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a photo of a photo... (l.to r.) Mignon Doran, Lisa Clapp, Iris Shreve, Adron Doran...
In 1970, when I was a sophomore in high school, Lisa Clapp and I got the chance to visit Morehead State University for a Kentucky Future Homemakers of America conference. Meeting President and Mrs. Adron Doran was a very special treat for both of us.
This newspaper photo was accompanied by a bit of Western Kentucky trivia explaining that both of our fathers were students and athletes at Wingo High School while Dr. Doran was principal and coach and Mrs. Doran was a teacher. Lisa's father was also the Kentucky state representative from the 3rd District, the same area Dr.Doran represented for four terms.
My father always spoke very highly of Dr. Doran and his wife. After meeting them myself, I too was truly impressed by their genuine kindness. They spent alot of time with us that afternoon and showed us around like royalty. It was big-time for a 15 year-old far away from home (all the way across the great commonwealth of Kentucky)!
So fun revisiting old memories as I sort through all the things I have pack-ratted all these years... lol
Yesterday I was in Suzy Homemaker mode and I whipped up what I could out of the shelves, and here's what I had as of bedtime:
1 loaf wheat bread
1 loaf oatmeal applesauce bread
1 pone of maple cornbread
28 whole wheat banana chocolate chip muffins (not quite that many now)
7 half pints of muscadine jelly
2 pints of cherry freezer jam
1 pint of marinara sauce
1 quart of tomato juice
Fudge and peanut butter fudge on the way.
Zucchini bread still to come - but I'm out of eggs.
Photo courtesy of Sara's insanely cool dang camera.
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This house was designed by my grandfather, R. Duane Conner, in 1957 as part of the Electri-Living program sponsored by the now-defunct Living For Young Homemakers magazine. Although it doesn't look like much from the outside, this open floor-plan home is filled with unaltered mid-century architectural detail and charm. See other photos of interior of house.
Originally, a concrete brick wall of round circles outlined the front of the house where the fence is now.
Personal Information
Born Frederick Douglass Patterson, October 10, 1901, in northeast Washington, D.C.; son of Mamie Brooks Patterson, a music teacher and homemaker, and William Ross Patterson, school principal and lawyer; married Catherine Elizabeth Moton in June 1935; 1 son, Frederick Douglass, Jr.
Education: Attended Prarie View State College, 1915-1919; Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, 1923, Iowa State University; Masters in Science, 1927, Iowa State University; PhD in Bacteriology, 1932, Cornell University.
Career
Instructor, Veterinary Medicine and Chemistry, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, 1923-27; Director, School of Agriculture, Virginia State University, 1927-28; Director of Veterinary Medicine and Instructor of Bacteriology, Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), 1928-31, 1933-34; Director, Department of Agriculture, Tuskegee Institute, 1934-35; President, Tuskegee Institute, 1935-53; President, Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1953-70.
Life's Work
Frederick Douglass Patterson was born October 10, 1901, in the Anacostia section of Washington, D.C., to Mamie and William Patterson. The couple had moved to the nation's capital two or three years previously with their other five children from Texas. Mr. Patterson thought he would be able to find better work in Washington due to the lesser amount of racial problems there than in Texas. He named his youngest son after educator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, whose onetime home was a couple of blocks away from where they lived.
Frederick's mother was a music teacher and his father was a school principal. They had both received their college degrees from Prairie View College in Texas. Once they arrived in Washington, his father returned to school at Howard University to study law. Mr. Patterson passed the D.C. bar shortly after Frederick was born. Despite all the hard work his parents did to improve the life of the family, nothing could stop them both from dying of tuberculosis before Frederick was two years old. The same illness would also claim one of Frederick"s brothers a few years later.
Frederick initially went to live with a friend of the family, "Aunt" Julia Dorsey. His siblings all went to live with different family friends except his oldest sister, Wilhelmina Bessie, who was old enough to support herself and attend the Washington Conservatory of Music. In his autobiography Patterson says, "I called Aunt Julia my Civil War aunt, because she was born during slavery." They continued living in the house of his parents when Frederick was still young, and he also started school there.
