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Lorrie
Lorrie is a usually feminine name which may refer to: Given name or shortened name * Lorrie Collins (1942–2018), American country music, rockabilly and rock-and-roll singer * Lorrie Cranor, American professor and director of the Carnegie Mellon University Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory * Lorrie Dunington-Grubb (1877–1945), English landscape architect in Canada * Lorrie Fair (born 1978), American soccer player * Lorrie Lynch, journalist and senior editor of ''USA Weekend'' magazine through 2009 * Lorrie Menconi, Playboy Playmate of the month for February 1969 * Lorrie Moore (born 1957), American fiction writer * Lorrie Morgan (born 1959), American country music singer * Lorrie Otto (1919–2010), American environmentalist and author * Lorrie Pickering (1919–2009), New Zealand politician, Minister of Education in 1972 * Lorrie Sprecher (born 1960), American writer and musician * Lorrie Wilmot (1943–2004), South African cricketer Pseudonym or nickname * Irène Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Morgan
Loretta Lynn Morgan (born June 27, 1959) is an American country music singer and actress. She is the daughter of George Morgan, widow of Keith Whitley, and ex-wife of Jon Randall and Sammy Kershaw, all of whom are also country music singers. Morgan has been active as a singer since the age of 13, and charted her first single in 1979. She achieved her greatest success between 1988 and 1999, recording for RCA Records and the defunct BNA Records. Her first two RCA albums ('' Leave the Light On'' and ''Something in Red'') and her BNA album '' Watch Me'' are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The 1995 compilation '' Reflections: Greatest Hits'' is her best-selling album with a double-platinum certification; '' War Paint'', '' Greater Need'', and ''Shakin' Things Up'', also on BNA, are certified gold. Morgan has made more than 40 chart entries on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, including three number-one singles: " Five Minutes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Dunington-Grubb
Lorrie Alfreda Dunington-Grubb (1877 – 17 January 1945) was an English landscape architect. She moved to Canada in 1911 with her husband and business partner Howard Dunington-Grubb where they founded Sheridan Nurseries. She was active in garden design, a writer and a patron of the arts. Britain Lorrie Alfreda Dunington was born in England in 1877. Her childhood was spent in India, South Africa and Australia. She attended Swanley Horticultural College in England where she studied garden design for two years. After graduating she obtained a position as head gardener of an Irish estate. She formed a partnership with H. Selfe-Leonard, a gardener particularly known for his rock gardens, and they designed gardens throughout Britain. Leonard was a follower of Gertrude Jekyll. Lorrie's love of herbaceous gardens may have come from Leonard, or through meeting with Jekyll herself. Lorrie had the ambition of becoming a landscape architect. The profession was not taught in England at the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer. Biography Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University. At 19, she won ''Seventeen'' magazine's fiction contest. The story, "Raspberries," was published in January 1977. After graduating from St. Lawrence, she moved to Manhattan and worked as a paralegal for two years. In 1980, Moore enrolled in Cornell University's M.F.A. program, where she was taught by Alison Lurie.Kelly, p. 2. Upon graduation from Cornell, Moore was encouraged by a teacher to contact agent Melanie Jackson. Jackson sold her collection, '' Self-Help'', composed almost entirely of stories from her master's thesis, to Knopf in 1983. Works Short stories Her short story collections are '' Self-Help'' (1985), ''Like Life'', the ''New York Times'' bestseller '' Birds of America'', and '' Bark''. She has contributed to ''The Paris Review''. Her fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor, D.Sc. is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She has served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 110 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics. Early life and education Cranor was a member of the first class to graduate from the Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. She received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Public Policy, master's degrees in Technology and Huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Fair
Lorraine Ming Fair (born August 5, 1978) is a retired American professional soccer midfielder who was a member of the World Cup Champion United States national soccer team. Over the span of ten years, she was a part of one World Cup Team and three Olympic teams, and retired from international play in 2005. Her twin sister, Ronnie Fair, (now Veronica Fair Sullins) was also a member of the national team, and when Ronnie was called in to participate in a game against England on May 9, 1997 at San Jose, California, it became the first time a pair of sisters played together in the Women's National Team. Early career Lorrie and Ronnie both participated on Los Altos High School's female soccer team in Los Altos, California, where they grew up. They were born at Stanford Hospital, but moved to New York for three years before returning to the Bay Area in 1982. While Ronnie chose Stanford to go to college, Lorrie decided on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill instead, but n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Collins
Lawrencine May "Lorrie" Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018) was an American country, rockabilly and rock and roll singer. Beginning in the mid-1950s, she and her brother, Larry Collins, performed as the Collins Kids. Early life Born in Creek County, Oklahoma, near Sapulpa, Collins and her brother Larry were individually musically talented as young children. Their parents relocated them to Southern California to develop their music. They soon became paired as a musical duo. Career In the late 1950s, Collins was the girlfriend of television star and teen idol Ricky Nelson on both the Nelson family's top-rated show ''The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet'' and in private life. She made her debut on January 22, 1958 in an episode titled "The Picture in Rick's Notebook" in which she played the dual role of twin sisters (one being David Nelson's girlfriend and the other Ricky's potential paramour). In this first episode, Nelson and Lorrie performed a duet of " Just Because", which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Otto
