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Twin Maples is an estate listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. Twin Maples was built in... 1908, designed by a well-known New York and Montclair architect, Alfred F. Norris, who designed the home in the neoclassical style with a facade dominated by a full-height porch, supported by classical columns. Twin Maples was purchased by the Fortnightly Club in 1949 and remains the home of the Fortnightly Club , as well as the Summit Junior Fortnightly Club, both 5013 charitable organizations. In 2007, the two clubs joined together to renovate historic Twin Maples and opened her doors to area charities for their fundraising events and meetings at suitably low rates.
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Marguerite Gabrielle Courtot was an American silent film actress. Courtot was born in Summit, New Jersey of French ancestry. She became a child... model and in June 1912, while not yet fifteen years old, joined the Kalem Company, appearing in 1913's "The Riddle of the Tin Soldier" alongside star Alice Joyce and Harry F. Millarde who was making his film debut. Between then and 1916 Courtot made thirty-seven films for Kalem including the starring role in "The Ventures of Marguerite," a sixteen episode action/adventure serial. Following the Kalem Company's merger with Vitagraph Studios, Courtot starred in the Gaumont Pictures production of "The Dead Alive," directed by Henri J. Vernot. After several films with Jesse L. Lasky's Famous Players Film Company and smaller independents, Marguerite Courtot took most of 1918 off to use her public persona to tour the country to promote America's World War I effort in Europe. When the war ended, she returned to film, joining Pathé.
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Lindsey Johnson McKeon is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Marah Lewis on Guiding Light and Taylor James on One Tree Hill.... She previously starred on Saved by the Bell: The New Class as Katie Peterson from 1996–2000. McKeon was born in Summit, New Jersey and raised in Los Angeles, California. In her spare time, McKeon enjoys swimming, horseback riding, skiing and reading the works of Shakespeare, John Irving and Maya Angelou. She credits her talent to her fourth cousin thrice removed, Harry McKeon, whose work has inspired her since she first saw him in what critics consider to be his finest work, the 2003 film Swimming Upstream. They met in late 2005 at a fan convention for the film, and allegedly remain penpals. In a June 2002 Victoria Advocate article, McKeon said of her character Marah "She could definitely make some smarter choices where men are concerned, but couldn't we all?" and "I just hope she's learned as much as I have after going through all of this." McKeon has appeared as a series regular in Fox's The Opposite Sex and had a recurring role on Boy Meets World.
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Robert Vaughan "Bobby" Sheehan was an American musician and songwriter. Sheehan was a founding member and bassist of Blues Traveler. He died of a... drug overdose in 1999. Bobby was diagnosed with sleep apnea when he was a teenager. This may have been the cause of his death.
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James Sie is an American stand-up comedian, voice actor, comedian, and actor. Sie is known as a well-known "Jackie Chan impersonator" as his voice... bears a strong resemblance to Chan especially in the Kids WB animated television series, Jackie Chan Adventures. He also voices Shendu in the same series. He is the voice of Master Monkey for Nickelodeon's Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, replacing Jackie Chan from the movies . Other popular roles including Chinese footballer Kwan in Danny Phantom, Chen Lin in W.I.T.C.H., Fin Fang Foom and Radioactive Man in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and did several voices for Avatar: The Last Airbender and guest-voiced an Asian scientist named Jimmy in Regular Show. James Sie starred on-camera, opposite Suzy Nakamura in the 1997 independent film, Strawberry Fields, directed by Rea Tajiri. He had roles also in Chain Reaction . Sie wrote and performed the autobiographical one-person stage show, Talking With My Hands in 1999, about growing up in a Chinese/Italian household.
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John Merrow is a broadcast journalist who has reported on education issues for more than three decades. He serves as the education correspondent for... the PBS NewsHour program. These features - often under the umbrella heading of "The Merrow Report" - have become a staple of education reporting on public broadcasting. Additionally, he is currently the executive producer, host and president of Learning Matters, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that creates television, radio and online segments and documentaries, focusing primarily on education. Merrow earned an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1964, and received an M.A. degree in American Studies from Indiana University in 1968. In 1973, Merrow graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a doctorate in Education and Social Policy. He began his career as an education reporter in 1974, when National Public Radio began airing his first investigative reports on the nation's schools. Merrow quickly developed a devoted following with his program "Options In Education," which aired for eight years. The weekly radio broadcast received the prestigious George Polk Award in 1981.
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Marty Munsch is an American music producer. Munsch has worked extensively with punk rock bands, both as a producer and a recording engineer. Munsch... founded Punk Rock Records in 1983, which released material by U.S. Chaos.
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