When Frederick was about seven-years-old his sister Bessie assumed his guardianship. She had finished school and was looking for work. She knew some of the family relatives and decided to go to live in Texas where she thought she would have the most assistance in finding work. Over the next few years Frederick and Bessie were often living in different cities. She was often unable to find teaching work where Frederick could live with her. So Frederick lived with different members of the family while attending school . From the fourth through the eighth grades Frederick attended Sam Houston College. Although called a college, Sam Houston also had primary and high school divisions too. "I didn't object to school, but I didn't do much with I, Patterson said in Chronicles of Faith. "At the time I didn't take my studies seriously. I finished the eighth grade many whippings later." His classmates that year voted Frederick least likely to succeed.
From the eighth grade through the end of High School Patterson attended another boarding school at a college. This one was at Prairie View College, where his parents had attended. Bessie had secured a job teaching and directing the choir at the school, so the two of them lived together there in Prairie View, Texas. During the summers, he took odd jobs to earn money. One of these was as a driver for a wealthy family. Although Frederick had never driven before applying for the position, he got the job and taught himself to drive. He also taught himself how to play tennis, which became a lifelong hobby. Patterson says he became interested in school when he had to do his work study in the Agriculture Department of the school. He worked for two veterinarians his last couple years of high school. It motivated him so much, spending time with the animals, that he decided he would go to college to become a veterinarian.
Because the veterinarians he worked with at Prairie View had attended Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, Patterson decided that he too would go to Iowa for schooling. Since being an out-of- state student is more expensive than being a commuter, Patterson moved to Ames and lived there awhile before he registered for school. Frederick Patterson worked many different jobs while putting himself through veterinary school. He worked at a hotel, washing and ironing clothes, cooking, being a janitor, and running a rug cleaning business. Anything to make ends meet. He lived with six other people on the second floor of a business. He was one of very few black students at Iowa State at that time, and for a while, the only black student in the veterinary program. Patterson said in Chronicles of Faith that the only time he had problems with discrimination was when he had to go to military camp one summer in college. Part of his schooling was paid for by the Student Army Corps. He spent the summer training with the Army and was a reserve when he finished school in exchange for the Army paying for some school. At this camp students were segregated by race for dinner. He and one other black student ate at a separate table from all the other white students. Dr. Patterson says that after he returned to Iowa State the other students that had also been at the military camp treated him differently than they had before they went, "they treated me as a pariah," said Patterson. "I learned a lesson with regard to race that I never forgot: how people feel about you reflects the way you permit yourself to be treated. If you permit yourself to be treated differently, you are condemned to an unequal relationship."
Frederick graduated with a veterinary medicine degree in 1923. He moved to Columbus, Ohio to live with his brother John. He only stayed a short time in Ohio, but did manage to pass the examination for licensure of veterinarians in that state. It was shortly after that Patterson was offered a job as professor of veterinary medicine and chemistry at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia. Patterson worked for three years teaching at Virginia State and decided he would return to Iowa State for his master's degree. Once he completed his master's, he was promoted to Director of the Agriculture program at Virginia State. After being on the job for only a year, Patterson accepted a job with Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was a more important place to research and teach Patterson explained in his book.
Patterson taught bacteriology and was head of the Veterinary Department at Tuskegee. In 1932 he took a leave from his job to earn his doctoral degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. After being back a year at Tuskegee, Dr. Patterson was made head of the Agriculture Department there. He only remained on that job for a year before he was named President of Tuskegee. That same year he married Catherine Moton, daughter of Robert Russa Moton, the former President of Tuskegee. Many people at first were not happy with Patterson as President. They thought he had gotten the job because he married Mr. Moton's daughter. Dr. Patterson however managed to quell the talk when he took the school from the brink of bankruptcy and stabilized Tuskegee's money flow within a few years of becoming President.
