James Bardin Flack

Family/Spouse: Nena Perez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elliana Flack
2. Mason Hodge Flack

James married Elizabeth Hodge [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1920, Baxterville MS; In 1920 Census, Flack household w/ Jesse James as head, Saw Boss, Logging Company
• Education: 1935, Delta State Teachers College, Cleveland MS; BS
• Education: 1942, Yale Divinity School, New Haven CT; MS Divinity
• Residence: 1942, Wilton CT; WWII - after Jim joined the Navy & married Tah, they moved to Wilton CT while Jim went to flight school in Boston
• Military Service: May 1942; Lieutenant Commander United States Navy, received flight training, earned his wings and served as a flight instructor throughout WW II. May 1942-October, 1945. Lt. Commander, Squadron Commander, Flight Training Command, domestic bases, Naval Air Combat Intelligence, Quonset Point, RI
• Residence: 1943, Miami FL; WWII - stationed in Miami for short time
• Residence: 1944, Minneapolis MN; WWII - stationed for another short period, Jim II born in April
• Residence: 1944, Chicago IL; WWII - stationed in Chicago with a mid-winter ride from Miami in a rickety unheated 2-seater with holes in the floor boards.
• Residence: 1944, Norman OK; WWII - Unclear dates
• Residence: 1945, Danbury CT; Lived in Sonny & Ernst Weber's vacation home at Candlewood Lake. Sonya Karen born on Nov 19.
• Residence: 1945, Dallas TX; WWII - final station near end of war
• Residence: 1946, Westford MA; 1946-50 abt - lived in 2 homes before spending a year in Puerto Rico
• Residence: 1950, San Juan PR; 1950-51 abt - Jim & family was re-located to San Juan for a year while working for Textron. Returned to Westford MA in time for Suzanne M. (Tita) birth.
• Education: 1952, Harvard University Business School; Post graduate studies
• Residence: 1952, Westford MA; 1952-54 abt - lived in 2 homes, including the large yellow house across from the Frost School. Tita is born 4 Mar 1952
• Residence: 1955, 623 Wilderness Road, Tryon NC 28782; 1955-62 - Aug 1955 moved to Tryon NC, road trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway
• Residence: 1962, New York NY; 1962-75 moved to NYC, 3 addresses, kept Tryon NC home for summer/vacations
• Residence: 1975, Tryon NC; JMF-HEF moved back to Tryon NC after Jim's retirement in Dec 1974.

Notes:

JMF-HEF TIMELINE
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1913 JMF (James M Flack) born in Baxter MS: 29 Aug 1913
1916 HEF (Hertha E Flack) born in Cleveland OH: 10 Oct 1916
1920 JMF lived in Baxterville MS w/family: 1920 Census
1934 HEF graduated A.B. Davis High School, Mt Vernon NY
1935 JMF graduated Delta State Teachers College, Cleveland MS
1935-1939 JMF Principal at Shaw MS High School
1938 HEF graduates from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
1939-1942 JMF Yale Divinity School, Divinity Degree
1941 HEF graduated Yale Nursing School, New Haven CT
1941 JMF-HEF marriage at Mt Vernon NY: 30 Aug 1941
1942-1945 JMF Commissioned Naval Officer
__abt-1942 Stationed in Boston (flight school-lived in Wilton CT)
__abt-1943 Stationed in Miami FL
__abt-1944 Stationed in Chicago IL
__abt-1944 Stationed in Minneapolis MN, JMF II born: 20 Apr 1944
__abt-1944 Stationed in Norman OK (date unclear)
__abt-1945 Stationed in Dallas TX
1945 JMF-HEF Lived in Danbury CT
1945 Sonya Karen born Danbury CT: 19 Nov 1945
1946 JMF Standard Oil Corp of NJ, Employee Relations Depart
1946-1950 lived in Westford MA - 2 homes
1946-1953 JMF Textron, Inc. Officer, subsidiary Director
1948 Robert Frank born Westford MA: 19 Feb 1948
1950-1951.abt JMF-HEF lived in San Juan PR: 1123 Piccioni Calle
1952-1954 JMF-HEF lived in Westford MA - 2 homes
1952 Suzanne Margaret born Westford MA: 4 Mar 1952
1953-1972 JMF Indian Head, Inc, Vice-president, Director
1955-1962 JMF-HEF moved from Westford MA to Tryon NC: Aug 1955
1962-1975 JMF-HEF moved to New York City, 3 addresses, kept Tryon home
1972-1974 JMF Indian Head, Inc, Vice-chairman (retired Dec 1974)
1975 JMF-HEF moved back to Tryon NC
1989 JMF died in Moscow: 16 Jun 1989
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NY Times Obituary - June 22, 1989
James M. Flack, 75, Textile Executive, Dies
James Monroe Flack, a retired textile industry executive, died of a heart attack on Monday at a Moscow hospital. He was 75 years old and lived in Tryon, N.C.
Mr. Flack, who was on a tour with his wife Hertha, was a founder of Indian Head Inc. and its vice chairman when he retired in 1975.
He had been a director of Textron Inc. and had been with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He had also been principal of the Shaw (Miss.) High School.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Karen Bonnell of Montvale, N.J., and Suzanne Young of Boulder, Colo.; two sons, James, of San Francisco, and Robert, of Watertown, Mass.; two sisters, Ruby Stringer of Baton Rouge, La., and Ann Heard of Merritt Island, Fla., and 10 grandchildren.

