Alice Ross GareyLinda Garey studied Latin as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Video from California Institute of the Arts. Her award-winning short film, "The Obelisk" was screened in a dozen festivals, foreign and domestc. For a decade she worked in Hollywood as a motion picture editor, and briefly as a casting director. She taught literature in public high school for over 25 years, mostly in Santa Barbara, California. She served as union vice president in the California Teacher's Association. She has received five awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Linda has curated a large, inherited collection of historic photographs, many of which can be viewed here https: //www.flickr.com/photos/admiralross/albums Alice Ross Garey (1890-1980) represents the fourth generation of her family to be born in the same house in Annapolis, Maryland. She was baptized in a gown given to the family by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Her father was Rear Admiral Albert Ross, her mother a Southern belle of colonial lineage, Alice Brewer. She raised seven children, moving frequently as her husband pursued a career in the army and as an academic. During World War II, five of her children were in military service, including a daughter in the Air Force. Nearing the end of the war the Gareys settled in Santa Monica, California. She was an accomplished artist working in oils. The Barton Gareys were friends and collaborators with the Frank Gilbreths, the prominent efficiency experts. "Congenial" was the word Lillian Gilbreth (the mother in "Cheaper by the Dozen") used to describe her. Read More Read Less
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