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=David Rimoin= David Lawrence Rimoin (November 9, 1936–May 27, 2012) was a Canadian American geneticist. He was especially noted for his research into the genetics of skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism), inheritable diseases such as Tay–Sachs disease, and diabetes.

Biography
Born in Montreal, Rimoin attended college and medical school at McGill University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1957, followed by a medical degree and a master of science in genetics in 1961. He followed with internships and residencies at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he studied under genetics pioneer Victor A. McKusick and received a Ph.D in medical genetics. He spent three years at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. His 1970 study of diabetes mellitus challenged the then-prevailing consensus that diabetes was a single disorder, and showed instead that it could have multiple genetic causes.

In 1970 Rimoin moved to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he became chief of the division of medical genetics. He moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1986. He founded the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry. Together with Michael Kaback, he organized a California Tay-Sachs screening program that became a national model. Rimoin and English geneticist Alan E. H. Emery co-edited Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics, first published in 1983 and now considered an essential textbook on the subject. At Cedars-Sinai he was chair of the pediatrics practice, established an adult genetics program, and more recently began a screening program focused on genetic diseases within Los Angeles' large population of Persian Jews.

Rimoin died in Los Angeles on May 27, 2012, days after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Early life
Shimer was born in Freed, West Virginia in 1894 and in 1914 graduated from the Glenville State Normal School (now Glenville State College) in Glenville, West Virginia. Continuing his education, he "worked his way through Harvard" and received an A.B (1917), a master's degree from the University of Rochester (1922), and then a second master's degree (1923) and a Ph.D (1925) from Harvard, writing his dissertation on "The History and Validity of the Concept of Relativity". He taught philosophy at Ohio State and at Bucknell, (where he served as dean of the faculty). He met his first wife, Edith Richmond, when he was a Harvard undergraduate and she was a Radcliffe student; according to a 1940 New Yorker magazine profile, she was responsible for his being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in absentia while he was away from Harvard during World War I.

Phi Beta Kappa
In 1930 Shimer accepted the position of executive secretary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. He conceived the idea for The American Scholar as a publication collecting scholarly work for a general audience, and worked to gain support from a variety of publishers and academics, ultimately receiving approval from the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in September 1931. The first issue was released in January 1932. Shimer served as the journal's editor for 12 years. In 1943 he resigned to join the armed services and served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy.

Marietta College
After World War II, Shimer was selected to become president of Marietta College in Ohio. Serving during a period of rapid post-war growth, he worked to expand the school's enrollment and physical plant. He hired the distinguished Swiss philosopher Fritz Marti to start a philosophy department at the college.

Shimer became embroiled in personal controversy after he was divorced from his first wife, and a year later married Dorothy Blair, the school's dean of women. The controversy was covered in the national media, and ultimately led to the board of trustee's July 1947 decision to force him from office, despite expressions of support from faculty, students, and townspeople.

Hawaii and the World Brotherhood
Shimer and his wife Dorothy moved to Hawaii in 1947, and he taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The Shimers also became involved with the World Brotherhood (later renamed the Council on World Tensions), an international organization founded under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews to promote understanding among different religions and cultures. They headed the Asia Pacific chapter of the organization, spent several years in Asia on its behalf, and edited its quarterly journal called Brotherhood. Later, Shimer became a professor and librarian at Mauna Olu College, a now-closed community college near Paia, Maui; he retired in 1968.

Writings
Along with many articles over the years, Shimer wrote a 1948 book entitled Conscious Clay: From science via philosophy to religion, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, arguing for the existence of God as "the eternal all-inclusive reality".

Categories
Category:1894 births Category:1983 deaths Category:People from Calhoun County, West Virginia Category:Glenville State College alumni Category:Harvard University alumni Category:University of Rochester alumni Category:Ohio State University faculty Category:Bucknell University faculty Category:University of Hawaiʻi faculty Category:Phi Beta Kappa

=The Woodsman (play)=

The Woodsman is a 2012 American stage play, written by James Ortiz with music by Edward W. Hardy and lyrics by Jen Loring. It focuses on the story of the Tin Woodman character from L. Frank Baum's series of books set in the fictional Land of Oz, notably Baum's 1918 book The Tin Woodman of Oz. The production employs live performers, puppets, music, and very few spoken words.

Originally developed and produced by Ortiz's Strangemen & Co. troupe, the show debuted in 2012 at Standard ToyKraft in Brooklyn, followed by a 2013 run at the Ars Nova ANT Fest. It has been produced Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in 2014 and 2015, and at New World Stages in 2016.

The play has received critical praise, and won a 2016 Obie Award for Ortiz's puppet design. On September 2, 2016, a filmed performance of the work was broadcast by PBS stations, as part of the Theater Close-Up series produced by WNET in association with BroadwayHD.

Plot
The play focuses on the story of Nick Chopper, a mortal woodsman who falls in love with a young woman whose guardian is the Wicked Witch of the East. (The witch's rule has made everyone afraid to speak aloud, so people mainly communicate in noises.) The witch curses his axe and he begins to lose pieces of himself. As he falls apart, he is replaced piece by piece with metal, while trying to hold on to his love and identity.

Reception
New York Times critic Laura Collins-Hughes praised the 2015 production, especially for Ortiz's puppet design and for Hardy's music, while noting that the visual, nonverbal storytelling of the hour-long production was not always clear to the audience. Collins-Hughes found the 2016 production to be less rushed and "more assured", with an increased "visual lushness", but felt that "mechanics get in the way of fantasy" during part of the show. Variety's Marilyn Stasio cited the production's "haunting beauty", while Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter described the "charming and disturbing", minimalist production as the antithesis of Wicked, the massively successful big-budget Oz-based musical playing a block away.

Original Off-Broadway cast

 * Ben Bass (Munchkin)
 * Devin Dunne Cannon (Ma)
 * Will Gallacher (Pa/Tinker)
 * Edward W. Hardy (Munchkin/Violinist)
 * Amanda Lederer (The Witch/ Tinker)
 * Aaron McDaniel (Tinker)
 * James Ortiz (Nick Chopper)
 * Eliza Simpson (Nimmie)
 * Meghan St. Thomas (Munchkin)
 * Carol Uraneck (The Witch)

Cast recording
An album featuring the music composed and performed by Edward W. Hardy, was released digitally on May 29, 2016.

The album received positive mention in Broadway World. Hardy said the music was intended to "reflect the period in history and to pay homage to L. Frank Baum’s touching story", using different musical genres.