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unusual facts about Oberlin-Wellington Rescue



Alan Wurtzel

Wurtzel received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Alice Chalifoux

Yolanda Kondonassis, Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, major recording artist for Telarc

Arthur Tappan

Throughout their careers, the Tappans devoted time and money to philanthropic causes as diverse as temperance, the abolition of slavery, and the establishment of theological seminaries and educational institutions, such as Oberlin and Kenyon colleges in Ohio.

Brenda Way

Brenda Way is the Artistic Director/Founder of ODC/Dance (Oberlin Dance Company)ODC has since become the premier contemporary dance company of the West Coast, performing for more than 50,000 people a year.

Charles Henry Tyler Townsend

Charles Henry Tyler Townsend (5 December 1863 Oberlin, Ohio – 17 March 1944 Itaquaquecetuba near São Paulo) was an American entomologist and biologist.

Cleveland University

It was founded by Asa Mahan in 1851, the then-recently resigned president of Oberlin College located in nearby Oberlin, Ohio.

College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.

Edward Fauver

After his year at Alma, Fauvner became the head coach at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio for 5 seasons, from 1900 to 1904, three of those seasons alongside his brother Edgar Fauver.

Eliot House

Eliot's prominent belltower is featured in many films, including two screen shots in Old School; Legally Blonde; Chasing Liberty; and Euro Trip, which features the tower at the end of the film, incorrectly identifying it as Oberlin College.

Felix Neff

He was ordained to the ministry in 1822, and soon afterwards settled in the valley of Freissinières, where he labored in the manner of J. F. Oberlin, being at one and the same time pastor, schoolmaster, engineer and agriculturist.

Ferracute Machine Company

Oberlin Smith's ideas in magnetic recording were used by Valdemar Poulsen when he developed magnetic recording successfully.

Harold Leighton Weller

Formal Conducting studies and mentors include Orien Dalley, and A. Clyde Roller (Interlochen); Robert Fountain, and David Robertson (Oberlin); Haig Yaghjian (Cincinnati Conservatory) and Richard Lert (1964, 1965, 1967; American Symphony Orchestra League; Conductor Institute).

James David Christie

In 1970 he attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying with David Boe, graduating in 1975 with a B.Mus.

James Tarjan

At Oberlin 1975, he ended up tied for sixth with a score of 6.5/13.

Jan Davidsz. de Heem

A 1645 still life of a feast of fruit and lobster is in the gallery at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio.

Jazz at Oberlin

The album is further credited with initiating making jazz a subject of serious intellectual attention in a listening-centric environment; Wendell Logan, the chair of Oberlin's Jazz Studies Department, described it as "the watershed event that signaled the change of performance space for jazz from the nightclub to the concert hall".

Jazz at the College of the Pacific

Critic Nat Hentoff wrote on Down Beat magazine that the album "ranks with the Oberlin and Storyville sets as the best of Brubeck on record".

Joseph R. Wood

Throughout his life he wrote a considerable number of choral pieces which are still being programmed, including a Te Deum written on the occasion of Oberlin's sesquicentennial for the Oberlin College Choir and Robert Fountain.

KSNK

It is the only KSNW satellite to be licensed outside of Kansas and also outside of the Wichita market, although it covers the general Oberlin/Colby/Goodland area as well.

KSNK, digital channel 12 (virtual channel 8 via PSIP), is an NBC affiliate licensed to McCook, Nebraska with its studio and transmitter located just west of Oberlin, Kansas.

Lenny Seidman

A 75 minute solo piece performed by Seidman for tabla and frame drum approximately 12 times during 1994 and 1995 for Helmut Gottschild’s “Meet Mr. R” performed at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Allegheny College, Meadeville PA, University of the Arts Theater, Philadelphia PA, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA.

Oberlin High School, Jamaica

The school was started in January 1946 as Oberlin College (not to be confused with Ohio's Oberlin College).

Oberlin Trio

On Tuesday, May 23, 1989, New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn wrote about the Trio in a concert of the complete chamber music of Maurice Ravel, presented at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Sunday, May 21, 1989: "The outstanding performances of the afternoon included a lush, resilient rendering of the Quartet . . . as well as a fevered, emphatically arching account of the Piano Trio, by the Oberlin Trio (Joseph Schwartz, piano, Andor Toth Jr., cellist, and Mr. Clapp)."

Oberlin University

The university's name was derived from that of pastor and philanthropist J. F. Oberlin, and the name also shows the university's historical ties with Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, which the university's founders attended.

ODC/Dance

ODC/Dance (formerly, the Oberlin Dance Company) is a contemporary dance company founded in 1971 by current artistic director Brenda Way.

Passive-aggressive behavior

Murphy and Oberlin also see passive aggression as part of a larger umbrella of hidden anger stemming from ten traits of the angry child or adult.

Recruited to Do Good Deeds for the Devil

# Earwig (Oberlin, Enzio, Bryant, Ledbetter) ("Say Amen" Remix) 5:14

Robert Sims

He has also studied at the Music Academy of the West, Chautauqua Musical Institute, and the Oberlin/Urbania Vocal Institute in Urbania, Italy.

Salcantay

Salcantay was first climbed in 1952 by a French-American expedition comprising Fred D. Ayres, David Michael, Jr., John C. Oberlin, W. V. Graham Matthews, Austen F. Riggs, George I. Bell, Claude Kogan, M. Bernard Pierre, and Jean Guillemin.

Shields Green

Professor James Monroe of Oberlin College, a family friend of Copeland from Oberlin, Ohio, searched for Copeland's body, but found Green's, and was unable to retrieve either body.

Tappan Square

Among the more common are festivals, bonfires, rallies, concerts, vigils, and marches, but Tappan also provides a home for Commencement, Oberlin Folk Fest, Local Foods Festival, OSCA bonfire, Beltane, and Juneteenth.

In 1899, several dozen Oberlin missionaries were murdered during the Boxer Rebellion, led by a group of Chinese nationalists.

Theodore Dwight Weld

When the school's board of directors, including president Lyman Beecher, prohibited them from discussing slavery, about 80% of the students left Lane seminary, most of these enrolling at the new Oberlin Collegiate Institute (later renamed Oberlin College).

William H. Frankhauser

He attended the public schools, Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

Wilson Bruce Evans House

Evans rose to national attention after his importance in the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, one of the events that challenged the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

WOBC

WOBC-FM, a radio station (91.5 FM) licensed to serve Oberlin, Ohio, United States

WOBL

WOBL (1320 AM) – branded Gold Country 1320 AM – is a commercial classic country radio station licensed to Oberlin, Ohio, serving Lorain County and western parts of Greater Cleveland.


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