James Monroe Flack, business executive 1946-1974. Served as lieutenant Commander United States Navy, 1942-1945.

BACKGROUND
Flack, James Monroe was born on August 29, 1913 in Baxterville, Mississippi, United States. Son of Jesse James and Lenora (Lucas) Flack.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Delta State University, 1935; Master of Divinity, Yale University, 1942; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1952.

CAREER
Principal, Shaw (Mississippi) High School, 1935-1939; with employee relations department, Standard Oil Corporation of New Jersey, 1946; officer, director subsidiary, Textron, Inc., 1946-1953; vice-president, director, Indian Head, Inc., from 1953; vice chairman, Indian Head, Inc., 1972-1974.

MEMBERSHIPS
Served as lieutenant Commander United States Navy, 1942-1945. Member of New York Athletic, Yale of New York City, Red Fox Country, Tryon (North Carolina) Country.

FAMILY
Married Hertha E. Eisenmenger, August 30, 1941. Children: James Monroe, Sonya Karen, Robert Frank, Suzanne Margaret.
father: Jesse James Flack
mother: Lenora (Lucas) Flack

TIMELINE
Education
1935 Delta State University
1942 Yale University
1952 Harvard University

Military Duty
1942-1945 lieutenant Commander United States Navy ? flight instructor

Business Career
1935 - 1939 Principal Shaw (Mississippi) High School
1946 with employee relations department Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
1946 - 1953 officer, subsidiary Textron
1946 - 1953 director, subsidiary Textron
1972 - 1974 vice president, Indian Head
1972 - 1974 director, Indian Head