Among changes at Tuskegee brought about by Frederick Patterson was the new division of domestic service, with a four year program in nutrition and personal services. He also began a program which changed how sharecroppers and poor farmers lived. Wood for houses had become expensive, so with the help of the School of Mechanical Industries, Patterson designed a house of concrete block. The materials for this house could be found on most farms as the concrete was made with the local clay soil and a little concrete. Soon such houses were appearing all over the south. Patterson also started the George Washington Carver Foundation in 1940. This fund was used to encourage and fund scientific research by African Americans.
One of the more well-known feats of Patterson's administration was the start of the black Army Air Corps at Tuskegee. The school initially used a former cow pasture as the runway. Several pilots were recruited and instruction began. This program led to the group of pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, well-known for their bravery in World War II. Although Dr. Patterson drew some flack for the program because of the discriminatory policies of the military, the program was a commercial success with extensive training for black pilots in military and commercial fields.
According to The New York Times, "Dr. Patterson soon learned that the school's continuing leadership role brought letters from other schools asking for advice on how to raise money. In 1943 he wrote a column in The Pittsburgh Courier proposing the creation of a consortium of black colleges that would raise money for their mutual benefit." about one year later in 1944, 27 schools came together to form the United Negro College Fund. The first year the UNCF raised over 750,000 dollars for its member colleges. These days a yearly telethon hosted by entertainer Lou Rawls raises millions for the organization and is its most prominent fundraiser. This act by Dr. Patterson is viewed my many as his most important act during his life. He served as President of the UNCF from 1964-66.
In 1953 Frederick Patterson retired from Tuskegee. He became president of the Phelps Stokes Fund. Phelps Stokes was started in 1901 and funds the education of African students as well as African American and Native American students in the United States. Dr. Patterson was president of the fund from 1953-70. It was during this work that he organized the Cooperative College Development Program to assign federal money to pay for the improvement and maintenance of the black college's physical plant.
In 1970 Dr. Patterson left Phelps Stokes to head up the Robert R. Moton Institute. This institute was established to boost the endowments of black colleges. It has served as a stabilizing influence for several schools because of cutbacks in federal funding in the last several years. In 1987 Patterson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan. In 1988 he was awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal for "his belief that human productivity and well-being in a free society are the end products of determination and self-preparation."
On April 26, 1988, Frederick Douglass Patterson died in New Rochelle, New York. Donald Stewart former president of the College Board of the National Association of Schools and Colleges called Dr. Frederick Patterson "a visionary and pioneer in American higher education and in Black American higher education," in The New York Times. "He broke new ground for minority students and was always looking ahead into the next decade for new ways to finance education." In memory of his many years of service and dedication to his job the UNCF in 1996 announced the founding of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute. It will be the first major research center devoted to black educational data and policy.
Awards
Honorary Doctorates from Lincoln University, Virginia State University, and Wilberforce University; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1987; Spingarn Medal, 1988.
My grandmother Louise, then aged 51, in the kitchen at their old house in the western suburbs of Minneapolis in 1969. She personified the Good Housekeeping seal.
1st Edition, "Homemakers Guide to Creative Decorating", 1952. Authors: Hazel Kory Rockow, PhD, Julius Rockow.
Marissa Rodriguez was crowned princess of the Bee County Junior Livestock Show during the pageant Thursday evening. Amanda Cagle was crowned the queen and Hailee Schauer was awarded Miss Congeniality. Giving Rodriguez her crown was former princess Maddie Rodgers.
HomeMaker And Artist
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1st Edition, "Homemakers Guide to Creative Decorating", 1952. Authors: Hazel Kory Rockow, PhD, Julius Rockow.
1st Edition, "Homemakers Guide to Creative Decorating", 1952. Authors: Hazel Kory Rockow, PhD, Julius Rockow.
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Homemakers in Garner's Office
Seated Left to Right
Mayor Dearl Whitaker, Co. Judge Jacob V. Garner
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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection
Golden Homemakers 100 Ideas to Beautify Your Home, Gudenian Rockail & Mayer, Marshall Cavendish, London, 1972.
