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unusual facts about Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award



Alisa Lepselter

Lepselter was nominated for an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and again for Midnight in Paris (2011).

Barry N. Malzberg

A devotee of classical music, he is also a violinist, and performed in the premiere performance of work by Somtow Sucharitkul; he has also been nominated several times for the Hugo Award, and won the Locus Award for his collection of historical and critical essays, The Engines of the Night (1982).

Billy Keller

Billy Keller, the 5'10" guard, spent his entire basketball career in the state of Indiana. He attended George Washington Community High School, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was named Indiana's Mr. Basketball his Senior year.

Brad Kessler

He is the recipient of the 2008 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers' Award, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2002 Lange-Taylor Prize, in collaboration with photographer Dona Ann McAdams, awarded by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.

C. Markland Kelly

Appointed in 1935 by Baltimore Mayor Howard W. Jackson, Kelly, Sr. served for eight years on the Park Board, first as a member, then as president.

It initiated funding of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame Foundation and presents the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award annually to the top college Lacrosse goaltender.

He was a member of the Masonic Order, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Loyal Order of Moose, Boumi Temple Shrine, Knights Templar, Elks, Baltimore Athletic Club, Oriole Gun Club, Gibson Island Club, Maryland Yacht Club, and Annapolis Yacht club.

Cave Canem Foundation

Instructors have included former Poet Laureate of Connecticut, Marilyn Nelson, Whiting Writers' Award winner Tyehimba Jess, and American Book Award winner, Kimiko Hahn.

Duke Manufacturing Company

The company was honored with the Army-Navy "E" Award for excellence in the production of war equipment.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

He was again awarded the Jägermeister Australian Independent Record (AIR) Award for 'Best Independent Blues and Roots Album' in 2011 for his album RRAKALA.

Gloria Jean

In December 1991, Gloria Jean was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing her achievements within the film industry as a juvenile performer.

Jane Withers

Withers also took a flyer in screenwriting: she wrote the original story filmed as Small Town Deb, under the pseudonym "Jerrie Walters." In 1979, Withers was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its very first Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of three, Withers is a Young Artist AwardFormer Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award honoree, best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Justin Whalin

1996: American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award: Outstanding Television Series Actor in a Crossover Role for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)

Mary Miller

For that exhibition, she wrote the catalogue of the same title—a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award of the College Art Association—with Simon Martin, senior epigrapher at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

Porochista Khakpour

Khakpour has been a judge for, or served on the judging panels or committees for the Berlin Prize, PEN International, Asian American Writers' Workshop writing contests (including the Hyphen Magazine Short Story Contest), Canteen Magazine writing contests, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the Santa Fe Reporter’s 2010 annual writing contest.

Rebecca Gilman

Gilman was the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award.

Steven Paulsen

1995 William Atheling Jr. Award for "The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction" with Bill Congreve, Sean McMullen, The Scream Factory No. 16.

2000 William Atheling Jr. Award nomination for The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction with Jonathan Strahan

Steven Scarborough

2007 "Grabby" Award  Best Versatile Performer - Hot House Exclusive Francesco D'Macho


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