| "I was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1937, and after graduating from George School in 1954 attended the Rhode Island School of Design where I majored in painting. After graduation I moved to New York and continued my education at Hunter College where I received an MA in Art Education in 1961. Soon after that I married Charles H. Trout and moved to Exeter, New Hampshire where I lived for ten years and had two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin. While living in Exeter I taught part time at the University of New Hampshire Extension Service and the Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School. My husband and I also organized the McCarthy campaign in New Hampshire and a civil rights petition which was the largest in the history of the state. I had a babysitter every afternoon which allowed me to paint. In 1970 we moved to South Hadley, Massachusetts where my husband taught American History and was chairman of the History Department at Mount Holyoke College. I taught part time at Holyoke Community College and the College of Our Lady of the Elms. In 1974 I returned to graduate school and received an MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts and continued part time teaching at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts. While living in South Hadley I was active in antiwar activities as well as painting whenever time allowed. In 1978 I moved to Portland, Maine for a full time appointment at the Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art) where I taught Painting, Drawing and Design for ten years. In 1982 My husband and I were divorced. In 1988 I reencountered my boyfriend from RISD, Valentine Michalski, and coincidently was appointed Visiting Artist at Mount Holyoke College. I moved to Western Massachusetts where I commuted between Great Barrington where Val lives and South Hadley for four years. In 1992 I started my own school in Great Barrington where I taught for three years and painted in the afternoons. The school was successful but time consuming so I retired from teaching altogether and have been painting full time ever since and exhibiting regularly. I also work with recovering alcoholics and travel frequently to South Portland, Maine to visit my two granddaughters, Ella and Cecily Trout. More information on my web site:" www.margottrout.com Son's sites |
| Margot Stevens Trout |
| Mary (Jimi) Shnayerson Mathews |
| " Hi, this is Tom McIntyre, husband and confident to Mary (Jimi Shnayerson) Mathews. I thought I'd let you know what and how she 's been doing in the fifty years since George School. (Because she wouldn't) Mary married her high school sweetheart , Jack Isslehardt ,two years after graduation from GS, and she and Jack, now a psychologist, moved to Kansas. There Mary gave birth to Eric John Isslehardt. A few years later, Jack and Mary split up. Mary married T.W.Mathews, another psychologist, and with him had her second son, Ned Harrington Mathews. While in Kansas, Mary was active in civil rights activites, and owned and operated a pet shop. She and T.W. moved to Peoria Illinois after T.W. was hired by Caterpillar, Inc. In Peoria, Mary became active with the ACLU, and the fight to desegregate Peoria's Public Schools. She was given the ACLU's David Citron award, and became a member of the state board. After her divorce from T.W., Mary became the editor of a weekly Newspaper, as well as working for Public Television and for CATV. She had her own public affairs interview program on the local NBC affiliate, and was a founding member of the Women's Crisis Line, which later became"WomenStrength". As a volunteer, Mary became a full-time crisis-interventionist for the Taz-Wood Mental Health Centre, rising to the position of Program director. In 1979, she married Tom McIntyre, a local television anchorman. When her father died and her mother became severly ill in 1982, she retired to take care of her mother who was moved to Peoria. Aside from problems with arthritis she remains active, keeping her gardens tended while restoring a 110-year old home. She enjoys reading, traveling, and caring for her eight year old grandson, Conrad Mathews. Until recently, she could be found riding her Suzuki motorcycle, on which she has toured from California to New York. She says she plans to ride again. She keeps a well-stocked woodshop which remains off-limits to her husband." |