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1st Edition, "Homemakers Guide to Creative Decorating", 1952. Authors: Hazel Kory Rockow, PhD, Julius Rockow.
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British postcard, no. 124. Photo: Fox Films.
American actor James Dunn (1901-1967) was a versatile star on stage, screen and television. He became a star with Frank Borzage's Bad Girl (1931) with Sally Eilers. In his films, he was usually the boy next door or the nice guy. In the 1950s, Dunn pursued a new direction as a character actor on television.[
James Howard Dunn was born in 1901 in New York City, New York. He was the only child of Ralph H. Dunn, a prominent New York stockbroker and Jessie L. Archer, a homemaker. He grew up and attended public schools in New Rochelle, New York. Dunn's interest in pursuing a career in acting became apparent when he started playing hooky in high school, preferring to work as an extra in various film studios scattered throughout the city. His father, Ralph, had different ideas for him and took him into his brokerage firm as a security salesman. However, Dunn continued to work as an extra or in small parts at Paramount's Astoria studios in the late 1920s. In 1927, he had a bit part in the Broadway play 'Nightstick', so he could always claim his career started on Broadway. For three years, he honed his acting skills in Englewood, New Jersey and Winnipeg, Manitoba stock companies. On Broadway, he appeared in the musical 'Sweet Adeline' (1929) with Helen Morgan. Fox offered him to make a screen test and he signed a long-term contract with the studio. At Fox, he starred in Sob Sister (Alfred Santell, 1931) with Linda Watkins. His big break came when director Frank Borzage chose him to play the young newlywed in Bad Girl (Frank Borzage, 1931) opposite Sally Eilers. He received outstanding reviews from the critics and became a star, virtually overnight. He went on to make several formula films, including Society Girl (Sidney Lanfield, 1932) with Peggy Shannon and Hello, Sister! (Erich von Stroheim, a.o., 1933) with Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts. In six films, he co-starred with Sally Eilers. In 1934, he helped introduce film audiences to Shirley Temple as he sang and tap danced with her in her first major picture, Stand Up and Cheer (Hamilton MacFadden, 1934). That same year, he also appeared with her in Baby, Take a Bow (Harry Lachman, 1934), Change of Heart (John G. Blystone, 1934) and Bright Eyes (David Butler, 1934).
Between 1931 and 1935, James Dunn made over 20 pictures for Fox and a few more on loan out. In 1935, Fox merged with Twentieth Century and musicals were out at the new studio. 20th Century Fox bought out Dunn's contract. His career soon began to wane as he was forced to work freelance. In Warner Bros's s The Payoff (Robert Florey, 1935) he played the nice guy newspaper columnist whose wife ruined his career. Dunn was becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol, earning him a reputation as an erratic, irresponsible performer, further diminishing his employment prospects. His decline from top box office draw to B movie actor was almost as startling as his meteoric rise to fame had been. Nevertheless, he usually managed to keep working, whether on stage, on the radio, or in low-budget poverty-row films. In 1945 Dunn was given a second chance at movie stardom when young director, Elia Kazan chose him for the role of Johnny Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan, 1945) starring Dorothy McGuire. His sensitive portrayal of the gentle, alcoholic father earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The award, however, failed to reignite his film career and he made few substantial films after that. One notable exception was Killer McCoy (Roy Rowland, 1947), starring Mickey Rooney, in which he again played the role of a ne'er-do-well, but sympathetic alcoholic father. By 1951 he was again unemployed and bankrupt. With the advent of television, new opportunities opened up for Dunn, as he appeared in scores of productions during the 1950s and 1960s. He acted in most of the classic anthology series such as G.E. Theater and Playhouse 90, and guest starred in many of the most popular series of the era, including Route 66, The Fugitive and Ben Casey. Between 1954 and 1956, he starred as the irascible Uncle Earl in the sitcom, It's a Great Life. The show also featured Frances Bavier, as his long-suffering sister, Amy Morgan. Dunn continued to work in television, almost up to the time of his death in 1967. Dunn was married three times. His first, to Edna O’Lier, ended in divorce. He was married to the actress Frances Gifford from 1938 until 1942. He married his third wife, Edna Rush in 1945, who survived him at his death in 1967 at the age of 65 from complications following stomach surgery in Santa Monica, California. He is one of the relatively few actors to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.
