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Trrmryr Sunday Press cPms T' r'T Women's i 4 2 (1 I fi V- 19 ASBURY PARK SUNDAY PRESS, Dtc. 6, 1964 fi Vv.i I I MJi lit '1 "1-- "4 triS i mri" "iurr wi iiiiihiiii iiifwim i inn I HwnMwHHMMWitWAMl Linirt' ttimriWfffflniniiii wi tiiww Indian relics line the top of the desk behind Elizabeth A. Cooper, Matawan, who takes time out from working to relax with Marty, her Great Pyrenees. while Pelagie Doane Hoffner, Glendola, Wall Township, has her 15-year-old pet, "Momsie," keep her company ht works at the drawing board in her sunny studio. Author at Work Here's How 4 Shore Women Practice Wordsmanship By DOROTHY MORRISSEY Press Staff Writer 3 Jl 1 i $, 7) 7-' A oT Certainly the Age of "Writing is the most mir aculous of.

all things man has devised. Carlyle Women, gifted with gab, are traditionally never at a loss for words. Making them fall into a readable pattern upon a page is more difficult. But for four Shore women, who give hours of reading pleasure to people of all ages, it's all in a day's work. Typical working authors are Elizabeth A.

Cooper, Matawan, Pelagie Doane, Glendola, Wall Township, and Katherine N. Cutler, Manatoloking. All work from six to eight hours a day. Another writer, Doris Barrabee, Oakhurst, Ocean Township, author of several short stories, writes as a hobby. Elizabeth A.

Cooper, winner of the $5,000 Doubleday Catholic Prize Fiction Award in 1960 for "No Little Thing," starts her day no later than 8:30 in a large studio on the lower level of her parents'' home, 7 Lakeside Drive, Matawan. On Endurance Basis "The time spent at my desk is on an endurance basis," she said. "I usually work from six to eight hours a day." She work3 at a big old-fashioned roll-top desk. A typewriter, unabridged dictionary, and bookcases complete the work area. Another part of the room is attractively furnished with chairs and sofa for lounging.

Miss Cooper has just had published her second novel, "The Hostages," and is working on a new book. "I have always wanted to be a writer," she said. At Metuchen High School she wrote news for the local newspaper and helped start a school paper. She was graduated from the College of New Rochelle in 1945 and after that took graduate writing courses at Fordham University, Former Newspaper Editor She was born in Anaconda, Mont. She spent several years as editor with the Gallup (N.M.) Independent.

She lived at the Catholic Indian Center during her job on the newspaper and settled briefly in Sante Fe. Miss Cooper likes relics of the Old West and this is reflected in the decor of her studio. Indian carvings, Hopi and Spanish American colonial objects decorate the walls of Bermuda coral, which Miss Cooper claims is "nearest to the adobe color in the West." Fire strikers, keys, branding irons and bits 'carry out the motif In addition to writing, Miss Cooper has been known to Shore residents as a musician. She is a harpist. v- Pelagie Doane, noted illustrator and author of children's books, works an eight-hour day in a home-workshop on Hamilton Glendola, Wall Township.

Author Since 1947 Miss Doane has been writing since 1947. She has written a dozen books and illustrated 90. The majority of her stories and illustrations have Bible or religious themes. "I make a rough outline of my story," Miss Doane said. "Then type it, cut it up, paste in the dummy, and make rough sketch in the proper spots.

Her second floor studio was converted from a sun porch before she and her the late See AUTHOR Page 22 Informal family pictures and literary-awards surround Katherine N. Cutler, Mantoloking, who has a mid-January deadline for her new book, "How to Select and Decorate with Plants." CHATTER 010)1 ar-rn r- "in" rw1W'Ml- 11 I 1111 i jr vbim nrn nni it i prjP Jnpy 1 1 wk immmimumfwmwmmmm il North Syracuse, N.Y. Mr. Hanlon and Mrs. Clute are brother and sister of Mrs.

Van Sickle. Southard Miss Gets Award Miss Paula Blankstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Blankstein, 59 Church Southard, has received the Pi Mu Epsilon honorary award for outstanding achievement in mathematics at Marquette University; Milwaukee, where she is a senior. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert T. Brown, 314 Broad Eatontown, and their three children, Barbara, Robert, and Patricia, have returned from a motor trip to Daytona Beach, Fla. Mr. Brown is owner of the Sweeney Agency, realtors and insurors, Sea Bright.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hampton, 107 Manalapan Freehold, have returned from a trip to California. They visited San Carlos and San Francisco. During part of their trip they were accom- panied by Mr.

and Mrs. Waller Siebert, Sunnyvale, formerly of Union City. Mr. and Mrs. William M.

E. Hess, Woodland Point Pleasant Beach, have returned home from a week's visit with their son, William and his family in Foxboro, Mass. On Thanksgiving they visited Plymouth Rock and saw the Mayflower II. They also visited Boston and Hartford, Conn. Couple Visits Kansas Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Estenes, 385 Park Freehold, have returned from Wichita, where they visited her brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Bradbury. Miss Patricia Montamat, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Montamat, 10 Auldwood Lane, Rum-eon, has been elected into membership in "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." She is a member of the June graduating class at Caldwell College for Women. By A Press Staff Writer, Donald W. Boice 10 Majestic, Middletown Township, vhajs been appointed Monmouth County chairman the antral New Jersey Committee of the St. iCawreffce University Second Century Development Council.

Mrs. Lydia G. Johnstone, Island View Way, Sea Bright, is recuperating at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Victor Dingle, Silverside Little Sil-ver, after being a surgical patient at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. During her three week stay at the hospital she received a personal "get well" letter from President Johnson.

Mrs. Johnstone is the wife of (G. Johnny Johnstone, veteran publicist-news director in broadcasting. Mr. John-: stone has known the President since his early Con- gressional days and particularly in 1940, when Mr.

Johnstone, supervised all broadcast details for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Relief Clothing Delivered I Mr. and Mrs. William J. Major, 504 Buttermere Interlaken, have returned from a trip to where they delivered a carload of clothing for shipment to Lutheran World Relief's i Thanksgiving appeal The clothing items were gifts ro the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, Asbury Park.

Miss Elizabeth A. Munson, 24 Deerfield Lane, Mata wan, is a member of the chorus at the Ohio State University School of Music, Columbus, which is presenting Handel's "Messiah" at the 32nd an-; nual White Christmas program today in St John's Arena," Columbus. The chorus is made up of 400 vokfes. 'yV Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Parker WJ Van Sickle and Mrs. Belle Reinert, 629 E. Cape May Ocean Gate, were Mrs. Florence Clute, Scotia, N.Y and Miss Ann Westlake, Mrs. Francis Hanlon, and Mr nd Mrs.

John Hanlon, As chairman of the creative writing department of the Asbury Park Woman's Club, Doris D. Barrabee, Oakhurst, Ocean Township, does research for the monthly classes she conducts at the clubhouse. (Press Photos).