Foundation Membership

Bob Zybach: Once that's completed, it's going to be just about impossible for anybody to do anything to it without

Lorna Grabe: Consulting the state ... the owners and the state.

Bob Zybach: How many people now are members of the Foundation?

Lorna Grabe: It's between twenty and twenty-five, the last time I talked to Louise, she said it was eighteen and she'd gotten several notes, several more memberships. Approximately twenty to twenty-five.

Bob Zybach: How many members were there in 1975?

Lorna Grabe: When we started? Let me see

Bob Zybach: Can you just read a list of them?

Lorna Grabe: Well, Barb Foster, Dick Foster, Marge Chandler, Archie Chandler, Lorna Grabe, Mona Luebbert, Louise Hollister.

Bob Zybach: How many of those people are still members? Just you and Louise?

Lorna Grabe: Just myself and Louise, now Mona Luebbert still contributes to bake sales and stuff; she still lives in the neighborhood. Fosters have moved over to Fossil, Oregon. Chandlers have moved up to Washington. They're very elderly. And I think Jack Dolan, he's been a member ... not since he left the moved out a couple of years ago, but he's been a member of the Foundation almost continually.

Bob Zybach: Probably you and Louise and Jack Dolan would be the some of the and Bessie Murphy would be some of the original people who are still heavily involved in the Foundation?

Lorna Grabe: I wouldn't say Bessie Murphy is heavily involved anymore. She's willing to bring an exhibit but she said she can't drive to come to board meetings and she came to one or two of them and some of our people smoked. In fact we had about four people on the board that smoked and it just about drove her out of the room, so now that most of them have moved away or quit so she could probably come. She was a member for just a couple years actually. She's exhibited a lot of times.

Bob Zybach: She's been involved in here, but not always necessarily as an member.

Lorna Grabe: Right, as an active member.

Bob Zybach: What was the circus? Maybe I should ask her that?

Lorna Grabe: I didn't come to that. I don't think she came to that, you could ask ... Bessie Nordahl could tell you that but I think it was like pony rides and donkey rides and that sort of thing. And actually Bessie Nordahl is involved in that now, I think she takes ponies around to the ... she's kind of an artistic person and just different and she takes ponies with her son around to fairs now and gives ponies rides. She likes horses, you know.