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  Margaret Herrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Herrick, (September 27, 1902-June 21, 1976) was the librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She was born in Spokane, Washington, United States, and graduated from the University of Washington.
Herrick is credited with naming the Academy Award, declaring the statuettes "looked just like my Uncle Oscar." However, others, including Academy President Bette Davis have claimed they invented the name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Herrick   (146 words)

  
 Eulogy for Margaret Herrick | Margaret Herrick Library | AMPAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Margaret Herrick was born Margaret Buck in Spokane, Washington, and attended the University of Washington.
Margaret Herrick was executive director of the Academy for 27 years before retiring in January, 1971.
Herrick's resignation, the Academy is witnessing the end of one era and the beginning of a new one.
www.oscars.org /mhl/eulogy.html   (1011 words)

  
 Longtime public servant Dave Herrick dies at 69
Herrick was born in Denver on July 19, 1931, to David Bryan and Dorothy Margaret (Delo) Herrick.
Herrick also chaired the Montezuma County Demo-crats, and served as president of the Colorado Veterinarian Medical Association in 1979 and 1980.
Herrick is survived by his wife of 47 years, Pat Herrick, of Cortez; his children, Gail Ann Herrick of San Francisco; James Hardy and wife Laura of Cortez, and Jeffrey Bryan and wife Eumelia Herrick of Henderson, Nev.
www.cortezjournal.com /archives/1news1489.htm   (610 words)

  
 Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Herrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George I. Herrick married in Amsterdam, November 24, 1864, Sarah Margaret Birch, a native of Montgomery county, born December 14, 1839, daughter of Alfred and Margaret (Peters) Birch.
Sarah Margaret Birch, wife of George I. Herrick, descends from English, Scotch and Welsh ancestry.
George I. Herrick, is of Scotch and Welsh descent.
www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/herrick-1.html   (1667 words)

  
 "A Museum for Riverside": 75 Years of Collecting for the Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Stephen Leonard Herrick (1873-1952), and his wife Margaret S. Herrick, were avid collectors of American Indian arts, often traveling to southwestern Indian reservations and pueblos to purchase baskets and other items directly from the artists.
Herrick was president of the Riverside Museum Board from 1947 to 1952 and many museum board meetings were held in his Indian Room (pictured), a special addition to his house that was located on 14th Street (where the Press-Enterprise is today).
The Herrick’s collection which consisted of 486 objects was part of his bequest to the Riverside Museum in 1952.
www.riversideca.gov /museum/75th/case3.html   (914 words)

  
 Founders Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
“Art and Margaret Herrick are steadfast supporters of the university and the Department of Biological Sciences.
Herrick donated the 140-acre wetland to the university, which now manages the park in concert with The Nature Conservancy.
Art and Margaret Herrick, an emerita professor of speech pathology and audiology, were the first individuals ever to donate more than $1 million to the university.
www.kent.edu /development/NewsEvents/Founders-Awards.cfm   (621 words)

  
 Cody Episodes - the Play's the Thing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Margaret says that he has "a light in his eyes that only one mistress could inspire - the theater" Cody goes inside the theater and looks around.
Margaret (the director) pulls a real gun on Cody to help him ‘believe’ in the material saying "Nothing can get in the way of what you truly believe".
Margaret and Edmund are discussing how they are going to kill General Freeman.
www.angelfire.com /yt/stephenbaldwin/cody/Play.html   (1370 words)

  
 Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Margaret Herrick Library collects a wide range of materials documenting film as both an art form and an industry.
The library is supported through the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Research Library, founded in 1928 and later named the Margaret Herrick Library after a former Academy librarian and long-time executive director, maintains a world-renowned, non-circulating reference and research collection devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and as an industry.
www.oscars.org /mhl   (145 words)

  
 Margaret Herrick Library
The library is extremely rich in unique material documenting individuals and organizations that have figured prominently in the history of motion pictures.
The Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is the place to go if you're looking for information about relatives in the movie industry.
Hint: additional bio-bibliographical information for current writers in fiction and general family information can be gleaned by reading the jackets of books and acknowledgements of their published works.
home.earthlink.net /~nholdeneditor/margaret_herrick_library.htm   (361 words)

  
 Herrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myron Timothy Herrick, politician, 42nd Governor of US-state Ohio
Margaret Herrick, ancient director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herrick   (86 words)

