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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Whitney Museum Featured Artist: Kiki Smith
Smith has explored different aspects of the body in her work--the skeleton and organs, the musculature and the skin, the body’s fluids and forms, in fragments and as full figures.
Smith is fluent in many media, and it often appears that her involvement with one material inspires or leads her to another.
Smith is interested in astrology and may have been inspired here by a belief in the connection between celestial bodies and human character traits.
whitney.org /www/collection/feat_kiki.jsp   (3011 words)

  
 SPIRIT SQUAD | Idaho State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Whitney danced for seventeen years with the Dana Smith Dance Studio in Pocatello, Idaho where she is currently an instructor and directs the renowned Tuellerettes.
Whitney was a member of the DSDS “Fab Five,” who competed in New York City and won first place, grand champion, and $1,000.
Whitney was Pocatello Junior Miss in 2003 and made it to the top ten at the state pageant, where she received the fitness award.
www.isu.edu /departments/camprec/spirit/06-07m/whitneys.shtml   (180 words)

  
 Western Skies - USFS Fire Policy - July 23, 2005
Smith says that's because last fall, the mulching machine took out the brush and smaller trees that would have allowed the fire to move from the ground into the tops, or canopy, of the trees, and sustained a very intense burn.
SMITH: Of the trees that are left on those slopes, maybe eighty percent were burned up and only twenty percent survived, whereas down in the bottom where we did the fuels treatment project, it's the exact opposite.
WHITNEY: Smith says that if everything goes well, managers on the south end of the Pike-San Isabel will be able to manage natural fires to benefit the ecosystem and reduce fire danger starting in the spring of 2006.
westernskies.krcc.org /transcripts/7-23-2005/WS_7232005_B.html   (1202 words)

  
 Whitney Smith -
Whitney Smith is a professional vexillologist, i.e., scholar of flags.
Whitney Smith was born on 26 February 1940 in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Smith was the designer of the national flag of Guyana and has served as a vexillographer (flag designer) to a number of governments and organizations.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Whitney_Smith   (299 words)

  
 Haber's Art Reviews: Kiki Smith
Jane and Tony Smith, an opera singer and, of course, a sculptor, might have lived at the center of the arts scene or fled from it.
Smith also comes neatly after a show on bodily functions at P.S. Into Me / Out of Me," only she might interpret that to mean a continued process.
Smith can hardly seek the center, not when she sees so many dying at the margins.
www.haberarts.com /ksmith.htm   (1805 words)

  
 Marion Thomas Whitney, by Middleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
My mother, Maude L. (Whitney) Smith (1879-1954), was the eldest child in her immediate family and felt a responsibility for keeping her brother and sisters informed of family news.
Joseph Whitney was an accomplished carpenter, as was his son Thomas Whitney (1799-1865), and his grandson, Marion T. Whitney (1846-1927).
Aunt Ruth (Whitney) Himes said that when the quilt came into her possession from her Chandler cousins, the strip of cloth which covered the borders had frayed with wear; she removed it, took it to a fabric shop and found new cotton fabric in a matching color, then re-sewed the edges to match the original.
www.whitneygen.org /archives/extracts/middleton1.html   (3206 words)

  
 Excerpts -- In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Although Brodie was a pioneer in documenting Smith's polygamy, fifty years of secondary publications and classification of primary documents have dated her book, and, moreover, scholars have faulted her for relying on antagonistic sources that have since proven unreliable.
For instance, Helen Mar Whitney's belief in the presence of demonic spirits by her bedside is the necessary back-drop for understanding her sickbed conversion to polygamy.
In the same way, Mary Elizabeth Lightner's statement that she was married to Smith for eternity (as a polyandrous wife) has been used to show that she was not married to him for time; but she elsewhere specifically and repeatedly stated that she was married to him for time and eternity.
www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/insacred.htm   (9659 words)

  
 The Strange Marriages of Sarah Ann Whitney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sarah Ann Whitney was the eldest daughter of Newel K. Whitney and Elizabeth Ann Whitney; she was born on March 22, 1825, and was married to the Prophet Joseph
That Joseph Smith performed the ceremony that joined Joseph C. Kingsbury and Sarah Ann Whitney together in marriage is known from a record of marriages performed in Nauvoo.
TO HEBER C. On January 12, 1846, in a ceremony in the Nauvoo Temple Sarah Ann Whitney was sealed to Joseph Smith for eternity.
www.whitneygen.org /archives/extracts/marquardt.html   (3007 words)