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1st Edition, "Homemakers Guide to Creative Decorating", 1952. Authors: Hazel Kory Rockow, PhD, Julius Rockow.
Just next to the Munno Para Homemaker Centre. The sides are littered with bird drippings and with vacant land at the back, it is likely to undergo extensions for future use or otherwise, it is likely to be demolished.
Entry doors covered with Fringe Show flyers.
This interesting looking place was apparently the old “KC Hall”. It was built by the CCC in the 30s. Someone commented on this post and had the following to say: “This is an old hall built in the 1930’s by the CCC. We are in the process of fixing it up as a day cabin. It was used for dances, 4H, Homemakers, church fairs, etc.”
I can totally see that! cheery community events held here and the CCC building this place - it’s a nice history to imagine!
I found a wonderful article on the history in the town of Huff here. And it mentions this building!
“With drought and a depression striking not just North Dakota, but the entire country, many were forced to give up their homesteads and find work elsewhere. For many, that came in the form of the Works Progress Administration. The area would see some much needed improvements, as well as other areas being preserved for history. While the WPA was busy helping preserve the Huff Indian Historical Site, workers were also building roads and ditches. It was also at this time that the town of Huff would get a welcomed addition; a new dance hall.”
And the article contains more great history. Check this out.
“Taking the name of the previous fort, Fort Rice would soon see an increasing number of settlers coming to the area. One of those individuals was a man by the name of John Huff.
Arriving in Fort Rice in 1888, Huff had filed a claim for a 160 acres of land eight miles north of the town, with the want to homestead that area.
Unlike many other settlers though, Huff’s primary interest wasn’t in farming. Instead, seeing what seemed to be a great opportunity, Huff had learned that the Northern Pacific was planning on building a branch line to Fort Rice.
It wouldn’t be for another two decades that the branch would begin to materialize. Facing both financial problems, as well as set backs in laying track, the progress of the Northern Pacific was often hampered.
For Huff, the postponements would get the better of him. Having built a saloon on his land, he held out hope, but would pass away before it came to realization.”
“Pushing south, under Edward Fogerty, the branch line would begin to form in 1910. Soon, the line would move to the area where Huff had lived, 19 miles southeast of Mandan. The stop that would be created there would be called the 19th siding.
With more individuals settling in the area, a post office was established the next year, on May 12, 1911. Emmeth Dobson would be installed as the Postmaster there, and he would name the place Huff, in honor of the early homesteader.
The town would take off. A large railroad depot was built, and with the town growing rapidly, a school house was also established.
As immigrants continued to pour into the area, Huff would experience a short golden age. Soon buildings were sprouting from the prairie. Huff was no longer just a railroad town.
Serving the community, two elevators, two stores, two cafes, a church, hardware store, lumberyard and blacksmith were constructed. By 1915, when Huff was at its height, the area seemed to be promising. However, the town would never reach a population greater than 60.
Slowly, those who had helped build up the town began passing away, or moving from the area, closing up shop as they did.
In 1920, a landmark of the area would see its final patrons. Built by George Markham in 1902, the first store and cafe would close their doors when Markham moved away. Others would follow.”
So, this incredible place overlooking the river is St.Martin. And the great article on Huff history addresses this place directly. Let’s jump back to when the CCC built that old dance hall…
“This hall would also serve an important purpose in the coming years. In 1940, St. Martin’s Catholic church was struck by lighting, causing it to burn down.”
“Over the next seven years, the hall would become a place of worship for those who suddenly found themselves without a spiritual home. As often was the case though, the town came together, gathering field stones, and in 1947, the newly built church opened its doors. It was the church on the hill. Yet, for those in Huff, it was much more.”
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