  
 Wetlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is especially fitting for the sale of the Herricks’ home to translate into support for a teaching laboratory for biology students, because the home used to serve the same purpose.
In 2001, the Herricks established a life estate, transferring ownership of their property to the foundation while retaining the right to live there.
Herrick purchased the original tract of land in 1969; it features a number of rare plants – remnants from the time glaciers covered Northeast Ohio 15,000 years ago.
dept.kent.edu /biology/wetlands.html   (930 words)

  
 California Artist Margaret Cox Herrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Margaret Cox Herrick (1865-1950) was born in San Francisco, CA on June 24, 1865, the daughter of artist William F. Herrick.
Margaret studied at the local School of Design under Virgil Williams, Emil Carlsen, and Arthur Mathews, as well as in the studios of William Keith, Frederick Yates, and Mary Curtis Richardson.
A spinster, Herrick died in Piedmont on June 16, 1950.
www.edanhughes.com /biography.cfm?ArtistID=294   (190 words)

  
 FilmStew.com • Herrick Library Gets Fairbanks Collection
Vera Fairbanks, widow of filmmaker Douglas Fairbanks Jr., announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 75th annual kick-off gala that she would be donating the personal collection of photographs and papers of film star-producer Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
That same evening, the Academy announced that the Center for Motion Picture Study, the building which has housed the Herrick Library for the last ten years, will be renamed the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study.
Of the valuable gift, Linda Mehr, director of the Herrick Library, said, "Of all the major silent film stars, the Library had the least amount of information on Fairbanks, which is somewhat ironic given that he was the Academy's first president.
www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=3667   (419 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Humanist Anthology: From Confucius to Attenborough: Books: Margaret Knight,Jim Herrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When this remarkable anthology was first compiled by renowned humanist and psychologist Margaret Knight in 1961, it brought together a wide range of humanist thought from classical China, Greece, and Rome; the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century rationalist tradition.
Margaret Knight was lecturer in psychology at Aberdeen University.
James Herrick (London, England) is editor of the Rationalist Press Association (U.), and editor of the journal New Humanist and International Humanist News.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879759577?v=glance   (807 words)

  
 Pane-Joyce Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gerridt, son of Herrick Krankheyt and wife Helena, witnesses Gerridt Van Weerdt and wife Catharina [grandparents].
Jannitje, daughter of Herrick Kranckheyt and wife Helena, witnesses Jacobus Krankheyt [Herrick's brother] and Jannitje Van Weert [Helena's sister].
Lea, daughter of Herrick Krankheyt and wife Jannitje [should be Helena, probably confused with Jannitje Krankhz], witnesses Jan Van Weert [Helena's brother] and Jannitje Krankhz.
aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/report/rr13/rr13_356.html   (754 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall: Washington Post
Beverly Hills, CA - The immense collection of still photographs maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library will be named in honor of actor Roddy McDowall, Academy President Robert Rehme announced today.
Plans currently are underway for a ceremony to dedicate the Roddy McDowall Photograph Archive at the Margaret Herrick Library.
The majority of the library's photographs are original fl-and-white prints, but the collections also include both fl-and-white and color negatives, color slides and transparencies, motion picture film frames, glass negatives and glass slides.
www.xmoppet.org /obit/ampas_photo.html   (506 words)

  
 OSCAR.com - 77th Annual Academy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In December of 1975, the Academy dedicated its seven-story headquarters at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and for the first time in its history, the Players Directory, the Margaret Herrick Library, the Samuel Goldwyn Theater and the administrative offices were all under one roof.
The rapid growth of the holdings of both the Margaret Herrick Library and the Film Archive eventually made a separate facility necessary.
In 1988, a 55-year lease was arranged with the City of Beverly Hills for the conversion of its historic Waterworks building in La Cienega Park into the new home of the Academy's film research facilities, now known as the Center for Motion Picture Study.
www.oscar.com /legacy/academy/02.html   (461 words)

  
 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Center for motion picture study. The Margaret Herrick Library and the ...
The Center for Motion Picture Study, dedicated to the appreciation, scholarly study and preservation of our motion picture heritage, is home to the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive.
The Center opened its doors to researchers in January 1991 in a beautifully restored, refurbished and expanded historic structure that had formerly been the water processing plant for the City of Beverly Hills.
The Margaret Herrick Library, later named for one of its first librarians, was developed soon after AMPAS' founding in 1927.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n1_v16/ai_18436733   (1184 words)

