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Elizabeth Hartman
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Elizabeth Hartman

Elizabeth Hartman (1965)
Born December 23, 1943(1943-12-23)
Youngstown, Ohio
Died June 10, 1987 (aged 43)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 � June 10, 1987) was an American actress best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, a role for which she won a Golden Globe for "Most Promising Female Newcomer" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Contents
1 Early life
2 Film career
3 Final years
4 References
5 External links



[edit] Early life
Hartman was born in Youngstown, Ohio, where she became known to patrons of the Youngstown Playhouse as "Biff" Hartman.[1] After gaining valuable experience in community theater, she relocated to New York City. In 1964, Hartman was signed to play the ingenue lead in the Broadway comedy, Everybody Out, the Castle is Sinking.


[edit] Film career
In 1964, Hartman was screen-tested by MGM and Warner Brothers.[1] In the early autumn of 1964, she was offered a leading role in A Patch of Blue, opposite Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters. The role won Hartman widespread critical acclaim, a fact proudly noted by the news media in her hometown.[2] The role also won Hartman an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. At the time of her nomination in 1966, Elizabeth Hartman (who was 22 years old) was the youngest nominee ever in the Best Actress category. That same year, Hartman received an achievement award from the National Association of Theater Owners.[3]

She went on to star in three well-received films, The Group, You're a Big Boy Now and The Beguiled. A role as wife of former Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall (1973) was followed a decade later by integral voice work in 1982's The Secret of NIMH, wherein she voiced mouse-heroine Mrs. Brisby. The Secret of NIMH proved to be Hartman's last film role.


[edit] Final years
Throughout much of her life, Hartman suffered from depression.[4] In her later years, her mental health continued to decline and she moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to be closer to her family. In 1984, she divorced her husband, screenwriter Gill Dennis, after a five-year separation. In 1987, Hartman fell to her death from a fifth-floor window in Pittsburgh in what was believed to be a suicide.[4] Hartman's body was returned to her hometown and interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, beneath two maple trees.[5]


[edit] References
^ a b "Biff Hartman of Playhouse Roles Has Broadway Lead", The Steel Valley News, November 22, 1964, p. 24.
^ Childress, Fred. "Elizabeth Hartman Wins Praise As "Patch of Blue" Opens", Youngstown Vindicator, December 16, 1965, p. 44.
^ "Elizabeth Hartman Given Award of Theater Owners", The New York Times, September 30, 1966.
^ a b Elizabeth Hartman, 'Patch of Blue' Star, Is Suspected Suicide, New York Times, June 12, 1987
^ "No film stars attend Miss Hartman rites", The Vindicator, June 14, 1987, p. D-19.
STONY POINT - One evening this week, Elizabeth Hartman showed Taylor Sutherland how to use a blood pressure cuff and a stethoscope inside an ambulance parked at the Stony Point Ambulance Corps.


Using the rig as a classroom wasn't intentional for Hartman, who is an emergency medical technician with the corps. She and Sutherland, a member of the corps' youth squad, just didn't have any other place to go for the one-on-one tutoring.


The corps' 60-year-old headquarters on Lee Avenue has been in need of expansion for more than a decade, and the corps' board members have been working to purchase a one-acre lot on South Liberty Drive for about $1 million to build a bigger building. While the deal is still in negotiation, the organization has been awarded a $400,000 federal grant through Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, to fund the plan.


"Stony Point's first responders perform an extremely important service to the community," Hall said. "In an emergency, medical personnel need every tool at their disposal, which is why Stony Point's first responders need this new, modern facility that will meet emergency medical services standards."


Joe Segelbacher, president of the corps' board of directors, said he was pleased to hear about the federal funding.


Segelbacher also said that in addition to the lack of space, the antiquated building costs the corps about $2,000 a month to heat in the winter.


"As much as that we want to be able to meet the needs of our community for the 21st century ... we would very much (like) to make the building environmentally friendly," Segelbacher said.


On Tuesday night, the sole meeting room at the corps' headquarters on Lee Avenue was being used for a members' meeting.


The waiting room was occupied by six youth squad members who were taking a first-aid class. The room wouldn't be available for duty crews until the class was over, Segelbacher said.


Peter Hubert, youth squad captain, said the squad's various training programs always required careful planning because of the limited space.


"A bigger building would be a lot better so we can have more space to do more training," Hubert said.


Segelbacher said that with a modern facility, he was hoping to attract more young volunteers. When Segelbacher joined the corps in 1972, the volunteer organization had about 100 EMTs, but 35 years later, the number has declined to about 30, he said.


"We need to be able to help our members to help others," Segelbacher
Rev. John Hartman, D.Min., director of pastoral care and mission effectiveness at St. Francis Hospital, is leaving Columbus next month for a new job in Greenville, S.C.

Hartman, 51, starts his new position Dec. 17 at The University Medical Center, which is part of the Greenville Hospital System and is a Level 1 trauma center.

In August, Hartman began his 12th year of leading the department. Among his duties and accomplishments, he developed the hospital's first accredited Association of Clinical Pastoral Education program. After accreditation, he helped establish a chaplain residency program for more intensive training. Whether full-time or in training, hospital chaplains minister to patients and their families. The training is called Clinical Pastoral Education, or CPE, which is often a requirement for seminarians.

"I'm very thankful to have been teamed up with the hospital and community, who want to provide education for ministers in the local area in pastoral care, and/or felt called to health care," Hartman said Tuesday. "I'm grateful for the opportunity I've had to step into sacred moments with patients and walk alongside them. That's something precious I will take along with me."

After he heard about the Greenville job, Hartman began formal inquiries in September with staff there.

"It's a teaching hospital and as such will provide me with a wonderful opportunity to get involved in education of caregivers across a wide spectrum. For example, I expect to be more involved in the training of physicians," he said.

The Greenville hospital has 8,300 employees and 650 beds. St. Francis has 1,780 employees and 378 beds. Those numbers include The Bradley Center, which offers inpatient and outpatient mental health care, in a separate location from the main hospital.

In addition to Hartman, St. Francis employs one other full-time chaplain, Lora Schmidt. In Greenville, Hartman will supervise two full-time staff chaplains; 10 part-time staff; another pastoral care supervisor; and six pastoral care residents.

Robert Granger, the St. Francis CEO, notified employees about Hartman's resignation in an e-mail Tuesday.

"While we are sad to see him go, we understand the exciting opportunity ahead of him," Granger said. "St. Francis Hospital has been blessed for the last 12 years to have someone like John providing spiritual care to our associates and our patients. We'll miss the good-natured approach to pastoral care that he provided to many of us while he has been here."

After Hartman leaves, Schmidt will run the department while St. Francis conducts a search for his replacement.

Before he got into hospital chaplaincy work, Hartman worked at three churches, two in Charlotte and one in Roanoke, Va. He received his bachelor's from Penn State University in 1978 and his doctor of ministry from Union Theological Seminary in Roanoke in 1982. At that time, the D. Min. program was four years and supplanted the usual master of divinity degree for persons studying for ordained ministry.

Hartman's wife, Elizabeth, a therapist at the Pastoral Institute, and the youngest of their three sons, Gordon, will remain in Columbus until Gordon finishes his eighth-grade year in May at St. Anne Catholic School. Their two older sons are Charlie, who's in law school at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville; and Blair, who works for Habitat for Humanity in Charleston, S.C. Elizabeth Hartman is a member of First Presbyterian Church (USA), and John -- as an ordained minister -- is a member of the local presbytery, called Flint