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Ginny
Ginny or Ginnie is an English feminine given name or diminutive, frequently of the name Virginia. It may also serve be the diminutive form of Jennifer, Genevieve, Ginevra, or Geneva. "Ginny" is also a slang term for the U.S. state of Virginia, used mainly in the rural western portions of the state. People Virginia * Ginny Arnell (born 1942), American singer and songwriter born Virginia Mazarro *Ginny Blackmore (born 1986), New Zealand singer and songwriter *Ginny Brown-Waite (born 1943), American politician * Ginny Burdick (born 1947), American politician * Ginnie Crawford (born 1983), American sprinter * Ginny Duenkel (born 1947), American former swimmer and 1964 Olympic champion * Ginny Fiennes (1947-2004), British explorer and wife of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes *Virginia Gilder (born 1958), American former rower *Virginia Grayson (born 1967), New Zealand-born Australian artist *Virginia Leng (born 1955), British equestrienne * Ginny Montes (1943–1994), civil rights activist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Brown-Waite
Virginia Brown-Waite (born Virginia Frances Kniffen; October 5, 1943) is an American politician who served as U.S. Representative for from 2003 until 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party and a founder of Maggie's List. The district stretched along several counties in western and central Florida, including territory in the metropolitan area of Tampa Bay. Early life, education, and career Virginia Frances Kniffen was born in Albany, New York, on October 5, 1943. She attended Albany’s Vincentian High School. In 1976, she graduated from Empire State College, State University of New York (Northeast Center) with a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies. She was the first member of her family to earn a college degree. She later earned a master's degree in public administration from Russell Sage College. She served as a staffer in the New York State Senate, working there for 17 years and eventually rising to the role of legislative director. During this time, she divorced her fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Capicchioni
Ginny Capicchioni is a lacrosse Goaltender (field lacrosse), goaltender. She played women's lacrosse at Sacred Heart University. After college she played men's box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League, senior Canadian Lacrosse Association, and for United States national indoor lacrosse team, Team USA at the 2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. __TOC__ Capicchioni grew up in Oradell, New Jersey and attended River Dell Regional High School, where she played basketball, field hockey and softball. Following her collegiate career, she became the first woman in North America to sign with a men's professional team, the first woman to play in a men's professional lacrosse game, the first American-born keeper to play in a Canadian Lacrosse Championship, and the first woman to play for a men's national team in any sport. After starting the game of lacrosse in college, she became the three-time Northeast Conference Goalie of the Year at Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia (given Name)
Virginia is a Germanic and Romance feminine given name derived from the Ancient Roman family name ''Verginius'' or ''Virginius''. According to legend, Virginia was a Roman girl who was killed by her father in order to save her from seduction by the corrupt government official Appius Claudius Crassus. The name was the 34th most common name for American women and girls, according to the census of 1990. It was the 545th most popular name given to baby girls born in the United States in 2007. Virginia Dare was the first child born to English parents in North America. Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter that prompted the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of ''The New York Sun''. The most famous Virginia is probably the English modernist author Virginia Woolf. Variants *Virgy ( English, Indonesian) *Virgee (English) *Virgie ( English, Indonesian) *Virginia ( Indonesian, Italian/Spanish) *Virgínia ( Portuguese) *Virginie ( Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Montes
Virginia Elenor Montes (1943 – October 6, 1994) was a civil rights activist and feminist who was the first Latina to become a national officer of the National Organization for Women. Biography Ginny Montes was born in 1943 in Guanaja, Honduras. Her family moved to Tampa, Florida, when she was ten years old. She graduated from Jefferson High School in Tampa, and attended the University of Florida, receiving a B.A. with a major in Sociology in 1968. Montes became active with the Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER) while still a student. She eventually was elected president of GWER. After graduation, she worked as a social worker for what is now the Florida Department of Children and Families. In 1975, she moved to Tallahassee, Florida, to pursue a master's degree in criminal justice at Florida State University. Montes moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1980 to work for the Southern Regional Council (SRC) as director of legislative research. She also served as director of Proj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Gordon
Ginny Gordon is the main character in a series of five mystery books for adolescent girls published by the Whitman Publishing company of Racine, Wisconsin from 1948 to 1956. The books were written by Julie Campbell Tatham, writing as Julie Campbell. Margaret Jervis was the illustrator. In 1947 the Whitman Publishing Company was seeking juvenile mystery and adventure book series, and Tatham sent them an outline and sample chapters of ''The Swap Shop Mystery'', with Ginny Gordon as the heroine. The publisher liked the story, and it became ''Ginny Gordon and the Mystery of the Disappearing Candlesticks''.Ernie Kelly, Interview with Julie Campbell Tatham, ''The Whispering Watchword'', September 1996, page 27 Tatham considered Ginny Gordon to be "a little sophisticated for the time", and she had added a sense of romance between Ginny and John. Whitman dropped the series after five books so the author could concentrate on ''Trixie Belden Trixie Belden is the title character in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Fields
