The San Geronimo Valley Community Center
Del Mué photo - front, 1934
Maurice Del Mué Studio
Del Mué photo - back. Photo discovered by Newall Snyder one day after first being introduced to the mural.
Marty Meade, An Original by Judy North
I moved to San Geronimo in 1969. I was just about to give birth to my daughter Rachel. When she was about three months old, I found an ad in the Independent Journal for a cake decorating class at the YWCA. I’d always wanted to see what that world was like, so I signed up for it. My teacher was Marty Meade. I was so taken with the fact that she designed each project, even the most fancy and complex cakes, with the student’s success in mind. Then I found that Marty lived in Lagunitas, so I offered to carpool. On our trips to and from, I told her I had been working with glass for many years and offered to teach her stained glass.
I wanted to give her the same experience she had given me, helping her to design a successful piece. Marty designed a large, complex Thunderbird image. It was to have a necklace of abalone shell. I knew it was going to be hard to put this together, but I encouraged it, because when she finished this window, she would know everything there was about designing and constructing a stained glass window. When completed, her piece was just beautiful and her husband Bud Meade made a new front door for their home to receive her window. Marty went on to work with glass from that day to this, and to give that gift to countless others. She and I have con- tinued to be dear friends and to work together on many wedding cakes and many parties and celebrations. I have gone on to paint. l-r: Judy North, Dian Allen, Marty Meade, 1978
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50 th Anniversary
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