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In memoriam: James Breckinridge
SPIE Fellow and Past President (1994) James Breckinridge passed away 12 June at the age of 83.
A long-time Member of SPIE, he served on the Symposium and Award Committees, was program chair for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments, author of the SPIE Press Book Basic Optics for the Astronomical Sciences and numerous technical articles, and he served on the editorial board for the SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems.
At the time of his passing, Breckinridge held an academic appointment at Caltech as a visiting associate in Aeronautics and was an adjunct professor of Optics at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona (UA).
In 2003, Breckinridge received the SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics in recognition of his cumulative work in several areas including interferometry (using multiple telescopes to simulate a much larger telescope), corrective optics for the Hubble Space Telescope, optical sciences for NASA's Origins Program, and teaching optical system engineering at Caltech.
At SPIE Photonics West 2015, SPIE Past President (2014) and Awards Committee member H. Philip Stahl, left, presented a certificate of appreciation to Jim Breckinridge for his years of service on the committee and as Chair of the George W. Goddard Award subcommittee.
“At the age of 8 years, I knew that I wanted to be an engineer,” Breckinridge wrote in the SPIE-produced book, From Photography to Photonics: 50 years of SPIE. “By the time I was 12, I had decided on astronomy and astronomical instruments. By the end of high school, I had built my own astronomical telescope and used it, along with a 3-inch Unitron refractor, to make over 4,000 visual observations of the brightness variable stars for the American Association of Variable Star Observers.”
Jim Breckinridge at the age of eight, in 1947, applying hands-on experimental engineeri
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Timothy R. Dougherty, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
(Published April 20, )
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Dardanelle Breckenbridge
American singer-songwriter
Dardanelle Breckenbridge | |
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Portrait of Dardanelle in Washington, D.C., by William P. Gottlieb | |
| Birth name | Marcia Marie Mullen |
| Also known as | "Dardanelle", Dardanelle Breckenridge", "Dardanelle Hadley" |
| Born | (1917-12-27)December 27, 1917 Avalon, Mississippi, USA |
| Died | August 8, 1997(1997-08-08) (aged 79) Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Songwriter, Jazz musician |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, vibraphone, vocals |
| Labels | RCA Victor, Stash, Audiophile, |
Musical artist
Dardanelle Breckenbridge or Breckenridge (December 27, 1917 - August 8, 1997), was an American jazz musician known for performing with Lionel Hampton in the 1940s, and later as a solo artist under the name Dardanelle.
Biography
Dardanelle was a pianist, vibraphonist, and singer who was raised in a musical family. She studied music at Louisiana State University, holding a major, and worked as a house pianist at a local radio station. By the late 1930s she started to appear professionally on the national jazz scene. During the 1940s she led her own Dardanelle Trio, with various collaborators, initially with bassist Paul Edenfield and guitarist Tal Farlow. The trio recorded much music and became a regular fixture at New York's Copacabana. During this time she was featured in the 1946 short theatrical musical Soundies Presents Happy Cat directed by William Forest Crouch and distributed by RCA Records. By the 1950s, Dardanelle had moved to Chicago and paused music in favour of raising a family.
Dardanelle had reappeared on the jazz scene by the 1970s. She relocating to the East Coast and formed a new trio including her son, the drummer Skip Hadley. Now she worked with the likes of Bucky Pizzarelli and George Duvivier, contributing on records, and appearing in a number of venues including the Carnegie Hall, until the 1990s.[1&# .