  
 Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Herrick Conservatory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Department of Biological Sciences Herrick Conservatory supports teaching and research in the department, and provides a showplace of botanical diversity for the university at large.
Arthur and Margaret Herrick because of their long-standing support for the department.
The Conservatory is attached to the north side of Cunningham Hall and is open weekdays from 9-5, and members of the university community are invited to visit.
dept.kent.edu /biology/conservatory.htm   (182 words)

  
 Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Photographs from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library at the ...
The name George Hurrell became synonymous with the glamorous and seductive photographs from the Hollywood studios of the 1930s and 40s.
Hurrell would say that he tried to "bring out the best, conceal the worst, and leave something to the imagination." These images helped create the illusions that softened the realities of the Depression and World War II, and sustained the public through the establishment of the television era.
This exhibition was from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in Los Angeles.
www.tacomaartmuseum.org /page.asp?view=935   (205 words)

  
 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Description: The Margaret Herrick Library collects a wide range of materials documenting film as both an art form and an industry.
The Herrick’s Special Collections contain materials relating to the careers of numerous directors, producers, actors, and other craftspeople and their filmmaking work in Los Angeles.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/lasubject/records/id81.html   (400 words)

  
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Quick facts (Styles, locations, mediums, teachers, subjects, geography, etc.) (Margaret Herrick)
Born in San Francisco, CA on June 24, 1865, the daughter of artist Wm F. Herrick.
Margaret studied at the local School of Design under Virgil Williams, Emil Carlsen, and Arthur Mathews, as well as in the studios of Wm Keith, Frederick Yates, and Mary Curtis Richardson.
askart.com /artist/H/margaret_cox_herrick.asp?ID=4111   (282 words)

  
 The Awards Blog at MCN: The Ultimate Indie Fest Teams With The Academy
Pence will formally acknowledge the donation at the Festival on September 3, with the presentation of a framed photograph from the collection to Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis.
In celebration of the gift, an exhibition of materials from the Herrick’s other holdings will be on display at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art for the three days of the festival.
The Margaret Herrick Library is a world-renowned, non-circulating reference and research library devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and as an industry.
www.mcnblogs.com /theawardsblog/archives/2005/08/the_ultimate_in.html   (458 words)

  
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 Need lessons or activities relating to Native Americans?
Next week will be the last chance to preview clips and leave your comments about the instructional video series AETN will have the chance to lease for the 2005-2006 school year.
If you are not PLT certified, I hope you will soon take the time to attend a workshop to get the training to use our guide containing 97 activities for students in grades K-8 and the four modules for high school teachers--Focus on Forests, Risk, Forest Ecology and Municipal Solid Waste.
Maggie Herrick, Rm 105-A Subject: Summer 2005 Analyzing Film To Understand the Civil Rights Era The other day, when I sent the PDF flyer out, some people were not able to open it.
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 Index to Motion Picture Credits Main Page - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To these credits, compiled and verified by the film's producer or distributor, we add credits from other films released in Los Angeles County, using research materials from the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.
In addition to personal credits, IMPC records index production and releasing companies, MPAA ratings, running times, Los Angeles release dates, color, language, song titles, source authors and source material, all of which are searchable.
This comprehensive reference work includes production information and cast-and-crew credits provided by the producers and distributors of these films or obtained from the files maintained by the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.
www.academy.org /impc   (438 words)

  
 Margaret Herrick ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Margaret Herrick (1810 - 1890) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Margaret Herrick - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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 Margaret Herrick Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
Margaret Herrick Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Photographs from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
The name of George Hurrell became synonymous with the glamorous and...
www.absolutearts.com /masters/h/herrick-margaret_.html   (94 words)

  
 "Toon In" Exhibition Opening | Academy Press Photo Area | AMPAS
The poster is part of a collection of 1,500 one-, three- and six-sheets, as well as banners, lobby cards, photographs and press books from animated movies dating from the 1910s to the present which were donated by Bob Cudequest to the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.
She is the granddaughter of animator-director-producer Ub Iwerks and is pictured with posters from some of his films.
All of the posters in "Toon In" are from a collection of 1,500 one-, three- and six-sheets, as well as banners, lobby card, photographs and press books from animated movies dating from 1910s to the present which were donated by Bob Cudequest to the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.
photos.oscars.org /listanevent.php?events=442   (483 words)

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