Ursula Wyss Ursula Wyss Ursula Wyss (born 8 February 1973 in Davos) is a Swiss politician and economist. She represented the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013. Born and raised in the municipality of Davos in the Canton of Graubünden, Ursula Wyss is citizen of the Bernese municipalities of Buchholterberg and Köniz. In 1992 she attended higher education entrance qualification ("Maturität"), and started to study political economy and ecology at the University of Bern, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and
Ursula Nordstrom Ursula Nordstrom Ursula Nordstrom (February 2, 1910 – October 11, 1988) was publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. She is credited with presiding over a transformation in children's literature in which morality tales written for adult approval gave way to works that instead appealed to children's imaginations and emotions. She also authored the 1960 children's book "The Secret Language". A collection of her correspondence was published in 1998, as "Dear Genius: the Letters of Ursula Nordstrom". Ursula Nordstrom was born in Manhattan on February 2, 1910 to Henry E. Dixey and Marie