People

: Anne Louise (Look) Beauvais; She was born and raised in Grand Junction, Colorado. She attended the Lincoln School as a child (later named the Lincoln Park School), which was a short walk from her house in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. She and her siblings spent summers swimming at the Moyer Pool in Lincoln Park. They also enjoyed playing records and dancing with friends, playing outside in the evenings, and roller skating in the basement. She attended Grand Junction High School, also a short walk from home, where she was a member of the Girls’ League, the honor society Tri-S, the Language Club, the Pep Club, the Ski Club, the Drama Club and the Mixed Chorus. She edited The Handbook and acted in her class plays. She interned under her father in the advertising department at the Daily Sentinel while in high school in the 1940’s. She went to college on a music scholarship at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She attended college with Lester Beauvais of Grand Junction and they became engaged in Boulder. They married in June 1951. After graduation, they moved to Round Lake, Illinois, where Lester worked for the Baxter-Travenol Company. Anne was a homemaker and a soloist with musical groups in the Libertyville area. *Photo from the 1948 Grand Junction High School annual.

: Anne Saunders; She was the Curator of Collections at the Museums of Western Colorado in the 1970's. During that time, she met many area pioneers and the children of pioneers who donated materials to the library, and was struck by the need to record their stories. In 1976, she started the Mesa County Oral History Project, a partnership of the Museum, Mesa County Libraries, and the Mesa County Historical Society, in order to interview pioneers. She left the Museum in 1977.