Borden Food Corporation was an American producer of food and beverages, non-food consumer products, and packaging. At one time, the company was the largest U.S. producer of dairy and pasta products. The company, based in Columbus, Ohio, focused primarily on pasta and pasta sauses, bakery products, snacks, processed cheese, jams and jellies, and ice cream. In 1993, sales of food products accounted for 67 percent of its revenues. It was best known for its Borden Ice Cream, Meadow Gold milk, Creamette pasta, and Borden Condensed Milk brands.
After significant financial losses in the early 1990s, Borden was purchased in a leveraged buy-out in 1995 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). KKR divested itself of the Borden Food brands and shuttered operations in 2001.
Founding and early years
The company was founded By Gail Borden, Jr., in 1857 in Connecticut as "Gail Borden, Jr., and Company." Its primary product was condensed milk. The company changed its name in 1858 to the New York Condensed Milk Company. The firm prospered during the Civil War by selling condensed milk to Union armies. Borden began selling processed milk to consumers in 1875, and pioneered the use of glass milk bottles in 1885.
In 1997, KKR focused Borden Food solely on its pasta and pasta sauces lines.
Borden, Inc. sold its final product line, It's Pasta Anytime, to Kraft Foods in 2001 and shuttered its operations.<ref name="Buchanan" />
After significant financial losses in the early 1990s, Borden was purchased in a leveraged buy-out in 1995 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). KKR divested itself of the Borden Food brands and shuttered operations in 2001.
Founding and early years
The company was founded By Gail Borden, Jr., in 1857 in Connecticut as "Gail Borden, Jr., and Company." Its primary product was condensed milk. The company changed its name in 1858 to the New York Condensed Milk Company. The firm prospered during the Civil War by selling condensed milk to Union armies. Borden began selling processed milk to consumers in 1875, and pioneered the use of glass milk bottles in 1885.
In 1997, KKR focused Borden Food solely on its pasta and pasta sauces lines.
Borden, Inc. sold its final product line, It's Pasta Anytime, to Kraft Foods in 2001 and shuttered its operations.<ref name="Buchanan" />
The "Watermelon House" is a neighborhood landmark located at 1112 Q Street, N.W., in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The end row house, built in 1870,<ref namedcgov/> features a watermelon mural painted on the side of the building.<ref namewapo/>
The homeowners, Wade Wilson and Robert Banaszak, hired professionals to paint the exterior of their home fire engine red. The couple was unhappy with the results, describing the side's color as resembling "Pepto-Bismol". They decided to use black, green, and pink to paint a large watermelon. When a reporter from The Washington Post asked the couple's roommate, Tom Healy, why the men chose to paint a watermelon, Healy stated, "We're all big fruits".<ref name=wapo/>
The homeowners, Wade Wilson and Robert Banaszak, hired professionals to paint the exterior of their home fire engine red. The couple was unhappy with the results, describing the side's color as resembling "Pepto-Bismol". They decided to use black, green, and pink to paint a large watermelon. When a reporter from The Washington Post asked the couple's roommate, Tom Healy, why the men chose to paint a watermelon, Healy stated, "We're all big fruits".<ref name=wapo/>
Gregory Hurst (born December 1, 1947) worked as an American theater and television director, university professor, a foundation president (1992-98) and a Producing Artistic Director for twenty years of prominent regional theaters. Since 1999, he has been a financial advisor for UBS.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Hurst, son of Squire Hurst (executive, R. R. Donnelley & Sons) and Marcia (an interior designer; maiden name, Tooker); grandson of Mark Tooker of Belle Haven, CT and Greta Tooker, Chicago, IL; great grandson of Dr. Emil J Hoglund, Dr. of Medicine, Northwestern University, 1905 and inventor of brain surgery instrument; married Pamela Baldwin in Mindanao, Philippines, June 21, 1969 (divorced, 1977); married Joyce Barbara Baum (a theatrical agent and casting director), April 4, 1981 in New York City; children: Alexander Squire and Adam Spencer.
