* 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U. S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.

Encouraged by Speranzeva to focus on modern dance instead of ballet, Dunham opened her first real dance school in 1933.

Early in 1947 Dunham choreographed the musical play Windy City, which premiered at the Great Northern Theater in Chicago, and later in the year she opened a cabaret show in Las Vegas, marking the first year that the city became a popular entertainment destination.

In 1945, Dunham opened and directed the Katherine Dunham School of Dance and Theatre near Times Square in New York City after her dance company was provided with rent-free studio space for three years by an admirer, Lee Shubert ; it had an initial enrollment of 350 students.

Schools inspired by it later opened in Stockholm, Paris, and Rome by dancers trained by Dunham.

In 1967, Dunham opened the Performing Arts Training Center ( PATC ) in East St. Louis as an attempt to use the arts to combat poverty and urban unrest.

Miss Dunham opened the doors that made possible the rapid upswing of this dance for the present generation.

The Performing Arts Training Center was opened by world-renowned African American dancer Katherine Dunham in 1967 in East St. Louis, Illinois.

Dunham Hall opened in 1966 and was expanded in 1995.

Ray Cooney opened the theatre with a production of Spider's Web, and thereafter the repertory seasons were produced under three successive Artistic Directors: Tony Clayton, Leslie Lawton and Christopher Dunham, the last of whom spent over 25 years at the theatre.

-- Dan Dunham was the first wrestling coach when the school opened in 1969, and stayed in that post for 30 years.

Her father, Edward Zimmermann ( 1879 – 1977 ), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes ( née Gardner ; 1883 – 1974 ), was a school teacher.

Downers Grove South High School, or DGS, and locally referred to as " South ," is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Dunham Road and 63rd Street in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

In 1948, Dunham appointed Fort as chief administrator and dance teacher of the Katherine Dunham School of Dance in New York, a position Fort retained until 1954 when the school closed because of financial problems.

* A. C. Dunham, " The Knights of Labor ," New Englander and Yale Review, vol.

* Jonathan Singletary Dunham, prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, President Barack Obama's eighth great-grandfather

* The Jonathan Singletary Dunham House was built near the location of the earliest grist mill in New Jersey by Jonathan Singletary Dunham who was a Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, and is President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather.

* Jonathan Singletary Dunham ( 1640 – 1724 ), Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, and President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather, and the first of Obama ’ s ancestors to be born in North America.

The car was customized by Les Dunham Coachworks of New Jersey, who modified the headlight covers, goddess hood ornament ( Rolls Royce / Bentley style ), lake pipes and circular porthole windows.

* Jinpa, Gelek, Ramble, Charles, & Dunham, V. Carroll, Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet: in Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon, New York & London: Abbeville, 2005.

From September 1987 – January 1988, the Saatchi Gallery mounted two exhibitions entitled New York Art Now, featuring Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Peter Halley, Haim Steinbach, Philip Taaffe and Caroll Dunham.

1987 – The New York Art Now show introduces American artists including Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Ashley Bickerton, Carroll Dunham and Phillip Taaffe to the UK.

In 2002, Dunham was traded to the New York Rangers for Marek Židlický, Tomáš Klouček and Rem Murray, and Vokoun was awarded the starting job.

He studied dance at the Katherine Dunham School in New York ( 1945 ), whose teachers included Dunham, Lavinia Williams, Talley Beatty, Tommy Gomez, Archie Savage and Marie Bryant.

Marshall Dunham of the 159th New York Regiment.

Having completed her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and having made the decision to pursue a career as a dancer and choreographer rather than as an academic, Dunham revived her dance ensemble and in 1937 journeyed with them to New York to take part in " A Negro Dance Evening " organized by Edna Guy at the 92nd Street YMHA.

In 1939, Dunham's company gave further performances in Chicago and Cincinnati and then went back to New York, where Dunham had been invited to stage a new number for the popular, long-running musical revue Pins and Needles 1940, produced by the International Ladies ' Garment Workers Union.

With Dunham in the sultry role of temptress Georgia Brown, the show ran for twenty weeks in New York before moving to the West Coast for an extended run of performances there.

After the tour, in 1945, the Dunham company appeared in the short-lived Blue Holiday at the Belasco Theater in New York and in the more successful Carib Song at the Adelphi Theatre.

In 1950, Sol Hurok presented Katherine Dunham and Her Company in a dance revue at the Broadway Theater in New York, with a program composed of some of Dunham's best works.

Katherine Dunham died in her sleep in New York City from old age on May 21, 2006, aged ninety-six.

Anna Kisselgoff, a dance critic for the New York Times, called Dunham " a major pioneer in Black theatrical dance.

when Katherine Dunham and her company skyrocketed into the Windsor Theater in New York, from Chicago in 1940, and made an indelible stamp on the dance world.

* How Katherine Dunham Revealed Black Dance to the World-New York Times

She invited him to New York ; he would teach at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance for two years.

* Roger C. Dunham, Spy Sub-Top Secret Mission To The Bottom Of The Pacific ( New York: Penguin Books, 1996 ), ISBN 0-451-40797-0

Later, while a student at School of Visual Arts in New York, White worked as an assistant to artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham and studied with Marilyn Minter.

It goes through Dunham on Trent, where it passes the White Swan, Bridge Inn and St Oswald's Church ; the width of road through the village is not suited for the volume of traffic.

It crosses the River Trent at Dunham Bridge ( toll, rebuilt in the mid-1970s ), where there are queues, entering Lincolnshire and the district of West Lindsey as Dunham Road.

During her heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, Dunham was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America and was widely popular in the United States, where the Washington Post called her " dance's Katherine the Great.

After her father's remarriage a few years later, the family moved to a predominately white neighborhood in Joliet, Illinois, where Mr. Dunham ran a dry cleaning business.

After the national tour of Cabin in the Sky, the Dunham company stayed in Los Angeles, where they appeared in the Warner Brothers short film Carnival of Rhythm ( 1941 ).

After Mexico, Dunham began touring in Europe, where she was an immediate sensation.

By 1957, Dunham was under severe personal strain that was affecting her health, and she decided to live for a year in relative isolation in Kyoto, Japan, where she worked on writing autobiographies of her youth.

The Katherine Dunham Company toured throughout North America in the mid-1940s, even performing in the then-segregated South, where Dunham once refused to hold a show after finding out that the city's black residents had not been allowed to buy tickets for the performance.

In 1949 Dunham returned from international touring with her company for a brief stay in the United States, where she suffered a temporary nervous breakdown after the premature death of her beloved brother Albert.

In 1950, he moved to the United States, where he played with big bands including those of Sonny Dunham and Jimmy Dorsey.

Hiking trails maintained by the park include the Highland Rim Trail, which loops down, around, and back up through a hillside forest characteristic of the Eastern Highland Rim, and the Dunham Cemetery Trail, a short trail that ascends to a small cemetery where former resident Alexander Dunham and two of his children are buried ( as of 2008, the trail was slated for expansion ).

He settled in St. Louis, where he worked with Dunham and with the Black Artists ' Group ( BAG ), a multidisciplinary arts collective.