* February 20 – Jean Erdman, American dancer

Jean Erdman ( born 20 February 1916 ) is a dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director.

Reflecting on her early dance training Erdman said these two influences taught her that dancing is an " expression of something meaningful to the dancer, not a mere series of lively steps.

Erdman was also captivated by the modern dance technique she learned in Martha Graham's classes at Sarah Lawrence and at the Bennington College Summer School of Dance that she attended during the summers of 1935 and ' 36.

As all female Graham dancers of the period Erdman was required to study choreography with Louis Horst, Graham's musical director.

Similar series of ads for the company have featured other duos of improvisational performers, including Molly Erdman and Brian Huskey, Katie Rich and Sayjal Joshi, and Emily Wilson and Tim Baltz.

From 1950 to 1954 Erdman toured annually with her company in the US.

In 1960, Erdman reorganized and renamed her dance company to reflect her explorations of the inter-relationship of movement, music, visual arts and spoken text.

Today her dances are presented and staged through Jean Erdman Dance, a company dedicated to promoting Erdman's repertory and aesthetic vision.

In 1944 she formed the Jean Erdman Dance Group and for the next six years presented annual concerts of her solo and group works in New York City.

From 1955 through 1960 Erdman toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U. S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include Changingwoman ( 1951 ) with a commissioned score by Henry Cowell including vocalizations by Erdman as she moved through a multi-colored abstract projected environment, Portrait of a Lady created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight track commissioned score, Dawn Song, a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, Fearful Symmetry ( 1956 ) an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, The Tyger to Ezra Laderman's Sonata for Violincello in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and Four Portraits from Duke Ellington's Shakespeare Album ( 1958 ), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.

In The Complete Guide to Modern Dance, historian Don McDonagh writes of the " profound effect " that these speaking roles had on Erdman.

Writers and techniques frequently mentioned in relation to the Theatre of the Absurd include the 19th-century nonsense poets, such as Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear ; Polish playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; the Russians Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Erdman, and others ; Bertolt Brecht's distancing techniques in his " Epic theatre "; and the " dream plays " of August Strindberg.

Founded by the late Marshall Erdman and designed by architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Middleton Hills is credited as being the first such neighborhood in Wisconsin.

Terry J. Erdman and Paula M. Block, in their Star Trek 101 primer, note that while " cunning, courageous and confident ", Kirk also has a " tendency to ignore Starfleet regulations when he feels the end justifies the means "; he is " the quintessential officer, a man among men and a hero for the ages ".

The PHIA is governed by an Executive Board that includes Dennis Robinson, President ; Elmer Klein, Vice-President ; William Libercci, Treasurer ; Howard Wille, Secretary ; and Jack Amrhein, Diane Brazil, Christopher Defeo, Lorrie Erdman, and Ann Palrang, at-large members.

Speaking of her experiences on this trip and of her later study of world dance cultures inspired by it Erdman said, " by studying and analyzing the traditional dance styles of the world, I discovered that the particular dance of each culture is the perfect expression of that culture's world view and is achieved by deliberate choices drawn from the unlimited possibilities of movement.

" Reporting on a group concert at the 92nd St YM / YWHA in which Erdman participated Edwin Denby wrote in the New York Herald Tribune, " Miss Erdman's ( approach ) is a more original and refreshing one to encounter.

These performances culminated in the NEA funded 1985 Jean Erdman Retrospective at Hunter Playhouse in New York City, about which New York Times dance critic Anna Kisslegoff wrote, " anyone wishing to know something about where modern dance is today can find the roots in this retrospective.

* Jayapataka Swami ( Gordon John Erdman II, SJMA 1965 ) is a Hare Krishna guru.

Berry is the first of four children born to John Marshall Berry, a lawyer and tobacco farmer in Henry County, and Virginia Erdman Berry.

In the program, Club president Erdman Harris ' 20 described the new production: " We hope that a new day has dawned, that ‘ Jazz ’ will be forever relegated to a back seat, that Broadway will cease to be the idol of those who create the shows, that their staging shall be done in Princeton by Princeton men, and that the authorities and graduates will approve what is being done to elevate the standard of a society whose value in student life has been seriously questioned.

He is survived by his daughters, Jennifer Erdman and Constance Erdman Narea, who is married to financial fiction writer H. T.

Most of the property is no longer under the control of Erdman, having been sold or returned to the original owners via litigation.

Very little is spoken about the continuing belief that Erdman is a leader chosen by God to have authority over them in their lives.

Its meeting house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built by Marshall Erdman, and it is a U. S. National Historic Landmark.

Dance critic Margaret Lloyd of the Christian Science Monitor praised the " felicitous humor " Erdman brought to her role as the Speaking Fate and called her " irreplaceable " in the 1941 revival of Letter to the World.

* Who Remembers Uday Shankar ?, Prof. Joan L. Erdman

In 1943, Erdman left the Graham Company — though she continued to appear as a guest artist in her role in Letter to the World into the 1970s — in order to explore her own dance vision.

" From 1987 through 1993 Erdman served as artistic director of an NEA funded project to create a three volume video archive of these early dance works, Dance and Myth: The World of Jean Erdman.

* Dance and Myth-The World of Jean Erdman ( 1990 )

* Paul Erdman ( 1932 – 2007 ), American business and financial writer

Erdman was born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, on 19 May 1932 to American parents.

Charles Erdman ( 1866 – 1960 ) advocated apostolic authorship and wrote that only the Apostle John fits the image of the author derived from the text.

Benjamin West's depiction of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | William Johnson sparing Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau | Lord Dieskau's life after the Battle of Lake George.

Congress attempted to correct these shortcomings in the Erdman Act, passed in 1898.

A musical play, The Coach with the Six Insides by Jean Erdman, based on the character Anna Livia Plurabelle, was performed in New York in 1962.

* Woody Erdman, sportscaster, television producer, businessman, and white collar criminal.

In response to unrest in the railroad labor industry, Congress passed The Erdman Act of 1898, the overarching goal of which was to regulate railroad labor disputes.

Adair's actions were in direct violation of Section 10 of the Erdman act which made it illegal for employers to " threaten any employee with loss of employment " or to " unjustly discriminate against an employee because of his membership in ... a labor corporation, organization or association.

In a 6-2 decision, the Court held that Section 10 of the Erdman act was unconstitutional.

Most of the leading dispensationalsts of the late 19th and early 20th century attended the conference regularly, including William Eugene Blackstone, Charles Erdman, James H. Brookes, William Moorehead, Adoniram Judson Gordon, Amzi Dixon, C. I.

* " Nobody's Sweetheart " w. Gus Kahn & Ernie Erdman m. Elmer Schoebel & Billy Meyers

* " No, No, Nora " w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito & Ernie Erdman

His co-stars on the series included Richard Erdman, Allyn Joslyn, Betty Lynn, Sylvia Lewis, Marjie Millar, Christine Nelson, Verna Felton, Gloria Winters, and Ray Teal.

* Paul E. Erdman – The Billion Dollar Sure Thing

In 1960, architect Louis I. Kahn and Bryn Mawr College president, Katharine McBride, came together to create the Erdman Hall dormitory.

* Open Theism — An Introductory Presentation Jonathan Erdman, not an Open Theism advocate, attempts an objective and very detailed analysis of Open Theism focussed on the biblical, philosophical, and existential arguments of Open Theism as outlined by their leading proponents.