Education
*B.S. Finance, Miami University, 1969;
*M.A., English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1970-73;
*MFA, Dramatic Arts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 1975;
*Executive Education Certificate, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
Employment positions held
*Teacher, Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam Wisconsin, 1969-73
*Founding Member of Playmakers Repertory Company, 1974-75
*Artistic Director, The Mule Barn Theatre, Tarkio, Missouri and Chairman of the Theatre Department of Tarkio College, 1975-77
*Manager, NY Health and Racquet Club, NYC, 1978-79
*Producing Artistic Director, Pennsylvania Stage Company, Allentown, PA, 1979-88
*Producing Artistic Director, George Street Playhouse, 1988-1997
*Site Reporter, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1994-97
*President, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, New York, NY, 1992-97
*Additional teaching positions held (1973-94) at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Rutgers University; and Duke University.
*Financial Advisor, Senior Vice President, UBS Financial Services (1999-present).
Boards of directors and panel positions
*Missouri Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Arts Council, member of the Theater Panel
*American Directors Institute, Advisory Council
*State Theater of Easton, Board of Trustees
*New Jersey State Council for the Arts, panel member for Planning for the 21st Century
*Rockefeller Foundation, Musical Theatre Collaborators, Task Force
*En Garde Arts, NYC, Strategic Planning Consultant
*National Institute for Musical Theater, speaker and panel member for National Conference
*National Corporate Theatre Fund , Board member
*University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Alumni Association - New Jersey Chapter, President
*Wine and Food Society of New York, Treasurer and Executive Vice President
Awards and recognition
*Productions directed, produced or originally developed by Gregory Hurst have been nominated for the Tony Award (Swinging on a Star, 1996); Academy Award (Jodie Foster, Nell, 1994); Outer Critics Award (Opal starring Tony Award Winner Victoria Clark, 1992);
*Drama Desk Award (Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, 1990)
*Helen Hayes Award (A Walk Out of Water, 1986);
*Director of Forgiving Typhoid Mary, starring Academy Award winner, Estelle Parsons, Time Magazine’s “One of the Ten Best Productions in America,” 1991.
*Best Director NJ, Les Liaisons Dangereuse, 1989, Newhouse News Services
*Best Director NJ, The Belmont Avenue Social Club, 1993, Newhouse News Services
*“Outstanding Contributions to Pennsylvania,” Theatre Association of Pennsylvania (TAP), March 1988
*“Vision, Dedication and Leadership,” Stage Director and Choreographers Foundation, December, 9 1998
*Who’s Who in America since 1992
*President's Council (2004-2006) UBS
*Chairman's Club (2007-2010) UBS
Theatre productions
;Directed and produced over 100 plays and musicals including:
*The Fields of Ambrosia, starring Joel Higgins and three time Tony Award Nominee, Christine Andreas at the Aldwych Theatre, London, original cast recording by First Night Records, 1997
*The Glass Menagerie, starring Leslie Hendrix, National Tour, Acting Company , 1997
*Twist, with Larry Marshall and Eugene Fleming, 1996
*Avow, starring Rosemary Prinz, 1996
*Relativity, with Michael Rupert, Doris Belack, and Kit Flanagan, 1995
*Tangents, starring Golden Globe Nominee, Lauren Graham, 1994
*Spine, starring Golden Globe Nominee and Obie Award Winner, Justin Kirk, 1993
*Near the End of the Century, with Michael Murphy and Greg Mullavey
*Zara Spook and Other Lures, starring Calista Flockhart, 1992
*Idioglossia, starring Emmy Award Winner, Allison Janney, 1992
*Sarah and Abraham, starring Tony, Emmy, Drama Desk and Theatre World Award Winner, Tovah Feldshuh and William Katt, 1992
*Sparky and Fitz, starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, 1991
*Handy Dandy, starring James Whitmore and Aurda Lindley, 1991
*Greetings, John Houseman Theatre, NYC, 1991
*Anna Christie starring Emmy Award Winner, Ralph Waite, 1991
*Mountain, starring Len Cariou, Lucille Lortel Theatre, NYC, 1990
*Jekyll and Hyde, starring two time Tony Award Winner, John Cullum, 1990
*Les Liaisons Dangereuse, starring two time Emmy Award nominee, Laura Innes and Gabrielle Carteris, 1989
*The Subject Was Roses, starring Emmy Award winner, Isabel Sanford and Wendell Pierce, 1988
*Quality Time, starring Tony Award Nominee, Joanne Camp, 1986
*A Walk Out of Water, starring Emmy Award Winner, John Spencer, 1985
*Just So, starring two time Tony and Emmy Award winner, Bebe Neuwirth, Jack Lawrence Threate, Broadway, NYC, 1984
