Marie B. Lucas Papers

"Mrs. Marie Beaudry Lucas, 70, 5401 Indiana Ave., Winston-Salem, died Monday, January 27, 1992, at the Moravian Home. She was born March 26, 1921, in Neche, N.D. to Eugene Phillip and Catherine Esther Ryan Beaudry. Mrs. Lucas was a graduate of Grafton, N.D. High School; College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minn., the University of North Dakota, B.S. in Education with a major in English; special training from June L. Orton, Director of the Orton Reading Center (remedial tutoring with dyslexic children); and poetry writing and interpretation from Emily Wilson, Poet-in-Residency, Reynolds House, Wake Forest University. She was active in the Democratic Party, participated in local and state campaigns for Congress and the gubernatorial races, and served on the Precinct Committee for 12 years. She was a charter member and officer (in all categories) of the League of Women Voters, charter member and first Chairman of the Democratic Women of Forsyth County, named Woman of the Year for 5^th Congressional District, names First Democratic Woman of the Year for North Carolina, served as first Vice Chairman of Democratic Executive Committee for 5^th District Solicitorial Committee, served on the State Democratic Executive Committee, was a key worker in the Jim Hunt campaigns and Sanford For Senate Committee, and served on Forsyth County Committee for Gene Blackburn for Clerk of Court and Eunice Ayers for Register of Deeds. Mrs. Lucas served on the following boards: Radio and TV Community Council, Forsyth Memorial Industrial School, Winston-Salem Better Business Bureau, Conference of Christians and Jews,  Panel of American Women, volunteer in reading and hearing impaired public school classes, volunteer at Crisis Control Ministry, and taught at Winston-Salem State University. Mrs. Lucas was a member of Grandview Ladies Golf, St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Forsyth County Bar Auxiliary, Catholic Daughters of America, Orton Society, Parent Teacher Association, and the North Carolina Poetry Society. She was a published poet of one book and poems in many literate magazines and journals, with the poem ‘Weep Not For Me’ set to music for voice, piano, and oboe obbligato, and was the winner of several poetry contests. She is survived by her husband, Philip Edward Lucas, of the home; one daughter, Catherine Lucas Daye, Charlotte; and one brother, August Patrick Beaudry.” Source: folder 1 of the collection

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