Daniel Thomas Ward - born: February 18, 1907
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Daniel was the third child of Daniel "Dolph" Rodolph and Fannie Boydstun Ward. He was born in Beaver County, in the Panhandle of OK.
In August of 1926, the Oklahoma clan (Fannie, Dan, Homer, Cecil, Grace, Ralph and Gladys and her husband Edwin) piled into two cars and went to Denver to visit Damon and Pearl and see the “big city.” When it came time to return home Dan decided to stay and rented a house with Damon and Pearl and their infant son Damon Earl. After Pearl’s untimely death and burial in Floris, Oklahoma, Damon Earl remained with his Grandmother Moss and Dan and Damon returned to Denver. They got an apartment together and Dan joined Damon at Weaver Electric as an armature winder and motor repairman.
In 1930, Dan met Mary Indiana Daniel, born February 14, 1914, in Kingston, Arkansas. Mary was a friend/neighbor of Dad’s sister Grace and she introduced them. They married May 6, 1932, in Denver, CO. Dan left motor repair in 1940 and went to work at the US Mint in electrical maintenance and was there until 1955.
In 1946, Mary began her career in sales, first with Stanley Products then Nobility Silverware Company and Royal Cathay China Company, at each her primary role was training other sales personnel.
When Dan left the US Mint he went to work for the new Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Mary entered a new phase in her work there demonstrating appliances on local television. Dan retired from Civil Service in 1963 and they returned to Denver where they opened Ward's Religious Bookstore. Mary began teacher training with the Sunday School and religious materials they developed. The store was sold in 1969 and they moved to Evergreen. Mary continued teaching for many years. Dan retired again in 1974 after four years at the Denver Art Museum. He said, "I never had a job I did not like."
They had two sons James Daniel (born Jan. 1933) and Dale Ralph (born Feb.1944). Jim graduated from South High School in Denver in 1950, and attended Abilene Christian College for one year then transferred to Colorado State College and then to Denver University, and found time to earn a pilots license at Clinton Aviation School. With the Korean conflict still on and the draft probable Jim enlisted as an Aviation Cadet in the US Air Force.
After his discharge he obtained GI Bill benefits and attended UCLA for one year. He returned to Denver, met Ida M. Benton, they married in 1957 and visited her family in Chicago and Vermont, where she had been born in Bellows Falls in 1927. Ida had attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, and graduated with a degree in business administration and accounting. After visiting the east coast, Denver, Santa Monica, and three months in Europe they settled in San Francisco.
Jim renewed his GI Bill benefits and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a BA in English in 1960. He worked as a technical writer at the Industrial Accident Commission for three years and then returned to UC Berkeley and received a MJ in journalism and political science in 1965. After graduation he was employed by UCLA as a Public Information Representative. He and Ida were separated in March of 1968, and later divorced.
He married Madeleine Korol in Dec. 1969 and they had one child, Victor, born in Feb. 1971. Madeleine was born in Paris in July, 1931. Her mother was from a village in the French Alps, her father was born in Kiev, Ukraine. The family spent the World War II German occupation in the family village, Alby. After the war, the family returned to Paris and then, in 1948, immigrated to the US, settling in New York City. There she studied at the Lycee Francaise and entered Adelphi University as a junior and earned a BA degree in English. She went on to Columbia University were she earned MA (1953) and Ph.D. (1960) degrees in French language and literature. She had become a US Citizen in 1955.
She taught at Columbia University’s College and then at St. John’s University. In 1960 she accepted a year’s appointment as a visiting assistant professor at UCLA. She accepted on a cold and windy day in New York after she had read that the temperature in Los Angeles was 70 degrees. On that profound idea she went to UCLA where she stayed until October of 1991. She specialized in phonetics, folklore and French theater. She began some of the early women’s studies classes at UCLA.
Jim was put in charge of radio, TV and motion picture production for UCLA’s Public Affairs Office. In 1973 and 74 he won CINE Golden Eagle awards given by the US to those who write, direct and produce the best documentary films in America each year in various categories. He also received a medal at the First International Exhibition of Films on Cancer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978.
