FRASIER MEADOWS MANOR
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
RESIDENT BIOGRAPHIES
VOLUME 7
2001
Dedicated to all — residents and staff — who have loved and
dedicated themselves to the Frasier Meadows Manor Community.
Frasier Meadows Manor was established in 1960 by the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and CREDITS
THE WRITERS WISH TO THANK RESIDENTS FOR THEIR
WILLINGNESS TO SUPPLY BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
FOR THIS AS WELL AS FOR PAST AND FUTURE VOLUMES
CONTRIBUTING TO THIS VOLUME:
WRITERS:
LOIS HODGSON CROSS
LORNA KNOWLAND
GRACE MARTINI
EILEEN METZGER
ED PUTZIER
JANET ROSS
And the many residents who wrote their own Mini-Biographies
COMPUTER FORMATTING AND COPY WORK:
ED PUTZIER
EILEEN METZGER
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON AND HISTORIAN:
EILEEN METZGER
This volume, along with Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, represents
an attempt to recognize and preserve memories of as many
residents as possible who live or have lived at Frasier Meadows
Manor.
MINI-BIOGRAPHIES
VOLUME 7
Cunningham, Jim
Derr, Vernon/Mary
Donahue, Betty
Engdahl, Bob/Eileen
Forese, Angela
Freedman, Regina
Galusha, Irma
Harding, Nancy
Henderson, Nancy
Knack, Howard/Dorothy
McGuire, Carl/Esther
Meisner, Ed/Lillian
Morgan, Betty
Nachman, Harry/Jean
Pardee, Bob/Doris
Potter, David
Potter, Henrietta
Quist, Fred/Mabel
Richey, Clyde/Kay
Riethmayer, Leo/Ura
Russel, James/Marilyn
Short, Harold/Charlotte Irey
Walter, Karine
Warden, Chuck/Gussie
Watson, Virginia Drew
Note: Master volumes which include all Mini-Biographies written at Frasier
Meadows Manor are located in the Manor Library and in the History Room
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
JIM CUNNINGHAM
Jim Cunningham was born on January 15, 1915 in Bryan, TX. He spent his
younger years in Nacogdoches, TX where he attended school, graduating from
high school in 1932. He attended both the University of Tennessee and George
Washington University in Washington D.C.
Jim was drafted into the army as a private in March 1941 and quickly rose to the
level of Staff Sergeant. He was admitted to Officer Candidate School in 1942 after which he was assigned as an instructor at a newly established Officer Candidate School at Camp Barkley in Abilene, TX. He rose to the rank of captain and
was assigned to the Surgeon General’s office in Washington D. C. He later graduated from the Army’s Command and General Staff School in Fort Leavenworth,
KS and was promoted to major. After assignment to the staff of the Commanding
General of the First Army, he went with a planning staff to the Philippines where
the group worked with General MacArthur’s staff for planning the invasion of Japan.
After VJ day, Jim returned to the US and was discharged from the Army. He began work at the Veterans Administration in Washington D.C. Leaving Washington, he became Assistant Director of the VA Hospital in Temple, TX and later had
a similar position in Memphis, TN.
In 1950 Jim was promoted to the Office of the Chief Medical Director in Washington D. C. to head a newly-created Division of Medical Administration. Resigning from the government in 1954, Jim returned to Temple, TX and went into
the life insurance business. He soon became Regional Manager and was later
transferred to Austin, TX to become Vice-President and Sales Manager of the
company. In 1961 he resigned the position to return to the Office of the Surgeon
General of the Public Health Service in Washington D. C.
Jim became Chief of the Division of Administrative Services and then became the
first non-physician Chief of the Nursing Home program. He later headed a division under Medicare-Medicaid consisting of hospitals, nursing homes, and home
health care.
Jim transferred back to the VA as Deputy Director of the Education Division and
later became Deputy Assistant Chief Medical Director of Academic Affairs. After attending the Federal Executives Institute in Charlottesville, VA, he became
Director of the VA hospital in Charleston, SC and two years later became the Director of the VA Medical Center in Denver, CO from which he retired in 1979.
Jim’s wife passed away in 1997. He has 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Son,
James, lives in Boulder, CO; son, Richard, lives in Washington D.C.; and daughter, Janet E. Sepp, lives in New York, NY.
Jim moved from Boulder to apartment #264 on Feb 28, 2001. His religious affiliation is Methodist. His interests include reading, and travel. We are fortunate to
have this very friendly, likable person in our midst. If you see Jim having a cup of
coffee in the library, stop and engage him in conversation, you’ll have a more interesting day if you do.
Ed Putzier
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
VERNON AND MARY DERR
Vernon E. and Mary L. Van Atta Derr moved into Apartment #258 in Frasier
Meadows Manor East on June 5, 2001. They came to Boulder in 1967 from Orlando, Florida and resided in the Table Mesa area.
Vernon E. Derr was born in Baltimore, MD on November 22, 1921. Mary was
born May 19, 1917 in Binghamton, NY. Mary graduated from Mary Baldwin
College in Staunton, VA in 1940. She worked for a book manufacturing company,
Vail Ballou Press, as a proof reader until World War II began, then went to Washington, D.C. and worked as a civilian employee of the U. S. Signal Corps.
It was at Arlington Hall Station in Virginia that they met, and after a whirlwind
courtship, were married in Binghamton. “Yours is a war marriage,” a woman told
Mary. “It will never last.”
After a few months in San Francisco, 2nd Lt. Vernon E. Derr was sent to the Pacific Theater and Mary went home to Binghamton and worked in an insurance office. Vern arrived at Guadalcanal on the last ship to be sunk by Japanese bombs
in the harbor. He was sent to Bougainville in the Soloman Islands, the Russell Islands, the Gilbert Islands, the Philippines when General Mac Arthur returned and
finally, to Sendai, Japan. He also did courier duty, going to Townesville, Australia
and many other destinations. He qualified as a parachutist and made two practice
jumps before the war ended.
Then he returned to Mary and they lived in Annapolis, Md. where he continued
his education at St. John's College. Their son, Michael Edward Derr, was born in
Annapolis in 1946. Vern received his AB degree cum laud the following year,
having taught sophomore math at the college during his senior year.
Vern, Mary, and Mike went to live in Baltimore, not far from Johns Hopkins University, where Vern pursued a PhD in physics. He also taught classes in math and
physics in the night school there, while working full time at the JHU Radiation
Laboratory. The family increased. Katherine was born in 1950, Louise in 1953,
and Carol in 1955. Mary played violin in the JHU orchestra. There were weekly
music sessions in their home and they managed to attend some concerts as well.
Soon after Vern received his PhD degree, he was hired as Chief Scientist for Martin-Marietta in Orlando, Florida. He also helped set up an evening master's degree course at Rollins College in Winter Park and taught evening classes there.
Vern and Mary continued their interest in music. There were music sessions at
their home, they sang in the Bach Festival Choir in Winter Park, and Mary played
in an orchestra in Winter Park. In 1967, Vern received an award as Chief Scientist
of the Year from Martin-Marietta.
In 1967 Vern took a position as a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Laboratories in Boulder Colorado. His laboratory was successful and did atmospheric studies of the clouds. He taught at the University of
Colorado as an adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and
published over 100 scientific papers. He also edited a book, Remote Sensing Of
The Troposphere.
In 1981, Vern became Director of the Environmental Research Laboratories. In
1991, he received a sabbatical year to study Artificial Intelligence and its possible
use in weather forecasting. He retired April 2, 1994.
Most of Vern and Mary's travels have been to scientific meetings. These included
England, France, Italy, Russia, Central Asia, and Japan. The meeting in Japan
was in Sendai, the city Vern had been sent to at the end of World War II. They
have also visited Hawaii and Alaska.
Though Vernon's scientific activities took much of his time, he and Mary continued their musical interests. They sang in the chorus for The Music Man and several Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, including Utopia Limited, and sang in the debut
of Columbine, a musical by two Boulder women. Mary also played in the Timberline Symphony and with a small group of friends weekly.
Mary was a feature writer for Town & Country Review and a freelance writer. She
has written four books (unpublished) and many children's stories. She was also an
associate editor of The Weaver's Journal.
Vernon's honors include The Award of Merit from St. John’s College Alumni Association; Distinguished Executive, Senior Executive Service, 1987; U.S. Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, 1988; and the Department of Commerce Gold
Medal Award, 1991.
Mary L. Derr
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
BETTY DONAHUE
On July 23, 2001 Betty Donahue moved to Apt. 85 in Frasier North from her
home at 5470 Tenino Avenue in Boulder. She and her husband Bob had lived
there since moving to Boulder in July, 1973.
Betty was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on June 16, 1923, but as wife of
an oilman has been at home in Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Texas and Saudi Arabia as well as Colorado. Her parents had migrated to South Africa from England
after World War I, and Betty and her two sisters were born and raised in South Africa. She attended an Episcopal school for girls from first grade through high
school, and took a secretarial course following her graduation. Her family moved
to Pretoria, where she worked as a secretary until the family moved to Cape Town
during World War II. In Cape Town she enlisted in the South African Women's
Auxiliary Army Service as a Coast Artillery specialist. Later she went back to
Pretoria, where she was a secretary at the General Army Headquarters. There she
met her husband, a U.S. Marine Corps Pilot, on special assignment with the
American minister to South Africa and the American Consulate. When he received orders to return to the U.S., he and Betty were married. They went by cargo ship to the U.S. and Betty entered this country for the first time at Boston,
Massachusetts on February 27, 1947.
