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Her rs d&y at ...illcu ten Back in
Moorestow N. J•, inhe met her future
husband, but was much too busy ab-
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sorbing the new sights to recognize him.
Her family moved to Ypsilanti, Mich.,
where she spent her girlhood, batt when i
'i . she went to Cornell university io study
architecture she met him agai the She
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Katherine French andti„ s
known Miami Beach architect, Russell a
Pancoast.
As a child she played with dolls, and
two of her !avorites, Martha and Laura. ±
are carefully packed away, because she
could never bear to part with them. Now � . 0
she has a daughter, Martha, who is 16, E
and an 11-year-old son, Lester. For three a
months after her marriage she worked
as an architect, but soon discarded the
job to keep house. For four years she .,
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' designed the sets for the Miami Civic ,
theater She is a past president of the
Junior League. Her friends call her Kay. .:1,, g
t- Her hands are seldom idle, and she :: ,
t usually carries knitting when she attends .
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conferences and meetings—and there are 4 .;
r plenty of both in her present schedule 1
as president of the Recreation Pier As tment of home {
sociation of Miami Beach. The first month later founding the depar
the pier was open 50,000 servicemen economics at the New Jersey State Col,
passed through its doors. Last April the lege her daughter.for Women. S She he was
amazing,"
so mQztn g h
association celebrated its first birthday says _
anniversary by receiving 235,000 men at drive
iieaannyet s odd to dear Kaye feminine
ast
the pier and the seven other centers qualities."ay these words, because that is which now comprise the association• pre-
cisely what a good many people say
It requires the help of 8,000 women or her.
to keep the pier and.its outlets func- She loves to cook and sew, and pre-
tioning. Kay Pancoast is careful to as-
sume no credit for the part she does as fers an evening with a few friends to a
ringmaster of the outfit. "I always feel large party. She dislikes detail and ac-
when people shake my hand in con- cuses herself of being too easily diverted i
mendation or appreciation they aren't from a goal. Recently she finished read-
hand really, but the hands ing "George Washington Carver," and os
shaking my girls," she found it stimulating. "It makes you dream
of the 8,000 women and a little," she observed. She is a natural i
says with a great air of sincerity. public speaker, and enjoys talking to
She has always had a tremendous groups of people. "I like people," she
pride in her mother, who died at Miami says.
Beach four years ago. Left a widow with Recently her son, Lester, observing
a four-year-old daughter, Mrs. French
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managed well. She put herself and her the increasing amount of time his mother =
sister and later Kay through college for spent at the servicemen's pier, remarked:
one thing. For another she became state "I regret I have but one mother to.give I.
director of home economics in Michigan, form Y country."
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