James married Hertha Emma Eisenmenger on 30 Aug 1941 (Civil) in 159 Lorraine Ave, Mt Vernon NY. Hertha (daughter of Hugo Emil Eisenmenger and Charlotte Sonya Escherich) was born on 10 Oct 1916 in Cleveland OH; died on 23 Mar 2019 in Tryon Estates, Columbus NC; was cremated on 28 Mar 2019 in Tryon NC Holy Cross Episcopal Church. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married Name: Flack
• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922
• Education: 1934, A.B. Davis High School, Mt. Vernon NY
• Education: 1938, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA; Zoology major
• Education: 1941, Yale Nursing School, New Haven CT; Nursing MS degree
• Residence: 1942, Wilton CT; WWII - after Jim joined the Navy & married Tah, they moved to Wilton CT while Jim went to flight school in Boston
• Residence: 1943, Miami FL; WWII - stationed in Miami for short time
• Residence: 1944, Minneapolis MN; WWII - stationed for another short period, Jim II born in April
• Residence: 1944, Chicago IL; WWII - stationed in Chicago. Drove mid-winter from Miami in a rickety unheated 2-seater with holes in the floor boards.
• Residence: 1944, Norman OK; WWII - Unclear dates
• Residence: 1945, Danbury CT; Lived in Sonny & Ernst Weber's vacation home at Candlewood Lake. Sonya Karen born on Nov 19.
• Residence: 1945, Dallas TX; WWII - final station near end of war
• Residence: 1946, Westford MA; 1946-50 abt - lived in 2 homes before spending a year in Puerto Rico
• Residence: 1950, San Juan PR; 1950-51 abt - Jim & family was re-located to San Juan for a year while working for Textron. Returned to Westford MA in time for Suzanne M. (Tita) birth.
• Residence: 1952, Westford MA; 1952-54 abt - lived in 2 homes, including the large yellow house across from the Frost School. Tita is born 4 Mar 1952
• Residence: 1955, 623 Wilderness Road, Tryon NC 28782; 1955-62 moved in Aug to Tryon NC, road trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway
• Residence: 1962, New York NY; 1962-75 moved to NYC, 3 addresses, kept Tryon NC home for summer/vacations
• Residence: 1975, Tryon NC; JMF-HEF moved back to Tryon NC after Jim's retirement in Dec 1974.
• Residence: 2004, 615 Laurel Lake Drive, Columbus NC 28722; Moved in Jan to Tryon Estates, assisted living community (Apt 145)

Notes:

JMF-HEF-WSM TIMELINE
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1907 WSM (Wray S Monroe) born in Colorado: 2 Aug 1907
1913 JMF (James M Flack) born in Baxter MS: 29 Aug 1913
1916 HEF (Hertha E Flack) born in Cleveland OH: 10 Oct 1916
1934 HEF graduated A.B. Davis High School, Mt Vernon NY
1935 JMF graduated Delta State Teachers College, Cleveland MS
1935-1939 JMF Principal at Shaw MS High School
1938 HEF graduates from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
1939-1942 JMF Yale Divinity School, Divinity Degree
1941 HEF graduated Yale Nursing School, New Haven CT
1941 JMF-HEF marriage at Mt Vernon NY: 30 Aug 1941
1942-1945 JMF Commissioned Naval Officer
__abt-1942 Stationed in Boston (flight school-lived in Wilton CT)
__abt-1943 Stationed in Miami FL
__abt-1944 Stationed in Chicago IL
__abt-1944 Stationed in Minneapolis MN, JMF II born: 20 Apr 1944
__abt-1944 Stationed in Norman OK (date unclear)
__abt-1945 Stationed in Dallas TX
1945 JMF-HEF Lived in Danbury CT
1945 Sonya Karen born Danbury CT: 19 Nov 1945
1946 JMF Standard Oil Corp of NJ, Employee Relations Depart
1946-1950 lived in Westford MA - 2 homes
1946-1953 JMF Textron, Inc. Officer, subsidiary Director
1948 Robert Frank born Westford MA: 19 Feb 1948
1950-1951.abt JMF-HEF lived in San Juan PR: 1123 Piccioni Calle
1952-1954 JMF-HEF lived in Westford MA - 2 homes
1952 Suzanne Margaret born Westford MA: 4 Mar 1952
1953-1972 JMF Indian Head, Inc, Vice-president, Director
1955-1962 JMF-HEF moved from Westford MA to Tryon NC: Aug 1955
1962-1975 JMF-HEF moved to New York City, 3 addresses, kept Tryon home
1972-1974 JMF Indian Head, Inc, Vice-chairman (retired Dec 1974)
1975 JMF-HEF moved back to Tryon NC
1989 JMF died in Moscow: 16 Jun 1989
1993 HEF-WSM marriage Tryon NC: 21 Jan 1993
2001 WSM died: 21 Sept 2001
2004 HEF moved to Tryon Estates, Columbus NC (assisted-living community)
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COMMENTS ON HERTHA'S PAINTING

Inspired by a lifetime of travel, Hertha Flack's recent landscape paintings are rendered in bold, rich color. Her work is most often in the impressionistic style, occasionally tending toward abstract. Ms. Flack, who has painted for over 25 years and has had several successful one-person shows, has exhibited in numerous states and is a member of several art organizations. She now works mainly in acrylics.

