JUflERU RESIOEflT UJRITES PTiETRy
Mrs. Lonoro Dawes, wifo of Dr. L.
P. Dawes, well-known Juneau physic
ian and surgeon, is the author of a
volume of verse entitled "I Roachcd
for a Star," to be published Into
noxt month by the Exposition Press
of New York. Mrs. Dawes, former
soloist and choir director of the
Northern Light Presbyterian Church
in Juneau, is prominent in Alaska
musical and social circles.
The poems, written in tho tradi
tion of Edna St. Vincent Millay and
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, express the
author's deep faith in God, her love
of beauty, and the panorama of lifo
and death. Mrs. Dawes is also a
dept at lighter verse, as in tho
rollicking "Mental Bum's Spring
Song," or the lively ballad about
an invalid named Min who outwitted
all her doctors.
The only daughter of a noted Miss
ouri family, Lonorc Dav/cs graduated
fron Christian College in Columbia,
Mo., at the ago of lo. She studied
voice and piano at tho Cincinnati
Conservatory, then singing v/ith the
great Italian master Arturo Marcs
oalchi, and subsequently studied a
Aftor a short but successful car
eer as a concert singer, the author
narriccl Dr. L.p. Dawes of Chicago,
and they went, to Junoau to make
thoir homo.
Lenoro Dawos is an active member
of the Croativo V/ritor's Club of
Junoau.
Fat Hommer, Co-op director, flew
to Seattle on Monday of this week
to drivo back to Palmer the now In
ternational Ice Croam truck, which
tho Co-op has purchasod.
Mr. and Mrs. Noll Sr Miller and
son Tin returned to Palnor last Sat
urday evening. They havo boon mak
ing their hono in Juneau.
Dr. and Mrs. Poster R. Sins spent
last week-end in Valdez.
Dr* C.C, Bailey flow to Ketchikan
last week to attend a medical con
vention, but was back in his office
in the Wright building, early this
week*
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