*Ain’t Misbehavin, starring Tony Award Winner, Tonya Pinkins and Jenifer Lewis, 1984
*The Further Adventures of Sally, starring Theatre World Award winner and Emmy Award nominee, Sheree North, 1984
*Copperhead, starring Tony Award winner, Ann Wedgeworth and Screen Actors Guild Award winner, Paul Guilfoyle, 1984
*The Glass Menagerie, starring Theatre World Award winner, Katharine Houghton and Ken Jenkins, 1983
*Shim Sham, starring three time Tony Award Winner, Hinton Battle, 1982
*Two Gentleman of Verona, starring Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, Joe Morton, 1982
*Taming of the Shrew, with Tony Award winner, Beth Leavel, 1981
*Great Expectations, starring Tony Award winner, Beth Leavel, 1980
*Damon’s Song, starring Theatre World Award winner, Donna Drake, 1979
Television productions
;Directed episodes of:
*Another World
*Guiding Light
*General Hospital
*One Life to Live
*Copperhead, a PBS Special starring Ann Wedgeworth and Paul Guilfoyle
;Assistant to director:
*Spin City
*The Hughleys
*Will and Grace
*Just Shoot Me
*For Your Love
*The Jamie Foxx Show
*Suddenly Susan
*The Wayans Brothers
*Cybill
*Sex and the City
*Law & Order
*Ally McBeal
*The Practice
Authors
;Produced, directed and developed new plays and musicals by:
*Marsha Norman
*Richard Adler
*James McBride
*Doug McGrath
*Stephen Schwartz
*David Zippel
*Bruce Graham
*Mark Stein
*Mark St. Germain
*Steven Dietz
*Bill C. Davis
*William Gibson
*Tom Cole
*Frank Gilroy
*James Still
*Rob Lindsay Nassif
*John Ford Noonan
*Sarah Schlesinger
*David Evans
*Joan Ackermann
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Hurst, son of Squire Hurst (executive, R. R. Donnelley & Sons) and Marcia (an interior designer; maiden name, Tooker); grandson of Mark Tooker of Belle Haven, CT and Greta Tooker, Chicago, IL; great grandson of Dr. Emil J Hoglund, Dr. of Medicine, Northwestern University, 1905 and inventor of brain surgery instrument; married Pamela Baldwin in Mindanao, Philippines, June 21, 1969 (divorced, 1977); married Joyce Barbara Baum (a theatrical agent and casting director), April 4, 1981 in New York City; children: Alexander Squire and Adam Spencer.
Education
*B.S. Finance, Miami University, 1969;
*M.A., English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1970-73;
*MFA, Dramatic Arts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 1975;
*Executive Education Certificate, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
Employment positions held
*Teacher, Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam Wisconsin, 1969-73
*Founding Member of Playmakers Repertory Company, 1974-75
*Artistic Director, The Mule Barn Theatre, Tarkio, Missouri and Chairman of the Theatre Department of Tarkio College, 1975-77
*Manager, NY Health and Racquet Club, NYC, 1978-79
*Producing Artistic Director, Pennsylvania Stage Company, Allentown, PA, 1979-88
*Producing Artistic Director, George Street Playhouse, 1988-1997
*Site Reporter, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1994-97
*President, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, New York, NY, 1992-97
*Additional teaching positions held (1973-94) at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Rutgers University; and Duke University.
*Financial Advisor, Senior Vice President, UBS Financial Services (1999-present).
Boards of directors and panel positions
*Missouri Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Arts Council, member of the Theater Panel
*American Directors Institute, Advisory Council
*State Theater of Easton, Board of Trustees
*New Jersey State Council for the Arts, panel member for Planning for the 21st Century
*Rockefeller Foundation, Musical Theatre Collaborators, Task Force
*En Garde Arts, NYC, Strategic Planning Consultant
*National Institute for Musical Theater, speaker and panel member for National Conference
*National Corporate Theatre Fund , Board member
*University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Alumni Association - New Jersey Chapter, President
*Wine and Food Society of New York, Treasurer and Executive Vice President
Awards and recognition
*Productions directed, produced or originally developed by Gregory Hurst have been nominated for the Tony Award (Swinging on a Star, 1996); Academy Award (Jodie Foster, Nell, 1994); Outer Critics Award (Opal starring Tony Award Winner Victoria Clark, 1992);
*Drama Desk Award (Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, 1990)
*Helen Hayes Award (A Walk Out of Water, 1986);
*Director of Forgiving Typhoid Mary, starring Academy Award winner, Estelle Parsons, Time Magazine’s “One of the Ten Best Productions in America,” 1991.