Lorrie Otto (September 9, 1919 – May 29, 2010) was an American speaker and author. As an environmentalist, she was an ardent supporter of the protection of biological diversity. She helped to bring about the DDT ban in the United States and helped to establish the Environmental Defense Fund. Background She was born Mary Lorraine Stoeber in 1919 near Madison, Wisconsin. She was a farmer's daughter and was intrigued as a young child by the freshly turned soil on her father's land. She joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. Education and marriage She graduated from the University of Wisconsin. She met her future husband there, Owen Otto, a psychiatrist. Activism In the 1960s, while concerned about the number of dead birds around her property in Milwaukee, she brought hearings on the pesticide use in Wisconsin. She organized scientists, attorneys and witnesses from the US, Canada and Sweden to present evidence against DDT. She was able to bring about a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Wilmot
Anthony Lorraine "Lorrie" Wilmot (1 June 1943 – 29 February 2004) was a South African first-class cricketer from Cape Province who played from 1960–61 to 1988–89. Career A big hitting right-handed batsman, Wilmot is said to have once hit a six off New Zealand spinner John Sparling that went 120 metres. His highest score of 222 not out made against Southern Rhodesia in 1965–66 was at the time the second highest score achieved by an Eastern Province batsman. Controversy As acting captain of Eastern Province at Bulawayo during the 1972–73 Currie Cup, Wilmot was involved in a walkout. Rhodesia had been set 300 to win and in the final hour of the game they needed six more runs. A minimum of 20 overs had to be bowled in the final hour according to the rules. With Mike Procter and Paddy Clift at the crease and 3 wickets in hand, Wilmot led his team off the field while claiming falsely that the 20 overs had been bowled. Wilmot refused to re-enter the field and the ump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Sprecher
Lorrie Sprecher (born 18 July 1960) is an American writer, musician, and activist. Biography She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation was on Gertrude Stein. Her debut novel, ''Sister Safety Pin'', details the life of a 20-something lesbian named Melany as she struggles to come to terms with her sexuality, her lovers, her future, and her place in the changing world of punk rock. Peppered heavily with references to seminal punk bands, the novel follows Melany through a small series of relationships, attaining her undergraduate degree, and contemplating "if a lesbian... especially a punk lesbian... is supposed to get a Ph.D." Honed with sharp wit, the story unfolds against a backdrop of 1980s California, New York City, and D.C.; a time when punk rock was shifting faces and the AIDS crisis was exploding amongst the gay community. Widely reviewed, ''Sister Safety Pin'' has become a classic among its lesbian audience. After t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Lynch
Lorrie Lynch was the senior editor and personalities columnist for ''USA Weekend'' magazine through 2009.(4 December 2009)USA Today/Weekend‘s Lorrie Lynch on the Market FishbowlDC Biography Lynch has a B.A. in Journalism from Central Michigan University, where she was editor of the campus newspaper, ''CM LIFE''. She interviewed entertainment figures and wrote the "Who's News" column in the Sunday magazine. Lynch moved to ''USA Weekend'' from ''USA Today'', where she was a founding staff member. As a reporter in the News section she covered national stories and Washington politics. As the paper's San Francisco bureau chief she covered western issues and reported the beginning of the nation's AIDS crisis. As an editor in the "Life" section, she was responsible for the paper's daily celebrity coverage. Lynch also worked for newspapers in Port Huron, Ypsilanti, Traverse City, Mount Pleasant, and Battle Creek, Michigan. She also worked for ''The Sacramento Bee'' and ''The Marin Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irène Hamoir
Irène Hamoir (25 July 1906 – 17 May 1994) was a Belgian novelist and poet, the leading female member of the Belgian surrealist movement. Her poetry was published under the pen name Irine, and she appeared as Lorrie in the writings of her husband, Louis Scutenaire, and the works of René Magritte. Biography Born in Saint-Gilles, Belgium into a family with ties to the circus, she worked as a secretary. As an adolescent, Hamoir was already militant in the Young Socialist Guards. Then in 1928, she met the Brussels surrealists (she would later portray then in rough outline as hooligans in her novel ''Boulevard Jacqmain'' 953 reprinted in 1996 by the Éditions Devillez). She wrote her first poem, ''Métallique'' in 1925. At that time she first became involved with the burgeoning Belgian surrealist group forming around artists such as Magritte, Marc. Eemans, Scutenaire, Marcel Mariën, and Paul Nougé. She married Louis Scutenaire in 1930. Her poems and tales, highly fantastical, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrie Pickering
Herbert Elmer Lorraine Pickering (29 March 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party, and was a cabinet minister. Biography Pickering was born in Havelock in 1919, the son of Charles Henry Pickering. He received his education from Marlborough College, Christchurch Teachers' College, and the University of Canterbury. During World War II, he was a flying instructor for the RNZAF. After the war, he worked for the New Zealand Broadcasting School. In 1941, Pickering married Margaret Priscilla McKenzie, the daughter of Donald Seaforth McKenzie; they were to have two sons and one daughter. He contested the electorate for National in ; then, following the death of William Gillespie, he contested the electorate in the and was elected. The Hurunui electorate was abolished in 1963, and Pickering successfully contested the Rangiora electorate instead, which he represented until his retirement due to ill-health in 1972. In 1961 he was one of ten N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
