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" Mrs. Arthur Boye, shown here with her porch plantings of the new
pink petunias. Prima Donna, has worked in Gold Hill Health unit for
many years, is a member of Gold Hill Garden club and is a room
mother for the parent-teacher association. Mr. and Mrs. Boye have
two children, Patty, 8, and Bobby, 5, and Patty attends Gold Hill ele
mentary school.
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The photographer found Mrs. Leonard Andrews at a meeting of
Women's Christian Alliance, of which she was the first president. She
belongs to Amethyst Rebekah lodge. Gold Hill PTA and Southern Ore
gon Society of Artists and will exhibit in the society's Greenwich Village
show planned August 21 in Medford. The Andrews have three sons,
John, 14, and Stephen, 10, and an older son no longer at home.
Mrs. Fred Lester helps her husband run their grocery store and
also is a past president of Gold Hill PTA, junior president of Jackson
County PTA council and mother for Den 1, Pack 43 of the Boy Scouts.
The Lesters have a daughter, Vicki, 12, and Rick, 10. Mrs. Lester
works a full schedule in the store in the winter time, but spends more
time at home with the children in the vacation months.
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MedfordTribune
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1955
Mrs. Paul Thompson, pictured with the family dog. Doc, is secretary of Amethyst Re
bekah lodge, inside guardian of the Oregon Rebekah Assembly and also works with the
Jackson county Red Cross. The Thompsons have two married sons, Pete, a sophomore at
Southern Oregon college, and an older son in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. Their two
grandchildren come north from Mexico each fall and live with the Thompsons In order
to attend school in Gold Hill.
Gold Hill Leaders
By OLIVE STARCHER
In every American community, however,
large or small, a major share of the civic, frater
nal and religious activity is carried on by the
women. Today The Medford Mail Tribune sa
lutes the community of Gold Hill by reviewing
the civic work of a representative group of
women residents.
like their neighbors and friends, the seven
women pictured here are not only wives,
mothers and homemakers but are also Boy
Scout den mothers, teach Sunday school and
hold offices in lodges and PTA. They also find
time somehow to sew, garden, paint, play the
piano and direct choirs. (Brainerd photos)
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Because Mrs. Norman Gail leads two choirs of Gold Hill Methodist church, she spends C
considerable time at the family piano. Mrs. Gail also belongs to Amethyst Rebekah lodge,
is a past president of the PTA and of Gold Hill Health unit and served as seal sale chair
man for five years. The Gails have three children, Mildred, who will enter the Univer
sity of Washington this fall; Grace, student at Crater High school, and Donald, in grade
school.
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Mrs. O. E. Kellogg, mother of four children, is a Cub Scout den mother and teaches a class for Gold Hill Commu
nity Methodist church. She will also serve as program chairman for the PTA this year, and as an active member of
Medford League of Women Voters, finds time to do committee work and surveys for that group. The Kelloggs
and their children, Ogden Jr., 9, Tommy, 6, Dan, 4, and Cynthia,-2, live on a ranch near Gold Hill. The family
came to Oregon from California a few years ago.
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Mrs. Roy Eskew has served as pianist for Gold Hill Community Methodist church for many years and also
works in the Woman's society. She is an active member of Gold Hill Grange. The Eskews' six children are
Duane, Lebanon, Ore.; Roland, stationed at Fairchild base with the USAF; Jerry, who recently completed his Navy
service and will enter OSC in the fall; Beth, Southern Oregon college student, Donna, a senior at Crater High
school this fall and Larry, a freshman at the same school.