“We knew him as Wally,” wrote Committee for Green Foothills’ President Pauline Lord in a 1997 newsletter article remembering the celebrated teacher and author Wallace Stegner. A co-founder of Committee for Green Foothills and its first president, Stegner is a father to our organization whose writings are as relevant today as they were a half...
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Honoring our Founding Mothers and 55th Birthday
On a May evening in 1962 more than two dozen of Ruth Spangenberg’s friends and neighbors gathered in the plant-filled living room of her Page Mill Road home. They were housewives, engineers, teachers, architects and writers who believed a balance needed to be struck between development and open space. That night, Committee for Green Foothills...