Call It the Pisces Effect. When he was younger, the Rev. Melvin Poindexter Miller had been torn between pursuing a career in dance or the ministry. After he was accepted into a seminary, though, the decision seemed behind him.
Bertie is a masculine given name. (See also Bertie (nickname) .) Notable people with the name include: 1  Bertie Brownlow (1920â2004), Tasmanian cricket player.2  Bertie Childs (born 1894), British Olympic fencer. 3  Bertie Cooksley (1894â1980), New Zealand politician of the National Party.ertie is a masculine given name. (See also Bertie (nickname) .) Notable people with the name include: 1  Bertie Brownlow (1920â2004), Tasmanian cricket player. 2  Bertie Childs (born 1894), British Olympic fencer.
This interesting name, with variant spellings Compfort, Compford, Comford and Comport, derives from the Medieval English Cumfort, (Old French Cunfort or Confort), meaning encouragement, aid, or support, and was originally given as a personal nickname to one who was a source of strength and support.he variant spellings Compfort, Comford and Compford recorded in Church registers of Kent and London from the mid 16th Century have given rise to the theory that, in some instances, the name may be locational from a now lost place in Kent, possibly called Compford from the Old English camp, a field, plus ford, ford.