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- American novelist and playwright Dawn Powell was born in Mt. GIlead, OH, in 1897. Her mother died when Dawn was a child, and she and her two sisters were sent to live with various relatives while her father traveled out of the area looking for work. In 1909 her father remarried, gathered the family together and moved to his new wife's farm outside of Cleveland, OH. The children, and especially Dawn, were extremely unhappy there; in addition to the farm being in very isolated country--at 12 Dawn had won a scholarship to high school, but there were no high schools in area for her to attend--her stepmother was a very prim and severe woman with very strict ideas of what young girls should and should not do. When she found a sheaf of stories that Dawn had written, she burned them all as punishment. Infuriated, young Dawn--with 30 cents in her pocket--ran away from home.
She traveled to the home of an aunt she liked in Shelby, OH, a more populous area in which she was finally able to attend high school. She became editor of the school newspaper and even worked part-time on the local city newspaper. She eventually attended Lake Erie College in Painesville (OH)--where she and two friends began their own newspaper--and became editor of the college's student magazine. She graduated in 1918 with a B.A. and traveled to New York City, where she eventually secured work as a publicity agent. She married Joseph Gousha, an advertising man, and they had one son.
She had written a novel, "She Walks in Beauty", in 1924, but it wasn't published until 1928 (after 36 rejections). She wrote novels, short stories that were published in various magazines; several of her plays were produced on Broadway, and one of them, "Walking Down Broadway", was twice turned into films (Hello, Sister! (1933), The Hoyden (1998)).
Dawn Powell died in New York City of cancer in 1965. - Ray Scarborough was born on 23 July 1917 in Mount Gilead, North Carolina, USA. He died on 1 July 1982 in Mount Olive, North Carolina, USA.
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Born in 1983, in the tiny, redneck, Ohio village of Mount Gilead, Terence was destined for rural living. Thankfully, in high school he realized he loved filmmaking while working on video projects for various classes. At 18, he moved out, got married and became a manager of the local movie theatre in a slightly larger, redneck, Ohio town. At 21, he divorced his wife, quit his job, and finally went to film school.
Terence attended The Motion Picture Institute of Michigan while still living in Ohio. He drove 7 hours, round trip, 3 days a week to attend there and worked at a small ice cream shop in Mount Gilead to pay for his first 16mm short film, An Exercise In Narcissism. After graduating M.P.I. in September of 2005 he finally moved to Michigan to begin his career in the film industry.
He's worked on films of every caliber ranging from short, no-budget horror films with no script shot on VHS to several hundred thousand dollar feature films shot on 35mm film. He's also been know to get gigs as a casting P.A. on network and cable channel reality shows when they're casting in the Detroit area. He's held every position at every step in the filmmaking process at least once, whether it be Production Assistant or Director.
Though primarily an editor, his directorial debut, An Exercise In Narcissism, has played in film festivals as far away as Berlin, Germany and continues to find venues to play in. In addition to being an award winning filmmaker, he is a published poet and an accomplished sculptor whose pieces have appeared in several Detroit gallery shows.- Tim Belcher is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He won The Sporting News Rookie Pitcher of the Year Award in 1988 for the National League. He was also the pitching coach for The Cleveland Indians.
During his 14-year baseball career, Belcher pitched from 1987-2000 for seven different ball-clubs: the Los Angeles Dodgers (1987-1991), Cincinnati Reds (1992-1993), Chicago White Sox (1993), Detroit Tigers (1994), Seattle Mariners (1995), Kansas City Royals (1996-1998), and Anaheim Angels (1999-2000).
Tim Belcher played high school baseball at Highland High School and intercollegiate varsity baseball at Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was the first draft pick in the 1983 Major League Baseball Draft, selected by the Minnesota Twins. However, he refused to sign with the Twins, and instead was selected in the 1984 supplemental draft by the New York Yankees. He was picked up by the Oakland Athletics in the compensation pool. After climbing through the A's system to Triple-A, he was traded to Los Angeles on September 3, 1987. He made his MLB debut on September 6 as a Dodger. Belcher was a member of the 1988 Dodgers team that won the World Series, defeating the Oakland Athletics. Belcher won one game in the World Series after winning twice in the National League Championship Series. The next year he led the National League with 10 complete games and MLB with eight shutouts.
However, his stay in Los Angeles proved brief, as he was traded to the Reds in 1991. He tied a career high with 15 wins for the Reds, but was dealt again, this time to the White Sox in the middle of the 1993 season at the trading deadline. He won Game Four of the American League Championship Series in relief against the Toronto Blue Jays. Filing for free agency, he signed with the Tigers for 1994, but led the American League in losses with 15 that strike-shortened year.
Belcher played his final game on September 30, 2000. He retired in spring training in 2001, his effectiveness gone following a series of injuries. On November 6, 2009, Belcher was named pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians after spending eight seasons in the Indians organization as a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations. In September 2015, Belcher resigned his position as pitching coach.