  
 A Collection of Smith Chart Resources, page 2
Phillip Hagar Smith was born in Lexington, Massachusetts on April 29, 1905, to George and Rose Whitney Smith of Scotch and English ancestry.
Rose Whitney was a descendant of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin.
Smith, Bell Telephone Laboratories." The footnote referred to a paragraph in the article which began, "There is another effective way for transforming line impedance by means of short line devices...." It was the first published report of Phil's work, work that ultimately led to the creation of the Smith Chart.
www.sss-mag.com /smith01.html   (2651 words)

  
 Queen of Arts: The New Yorker
A retrospective of Kiki Smith at the Whitney.
It is tempting to say that Smith’s chief creation is herself: a neo-hippie queen of bohemia and—what with her wild hair, sharp features, pale skin, and abundant little blue tattoos of rings and stars—an avatar of the Addams Family.
Smith cannot be understood except as an exemplar—and survivor—of a scene that boomed in New York in the early nineteen-eighties.
www.newyorker.com /critics/art/articles/061127craw_artworld   (1283 words)

  
 USUSC MS247: Winslow Whitney Smith
The Winslow Whitney Smith Papers contain correspondence and other records pertaining to Smith's LDS Church mission to Germany, 1927-1930, as well as his experience as a mission president for the Austrian mission later in life.
Consists of letters to and from Smith and others as early as 1910, but the bulk of this subseries is letters sent by Smith to his parents and a cousin, Whitney Kraft ("Bud"), during his LDS Church mission to Germany (1927-1930).
Smith numbered some of these sheets with red crayon, and apparently planned at some point to create a sort of chronological journal from these entries and some of the correspondence.
library.usu.edu /specol/manuscript/collms247.html   (741 words)

  
 www.classicwhitney.com - Historic Newsfile - March 2002
Dionne also discussed Whitney briefly, stating that everything would be alright, and asked people to continue to pray for her full recovery.
Whitney's spokesperson, Nancy Seltzer, made the following comment in today's PageSix column in the New York Post regarding Whitney's cancellation to sing at the wedding of Liza Minnelli and David Gest: "Several weeks ago, Whitney told David [Gest] she was recording and she didn't think she could make it.
Whitney has been in the studio and recordings have been going well, suspending work for only two days when she contracted a cold.
www.classicwhitney.com /info/mar2002.htm   (739 words)

  
 Vexillology
The tone of Smith.'s statement may be a little self-serving, but his words don't constitute a claim that there were no vexillologists until 1959--only that they didn't call themselves that.
Whitney Smith (in this article) does not draw the line between vexillologists and vexillophiles as being between those "scholarly studying flags" and those "interested in flags as a personal hobby".
Whitney Smith and Peter Orenski define vexillology as a discipline (and would-be science) in the framework of the social sciences.
www.fotw.net /FLAGS/vxt-vex.html   (3170 words)

  
 USUSC P0034: Whitney Smith Collection
Smith also served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, acted as head of the LDS Church (due to the incarceration of Church leaders on polygamy charges), and was the second counselor to Joseph F. Smith.
John and Sarah's son Winslow Farr Smith (1881-1966) served on an LDS mission to Germany between 1902 and 1905, and on April 9, 1906 he was ordained a member of the 3rd quorum of the 70.
Smith, George A. Reproduction of a drawing, on prospectus for Zora Smith Jarvis' biography of Smith (1961); 1960.
library.usu.edu /Specol/photoarchive/p0034.html   (1557 words)

  
 UA Fort Smith
Twenty-year-old Brooke Whitney of Springdale was crowned Miss UA Fort Smith on Saturday, Feb. 11, in Breedlove Auditorium on the campus of the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.
Whitney is the daughter of Joe and Kathy Whitney and is a 2003 graduate of Springdale High School.
UA Fort Smith is not responsible for and does not routinely screen, approve, review or endorse the contents of or use of any of the products or services that may be offered at these websites.
www.uafortsmith.edu /News/Index?skin=&storyid=1368   (495 words)

