Crazy! Communist!  Could this be the description of 5’8” Wayland woman with a high forehead, oval face with a round chin and aquiline nose, straight mouth, and medium complexion with brown hair and eyes?  A woman who belongs to the Women’s Club, chairs a committee to build a playground, leads a book discussion group, belongs to Animal Rescue League, cares about her neighbors by writing them notes and sending flowers, and supporting the Red Cross? A mother of six, living comfortably but proclaiming the simple life, reaching for a high moral stand and pursuing an understanding of the world’s current events through lectures given in Wayland? This is a woman who  fought to save the Wayland Post Office, involved herself with the Waltham Hospital Aid society, saw the importance of having an everyday  garden, fundraised for electricity for the grade school and for science laboratory for the high school.  She was a leader in the Searchlight Club and belonged to the Daughters of Portland.

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Contributed by Kay Gardner-Westcott and the Wayland High School History Project