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Herbert, Cynthia Ridgeway
Pessoa singular · b.1943

Cynthia Ridgeway Herbert (b.1943) is a Texas educator specializing in creative curriculum and instruction development. Herbert grew up in Waco, Texas. At the age of nine, Herbert’s mother enrolled her in the Children’s Theater at Baylor University. The program was based on the “Integration of Abilities” university course and philosophy originated by Paul Baker. His wife Kitty Baker had created a complementary children’s program, which was expanded by Jearnine Wagner, a student of Baker’s and later on his staff. Herbert remained in the program throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.

When Baker and his company moved to Trinity University in 1963, former students of the theater followed. Baker and Wagner formed the theater program Ideas in Motion at Trinity. Herbert was offered to teach full time in the program by Baker and Wagner, and they were able to secure a full tuition scholarship so she could afford to attend Trinity.

After graduation Herbert continued to work with Wagner. In 1971 they, along with several other former students of Wagner’s, established the Learning About Learning Educational Foundation. While at Learning About Learning, Herbert created a multitude of interactive books for children and guidebooks and teaching tools for adults. In the 1970s, she co-directed an award-winning lab school. During the early 1980s Herbert pursued and received her Master’s and Doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of Houston.

When Learning About Learning closed in 1986, Herbert and Wagner moved to Houston, where they had been doing educational consulting for several years. While there Herbert developed teaching modules, guides, lesson plans and activities for several school districts, in particular Houston Independent School District, which were supported by area foundations and governmental agencies.

After years of developing curricula that were required to speak to standardized testing and metrics, Herbert rejoined several Learning About Learning colleagues on various projects. From 2000 to 2015, she partnered with Julia Jarrell for Scholarships for Education and Economic Development (SEED), an USAID supported program as the academic leader of international cohorts. Since 2012 she has also worked with Susan Russell Marcus and Susie Monday to develop an early childhood program titled New World Kids. As of 2022, she is working with Jarrell to complete The Creative Way, a comprehensive guidebook for educators.

Learning About Learning Educational Foundation
Pessoa coletiva · 1971-1986

The Learning About Learning Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization, was developed out of Trinity University’s theater director Paul Baker’s philosophy and instructional course, the Integration of Abilities. The basis of this concept focused on the development of the creative potential of children through integrated arts. Baker taught this course at both Baylor University and Trinity. This approach was also applied at Baylor University’s Children’s Theater and Trinity’s Ideas in Motion children's theater program. Kitty Baker and Jearnine Wagner reflected on this process in Our Theater: A Place for Ideas (Principia Press, 1966).

In 1967 the Hogg Foundation and the Brackenridge Foundation provided funding to work with educators to investigate the applications of this approach in practical school environments.

In 1971, Jearnine Wagner, with former Trinity University students Cynthia Herbert, Sally Howell, Mary Jean McCullough, Charles Jarrell, Julia Jarrell, Johnny Gutierrez and later Susan Marcus and Susie Monday created Learning About Learning which was affiliated with the university.

The purpose of the foundation was to develop and operate programs for children that taught skills on how to apply their creativity to enrich their daily lives and learning experiences.

Projects included the Lab School for educational research, developing teacher training materials, creating educational activity kits distributed through Kid Concern, Inc., and the operation of the Idea Workshop family center.

With continuing support of the San Antonio District and Trinity University the group was able to develop over the next 15 years a diversified income base, a friends support group, and a wide range of local, regional and national funding partners to explore the challenges of integrating the philosophy of creative work into a broader array of children’s everyday lives.

Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957
1909-1957

Clarence Malcolm Lowry was born in New Brighton, Wirral, England in 1909, the son of a cotton broker. Lowry attended the Leys School in Cambridge, a boarding school, in his teenage years. Lowry defied family expectations to enter the family business, and convinced his father to allow him to work as a deckhand on a steam sheep. He sailed for five months on the S.S. Pyrrhus in 1927. Upon his return Lowry enrolled at St. Catharine's College in Cambridge in 1929, and graduated in 1931 with a degree in English.

Lowry married his first wife, Jan Gabrial, in 1934 in France. Their relationship was turbulent due to his alcoholism, and when Gabrial left Lowry he followed her to New York City. There he spent time at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in 1936. The couple later moved to Mexico, and Gabrial left Lowry permanently in 1937. Lowry was deported from Mexico in 1938, and moved to Los Angeles. There he met his second wife, Margerie Bonner. Later that year Lowry moved to Vancouver, and Bonner later joined him. In 1944 Lowry was badly injured in an attempt to save his manuscripts from a fire that destroyed their home. In 1954, the Lowrys resumed a nomadic lifestyle, spending time in New York, London, and Europe; Lowry was an abusive spouse during this time period. Lowry died in June 1957 in a cottage the couple was renting in Sussex, England. The death was ruled accidental, caused by excessive consumption of alcohol, barbiturate poisoning, and aspiration of stomach contents. Some sources have speculated that his death was a suicide or murder at the hands of his wife.

Lowry published two novels during his lifetime: "Ultramarine" (1933) and "Under the Volcano" (1947). Several works were published posthumously, including "Lunar Caustic" (1968), "Dark as the Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid" (1968), and "October Ferry to Gabriola" (1970). Lowry also published numerous poems, short stories, and essays.

Nicholson, Joseph W.

Joseph White Nicholson was the director of Trinity University Press from 1969 to 1981.