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 Happy Birthday to Patty Smith Hill
Professor Smith began her distinguished professional career in education as a kindergarten teacher in Louisville, Kentucky.
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.
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 alidababa : The History of the Birthday Song (And a wonderful laugh.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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.
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 Hill Family Crest
The name Hill was originally derived from the Old English "hyll," which simply meant "hill," and was probably first adopted by a family that lived on or near a hill.
The Hill surname is extremely common and widely distributed in England, and as such, is a classic example of an English polygenetic surname; that is, a surname that developed in a number of different locations and was adopted by various families independently.
In the Hill coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Happy Birthday to You
Their names are Mildred J Hill and Patty Smith Hill.
What is certain is that we all owe a debt of gratitude to Mildred J Hill and Patty Smith Hill for giving us the most famous song of celebration ever.
Jessica’s lawyers conceded that the Hill sisters did not right the verse but that they did write the melody and the rest is history.
www.itsurbirthday.com /happy_birthday_to_you.htm   (273 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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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   (560 words)

  
 NWHM General Quiz
In 1893, Mildred Hill, a church organist, concert pianist, and musical scholar from Kentucky wrote the melody for the song that would become “Happy Birthday to You,” for her kindergarten teacher sister Patty Smith Hill.
Patty wrote the original lyrics of “Good morning to you” to the melody and published the song in a book called Song Stories for the Kindergarten.
A third Hill sister, Jessica, filed a law suit and was able to secure the copyright of the song for her sisters in 1934.
www.nmwh.org /Education/40questionquiz_2answers.html   (1443 words)

  
 History of Birthday Song,Birthday Songs,Birthday Song History,History of the Happy Birthday Song
Happy Birthday song is considered to be a joint work of two American sisters, Mildred J. Hill who was schoolteachers in Louisville Kentucky Experimental Kindergarten and Dr Patty Smith Hill who was a Principal in the same school.
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)

  
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, the four-line ditty was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill, an authority on Negro spirituals, and Dr. Patty Smith Hill, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University.
Hill, who born in Louisville, KY, on June 27, 1859.
The song was first published in 1893, with the lyrics written by her sister, Patty Smith Hill, as "Good Morning To All."
www.cojoweb.com /happy-birthday2.html   (229 words)

  
 I’m an Evil Genius » Archives » Is Happy Birthday copyright protected?
Under the laws in effect at the time, the Hills’ copyright would have expired after one 28-year term and a renewal of similar length, falling into public domain by 1991.
Think about how Hollywood would love the story of the Hill sisters, two Southern kindergarten teachers who write a song that they only hope will be a useful teacher’s aid.
Appropriately, then, film credits are the one place left where Mildred and Patty Hill still get their due.
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 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)

  
 forgetfoo. — Unhappy Birthday  
The melody for Happy Birthday was first penned by two sisters from Kentucky, Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill.
While it is not entirely clear who first wrote down the words for Happy Birthday, it showed up in a few places before Jessica Hill (another Hill sister) was able to demonstrate undeniable similarities between Good Morning to All and Happy Birthday and to secure the copyright to the song.
While the copyright should have expired in 1991, copyright has been extended repeatedly over the last quarter of the twentieth century and the copyright for Happy Birthday is now not due to expire until at least 2030.
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 Happy Birthday Song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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)

  
 Cave Hill Cemetery, Famous People
Milton Hannibal Smith (1836-1921), farmer, telegraph operator, and the self effacing head of the L and N Railroad from 1882 until his death, opened the Eastern Kentucky coal fields and built the railroad into predominance in the South.
Patty Smith Hill (1868-1946) directed the Free Kindergarten Association’s 10 kindergartens into national attention before moving to New York to teach at Columbia.
Mary Jo Lazarus Gheens Hill (1892-1982) was vice president of her husband’s candy company and when widowed, she married lawyer and former circuit court judge Richard Harrison ?Hill, who was director of the Filson Club.
www.cavehillcemetery.com /famouspeople.html   (4865 words)

  
 Patty Smith Hill Picture
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 Who wrote "Happy Birthday", the song we traditionally sing to celebrate someone's birthday?
Patty, born in 1868 was a nursery school teacher, and Mildred, born in 1859, started as a teacher but became a composer, organist and concert pianist.
One day in 1893, while Mildred was teaching at the Louisville Kindergarten School where her sister served as principal, she came up with the melody we now know as "Happy Birthday".
Patty added some lyrics and the song "Good Morning To All" was born - this was used by teachers to welcome students to class each day:
www.answerbag.com /q_view/22484   (439 words)

