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Gretta Comerford
Gretta may refer to: People * Gretta Bowen (1880–1981), self-taught Irish artist * Gretta Chambers (1927–2017), Canadian journalist and former Chancellor of McGill University * Gretta Cohn, American cellist and radio producer * Gretta Duisenberg (born 1942), Dutch political activist * Gretta Kehoe-Quigley, former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship * Gretta Kok (born 1944), retired Dutch breaststroke swimmer * Gretta Lange Bader (1931–2014), American sculptor * Gretta Pecl, Australian marine ecologist * Gretta Sarfaty Marchant, international artist and curator * Gretta Taslakian (born 1985), Lebanese sprinter of Armenian descent * Gretta Taylor (née Francis), musician and teacher from Trinidad and Tobago * Gretta Vosper Margaret Ann Vosper (born 1958), known as Gretta Vosper, is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada who is a self-professed atheist. Her beliefs have caused controversy both within and outside of the United Church. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Bowen
Margretta Bowen, best known as Gretta Bowen (1 January 1880 – 8 April 1981) was a self-taught Irish artist. She only started painting late in life, after her sons Arthur and George Campbell were already established as artists. Early life Although born in Dublin to a railway worker Samuel Arthur Bowen, Margretta Bowen lived most of her life in Belfast.Kate NewmannGretta Bowen (1880-1981) ''Dictionary of Ulster Biography''. Accessed 12 January 2013. She was married to Matthew Campbell, a veteran of the Boer War. They had three boys Arthur, George and Stanley, who all went on to paint. After her husband died in 1925 she ran an laundrette and took in lodgers to make ends meet. Career Bowen came to art late in her life when a few weeks before her seventieth birthday she found paints left behind by her son Arthur, and began to experiment with them. Just five years later her first exhibition was hosted in the gallery of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, Belfas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Chambers
Gretta Chambers (''née'' Taylor; January 15, 1927 – September 9, 2017) was a Canadian journalist and former Chancellor of McGill University. Life and career Chambers grew up in Outremont and attended Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School and Netherwood School. She received a BA in political science from McGill University in 1947. She worked in radio and television and wrote for several newspapers and magazines. From 1966 until 1980, she was the host of the weekly CBC radio show called ''The Province in Print''. From 1977 to 2002, she had a weekly column in the Montreal Gazette. Since its inception in 1991, until her death in 2017, she was involved with the Montreal Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training (MCHRAT) at McGill University. When a MCHRAT project, the McGill Middle East Program (MMEP), took off in 1997, Chambers became a Co-Chair of its Executive and Management Committees. She was Chancellor of McGill University from 1991 to 1999, the first woman to serve i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, 1801–1895.'' McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980. the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant whose bequest in 1813 formed the university's precursor, University of McGill College (or simply, McGill College); the name was officially changed to McGill University in 1885. McGill's main campus is on the slope of Mount Royal in downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie, with a second campus situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, west of the main campus on Montreal Island. The university is one of two members of the Association of American Universities located outside the United States, alongside the University of Toronto, and is the only Canadian member of the Glob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Cohn
Gretta Cohn is a cellist who is best known for playing cello in the rock group Cursive from 2001-2005. She left the group in August 2005. Her departure was announced on the Cursive website in late August: Cursive regrets to announce the departure of cellist Gretta Cohn. After four years in the band, Gretta has decided to leave Omaha to pursue other interests and projects, including a potential solo album. The split is very amicable: the band wishes her well and she in turn eagerly anticipates the new Cursive material to come. Cursive will not be seeking a replacement. She has collaborated with other artists including the band Twin Thousands. She appeared on 2006's Halloween episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, performing with Cat Power. She currently resides in New York City where she is the founder and principal of Transmitter Media. In July 2022, Transmitter Media agreed to be acquired by Pushkin Industries. Cohn is now the Senior Vice President of Content Production at Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Duisenberg
Gretta Duisenberg-Nieuwenhuizen (born 6 November 1942) is a Dutch pro-Palestinian political activist. She is the widow of Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) politician Wim Duisenberg who was also the first president of the European Central Bank (ECB). Duisenberg was born as Greetje Nieuwenhuizen into a strict Protestant family in Heerenveen, Friesland. She later studied nursing. Her first marriage was to the internist Bedier de Prairie, with whom she had three children. At that time she also started using the name Gretta. After their divorce, she became active in left-wing politics, human rights causes, and was briefly involved with Hans van Mierlo, at that time the Dutch Minister of Defense. She married Wim DuisenbergDr. W.F. (Wim) Duisenberg (in Dutch), Parlement & Politiek. Retrieved 5 September 2015. when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Kehoe-Quigley
