Helen Wilson (artist)
Helen Wilson may refer to: * Helen Wilson Public School, an elementary school located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada * Helen Wilson (murder victim), a victim of the spree killer Howard Unruh * Helen Wilson (writer) (1869–1957), New Zealand teacher, farmer, community leader and writer * Helen Wilson (mathematician) (born 1973), British mathematician * Helen Wilson (Australian judge) * Helen Wilson Nies (1925–1996), chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1990 to 1994 * Helen Ann Wilson (1793–1871), New Zealand nurse and community leader * Helen Mary Wilson (physician) (1864–1951), physician and social purity campaigner * Helen Van Pelt Wilson, American garden writer * Beatrice Six The Beatrice Six are Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Debra Shelden, James Dean and Kathy Gonzalez, who were falsely found guilty in 1989 of the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska and served prison terms befo ... * Penny W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Wilson Public School
The Peel District School Board (PDSB; known as English-Language Public District School Board No. 19 prior to 1999) is a school district that serves approximately 153,000 kindergarten to grade 12 students at more than 259 schools in the Region of Peel (municipalities of Caledon, Brampton and Mississauga) in Ontario, immediately to the west of Toronto. The board employs more than 15,000 full-time staff and is the largest employer in Peel Region. As of 2012 it is the second largest school board in Canada. History In 1970, 10 local boards came together as the Peel County Board of Education. In 1969, the board served a community of a quarter million residents—20 percent of the population. The newly formed Peel County Board had 50,000 students in 114 schools and an operating budget of $41 million. (2009 annual report) In 1973, the name changed to the Peel Board of Education. The current name, Peel District School Board, was approved in 1998. On September 1, 2006, the school b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Wilson (murder Victim)
Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949 in an incident that became known as the Walk of Death. Unruh was found to be criminally insane and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88 following sixty years of confinement. Background and possible motives for killings Howard Unruh was the son of Samuel Shipley Unruh and Freda E. Vollmer. He had a younger brother, James; they were raised by their mother after their parents separated. Unruh grew up in East Camden, New Jersey, attended Cramer Junior High School and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in January 1939. The Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook from 1939 indicated that he was shy and that his ambition was to become a government employee. Ramsland, KatherineRampage in Camden ''truTV.com''. Unruh enlisted in the United State ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Wilson (writer)
Helen Mary Wilson (née Ostler; 4 May 1869 – 16 April 1957) was a New Zealand teacher, farmer, community leader and writer. She was born in Oamaru, New Zealand, in 1869. Political life Wilson was active in the Women's Division of the Farmer's Union and one of the early Dominion presidents. She founded the Piopio branch of the organisation in 1927, and in the 1937 Coronation Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of her service as Dominion president of the Women's Division. Interviewed for a radio program during the 1950s, Wilson recalled the process involved for women in New Zealand in obtaining the right to vote and also discussed the Married Women's Property Act."Helen Wilson: The status of women", Radio New Zealand. Books Wilson was the author of several books, including the autobiography ''My First Eighty Years''. This book is regarded as a New Zealand classic. Personal life Wilson spent several years in the No ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Wilson (mathematician)
Helen Jane Wilson, (born 1973), is a British mathematician and the first female Head of Mathematics at University College London (UCL). Her research focuses on the theoretical and numerical modelling of the flow of non-Newtonian fluids such as polymeric materials and particle suspensions. Early life and education Wilson was born in Warrington. Her father, Leslie Knight Wilson was a chartered accountant; her mother, Brenda (née Naylor) a French teacher. She attended Broomfields Junior School and Bridgewater High School. Wilson studied at Clare College, Cambridge, completing a BA, Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (later converted to an MMath) and PhD in mathematics. Her PhD thesis, titled "Shear Flow Instabilities in Viscoelastic Fluids", was supervised by John Rallison. On graduation she moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she began research on suspension mechanics with Rob Davis in the Chemical Engineering department. Mathematical work In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Wilson (Australian Judge)