Bob had to report directly to the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia, where he was
doing a training course, and he and Betty were there for five months. He was assigned to the El Toro Marine Base in California after that. Their son, Michael,
was born while they were living nearby in Santa Ana.
After three years in the United States, Bob returned to civilian life, and the Donahues moved to Butte, Montana so that Bob could complete his studies in geological engineering. Their first daughter, Linda, was born in Butte. Bob then
went to work as a geological engineer for the Mobil Oil Company in Wichita,
Kansas. They were not there long before Bob was transferred to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and then to Midland, Texas. Four of their five daughters were born during the eleven years that they lived there. From Wichita, Kansas they moved to
Wichita Falls, Texas. When Bob was sent to the Oklahoma City office they
chose to live in Norman, Oklahoma, where they spent seven years. When Bob
was transferred to the Denver office, they decided to live in Boulder. Bob retired in Boulder in 1982.
While Bob was working in the Denver office he was sent to Saudi Arabia on loan
to Aramco from Mobil. Betty and Bob spent three years there. The Saudi Arabia
assignment gave them opportunity for travel, to South Africa again, and England
and Ireland. After retirement they again visited friends and relatives in South Africa and vacationed in Mallorca, Spain. Sadly, though, in 1989 Bob was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and passed away two years later.
All six of Betty's children are married and she is proud to say that they have given
her nineteen wonderful grandchildren. Mike and his wife, Susie, and family live
in Dallas. Linda and her husband, Nick Anderson, are in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Carol and her husband, Mike Yates, live in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Patty and
her family are near them in Norman. Judy Wanek and her husband, another Mike,
are in Orange Park, Florida. Only her second youngest daughter, Barbara, and her
husband, Dave Baumgarten are nearby in Louisville, Colorado.
Betty belongs to Sacred Heart of Mary Church. She enjoys doing volunteer work,
and spends two afternoons a week at Avista Hospital in Louisville. She also enjoys swimming regularly and socializing with friends and family, especially with
her daughter, Barbara. She says, “I wish I could be close to all of my children and
family, but am grateful to be able to see them often and watch the grandchildren
grow and mature.”
Betty Donahue
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
BOB AND EILEEN ENGDAHL
Last January (2001) Bob and Eileen Engdahl moved from their house on Inca
Parkway to apartment 203 in Frasier South. They are well traveled residents, having visited nearly every country in the world either on business and/or for pleasure
and living for extended periods of time in Australia, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, and England. Nevertheless, nearly every year since 1967 they have spent
all or part of the summer at their vacation home on an island in the middle of Lake
Champlain near North Hero, Vermont. Yes, they are New Englanders. Bob was
born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Eileen in Burlington, Vermont, where most
of her family still lives.
Eileen spent her early years in Burlington until moving near Albany, New York,
where she completed her nurses training. Bob also spent his early years in his
birthplace, but then moved to New Jersey and New York City where he remained
through high school (Stuyvesant) until going on to college at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, near Albany. It was in his senior year that he met
Eileen and after three weeks in a whirlwind romance married her in 1957. Bob
graduated from RPI with a B.Sc. in Geology in 1958. Times were tough in the oil
industry then and he accepted a job offer with a small seismic exploration company in Mississippi. Bob and Eileen subsequently spent two years in Mississippi
and Louisiana, and had two sons born there. In 1960 the family moved to suburban Virginia where Bob took a government job in Washington working with a
group of seismologists that he has either directly or indirectly been involved with
professionally ever since (including our own Harry Whitcomb).
Bob and Eileen lived in the Washington area until 1972, except for a two-year period when Bob earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics at Saint Louis University and they
lived in Webster Groves, Missouri. A daughter was born to them in 1962 and they
became active members of a young Virginia community (Holmes Run Acres).
Times were exciting in Washington during the 1960's. Eileen worked at one of
the Inaugural Balls for Kennedy in 1962 and actually met the couple when they
arrived that night. Later she managed health clubs and was even a personal trainer for the likes of Joan Kennedy, Martha Mitchell, and Tom Jones. They became
members of the Vermont State Society and enjoyed all the advantages of living in
the Washington area.
In 1972 Bob was transferred to Boulder where he joined a joint government and
university institute (CIRES) at the University of Colorado. Later (1977) he
moved to the U. S. Geological Survey to head up the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden. He remained there until retiring from government ser-
vice in 1998 and joining the Physics Department at CU to conduct research on
seismic monitoring under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Since 1993 Bob
has also served as General Secretary of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior that organizes meetings and directs research
worldwide.
Bob and Eileen raised three children in Boulder (Rick, Nick and Candace) who
attended Fairview High and then went on to college. Presently, Rick works as an
engineering technician for a medical equipment firm in Gunbarrel; Nick teaches
languages at Horizon West High School in metro Denver and leads tour groups
around Europe; and Candace and her family, including our two beautiful granddaughters (Torrey 12 and Paige 9), live nearby in Boulder.
The Engdahls have had an exciting and fulfilling life in Boulder. They are longtime parishioners at Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, where they have
been particularly active in the pre-marital counseling ministry. In the 1970's they
helped support CU's World Affairs Conferences, housing participants and hosting
evening dinner parties at their home. Eileen has worked at a number of interesting jobs in Boulder, including clothing retail (with our own China Jones), restaurant management and home nursing. Bob and Eileen both love to play bridge and
have been long-term members of several women's and couples bridge groups in
Boulder. Besides bridge, they enjoy travel, discussion groups, movies, exercise
and physical training, sports (Bob), and just hanging out. They especially look
forward to meeting people with similar interests at Frasier Meadows Manor.
Eileen Engdahl
Bob Engdahl
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
ANGELA FORESE
Mrs. Angela Forese moved into Apartment #229 FC November 12, 2001 from
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. She had visited Frasier Manor numerous times
prior to the move to visit her brother, John Mancino, in Apartment #474 FC. The
following is her biography, written by herself (Lois H. Cross)
I was born in the Bronx, New York City, where my parents had settled upon their
arrival from Bari, Italy in 1903. Our family consisted of five children, four sons
and one daughter, born in 1914.
We attended New York City schools. I was graduated from Hunter College,
N.Y.C. in 1935 with a B. A. degree and a license to teach in the elementary
schools. Since no teaching jobs were available, I entered the business world and
became an Executive Secretary for a food brokerage firm.
At the end of World War II, elementary teachers were in short supply in New York
City. I met the new requirements and obtained my license in 1954. I taught in a
low-income housing project populated with many minority families. While teaching the lower grades, I encountered children who were poor or non-readers. Although I had enrolled in a Masters program in Education at Hunter, I soon realized
I needed graduate courses which would provide the background necessary to understand the emotional, mental and physical problems causing the reading disabilities and behavioral problems. Based on these studies and my observations, I was
able to develop methods and techniques which proved helpful. This material was
incorporated in the Junior Guidance Classes organized around the needs of these
students.
I passed the examination for Assistant Principal in 1965, and was assigned to a
new school and put in charge of the Reading Program in the lower grades. When
the teachers encountered reading problems with their students, the material developed in my former school was shared with them. My previous background and
courses proved invaluable and I was able to be of great assistance in this area.
When my Principal retired in 1974, I became the Acting Principal. I did not accept the permanent assignment of Principal offered by the Community School
Board, as I had planned to take early retirement. I retired in September of 1975.
My demanding and exciting career had taken its toll.
In the meantime, a friend had introduced me to my future husband, Bob Forese, a
retired business man. We were married in December 1975 and lived in Yonkers,
N.Y., for 20 years. Those years were the happiest of my life.
After Bob's death in 1995, I entered the Andrus Retirement Home in Hastings-onHudson, N.Y. I now had the time to pursue my past and present interests: gardening, bridge, Lector at Mass, walking, listening to classical and operatic music,
computer lessons (sending and receiving E-mail for our residents), membership in
the Catholic Teachers Association and Retired School Supervisors Association.
Angela Forese
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
REGINA FREEDMAN
Regina Freedman was born in Amityville, NY on December 26, 1920. Regina
was one of five children, she had one brother and three sisters. She attended
school in Amityville and graduated from high school in 1937. She started commuting and working in New York City immediately after graduating high school
as she helped to support her family because her father died at young age.
She married Albert Freedman on September 29, 1940 and honeymooned in Havana, Cuba. They moved to Bay Shore, NY where her husband worked in a general store which his father had started in 1906. When Albert's father died, he became the sole proprietor of the business. Regina managed the store when Albert
served in the army during World War II.
