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  Support - Patient Story - Patty Hill - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Life was going along just fine for hairdresser Patty Hill—until she woke up one night with a mysterious pain and burning in her throat.
But the biggest motivation came from grandson Ryan, who was 9 months old when Patty was diagnosed in 1998.
Patty’s treatment, considered experimental at the time, included simultaneous chemotherapy and radiation to shrink the tumor before surgery.
www.mdanderson.org /diseases/pancreas/display.cfm?method=displayfull&id=e858b76c-1c58-4de8-9c4e805c57c152b0   (296 words)

  
  Patty Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patty Smith Hill (27 March 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky-25 May, 1946 in New York, New York) was an American nursery school, kindergarten teacher, and key founder of the National Association Nursery Education (NANE) which now exists as the National Association For the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Patty Smith Hill is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum, Louisville, Kentucky.
She and Mildred J. Hill were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on 12 June 1996.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patty_Hill   (141 words)

  
 Patty Hill - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Patty Smith Hill (27 March, 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky-25 May, 1946 in New York, New York) was an American nursery school and kindergarten teacher.
Perhaps most well known as the sister of Mildred J. Hill with whom she is credited as cowriting the tune to the song Happy Birthday to You, Patty developed the Patty Hill blocks and in 1924 helped create the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University Teachers College.
Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on 12 June, 1996.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Patty_Hill   (199 words)

  
 Print version
Hill said her father, grandmother and grandmother's father were all born in Dunsmuir, as was her older brother.
Hill said one of the harpists she studied under was Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, winner of a gold record in South America.
Hill said her desire to be The Village Harpist was influenced by Irish tradition.
www.mtshastanews.com /articles/2006/09/27/news/02harpist.prt   (767 words)

  
 Butchers up to their elbows in venison - Roanoke.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hill, 35, is married to Taylor's cousin, Patty Taylor Hill.
Hill said his wife "wasn't too happy" when his friends brought their deer to him for processing at their house.
The Hills were able to find good used meat saws, tables and other items but they had to shell out $13,500 for two new refrigerated units they needed for storing fresh meat.
www.roanoke.com /news/nrv/wb/93687   (914 words)

  
 Happy Birthday to You - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The melody of "Happy Birthday to You" was written by American sisters Patty Hill and Mildred Hill in 1893 when they were school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky.
Outside of the United States both the melody and the words are protected by copyright in those jurisdictions with a copyright term of length of life of the author plus 70 years.
Of the two co-writers of the melody, Patty Hill's life determines the length of copyright as she died decades after her sister in 1946.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You   (1602 words)

  
 I’m an Evil Genius » Archives » Is Happy Birthday copyright protected?
Patty Smith Hill, born in 1868, was a nursery school and kindergarten teacher and an influential educator who developed the “Patty Hill blocks” used in schools nationwide, served on the faculty of the Columbia University Teachers College for thirty years, and helped found the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia in 1924.
Patty’s older sister, Mildred, born in 1859, started out as a kindergarten and Sunday-school teacher like her sister, but her career path took a musical turn, and Mildred became an composer, organist, concert pianist, and a musical scholar with an speciality in the field of Negro spirituals.
The Hills’ catchy little tune was unleashed upon the world in 1893, when it was published in the songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten.
honadle.com /blog/?p=119   (853 words)

  
 Happy Birthday by traditional Songfacts
Patty invented the "Patty Hill blocks" used in schools nationwide, and served on the faculty of the Columbia University Teachers College for thirty years.
The court agreed and gave the Hill sisters the copyright to "Happy Birthday To You" in 1934, which meant that anytime it was used in a movie, radio program, or other performance, the Mildred and Patty Hill were compensated.
Both Hill sisters died unmarried and childless, so their share of the royalties have presumably been going to charity or to nephew Archibald Hill ever since Patty Hill passed away in 1946.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=3302   (945 words)

  
 The Hill Sisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As the children arrived at school each morning, they were greeted by the Hill sisters singing this song.
Patty Hill went on to become a very influential educator.
Patty Hill left Louisville in 1905 to study at Columbia University in New York.
www.kytales.com /hillsis/hillsis.html   (285 words)

  
 Student trips a casualty of terrorism attacks
Hill was one of about 20 students scheduled to take a 10-day Thanksgiving trip to Spain.
She said the decision to cancel the Spain trip was made with input of parents and chaperones.
Ben Hill, Patty's father and a South Fayette school board member, said he believes there is cause for concern about student travel.
www.post-gazette.com /headlines/20011004terrortravelnat3p3.asp   (859 words)