Virginia Fields (born November 30, 1945) represented the 5th District in the New York State Assembly, which includes parts of the Long Island towns of Brookhaven and Islip, including Centereach, Farmingville, Fire Island, Holbrook, Holtsville, Lake Ronkonkoma, Selden, Bayport, Bohemia, Oakdale, Ronkonkoma, Sayville, and West Sayville. Career Fields was chosen to represent this district in a special election held on March 9, 2004, due to incumbent Steve Levy's resignation to become Suffolk County Executive. She was re-elected in 2006 and again in 2008, when she defeated Republican opponent John Bugler. In September 2010, she lost the Democratic primary race to Ken Mangan. Fields ran in the 2010 general election on the Independence and Working Families party lines, but was defeated by Republican Al Graf. Fields previously served as a lawmaker in the Suffolk County Legislature (2000–2003), where she chaired the Health Committee. Prior to her election to the legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Buckley
Virginia Louise Buckley (born 1 April 1968 in Rochdale) is a British journalist, radio and television presenter. Early life Buckley was born and brought up in Rochdale, England, before moving to Australia at the age of 18. She started her career early, appearing regularly from the age of 12 for BBC local radio in Manchester, where she presented a children's radio programme. At the age of 12 she appeared on the BBC children's programme ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop'', where she interviewed Noel Edmonds, David Bellamy and the pop group Sad Café. Buckley also worked as an actress appearing in numerous plays for BBC Radio and studied Performance Arts and Media Studies at Oldham's Grange Arts Centre. Broadcasting career At the age of 18, Buckley moved to Australia; she lived in Sydney and worked for several years in commercial radio. She worked as a junior in the newsroom at 2UW and later at Triple M, first in the news room and then as a producer for the show ''Club Veg''. She went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Wright
Ginny Wright (full name Ethel Virginia Henderson) was an American country music singer who was born in Twin City, Georgia, August 1, 1932. Ginny Wright first experience in live performance was singing in glee clubs, she then moved on and studied opera. She began performing country music in the early 1950s. Her first single was on the Triple A label, following her discovery by deejay Jack Gale. Wright next signed with the new Fabor label on the West Coast, recording a duet with Jim Reeves, " I Love You" (Fabor 101), which spent 22 weeks on ''Billboard's'' country charts in early 1954, peaking at No. 3. One year later she returned to the hit parade with another duet, " Are You Mine?" (Fabor 117), this time with Tom Tall, which did even better. Over a 26-week run on ''Billboard's'' country charts, it peaked at No. 2. It was her second top 10 duet and her final chart appearance. After taking a break from her career in the mid-1950s to raise a family, Wright entered country musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Wood
Virginia Hill Wood (October 24, 1917 – March 8, 2013) was an American environmental activist and a pioneer in the Alaskan conservation movement. Ginny Wood co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society in 1960 with her then husband, Morton "Woody" Wood. Biography Early life and family Virginia Hill Wood was born in Moro, Oregon, to Charles Edwin Hill, an experimental farm superintendent, and Edythe née Brunquist Hill, a schoolteacher, on October 24, 1917. Her father was from a wealthy family from Springfield, Massachusetts, supposedly a distant relation to James Garfield, while her mother grew up in Boston as the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Wood's uncle, Ernest Brunquist was a noted psychologist and botanist, who served as an honorary curator at the Denver Museum of Natural History. Her parents met while attending Oregon State University, and had one other daughter, Marjorie, after Wood. Shortly after Wood's birth, the family moved to Waterville, Washington. Wood became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginnie Wade
Mary Virginia Wade (May 21, 1843 – July 3, 1863), also known as Jennie Wade or Ginnie Wade, was a resident of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the Battle of Gettysburg. At the age of 20, she was the only direct civilian casualty of the battle, when she was killed by a stray bullet on July 3, 1863. The house where she was killed is now a popular tourist attraction and museum called the "Jennie Wade House". Early life Wade was born in Gettysburg, and worked as a seamstress with her mother in their house on Breckenridge Street while her father was in a mental asylum. She may have been engaged to Johnston Hastings "Jack" Skelly, a corporal in the 87th Pennsylvania, who had been wounded two weeks earlier in the Battle of Winchester. He died from his injuries on July 12, 1863, unaware that Wade had died days earlier. Casualty of war Wade, her mother, and two younger brothers left their home in central Gettysburg and traveled to the house of her sister, Georgia Anna Wade McCl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Vida
Virginia E. "Ginny" Vida (born 1939) is an American editor and community leader, best known for editing ''Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book'' (1978), and as media director of the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) in the 1970s. She was also deputy director of the New York City Commission on the Status of Women, and chair of the Ethics Commission in San Francisco, before she retired in 2004. Early life and education Vida was born in Chicago and raised in Macomb, Illinois, the daughter of Paul Vida and Eleanor O. Vida. Her father was born in Hungary. She had an older brother, Lee (1934–2016), who became an ophthalmologist. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Illinois in 1961, and a master's degree in English linguistics from New York University in 1966. Career Vida was a teacher as a young woman, and edited school textbooks. In 1973 and 1974 she was active in the Jean O'Leary-led Lesbian Feminist Liberation, an offshoot of the Gay Activists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Tyler
Merrie Virginia Eggers (née Erlandson; August 8, 1925 – July 13, 2012), known professionally as Ginny Tyler, was an American voice actress who performed on dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1993. In 2006, she was named a Disney Legend. Early life Tyler was born the elder of two children of Erland Alfred and Harriet (née Ruttenberg) Erlandson in 1925 in Berkeley, California, United States. The family moved to Seattle, Washington, where her brother Donald was born. Later her parents were divorced and her mother remarried and Ginny's step-father adopted Ginny and she became Merrie Virginia Eggers. Career Tyler grew up in Seattle and her family had a rich legacy of storytelling and imitation of animal sounds, which proved very useful to her later on in her career as an artist. She first appeared before a radio microphone sometime in the 1930s and co-hosted, alongside Al Priddy the radio show ''Make Believe Island'' on KOL station. The show was moved to television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