She has studied with Carole Barnes, Carrie Brown, Maxine Masterfield and Mary Todd Beam. Her home and studio are in Tryon, North Carolina.

June 1934, Hertha graduated from High School in Mt. Vernon. She had applied for admission to Swarthmore College.

SWARTHMORE SCHOLARSHIPS
The Flack Achievement Award, established by Jim and Hertha Flack in 1985, is given to a deserving student who, during his or her first 2 years at the College, has demonstrated leadership potential and a good record of achievement in both academic and extracurricular activities.

The Flack Faculty Award is given for excellence in teaching and promise in scholarly activity by a member of the Swarthmore faculty to help meet the expenses of a full year of leave devoted to research and self-improvement. This award acknowledges the particularly strong link that exists at Swarthmore between teaching and original scholarly work. The president gives the award based upon the recommendation of the provost and the candidate?s academic department. This award is made possible by an endowment established by James M. Flack and Hertha Eisenmenger Flack ?38.


SWARTHMORE 1938 YEARBOOK - HALCYON

HERTHA EMMA EISENMENGER
Lab haunting Hertha Emma Eisenmenger is the foremost product of Third East's ability to rouse sleepy heads, have its vertebrae counted, send forth a member with the right date near the right time all on a Saturday night. In return, the corridor may be favored with a wordless rendition of a new song, a constant supply of food, the thrill of having a night picture snapped from a rainy window sill. Appreciative of her roommate's kindness in explaining jokes and her leniency in the matter of lima beans, Hertha plays favorites, breaking a rule by remembering the roommate's name.

MAJOR: Zoology
HOME: 159 Lorraine Ave, Mt Vernon, NY

Yale School of Nursing Class of 1941

HIGH SCHOOL

Graduated 1934 from A.B. Davis High School Mt. Vernon, NY

MARRIAGE TO WRAY MONROE

Wedding ceremony on Thurs 1/21/1993, followed by honeymoon trip to Hong Kong on 1/26. Wray takes annual trips sponsored by the Rotary Club for free clinical dental work.

Notes:

OBITUARY
Francis R. Hodge
December 17, 1915 - April 6, 2008

Francis R. Hodge, 92, died at home in Austin, Texas, on April 6. Dr. Hodge was a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. He was both feared and loved by his undergraduate and graduate students as an exceptional and dedicated director and teacher, with an eye to the intricacy of human emotion and experience. During his tenure at the University and summers at other institutions, he directed over 55 plays by such playwrights as George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, and Eugene Ionesco.

In selecting plays, he "always tried to pick plays that matter" plays of conscience, morality, and human fragility fraught with irony and humor. Along with his colleagues in the drama department set designer John R. Rothgeb, costumer Lucy Barton, and lighting designer David Nancarrow, among many others, he tuned the craft of stage production to a fine art. Later in his career he chose to concentrate his efforts on the work of his graduate students and oversaw the production of 150 student-directed plays. As a classroom teacher he taught acting and directing at both undergraduate and graduate levels, History of the Theatre, Dramatic Literature, Theatre Research, and Technical Theater. His students are dispersed to theatres around the world.

He is the author of Yankee Theatre: The Image of America on the Stage, 1825-1850; six editions from 1971 - 2005 of a text entitled Play Directing: Analysis, Communication and Style; and a travel memoir, From America to Elsewhere. He wrote numerous articles for educational theatre journals, and served as editor for the American Theatre Journal. He participated on many faculty committees; and with great joy spent five years on Coach Darryl Royal's Athletic Council for the University of Texas football team.

