Brazos Past: Junior League identities revealed
By Terri Jo Ryan
Special to the Tribune-Herald
Waco Today, the monthly magazine published by the Tribune-Herald, asked readers in its July issue for help identifying some playful members of the Junior League from the 1950s depicted on page 51 of the publication.
Several readers called in, so we are happy to clear up that historical mystery.
We also wondered who was Miss Fish Pond of 1946, seen in the July 9 edition of Brazos Past. She has been identified as Lisa Lin of California, known as Martha Elizabeth McClellan, of Waco, back then.
Local history researcher Mark Firmin, meanwhile, said he has since learned all of the Little Miss Fish Pond portraits that were in the Fish Pond Clubhouse were moved to Ridgewood Country Club when the facility was acquired in 1988.
Plans are under way for some kind of reunion of former club members and employees, he said.
Firmin is writing a book about the historic Waco Boating and Fishing Club and seeks more documentation, photographs and oral history interviews.
tjryan@wacotrib.com
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Waco Junior Leaguers shown here (from left) are Nurse Bidelstacht, Martha Ward, Mary Lucille Powell and Katherine Oliver.
Miss Fish Pond 1946, who appeared in a Brazos Past story in July, has been indentified as Lisa Lin of California. When the photo was taken, she was known as Martha Elizabeth McClellan of Waco.
Pictured are Mickey Dotsett Smith (from left), Betty Jo Martin, Mary Powell and Patsy Cartwright.
Shown are Patsy Cartwright (from left), Patsy McCollum, Mary Martha Dotsett, Fanny Howard, Roberta Bailey and Betsy Oates.
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