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6A | MAY 28, 2020 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Froyd from A6 Froyd would go on to demonstrate an unwav- ering zeal for life. From an early age, Froyd became fascinated with airplanes and art. Immediately following high school, she wasted no time setting herself on track to become a pilot by applying to the aviation program at Ste- phens College in Colum- bia, MO. By age 20, she had graduated, winning the Aeronca award for top pilot in her class. Froyd went on to join the Ninety-Nines, an or- ganization of profession- al female pilots which was in part founded by famed pilot Amelia Ear- hart in 1929. Though the group had grown in membership by the time Froyd joined in 1946, the organization takes its name from the 99 women who initially an- swered Earhart’s call to organize. By 1952, Froyd had earned many additional flight ratings, including for aerobatics, multi-en- gine planes, instruments and seaplanes. Most no- tably, she also won the All-Woman Transcon- tinental Air Race (also known as the Powder Puff Derby) as a 26-year- old rookie and went on to participate in the race for several years, always finishing highly. Her dis- tinguished career earned her flight instructor po- sitions for several col- leges for years to come. During this time, Froyd also managed to get a master’s degree in art to accompany her master’s in aviation while raising three chil- dren. When her young- est child went off to col- lege in 1977, only then did she leave her final flight instructor position at the Bates Aeronau- tics Program at Harvey Mudd College. For Froyd, every end seemed to be a new be- ginning and she took this new opportunity to move to the humble town of Cottage Grove where a bold project would help define the next chapter of her life. Froyd immediately joined a small group of pioneers in the Cerro PHOTO BY PAULA GOODBAR Gordo project, a cooper- ative effort seeking to es- Shirley B. Froyd in her home art studio in Cerro tablish a utopian ecovil- Gordo in 2018 at age 92. lage on a 1,200-acre plot on land conservation, a of land north of Dorena Alan. Despite the Cerro project which succeeded Lake. Though she’d nev- Gordo project never at- in preserving 1,000 acres er built a house before, taining its lofty goals, of land on the north Froyd adapted to the Froyd loved living in shore of Dorena Lake via situation and, with the nature and years later two conservation ease- help of others, built a log participated in the Cerro ments. Froyd expressed her house duplex with her Gordo’s shift to a focus own hands, even fur- nishing the house with Walk-In Tubs some pieces she’d taught - WALK IN BATHTUB SALE! SAVE $1,500 herself to craft. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST! Froyd moved onto Only American Standard has OVER 140 years of experience and offers the land in 1978, but it the Liberation Walk-In Bathtub. 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She also was a central member of the outdoors group the Obsidians, leading roughly 70 hik- ing and biking trips. Her love for art was also a constant through- out, and Froyd found a way to express it in the Cottage Grove commu- nity. Building her own art studio in her Cer- ro Gordo house, Froyd became well-known as a masterful watercolor painter and was an ac- complished member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, displaying her works in many gal- leries, shows and other venues. She was active in many other mediums as well, including acryl- ics, leatherwork, stained glass, colored pencil and woodwork. “Everything was an art form to her, from avia- tion to house building and mothering,” said Alan. “She was prolific, producing hundreds of paintings, and her art always seemed to end up in the homes and offices of nearly everyone she came to know.” On top of her frequent displays, Froyd’s art found more permanent space in several spots around town. “There are more plac- es in Cottage Grove than I know where it resides, but at the moment I know her work can be found in the William J. Welt, Inc. fuel company offices, The Bookmine, on at least two of the col- laborative murals down- town (one by the Ru- ral Organizing Project, and the other near the This’N’That thrift store), and in the Cottage Grove Community Center.” On the latter, Froyd was one of three people who made the three-di- mensional town model sitting in the Communi- ty Center’s lobby. 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