Regina and Albert raised three children, two sons and a daughter. During their
years together, Regina and her husband traveled extensively; they visited many
European countries, Japan, Egypt, Israel, Australia and China. After Regina's
children were raised, she went back to school at Suffolk County Community College where she earned an Associate Arts degree. In 1976, Regina and Albert's oldest son, Mark, a psychologist and college professor, died at the early age of 33; he
had taught for the University of Maryland in the Far East and at the University of
Sydney in Australia. Her son, Leon, is a pediatrician in Houston, TX and her
daughter, Marjorie lives in Boulder and has worked in the field of non-profits for
many years.
After they retired, Regina and her husband spent their winters in San Diego, CA
and returned to Bay Shore for the summers. They also wintered in Lake Worth,
FL. The Freedmans were married for over 55 years. Albert was killed in 1996
while walking to the store to buy the New York Times, part of his daily routine.
After Albert's death, Regina sold the family home in Bay Shore and moved to
Lake Worth to be near her family. On July 6th, 2001, Regina moved to Frasier
Meadows Manor, Apartment #130, to be closer to her daughter and family.
Regina is Jewish and is a member of Congregation Har Hashem. She has four
grandsons, one who lives in Boulder, two in college, and one who lives in Houston, Texas.
Lorna Knowlton
MINI-BIOGRAHY
IRMA GALUSHA
I was born on Friday, March 13, at home and on the homestead of my paternal
grandparents who had arrived in western Nebraska in 1886, went to a one-room
country school, then to High School in Bridgeport (21 miles from home and requiring boarding with a local family during the school week), then to the University of Nebraska.
I met and married a Yankee with Nebraska connections, but not strong enough
ones to keep him away from New England. So, after 55 years in Dalton, Massachusetts, I have become yankee-ized. I am a widow.
While in Massachusetts, I worked for 33 years for a company which manufactured paper mill machinery where I became Personnel Manager (in modern parlance I think that is Human Resource Manager!), taking an early retirement in
1981 and going to work for my travel agent of many years where I remained
until 1993.
Since then I've been a busy volunteer as a docent at the Hancock Shaker Museum,
a reader for the Massachusetts Reading Service, a member of the town Finance
Committee, active on the local Council on Aging, and the Friends of the Dalton
Free Public Library.
My travels over the years have taken me to Europe, the Middle East, Australia,
China, South America, Africa and, of course, around the U. S. A., in other words,
from Alaska to Zimbabwe. Many of my trips were as a working member of an
Earth-watch scientific project, mostly involving birds.
I arrived at the Manor in October 2001 and am looking forward to good years to
come among the many friendly neighbors who have given me a great welcome.
Irma Galusha
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
NANCY HARDING
Nancy Harding (nee Nunn) moved into 302 Frasier South at the end of February,
2001, having already lived 11 years in Boulder. Although born in 1930 in
Evanston, IL, where her father was completing a degree in music at Northwestern
University, Nancy spent most of her life on the West Coast. Her younger years
were spent in Tacoma, WA (where her brother was born) and then Oakland, CA.
The family then moved to Los Angeles, CA, where her father worked as an
accountant for the FAA and her mother as a part-time preschool teacher. They
lived in what Nancy refers to as "lower" Brentwood, where she started 4th grade
in Brentwood Elementary School, ultimately graduating from University
Highschool. It is of some note that, many years later, Nancy's Brentwood
neighborhood became famous (or infamous) as the home of Nicole (Mrs. O.J.)
Simpson. She describes as surreal the experience of seeing and hearing on
television endless days of pictures and discussions of her childhood haunts —
Bundy Drive, Gretna Green Way, Montana Avenue, etc.
Following graduation from high school, Nancy attended Humboldt State College
in Arcata, CA, selected in part for its lovely scenic setting in the Redwoods in
Northern California and for its location as the farthest she could get from Los
Angeles without paying out-of-state tuition. At Humboldt, she enrolled in
business classes and met her future husband who was a Wildlife Management
major. When he graduated two years later, they married and moved to Susanville,
CA, where he started a lifetime career with the State Department of Fish and
Game and Nancy worked for the U.S. Forest Service. Following 12 years of
marriage and the birth of two daughters, the marriage failed and Nancy and her
daughters moved from Carmichael, where they then lived, to Davis, where the
girls were in 6th and 7th grades and Nancy started what became 27 years of
employment with the University of California. After 10 years at the Davis
campus, with one daughter married and one daughter in college in San Diego,
Nancy accepted a position in the Office of the President of the University in
Berkeley, CA, and spent the following 17 years in various administrative
positions with the University. During those years, she met and married Ralph
Harding, a seasoned sailor and Berkeley native, and they enjoyed much of their
free time together on their 30 foot sailboat which they berthed at Point
Richmond Yacht Club.
In 1990, following retirement from the University, Nancy moved to Boulder in
response to her then married-with-two children daughter's appeal to help with
transporting her 7and 9-year-old granddaughters to and from their pressing
engagements — school, after-school activities, etc.
By this time, Nancy's
Boulder daughter, Carolyn Shepherd, was an M.D., married to an M.D. and their
schedules were challenging. It seemed like, and was, a good move to make.
In the meantime, Nancy's other daughter, Susan Parsons, had married, had two
daughters, and was teaching elementary school in Los Banos, CA. With her
children in college and working, Susan was persuaded by her sister and mother to
also make the move to beautiful Boulder. Susan is now in her third year of
teaching at Columbine Elementary in Boulder.
During her years in Boulder, Nancy has served as a volunteer at the Boulder
County AIDS Project, belonged to the Tuesday Hikers group, has been a senior
auditor in many University of Colorado classes, and converted to Judaism after a
lifetime as an Episcopalian. She has made several lengthy visits to Israel and is a
member of Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder.
Nancy Harding
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
NANCY HENDERSON
Nancy Henderson moved from Houston, TX and entered Frasier Meadows Manor,
Apartment #275, on March 1, 2001. The following was written by Nancy.
Lorna Knowlton
My name is Nancy Henderson. I was born on September 29, 1923 in Normal, Illinois. About 1926 my Mother and Father were divorced and we moved to Chrisman, Illinois to live with my Mother's parents. I graduated from Chrisman High
in 1941. In September, I enrolled in Eastern Illinois State Teachers (later called
Eastern Illinois University). After the start of World War II, I went to work in Chicago with the US Treasury Department. At the end of the war, I met and married
my husband. I worked his way through University Illinois School of Engineering
as a Secretary to an English Professor. Our oldest daughter, Martha, was born just
before my husband graduated. He took a job with Shell Oil Company at Wood
River, Illinois, as a Mechanical Engineer.
In 1951, during the Korean War, he was called back into the military as a Captain
with the Air Force. We moved to Travis Air Force Base in California where he
was a navigator on a B-36. Our son, David was born there. We returned to Edwardsville, Illinois where my husband went back to work for Shell Oil Company.
Later we added Ann, John and Mark to our family.
Except for two years in Chicago, we stayed in Edwardsville until Shell moved
their Research Laboratory to Houston, Texas in 1975.
During the years the children were growing up, I was active in all their activities.
When our children were all grown and away from home, I became active in
Daughters of American Revolution, the Huguenot Society, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, and the Palmer Drug Abuse Program. My husband and I were Charter members of the Lakewood United Methodist Church and were very active in the activities of the Church .
After my husband retired we followed his great grandfather's trip, which occurred
during the 1852 gold rush to California, going from California back to Illinois, as
recorded in a newspaper interview with his grandfather back in 1910.
In 1994 my husband died suddenly while we were visiting our son and family in
North Carolina. After that I did quite a bit of traveling overseas, both in Europe
and Australia. I also attended several Elder Hostels completing my 50 States.
Until my eyes began causing me trouble, I liked to do counted cross stitch,
quilting, and reading besides traveling.
My children live all over the United States — New Jersey, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, and Colorado. I have almost 4 granddaughters (one is due in December), two step-granddaughters, two foster grandchildren ( a granddaughter and a
grandson).
Nancy Henderson
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
HOWARD AND DOROTHY KNACK
Howard Knack entered Frasier Meadows Central, moving into apartment 236
September 29, 2001, after living in Boulder since 1967. His wife, Dorothy, preceded him at FMM, having been a patient in Health Care since April. Below he
has written his biography.
I was born in Niskayuna, N.Y. in October 1915. You may find Niskayuna on a
map today, but at that time it was only a crossroads about five miles from Schenectady on the road to Troy. There was a locally owned general store at the intersection. A suburban trolley connected the two cities with designated locations
where passengers could board. Our home was near what was known as Stop 19,
and that was our official address until after World WarII.
My dad had one of the many small farms that lined the highway, growing vegetables which were taken to the Schenectady public market where the city store
keepers gathered in the early morning hours to purchase from the farmers. This
type of farming is very seasonal and I never had to look for a summer job. Mother was born in Canada and came to the states to visit a brother who had settled in
Verdoy, another township closer to Troy. Before marriage she got a job in a Troy
shirt factory sewing collars on shirts.
The local school was two rooms — grades 1 through 4 on one side of the center
hall and grades 5 through 8 on the other side. High schooling was provided in
Schenectady. We got there on the trolley, and were known as the country kids.
My parents saw to it that I did my homework, and I was accepted at the local college in Schenectady where I got a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1937. The
Depression was a trying time for many people. GE and the American Locomotive
Works fueled the economy of the Schenectady area, and their slowdown put many
out of work. We were fortunate to have a food supply at our doorstep.
