Katharine's plea for gender equality was apparent from early on. In 1909, Stanley was declared legally incompetent and his guardianship divided between Katharine and the McCormick family. While there, he was examined by the prominent German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin and diagnosed with the catatonic form of dementia praecox.
In June 1908, Stanley was moved to the McCormicks' Riven Rock estate in Montecito, California, where his schizophrenic older sister, Mary Virginia, had lived from 1898 to 1904 before being placed in a Huntsville, Alabama, sanitarium. In September 1906, he was hospitalized for over a year at McLean Hospital and was originally diagnosed with dementia praecox, an early label for what is now today known as schizophrenia. He had been showing signs of progressively worsening mental illness. Stanley graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1895 where he had also been a gifted athlete on the varsity tennis team. In September 1905, they moved into a house in Brookline, Massachusetts. She planned to attend medical school, but instead married Stanley Robert McCormick, the youngest son of Cyrus McCormick and heir to the International Harvester fortune, on September 15, 1904. Katharine graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904, earning a BSc in biology. Four years later, her brother Samuel died of meningitis at age 25. Following the early death of her father of a heart attack at age 57 when she was 14 years old, she and her mother Josephine moved to Boston in 1890. David L.Katharine Dexter was born on August 27, 1875, in Dexter, Michigan, in her grandparents' mansion, Gordon Hall, and grew up in Chicago where her father, Wirt Dexter (a descendent of Samuel Dexter), was a prominent lawyer.Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts (6).More photos of them can be found on my facebook page: They have their first concert July 8th and 9th, 2011 at the New Hazlett Theatre.Ĭheck out their facebook page for more information: Gabriel Gaffney Smith - Music Composer - Choreographer - Dancer Many of the dancers went to Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) for many years of training, and now many of them are off involved with companies such as Nashville Ballet, Ballet Met, Cincinnati Ballet, Bodiography, Columbus Dance Theatre, Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Charlottesville Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Austin.Īlan Obuzor - Artistic Director - Choreographer - Dancer It is just in the early stages of it's life and has put together such a great group of dancers. Texture Contemporary Ballet is an up and coming dance group that is originating out of Pittsburgh, PA. More photos of Fire Spinning can be found on my facebook page: You might be able to find him and many more awesome people at The Peaceful Gathering of Hands Pittsburgh events. He now works in the South Side teaching kids superpowers (gymnastics etc.) He updated me on the bayonet and told me that it had been cleansed. Just as he had appeared in the darkness he had disappeared just as the other night, only this time he was spinning fire. That night he also allowed my friends and I to pull cards, and told us our fortunes based on these. He was working on solutions to dispose of it, such as putting it in a box filled with salt and burying it. He had said that he could feel the weight and ache in is back just from carrying it.
The bayonet was used by a soldier to kill himself.
At that time he had just been given a cursed bayonet from a guy in a coffee shop. The interesting thing here was that one of the guys who was spinning fire, I had not seen since I met him last August on top of a hill in Frick park with a couple of friends. And of course all I had was my Point and Shoot. As all good stories go one thing leads to another and you end up on top of a mountain watching the sunset with a bonfire and a couple of people starting to do some fire spinning.