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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1955)
mm mm Medford Tribune a j. J ft r Mr$. Everett Shafer, mother of three -and accomplished gardener, has been a 4-H club leader in Prospect for six 'years. Mrs. Shafer attended school in Prospect as a girl, and after her marriage returned there to live.- MEDFORD, OREGON,. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1955 P , ' r"j ' is ! ii'l ,"' -f I S ktV Js . s . One. of Prospect's best known women is Mrs. Frances. Pearson, who was born in the com munity , and taught 28 years in' the town's schools. Now retired, Mrs. Pearson instructs classes in religious education for Catholic children not enrolled in parochial, schools, this being effected through released time in public schools, and the Confraternity of Christine Doctrine. Another busy Prospect woman is Mrs. James H. Grieve. She is treasurer of Prospect Community club, is a member -of Prospect Lady Lions and Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd and assists her husband,! Prospect's postmaster. Mrs. O. E. Stone (at left), president of St." M-srtha's guild of Episcopal Church Good Shepherd, and Mrs. Leo Hoagare pictured here with a sample of the material guild womi hope to make into a hand-hooked aisle runner for. the church. Mrs. also works in Prospect Parent-Teacher-association and Prospect Lady Lions. of the which -Hoag , - ' If """" ' 's'fl.tv, ' ''' "m'"'fil.A Prospect Civic Leaders By Olive Starcher , . Prospect, one of the oldest settle ments in Jackson county, numbers among its residents many public-spirited women. Today .The Mail Tribune presents a representative group of these women who work in the church es, civic - organizations and service clubs of that town. ' . f The town of Prospect, while yet unincorporated, has . a population, of some 2,000 persons in the town itself and the near-by area. Lumber is the principal industry,-but the tourist trade is important since Prospect . is on the highway to Crater lake, one of Ore gon's main tourist attractions. (Brainerd photos) above are Mrs. Darwin Bevens (at left), secretary, and Mrs. .George Hubbard president. The hand-made quilt, they hold is one of the auxiliary's main projects this fall; the pieced top was made by Mrs. Heston Grieves, and Mrs.Ted: Bevens. i$.doing-th quilting. . The ' auxiliary was organized five years ago. . -.. . ; ' I Mrs. Veda (David) Neville, seventh-grade teacher in Prospect school, has also been one' of the "most active members of Prospect Health unit for many years. TheNevilles' have four children,, includ ing two sons, in "service. - ''.'. r Mrs. Robert Greene, wife -of the Episcopal minister says she has made hundreds of her. clever Christmas tree ornaments for church bazaars. Her collection began with the two heirloom ornaments she holds and. which survived the San. Francisco tarthquake and fire buried. irvth conservatory of her grandfather's hem. ; . ; Mrs. William Gaines has been musician for Nazarene Chapel in the Pines for 18 years plays for weddirigs, helps with" PTA, meetings, gives music lessons and aid's' the classes in. rejigious instruction -on released school time. 4 ' -