My association with IBM began a week after graduation. Following the introductory course in Endicott to become a customer repair person, I was assigned to
New York City. It was there that I met my wife-to-be, Dorothy, who was an art
student at night while working as a greeting card designer day time. I was drafted
into the military in April of 1941 so I was in uniform when we were married in
December of that year. We have two daughters, one living in Boulder and the other resides in Nevada.
IBM equipment was used by the military for personnel record keeping and doing
other accounting procedures, and my civilian experience was put to use. I returned to the IBM company after my discharge, working again in New York,
Poughkeepsie, and finally Boulder until my retirement in 1981.
Howard Knack
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
CARL AND ESTHER McGUIRE
Carl McGuire was born in Shenandoah, Iowa and Esther Gambill was born in
Tonganoxie, Kansas. Carl and Esther were married in 1933. In 2000, on December 27th, they celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary.
Both Esther and Carl were active Boulder residents, at the city and the University.
For many summers Esther cared for the flower bed around the Methodist Church
in down town Boulder. She was a PEO member and active in University Women's Groups.
Esther and Carl had three daughters, Kathleen Propp of Oshkosh, Wisconsin;
Margaret Betchart of Cupertino, California; and Susan McGuire of Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
It is of interest to note that Bill Gambill, well known as a Frasier Meadows Manor
resident, is Esther's brother. Their parents, William and Bess Gambill, were
long-time Boulder residents; William best known as Principal of Boulder High
School during the mid nineteen hundreds.
Carl had an illustrious academic career and after he retired from the University of
Colorado, where he was an economics professor specializing in international economics. The University established the Carl McGuire Center for International
Studies in his name. Carl graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Colorado. He later earned a master's degree in
economics from CU. In 1939, he earned a doctorate at the University of Missouri.
Between Carl's sophomore and junior years in college, he taught in the Lyons
Public Schools. He was a professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. During World War II he was a technical sergeant with the 86th Infantry Division. Then he specialized in international economics at CU from 1941 to 1980,
and was chairman of the department for most of the 1960s.
Carl's teaching abroad included a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1952 and 1953; a visiting professor at the American University in
Lebanon, 1956 and 1957; and a Fulbright research professor at the University of
Cairo in 1961.
Locally, Carl and Esther served on the City of Boulder's Human Relations Commission. Carl was also a member of Kiwanis and Torch Club.
Carl co-authored or co-edited five books dealing largely with energy and resources in the Middle East and numerous articles in professional journals. He was
book review editor for the Journal of Energy and Development.
Carl and Esther moved to Frasier Meadows Manor from their Boulder home on
February 21, 1996 to Frasier North apartment # 293. They later moved to Frasier
Central.
At this time, November, 2001, Esther Gambill McGuire resides in the FrasierMeadows Health Care Center. Her brother, Bill Gambill, is in the same area at
Health Care.
Carl McGuire died June 25, 2001, having many friends at the Manor, at the University, and world-wide. We are proud of the many accomplishments of Carl and
his family members.
Eileen Metzger
Vivian Hobson
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
ED AND LILLIAN MEISNER
Ed and Lillian Meisner were both born in Akron, OH, he on October 4th and she
not quite a year later on September 28th. Ed graduated from MIT with a degree in
Chemical Engineering. Lillian graduated from Ohio Wesleyan with a degree in
Business Administration. They both attended the University of Akron for one
year, but not the same year. Ed returned to the university after the war and earned
his law degree but chose to remain in the rubber industry and did not practice law.
During the war he served in the Navy Amphibian forces as engineering officer on
a landing craft support ship.
Ed and Lillian were married in August, 1949. Their daughter Christine was born
in Akron in 1951 and was only one and a half years old when twins, Douglas
and Cynthia, arrived in 1952. Ed and Lillian were mighty busy for several
years. Actually, they were mighty busy for a long, long time as the three children went through school (and college) in lock step. Life had become somewhat
easier for them when Jim arrived in 1956. Chris graduated from Wellesley,
Doug from Syracuse, Cynthia from Ohio Wesleyan, and Jim from the University
of Chicago. They are all happily married and Ed and Lillian now have eight fine
grandchildren.
Ed was in the rubber industry-first with B.F. Goodrich, then with Chicago Rawhide (1961-1966), and lastly with the Ohio Rubber Company from 1966 until his
retirement in 1988. Ed's work took the family from Akron, OH to Evanston, IL,
to Trumbull, CT, to Elkhart IN. From there they moved to Boulder in 1988. They
had searched retirement areas, liked the descriptions of Boulder, came to visit, and
fell in love with it. Their kids are scattered across the country, and Boulder makes
an ideal gathering place.
Lillian had always wanted to be a cartoonist, and finally, in the 60s, the Chicago
Tribune accepted one of her humor cartoons and asked her to send more. Next it
was the Trumbull, CT Times where she did editorial cartoons and also covered the
schools, local history, and newsworthy events. In Indiana she did weekly editorial
cartoons for the South Bend Tribune. Lillian was always in print and was the first
woman admitted to membership in the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. However, don't ask her to do a cartoon now because she's lost all interest
in it and doubts she could do a decent one.
The Meisners are active in St. Andrew Presbyterian Church. He sings in the choir
and served on the board of Deacons. She served on sessions and headed a group
that created carpet murals in Fellowship Hall. They have been active in other
Presbyterian and Methodist churches in all the places they have lived.
The Meisners moved from their bi-level home in Table Mesa to Frasier North in
October, 2001, and continue their active life style., Ed plays golf, hikes, and skis
and Lillian paints water colors, walks, and enjoys a book club and bridge.
Lillian Meisner
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
BETTY MYERS MORGAN
After her family on both sides had lived in the St Louis area for five generations,
Betty Morgan moved to Frasier Meadows from Kirkwood, Missouri in October,
1999, with her dog, Rover, and cat, Harvey. She first visited Boulder to see her
son, Donald, an undergraduate at CU in the late 1960s; her daughter moved to
Boulder in 1990.
Betty moved first to Apartment #72 of Frasier Central, and then into #006 of Frasier South when its construction was completed. She has always been interested
in education. As a little girl of 11 or 12, she had classes for children in the neighborhood at her house, organizing a neighborhood newspaper. As a teenager, she
taught in the primary level Sunday School at the Congregational Church in Webster Groves, Missouri, where she grew up. Her passion for teaching was given
direction by Dr. Inglis, the long-time pastor of the Church. After high school, the
Church sent her to Camp Minnewonka, a four-year leadership camp in Michigan,
where she met her husband-to-be, Walter, who worked at the camp as the waterfront director and sailing instructor. She and Walter both worked at Ralston Purina Company before their marriage. Walter graduated in aeronautical engineering
from Washington University in St. Louis, and designed gliders for LaisterKaufmann during World War II. Betty and Walter had three children, Margaret,
Donald and William. As the children grew up, Betty became active in Scouting
and the Parent Teacher Association. This led to volunteer work in the community,
the local garden club, desegregation efforts in the metropolitan area, the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, the St. Louis Peace Research Institute, and the United World Federalists. Her international and peace interests were
strongly shared by Walter as well.
When Margaret was in ninth grade, Betty revived her interest in teaching, enrolling at Harris Teachers College in St. Louis. She graduated with honors as a social studies and English teacher, and was hired by the Parkway School District in
St. Louis County. There she wrote a history of Russia to use in her social studies
classes during the Cold War to counteract what she felt was a biased presentation
in the locally adopted textbook. After several years teaching, she enrolled in
Washington University's counseling program. During her graduate work, she was
an adjunct instructor of psychology at Webster University, which sent her to Iceland twice and Bermuda three times to teach. After completing her MA degree
with honors, she completed all the coursework for a PhD in counseling at Washington University, but returned to become a counselor in the Ladue Public
Schools, the Parkway School District, and Mary Institute, a private school. She
also continued to teach for Webster University, published three books on communication skills, two of which were used by the Ladue School District, and was
elected to Who's Who in American Education.
When the children were small, the family moved to Kirkwood, where Walter designed, and with the extended family's help, built a house inspired by Frank Lloyd
Wright. Walter worked for McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft (later Boeing) and the
whole family became active in the local Methodist Church. Margaret sang in the
choir for years and Walter was able to obtain a major grant for the Kirkwood
Methodist Church to support a hospice in India. As the children grew, the family's
major interest together became sailing and sailboat racing, which Walter spearheaded in annual winter sailboat repair sessions. Betty and all the children became skilled at racing, and Walter, as skipper of the family sailboat, won many
trophies in regattas around the Midwest. Betty and Walter also were avid golfers,
but were unable to interest any of the children in that activity. As innovators and
community builders, Betty and Walter were always active in neighborhood activities, including neighborhood barbecues and an annual Christmas breakfast for
family and friends, while Betty retained her commitment to the garden. Travel
became an important part of their lives, as they visited Donald, who worked as a
social worker in Canada, Margaret who moved to Texas as a university professor,
and Bill, a med tech in Columbia, Missouri. They took camping and van trips
throughout the United States, visited friends in Mexico, and traveled together to
France in 1991 to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Walter retired at 61 because of his health and to devote more time to peace research and sailing. Betty only moved on to other careers. She worked first as a
group therapist for middle school boys with Ferzacca Learning Center in St. Louis, and then organized a private practice. As a result of her work at Webster University, she was invited to join the counseling staff at Logan Chiropractic College,
where she worked for a number of years. She also fulfilled a life-long dream to
do volunteer work for the Missouri Botanical Garden, where she joined a research
team on rainforest plants of Costa Rica as a volunteer. After Walter passed away
in 1994, Betty and daughter Margaret capped that interest in exotic plants in 1996
by visiting four rainforest habitats in Costa Rica, viewing bird life and local flora.
