Wilmette Public Library Local History Digital Collection

Frances A. Goodhue (1886-1983) oral history

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RA: Now tell me about your sister, Mary.
 
FG: Mary was registrar at Northwestern Law School for twenty-five years. She decided that it was well to go while [indistinct] stay, but she went very quietly just at her regular vacation time. And in the fall, I like to tell this story, I think it was November perhaps, she and I were invited to meet some…two men, graduates of the law school, down at the Union League Club. We were going to meet them for luncheon. And we went to the ladies parlors and met them, and then went up in the elevator up to the banquet hall. And when we stepped off the elevator there were about 400 men rose to their feet and they were all singing "For She's A Jolly Good Fellow." And they had this wonderful display of friendship from all those students in the years that she had served there, the 25 years. She wanted to go without making any fuss but she had to accept that joy of theirs in tribute to her.
 
RA: Wonderful! And I had the good fortune to meet many of her former students or even their children. The girl from Hawaii. I remember who came and lived with you did she?
 
FG: [indistinct] We got her started on the winter, um…winter dress, she'd never had anything that [indistinct] and we were very cautious in mentioning Fields and Carson Pririe's, because we knew she'd want to go to all the dress shops in town. She heard there were a good many of them. She had to be very careful in her [indistinct]
 
RA: Oh yes.
 
FG: And she now is a professor at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu
 
RA: She was a charming girl
 
FG: Yes she was
 
RA: I know how fond of the family Mary was. Did she ever visit them?
 
FG: We never…no we never got over there, but they did come here. Her two sisters came and were with us. And we got a great deal joy out of them.
 
RA: I remember Dan Clinton I believe was in school at this time. Many of the lawyers that we have known here in Wilmette in years past. And then Abby lived with you too in the later years. She raised your family here, and then left and went away?
 
FG: After her husband had passed away. She was living with us at that time and she stayed until her [indistinct] passed away
 
RA: She and I were great friends
 
FG: She was very active in the Woman's Club and in the Congregational Church
 
RA: Yes she was, and I enjoyed knowing her immensely. Was there any business district around Fourth and Linden when you first came?

Creators

Goodhue, Frances A., 1886-1983, Interviewee

Adler, Rhea Saul

, Interviewer

Karen Miller

, Transcriber

Media Type

Audio

Text

Item Type

Audiocassettes

Description

Interview with Frances Goodhue by Rhea Saul Adler about 1977 in Wilmette, Illinois. Transcribed by Karen Miller, June 2009.

Place of Publication

Wilmette, Illinois

Date of Original

1977

Subject(s)

Oral histories
Wilmette (Ill.) -- Residents

Local identifier

R 977.31 GO

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

Bahai Temple

Illinois, United States

Latitude: 42.07447 Longitude: -87.6845

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