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Marie B. Lucas Papers, 1943, 1982-1991
Collection Overview
Title: Marie B. Lucas Papers, 1943, 1982-1991
ID: OGLMC1705
Primary Creator: Lucas, Marie B. (1921-1992)
Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 01/25/2022
Subjects: Literary - Poetry, University of North Dakota - Alumni
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
"Mrs. Marie Beaudry Lucas, 70, 5401 Indiana Ave., Winston-Salem, died Monday, January 27, 1992, at the Moravian Home. She was born March 26, 1921, in Neche, N.D. to Eugene Phillip and Catherine Esther Ryan Beaudry. Mrs. Lucas was a graduate of Grafton, N.D. High School; College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minn., the University of North Dakota, B.S. in Education with a major in English; special training from June L. Orton, Director of the Orton Reading Center (remedial tutoring with dyslexic children); and poetry writing and interpretation from Emily Wilson, Poet-in-Residency, Reynolds House, Wake Forest University. She was active in the Democratic Party, participated in local and state campaigns for Congress and the gubernatorial races, and served on the Precinct Committee for 12 years. She was a charter member and officer (in all categories) of the League of Women Voters, charter member and first Chairman of the Democratic Women of Forsyth County, named Woman of the Year for 5th Congressional District, names First Democratic Woman of the Year for North Carolina, served as first Vice Chairman of Democratic Executive Committee for 5th District Solicitorial Committee, served on the State Democratic Executive Committee, was a key worker in the Jim Hunt campaigns and Sanford For Senate Committee, and served on Forsyth County Committee for Gene Blackburn for Clerk of Court and Eunice Ayers for Register of Deeds. Mrs. Lucas served on the following boards: Radio and TV Community Council, Forsyth Memorial Industrial School, Winston-Salem Better Business Bureau, Conference of Christians and Jews, Panel of American Women, volunteer in reading and hearing impaired public school classes, volunteer at Crisis Control Ministry, and taught at Winston-Salem State University. Mrs. Lucas was a member of Grandview Ladies Golf, St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Forsyth County Bar Auxiliary, Catholic Daughters of America, Orton Society, Parent Teacher Association, and the North Carolina Poetry Society. She was a published poet of one book and poems in many literate magazines and journals, with the poem ‘Weep Not For Me’ set to music for voice, piano, and oboe obbligato, and was the winner of several poetry contests. She is survived by her husband, Philip Edward Lucas, of the home; one daughter, Catherine Lucas Daye, Charlotte; and one brother, August Patrick Beaudry.”
Source: folder 1 of the collection
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Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source: Gordon W. Jenkins (Executor of the Lucas Estate), Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Acquisition Method: Donation; 2022-3457
Preferred Citation: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections. Chester Fritz Library. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Processing Information: Processed by Julie Faust, Connor Meier, and Katlyn Olson, History 240, in April 2022.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Biographical Materials
- Folder 2: School Assignments
- Folder 3: Poems written by Marie Lucas: A-L
A: After, Aging, And Perpetual Light Shines, Anniversary, The Apple, At Rest, Awakening (two versions), Ave
B: The Barbie Doll, Barely Pink, Basket Maker, Before the Storm, The Big Eye, Black Man’s Anger, Black Patches, Bread to Live, Bright Brave Flowers, Brother’s Reading, Burial, Burning, The Burning Question
C: Capital Punishment (two versions), The Cat in the Solarium, Caucus, Change of Season, Changing Seasons, Christmas, Christmas Dusk, Christmas Morn, Cleansing, Cold Heart, The Collector, Come Together at Dusk, Conversation with the Oil Man, Cook Car Lunch, Crop Failure
D: Day Begins, Daybreak, Death, Death of a Dear One, Decision, Demons, De Profundis, Dial a Number, Divorce, Doughnut Maker, The Doves, Drawings, The Drifters, Dust Storm
E: Early Morning Notes, Early Rain, Early Spring, Eight Died, Emergency, Emergency Room, Enclosed, The End, End of an Affair, End of a Season, Every Friday, Every July (two versions), Evil Wine, Experience, Extinguished
F: Fallen Flower, Fall Poem, False Alarm, The Ferret, Filling Stations Are for Men, Final Acts, The Finish, First Dance, First Snow, Flight, Food, For an Old Friend, For “Jelly”, For Mr. Upshaw, For My Mother, For My 65th Birthday, Forty Plus, From 9th Tower Window, 57939 Names