During the last years of his professional life, he worked on a book about theatre audiences entitled The American Theatre Unbound. It contains a long chapter on the theatrical nature of spectator sports. In 1972 he was elected Fellow of the American Theatre Association, and is included in Who's Who of the American Theatre. In 2006 he received the E. William Doty Award, which is granted annually to individuals who have distinguished themselves professionally and who have demonstrated extraordinary interest in the College of Fine Arts of the University of Texas.

As a true Renaissance man, he sketched his way through years of travel throughout the world, leaving behind 50 small books filled with insightful drawings. He was trained as an airplane mechanic during his three years of service in the US Army Air Force and continued to repair things throughout the rest of his life - literally stitching or wiring them together rather than replacing them. His early Eagle Scout experience made him an avid camper and he and his family explored most of the National Parks during their VW bus years. He played the piano and accordion by ear.

Francis Hodge was born in Geneva, New York, and was educated at Hobart College in Geneva. He obtained his PhD in theatre at Cornell University. His two sisters, librarian Muriel Hodge, 98, and math teacher Helen Hodge Hofer, 94, live in Pittsford, New York. He taught at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and at the University of Iowa, before coming to Austin in 1949.

His wife of 65 years, Beulah Wiley Hodge, holds degrees in theatre and was his most attentive supporter and critic. Her own work in educational television is still remembered by her many Central Texas fans, who watched hours of her show "People and Ideas: Conversations with Beulah Hodge". The pair retired to Austin's Westminster Manor in 2003 where Beulah continues to reside. Their only child, Betsy Hodge Flack, is a landscape architect and lives in San Francisco with her husband Jim Flack. Their two sons, Andrew Flack and Bardin Flack live in San Francisco and Kona, Hawaii, respectively. The neighbors on Bluebonnet Lane in South Austin where Beulah and Fran lived for over 50 years have continued to show their love and support. Phyllis Rothgeb Schenkkan as friend and "other daughter" has been irreplaceable.

Contributions may be made to the Francis Hodge scholarship fund through the Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, 512-232-5301. A gathering of friends and family will take place in the Chapel at Westminster Manor, 4100 Jackson Ave, on April 14 at 3:30 pm. Obituary and guestbook online at wcfish.com



OBITUARY University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Francis R. Hodge passed away on April 6, 2008 in Austin, Texas, at the age of 92. Hodge was a professor emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance and served as professor of directing from 1949-1979. He was presented the College of Fine Arts E. William Doty Award at the college's spring commencement in May 2006. The award was established in 1995 and is the College's uppermost recognition given to individuals of distinction in their fields and/or have demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.

Among his many scholarly contributions, Hodge supervised more than 100 master's thesis productions and contributed in an editorial capacity to the Educational Theatre Journal and the Journal of Speech. He is also the founder of the American Society for Theatre Research, an organization for theatre scholars that promotes theatre as a field of serious scholarly study and research. Hodge was also a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre Association. His published works include: Play Directing: Analysis, Communication and Style, Innovations in Stage and Theatre Design and Yankee Theatre: The Image of America on the Stage, 1825-1850, the latter for which he received the Golden Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association.

Hodge received his bachelor's degree in English and history from Hobart College, and his master's and doctoral degree in theatre and drama from Cornell University. While teaching at The University of Texas, Hodge developed the Demonstration Laboratory. The "Dem" Lab was a weekly meeting open to all Theatre and Dance students that encouraged students to present new works to each other. The lab was very popular, but ended after Dr. Hodge retired, due primarily to lack of space for the volume of students who attended each week. In 1984, the Francis Hodge Endowed Scholarship in Drama supporting outstanding directing majors was created in his honor.



FRANCIS HODGE COLLECTION
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About the Collection

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Biography

Francis R. Hodge was born in Geneva, New York, in December 17, 1915. He earned degrees from Hobart College and Cornell University. He was a member of the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin from 1949 until he retired in 1979 as professor emeritus. Prior to coming to the University he taught at Carroll College, Cornell University, and the University of Iowa. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 until his discharge in 1945 at the rank of staff sergeant.

