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Guyer
Guyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1839–1899), Swiss entrepreneur * Brandon Guyer (born 1986), American professional baseball outfielder * Charlie Guyer (1909–1977), Australian rules footballer * Cindy Guyer (born 1961), American model and actress * Denis Guyer (born 1966), American politician * Gino Guyer (born 1983), American professional ice hockey centre * Gordon Guyer (born 1926), president of Michigan State University from 1992 to 1993 * Irving Guyer (1916-2012), American painter * Jane I. Guyer (born 1943), George Armstrong Kelly Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University * Josh Guyer (born 1994), Australian professional baseball pitcher * Léonie Guyer (born 1955), contemporary American artist * Lisa Guyer (1963) American singer, guitarist, and songwriter * Lux Guyer (1894–1955), Swiss architect * Michael F. Guyer (1874–1959), American cytologist and zoologist * Murphy Guyer (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Guyer
Brandon Eric Guyer (born January 28, 1986) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians. His knack for getting hit by pitches earned him the nickname, "La Piñata." Amateur career Guyer is a 2004 graduate of Herndon High School where he was a three-year letter winner in baseball as well as football. In football, he rushed for over 1,000 yards as a tailback for the Hornets in both his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, he set the school single-game touchdown record, scoring seven touchdowns during a 285-yard rushing performance on homecoming night (October 4, 2003, Herndon 44, West Potomac 26). Guyer helped Herndon break a six-year Northern Region playoff drought, leading the Hornets to a 7–4 season. He was a third team all-state pick as a junior and a second team all-state pick as a senior. In baseball, Guyer is the Hornets' all-time career home run hitter (13) and holds the sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Guyer
Irving Guyer (1916–2012) was an American painter. While successful in New York through the 1960s, Guyer chose to work away from the New York gallery scene for much of his career. In the last decades of his life, he developed increasingly innovative, formally sophisticated work, combining masterful landscape and color field painting with geometric abstraction. Recently, his later works were discovered and have been acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum and Reed College Art Collection. Early life A son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia, Guyer grew up in New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York (1934-1937), the National Academy of Design (1933-1934) and the City College of New York (1932-1933). At 23, he was awarded first prize for painting at the 1939 World's Fair. In 1938 and 1939 he was employed by the Works Project Administration / Federal Art Project as a painter and printmaker. Guyer’s WPA prints are held in public collections, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonie Guyer
Léonie Guyer (born January 1, 1955 in New York City) is a contemporary artist known for abstract paintings, drawings and installations utilizing materials such as antique, vintage and handmade paper, marble remnants (or fragments), wood panels, and in site-based projects, walls and windows. Early life and education Guyer was born in 1955 in New York City. She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Work Guyer makes paintings, drawings, site-based work, and artist books. Stephanie Snyder describes Léonie Guyer’s work as the following: “The richly layered, albescent grounds of Léonie Guyer’s most recent paintings are inspired, in part, by the creamy surfaces of ancient Greek white-ground vessels, by the work of painters such as Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) and Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), and by natural materials such as milk, bone, and chalk. Guyer mixes her paints by hand from raw pigments, often restricting her palette to the “ancien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thad McIntosh Guyer
Thad McIntosh Guyer (born January 29, 1950) is an American civil rights lawyer with an international practice based in the State of Oregon. Education After graduating in 1969 from North Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, Guyer was conscripted through the military draft and fought in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, earning the rank of Sergeant, and receiving the Bronze Star for meritorious service after his one-year tour. He was honorably discharged in 1970 and attended the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, graduating in 1975 with a BS in International Law and Politics, and then the Antioch School of Law, graduating in 1978. Legal career Guyer was involved with Legal Services Corporation dating back to 1978 in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oregon. Since February 1990, Guyer has worked with T.M. Guyer & Friends, PC., which in 2005 became T.M. Guyer and Ayers & Friends, PC. Guyer partnered with attourney Stephani L. Ayers to form Guyer & Ay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Guyer
Cindy Guyer is an American model, producer,actress and restaurateur from Stamford, Connecticut. Early career Discovered by Wilhelmina International Inc. (Wilhelmina Models) at the age of 14, Guyer went on to become the most prolific model to be featured on romance novels. She has appeared on hundreds of covers, which earned her the nickname "Miss Romance". The commercial print model and celebrity Playmate was featured in a tribute pictorial in Playboy Magazine for her contribution to this popular genre of fiction literature and millions of book sold worldwide. In addition to being credited as a cover model for romance novels, she appears on the covers of the Nancy Drew book series. In total, Guyer has appeared on more than 2000 book and magazine covers. Recent appearances Since opening Guyer's, a posh eatery and bar (named after her father) on Manhattan‘s Upper Westside, the actress has also made occasional television appearances on reality programs, including The Real H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennyson Guyer
