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Behind this discovery is Stratton's great-grandmother. Lilla Day Monroe--a pioneer herself as one of the more influential suffrage leaders of her day, the founder of a western newspaper, and the first woman admitted to practice before the Kansas Supreme Court. In the 1920s, she concocted the idea of soliciting female survivors of the Kansas frontier to chronicle their lives and entrust the stories to her care. She had in mind a magazine article, but when the submissions flooded in by the hundreds. Monroe expanded her project to an anthology. Illness and the obligations of public life prevented...
...never too late to learn something new about sport-even for champions. Take Mrs. Tudor Gardiner who, as Tenley Albright, was twice world figure-skating champ and 1956 Olympic Gold Medal winner. Now Tenley has two young daughters, Lilla, 6, and Elin, 2, and once a week she takes them to the Skating Club of Boston, where the tykes have already shown Mom a trick or two. "It took me a while to learn that skating included running on benches, jumping up and down on the ice and dashing in and out of telephone booths," admits Tenley...
...LILLA THORSBEY Oakland, Calif...
...Ambassador's three daughters have all married into the Service?Lilla to J. Pierrepont Moffat, now the Department's expert on Disarmament and adroit head of the State Department's Western European division; Elizabeth to Cecil Lyon, Third Secretary at Peiping; Anita to Robert English, Third Secretary at Budapest. It was Mrs. English who swam the Bosporus while her father was Ambassador to Turkey. He fed her chocolate from a boat and played a phonograph to help her rhythm...
...leading roles in several previous productions of the Club, M. J. Finlayson '32, who starred in last year's show, and the "Yale Men" who are well-known for their singing. As a climax, four Vincent Club girls will put on a floor show: Leslie Blake, Lilla Draper, Susan Bremer, and Barbara Hodges...