  
 Happy Birthday
The song Happy Birthday was written by American sisters Patty[?] and Mildred Hill[?] in 1893 when they were school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky.
The lyrics were copyrighted in 1935, 11 years before Patty's death, and the ownership has swapped hands in multi-million dollar deals ever since; the copyright is currently owned by Warner Communications[?] who bought the rights in 1985 and is scheduled to expire in 2021.
The Hill family allegedly won a 1934 lawsuit resulting in the 1935 copyright mentioned endlessly on the Web: "Happy Birthday to You was copyrighted in 1935 and renewed in 1963.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Happy_Birthday.html   (1245 words)

  
 Birthday Song Best
Patty Hill was principal of the Louisville, Kentucky, Experimental Kindergarten.
The Hill teachers were the vanguard of a theory that children were creative and responsive to learning at a much earlier age than 6.
One day, Patty wrote a few lyrics for a school song to open the day for their pupils and prepare their minds to concentrate on the coming lessons.
www.lindseywilliams.org /LAL_Archives/Birthday_Song_Best.htm   (960 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Happy Birthday Copyright
Patty Smith Hill, born in 1868, was a nursery school and kindergarten teacher and an influential educator who developed the "Patty Hill blocks" used in schools nationwide, served on the faculty of the Columbia University Teachers College for thirty years, and helped found the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia in 1924.
Patty's older sister, Mildred, born in 1859, started out as a kindergarten and Sunday-school teacher like her sister, but her career path took a musical turn, and Mildred became an composer, organist, concert pianist, and a musical scholar with an speciality in the field of Negro spirituals.
The Hills' catchy little tune was unleashed upon the world in 1893, when it was published in the songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten.
www.snopes.com /music/songs/birthday.asp   (843 words)

  
 Happy Birthday to Patty Smith Hill
Patty Smith Hill went on from the classroom to become a centeral and energizing figure in the Kindergarten and nursery school movements that swept this country in the latter part of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th.
She was deeply concerned with nurturing a child's creativity and natural instincts, and she sought, as a teacher and as a teacher of teachers, to find innovative ways for children to express these innate capacities.
One of her inventions were the sets of large blocks, called "Patty Hill blocks, " some of which were nearly the size of small children.
www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2005/0325.shtml   (383 words)

  
 Patty Hill Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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But Patty hill smith knew the other was the bark of young saplings, stewed, seemed almost Indian.
patty-hill-smith.yes171.com   (883 words)

  
 History of Birthday Song,Birthday Songs,Birthday Song History,History of the Happy Birthday Song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is said that some forty years later, Patty Hill came up with the words, ‘Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday Dear name, Happy Birthday to You’.
After Mildred died in 1916, Dr Patty along with her third sister Jessica took Coleman to court over the copyright issue of the song.
Thus the family became the legal owner of the song and was thus entitled to royalties from it whenever it is sung for commercial purpose.
www.tokenz.com /history-of-birthday-song.html   (715 words)

  
 Happy Birthday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Das Lied stammt von Mildred J. Hill (* 1859; † 1916) und Patty Smith Hill (* 1868; † 1946) aus dem US-amerikanischen Louisville (Kentucky).
Dies geschah ohne Einwilligung der ursprünglichen Autoren, was eine Klage der Familie Hill gegen Coleman zur Folge hatte, die die Hills 1935 gewannen.
Da das Urheberrecht geistiges Eigentum noch 70 Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors schützt, und die Co-Autorin Patty Smith Hill erst 1946 starb, ist das Lied in Deutschland noch bis 2016 urheberrechtlich geschützt.
www.jenskleemann.de /wissen/bildung/wikipedia/h/ha/happy_birthday.html   (263 words)

  
 Web Site Design for Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, North Carolina
Being computer professionals ourselves, it was clear to us that Patty has mastered the tools and techniques she uses in developing and deploying web sites.
Patty was very helpful, made suggestions as to enhancing our website's presence, and mainly made my part of the job a whole lot easier.
Patty is a joy to work with - never complains (even when bugged numerous times about changing something) and does the work given to her in a fast and professional manner.
www.carolinawebsolutions.com /testimonials.cfm   (1326 words)

