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Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere. New York publisher Julius David Stern ...
1990 – Charles Fisch, MD retires as director of the Division of Cardiology after nearly 30 years and is succeeded by Dr. David R. Hathaway. Upon Dr. Fisch’s retirement, former colleagues, students and friends endow the Charles Fisch Chair in Cardiology at IU School of Medicine.
Jan 8, 2024 · Charles Leavitt, associate professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at University of Notre Dame, studies how artwork was influenced by the cultural encounter between Black American troops and Italians during the United States’ occupation of Italy after World War II.
Charles Leavitt. Associate Professor of Italian. Post-war Italy in a comparative context, with a particular interest in history, modern and contemporary Italian literature, Italian film studies, fascism and resistance, literary criticism and theory, comparative literature, and cultural intersections between the Italian and African-American ...
In the past fifty years, the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at IU School of Medicine has gained an international reputation as a Center of Excellence. Its members have played prominent and leadership roles in national professional organizations including five presidents of the American College of Cardiology and presidencies of the Heart ...
The grounds were sculpted by the nationally known landscape engineer Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr., whose works ranged from country estates, colleges, and town plans to racetracks and sewage plants. (Leavitt was hired by the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates to design Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in 1909—his only design for a baseball stadium.)
Born in Riverton, NJ, Charles Wellford Leavitt, Jr., received his early education at the Gunnery in Washington, CT, and at Cheltenham Academy in Cheltenham, PA. He began his career as an engineer in 1891, and by 1893 had secured a position with the New York Suburban Land Company.
