Box 4

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Life in Alaska. Mary Ann and Ted both continued to take classes, and they traveled to Anchorage in December in order for Ted to take his Aircraft Mechanics licensing test. Mary Ann intended to contact Friends in Anchorage and develop a program for discussion at Meeting. She and Ted and few others had established Chena Ridge Meeting - Society of Friends. The clerk was Niilo E. Koponen who had contacted Friends General Conference, and Mary Ann was recorder.

Scope and Contents Description of life in College. Ted was working for Alaska Airlines, but they were considering a move, and Mary Ann asked about costs of living in Philadelphia area. Copy of her letter to Uncle Matt [Williamson], her aunt Lydia's husband. Letter postmarked Sept. 9 expressed her appreciation from her father's postcards from Europe where he was visiting in the ministry. Locally, Bill Hanson from AFSC visited the Meeting. At the end of December, Mary Ann planned to visit her folks in...

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Mary Ann visited Pennsylvania in January. On a postcard note, she remarked on Congress approving Alaska for statehood and that in Fairbanks, in response, people were wearing black. She was involved with Beaver Workcamps.

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She was busy with studies, family, and activities. Second child, Edward Arthur, was born March. Active in Farthest North Art Guild.

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She noted that their meeting house was rented for the summer to make money for the Meeting. In September, a visitor attended their worship meeting and was introduced as Peter Ashelman, a student at Swarthmore College. He had been in the nursery school at the School in Rose Valley when she was a student there.

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She was taking classes, working, and living with Ted Kegler who also was a student. She planned a trip home at the end of the year and to ship her possessions.

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Mary Ann flew home in January to visit her parents, and she and Ted were married at her parents' home. Their son Charles Theodore Kegler was born Sept. 22 in Fairbanks.

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In January, Mary Ann wrote to her mother than she did not intend to send the information of son Charley's birth to Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting because they were holding Quaker meeting in Anchorage, and his birth was registered in that meeting. Her mother Katherine sent Quaker materials for use in their meeting. Mary Ann was not enthusiastic about the idea of sending Charley to Westtown, but maybe college at Haverford.