In 1975 Jim had formed a partnership, “B & C Films,” with anthropologist Brian Weiss to produce and distribute ethnographic films. “The Turtle People,” documenting the hunting of the giant green sea turtle by the Coastal Miskito Indians of Nicaragua was their fist film, followed by an examination of the Miskito’s slash-and-burn agricultural methods. Both have been widely used by colleges and universities around the world.
Madeleine was appointed director of the Statewide University of California’s Education Abroad Program at its flagship campus in Bordeaux, France, 1980-1982, directing the studies of nearly 200 students. She was the first woman to be appointed a program director. Jim resigned from UCLA and he and Victor accompanied her to France.
Back in Los Angeles, Madeleine returned to teaching at UCLA, Victor to his old school, and Jim increased the freelance writing he had been doing for several years. In 1983 he became a writer/editor for the Southern California Association of Governments, SCAG. At the same time he attended UCLA Extension and earned a Teaching Credential, and began teaching English as a Second Language at night. He left SCAG to teach full-time.
In 1992 they began building a new house on 10 acres in the Mother Lode area of the Sierra Foothills which they had bought in 1990. They were able to move in Feb. 28, 1993. In May of 1994 Madeleine was diagnosed with fourth-stage metastatic breast cancer. She died in May of 2000.
After Victor finished the ninth grade in the San Fernando Valley, he discovered that it was possible for him to bypass high school and attend a state community college. He enrolled in a university track program at Santa Monica City College, and after receiving an AA Degree in 1992 he transferred to UCLA where he earned his BA Degree in philosophy in 1994. Following graduation he spent six months traveling around Southeast Asia, and after he returned he went to work in the dot-com industry in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. After Madeleine’s death Victor joined his father in Calaveras County, and after Jim’s congestive heart failure two years later Jim sold the house and they moved to San Andreas. Jim passed away at home on September 3, 2017 of congestive heart failure. He was 84.
Dale graduated from Abilene Christian College in 1970 with a BA in Speech and Drama. While at college he was a full-time news director and anchor man for a local TV station. Dale met his wife to be Patricia Stevens in college. They married and moved to Lubbock, TX and then to Dallas. They have three children Steven Dale Ward (born: Sept. 15, 1968) Stefani Gail Ward (Sept. 21, 1969) Thomas Eldred Ward (July. 27, 1976). Dale returned to school and eventually became a pastor for the Church of Christ.
In August of 1926, the Oklahoma clan (Fannie, Dan, Homer, Cecil, Grace, Ralph and Gladys and her husband Edwin) piled into two cars and went to Denver to visit Damon and Pearl and see the “big city.” When it came time to return home Dan decided to stay and rented a house with Damon and Pearl and their infant son Damon Earl. After Pearl’s untimely death and burial in Floris, Oklahoma, Damon Earl remained with his Grandmother Moss and Dan and Damon returned to Denver. They got an apartment together and Dan joined Damon at Weaver Electric as an armature winder and motor repairman.
In 1930, Dan met Mary Indiana Daniel, born February 14, 1914, in Kingston, Arkansas. Mary was a friend/neighbor of Dad’s sister Grace and she introduced them. They married May 6, 1932, in Denver, CO. Dan left motor repair in 1940 and went to work at the US Mint in electrical maintenance and was there until 1955.
In 1946, Mary began her career in sales, first with Stanley Products then Nobility Silverware Company and Royal Cathay China Company, at each her primary role was training other sales personnel.
When Dan left the US Mint he went to work for the new Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Mary entered a new phase in her work there demonstrating appliances on local television. Dan retired from Civil Service in 1963 and they returned to Denver where they opened Ward's Religious Bookstore. Mary began teacher training with the Sunday School and religious materials they developed. The store was sold in 1969 and they moved to Evergreen. Mary continued teaching for many years. Dan retired again in 1974 after four years at the Denver Art Museum. He said, "I never had a job I did not like."
They had two sons James Daniel (born Jan. 1933) and Dale Ralph (born Feb.1944). Jim graduated from South High School in Denver in 1950, and attended Abilene Christian College for one year then transferred to Colorado State College and then to Denver University, and found time to earn a pilots license at Clinton Aviation School. With the Korean conflict still on and the draft probable Jim enlisted as an Aviation Cadet in the US Air Force.
