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Eileen Keegan
2000 deaths | ballerinas | ballet teachers | south african ballet dancers | year of birth missingEileen Keegan (died 22 October 2000, South Africa) was a South African ballet dancer and teacher. She initially trained in South Africa under Madge Mann and Nancy Hooper, before moving to London in 1932 to continue her training. She toured Europe with Molly Lake's company and went on a global tour with Dandre's Ballet Company. She qualified as a Cecchetti examiner after being examined by Cyril Beaumont. In 1936 she returned to South Africa to teach. She ran her own studio, with Dorothea McNair, opposite the old Theatre Royal in Durban before moving to Kloof. She taught in her private studio for over 50 years. She gave recitals in the Durban City Hall and in 1939 presented the first locally-produced season of ballet in the city. In 1940 she formed Durban's highly-successful Ballet Club, which was based on the concept of the club begun by Dulcie Howes in Cape Town. Her notable pupils include: Nadia Nerina, Michael Maule, Joy Shearer, Colleen Scott, and Judy Gale-Brown. She died at her home on 22 October 2000.
Adalbert Vitalyos
1914 births | 2000 deaths | french journalists | philatelistsAdalbert Vitalyos was a French journalist born in Hungary. He was the creator of the philatelic magazine Le Monde des philatélistes. He was born 10 July 1914 in Szolnok, Hungary, and died 24 May 2000.
Arriving in France in 1929, he became French in 1932. In 1935, He became typographer/linotypist at the journal Le Temps.
James Murdoch Austin
1915 births | 2000 deaths | 20th century mathematicians | american mathematicians | american meteorologists | chaos theorists | massachusetts institute of technology alumni | massachusetts institute of technology faculty | people from concord, massachusetts | people from new zealandJames Murdoch Austin, (1915-2000) was notable for his pioneering modeling of the meteorology of air pollution, especially that of smokestack particulates. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of the pioneer of chaos theory, Edward Norton Lorenz.
Adam Yarmolinsky
1923 births | 2000 deaths | american academics | american educators | american jews | people from baltimore, maryland | people from new york city | place of birth missing | university of maryland, baltimore facultyProfessor Adam Yarmolinsky (1923 - 2000), son of Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, was an American academic, educator as well as a political apointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.
Besides serving in the White House, he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the Vietnam war.
Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op. 211
1911 births | 2000 deaths | 20th century classical composers | american composers | armenian-americans | people from middlesex county, massachusetts | scottish-americansJohn Charles Davis
1970 births | 2000 deaths | american keyboardists | american occultists | satanists John C. Davis was a renowned satanist, a student of philosophy, and founder of the Satanic Combat Science school...
Best known by his nickname Xloptuny, Davis specialized in Martial Arts and dedicated the better half of his life to the administration of the Church of Satan as well as attracting a number of fine individuals as teachers and students in Satanic Combat Science (SCS), and few actually chose to carry on the SCS torch in his honor.
W.W. Williams
1917 births | 2000 deaths | american educators | american military personnel of world war ii | baptists | deaths from cardiovascular disease | louisiana state university alumni | northwestern state university alumni | people from louisiana | people from minden, louisiana | school principals and headteachers | united states air force officers | webster parish, louisianaWayne Wynn Williams, Sr. (September 10, 1917 - September 16, 2000), usually known as W.W. Williams, was a north Louisiana educator who served as the superintendent of Webster Parish public schools from 1973-1978 and the principal of Minden High School (MHS) from 1953-1961. Under his leadership as principal, a then new high school campus was launched in 1954 on College Street in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish. During his tenure, MHS ranked in the top 1 percent in nationwide achievement examinations in English, the top 2 percent in science, the top 3 percent in mathematics, and the top 5 percent in social studies, a record not yet again matched. In August 2007, new Minden High School facilities opened once again at the same location to supplant the 53-year-old structure. By that time, the superintendent was Wayne Williams, Jr. (born 1947), the older son of W.W. Williams.
Early years, education, military
Williams, Sr., was born in Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish in western Louisiana, to Samuel Smart Williams, M.D. (1896-1985), and the former Louise Emma "Ludie" Wynn. The family moved to the community of Ida in northern Caddo Parish near the Arkansas boundary, where in 1934 Williams graduated from high school. Dr. Williams later took a position as the first physician at the Louisiana State Penitentiary near Angola in East Feliciana Parish north of Baton Rouge. He was killed thereafter in an automobile accident in Angola.Larry Finley
1913 births | 2000 deaths | american businesspeople | american entrepreneurs | american radio personalities | american radio producers | american television producers | american television talk show hosts | people from los angeles | people from syracuse, new yorkLarry Finley (May 14 1913 - April 3 2000) was a late night broadcast pioneer as well a leader in the audiotape and videotape business.
Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, he became a Syracuse nightclub manager at age 18 before moving to Los Angeles in the 1930's and opening a chain of jewelery stores. In the 1940's, he became a business partner with musicians Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey in ownership of the Casino Gardens Ballroom in San Diego, where he also owned radio station KSDJ. He created his own TV production company, Finley Productions, Inc., the first such operation on the West Coast. >
