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	Joan Shurcliff, 93, fostered USSR relations with US - The Boston Globe
		Shurcliff died Jan. 31 in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge of complications from a stroke.
		Shurcliff's son Arthur of Cambridge said that while his mother was in the Soviet Union, at one point she was watching a parade in Moscow's Red Square and caught a glimpse of Stalin.
		Shurcliff volunteered at the International Student Center, which assisted foreign students attending Harvard and MIT, her son said, and then began working with Harvard's Russian Research Center during the Cold War, processing information from defectors.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/02/27/joan_shurcliff_93_fostered_ussr_relations_with_us (800 words)

	Arthur Asahel Shurcliff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1865 - 1957) was a noted American landscape architect.
		He was born with the family name Shurtleff but changed it to Shurcliff in 1930 to conform to an older English spelling.
		Shurcliff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and upon the advice of Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmstead, enrolled at Harvard University for graduate studies in landscape architecture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Asahel_Shurcliff (192 words)

	MHS Arthur Asahel Shurcliff Papers, 1865-1957 : Guide to the Collection
		Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1870-1957) was born Arthur Asahel Shurtleff.
		Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1870-1957) was borh Arthur Asahel Shurtleff in Boston, Massachusetts.
		Arthur Howard Nichols of Boston and Cornish, New Hampshire.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0023 (891 words)

	Physicist William Shurcliff; Advocated for Public Interest
		William A. Shurcliff, 97, a physicist who became a key crusader against the supersonic jet and an advocate for solar-energy research, died June 20 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.
		With impeccable credibility, a gentle disposition and a succinct way with words, Dr. Shurcliff challenged in his many writings and presentations the validity of government and scientific reports that seemed to play down the noise nuisance and dollar damage caused by the supersonic craft.
		Shurcliff came to Washington during World War II and worked primarily for the Office of Scientific Research and Development, a research funding organization that played a role in the Allied development of the atomic bomb.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062701675_pf.html (787 words)

	William A. Shurcliff, Who Helped Develop Atomic Bomb, Dies at 97 - New York Times
		William A. Shurcliff, a physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and went on to play an outspoken role in defeating plans for a supersonic passenger plane in the 1960's and the Star Wars antimissile defense system in the 80's, died June 20 in Cambridge, Mass.
		Shurcliff, who earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1930 and a Ph.D. in 1934, was called to Washington in 1942 to work as a senior technical aide for the Manhattan Project and was later promoted to head of the Technical Intelligence Group.
		Shurcliff returned to Cambridge to head an optics laboratory at the Polaroid Corporation, a company run by his classmate Edwin H. Land, and his inventions led to about 20 patents, Arthur Shurcliff said.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/28/us/28shurcliff.html?ex=1309147200&en=a0c90b84a638e580&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (705 words)

	The Olmsted Legacy:Arthur Shurcliff
		Arthur Shurcliff (1865-1957) was a noted American landscape architect.
		In an article about the planning and execution of the 1904 Gardens Project, Shurcliff suggested that Mount Holyoke College used to have a more quadrangular feel but that the quadrangles were blurred due to the placement of buildings.
		Sidney had researched his father's involvement of the Olmsted firm and perhaps that is why the later work on the campus still adheres to the Olmsted design princples.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hatlas/campus_environment/olmstead_plan/shurcliff.html (376 words)

	William A. Shurcliff; physicist worked on Manhattan Project \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		William A. Shurcliff, a physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and went on to play an outspoken role in defeating plans for a supersonic passenger plane in the 1960s and the “Star Wars” anti-missile defense system in the '80s, died June 20 in Cambridge, Mass.
		Shurcliff, who earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1930 and a Ph.D. in 1934, was called to Washington in 1942 to work as a senior technical aide for the Manhattan Project and was promoted to head of the Technical Intelligence Group.
		Shurcliff returned to Cambridge to head an optics laboratory at the Polaroid Corp., a company run by his classmate Edwin H. Land, and his inventions led to about 20 patents, Arthur Shurcliff said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060709/news_lz1j9shurcli.html (599 words)

	Shurcliff, Arthur A . (1870-1957) and Shurcliff, Sidney N. (1906-1981), Papers, 1900 ca. - 1981: An Inventory. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Arthur A. Shurcliff (born Shurtleff) was educated at MIT and Harvard’s Bussey Institute.
		Arthur A. Shurcliff was a founding member of the American City Planning Instititute and was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1905; he served as ASLA’s president, 1928-1932.
		Shurcliff continued his father’s practice and expanded its scope; the firm was ultimately to be known as Shurcliff, Merrill and Footit.
	oasis.harvard.edu:10080 /oasis/deliver/~des00001 (14591 words)

	Finding Aid
		Arthur A. Shurcliff graduated with high honors from both Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894, and Harvard University in 1896.
		The Shurcliff, Merrill and Footit Architectural Records contain memoranda; notes; articles from the "Mount Holyoke College NOW" publication; architectural sketches and plans; and financial records which consist of invoices, bills for professional services, construction estimates, as well as various account information.
		The records include correspondence between Arthur Shurcliff, founder of the architecture firm, and former college President Roswell Ham regarding the layout and design of the campus plan.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0662r.htm (459 words)

