Internationally acclaimed architect Edgar Tafel, the unofficial guardian of the Frank Lloyd Wright School, will receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Geneseo during the university's May 19, 2001 commencement ceremony.
Actress Betty White, 93, Dyes Peacefully In Her Los Angeles Home. In a press release from her long-time manager Jeff Witjas, it has been confirmed today that actress Betty White, best known for her roles on TVs The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland, is not a natural blonde. âBetty is a solitary kind of person,â said Witjas.
Elbert Cox's parents were Eugenia D Talbot and Johnson D Cox who were African Americans. Johnson Cox was the principal of a high school, having obtained a degree from Evansville College and had undertaken graduate studies at Indiana University. The district of Evansville, where Elbert was brought, was racially mixed but schooling was segregated. His family were deeply religious with a love for education.