Gretta Kehoe-Quigley is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1975, the day after she was married to Ray Quigley, the trainer of her club camogie team. Career She made her debut with the Wexford junior team in 1969 and played in the 1972 All Ireland final. She made her senior debut in the 1972 Leinster championship, in which Wexford were narrowly beaten 6-4 to 5–6 in the final by Kilkenny. She won a Leinster senior championship medal in 1974. Family Background She is one of three sisters from Palace, Poulpeasty, Co Wexford, who won All Ireland medals together in 1975, the others were Kit Codd and Bridget Doyle, winner of the 1975 B+I Star of the Year award. Two other sisters, Annie and Josie both played on Wexford's 1968 All Ireland winning team. Two other sisters, Annie Annie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camogie
Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men only), it is organised by the Dublin-based Camogie Association or An Cumann Camógaíochta. The annual All Ireland Camogie Championship has a record attendance of 33,154,2007 All Ireland final reports iIrish Examiner an while average attendances in recent years are in the region o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Kok
Margretta "Gretta" Kok (born 16 October 1944, in Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch breaststroke swimmer who participated in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1960, she was fifths in the 200m breaststroke event, whereas in 1964 she did not reach the final. In 1966, she won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the European Aquatics Championships The European Aquatics Championships is the continental Aquatics championship for Europe, which is organised by LEN—the governing body for aquatics in Europe. The Championships are currently held every two years (in even years); and since 2022, .... Her younger sister, Ada Kok, was also an Olympic swimmer and part of the same team that won the medley gold in 1966. . sports-reference.com References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Lange Bader
Gretta Lange Bader (née Margaret Marie Lange; May 25, 1931 – August 1, 2014) was an American sculptor best known for her bronze portrait work. Biography Margaret Marie Lange was educated at Pomona College, where she met her future husband William B. Bader, graduating in 1953."Not for the Faint of Heart: Profile of Pomona alumna and artist Gretta Bader '53" , Pomona College Magazine, Winter 2002. She studied at the after marrying Bader. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Pecl
Gretta T. Pecl is an Australian marine ecologist, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) at the University of Tasmania. Her work focuses on species and ecosystem responses to climate change, as well as using socioecological approaches to adapt natural resource management for climate change. She is on the editorial board of Springer Nature's ''Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries,'' and is a Subject Editor for '' Ecography''. Early life and education Pecl is from Tasmania. She earned her bachelor's degree at James Cook University in 1994, completing an undergraduate dissertation on the muscle structure and dynamics of ''Idiosepius pygmaeus''. Pecl remained at James Cook University for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2000. Her doctoral thesis compared the life-history variation of two closely related cephalopod species, ''Sepioteuthis australis'' and ''Sepioteuthis lessoniana,'' on the east coast of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Sarfaty Marchant
Gretta Sarfaty, born Alegre Sarfaty, is also known as Gretta Grzywacz and Greta Sarfaty Marchant, also simply as Gretta. is a painter, photographer and multimedia artist who earned international acclaim in the 1970s, from her artistic works related to Body art and Feminism. Born in Greece, in 1947, she moved with her family to São Paulo in 1954, being naturalized as Brazilian. Alongside her art she was the founder of the artist-run space, Sartorial Contemporary Art (2005–2010), and since 2010 she keeps an art collection called Alegre Sarfaty Collection. From the 1970's on, Gretta developed her artistic career. She took fine arts classes in São Paulo, at FAAP and the Escola Pan Americana de Artes - she was taught by artists working also in São Paulo, including Walter Lewy, Ivald Granato, Mário Gruber and Savério Castellano. She studied photography with the photographer Julio Abe Wakahara during 1975. Due to her artistic work and exhibitions, she moved to Paris, Milan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretta Taslakian
Gretta Taslakian (born 16 August 1985) is a Lebanese sprinter of Armenian descent who specializes in the 200 metres. She is the first Lebanese woman to participate in two and three Olympic Games. Gretta is the current Lebanese national record holder in the outdoor 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters and indoor 60 meters and 200 meters. She was also a member of the record holding team in the outdoor 4x100 meter relay and 4x400 meter relay. Biography She was born in Ghadir, Lebanon, to Lebanese-Armenian parents. She competed at the 2001 World Championships, the 2003 World Indoor Championships and the 2004 World Indoor Championships. She set a new national record in the women's 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but came in last in her preliminary heat and did not advance. She competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the 200 meters, but was eliminated in the first heat. Taslakian won two gold medals for Lebanon in the 2007 Pan Arab Games in Cairo, Egypt. She also competed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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