GENERATION OF THE GRANDPARENTS
Kristen and Stephanie’s grandparents were born during the Depression years of 1931-33. They became the first members of their families to attend college.
August 4, 1931: Leroy Melvin Froelich:
Leroy is:
Kristen and Stephanie’s grandfather.
Valeska’s Father
Leroy Melvin Froelich was born on August 4, 1931 in New Braunfels, Texas. He did not learn English until he was six years old and began school. He attended the University of Texas. He served in the navy during the Korean War. Leroy worked in the insurance and risk management businesses for many years and also renovated houses. In later years, he traveled to China.
Other events during 1931included:
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.
Empire State Building is completed.
The Caltech Department of Physics Faculty and graduate students meet with Albert Einstein as a guest.
Dick Tracy, a comic strip detective character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, made its debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper.
American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago, Illinois.
Deuterium is discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
Other persons born during 1931 include:
Robert Duvall, American actor and director (THX 1138), Sam Cooke, American singer (You Send Me) (d. 1964) , Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007), Rip Torn, American actor and director, James Dean, American actor (Rebel Without A Cause) (d. 1955), Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher, William Shatner, Canadian actor (Star Trek), Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director (Star Trek), Willie Mays, African-American baseball player, Larry Hagman, American actor (Dallas), Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator, John le Carré, English novelist, Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995).
May 10, 1932: Jacqueline Johnson Froelich:
Jackie is:
Kristen and Stephanie’s grandmother.
Valeska’s Mother
Jacqueline Charlotte Johnson Froelich was born on May 10, 1932 in Cranfills Gap, Texas. Jacqueline earned a B.A. from Baylor University in 1953 and an M.A. from Southwest Texas State University in 1982. She worked as a stewardess for Southwest Airlines prior to her marriage to Leroy Froelich. She married Leroy Froelich on December 2, 1954. They had two children, Valeska Tomena, born on August 14, 1956, and Michael Lynn, born on October 28, 1959.
September 15, 1932: Wayne Ralph Sather
Wayne is:
Kristen & Stephanie’s Grandfather
Stephen’s Father
Wayne Ralph Sather was born on September 15, 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Breck Military Academy in 1949 and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.E.E. in 1954. He later earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1968. He also completed 15 credits in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University and 12 credits in education from the University of Texas at El Paso. He earned a teacher’s certificate in 1995.
He served in the Army Signal Corps (Army Security Agency) from 1954 to 1956. Wayne worked for Raytheon Corporation for 36 years until he retired in 1992. One of the projects that he worked on was the Patriot Missile. He went back to school to become a teacher and worked as Technology Coordinator for the University of Texas at El Paso until 1999.
Wayne married Nancy Ann Newhouse on June 19, 1955. They had three sons: Stephen Wayne, born on April 26, 1961, David Scott, born on March 3, 1967 and Mark Andrew, born on May 27, 1971.
During 1932, Herbert Hoover was President and the Great Depression was in full swing.
Other events during 1932, include:
Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
About 6 million are unemployed in Germany.
Japan occupies Shanghai.
Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington, D.C.
Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role (Weismuller will star in a total of 12 Tarzan films).
Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
The first of approximately 15,000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.. Troops disperse the last of the Bonus Army the next day.
Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first animated cartoon to be presented in full Technicolor, premieres in Los Angeles, California. It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O'Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude (starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
The first positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
In 1932 the Cipher Bureau broke the German Enigma cipher and overcame the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving Enigma with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on American radio for the first time.
U.S. presidential election, 1932: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
Unemployment in the USA – ca. 33% – 14 million.
Other people born during 1932 include: Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author, Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985), Johnny Cash, American country singer (I Walk The Line) (d. 2003), Elizabeth Taylor, English-born actress (Cleopatra), Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Updike, American author (d. 2009), Gene Shalit, American film critic, Debbie Reynolds, American actress, Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998), Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor, Tiny Tim, American musician (Tiptoe Through The Tulips) (d. 1996), Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor (America's Top Forty), John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004), Mario Cuomo, American politician, Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (Wendy's) (d. 2002), Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator, Peter O'Toole, Irish actor, Roy Scheider, American film actor (Jaws) (d. 2008), Richard Dawson, British-born comedian and game show host (Family Feud), Robert Vaughn, American actor (Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Jacques Chirac, President of France, and Little Richard, American singer and evangelist (Tutti Frutti).