During his 30-year career in the Department of Drama (now the Department of Theatre and Dance), he taught classes in every aspect of theatre activity, but his primary interests were in theatre history and directing. He directed more than 55 plays. He was especially known for his interpretations of the works of Lope de Vega, Marlowe, Farquhar, Ibsen, O?Casey, Anouilh, Bertolt Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, and George Bernard Shaw. As the producer/supervisor of the MFA program in directing he supervised more than 100 master?s candidates through their departmental careers as each directed, first an original student written one act play, and then, a fully produced production of a full-length play. As a mentor he was without peer; he challenged his students and gave unstintingly of his experience, energy, and talents to those who had the good fortune to study with him.

He was a guest professor at the University of Colorado, the University of British Columbia, and the Banff School of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta over the course of several summers. Hodge wrote extensively for scholarly journals in his field. He served as the editor of the Educational Theatre Journal (1966-68) and was theatre editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech (1959 1962). He was on the executive boards of both the American Society for Theatre Research and the Theatre Library Association. He is the author of Yankee Theatre (University of Texas Press, 1965) and Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style (Prentice-Hall, 1971). This book has become the seminal text for the teaching of directing technique throughout the United States. In 1972, he was named a Fellow of the American Theatre Association in recognition of his leadership and contributions to educational theatre.

Citation: Nancarrow, D., Jennings, C., and Isackes, R. "In Memoriam: Francis Hodge." Memorial Resolution published by the Faculty Council of the University of Texas at Austin. 13 Aug. 2008.



Alumni Publications
B.A., William Smith College, 1939
FRANCIS R. HODGE

Author of:
Play Directing: Analysis, Communication and Style
Prentice Hall PTR, 1994

Yankee Theatre: The Image of America on the Stage
Ayer Company Publications, 1969

Co-author of:
Dramatic Life As I Found It
Ayer Company Publication; Reprint edition, 1966

Francis married Beulah Bernice Wiley in 1942. Beulah was born on 29 Aug 1919 in Galesville WS; died on 28 Nov 2009 in Austin TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

University of Texas
In Memoriam: Beulah Bernice Wiley Hodge
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Beulah Hodge lived her 90 years with a grace and completeness that has been a gift to all who knew her. She was born on August 29, 1919, in Galesville, Wisconsin, the daughter of Guilford M. Wiley and Beulah Bernice Arnold; she died on November 28, 2009.

She arrived in Austin with her husband Francis Hodge and daughter Betsy, in 1949. Beulah's grandparents, Captain Alexander Ahab Arnold, a lawyer and a farmer, and his wife Mary Douglas gave the town of Galesville the land for its Pine Cliff Cemetery and the County Fair Grounds. Their Victorian brick house, built in 1874, now belongs to the Garden of Eden Preservation Society. Its unique barn had been a National Register Building before it collapsed several years ago in high winds.

Beulah was born on her grandfather's farm and spent her childhood between Galesville and La Crosse, where her father was Superintendent of Schools and her mother ran a loving and chaotic household of four children and gave energy and strength to her community. Beulah played a great game of golf and as a teenager was a state champion; she detassled corn, picked beans and caddied in the summer. Beulah graduated in 1937 from Central High School in La Crosse, and, in 1941, she earned her degree in English and theatre from Carroll College in Waukesha. Her senior year she fell in love with her young theatre instructor, Francis R. Hodge, from Geneva, NY, and married him in 1942. Also that year she completed her Masters Degree from Cornell University in Ithaca NY and returned to Carroll College to teach dramatic interpretation and English literature, while her professor husband served as a propeller specialist in the United States Army Air Corps.

