books, and from 1996 through 2013 was a professor of Communications and English at Saint Louis University. He was also the founder and publisher of the internationally distributed award-winning literary magazine ''Boulevard (magazine), Boulevard''. Life and career Richard Burgin was born June 30, 1947, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, also named Richard Burgin (violinist), Richard Burgin, was the Concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, Ruth Posselt, was a concert violinist, who was the first American-born woman violinist to extensively tour Russia. Both his parents were child prodigies. His sister Diana Lewis Burgin, Diana is a professor, translator, and critic of Russian literature. Burgin went to Brandeis University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. He later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Burgin House
The Clarence Burgin House is a historic house at 95 President's Lane in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1900 by Clarence Burgin, a bank executive and father of Quincy Mayor Thomas S. Burgin. It is one of the city's finest examples of a gambrel-roofed Colonial Revival house. Notable features include the gambrel-roof gable dormer above the main entry, and the wraparound porch with multi-columned Greek-style projection. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts The following properties located in Quincy, Massachusetts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Current listings ... References Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1900 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgin, Kentucky
Burgin is a home rule-class city in Mercer County, Kentucky, in the United States. Its population was 965 at the 2010 census. History What is now Burgin was originally known as "Cane Run." In 1874, the Cincinnati Southern Railway obtained a right-of-way from local landowner Temple Burgin and opened Burgin Station. The town was established in 1877 and incorporated in 1878. The post office opened as "Bergen" in 1877 and changed its name to "Burgin" in 1886. Geography Burgin is located at (37.754961, -84.765681). The city is concentrated along Kentucky Route 152 (Main Street), with most of its public buildings lying just west of the highway's intersection with Kentucky Route 33 (Danville Street/Pleasant Hill Drive). Harrodsburg lies to the west of Burgin along KY 152, and Danville lies to the south along KY 33. Burgin is located at the headwaters of Cane Run, which flows eastward into the Dix River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William O
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin (born 1941) is a British artist and writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s (Harrison & Wood, 1992; Walker, 2001) and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the left, who would fuse photographs and words in the same picture. He has worked with photography and film, calling painting "the anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with coloured mud" (Burgin, 1976). His work is influenced by a variety of theorists and philosophers, most especially thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Henri Lefebvre, André Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. (European Graduate School Staff Page) Education Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London, from 1962 to 1965 (A.R.C.A., 1st Class, 1965) before going to the United States to study at Yale University (M.F.A. 1967). Academic career Burgin taught at Trent Polytechnic from 1967 to 1973 and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Burgin
Edward Burgin (29 April 1927 – 26 March 2019) was an English professional footballer who played 551 times in the Football League as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers, Leeds United and Rochdale. He played twice for England B, and was a non-playing member of England's squad for the 1954 World Cup. Career Burgin started his career with Alford Town. Following a trial he signed for Sheffield United in March 1949. His debut came in a Second Division game against Swansea Town on 1 September 1949, and despite being only tall, his agility kept him in the side for nearly eight seasons. He was ever-present during three 3 League seasons: 1950–51, 1952–53 and 1953–54, and between 12 November 1949 and 15 March 1952 made 102 consecutive league appearances. After 314 appearances for United, including 281 League games and 20 FA Cup ties, he moved to Doncaster Rovers for a £3,000 fee, as replacement for Harry Gregg who had joined Manchester United. After only f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burgin (violinist)
Richard Burgin (October 11, 1892 – April 29, 1981) was a Polish-American violinist, best known as associate conductor and the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Early life Burgin was born in Siedlce, Poland, and first performed in public at age 11, as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic Society. In 1906 he studied with Joseph Joachim in Berlin, and from 1908 to 1912 with Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', Seventh Edition, Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, p. 379 Then he worked in Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo. Concertmaster Burgin was appointed concertmaster of the BSO in 1920 when Pierre Monteux was the principal conductor, and assistant conductor in 1927 early in Serge Koussevitzky's tenure as principal conductor (1924-1949). He conducted the BSO in 308 concerts in the United States, Australia and Japan, and was associate conductor for seven world premieres and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Burgin
Elise Burgin (born March 5, 1962) is a retired American tennis player. She achieved WTA rankings of 22 in singles and 7 in doubles. Personal life Burgin, who is Jewish, was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Maryland. Tennis career Before playing professionally, Burgin was an outstanding singles and doubles player at Stanford University, from which she graduated. A four-time All-American from 1981 to 1984, she teamed with Linda Gates in 1984 to win the NCAA doubles championship. She competed professionally from 1980 to 1993. In 1982, she reached the fourth round of the US Open (where she was beaten by Bonnie Gadusek), her best performance in singles in a Grand Slam tournament. In 1986, she won her only career singles title at Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Burgin
Rachel Burgin (born July 23, 1982) was a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2008 to 2012. She represented the 56th district (which was located in Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County prior to state legislative district reconfiguration in 2012.) Burgin was first elected in 2008 over Democratic Party (United States), Democratic opponent Lewis Laricchia, a retired union negotiator, and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2010 over Democratic challenger David Chalela. As a state representative, Burgin found herself embroiled in controversy in November 2011, when she introduced legislation urging the federal government to reduce corporate taxes. As introduced, Burgin's legislation was identical to legislation written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, and even included the group's name and mission statement. She withdrew the bill the next day and re-introduced it 24-hours later, with a new bill number (HM 717), but now without the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Burgin
Annie Mona Burgin (11 March 1903 – 15 June 1985), usually known as Mona Burgin, was a New Zealand teacher who was active in the Girl Guiding movement. She is principally known for her role training adults. Biography Burgin was the daughter of Anglican clergyman John Robert Burgin and his wife, Henrietta Jane Woollcombe. Born on the Isle of Man, she came to New Zealand with her family at the age of 6. At age 17, she began training as a teacher at Auckland Training College. Burgin taught junior boys at Dilworth School from 1929 until 1960. Then she became headmistress of Hilltop School, remaining there until her retirement in 1968. While still a teenager, Burgin corresponded with and met Lieutenant Colonel David Cossgrove, the founder of the Girl Peace Scouts' Association. She revived interest in the movement in Auckland and started the St Andrew's Girl Peace Scout Troop in Epsom in 1921 as their Guider. In 1923, this group became the Epsom Cavell Company. In 1932, she spen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
