Lois Card
"I'm the luckiest person alive..."
Before the "Women's Movement," before "feminism," even before World War II, Lois Card was an independent, self-reliant woman with an adventurous spirit. She never took "No," for an answer after she grew up, and she remembers most of her life history as if it were yesterday.
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Dorothy Emery
Small-town values, big-city adventures
Dorothy Emery gets to Sunday school early, in order to meet the first children who arrive for her fourth- and fifth-grade class. She's a favorite and a fixture at Rosen Heights Baptist Church, a multicultural, multigenerational sanctuary in the historic North Side neighborhood in Fort Worth.
"I began teaching Sunday school when I was 19 years old," Emery says in a gentle, soft-spoken way.
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Marie Glick
Pioneering Spirit
It's certainly not polite to ask a lady's age. Marie Glick, however, is proud to tell of her long, interesting life and to reveal the living history she keeps in her memory.
Born in 1907 in Oklahoma, in a one-room cabin that cost $25 to build, Mrs. Glick lived with her mother and older brother. They made their home on 160 acres of "Indian Territory,"
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Linn Randolph
World War II Veteran
Like so many young American men in the days before June 6, 1944, Linn Randolph found himself heading toward Europe on a troop ship with 6,000 other U.S. Army recruits.
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