*Best Director NJ, Les Liaisons Dangereuse, 1989, Newhouse News Services
*Best Director NJ, The Belmont Avenue Social Club, 1993, Newhouse News Services
*“Outstanding Contributions to Pennsylvania,” Theatre Association of Pennsylvania (TAP), March 1988
*“Vision, Dedication and Leadership,” Stage Director and Choreographers Foundation, December, 9 1998
*Who’s Who in America since 1992
*President's Council (2004-2006) UBS
*Chairman's Club (2007-2010) UBS
Theatre productions
;Directed and produced over 100 plays and musicals including:
*The Fields of Ambrosia, starring Joel Higgins and three time Tony Award Nominee, Christine Andreas at the Aldwych Theatre, London, original cast recording by First Night Records, 1997
*The Glass Menagerie, starring Leslie Hendrix, National Tour, Acting Company , 1997
*Twist, with Larry Marshall and Eugene Fleming, 1996
*Avow, starring Rosemary Prinz, 1996
*Relativity, with Michael Rupert, Doris Belack, and Kit Flanagan, 1995
*Tangents, starring Golden Globe Nominee, Lauren Graham, 1994
*Spine, starring Golden Globe Nominee and Obie Award Winner, Justin Kirk, 1993
*Near the End of the Century, with Michael Murphy and Greg Mullavey
*Zara Spook and Other Lures, starring Calista Flockhart, 1992
*Idioglossia, starring Emmy Award Winner, Allison Janney, 1992
*Sarah and Abraham, starring Tony, Emmy, Drama Desk and Theatre World Award Winner, Tovah Feldshuh and William Katt, 1992
*Sparky and Fitz, starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, 1991
*Handy Dandy, starring James Whitmore and Aurda Lindley, 1991
*Greetings, John Houseman Theatre, NYC, 1991
*Anna Christie starring Emmy Award Winner, Ralph Waite, 1991
*Mountain, starring Len Cariou, Lucille Lortel Theatre, NYC, 1990
*Jekyll and Hyde, starring two time Tony Award Winner, John Cullum, 1990
*Les Liaisons Dangereuse, starring two time Emmy Award nominee, Laura Innes and Gabrielle Carteris, 1989
*The Subject Was Roses, starring Emmy Award winner, Isabel Sanford and Wendell Pierce, 1988
*Quality Time, starring Tony Award Nominee, Joanne Camp, 1986
*A Walk Out of Water, starring Emmy Award Winner, John Spencer, 1985
*Just So, starring two time Tony and Emmy Award winner, Bebe Neuwirth, Jack Lawrence Threate, Broadway, NYC, 1984
*Ain’t Misbehavin, starring Tony Award Winner, Tonya Pinkins and Jenifer Lewis, 1984
*The Further Adventures of Sally, starring Theatre World Award winner and Emmy Award nominee, Sheree North, 1984
*Copperhead, starring Tony Award winner, Ann Wedgeworth and Screen Actors Guild Award winner, Paul Guilfoyle, 1984
*The Glass Menagerie, starring Theatre World Award winner, Katharine Houghton and Ken Jenkins, 1983
*Shim Sham, starring three time Tony Award Winner, Hinton Battle, 1982
*Two Gentleman of Verona, starring Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, Joe Morton, 1982
*Taming of the Shrew, with Tony Award winner, Beth Leavel, 1981
*Great Expectations, starring Tony Award winner, Beth Leavel, 1980
*Damon’s Song, starring Theatre World Award winner, Donna Drake, 1979
Television productions
;Directed episodes of:
*Another World
*Guiding Light
*General Hospital
*One Life to Live
*Copperhead, a PBS Special starring Ann Wedgeworth and Paul Guilfoyle
;Assistant to director:
*Spin City
*The Hughleys
*Will and Grace
*Just Shoot Me
*For Your Love
*The Jamie Foxx Show
*Suddenly Susan
*The Wayans Brothers
*Cybill
*Sex and the City
*Law & Order
*Ally McBeal
*The Practice
Authors
;Produced, directed and developed new plays and musicals by:
*Marsha Norman
*Richard Adler
*James McBride
*Doug McGrath
*Stephen Schwartz
*David Zippel
*Bruce Graham
*Mark Stein
*Mark St. Germain
*Steven Dietz
*Bill C. Davis
*William Gibson
*Tom Cole
*Frank Gilroy
*James Still
*Rob Lindsay Nassif
*John Ford Noonan
*Sarah Schlesinger
*David Evans
*Joan Ackermann
Ella Kate Cooke (1885-August 9, 1917) was a New Zealand Sister who earned her nursing license in Auckland and later served as a nurse for France during World War I. She died in 1917 near the hospital in which she worked in Alexandria after being hit by a train.
