The Journey Recalled
A Memoir of Marjorie Frances Hill
as told to Thelma Spencer

THE BOOK

A delightful small slice of colorful Americana, including recollections of her native Omaha, Nebraska; the youthful exuberance of hiking through hills and around bluffs along the Missouri River; exposure to the work of Thomas Hart Benton when she was a student and he an instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute, then becoming a “Hallmark Girl”, all before World War II.

Marj contributes to the war effort by installing de-icers on the wings of planes destined for combat, travels to California’s famous art colony of Carmel, then settles permanently in Springfield, Missouri. There she works many years in a paint store, becomes a partner in an art gallery venture, returns to college to work on an art-education degree then teaches art in all grades kindergarten through college level. This talented artist’s memoirs include a reproduction of a best-selling greeting card, together with forty of her water-color paintings and sketches. On the front cover is the very fine “Trumpeters” and on the back cover is the delightful “Dance of the Rainbows.”

Other Books by Thel Spencer

ISBN numbers for Denlinger's Publishers 0-87714-

The Story of Alice Paul And The National Woman's Party, Spencer while Executive Secretary of the NWP conceived of and coordinated the 1977 reprint of Up Hill With Banners Flying, by Inez Haynes Irwin, a history of the suffrage period from 1913 to 1923 —058-8

Sheriff Takes the Stand, 1992, co-authored with mountain man Herman Pierce, the memoir chronicling twenty years as Sheriff of Ozark County, Missouri —173-8

Miss Muffins Lost: The Polly Guidorzi Story, 1994, co-authored with Guidorzi, the memoir of a woman serving forty-five years in prison for a crime committed by her son —180-0

Farewell to Fear, 1996, co-authored with Ena Tarrasch, the memoir of a woman who used her wits to escape Nazi terrorism and immigrated to the United States in 1938 —183-5 HB —190-8 PB

Victory: by Victory Lance, Poet, Philosopher, Private Eye, 1996, co-authored with the late Thom Robbins, a fictionalized memoir under his pen name —182-7

Give the Ballot to the Mothers: Songs of the Suffragists: a History in Song, 1998,by
Francie Wolff, Spencer coordinated the publication and promoted the presentation at "Celebrate '98," Seneca Falls, NY (a re-enactment of the first Women's Rights Convention of 1848) —191-6

Book of Thel: the memoirs of Thelma Spencer, 1998, with cover and illustrations from the poem entitled "The Book of Thel" by 18th Century Artist & Poet, William Blake —185-1

THE AUTHOR

A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Spencer spent thirty-two years in the Washington, D. C. area where employment took her to the headquarters of the National Woman's Party on Capitol Hill. In 1977 she was Executive Secretary of the NWP, an organization founded in 1913 by suffrage leader, Dr. Alice Paul, and dedicated to securing for all American women the right to vote. After passage of the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, Dr. Paul authored the Equal Rights Amendment, had it introduced in Congress in 1923 and every year thereafter until the amendment was passed in 1972 by both houses and sent to the States for ratification. Spencer's memoirs, the Book of Thel, includes exhilarating personal anecdotes and memories of the last quarter-century's involvement in the Women's Movement.

Spencer moved back to Missouri in 1981, back to the Ozarks she knew and loved as a child, and to the City of Springfield she grew to love in semi-retirement. Finally she found the time and interesting Ozarkians to pursue her dream of helping others write and publish their life stories. And, in The Journey Recalled, Thel Spencer and Marj Hill have combined talents to produce a visual treasure.

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