In retirement, Betty and her friends in St. Louis organized a book club and a
bridge club, worked hard to forestall over-development in Kirkwood, and set up
an adult education program for the African-American community.
Her daughter, Margaret, is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, where she teaches graduate courses in the sociology of education,
social theory, and research methods, and undergraduate courses in the teacher
preparation program. Margaret's husband, Sergiu Luca, is a violin soloist, recording artist, and professor of classical violin at Rice University. Donald and his
wife Nancy are the co-presidents of BNI-Canada, a network marketing company
headquartered in Toronto and Montreal and with offices throughout Canada and
north America; they spend as much time as possible in Telluride, CO. Don's
daughter, Cathy, works for the Canadian Customs Office in Windsor, Ontario, and
his son, Steven, is a manager for Costco in London, Ontario. Laura Young, Betty
and Walt's adopted daughter, is a critical care nurse at the UCLA Hospital liver
transplant unit. She lives in Santa Clarita, CA, with her son, Charlie, 10 years
old. Son Bill, who shares the family love for cooking and gardening, is a medical
technologist with the Boone County Medical Center in Columbia, Missouri. His
oldest son, Adam is studying at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park,
New York, and the younger son, Aaron, is in his senior year of high school.
Betty Morgan
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
JEAN & HARRY NACHMAN
Jean and Harry moved from their Boulder home to Frasier Meadows Manor,
Apartment #469, on July 11, 2001. Harry was born in Chicago, IL and Jean was
born in Evanston, IL. Harry’s birthday is September 20th and Jean’s birthday is
August 15th.
Jean graduated from Iowa State University (then Iowa State College) with a BS in
Home Economics in 1945. Harry is a 1936 graduate of Illinois Institute of
Technology (then Armour Tech).
The Nachmans have four children: Paul is a physicist, working for TRW
(Thompson, Ramo, Woolridge, a space age manufacturer). He is a specialist in
linear optics. He lives in Redondo Beach, CA. Joan lives in Milford, CT with her
husband Colin, an actor; and children, Patrick (a freshman at the University of
Virginia and a Jefferson scholar); and daughter, Stephanie, a high school
freshman. Ruth lives with her husband and four children in Ketchikan, AK.
Steven works for the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system, and Ruth does some
tutoring. They just recently returned from Israel, where they lived for 5 years.
They were finally persuaded that living in the Middle East was too risky. Betsy
lives in Berkeley, CA where she is administrator of a preschool.
In addition to the above details furnished by the Nachmans they are directly
quoted as follows:
Ed Putzier
“Well into our "golden.years," we deem it important to make our final move into
an establishment like Frasier Meadows Manor — while still in physical and
mental condition to make the move with minimal trauma. The full range of
personal care available at Frasier offers us security which is very attractive in its
variety and availability.
“We come from the Chicago area, Jean from Evanston, Illinois, and Harry from
Chicago. We retired in 1985, and moved to Boulder then. Jean had mothered our
family of four children, and as they succesively left “the nest,” had expanded her
college education to take in teaching. She taught in the Chicago Public School
system from 1967 to 1976, largely at the second-grade level. When she left
teaching she worked part time at our church office.
“Harry also graduated from college with a degree in mechanical engineering.
After ten years of varied experience as an engineer for five manufacturers, he
established his own firm in consulting engineering, specializing in the mechanical
and electrical equipment of buildings. He operated this consulting office for 39
years, until retiring to Boulder.
“We have both been heavily engaged in interests outside our vocational work.
Church work at virtually all levels has been very important to us for our 45 years
of affiliation in the Unitarian Universalist faith. Harry has served on the national
Board of Trustees and in other denominational positions of the Unitarian
Universalist Association. Our other principal involvement with volunteer work
has been in neighborhood organizations - the Rogers Park Community Council in
Chicago and the Martin Acres Neighborhood Association in Boulder. Harry has
been president of each of these organizations for four years, and Jean has been
particularly active in writing for and editing the regular newsletters of MANA,
which are hand-delivered to some 1200 homes in the community.
“Our hobbies included hiking and tennis when we remained able, and now we still
find great enjoyment in the cultural activities offered in Boulder, particularly
classical music.”
Jean Nachman
Harry Nachman
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT AND DORIS PARDEE
Robert P. “Bob” Pardee was born on April 18 in Atlanta, GA, and lived there until
he graduated from Georgia Tech with a B. S. degree in Chemical Engineering in
1943. As a graduating NROTC student, he was commissioned as an Ensign in the
navy and assigned as Instructor in Navigation at the Naval Officer Training Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 1945 he was transferred to the Midshipman Training Center in the Bronx, NY, where he was an Instructor of Ordinance and Gunnery. In 1946, he was appointed instructor in the same fields at the
University of Texas NROTC in Austin, TX. He then enrolled at the University of
Colorado (1946-1947) to complete his M. S. degree in Chemical Engineering.
Then began Bob’s professional career in research and development at Texaco Research Laboratories in Beacon, NY, concentrating in lubricants R & D, from 1948
-1956. During 1956-57 he researched mono-propellants at Altadena, CA at Jet
Propulsion Labs. He was with the Sandia Corporation in Albuquerque, NM from
1957-1970.
Bob was with Ball Aerospace Systems in Boulder when he retired on Jan 1, 1993,
but he resumed working there from 1995-98, doing R & D in lubricants and materials engineering. He holds 11 patents and has published technical articles in the
field of lubrication.
Doris grew up in Bethlehem, PA. Her birthday is Jan 27. She is a graduate of
Moravian College in Bethlehem. She met Bob at one of Bob’s relative’s home in
Upper Montclair, NJ when Bob was at the naval training base in the Bronx in
1945. Doris’ career was as an executive secretary for New York Life Insurance
Company.
The Pardees have two children. Their daughter, Celeste, lives in Tucson where
she is Director of Academic Services at the University of Arizona. Son, David,
and his wife, Candy, are both prosecuting attorneys in Bisbee, AZ. They live in
Sierra Vista, AZ with their two children.
Bob and Doris share an interest in bridge, travel, classical music, and opera, and
(for Bob) back-packing. Both are members of the First United Methodist Church.
Bob is a member of Tau Beta Pi, an honorary engineering society. Doris is a
member of PEO and Questers. The Pardees joined our Manor family in November 2000 when they moved from their Boulder home in Gunbarrel.
Grace Martini
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
DAVID POTTER
I was born in 1926 and lived my early life in western New York State, mostly in
East Rochester, an industrial suburb, of Rochester. The major industry there was
the car shops that had built railroad cars but were shut down during the Depression. My father was a teacher and later the principal of the local high school, so
the family was never destitute. I went through high school there where I played
the clarinet in the band and orchestra and played on the varsity tennis team. Following high school, I attended Cornell University to study to become an architect
and, again, participated in music and tennis. I had a short and uneventful career in
the Army Air Corps, all during 1945.
After graduation from Cornell, I went to San Francisco briefly and then to Palo
Alto, just down the Peninsula, where I practiced architecture for about 20 years.
During roughly the latter half of this time, I was a partner in a firm that designed
buildings for clients such as Hewlett Packard and Syntex Laboratories as well as
numerous school districts. Soon after arriving in San Francisco, I married Henrietta and daughters Susan and Beth were born in Palo Alto.
I then had a midlife crisis and abandoned the practice of architecture to go back to
school at Tulane University to study anthropology, specializing in archaeology.
This included fieldwork that involved excavation of a four-story, thirty-some
room structure at Becan in the Yucatan and acting as field director of a project at
Lambityeco in Oaxaca, both in Mexico. During the latter project I lived, with
Henrietta, for about 18 months in the city of Oaxaca.
Funding for the Oaxaca project was then terminated so, when Henrietta and I
came to Boulder in 1974 for daughter Susan's wedding, I was job hunting. I became director of facilities planning for the Boulder campus of the University of
Colorado, a position I held for about 10 years. During that time I oversaw design
and construction of the Events Center and major additions to buildings for the
EPO Biology Department and the College of Music. Times were difficult during
those years because funding for the university in general, and its building program
in particular, was meager. I served on the university-city of Boulder liaison committee and the Boulder Creek advisory committee that rejected the Corps of Engineers' proposal for a concrete ditch to solve potential flooding problems. After
leaving the direct employ of the university, I worked as a planning consultant for
another 10 years, much of this for the university, before finally retiring in 1993.
I served a term on the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and I
am a member of the Congregational Church, Plan Boulder County and the Boulder Art Association. I likes to take walks, read, and paint with pastels.