Biography
She first began her initial training in nursing in 1907 at the Auckland Hospital and later at the Cook Hospital in Gisborne. She was transferred to the hospital in Hawera in 1910 and staying there until early 1913. Afterward, Cooke worked in the Waikato region of New Zealand after being sent there as the only available nurse for the region and peoples therein, having been given the title of "Native Health Nurse". She later became "a member of the Public Health Nursing Service".
In 1914, when she was 29, Cooke departed from New Zealand by way of Auckland on the RMS Niagara, accompanied by her twin sister, and headed for Canada on the way to Britain. Traveling across both Canada and America, they departed for Britain from New York on the RMS Lusitania. The ship was chased by a German cruiser on the open sea, but arrived safely in Britain.
Not long after arriving, "Britain declared war on Germany". Because she had known other English people while in New Zealand, Cooke decided to enlist as a nurse to help the war effort. However, her services were not necessary in Britain, so she traveled to France and joined the French Flag Nursing Corps as a volunteer and also worked with the French Red Cross. She was stationed in Bernay, France and treated wounded soldiers returning from battle.
Cooke was to be moved to another base on November 19, 1915, but she was instead sent to Egypt in October of the same year, as a part of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. The training for her journey and the nursing knowledge she would have to know was done at Connaught Hospital in Aldershot.
She died in 1917 while nursing at the "No. 17 Hospital" in Alexandria. While going to meet a friend to have dinner, she passed through a fence onto train tracks behind it and was hit by a train. Her body was buried in the Hadra Cemetary and her name is "inscribed on the World War I Nurses Memorial in York Minster, England."
A video was made by the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2008 called In Memory that features Ella Cooke.
Biography
She first began her initial training in nursing in 1907 at the Auckland Hospital and later at the Cook Hospital in Gisborne. She was transferred to the hospital in Hawera in 1910 and staying there until early 1913. Afterward, Cooke worked in the Waikato region of New Zealand after being sent there as the only available nurse for the region and peoples therein, having been given the title of "Native Health Nurse". She later became "a member of the Public Health Nursing Service".
In 1914, when she was 29, Cooke departed from New Zealand by way of Auckland on the RMS Niagara, accompanied by her twin sister, and headed for Canada on the way to Britain. Traveling across both Canada and America, they departed for Britain from New York on the RMS Lusitania. The ship was chased by a German cruiser on the open sea, but arrived safely in Britain.
Not long after arriving, "Britain declared war on Germany". Because she had known other English people while in New Zealand, Cooke decided to enlist as a nurse to help the war effort. However, her services were not necessary in Britain, so she traveled to France and joined the French Flag Nursing Corps as a volunteer and also worked with the French Red Cross. She was stationed in Bernay, France and treated wounded soldiers returning from battle.
Cooke was to be moved to another base on November 19, 1915, but she was instead sent to Egypt in October of the same year, as a part of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. The training for her journey and the nursing knowledge she would have to know was done at Connaught Hospital in Aldershot.
She died in 1917 while nursing at the "No. 17 Hospital" in Alexandria. While going to meet a friend to have dinner, she passed through a fence onto train tracks behind it and was hit by a train. Her body was buried in the Hadra Cemetary and her name is "inscribed on the World War I Nurses Memorial in York Minster, England."
A video was made by the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2008 called In Memory that features Ella Cooke.