After his discharge he obtained GI Bill benefits and attended UCLA for one year. He returned to Denver, met Ida M. Benton, they married in 1957 and visited her family in Chicago and Vermont, where she had been born in Bellows Falls in 1927. Ida had attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, and graduated with a degree in business administration and accounting. After visiting the east coast, Denver, Santa Monica, and three months in Europe they settled in San Francisco.
Jim renewed his GI Bill benefits and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a BA in English in 1960. He worked as a technical writer at the Industrial Accident Commission for three years and then returned to UC Berkeley and received a MJ in journalism and political science in 1965. After graduation he was employed by UCLA as a Public Information Representative. He and Ida were separated in March of 1968, and later divorced.
He married Madeleine Korol in Dec. 1969 and they had one child, Victor, born in Feb. 1971. Madeleine was born in Paris in July, 1931. Her mother was from a village in the French Alps, her father was born in Kiev, Ukraine. The family spent the World War II German occupation in the family village, Alby. After the war, the family returned to Paris and then, in 1948, immigrated to the US, settling in New York City. There she studied at the Lycee Francaise and entered Adelphi University as a junior and earned a BA degree in English. She went on to Columbia University were she earned MA (1953) and Ph.D. (1960) degrees in French language and literature. She had become a US Citizen in 1955.
She taught at Columbia University’s College and then at St. John’s University. In 1960 she accepted a year’s appointment as a visiting assistant professor at UCLA. She accepted on a cold and windy day in New York after she had read that the temperature in Los Angeles was 70 degrees. On that profound idea she went to UCLA where she stayed until October of 1991. She specialized in phonetics, folklore and French theater. She began some of the early women’s studies classes at UCLA.
Jim was put in charge of radio, TV and motion picture production for UCLA’s Public Affairs Office. In 1973 and 74 he won CINE Golden Eagle awards given by the US to those who write, direct and produce the best documentary films in America each year in various categories. He also received a medal at the First International Exhibition of Films on Cancer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978.
In 1975 Jim had formed a partnership, “B & C Films,” with anthropologist Brian Weiss to produce and distribute ethnographic films. “The Turtle People,” documenting the hunting of the giant green sea turtle by the Coastal Miskito Indians of Nicaragua was their fist film, followed by an examination of the Miskito’s slash-and-burn agricultural methods. Both have been widely used by colleges and universities around the world.
Madeleine was appointed director of the Statewide University of California’s Education Abroad Program at its flagship campus in Bordeaux, France, 1980-1982, directing the studies of nearly 200 students. She was the first woman to be appointed a program director. Jim resigned from UCLA and he and Victor accompanied her to France.
Back in Los Angeles, Madeleine returned to teaching at UCLA, Victor to his old school, and Jim increased the freelance writing he had been doing for several years. In 1983 he became a writer/editor for the Southern California Association of Governments, SCAG. At the same time he attended UCLA Extension and earned a Teaching Credential, and began teaching English as a Second Language at night. He left SCAG to teach full-time.
In 1992 they began building a new house on 10 acres in the Mother Lode area of the Sierra Foothills which they had bought in 1990. They were able to move in Feb. 28, 1993. In May of 1994 Madeleine was diagnosed with fourth-stage metastatic breast cancer. She died in May of 2000.
After Victor finished the ninth grade in the San Fernando Valley, he discovered that it was possible for him to bypass high school and attend a state community college. He enrolled in a university track program at Santa Monica City College, and after receiving an AA Degree in 1992 he transferred to UCLA where he earned his BA Degree in philosophy in 1994. Following graduation he spent six months traveling around Southeast Asia, and after he returned he went to work in the dot-com industry in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. After Madeleine’s death Victor joined his father in Calaveras County, and after Jim’s congestive heart failure two years later Jim sold the house and they moved to San Andreas. Jim passed away at home on September 3, 2017 of congestive heart failure. He was 84.
Dale graduated from Abilene Christian College in 1970 with a BA in Speech and Drama. While at college he was a full-time news director and anchor man for a local TV station. Dale met his wife to be Patricia Stevens in college. They married and moved to Lubbock, TX and then to Dallas. They have three children Steven Dale Ward (born: Sept. 15, 1968) Stefani Gail Ward (Sept. 21, 1969) Thomas Eldred Ward (July. 27, 1976). Dale returned to school and eventually became a pastor for the Church of Christ.