Helen McLeod Wilson is an Australian judge. She has been a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since November 2014. Wilson was born in Newcastle and raised in the Swansea area. She was educated at Swansea High School before studying arts and law at the University of Sydney. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1989, and worked as a solicitor in the Criminal Division of the Legal Aid Commission of NSW from 1990 to 1992. She then went to work for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as senior solicitor from 1992 to 1995, managing lawyer at their Campbelltown regional office from 1995 to 1997 and finally as trial advocate. Wilson was admitted as a barrister in 1999, and was an acting Crown Prosecutor until being made permanent in the role in 2001. In one prominent case, she was the prosecutor in the 2008 child sex trial of former state minister Milton Orkopoulos. Wilson attained senior counsel status in 2013. Wilson was appointed to the District Court of New ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Wilson Nies
Helen Wilson Nies (August 7, 1925 – August 7, 1996) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after previously serving as a United States Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Education and career Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Nies received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1946. She received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1948, graduating Order of the Coif.* She was an attorney of the Office of Alien Property of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 1948 to 1951. She was branch counsel of the United States Office of Price Stabilization in Washington, D.C. from 1951 to 1952. She was in private practice of law as a member of a law firm based in Chicago, Illinois while she worked in Washington, D.C., with an office at The Watergate, from 1960 to 1978. She was in private practice of law in Washington, D.C. from 1978 to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Ann Wilson
Helen Ann Wilson (1793–1871) was a notable New Zealand nurse and community leader. She was born in Gibraltar ) , anthem = " God Save the King" , song = " Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg , map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe , map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green , mapsize = , image_map2 = Gib ... in about 1793 and her father, James Simpson, was the United States consul general at Tangier. Personal life On 11 June 1840 in London, England, Helen married Peter Wilson, superintendent of the civil hospital at Gibraltar. He would become colonial surgeon in New Zealand in 1849. Although The couple had no children, they raised Patricio, Peter Wilson's son from a former relationship. References 1793 births 1871 deaths New Zealand nurses 19th-century Gibraltarian people 19th-century New Zealand people New Zealand women nurses Gibraltarian women {{nurse-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Mary Wilson (physician)
Dr. Helen Mary Wilson (1864–1951) was a physician and Social purity movement, social purity campaigner. Wilson was born in Mansfield, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and moved to Sheffield early in her childhood. She studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women. In 1892 Wilson was House surgeon at the London Temperance Hospital. She worked in private practice in Sheffield from 1893 until 1906, when she retired to become actively involved in the Association for Social hygiene movement, Moral and Social Hygiene, previously known as the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. She took a humane approach to women in and in danger of falling into prostitution, rather than punitive one, and argued against double standards in the law on prostitution. From 1916 to 1919 she was Chair of the Women's Training Colony in Newbury, Berkshire, a work camp that aimed to provi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
Helen Van Pelt Wilson (October 19, 1901 – September 30, 2003) was a twentieth-century American garden writer. Early life Helen Van Pelt Wilson was born in Collingswood, New Jersey and grew up in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, attending the Shipley School to prepare for Bryn Mawr College. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr in 1923. Wilson taught English and Latin at Mount Holly High School for one year, and in 1924 married Arthur Collins, Jr. She created her first garden at their home in Moorestown. Writing career Wilson began writing about houseplants and gardens for the '' Philadelphia Record''. For ''Parents Magazine'', she wrote about education, marriage and parenting. Over the course of her writing career, Helen Wilson contributed to ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Good Housekeeping'', ''Scribner's'', ''House Beautiful'', '' House and Garden'', ''Flower Grower'', and '' Better Homes and Gardens''. Wilson collaborated with ''New York Times'' Garden Editor Dorothy Jenkins in 194 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beatrice Six
The Beatrice Six are Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Debra Shelden, James Dean and Kathy Gonzalez, who were falsely found guilty in 1989 of the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska and served prison terms before being exonerated in 2009. The conviction was won on five confessions which were obtained under threats that they would be given the death penalty if they did not. Additionally Dr. Reena Roy, the Nebraska State Patrol forensic scientist who performed blood and semen analysis, was never called to the stand to testify during the case, despite her analysis determining that none of the defendants on trial were a specific match to blood or semen found at the scene. In 2008, DNA evidence implicated Bruce Allen Smith, an original prime suspect in the murder who had died in 1992, and all of the Beatrice Six were exonerated the following year. Most of the defendants were persuaded by the police psychologist, Wayne Price, that they had repressed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |