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Elise had her hands full raising five children from the 1950s until 1967, when the family moved to Boulder, Colorado and Elise began teaching at the University of Colorado. Journal 3 has a scant 28 pages with scattered entries between December, 1958, and July, 1963. I have supplemented journal entries with (1) copies of family Christmas letters written in 1948 and 1967, (2) selections from letters written to family members in the 1950s, and (3) Family Council minutes.
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Most of Elise’s letters were addressed “Dear Family”; in Kenneth’s letter mother is his mother, Elizabeth Ann, Josef is Elise’s father, Fredericka her step-mother, Sylvia and Vera her sisters. Pete is Sylvia’s husband. I’m not sure who Old Uncle Tom Cobley was.
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The full translation of Polak’s Image of the Future was published in 1961.
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The date of Family Council minutes was often recorded in the manner of Friends, using the number of the month rather than the name of the month. This entry was titled 3rd Mo 1960. Here I use standard U.S. date notation.
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Caroline Hamm lived with the family and studied at International Christian University, Mitaka, the year that Kenneth taught at ICU. The Hamm and Boulding families were members of the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting and very close.
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Antioch College’s coop program allowed me to find a job in Colorado and be with the family as they settled in. Mark was studying at the University of Michigan.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Motherhood and Family Life, 1948–1967. In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Autobiographical Writings and Selections from Unpublished Journals and Letters. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46538-8_4
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