  
 Vagabond Gallery - Canandaigua, New York
Artist's work - "Emerging Earth" series are fanciful images of how the earth's elements may have formed and flowed during the beginning stages of the earth's creation.
Patty highlights this series with metallic colors; combining acrylic, enamel, and oil paints.
Her art inspiration comes from living an outdoor life, and from years of admiring work from "The Group of Seven," a group of Canadian painters, formed in 1920, who painted the rugged Canadian landscapes with a strong purpose of depicting the beauty of the land, each with differing, stunningly bold styles.
www.vagabondgallery.com /hill.htm   (321 words)

  
 Texarkana Gazette: News and Classifieds From Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Another Patty Hill student was Fred Graham, whose father was a minister at First Presbyterian Church.
Against regular policy, young Bettye was allowed to continue at Patty Hill past the sixth grade—right on into the seventh and the second half of the eighth grades—with the blessing of Patty Hill owner/founder Mary C. Patterson.
“Patty Hill was originally first through sixth grades, but Miss Patterson kept some of us on as private pupils through the seventh and eighth grades,” Megason said.
texarkanagazette.com /articles/2006/09/30/local_news/features/features01.txt   (1024 words)

  
 k a t c a v e r l y.com: Happy Birthday to You
Accordingly, the Hill sister's copyright, went into the public domain in the WORLD in 1996 Patty hill, the last surviving author died in 1946), prior to the passing of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, which President Clinton signed on October 21, 1998.
Patty Hill, the only surviving author in 1935 did NOT create the score for the march version of her tune for this 1935 publication, nor did she create any new lyrics.
I was told by the EFF attorney, that the rule of law affording her, and her heirs, and her publishing company any and all copyright would be as an author, life + 50 would apply, and therefore this copyright expired in 1996 in the United States.
www.katcaverly.com /mt-static/archives/2005/05/happy_birthday_1.html   (2219 words)

  
 Language Log: Happy birthday, Noam
The song "Happy Birthday To You" was written in 1893 by two sisters, Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill, who were schoolteachers in Louisville, Kentucky.
After Patty Hill passed away in 1946, some of the Hill Foundation's money went to their nephew Archibald A. Hill.
I have been told that it was primarily the Hill bequest that made it possible for the LSA to purchase its present office suite in Washington, DC.
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003869.html   (223 words)

  
 Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls
Mildred J. Hill, a church organist, concert pianist, composer and authority on Negro spirituals, was born in Louisville KY in 1859 and died in Chicago in 1916 (ASCAP).
Patty Smith Hill was born in Louisville KY in 1868, wrote words for the 1893 book while she was Principal of the Louisville Kindergarten Training School, became Professor Emeritus of Education at Columbia University, and died in NYC in 1946.
Patty Hill ws the Principal, run by the Louisville, KY, Kindergarten Training School.
www.mail-archive.com /finale@mail.shsu.edu/msg09875.html   (789 words)

  
 2006 PATTY SMITH HILL AWARD RECIPIENT
The Patty Smith Hill Award is the Association's highest honor, recognizing outstanding long-term members who have demonstrated a deep commitment to improving children's lives and fulfilling ACEI's goals.
About the Patty Smith Hill Award: A former president of the International Kindergarten Union (ACEI's predecessor), Patty Smith Hill was a classroom teacher, administrator, university professor, and author.
Criteria for nomination and selection of the ACEI Patty Smith Hill Award honoree includes having exemplary, consistent contributions to the organization; achievements in the field of childhood education that have brought recognition to ACEI; and having held membership in the organization for 20 years or more.
www.acei.org /pattysmithaward.html   (970 words)

  
 TIME.com: "Good Morning" -- Aug. 27, 1934 -- Page 1
When she was 25 Patty Smith Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway.
When she was 66, Patty Smith Hill was professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia, a recognized authority on child education.
Lyricist Patty Hill, who will share in the damages, if any, had no complaint to make on the use of the words because she long ago resigned herself to the fact that her ditty had become common property of the nation.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,747783,00.html   (568 words)

  
 Ask Patty - Automotive Advice for Women
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 Happy Birthday Song
In 1893 the Hill sisters had written a book called, “Song Stories for the Kindergarten”, which was published by Clayton F. Summy Co. of Chicago.
During a birthday celebration in Etta’s summer cabin, for her sister Lysette, Patty Hill suggested the words to this song be changed to “Happy Birthday to You”.
Patty Hill later moved to New York where she taught at Columbia University Teachers College.
www.littleloomhouse.org /happybirthday.htm   (497 words)

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