  
 Potted passions / Oakland artist's love of clay and florist's eye cook up a line of botanical dinnerware
Smith's "Seeds and Pods" line, in contrast, is minimalist in nature -- a set of vases with plump, seed-like bodies with tiny openings that seem to be sprouting.
Smith currently is working with a manufacturing company in hopes of selling her goods at more affordable prices.
Smith's work also is available at her studio, 539 Athol Ave., Oakland; at Egg & The Urban Mercantile, 85 Carl St,, San Francisco (415) 564-2248 or www.urbanmercantile.com; and at Verdigris Clay Studio and Gallery, 2801 Leavenworth St., San Francisco.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/07/HOGMA7FC0V1.DTL   (974 words)

  
 Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Pocatello teen to compete in pageant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Journal photo by Bill Schaefer - Whitney Smith, 17, Miss Pocatello Junior Miss 2003 rehearses her tap dance in preparation for the Idaho Junior Miss pageant in Coeur D'Alene October 2, 3, 4.
Her mother has the Dana Smith Dance Studio, and her first appearance at that age was in a number called "Baby Face." Today this blue-eyed blonde stands 5 feet 5 and weighs 115 pounds and hopes for career in dancing.
Whitney admits, though, she has been studying current events like Iraq, the recall election in California and state issues.
www.journalnet.com /articles/2003/09/27/news/local/news04.txt   (599 words)

  
 Run it up the flagpole--Whitney Smith will salute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Although he was trained as a political scientist, Smith forsook academia in 1970 to devote himself to his Flag Research Center, in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Writer Richard Wolkomir travels to Smith's headquarters, just outside Boston, where Smith maintains a collection of thousands of books, pamphlets, documents and some 2,000 flags — the world's richest trove of materials on vexillology.
Smith is also a conduit into the intriguing lore — and cultural complexities — underlying flags, from the banners we see today to the standards of the distant past.
www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/1997/june/flags.php   (267 words)

  
 Carl H. Smith
Carl H. Smith, who is a successful representative of the real estate and insurance business in the City of Elyria, Lorain County, claims the Hawkeye State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Clayton County, Iowa, in April, 1872.
Smith gives special attention to dealing in farm realty in various states of the West and Northwest, as well as Ohio and neighboring states.
Smith and Miss Maude B. Whitney, who was born and reared in Lorain County, Ohio, and who is a daughter of William K. and Ella J. (Whitney) Whitney, her father being a substantial farmer in this county.
iagenweb.org /boards/clayton/biographies/index.cgi?rev=67546   (435 words)

  
 K&L Gates : Professionals : Whitney J. Smith
Smith is a partner in the Corporate Group of K&L Gates’ New York office where his practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities matters, and private equity transactions.
Smith advises typically involve technology companies, and his experience ranges from traditional private company acquisitions and divestitures to public company mergers and advice in connection with potentially hostile situations.
Smith represents issuers and investors in connection with private placements of preferred equity and debt securities, filing of registration statements with the SEC, and secured and unsecured debt financing.
www.klgates.com /professionals/Detail.aspx?professional=649   (211 words)

  
 Athletics News and Press Releases
Smith sophomore Seiko Fujii (Aichi, JAPAN) was the other winner for the Pioneers, defeating opponent Francesca Russo in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3.
Smith will travel to conference and Seven Sister rival Mount Holyoke on Tuesday for a 4:30 pm contest.
Mount Holyoke is currently 5th in the conference while Smith sits in the 8th and final spot.
www.smith.edu /athletics/news/05tnbabson.html   (168 words)

  
 Book Review-In Sacred Loneliness: the plural wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
Historians of polygamy will remember Sarah Ann Whitney Smith, Kingsbury Kimball as a participant in the only well-documented "pretend" marriage that Joseph Smith engineered to cloak a polygamous marriage of his own—an interesting example of the lengths to which he would go to preserve the secrecy of plural marriage.
Her sealing to Smith is also significant in its demonstration of a classic dynastic marriage between Smith and an important church family, a marriage that assured the Whitneys eternal blessings and an important connection to the Mormon prophet in this life (p.
While it is quite possible that Joseph Smith's motivation included a desire to form dynastic links, one has to wonder why he needed to marry the girls for both "time and eternity" and then physically consummate the marriage to accomplish this goal.
www.irr.org /mit/sacredlon.html   (3929 words)

