Member Notes

You will note that we are receiving quite a few new members from outside the metropolitan area. Part of this is due to our now having a website (www.westporthistorical.org) from which surfers can print out a membership application. Another reason is likely the interest that people are taking in genealogy and the geographical area where they grew up.
At our February dinner meeting we were happy to meet John R. Woods and his wife from St. Louis. Mr. Woods is a new life member and is a descendant of John Calvin McCoy as is our president, Allin Phister. The two are third cousins, once removed, but had never met until our meeting.
Another new member is  William Nofsinger from Kansas City who is a descendant of Charles
Esmonde Kearney and Col. Jack Harris. He and his wife also attended the Quarterly Dinner.
New member Helen B. Stevens of Modesta, CA, is a descendant of Jim Bridger and was honored at the Jim Bridger School in Independence in the fall.

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   We are also saddened at the recent loss of some longtime members--Mr. Steve Treaster, Dr. Chester Fee, and Mrs. Francie Meisner Park. Mr. Treaster was very active in the Civil War Round Table and the Monnett Battle of Westport marker program. Dr. Fee, the son-in-law of our former treasurer, Mr. Adolph Pearson, was an avid outdoorsman. Mrs. Park retired to Arizona kept a lively correspondence with members here. She was a pioneer woman aviator during World War II and is listed in several reference works on military aviation history.

New Members since March 2001

Dorothy Appell, Jacksonville, FL
Mark & Laura Armato, Kansas City, North
John H. Barley, Bradenton, FL
Wilbur and Ann Boroughs, Norfolk, VA
Kent Dicus & Michael Ohlson, Kansas City
Mildred Elliott, Columbus, KS
Cari Everhart, Kansas City
Michael Jacobs, Springfield, MO
Michael Kratz, Escondido, CA
Trudy Keyes, Kansas City
James & Roberta Lipscomb, Tarrytown, NY
Mary Merryman, Kansas City
William M. Nofsinger, Kansas City
Molly Postlewait, Olathe
Dr. Samuel G. Robertson, Shawnee Mission
Victor and Catherine Rocha, Kansas City
Hortense Sanders, Kansas City
Helen B. Stevens, Modesto, CA
Paul Thompson, Oak Grove, MO
John R. Woods, St. Louis
Bill and Kathryn Worley, Kansas City

  Monday, April 22, members and friends are invited to a private tour of the 32nd annual Symphony Designers' Showhouse located at 1225 West 57th Street. This is a chance to tour the house at your leisure before it opens to the public and share lunch with your Westport friends. The tour ticket is $10 and the box lunch will be about $5. Reservations - Call Beverly Shaw (816 478-7648), by Wednesday, April 17.
Built in 1929, this English Tudor home by builder Gottlieb Minkin used designs by Boillot and Lauck and incorporated beautiful wood trim, muted tile, and a Mankato stone fireplace. An extra attraction, planned as carefully as the house, is a beautiful back yard that was on the Wellesley Garden tour several times in the 1940s and served a Jewel Ball garden breakfast in the 1960s. The families who have lived there are the James Chandlers, the John Milton Phillips, and the Dr. Theodore Fosters.