FAMILY

MOTHER'S FAMILY HISTORY

MOM • Hosted a weekly radio program in Georgia. • Served for 27 years as instructor of over 6,000 students at Department of Defense schools overseas. • Served as a music educator for a total of 49 years. • Music Instructor of Orchestral String Instruments, for the MacIntosh Academy for the Gifted and Talented. • Held a Ph.D. in Asian-Pacific Music. • The Chief Executive of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music requested her to become a Music Education Delegate and develop inter-racial ethnomusicological studies for post-Apartheid South Africa. • Orchestral Conductor in coordination with the World's Largest Concert, broadcast on PBS. • Mentored student musicians in performances of the National Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. • One of only 6 nationally recognized educators qualified to teach the ancient art of Indonesian Gamelan at the University level. • Member of the Ramstein Council of International Relations.

Significant Family Events • Ancestors traveled from Germany to America, arrived in 1646 • Purchased 11 acres from local Native Americans, paid in gold • Founded the township of Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1653 • Signed Declaration of Independence • Ancestor, James K. Polk elected President of the United States

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT JAMES K. POLK, Rare Photograph 1879 (Left), Memorial (Right) • Chief Lieutenant of Andrew Jackson in his war against the Banks • Brought Washington, Oregon, California, and Texas into the Union • Founded the Smithsonian Institution • Last strong President until Lincoln

GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER • Ran away from home at age 16 and joined the Union Army to fight against slavery

GRANDMOTHER (Left), GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER (Center-Bottom)

GREAT GRANDMOTHER

FAMILY traveling through the Dustbowl in Kansas

GRANDMA Age 14 (Left), GRANDMA in 1924 (Center), GRANDMA in 1958 (Right)

GRANDDAD in 1927 (Left), GRANDDAD in 1948 (Right)

GRANDMA with MOM on the day of her birth

MOM & SISTER ELAINE

AUNT LIB

MOM on an elephant in India (Left), MOM wearing Indian Sari (Right)

MOM with the Guard at the Inn of the Good Samaritan in the Holy Lands

MOM's visit to Hiroshima Bomb Damage, 1952

MOM touring Japan (Left Picture, Second from the Left)

 

FATHER'S FAMILY HISTORY

DAD • Served as a scientist at the Denver Research Institute examining refractory oxides via microphotography. • Served as a Chemical Master Technician and Nuclear Engineer. • Expert in Analytical Geometry, Physical Chemistry, Visible & IR Spectroscopy, X-Ray Analysis, Electron Microscopy, Vacuum Technology, and Pneumatic Convergence of Build Materials. • Worked as a skilled CAD Drafter. • Member of the Denver Art Museum and Natural History Museum. • Served on the Board of Trustees at the MacIntosh Academy for the Gifted & Talented.

 

GRAND UNCLE CURTIS

GRAND UNCLE CURTIS & teammate in college football

GRAND UNCLE CURTIS, CORPORAL U.S. Army Air Service 1925 (Left), UNCLE CURTIS' plane

Crashes of other men's planes UNCLE CURTIS' unit

DAD, Age 1

DAD (Left), GRANDMA (Center Top), AUNT MARY (Right)

DAD & MOM

ME