David Potter
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
HENRIETTA POTTER
December 24, 1924, was a very stormy night in Baltimore, so much so my mother
had to sign a waiver promising not to sue if there was an accident on the way to
the hospital where I was born. I grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area
and graduated from high school in Alameda where my dad was working at the
new Naval Air Station.
December 7, 1941, a few weeks before my 17th birthday, the world changed! After graduating, I went to work at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard.
I met David in San Francisco in 1948 and we were married the following year.
We soon moved to Palo Alto where he practiced architecture for about 20 years.
Our daughters, Susan and Beth, were born early in our stay in Palo Alto. I was
fortunate that I was able to stay home and raise my girls, and to volunteer at my
girls' schools, in Girl Scouts, church, and in the Women's Architectural League.
In 1968, we moved to New Orleans by way of a summer in Europe during which
we spent six weeks in Lausanne studying French. I discovered New Orleans!
Then, during one summer's respite from the New Orleans heat, we went to San
Miguel de Allende in Mexico where the girls and I took art and crafts classes
while David studied Spanish. A door was opened for me and I have been an artist
and crafter ever since. After we moved to Boulder in 1974, 1 taught craft classes
at the UMC on the University of Colorado campus and at a studio in my home.
I am a bridge player, a member of the First Congregational Church and the Boulder Art Association. For many years I worked as an election judge.
We were blessed with two wonderful granddaughters who grew up nearby in Denver. Melinda lives in New York and is my pride and joy! Marcia, already a student at the University of Colorado, died in 1997 after four months in intensive
care at hospitals in Boulder and Denver. Her memorial service was on the day she
would have been 18 years old.
David and I moved to, Frasier Meadows Manor in August, 2001 and are enjoying
the many nice people here.
Henrietta Potter
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
FRED AND MABEL QUIST
Fred and Mabel Quist moved to Frasier Meadows North, apartment #491, from
the Gun Barrel area in Boulder in 1995. They had moved to Colorado from Hebron, North Carolina in 1989 to be near their children. They have two sons and
one daughter living in Boulder, one daughter living in Oklahoma and one daughter in Nederland. On September 26, 2001, Fred and Mabel celebrated their 65th
wedding anniversary with their children, sixteen grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. Fred is now a resident of the Health Center.
Mabel was born in Schenectady, NY and lived there until shortly after she and
Fred were married. Mabel was active in sports and choral music and attended
Mildred Elly School for Girls in Albany, NY after High School.
Fred was born in Kooskia, ID, a town on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation.
While attending the University of Idaho during the depression, his Father’s bank
failed and the family moved to Spokane, WA and then to Walla Walla, WA.
While working in Pittsfield, MA as a test engineer for General Electric, a friend
took Fred to Schenectady to a party and it was there he met Mabel. It was love
at first sight for both of them and they were married on September, 26, 1936.
In 1940 Fred was called to active duty with the army and the growing Quist family moved around from one army base to another. When Fred was sent to England
with an anti-aircraft unit, Mabel took the three children and moved in with Fred's
parents in Walla Walla, WA. Fred left the service for two years following the end
of the war and worked for General Electric in Portland, OR. He then rejoined the
army and gradually moved up the officer’s scale and retired as a Colonel in 1967.
During all this time the family lived in many parts of the country and in Germany.
While stationed at the Pentagon, Fred earned advanced degrees in Engineering
Administration. He worked in New England for Raytheon Corporation for eleven
years following his military career.
Having been exposed to other cultures and life-styles during all their military
moves, Fred and Mabel continued to travel the world as retirees. They liked what
they saw on the front range of Colorado and the pull of their children living here
soon made them residents.
Lorna Knowlton
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
CLYDE W. AND KAY O. RICHEY
Clyde moved from Boulder to apartment #190 in Frasier North on August 20,
1996. Kay lives in Manor Care Nursing Home. They have lived in Boulder
since 1969.
Clyde was born in Shelbyville, Indiana and spent his childhood there. His birthday is November 30th. Kay was born in Leonard, North Dakota on July 27 and
spent her childhood in Montana, Chicago, and Indiana.
Clyde and Kay met and were married in Indiana. They have no children. Their
religious affiliation is Methodist .
Kay was a legal secretary and housewife.
Clyde served in the Army during WW 2. Afterwards he received degrees from
Purdue and Indiana Universities. He worked in the housing industry for several
years. He then attended the University of Wisconsin. After graduation he came to
the University of Colorado where he taught in the College of Business until his
retirement in 1991 but continued to teach part-time. Clyde’s interests include
traveling, books on tape, teaching, reading, golf and visiting friends over coffee.
Kay was fond of bridge.
Clyde W. Richey
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
LEO C. AND URA M. RIETHMAYER
Leo C. and Ura M. Riethmayer live in apartment #358, Frasier East. They moved
to the Manor in June, 2001 from their home in Boulder. Leo was born at Bloomington, California. His Birthday is June 2nd. Ura (Merrick) was born at Big
Spring, Texas. Her birthday is September 13th. They both graduated from
Lamesa High School; Lamesa, Texas. They were married in 1935.
Leo received B. A. and M. A. degrees from Texas Tech University in 1934 and
1936. He received the Ph, D. degree in Political Science with emphasis in Public
Administration and state and municipal government and administration from the
University of Iowa in 1942. He was on the faculty of Texas Tech University from
1938 until 1946, with some time off during World War II. He served in the Office
of the Secretary of War in the Pentagon.
Leo joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 1946. In addition to teaching courses, he developed and administered the Institute of Public Administration
which became the Graduate School of Public Affairs. For a four-year period he
also served as chairman of the Department of Political Science. When he retired
in 1978 as Professor of Public Administration, he had directed the graduate programs of more than 500 students who had positions in every state in the U.S. and
in 20 other countries.
Leo also established the Bureau of Governmental Research and Service in which
he and colleagues published materials and worked with state and municipal officials on numerous projects, such as the drafting of city charters, state legislation,
and the appointing of city managers. The activities of the Bureau were conducted
in close cooperation with the Colorado Municipal League.
While on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Leo also found it possible to
be a visiting professor at the City University of New York; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; and the University of
the Philippines.
Leo has also been active in local, state and national affairs, e.g. from 1954 to 1960
he was a member of the Boulder City Council and served as Mayor from 1956 to
1960. As an appointee of the Governor, he served from 1967 to 1975, including a
term as chairman, as a member of the Colorado State Commission on Judicial
Qualifications, For many years he has also been a member of the National Defense Executive Reserve.
Leo has coauthored seven books and authored and published articles and reviews
in professional journals.
Honors and awards received include listing in "Who's Who in America", the
Stearns Award, and others. When he retired in 1978, the Colorado Chapter of Pi
Alpha Alpha (the national honorary in Public Administration) established the Leo
C. Riethmayer Outstanding Public Administration Award. It is awarded annually
to an outstanding public administrator in Colorado. Since his retirement he has
been active in the University Retired Faculty Association.
After her marriage to Leo in the spring of 1935, Ura continued her career in teaching with few interruptions until her retirement in 1975. Universities in which Ura
did graduate work include Texas Tech University, University of Colorado, University of California, Los Angeles, and Hunter College, New York N.Y.
Following retirement from teaching, Ura participated in activities of the University of Colorado Faculty Women's Club, the First Presbyterian Church, Delta Kappa
Gamma, Book Review, and Art Study Club. She has produced many paintings in
pencils, water color and oil, as well as china painting, including an entire set of
dishes. She was a volunteer at the Wardenburg Student Health Center, and took
courses in Art on the campus. After Leo's retirement, the couple enjoyed their
travels abroad.
Leo and Ura have a daughter, Nan Phifer of Eugene, Oregon; and a grandson,
Matthew T. Rendall; who is on the faculty of the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
In the past the Manor was home to some of our friends. Now we are grateful to
the management here at the Manor, to the friendly residents, and all who have
made this such a delightful place in which to live and pursue old and new interests.
Leo and Ura Riethmayer
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
JAMES AND MARILYN RUSSELL
Marilyn and Jim Russell of apt. #29 moved here in June 2001 from Tucson, AZ.
They currently are summering in Boulder and wintering in Tucson. One of their
daughters lives in Boulder, giving them an extra incentive to come to Frasier
Meadows. The other incentive was to allow their dog, Chiquita, the opportunity
to hunt. They both love watching a ten pound dog point, stalk like a cat, then
charge 5 foot up a tree after a laughing squirrel. They are incurable dog lovers, a
fact attested to by their mutual devotion to their seven-year-old Techichi — a
remarkably amiable animal.
A "sunflower" from Kansas, Marilyn was born Dec. 29, 1936 to a Methodist
minister and his wife, Paul and Rowena Handa. They had no other children.
Hutchinson, St. Francis, Abilene and Arkansas City, Kansas were towns in which
Marilyn grew up. She graduated from the William Newton Memorial School of
Nursing in Winfield, Kansas where she was president of the student body. At the
University of Kansas she was a Watkins' Scholar. Her Bachelor of Science in
Nursing was obtained from the University of New Hampshire, and her Master's in
Teaching and Counseling was taken at Lyndon State College in Vermont.