September 20, 1933: Nancy Sather
Nancy is:
Kristen & Stephanie’s Grandmother
Stephen’s Mother
Nancy Ann Newhouse Sather was born on September 20, 1933 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She was a cheerleader in high school and graduated as salutatorian from Mora High School in 1951. She attended Macalester College on a scholarship, graduating with a B.A. in Elementary Education in 1955. Nancy taught school in Tombstone, Arizona, El Paso, Texas and Chelmsford, Massachusetts. She also worked as a private tutor.
Nancy married Wayne Ralph Sather on June 19, 1955. They had three sons: Stephen Wayne, born on April 26, 1961, David Scott born on March 3, 1967 and Mark Andrew born on May 27, 1971.
In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President and the Great Depression was in full swing.
Other events during 1933 include:
The Golden Gate Bridge begun.
The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
March 2The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" in his inauguration speech. FDR is sworn in by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. It is also the last time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on March 4.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "Fireside Chats".
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold.
The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealing Prohibition, goes into effect.
The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
FM radio is patented.
The Holodomor famine takes place in the Ukraine.
US President Roosevelt rejects socialism and government ownership of industry.
15 million unemployed are in the USA.
Other people born during 1933 include Oleg Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003), Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator (CBS Sunday Morning), Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (d. 2009), Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer and artist, widow of John Lennon, Barbara Feldon, American actress and model (Get Smart), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967), Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and comedienne, Willie Nelson, American country singer, songwriter, James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006), Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002), Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Joan Rivers, American comedian, Gene Wilder, American actor (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), David McCullough, American historian and author, Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (Young Frankenstein) (d. 1982), Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009), Jerry Falwell, American evangelist and conservative political activist (d. 2007), Ann Richards, Governor of Texas (d. 2006), Knut Johannesen, Norweigian speed-skater, Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq, Larry King, American talk show host, November 26 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007) , Lou Rawls, African-American singer (d. 2006) and Emperor Akihito of Japan.
Kristen and Stephanie’s grandparents were born during the Depression years of 1931-33. They became the first members of their families to attend college.
August 4, 1931: Leroy Melvin Froelich:
Leroy is:
Kristen and Stephanie’s grandfather.
Valeska’s Father
Leroy Melvin Froelich was born on August 4, 1931 in New Braunfels, Texas. He did not learn English until he was six years old and began school. He attended the University of Texas. He served in the navy during the Korean War. Leroy worked in the insurance and risk management businesses for many years and also renovated houses. In later years, he traveled to China.
Other events during 1931included:
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.
Empire State Building is completed.
The Caltech Department of Physics Faculty and graduate students meet with Albert Einstein as a guest.
Dick Tracy, a comic strip detective character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, made its debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper.
American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago, Illinois.
Deuterium is discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
Other persons born during 1931 include:
Robert Duvall, American actor and director (THX 1138), Sam Cooke, American singer (You Send Me) (d. 1964) , Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007), Rip Torn, American actor and director, James Dean, American actor (Rebel Without A Cause) (d. 1955), Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher, William Shatner, Canadian actor (Star Trek), Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director (Star Trek), Willie Mays, African-American baseball player, Larry Hagman, American actor (Dallas), Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator, John le Carré, English novelist, Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995).
May 10, 1932: Jacqueline Johnson Froelich:
Jackie is:
Kristen and Stephanie’s grandmother.
Valeska’s Mother
Jacqueline Charlotte Johnson Froelich was born on May 10, 1932 in Cranfills Gap, Texas. Jacqueline earned a B.A. from Baylor University in 1953 and an M.A. from Southwest Texas State University in 1982. She worked as a stewardess for Southwest Airlines prior to her marriage to Leroy Froelich. She married Leroy Froelich on December 2, 1954. They had two children, Valeska Tomena, born on August 14, 1956, and Michael Lynn, born on October 28, 1959.
