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Volume 17, no. 3, Spring/Summer 2002 | ||||||
 In Memoriam
Beatrice Paget Beatrice Mary Paget died in Portland on June 1. She was 105. Paget attended the School of Journalism for two years before leaving to tour the country with Chautauqua, an organization of more than 400 groups that brought lectures, concerts, plays and other events to small towns across the nation. Later, when she met her husband, Lowell Paget, her mother told her she could only marry him if she finished college, so the couple enrolled in Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University. After graduating in 1920, she went on to earn a law degree from Northwestern School of Law, now Lewis & Clark Law School, where she was one of three women in her class. She and Lowell practiced law together until the first of their five children was born. Paget divided her time between working and raising the kids. Paget was politically active; as president of the League of Women Voters in 1935, she helped pass the Aid to Dependent Children bill. She was an avid equestrian, but stopped riding at the age of 90 because she thought her horse, Snowball, had gotten too old. She is survived by her daughters, B. Marky Inkster and Eileen Crim, and sons Lowell C. Paget, Jr. and Dr. Edward T. Paget, along with 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Her daughter Patricia died in 1979. Lillian Price Lillian Price died on June 2, 2002 in Eugene. She was 90. Price was the wife of former SOJC professor Warren Price, who died in 1967. Price was born Oct. 16, 1911, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Wisconsin in 1932. She married Warren Price in 1935. She taught in Milwaukee and also lived in Columbus, Ohio, Oklahoma City, Des Moines, Iowa, and Madison, Wisconsin. She and Warren moved to Oregon during World War II, when he started teaching at the School. Price taught at Glenwood Elementary School from 1956 to 1968, then went on to teach at Meadowlark Elementary School. After retiring from teaching in 1974, she became a tireless volunteer who contributed her time to the First Congregational Church, the Red Cross, Meals on Wheels, the blood bank and Lane County Elections. Dean Gleason remembers Ms. Price, "She stayed involved with the School after Professor Price's death, and was a fixture at events such as the Johnston and Ruhl Lectures." In memory of her husband's passion for journalism history and the importance of journalism to the development and continued democracy of the nation, Price helped establish the Warren C. Price Memorial Award for the best paper on journalism history and the Warren C. Price Memorial Scholarship, which awards $300-$1,500 to an outstanding student of journalism history each spring.
Walter Hempstead, '29 Walter E. Hempstead died in Lady Lake, Florida, on June 20. He was 94. Hempstead was born July 29, 1907, in Arapaho, Okla. He married his wife, Marianne Hempstead in Tuscon, Ariz., on May 4, 1960. He earned a bachelor's degree from the J-School in 1929 and a master's in political science from the University of Oregon in 1931. He taught English at UO from 1929-1932. At the same time, he took classes for his law degree, which he earned in 1934. He was a state representative in Oregon's sixth district from 1938-1940. His wife said, "He told me his mother, Arloa Bell Brown, was the first woman in Oregon to sit on a jury." Although he practiced a variety of law, the bulk was immigration law in Oregon and California. Walter Hempstead retired in 1976, and the couple moved to Houston, where he became a real-estate broker. Hempstead wrote two books; Y.O.L. (Your Own Law): A Guide for Layman, in 1982 and four years later wrote, Those Amazing Americans: Their Trail from Columbus to Columbia. "He was always a writer. I never saw him without a book in his hands," his wife said. He was also quick to quote Thomas Jefferson, one of his heroes and a champion of freedom, said his wife. In 1988, the couple moved to Florida. "We came to Florida because Walter loved to fish," his wife said. Hempstead, an avid reader, had just finished reading a biography on John Kennedy. Marianne said, "Walter was a household name at the Lady Lake libraries because he borrowed so many books."
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