Their single child, Betsy, was born in 1945. Beulah and Fran returned to Cornell after the war to complete Fran's Ph.D. in theatre, taught briefly at the University of Iowa, and made their way to the University of Texas at Austin in 1949 in an old Ford. For the next 30 years, they spent their academic winters in Austin and many summers teaching at the School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta. Summer vacations included annual camping treks through the national parks in the United States and Canada to visit their respective families in NY and Wisconsin. Beulah served as principal critic and a constant source of inspiration and support for her husband's work as a professor and play director in the Department of Drama.

By the late 1950s she was embarked on her own career in community service that included lobbying for protective legislation for migrant farm workers with the American Friends Service Committee, urban planning and political education with the League of Women Voters. In 1963 she entered the new field of Public Television and for almost 20 years was known and loved by Central Texans who watched and listened to her many hours of interviews on KLRU television (then KLRN) and KUT-FM radio. She hosted her own show "Nigh Noon" in the 1960s and "People and Ideas" in the 1970s (originally "Men and Ideas") in collaboration with her producer and friend Marye "Chub" Benjamin. She produced and hosted numerous specials that included exploring social and career issues for high school students, and hours of programming in science, music, the arts, election analysis and observation of the workings of state and local government for the Austin community. Her shows were conversational and her interviews were creative and intimate.

From the 1960's on Beulah and Fran's modest-budget travels took them all over the world on trains, buses, and ships. He recorded his impressions in small sketch books and later in self-published stories. She tracked their budgets and itineraries. Upon retirement in 1979, they teamed up to produce several more editions of Fran's book on directing, "Play Directing: Analysis, Communication", and Style. Beulah sewed her own wardrobe, created amazing Halloween costumes for her daughter (under Fran's direction!), and later for her grandsons. She was a great cook, serving solid Mid-Western fare and homemade bread. At heart she was a farm girl who made a comfortable home for her visitors, whether they were students, famous actors or writers, community organizers, or her many friends. It did not phase her one bit going after a bat in her grandfather's farm house with a tennis racket.

Her interviewing skills in television and radio really stemmed from her strong personal attributes as a sensitive listener and a genuine liking for people. Her daughter Betsy recalls her favorite image of her mother hanging out the laundry in short shorts, dripping in the heat, but looking as cool as a cucumber with her long legs and beautiful smile. She enjoyed her coffee black and her beer from Milwaukee (until her dear friend and neighbor Danny Roy Young introduced her to Shiner Bock) - always a lady, with her beautiful silver hair, her dramatic earrings, and her great laughter, which pealed above the rest of the audience during any performance.

Francis Hodge, her partner and devoted husband of 66 years died in April 2008. She spent her last two years enjoying the quiet, her friends and reading four books a week. Loving and missing her terribly are her brother Guilford "Bud" Wiley and his wife Pat from Oshkosh, WI; her daughter Betsy Hodge Flack, son-in-law Jim Flack, San Francisco, CA, and grandsons, Andrew, San Francisco, and Bardin, Kona, HI; her sister-in-law Helen Hodge Hofer, Fairport, NY; her six nieces and nephews and their children in Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Georgia; her phenomenally generous and loving neighbors on Bluebonnet Lane and the Girls in the Bluebonnet Book Club; her Sewing Circle of 50 years and their daughters; and our family friend Phyllis Rothgeb Schenkkan who made the many trips to the doctors a labor love and conversation.

Heartfelt gratitude and thanks to her wonderful new and life-long friends, administrative and dining room staff at Westminster Manor residential community in Austin; and most especially in recent weeks to the staff of Westminster Health Care Center and Home Health Services, who loved her and cared for her and considered her individually their special friend. A gathering of friends and family will be held at 3 PM on December 29, at Westminster Manor Chapel, 4100 Jackson Avenue, Austin. A memorial garden fund is being established at the family farm in Wisconsin.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 12th grade - home-schooled
• Residence: 1907, Newbern, Dyer TN; J.J. was orphaned at age 14 (Margaret Bruce died Abt 1901) and moved in his half-brother's family John Elisha Flack [listed as household member in 1900 Census] until he finished school. By another telling [see "Flack Family History"], J.J. moved into his nephew's house, J.P. Flack who was 20 and married. At 16 years old [according to his son Jim, but 21 according to daughter Ann], J.J. took a "horse, saddle, gun and a bag of money and headed south along the Mississippi River." [Ann Flack Heard's family history]
• Residence: 1920, Baxterville MS; In 1920 Census, Flack household w/ Jesse James as head, Saw Boss, Logging Company