Tennyson Guyer (November 29, 1912 – April 12, 1981) was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican from Ohio for four terms from 1973 to 1981. Early life and career Born in Findlay, Ohio on November 29, either in 1912 or 1913, Guyer was educated in the public schools of Findlay, and performed as an aerialist at a young age with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. He lived with his uncle after his father was killed by a heart attack on July 22, 1926. He received a B.S. from Findlay College in 1934, and afterwards became an ordained minister. Guyer served as mayor of Celina, Ohio, from 1940 to 1944, and later became a member of the state central committee from 1954 to 1966. Guyer was the public affairs director for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in Findlay from 1950 to 1972, and was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1959 to 1972. He was also a delegate to the Ohio State Republican conventions each year from 1950 to 1957, and was a delegate to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Guyer
Paul Guyer () is an American philosopher and a leading scholar of Immanuel Kant and of aesthetics. Since 2012, he has been Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Brown University. Education and career Guyer grew up on Long Island, New York, and attended public schools there, graduating from Lynbrook High School in 1965. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1969, where he studied in the Departments of Philosophy and German; his Ph.D. in Philosophy was also taken at Harvard University, with a dissertation directed by Stanley Cavell. Guyer joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 as a tenured faculty member, where he subsequently rose to the rank of Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities. Prior to moving to the University of Pennsylvania, Guyer taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1973 to 1978, and the University of Illinois, Chicago from 1978 to 1983. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy Guyer
Murphy Guyer (born December 25, 1952) is an American actor, playwright, writer and director, best known for his plays and for appearances in the films '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997), '' The Jackal'' (1997), ''Arthur'' (2011) and '' Joker'' (2019). Early years Murphy Guyer was born in Dover, Delaware, and grew up in rural eastern Maryland. He moved to New York City at the age of nineteen to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts on an acting scholarship, and soon discovered a talent for writing jokes and comic sketches. He began his professional career writing for various stand-up comics and improv groups. Career In the early 1980s, Guyer's first play ''Eden Court'' premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. The play was later produced on Broadway and made into a film. During the course of his career, Guyer has written works for stage, screen and radio, and tends to farce and satire. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway and at re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lux Guyer
Luise (Lux) Guyer (20 August 1894 in Zurich – 25 May 1955 in Zurich) was a Swiss architect, remembered above all for designing buildings for the SAFFA women's fair, Bern, in 1927. Early life The daughter of Johannes Heinrich Guyer, a schoolteacher, she first took interior design courses with Wilhelm Kienzle at the Arts and Crafts School in Zurch (1917) before attending the Technology Institute (1918). After serving apprenticeships with architectural firms in Zurich and Berlin, she embarked on study trips to Paris, London and Florence.Daniel Weiss, "Lux Guyer (20.8.1894 - 26.5.1955)" ''ETH Zürich''. . Retrieved 25 April 2012. Career In 1924, Guyer became one of the first women in Switzerland to establish her own architectural practice, opening an offic ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Guyer
Lisa Guyer (born October 25, 1963) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She was born into a musical family that put on shows in their community, and Guyer learned to sing and dance by age four. Guyer's vocal skills are completely self-taught. Godsmack's Sully Erna describes Guyer as having "a phenomenal voice and a four- octave range". Guyer is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Discography ; With The Lisa Guyer Band *''Gypsy Girl'' (1997) *''Leap of Faith'' (2000) ; With Sully Erna *''Avalon'' (2010) *''Avalon Live'' (2010) *''Hometown Life ''Hometown Life'' is the second solo studio album by American rock musician Sully Erna, released on September 30, 2016. Track listing ''Hometown Sessions'' # Unforgettable # TSF Personnel * Sully Erna - lead vocalist, lead vocals, piano, a ...'' (2016) Filmography *''Sully Erna Presents: The Journey to Avalon'' (2011)* *''Sully Erna: Avalon Live'' (2012) References American w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twister (game)
''Twister'' is a game of physical skill produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves Games USA. It is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground. The mat has six rows of large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, green, and blue. A spinner tells players where they have to place their hand or foot. The game promotes itself as "the game that ties you up in knots". Gameplay A spinner is attached to a square board and is used to determine where the player has to put their hand or foot. The spinner is divided into four labeled sections: left foot, right foot, left hand, and right hand. Each of those four sections are divided into the four colors (red, yellow, green, and blue). After spinning, the combination is called (for example: "right hand yellow") and players must move their matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct color. In a two-player game, no two people can have a hand or foot on the same circle; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Guyer-Zeller
Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1 May 1839 – 3 April 1899) was a Swiss entrepreneur. Born in Bäretswil, Switzerland on 1 May 1839, Guyer-Zeller was the son of an owner of spinning mill and creator of a textile export trade in Zürich. After the death of his father, he led the company. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Later, he turned his attentions to what had become a booming business, the building of railways in Switzerland. He became, among other things, a president of the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB). Guyer-Zeller was also the founder of Jungfrau Railway, (JB) and the Uerikon-Bauma Railway (UeBB). In order to finance the JB, he founded the Bank Guyerzeller AG in 1894, which became fully owned by HSBC in 2004. On 3 April 1899, Guyer-Zeller, aged 59, died of a heart attack in Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
