| 词条 | Tori Murden |
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Victoria Murden McClure (born March 6, 1963[1]) is an athlete and university administrator who was the first woman and the first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1999.[2] She was also the first woman and first American to ski to the geographic South Pole and the first woman to climb the Lewis Nunatak in the Antarctic. She is the president of Spalding University, a private Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky.[3] She also served as the Chair of the Board of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), an outdoor education school headquartered in Lander, Wyoming, that emphasizes environmental ethics and wilderness excursions. Early life and educationMcClure was born in Brooksville, Florida[1][4] and as a child moved to Connecticut and then to Pennsylvania. At the age of fifteen, she moved in with her grandmother in Louisville, Kentucky, to attend the Louisville Collegiate School from which she graduated in 1981. She went on to Smith College, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1985. She followed that with a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School in 1989, a J.D. from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1995,[1] and a Master of Fine Arts in writing from Spalding University.[5] Solo row across the AtlanticThirty-six years old at the time,[6] she rowed for eighty-one days, traveling {{convert|4,767|km|mi}}, starting from the Canary Islands and finishing at Guadeloupe on December 3, 1999. Her boat, Pearl, was twenty-three feet long, four feet high, and six feet wide and weighed about 1800 pounds.[7] It was her second trip across the ocean, her first one cut short due to the hurricane season in 1998. She wrote a memoir about her experiences, A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean, published by HarperCollins in 2009. She is also noted for her 700-mile ski across the South Pole (the first woman to ski to the South Pole), and she was the first woman to climb the Lewis Nunatak in the Antarctic. CareerMcClure has also worked as a chaplain at Boston City Hospital, the executive director of a shelter for homeless women, and a public policy analyst for the Mayor of Louisville, and she worked for the boxer and humanitarian Muhammad Ali. On June 1, 2010, she became the president of Spalding University, which is located in Louisville.[3]She is the Chair of the Board of the National Outdoor Leadership School.[8] Honors and awards
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.oceanrowing.com/ampearl/rower_victoria_murden.htm |title=Rower Victoria Murden |publisher=Oceanrowing.com |date=1963-03-06 |accessdate=2011-10-13}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/00winter/murdent.shtml|title=NOLS {{!}} Alumni Magazine - The Leader|website=www.nols.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-09-23}} 3. ^1 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045518/http://www.spalding.edu/content.aspx?id=1846&cid=7900 Spalding University President Search] 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://sports.jrank.org/pages/3366/Murden-Tori-An-unprecedented-achievement.html |title=Tori Murden - An Unprecedented Achievement |publisher=Sports.jrank.org |date=1999-09-13 |accessdate=2011-10-13}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/NewsOffice10-013.html |title=Political Analyst Rachel Maddow to Deliver 2010 Commencement Address |publisher=Smith.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-10-13}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/00winter/murdentsidebar.shtml |title=NOLS - The Leader: |publisher=Nols.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-10-13}} 7. ^{{cite web | title = An interview with Toni Murden McClure | website = Book Browse | url = http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/1688/tori-murden-mcclure | accessdate = 23 March 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=34954 |title=Tori Murden McClure: About the Author: HarperCollins Publishers |publisher=Harpercollins.com |date=2010-03-24 |accessdate=2011-10-13}} 9. ^{{cite web | title = Peter Bird Trophy | website = Ocean Rowing Society International | url = http://www.oceanrowing.com/KFC/trophy.htm | accessdate = 23 March 2014}} 10. ^{{cite web | title = Tori Murden - An Unprecedented Achievement - Muhammad Ali Accomplishments, and Muhammad Ali Awards | website = JRank Articles | url = http://sports.jrank.org/pages/3366/Murden-Tori-An-unprecedented-achievement.html | accessdate = 23 March 2014}} Resources
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