Post-graduate work was done in biofeedback at the Menninger Clinic and in
Therapeutic Touch with Dr. Kreiger of New York University. During her career
she has been a Certified Emergency Nurse, a home health nurse, a pediatric office
nurse and an Associate Director of Nursing. She served on the Governor's
Commission on Women in both New Hampshire and Vermont, and was a lobbyist
to the Vermont Legislature for the Vermont Nurses' Association. She is a member
of the American Nurses' Association. Currently she is employed at Sierra Tucson
Psychiatric Hospital in Tucson, AZ. She serves on the Northwest Hospital Urgent
Care Advisory Board of Tucson. Her hobbies are handwriting analysis, oil
painting, reading and gardening.
Marilyn met her husband, Jim, through a friendship with Jim's son, Ames. She
has three children; Dina in Manhattan, N.Y., Paul and Peter in Vermont. Jim has
six children; Mercy in Vermont, Mary and Edie in Colorado, Marty in Alaska,
Bob in New Jersey, and Ames in Virginia. There are eight grandchildren; James,
Paxton, Emily, Nicholas, Sam, Helen, Ned, and Ginny.
Although Marilyn was Methodist and Jim a Presbyterian growing up, they are
now Episcopalians. Both have sung in community and church choirs wherever
they have lived. Marilyn has served as Sunday School Superintendent. Both have
served as mentors to life cells and Jim continues to be a deacon in Tucson. Jim
volunteers as a driver for the senior home-bound meals program at Catalina
Helping Hands and both are members of the Sun City Vistoso Posse, a
neighborhood nocturnal patrol.
Jim was born February 22, 1927 the youngest child of seven children of the
Reverend Edward Russell, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife in Oxford,
Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Choate School, Princeton University and
the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He interned at the old
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and then pursued his specialty training in
internal medicine at Dartmouth's Mary Hitchcock Hospital. This residency was
interrupted by a two-year tour of duty with the USAF at Tinker Air Force base
hospital in Oklahoma City. Leaving the Air Force he completed his training at
Dartmouth. He and his family then moved to St. Johnsbury, VT where he served
as a "kindly country doctor" for forty years. During that time he served as
medical director of Founder's Hall, a chemical dependency treatment center.
When he retired, he and Marilyn took a three-month motor-home trip down the
Eastern Coast and across the Southern U.S., looking for a warm place to settle.
Tucson suited them both, and both came out of retirement to work at Sierra
Tucson, a psychiatric hospital specializing in chemical dependency treatment.
Jim has served on the board of the Vermont Lung Association, and as a member of
the Trudeau Society. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine,
by the American Society of Addiction Medicine and is a Fellow of the American
College of Physicians.
Marilyn Russel
Jim Russel
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
HAROLD AND CHARLOTTE IREY SHORT
What do you get when you combine the King of the Road and the Queen of the
Dance? You get the Royal couple, Harold and Charlotte Irey Short, waltzing
down the road and moving into Apartment #101, Frasier South, on Dec 1, 2000.
Harold is the Chairman Emeritus of Flatiron Companies, which included nine
road and bridge construction companies in Boulder, Longmont, Greeley and Fort
Collins. He retired in 1985, but still owns, with his children, the Industrial Park
bordered by Arapahoe and Valmont and 55th and South Boulder Creek at the
Power Plant. Charlotte retired from the University of Colorado as Professor
Emeritus of Dance after having been known nationally according to the Thomas
Jefferson Award received in 1980 "As a master teacher of dance and an
administrator with unswerving dedication to dance education, Charlotte built
almost single handedly the Boulder Dance Division into one of the prominent
programs in the country."
Harold was born in Thermopolis, Wyoming and spent his early years on his
parents' cattle ranch. He attended a country school at Embar, Wyoming and the
Hot Springs County High School at Thermopolis from which he was graduated in
1932 at 15 years of age, the youngest high school graduate in Wyoming. Harold
worked for three years during which he gained some maturity and was able to
save enough money to enroll at Colorado A. & M. (now Colorado State
University in Fort Collins) in 1935. There he was tapped as a Pacemaker, the Top
Student Award, as well as receiving his national fraternity's (Phi Kappa Tau)
highest undergraduate honor, the Shideler Award. He also was a leader in the
Student Council, Vice President of the Student Body, President of Phi Kappa Tau
and active in other organizations. He graduated in 1940 with a degree in Civil
Engineering.
After graduation, Harold worked for a year as an engineer for the Wyoming
Highway Department before volunteering in 1941 for Army duty as a Second
Lieutenant in the U. S. Army's field artillery. During World War 11 he spent five
years on active duty, 27 months of which were in combat in the South Pacific
during which he accrued two Bronze Star Medals and one Purple Heart. He was
released from active duty in 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
From 1946 to 1953 he progressed from trainee to project manager of several large
construction projects. In 1953 he became the manager and part owner of Milne
Ready Mixed Concrete with Jim Milne. That firm grew under Harold's direction
to be the Flatiron Companies of which he became the major owner in 1974. The
employees of Flatiron Companies numbered 800 when Harold retired in 1985.
Harold has played a leading role in the Colorado contracting and construction
industry, and has been a leader in state and national trade associations. For nine
years he was a Director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He
was on the Board of Directors of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce, the Boulder
Country Club, Junior Achievement of Boulder, and the National Board of
Directors for Junior Achievement. He was Director of the Colorado Ready-Mixed
Concrete Association, was with the American Concrete Institute, was National
Director and Chairman of the Board of the National Ready Mixed Concrete
Association, was Director of the Colorado Sand & Gravel Producers Association
and was Director and President of the Colorado Contractors Association. He was
Chairman of the Board of the Mountain State Employers Council from 1977 to
1979. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and the Rotary Club of Boulder.
He received an Honor Alumnus Achievement Award from Colorado State
University in 1972 and the same year received the Colorado Contractor of the
Year Award. In 1977 he was named Colorado Businessman of the year by Alpha
Kappa Psi, in 1980/81 to Who's Who in the World, in 1981 received the CSU
Engineering Distinguished Service Award, in 1986 the Boulder County
Distinguished Citizen Award, in 1989 the Esprit Entrepreneur Award “Lifetime of
Service,” in 1991/92 Rotary Club's “Service Above Self” Award, in 1993 was
chosen for the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame, and in 1999 received the
prestigious CSU Morgan Alumni Achievement Award.
Harold met Betty Hamnett at CSU and they were married in 1940. She died in
1998. Their three children are Kay McDowell, Carol Patten and James Short, all
of the Boulder area. Harold and Charlotte Irey were married in 1999.
Charlotte was born in Oklahoma City, OK and received her B. S, Degree in Dance
from the University of Wisconsin with honors, and her M. A. Degree from the
University of Colorado in 1965. She had professional training from the Mary
Wigman School of Dance in Dresden, Germany in 1935; Harold Krutzberg,
Winter in 1936; the Humphrey-Weidman Studio, New York, Summer 1937; Berta
Ochsner, University of Wisconsin, Summer 1938; Bennington School of Dance,
Summer 1941; Charles Weidman, New York, Summer 1947; Jose Limon, New
York Summer 1947; Lloyd Show Summer Square Dance School, June 1948 and
August 1949; Jean Erdman, Summer 1950-1955; Pearl Lang, Summer 1957,
1958; Merce Cunningham, Summer 1960; Pauline Koner, Summer 1961, 1962;
Gus Solomons, Jr., Betty Jones, Harriette Anne Gray, Summer 1964; Murray
Lewis, Summer 1965; Paul Sanasardo, Summer, 1967; Merce Cunningham,
Summer 1968; Jeff Duncan, Summer 1969; Don Redlich, Summer 1970; Gladys
Bailin, Summer 1971, 1972.
Charlotte's teaching experience began in 1940 when she was an Instructor of
Dance at Stephens College until 1943. She was a part-time Instructor in Physical
Education in the Boulder Public Schools from 1944-1945, an Instructor at the
University of Colorado from 1945-1960, Assistant and Associate Professor from
1961 to 1972, Professor at CU from 1973 to 1982 and CU Professor Emeritus
from 1982-1988. Her professional offices include many National offices
including President of the National Dance Association in 1975-76. Her
professional activities include being guest speaker, preparing proposals,
consulting, judging, and preparing “Handbook for Dance Majors.”
In addition to being a member and guest artist at many dance performances,
Charlotte choreographed a total of 70 works for the University of Colorado
Dances and Choreodancers. She also did choreography for numerous musical
Comedies and Operas for College of Music at CU. Her choreography also
included a cantata for the National Organists Guild and for the Boulder Lutheran
Church. Among her other accomplishments are 15 publications dating from 1952
to 1988.
Among Charlotte's Honors are a “Charlotte Trey Scholarship” awarded by PerryMansfield in recognition of contributions made to dance in education in
1961;Recipient of Robert L. Steams Award for outstanding contributions to the
University of Colorado in 1973; Biographical information in 1975-76
Bicentennial Memorial Edition of Community Leaders and Noteworthy
Americans; Biographical information published in Who’s Who of American
Women in 1983 and 1987; Studio/Theatre of the new Dance Wing on the CU
campus named “Charlotte York Irey Studio Theatre” in 1984; and the Charlotte
York Irey Scholarship Fund established in 1992.