September 15, 1932: Wayne Ralph Sather
Wayne is:
Kristen & Stephanie’s Grandfather
Stephen’s Father
Wayne Ralph Sather was born on September 15, 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Breck Military Academy in 1949 and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.E.E. in 1954. He later earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1968. He also completed 15 credits in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University and 12 credits in education from the University of Texas at El Paso. He earned a teacher’s certificate in 1995.
He served in the Army Signal Corps (Army Security Agency) from 1954 to 1956. Wayne worked for Raytheon Corporation for 36 years until he retired in 1992. One of the projects that he worked on was the Patriot Missile. He went back to school to become a teacher and worked as Technology Coordinator for the University of Texas at El Paso until 1999.
Wayne married Nancy Ann Newhouse on June 19, 1955. They had three sons: Stephen Wayne, born on April 26, 1961, David Scott, born on March 3, 1967 and Mark Andrew, born on May 27, 1971.
During 1932, Herbert Hoover was President and the Great Depression was in full swing.
Other events during 1932, include:
Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
About 6 million are unemployed in Germany.
Japan occupies Shanghai.
Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington, D.C.
Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role (Weismuller will star in a total of 12 Tarzan films).
Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
The first of approximately 15,000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.. Troops disperse the last of the Bonus Army the next day.
Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first animated cartoon to be presented in full Technicolor, premieres in Los Angeles, California. It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O'Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude (starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
The first positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
In 1932 the Cipher Bureau broke the German Enigma cipher and overcame the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving Enigma with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on American radio for the first time.
U.S. presidential election, 1932: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
Unemployment in the USA – ca. 33% – 14 million.
Other people born during 1932 include: Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author, Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985), Johnny Cash, American country singer (I Walk The Line) (d. 2003), Elizabeth Taylor, English-born actress (Cleopatra), Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Updike, American author (d. 2009), Gene Shalit, American film critic, Debbie Reynolds, American actress, Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998), Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor, Tiny Tim, American musician (Tiptoe Through The Tulips) (d. 1996), Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor (America's Top Forty), John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004), Mario Cuomo, American politician, Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (Wendy's) (d. 2002), Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator, Peter O'Toole, Irish actor, Roy Scheider, American film actor (Jaws) (d. 2008), Richard Dawson, British-born comedian and game show host (Family Feud), Robert Vaughn, American actor (Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Jacques Chirac, President of France, and Little Richard, American singer and evangelist (Tutti Frutti).
September 20, 1933: Nancy Sather
Nancy is:
Kristen & Stephanie’s Grandmother
Stephen’s Mother
Nancy Ann Newhouse Sather was born on September 20, 1933 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She was a cheerleader in high school and graduated as salutatorian from Mora High School in 1951. She attended Macalester College on a scholarship, graduating with a B.A. in Elementary Education in 1955. Nancy taught school in Tombstone, Arizona, El Paso, Texas and Chelmsford, Massachusetts. She also worked as a private tutor.
Nancy married Wayne Ralph Sather on June 19, 1955. They had three sons: Stephen Wayne, born on April 26, 1961, David Scott born on March 3, 1967 and Mark Andrew born on May 27, 1971.
In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President and the Great Depression was in full swing.
Other events during 1933 include:
The Golden Gate Bridge begun.
The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
March 2The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" in his inauguration speech. FDR is sworn in by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. It is also the last time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on March 4.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "Fireside Chats".
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold.
The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealing Prohibition, goes into effect.
The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
FM radio is patented.
The Holodomor famine takes place in the Ukraine.
US President Roosevelt rejects socialism and government ownership of industry.
15 million unemployed are in the USA.
Other people born during 1933 include Oleg Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003), Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator (CBS Sunday Morning), Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (d. 2009), Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer and artist, widow of John Lennon, Barbara Feldon, American actress and model (Get Smart), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967), Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and comedienne, Willie Nelson, American country singer, songwriter, James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006), Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002), Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Joan Rivers, American comedian, Gene Wilder, American actor (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), David McCullough, American historian and author, Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (Young Frankenstein) (d. 1982), Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009), Jerry Falwell, American evangelist and conservative political activist (d. 2007), Ann Richards, Governor of Texas (d. 2006), Knut Johannesen, Norweigian speed-skater, Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq, Larry King, American talk show host, November 26 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007) , Lou Rawls, African-American singer (d. 2006) and Emperor Akihito of Japan.
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