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unusual facts about Albert H. Maggs Composition Award


Albert H. Maggs Composition Award

The award was founded in 1966 by Albert H. Maggs, a Melbourne-based professional bookmaker, amateur pianist and patron of the arts and medicine.


Albert H. Maggs

He qualified for the Wimbledon Championships, and he won the All Ireland Men's Championship.

Albert H. McGeehan

Albert H. McGeehan (born October 1944), was mayor of Holland, Michigan from 1993–2009.

Albert H. Small

He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, National Advisory Board Music Associates of Aspen, Department of State Diplomatic Rooms Endowment Fund, James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, Tudor Place Foundation, The Life Guard of Mount Vernon, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and the National Archives Foundation.

Andrew Schultz

He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award (1982), the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (1985), APRA Award (1993) and the Schueler Award (2007).

Hoyt Taylor

Albert H. Taylor (1879–1961), American electrical engineer; radar developer

Max Neal

According to a June 24, 1922 article in The New York Times titled "Woods Back with 40 Foreign Plays", producers Albert H. Woods and Charles B. Dillingham traveled to Europe to collect plays to re-produce in the States, of which Parquette No. 6 by Max Neal and Hans Gerbeck were one.

Mount Bumstead

It was discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight to the South Pole in November 1929 and named by him for Albert H. Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society at that time, and inventor of the sun compass, a device utilizing shadows of the sun to determine directions in areas where magnetic compasses are unreliable.

Simeon De Witt

On May 25, 2010 the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History exhibited the oldest surviving Anglo-American star map, hand-drawn in 1780 by Simeon De Witt, in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery.

Tom Roeser

In 1958 he was named press secretary to a newly elected Republican congressman, Rep. Albert H. Quie of Minnesota.


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