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- 2 January 1920 census of New River (Fallon), Churchill County, NV, found the Dunbar family living in dwelling #19 on Broadway:
Edward Dunbar 41 CA Ireland NY - Dentist, Office
Maud 37 MN Il IA
Maud 11 NV CA MN
Maygene 2 NV CA MN
10 April 1930 census of Elko, Elko County, NV found the Dunbar family living in dwelling #314:
Edward F. Dunbar 50 CA Scotland NY Dentist
Maud E. 47 MN IL WI
Maud E. 21 NV CA MN
Maygene 12 NV CA MN
Henry Eddy 24 (Lodger)
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Elko, Nevada High School Honor Roll, Apr 1935 (Submitted by Linda Horton on October 16, 2010)
ELKO HONOR ROLL IS MADE PUBLIC
ELKO, Nev., April 29--(Special)--The honor roll for the second six-week period of the last semester for the school year 1935 has been made out as follows:
HIGH HONOR ROLL
Seniors--June Anderson, Edward Garcia, Loren Pursell
Juniors--June Lani, Lois Brehe, Bill Potter
Freshmen--Ardelle Plunkett, Rae Scott, Catherine Sharp
REGULAR HONOR ROLL.
Post Graduate--Maygene Dunbar
Seniors--Josephine Bartorelli, Maguerite Calzacorta, June Gale, Josephine Olabarria, Russell Clayton, Leta Prunty, Harvey Johnson
Juniors--Ardith Armstrong, Kathryn Bachman, Mary Jane Englert, Gratia Ferguson, Jack Keyser, Dick Warren, Nellie Roseberry
Sophomores--Virginia Gardner, Bessie Grock, Ruth Johnson, Mary Sutherland
Freshmen--Hazel Brehe, Marian Biegler, Margaret Kellsher, Leigh Kelley, Harold Kling, Louise McNally, Bill Murdock, June Rutherford, Mary Urriola.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 29 Apr 1935
http://www3.old-yearbooks.com/nevada/6109/elko-nv-high-school-honor-roll-apr-1935
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Ruth Maygene Dunbar
24 Dec 1937 issue of Reno Evening Gazette included article about Maygene Dunbar, 20, of Elko returning from an around the world trip. She was awarded a scholarship to spend a year in at Lingman University in Canton, China, after completing her freshman year at Stanford University. Sailing to Yokohama from Seattle on August 13, 1936, her party was delayed in Japan and China due to evacuating refugees. They eventually sailed on to Paris via Singapore, Suez, and Italy. She then spent some time with relatives in London and Edinburgh before returning to New York on the Queen Mary.
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Maygene Dunbar Giari obituary (2-9-2003 Examiner Enterprise):
Maygene Giari died in Pasadena, Calif. January 11, 2003. Her husband of 55 years, Fred, was at her side. Maygene was born in Fallon, Nevada in 1917, graduated from Stanford University in 1940, and received her Masters in Library Science from Columbia University in 1942. She worked in General George Marshall's office in Nanking, China, following the end of World War II. Later she was a correspondent for Time and Life Magazine in Shanghai. She returned from China in 1947 and married her college sweetheart, Fred Giari, from San Rafael, California. Maygene lived in Southern California since 1948 and made her home in Pasadena for the past 45 years. In addition to raising two children, Maygene was an inspirational teacher and librarian at Westridge School in Pasadena for many years. Upon her retirement from teaching, she moved with her husband to Bartlesville, Oklahoma where he worked for Phillips Petroleum Co. There she became actively involved in the League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union. She wrote studies on prison reform and testified before legislative committees on prisoners' rights. She remained committed to prison reform throughout her life, and will be remembered as a crusader for intelligent corrections policy.
Maygene was dedicated to social justice and humanitarian causes. She believed that "the pen is mightier than the sword," and sought to show her students that words could transform conditions. Thirty years after her retirement from teaching, students were still writing to her. She made a lasting impression on those she worked with. She loved her family, her pets, and her garden, and filled her life with activity, correspondence, and friendship.
Her most-often repeated quotation was "I've got so much to 'tend to." Maygene will be missed and remembered by her husband, daughter Helen and son Rick, six grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. A family memorial service will celebrate her life.
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Address in 2000 for Fred & Maygene Giari was 1015 Nithsdale Rd., Pasadena, CA 91105. Phone (626) 449-2498.
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