Jesse married Louella Lenora Lucas in 1909. Louella (daughter of John Franklin Lucas and Frances Eugenia Mangum) was born in 1891 in Mount Olive, MS; died on 23 Mar 1975 in Pascagoula MS; was buried on 26 Mar 1975 in Jackson County Memorial Park, Pascagoula MS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 8th Grade Public School
• Married Name: Flack
• Residence: 1920, Baxterville MS; In 1920 Census, Flack household w/ Jesse James as head, Saw Boss, Logging Company

Notes:

Death Certificate has Louella Lenora's ("Nora") mother as "Caroline Lucas" (provided at her death by son James M. Flack), yet FamilySearch.org has "Frances Eugenia Mangum" as her mother.

According to "Chapters, Ann Heard family history" Frances Mangum (Lucas) died in childbirth with Nora. It's likely aunt Caroline Lucas (1853-1929) helped brother John Franklin Lucas (1882-1825) raise "Nora" and 6 other siblings --earning "grandmother" love from JMF. If true, Caroline was JMF's "great aunt".

Source for Frances E. Mangum:
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9CDZ-KDD : accessed 20 December 2019), entry for Frances Eugenia Mangum; file (2:2:2:MM9R-Q2H), submitted 3 November 2002 by rassr2752696 [identity withheld for privacy].

Other Events and Attributes:

• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922

Notes:

Died:
NY Times Obituary 8/29/1950

HUGO E. EISENMENGER, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Hugo E. Eisenmenger of 2400 Morgan Avenue, the Bronx, retired electrical engineer who was a rate expert with the Consolidated Edison Company of this city for many years until his retirement, died yesterday in Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N. Y., where he had been a patient since Aug. 10. He was born in Vienna seventy-four years ago.

Educated in Austria and Germany. Mr. Eisenmenger did his first important work for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line as an operator of marine engines from 1898 to 1906.

From 1907 to 1909 he was, in Khartoum, building an electrical plant for the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The next ten years he spent in Tokyo, as a representative of a German electrical firm

Then he came to the United States, and for two years was the assistant to the chief of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company at Nela Park, Cleveland, and while in this post traveled extensively throughout the world. He joined Consolidated Edison in 1921.

Mr. Eisenmenger wrote "Central Station Rates in Theory and Practice" and many articles in technical journals.

He leaves his second wife, who was Lydia Alber of Mount Vernon, N. Y., at their marriage in 1940; two daughters of his first marriage, Mrs. Hertha E. Flack and Mrs. Greta Neelsen, and four grandchildren.

Hugo married Charlotte Sonya Escherich on 5 Aug 1913 in Vienna AT, and was divorced in Aug 1936 in Reno NV. Charlotte (daughter of Prof. Theodor Escherich and Margarethe Pfaundler) was born on 22 Jan 1895 in Graz AT; died on 4 Jul 1984 in Oetz, Tyrol AT; was buried on 7 Jul 1984 in Oetz, Tyrol AT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married Name: Eisenmenger, Weber
• Residence: Oetz, Tyrol AT; Ancestral Austrian home
• Residence: New Milford CT; Candlewood Lake: Sonny and Ernst vacation home on lake, built in the likeness of Austrian homes
• Residence: 159 Lorraine Ave, Mt Vernon NY; Long-time home for Sonny and Ernst
• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922
• Residence: 1971, Tryon NC; Sonny and Ernst home until death in NC, near Hertha and Jim Flack

Notes:

1915 version of tree has marriage date as 21 Jun 1913