	Vol XV 4 Aug/Sept03
		Arthur A. Shurcliff, the President of The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, is the founder of handbell ringing in the United States.
		Shurcliff’s father, Dr. Arthur H. Nichols, was instrumental in having the bells of the Old North Church rehung in the English manner.
		Shurcliff and her father spend a summer in England where she was welcomed by the ringing bands of many churches in and around London with whom she rang very successfully.
	www.areaxii.org /archive/12tone/03_4tt.htm (5898 words)

	Fairfield University :: Arthur A. Shurtleff
		Arthur A. Shurcliff (born Shurtleff) was educated at MIT and Harvard's Bussey Institute.
		Shurcliff also prepared several campus plans including those for Amherst and Wellesley Colleges and Brown University and for Deerfield, St. Paul's and Groton among preparatory schools.
		In October 1926 Arthur A. Shurtleff designed the Japanese Garden for the Lasher Family, six years after the completion of their Hearthstone Hall (now Bellarmine Hall).
	www.fairfield.edu /x17565.xml (268 words)

	John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
		Arthur Shurcliff, a student of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, based his plan for the Governor's Palace on archaeological excavations of the site and on the "Bodleian" Plate--an eighteenth-century illustration that, in addition to other buildings, shows the Palace and its boxwood parterres.
		Shurcliff's drawing, which contains a park, mount, maze, formal and kitchen gardens, entrance courtyard, and falling terraces, includes features referred to by the colonial governors who lived at the Palace from 1716 to 1775.
		Contemporary landscape architects and garden historians view his work as an example of historic preservation that was influenced by the Colonial Revival period of the 1930s.
	www.georgetown.u47.k12.me.us /History/jdrlweb/exhibits/treasurepalace.cfm (144 words)

	Shurcliff (Arthur A.) Collection of Glass Lantern Slides
		Arthur A. Shurcliff, Boston engineer and landscape architect, left behind a visual history of his accomplishments as an urban planner and developer during the last years of the 19th century and first third of the 20th century.
		This microfilm collection preserves 879 of Shurcliff's glass lantern slides which illustrate his work (chiefly in the Boston area), as well as building, landscape, and parkway designs in Italy, France, England, and other parts of Europe that influenced his work.
		Shurcliff served as a member of the Boston Parks Commission, the Boston Planning Board, and the Metropolitan District Commission in Boston.
	www.proquest.com /products_umi/descriptions/Shurcliff-Arthur-A-454.shtml (180 words)

	Frances Loeb Library: Special Collections
		Arthur F. Gray, a mill architect and civil engineer, and Frank M. Blaisdell, a landscape architect and civil engineer, were in practice together in Boston at the turn of the 20th century.
		Arthur A. Shurcliff was educated at MIT and Harvard.
		Shurcliff is perhaps best known as the landscape designer for the gardens of Colonial Williamsburn; his practice encompassed not only private gardens and historic recreations, but also the planning of public parks, roadways, and recreational facilities.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /library/special_collections/collections/index.html (6505 words)

	Arthur Asahel Shurcliff at AllExperts
		Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1865 - 1957) was a noted American landscape architect.
		He was born with the family name Shurtleff but changed it to Shurcliff in 1930 to conform to an older English spelling.
		Shurcliff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and upon the advice of Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmstead, enrolled at Harvard University for graduate studies in landscape architecture.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/ar/arthur_asahel_shurcliff.htm (236 words)

	Gardens at Colonial Williamsburg
		Arthur Shurcliff, left, was the original and principal landscape architect during the earliest years of the Restoration.
		Shurcliff and in subsequent years went on to assume primary responsibility for the development of Colonial Williamsburg's collection of gardens.
		"Colonial Revival" is the term that was developed to describe the style of garden design that developed over the course of the early 20th century, a style hugely defined by the work of Arthur Shurcliff and Alden Hopkins.
	www.georgetown.u47.k12.me.us /history/CWLand/garden2.cfm (83 words)

	Arthur Ashael Shurcliff - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
		: Arthur A. Shurcliff was born in Boston and studied engineering at MIT before going on to studies in landscape architecture.
		Shurcliff founded his own office and was President of the American Society of Landscape Architects from 1928-1932.
		Shurcliff was also an essayist, inventor, painter and furniture-maker with an interest in American landscape history.
	www.gardenvisit.com /b/shurcliff.htm (164 words)