Charlotte's husband was Prof Eugene Irey of the Department of English at the
University of Colorado, an Emersonian Scholar whom she met at Stephens
College in 1941 and they married in 1942. He died in 1985. The Irey's had a
daughter, Susan, who died at 30 years of age. Her husband, John Byrne, lives in
Boulder. Charlotte retired from CU in 1988. She is enjoying tremendously her
new family, Harold's children and grandchildren. Their first great-grandchild,
grandchild of Ed and Kay McDowell, was born Aug. 4. The Shorts have eight
grandchildren.
Harold and Charlotte are a vibrant, intelligent couple who have contributed
enormously in their respective fields, and with their talents and sense of humor
still intact, they have a lot to offer Frasier Meadows Manor.
Lois Hodgson Cross
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
KARINE WALTER
I was born on my grandparents’ farm near the small town of Elgin, Nebraska. My
parents were homesteading in Wyoming and when I was four months old we established our home there. My childhood was spent in Lander, Wyoming and it
was there I met my future husband, Jack Walter. We were both in the second
grade. We went through school together, graduating in 1935. Jack went on to attend the University of Chicago. I had earned a scholarship to the University of
Wyoming, however I opted to marry my childhood sweetheart. Pressures of supporting a family during the Great Depression made it necessary for Jack to leave
the university and enter the business world.
Jack became an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Denver, Colorado. His career with Met Life took him from agent to manager to regional manager. With the exception of the two years when he was in the U.S. Navy in the
South Pacific, we spent 38 years with Met Life. I say “we” because Jack’s work
was an important part of my life too. Promotions involved several transfers causing us to establish homes in Denver; Dallas; New York City; Topeka, Kansas;
Kansas City, Missouri; and finally in San Francisco, California.
During our early years of marriage I was busy taking care of our two daughters,
Nancy and Patricia, just being a “Mom,” and doing all the things Moms do. I
loved homemaking, cooking, and sewing and entertaining our many friends and
Jack’s clients and business associates. Jack’s first district as manager was in Denver, Colorado. Both our daughters attended and graduated from the University if
Colorado. My proudest moment came when Nancy obtained her Ph.D. in Education from CU. Our daughters married CU graduates and I now have 5 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. They reside in Hawaii, Texas, and Colorado.
When faced with the “empty nest” syndrome I became involved in volunteer
work. I started as a Gray Lady at what was then known as Colorado General Hospital and continued in volunteer work until Jack’s retirement in 1979. When Jack
retired we returned to Colorado to make our home in the Denver area. No matter
where we lived I always dreamed of coming back to Colorado. We purchased a
home in Willow Creek in Arapahoe County and were granted 17 good and happy
years together. Jack developed a terminal illness and that prompted us to sell our
home in Willow Creek and move closer to our daughter, Nancy Markham, and her
husband Roger, in the Lake Valley area of Boulder. We purchased a town house in
Longmont and had three more years together. We were blessed with 63 years of
marriage.
I remained in our home in Longmont for two years after Jack’s death. It seemed
prudent for me to find a place where I could be independent and still have care at
the time I would need it. Happily, I applied for and was accepted for residence in
Frasier Meadows Manor. I am so pleased with my apartment and the opportunities here for making new friends and pursuing new interests. I am an active member in a P.E.O. Chapter in Boulder and will soon become a member of Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Boulder. I am learning to become proficient with my computer with the help of a fine tutor. I enjoy travel, books, music, and bridge. I am
presently helping in the mail room and substituting in the gift shop. I have found
contentment with life in the Manor.
Karine Walter
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
CHUCK AND GUSSIE WARDEN
(This mini-biography of Chuck and Gussie Warden is written by “Author Anonymous,” which must be the Alias that Chuck is currently using…..Lois Cross)
Chuck and Gussie (Ruth) Warden moved to Frasier Meadows Manor from their
home of 41 years on Bluebell Avenue in Boulder. They were just in time for
Christmas 2000. With their worldly goods still unsettled, they left for their home
in Arizona, where they have wintered for the past 22 years.
Chuck was born in Worchester, MA and was the first in seven generations of his
family to move from New England. Gussie’s (nee Ohisen) ancestors go back to
Denmark and Germany. The couple have visited her distant relatives in Europe,
but a visit to the village of “Old Warden” in England uncovered no old Warden
except Chuck.
Gussie, a Muscatine, IA belle, enrolled in Cornell College (Iowa) in 1937. There
she met Chuck, an immigrant from New England with a strange accent. After
high school in the East, he had worked for a year in a Chicago bank trying to learn
the native tongue.
After they were graduated (1941) Chuck signed up for pilot training with the Air
Corps and Gussie returned to Muscatine to await developments. While awaiting a
training date, Chuck worked on his navigational skills by mowing grass around
the headstones in a cemetery. Grave digging helped his depth perception, a pilot’s
necessity.
Gussie, even though she had been President of her sorority and Vice President of
the senior class, still agreed to marry Chuck even though he was (and still is),
awaiting a bid from Phi Beta Kappa or some other recognition.
After earning his pilot’s wings, the classmates were married (1942) and assigned
to a base in Florida for the summer. When winter came, Army-like, they were
sent north to Long Island, NY. They also had tours of duty in Georgia and Missouri where daughter Barbara was born. Chuck moved from pilot instructing and
check pilot duties to P47 (Thunderbird) fighters and was sent to Europe in 1945.
This soon motivated the Germans to surrender.
After the war, the happy trio moved to Iowa City where Chuck entered law
school, sold real estate, and finished building a house. Even though now armed
with a Juris Doctor degree and admitted to the bar in Iowa and later Colorado, he
decided real estate was more to his liking. With a partner in 1950 they moved to
Boulder and opened a real estate and insurance business.
In 1953 Chuck was President of the Boulder Board of Realtors and later at different times performed additional duties as Boulder Municipal Judge, Boulder County Public Trustee, Chairman of Boulder Republican Central Committee, and when
trapped, served on various local fund raising drives. He is presently a Life Trustee of Cornell College. In 1956 he became the Director of the Colorado office of
the Federal Housing Administration (F.H.A.). In that capacity in 1960, he had the
responsibility of approving and signing the F.H.A. mortgage insurance on the loan
for Frasier Meadows Manor. Ben Christner, Vic Quinn, and others joined him in
his office for the signing of that loan. Chuck never expected to be a resident beneficiary of that loan approval and hopes there will be no ex post facto charge of a
conflict of interest.
In 1962 Chuck became Senior Vice President of Western Federal Saving in Denver and retired from that position in 1980. In 1977 he retired from the Air Force
Reserves as a Colonel.
Every Tuesday evening for over 28 years (when they are in Boulder) Gussie has
been a volunteer piano player at the Good Samaritan Retirement Home (Taft Towers). You name it...she plays it.
The Wardens have been frequent world travelers, but lately the plane rides to Europe, China, New Zealand etc. seem to be a little too daunting to repeat...but who
knows.
Daughter, Barbara, and husband, Don McKee, each operate a business from Louisville, CO. She is in stained glass production and he produces metal sculptures.
He is the Drum Major of the Denver Pipe Band and she is a bagpiper. They participate in many Scottish events in the US and Scotland.
The Wardens still haven’t found places for the many things they brought to Frasier
and can’t find the things they did place (Baby Grand excepted). They may raise
the beds to create more storage space, but the living is easy and they are happy to
be here.
Lois Hodgson Cross
MINI-BIOGRAPHY
VIRGINIA DREW WATSON
Virginia, a resident of the Manor since 1997, was born in 1918 and reared in
Tomah, Wisconsin, located midway between Chicago and Minneapolis, the cultural foci of her growing years. After graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she continued the study of anthropology at the University of Chicago from which she obtained an MA, a PhD, and an anthropologist husband (for 50
years). With Master's degrees and marriage license in hand, James and Virginia
embarked for fieldwork among the Cayua Indians of the Mato Grosso, Brazil. On
their return to the States two and a half years later, James, PhD, occupied academic tenures at several universities including six years at Washington University, St.
Louis, and thirty- two years at the University of Washington, Seattle. These two
tenures were separated by the Watsons' first field trip to the highlands of Papua
New Guinea (daughter Anne was six weeks old when they departed San Francisco). A second field trip to the same area occurred a decade later by which time
the family included son Jim, then age six years.
Virginia, wife and mother, held part-time teaching positions at several universities as well as giving more than twenty years of volunteer research at the University of Washington's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. She has
written numerous articles for academic journals as well as several books, the
most recent of which is Anyan's Story: a New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.
Since leaving Mercer Island, a suburb of Seattle, Virginia divides her time between Boulder, where daughter Anne is Controller at Tesser Inc, and West Palm
Beach, Florida, where son Jim, a botanist, is Director of Publications for the
American Orchid Society.
After residing in an 1897 apartment building on Mapleton Avenue, at the foot of
the Front Range, Virginia moved to the Manor where she enjoys many friends and
the activity and atmosphere that pervade her life here.
Virginia Drew Watson