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List Of Mills College People
The following is a partial list of notable Mills College Alumnae. It includes alumnae, professors, and others associated with Mills College. Alumnae and alumni * Janus Adams - journalist and talk show host * Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician * John Bischoff - musician * Kevin Blechdom - musician * Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer * Trisha Brown - choreographer * Dave Brubeck - musician and composer *Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist * Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist * Peggie Castle - actress * Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist * King Lan Chew - dancer *Maya Chinchilla - poet * Katherine Choy - ceramicist *Marika Cifor - professor at University of Washington Information School. * Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire State Senator * Sofia Coppola - director * Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist * Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mills College
Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in 1871 and became the first women's college west of the Rockies. In 2022, it merged with Northeastern University following several years of severe financial difficulties. History Mills College was initially founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in the city of Benicia in 1852 under the leadership of Mary Atkins, a graduate of Oberlin College. In 1865, Susan Tolman Mills, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary), and her husband, Cyrus Mills, bought the Young Ladies Seminary renaming it Mills Seminary. In 1871, the school was moved to its current location in Oakland, California. The school was incorporated in 1877 and was officially renamed Mills College in 1885. In 1890, after se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mills College Art Museum
Mills College Art Museum is a museum and art gallery in Oakland, California. The originally all-girls' school Mills College was founded by Susan and Cyrus Mills, who were both interested in art and history. Susan's sister Jane Tolman was an art historian who developed the art history curriculum in 1875. With a Tolman Mills bequest the present museum building was constructed in 1925 called the Mills College Art Gallery. Albert M. Bender, the Mills College Trustee chiefly responsible for the museum's completion, also made a gift of 40 paintings and 75 prints by contemporary San Francisco Bay Area artists, and since then the gallery has become an important public collection of modern art in Northern California. Bender himself later became a principal founder of what is now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. File:'Decoration - Wild Geese' by Rowena Meeks Abdy.jpg, ''Wild Geese'', by Rowena Meeks Abdy File:'Carmel' by Anne Bremer, 1915, Mills College Art Museum.jpg, ''Carmel' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March Fong Eu
March Kong Fong Eu ( Kong; March 29, 1922 – December 21, 2017) was an American politician. She was a member of the California State Assembly and went on to serve as Secretary of State of California. Early life and education Eu was born March Kong on March 29, 1922 in Oakdale, California in the San Joaquin Valley, where her Chinese immigrant parents Yuen Kong and Shiu Shee ran a hand-wash laundry. Her grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Huaxian County (now Huadu District) in the South China province of Guangdong. The family later moved to Richmond, California. Eu earned a Bachelor of Science in dentistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1943 and a Master of Arts from Mills College. She earned an Ed.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 1954. Career She became a dental hygienist and served a term as president of the American Dental Hygienist Association. In the 1950s she served on the Alameda County School Board. California Assembly In 1966 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosanna Castrillo Diaz
Rosana Castrillo Diaz (born 1971) is a Spanish artist. Early life and education Rosana Castrillo Diaz was born in Sama de Langreo, Asturias, Spain. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the Complutense University of Madrid and an additional BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Rosana has a Post Bac degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College. Work Castrillo won the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2004 and Artadia Art Award in 2005. She is represented by Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco. Themes Diaz produces graphite-on-paper drawings, wall relief sculptures, and installations primarily in monochromatic all-white. In her work, she investigates invisibility, the everyday, solidity and immateriality. According to Janet Bishop, a curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Castrillo Diaz saw a 2000 SFMOMA retrospective of the art of Sol LeWitt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul DeMarinis
Paul DeMarinis (1948) is an American visual and sound artist, specializing in electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist. Since the 1970s he has been active in creating digital sound sculptures, one of the early innovators of sound art. He is currently a professor of art at Stanford University. Early life and education Born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. DeMarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College in 1971. At Antioch College, DeMarinis studied film with Paul Sharits, music with John Ronsheim and philosophy with Keith McGary. DeMarinis received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College in 1973. At Mills College, DeMarinis studied music composition with Robert Ashley and Terry Riley. Career DeMarinis' performance pieces and interactive installations have been featured in international exhibitions and festivals. DeMarinis in 1996 received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughn De Leath
Vaughn De Leath (September 26, 1894 – May 28, 1943) was an American female singer who gained popularity in the 1920s, earning the sobriquets "The Original Radio Girl" and the "First Lady of Radio." Although very popular in the 1920s, De Leath is obscure in modern times. De Leath was an early exponent, and often credited as inventor, of a style of vocalizing known as crooning. One of her hit songs, " Are You Lonesome Tonight?," recorded in 1927, achieved fame when it became a hit for Elvis Presley in 1960. Early life Born Leonore Vonderlieth in the town of Mount Pulaski, Illinois in 1894, her parents were George and Catherine Vonderlieth. At age 12, Leonore relocated to Los Angeles with her mother and sister, where she finished high school and studied music. While at Mills College, she began writing songs, but dropped out to pursue a singing career. She then adopted the stage name "Vaughn De Leath." Her vocals ranged from soprano to deep contralto. De Leath adapted to the emergin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia De Havilland
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (; July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British-American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. At the time of her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister was Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as '' Captain Blood'' (1935) and ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), for which she received her first of five Oscar nominations, the only one for Best Supporting Actress. De Havilland departed from ingénue roles in the 1940s and later distinguished herself for performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eunice Prieto Damron
Eunice Prieto Damron (née Adams; 1924–2015) was an American ceramic artist who taught at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her work was typically utilitarian, but she also worked in other mediums, such as painting and enameling. Collections of her work can be found at the Oakland Museum of Art and at Mills College, both located in Oakland. Damron was married to artist Antonio Prieto, who she meet when the two were studying at Alfred University. Prieto Damron donated her husband's papers to the Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washingt ... in 2004. References 1924 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American ceramists American women ceramists California College of the Arts alumni Mills College faculty People from Spencerport, New York C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Crow
Elizabeth Crow (born Elizabeth Venture Smith; July 29, 1946 – April 4, 2005) was an American editor, journalist, and businesswoman. Born in Manhattan, Crow was the oldest child in a family of six children. Her father, Harrison Venture Smith, was a senior executive at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, and her mother, Marlis deGreve Smith, was a housewife. Crow attended Mills College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1968. In the fall of that year she entered Brown University to pursue a master's degree, but left just a few weeks into the semester to join the editorial staff at ''New York'' magazine where she worked for the next decade. In 1974 Crow married Patrick Crow with whom she had three children: Samuel, Rachel, and Sarah. Their marriage ended in divorce. In 1978 Crow left ''New York'' to become the editor in chief of ''Parents'' magazine and spent the next several years overhauling both the content and the appearance of that magazine. In 1988 she became the CEO of the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress. The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama film ''The Godfather'' (1972). Coppola later appeared in several music videos, as well as a supporting role in ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986). Coppola then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990). She then turned her attention to filmmaking. Coppola made her feature-length directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama ''The Virgin Suicides (film), The Virgin Suicides'' (1999). It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. In 2004, Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama ''Lost in Translation (film), Lost in Translation'' and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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