  
 Happy Birthday
By demonstrating the undeniable similiarities between "Good Morning to All" and "Happy Birthday to You" in court, Jessica was able to secure the copyright of "Happy Birthday to You" for her sisters in 1934 (too late, unfortunately, to benefit Mildred, who had died in 1916).
Under the laws in effect at the time, the Hills' copyright would have expired after one
in royalties annually, with the proceeds split between Summy-Birchard and the Hill Foundation.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/birthday.htm   (828 words)

  
 Fun Facts--Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You, the four-line ditty was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill, an authority on Negro spirituals, and Dr. Patty Smith Hill, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University.
Happy Birthday to You was composed by Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher born in Louisville, KY, on June 27, 1859.
This site was created especially for students of the UNC School of Journalism and anyone else who may be interested.
www.ibiblio.org /team/fun/birthday   (258 words)

  
 Happy Birthday - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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.
de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Happy_Birthday   (252 words)

  
 Happy Birthday To You
First published as "Good Morning To All" in 1893 with music by Mildred J. Hill (1859-1916) and lyrics by Patty Smith Hill (1868-1946).
1915 or in the 20's, but copyrighted in 1935 by the Hill family.
Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill are postumously inducted into The Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1996).
globalia.net /donlope/fz/songs/Happy_Birthday_To_You.html   (425 words)

  
 "Copying is Theft ..."
As the war over P2P downloading heats up, and the record companies launch the novel marketing technique of suing their customers, I think it is an appropriate time to settle some of the pervasive myths about U.S. copyright law which fuel both sides of the debate.
So when you sing "Happy Birthday" to your mom, you don't owe a royalty to Mildred and Patty Smith Hill (they own the copyright), but when it is performed in a movie, you do see a credit roll.
The problem for the RIAA and MPAA is that all they can see is that someone is copying a work -- they cannot tell the purposes for which the work is being copied.
www.securityfocus.com /columnists/175   (1541 words)

  
 Music Together - Rosanna Magarelli - New York, NY - Children - Kids
Renowned educators such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Maria Montessori, Patty Smith Hill, John Dewey, Carl Orff, Zolton Kodaly, and Shinichi Suzuki have used music in their early childhood classes (Isenberg and Jalongo, 1997; Fowlkes, 1984; Hewes, 1976).
It is not only music experiences, it is also movement experiences that these educators brought into the classroom.
The music-movement connection is a strong bond throughout early childhood.
www.musictogethernyc.com /html/articleJDavis.html   (1007 words)

  
 The Tribune - Magazine section - Windows - Did You Know...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The song was originally written in 1893, when two sisters, Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill, wrote the memorable tune to accompany a simple greeting with which schoolteachers could welcome their students to class each day: Good morning to you, Good morning to you, Good morning, dear children, Good morning to all.
When Irving Berlin’s musical As Thousands Cheer used the ‘Good Morning to All’ melody, Clayton F. Summy Company filed a lawsuit against him on behalf of the Hill sisters and was able to secure the copyright of the song in 1935.
Today, the copyright royalties are split between Summy-Birchard Music and the Hill Foundation, the foundation established for the Hill sisters.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031101/windows/did.htm   (276 words)

  
 2003 ACEI Award Winners
ACEI gratefully recognizes Nancy Barlett Hitch, whose generous donation funded these Elizabeth Breathwaite Student Leadership Awards and made it possible for these students to attend this year's conference.
The Patty Smith Hill Award is ACEI's highest honor to be conferred on a professional educator.
MaryLouise Burger is Professor Emerita at Northeastern Illinois University, and an internationally known lecturer, writer, and educational consultant.
www.acei.org /03awards.htm   (1362 words)

  
 NCCRESt - Didn't Someone Invite Patty? How Patty Smith Hill's Vision of International Education Has Crossed the Border ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
How Patty Smith Hill's Vision of International Education Has Crossed the Border in a Most Unusual Place!
This paper distills the history of early childhood education in Russia as a backdrop to a discussion of Patty Smith Hills visit to the nursery schools and kindergartens of the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
The paper begins with a discussion of the introduction of early childhood education in the late 1800s, the lack of educational advances during the hardships of the period surrounding the revolution, and Russian educator Vera Fediaevskys work and the development of an educational plan emphasizing communistic ideals.
nccrest.edreform.net /resource/14816   (205 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (Happy Birthday, We'll Sue)
The Hills' catchy little tune was unleashed upon the world in 1893, when it was published in the songbook
The next time you hear "Happy Birthday" in a movie — and now that you’re listening, it won’t be long — stay for the credits at the end of the movie.
This material may not be reproduced without permission
www.snopes.com /music/songs/birthday.asp   (869 words)

  
 Unhappy Birthday
was first penned by two sisters from Kentucky, Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill.
While it is not entirely clear who first wrote down the words for
While the copyright should have expired in 1991, copyright has been extended repeatedly over the last quarter of the twentieth century and the copyright for
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