	Landslide: Spotlight on the Garden (2006) / The Cultural Landscape Foundation
		The Greatwood Estate Gardens, some of the finest historical landscape architecture in Vermont, were designed by Arthur Shurcliff, as part of the Greatwood Farm owned by Willard S. Martin.
		Arthur Shurcliff was a graduate of both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1894) and Harvard University (1896).
		Shurcliff may be best known as the landscape designer of the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg.
	www.tclf.org /landslide/2006/greatwood/history.htm (858 words)

	asahi.com：What begins as self defense often ends as war - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		William A. Shurcliff, a physicist who took part in the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic weapons in the United States, died June 20 at the age of 97.
		Shurcliff actually served as head of the Technical Intelligence Group for the project.
		Shurcliff strongly opposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as the Star Wars antimissile defense system proposed by the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200607130098.html (511 words)

	Garden History at Stratford
		Arthur Shurcliff of Colonial Williamsburg was hired to make the initial archaeological investigations in 1930.
		In 1955, Alden Hopkins, Shurcliff's successor as landscape architect at Colonial Williamsburg, was hired by The Garden Club of Virginia to simplify the unmanageable boxwood design and introduce more variation in height and color to the garden.
		He eliminated several parterre beds, created a central walk access to the upper terrace and through the center oval, and planted crape myrtles and flowering shrubs for added color and yellow locusts for shade.
	www.stratfordhall.org /gardens/history.htm (993 words)

	Shurcliff, Merrill and Footit Landscape Architects Papers, 1933-1975 Finding Aid
		Shurcliff, Merrill and Footit Landscape Architects, Boston, Massachusetts (later called Shurcliff, Shurcliff and Merrill), founded by Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1870-1957) with his son, Sidney Nichols Shurcliff (b.1906), Vincent N. Merrill, and Douglas B. Footit as partners.
		Arthur Asahel Shurclif (1870-1957) graduated with high honors from both Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894 and Harvard University in 1896.
		The Shurcliff, Merrill and Footit records consist of correspondence, architectural drawings and plans, aerial photographs, cost estimates, bills, receipts, lists, and memoranda relating to the firm's work at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts between 1933-1975.
	asteria.fivecolleges.edu /monarch/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm285.html (465 words)

	History
		This acquisition was designed by Landscape Architect, Frank Hamilton, who extended Manning’s concept and achieved the Manning vision by defining the park boundaries with topographical features.
		Also notable for contributions to the park is Landscape Architect, Arthur A. Shurcliff.
		Once again, in 1937, Shurcliff left his mark with the design of the World War Memorial, which includes a circular granite balustrade, granite monument and bluestone paving.
	www.westerlylibrary.org /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/101 (278 words)

	The Esplanade Association : Dock Restoration
		The River Dock is located adjacent to the Arthur Fiedler sculpture near the Hatch Shell, and serves as an important gateway between the park and the Charles River.
		The largest dock on the Esplanade, near the Arthur Fiedler statue, was recently replaced thanks to a partnership with TEA, the DCR, and EOEA.
		Arthur Shurcliff, landscape architect for the Esplanade, encouraged boating in all forms – the more Venetian, the better, he wrote.
	www.esplanadeassociation.org /getinvolved/dock_restoration.html (484 words)

	National Park Service: Highways in Harmony (Colonial Parkway)
		Arthur Shurcliff, landscape architect for Colonial Williamsburg, was active in parkway issues in the vicinity of Williamsburg during the 1930s.
		As early as 1930, questions concerning the role of Williamsburg within the Colonial National Monument strained relations between the two organizations as Williamsburg Foundation officials voiced their objections to a modern parkway intruding upon the historic capital.
		Two routes emerged which came to be know as the "Shurcliff Line" north and west of the city, named for Foundation landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff, and the "Peterson Line" east and south of the city, named for Charles Peterson.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hih/colonial/colonial8.htm (350 words)

	Farris on Kimball and Stratford Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Arthur Shurcliff was recommended, and later employed by the Garden Club of Virginia, to carry out the landscape design.
		The stair projects appear to be carried out against the protests of Arthur Shurcliff, who conducted most of the early excavations around the house, and even of the contractors, Claiborne and Taylor
		Both with regards to the main house and the dependencies, the restoration of Stratford Hall to the Georgian period is very much a work of the Colonial Revival mentality in its heavy reliance on British precedents.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /clemons/RMC/exhib/fiske/conference/Farris.html (3145 words)

	Colonial Renaissance Eighty years ago, a historic town was reborn
		Arthur Shurcliff, president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, was commissioned for this task.
		He was able to locate Gov. Francis Nicholson's Town Plan of 1699, which made it possible to re-create Williamsburg's original gardens, orchards and pastures for horses and other animals.
		Goodwin, Rockefeller, Arthur Woods, Kenneth Chorely and J.D. Rockefeller III (the oldest son) became the executives of Colonial Williamsburg Inc. and served on the board of trustees.
	fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2007/012007/01272007/253506/palm (2336 words)

	Vermont.com News of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Goddard College garden, designed by landscape master Arthur Shurcliff about a century ago, has long been overgrown and overlooked.
		Shurcliff was a Boston engineer and landscape architect.
		The garden was built in phases between 1908 and 1918.
	www.vermont.com /NewsOfTheDay.asp?date=8/13/2006 (123 words)

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