G: Gathered Rosebuds, Generation Gap, Gifts for my 65th Birthday, Girl in the Sand, Girl to Woman, Going Home, Gone, Goodbye, The Grasshoppers, Green-Up Time (2 versions), Growing Up
H: Hay Stack Party, Health Unit, Heart Attack, He is Free, He is Risen, Holy Night, The Home, Howling: Saturday Nite, The Husband, Husband’s Visit
I: I Am Padded Into This Cell, Ice Storm, I Like Sunday Best, Improvisations, Inheritance, Instead of, In the Glory, An Invitation, In 1989, I Stand in a Garden, It Is, It Is Not to Trump
J:July (two versions), June
L: Leaving, Life Sentence, Light from Shadow, Listening, Listless Lethargy, The Little Girl, Lone Bird, Longing, Lost, Lost Innocence, Lost Land
- Folder 4: Poems written by Marie Lucas: M-Z
M: Main Street, Make Believe, March, Medicine in the Fast Lane, Mend Mine, Migration, Mist in the Hills, Moon Cover, Morning Tears, The Mother’s Death, Movement, Mowing the Graves, My Mother’s Glasses, My New Club
N: New Life, A New Room (two versions), Night Beauty, Night Jazz, Night of Pain, Night Voice, Night Watch, Not Alive, Notes From My Diary, November at Home, No Visit This Year
O: O Dominant Mother, An Old Man Pounds, Only Me, On the Porch the Man
P: Parade, Passing Time, The Pattern, Philip, The Place, Political Feast, Pozzatti’s Cathedral Window, Prairie Song, Prairie Winter, Prison, The Private Sale, Psychiatric Care
Q: Quarrel
R: Rain, Rain Keeps Falling, Reaching for Life, Re-Birth, Reflections, Rejection, Remembering (three versions), Renewal, Re-Run, Return (three versions), The Return, Return of the Gold Finch, The Ride, Right and Proper, Roommate
S: Sally Rand Lives Here, Sea Notes, Searching, Seasons, Second Time Around, Sensuality, Separation, Seven, She (two versions), Silly, Sisters, Snow Dancers, Snow Fall, Snow Maiden, Song of Memory, Southern, Sponges, Spring Approaches, Still, Stopping for the Kids, Summer Lunch, Sunday Service
T: Tall Black Man, Tea Time, There Is No Water, Thinning Beets, Third Generation, Time Is Now, Time to Clean House, To Be Young, Today (two versions), Too Quiet, Too Young to Die, Transfiguration #2, Transformation, TV Prescription, Twilight
U: Under
V: Valuables (two versions), Variations
W: Waiting Room, Want Ads, Warmth, Warning, The Watcher, The Watershed, Wearing Out (two versions), The Weaver, Weeping Cherry, We Inherit the Earth, Will (two versions), The Wind, Winter, Woman In the Window, The Word Spider
Y: Youth-1938
- Folder 5: "After Sixty-Five." by Marie Beaudry Lucas. Winston-Salem, NC: AlphaGraphics Printshops of the Future, 1990
- Folder 6: "Come Together at Dusk." by Marie Beaudry Lucas. no date.
- Folder 7: "Now You Hear My Crying...". by Marie B. Lucas. Winston-Salem, NC: Tenth Muse Press, 1982
- Folder 8: Short stories written by Marie Lucas
- Folder 9: SilverArts Select Exhibition. RJR Galley. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August and September 1991
- Lucas won First Place - Poetry for her poem, "For My Mother"
- Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings, 1982-1990
- Item 1: "Local Poet Celebrates Book." by Annie Lee Singletary. The Pilot-Southern Pines, North Carolina. August 18, 1982
- Item 2: "Present NC Poetry - Marie Lucas." by Kathryn Gibbs. The Pilot-Southern Pines, North Carolina. April 3, 1985
- Item 3: "Pembroke Magazine Has Emphasis on Poetry." Winston-Salem Journal. September 1, 1985
- Item 4: "After Sixty-Five: A Collection Bright and Beautiful." a Review by Susan Ott. The Senior Scene. December 1990
- Item 5: "Compassion and Longing Mark New Poetry Works." by Shelby Stephenson. no date
- Review of "Now You Hear My Crying..." by Marie Lucas
- Item 6: "Southern Accent." by Sam Ragan. no date
- Review of "Now You Hear My Crying..." by Marie Lucas
- Item 7: "'Don't Label Me!' Says New Poet." by Jo Woestendiek. no date
- Folder 11: Photographs
- Photograph 1: "Marie and I in the park" (from back of photograph), 1943
- Photograph 2: Marie Beaudry, circa 1943
- Photograph 3: Marie Beaudry Lucas, no date
- Photograph 4: Contact print, portrait photographs of Marie Beaudry Lucas, no date
- Photograph 5: Contact print, portrait photographs of Marie Beaudry Lucas, no date
- Folder 12: Poems written for Marie Lucas, 1987-1991
- Item 1: "The Gifts" by Joan ?, December 1987
- Two pages, typed; "To Marie" handwritten on the top of the first page
- Item 2: Untitled by CRK Apt 18, January 5, 1990
- 2 pages, handwritten; "To Marie" written at the top of the first page
- Item 3: "Brady Fernald" by Carolyn Page, Troy, Michigan, Winter 1991
- Signed "Warm Regards, Carolyn" at the bottom of the page
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