  
 FAMILY AND CHURCH HISTORY- NAUVOO TEMPLE ENDOWMENT NAME INDEX - MORMON HISTORY, LATTER-DAY SAINTS- MORMONISM
Sarah Ann Whitney was the eldest daughter of Newel K. Whitney and Elizabeth Ann Whitney; she was born on March 22, 1825, and was married to the Prophet Joseph Smith when she was seventeen on July 27, 1842, by her father.
TO HEBER C. On January 12, 1846, in a ceremony in the Nauvoo Temple Sarah Ann Whitney was sealed to Joseph Smith for eternity.
Sarah Ann Whitney was the first woman who had her marriage to Joseph Smith sealed for eternity in the Nauvoo Temple on January 12, 1846.
www.xmission.com /~research/family/strange.htm   (3060 words)

  
 Behind Bountiful Banners: Pursuing a Lifelong Passion, Whitney Smith Has Documented the Origins and Significance of ...
Behind bountiful banners: pursuing a lifelong passion, Whitney Smith has documented the origins and significance of hundreds of flags of the hemisphere.
In fact, as a teenager, Smith himself coined the term vexillology, by combining the Latin word for flag, vexillum, with the Greek root for the study of logia.
Smith's interest in flags began in 1946, when at age six he received from his father a small, cotton United States flag on Patriots Day, in his birthplace,...
www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5000852411   (396 words)

  
 Vexillology
The tone of Smith.'s statement may be a little self-serving, but his words don't constitute a claim that there were no vexillologists until 1959--only that they didn't call themselves that.
Whitney Smith (in this article) does not draw the line between vexillologists and vexillophiles as being between those "scholarly studying flags" and those "interested in flags as a personal hobby".
Whitney Smith and Peter Orenski define vexillology as a discipline (and would-be science) in the framework of the social sciences.
flagspot.net /flags/vxt-vex.html   (3170 words)

  
 September 2002 Nippy News (Part II)
Whitney is in the lead by a fraction, but she needs more votes to gain further distance ahead.
WHITNEY HOUSTON (Arista) WHATCHULOOKINAT - "Whatchulookinat?" That's probably what Whitney's been saying to people who stare at her on the street having believed rumors she was either dead or strung out on drugs.
Whitney wants them to live up to their promise, which is why the album's release was shifted to November 25 from November 4.
www.whitney-fan.com /news/0209b.shtml   (2030 words)

  
 TO EMMA SMITH - 1832 OCTOBER 1 3 - Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Traveling to Independence, Missouri, with Joseph Smith in 1831, Gilbert heard the revelation designating Jackson County as the place for the city of Zion and calling him to remain there and establish a store, profits from which would be used to assist those migrating there.
448 When Joseph Smith, Newel Whitney, Jesse Gause, and Sidney Rigdon (all members of the Firm) traveled to Missouri in April 1832, one item of business transacted was to consolidate the mercantile activities of the Church in Missouri and Ohio under the United Firm.
He was also called by revelation to travel among the branches of the Church to solicit funds for the poor and to warn the people in certain eastern cities of the desolation that would come upon those who rejected the gospel.
deseretbook.com /personalwritings/14   (579 words)

  
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Were there sexual relations in the marriage of Joseph Smith and his youngest wife, Helen Mar Whitney, fourteen at the time of her marriage to Smith?
Of these cases, one explicitly said she had a child by Smith, and two others affirmed that the marriages were for time as well as eternity.
First of all, I regard Danel Bachman's thesis on Joseph Smith's polygamy as a milestone in the historiography of Mormon polygamy and an effective response to Brodie's inflated list of wives because he emphasized the affidavits collected by Joseph F. Smith and others.[51] However, we cannot make affidavit evidence an absolute principle.
www.geocities.com /athens/oracle/7207/revhmk5.html   (3905 words)

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