Margie holmes biography of michael
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Dr. Margarita Go-Singco Holmes: Trailblazing empowering minorities
On the eve of Christmas in 1989, Dr. Margarita Holmes’s first BODYMIND column came out in Manila Times. “While realizing that it had the format of an advice column, inom wanted it to be one with a twist, so to speak. I wanted the answers to be given by a clinical psychologist with appropriate training, and, hopefully, also a heart that understood – or at least had an educated idea of the pressures/stresses the letter writer was going through and the resources he had at hand,” recalled Dr. Margie. And then she added with a smile: “I didn’t want to be ‘Tita Margie’ who gave homespun advice based on her opinion (based on anecdotal evidence), or worse, her personal experience. I wanted to be Dr. Holmes who shared her knowledge of current research and also her clinical training and expertise (or so I like to think). And when I gave my opinion, I reminded myself to always be professional enough to distinguish between m
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Memories of Aughton by Miss Marjorie Holmes
A Talk to St Michael’s Fellowship, 8th March1978
On the evening of 8th March 1978, St Michael’s Church Hall in Aughton was packed. We all knew that Miss Marjorie Holmes had lived in Aughton for most of her long life and that she had a wealth of knowledge about our by. I can picture her slight frame as she stood up and can hear her slightly tremulous voice. She was an entertaining speaker and had done her homework about the history of Aughton. The talk was duplicated shortly afterwards and inom have kept my copy safely over all these years. The first part covered history from Domesday up to 1907, which was when she moved from Liverpool to Granville Park tillsammans with her parents and two sisters, Dorothy and Elsie. The second part I reproduce here with the addition of photos and other relevant information. My additions are in italics.
And now I come to my second half – my own anställda memories of Aughton; a very different Aughton
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Sir James Lighthill was known as Michael Lighthill when he was a young man. His father, Ernest Balzar Lighthill was a mining engineer who was working in Paris at the time his son was born. In fact the original family name had been Lichtenberg, the family being Alsatian, but Ernest Lichtenberg had changed his name to Ernest Lighthill in 1917. James's mother, Marjorie Holmes, was the daughter of an engineer and she was 18 years younger than her husband. Ernest Lighthill was 54 years old when James was born, and three years later, in 1927, he retired and returned to live in England.James was educated at Winchester College and, at the age of 15, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. However, he chose to wait until he was 17 years old