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Special Edition: Brenda Hillman’s most treasured book
No full textAs part of its ongoing series spotlighting the most treasured books of Bay Area residents, DATEBOOK, the San Francisco Chronicle\u27s arts and entertainment news and events guide, highlights a selection from Saint Mary\u27s English Professor and renowned poet Brenda Hillman. In the article, Hillman, the author of nine collections of poetry, and the Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry at the College, writes about the importance of her 95-year-old mother\u27s King James Bible to her family. Read Special Edition: Brenda Hillman’s most treasured book
Interview with Dr. Brenda Child
No full textDr. Brenda Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of several works, including Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (University of Nebraska Press, 1998), which comes from her 1993 University of Iowa dissertation. In this interview, Dr. Child discusses public history and her work in several national exhibits as well as her most recent work My Grandfather\u27s Knocking Sticks (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2014).
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Brenda Flanagan, 33rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textBrenda Flanagan left school in Trinidad at age 14 to help support her family. In 1967 she came to the USA, where she worked as a domestic servant. Marriage and motherhood further kept her from an education until 1975, when she began her studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of the prize-winning novel You Alone Are Dancing, a collection of stories, In Praise of Island Women and Other Crimes, and the forthcoming, Allah in the Islands
AHC Interview with Brenda Preminger 1914-1999
No full textEarly memories of the author’s childhood in Galicia. Recollections of the family’s escape from the invading Russians. Description of the family’s hardship during the early years in post-World War One Vienna. Adjustments to the assimilated environment. The family, however, still kept a kosher home, celebrated all the holidays and attended synagogue on the Sabbath. Experience of anti-Semitism during Brenda’s elementary school years. Later on she was excluded from the prestigious Döbling Gymnasium due to the numerus clausus. Brenda was therefore enrolled at the Chajesgymnasium, the only Jewish high school in Vienna. After graduation she applied at the Pharmaceutical Institute at Vienna University, but her application was once again rejected due the numerus clausus. Instead she started to study chemistry, where she also encountered anti-Semitism among some lecturers and students. Marriage in 1935. Awareness about political tensions in Austria. Recollections of the Anschluss. Brenda Preminger left Austria on the day of the Anschluss with a night train to Italy, where her husband was conducting business deals for his lumber business. Her parents got affidavits for America with the help of her mother’s relatives. Brenda and her husband applied for affidavits for Australia, since America was unobtainable to them due to their Polish citizenship. The couple stayed in Turino, Italy. In October 1938 they left for Australia. They settled in Sydney, where Brenda was able to find work in a department store. In August of 1944 they joined her parents in the United States, where her husband started a lumber business in New York.Nov. 12, 1999Brenda Preminger was born as Bertha Feldmann 1914 in Potroliczka, Galicia. During World War One the family fled the invading Russian troops and settled in Vienna in 1918. Brenda was a student at the Chajesgymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. After graduation she enrolled at university and was a student of chemistry. In 1938 she emigrated together with her husband to Australia via Italy. The author lives in the United States.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Faculty Author Series-Dr. Brenda Ayres
No full textAnnouncement about Dr. Brenda Ayres\u27 presentation on Feminism and Christian Scholarship. This is a lecture event for the JFL Faculty Authors Series
Brenda Johnson '70 Published Book
No full textBrenda Johnson '70 published a memoir in April 2022. Brenda Johnson '70 published a memoir in April 2022. Getting Over It (maybe not all of it) is a collection of short stories detailing moments in her life that she wishes to let go of, from the loss of a marriage to being judgmental, as well as wonderful moments she doesn't want to get over. Johnson hopes that sharing her story will help provide comfort to those experiencing similar loss in their lives. For more information about the author visit brendajohnsonauthor.com
U of M Professor and Author Brenda Child featured during annual Ice Cream Social on Wed., Aug. 15, 2012
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2012). U of M Professor and Author Brenda Child featured during annual Ice Cream Social on Wed., Aug. 15, 2012. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222897
Chestnut Women: French Caribbean Women Writers and Singers
No full textBrenda F. Berrian, North American Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, author of Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000)
Production of biofuel from used coffee grounds
No full textBrenda Addison-Jones' explores the effectiveness of energy alternatives using used coffee grounds and a Bomb Clarinometer, a standard apparatus that measures the total heat content of substances. This PowerPoint presentation is in lieu of a live recording as part of the DC Research Café (November, 2020).biofuelheatcoffee groundsbomb calorimeterenerg
Como nueces de castaña: Escritoras y cantantes del Caribe de habla francesa Title: Chestnut Women: French Caribbean Women Writers and Singers
No full textBrenda F. Berrian, North American Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, author of Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).Culture & Arts, Cultural Center Encuentros Nro. 42 Brenda F. Berrian Chestnut Women: French Caribbean Women Writers and Singers
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