Oceana County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Chandler, Gladys Wise 
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Cemetery:           Evergreen (Stony Lake)
Name:               Gladys Wise Chandler

Date Of Photograph: October 29, 2010
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                   AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION
            RECOGNIZED BY THE A.Y.E.,GLADYS WAS HONORED
         WITH THE INDIAN NAME, TA-KU-TAN-TON PHYSICAL DIRECTOR
                        GLADYS WISE CHANDLER
                   JUNE 18, 1894 - MARCH 17, 1969

GLADYS WISE CHANDLER WAS BORN IN MADISON, WICONSIN. THE OLDEST OF FIVE, SHE 
GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN 1919 AND MARRIED ARTHUR L. 
CHANDLER THAT SAME YEAR. FOLLOWING A TEACHING FELLOWSHIP AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 
GLADYS BECAME THE FIRST ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FOR THE AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION 
WHILE IT WAS STILL LOCATED AT LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN.

GLADYS WAS THE MOTHER OF FOUR SONS: MALCOLM A. (PAXIE); DOUGLAS S. (PEGGY); C. 
HEWITT (KAY) AND ARTHUR W. (MARY). SHE HAD EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN.

WHILE HER FIRST LOVE WAS SHARED BETWEEN HER FAMILY AND CHURCH, GLADYS 
SUPPORTED THE AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEALS UPON WHICH IT 
WAS FOUNDED. BEGINNING IN 1925 WHEN THE CAMP MOVED TO STONY LAKE, GLADYS AND 
FAMILY BECAME SUMMER RESIDENTS, AS SHE DEVOTED HER TIME TO THE A.Y.E. AND ITS 
MANY ATHLETIC PROGRAMS. SHE TAUGHT SWIMMING, SAILING AND CANOEING ON STONY 
LAKE AS WELL AS VARIOUS SPORTS "UP IN THE DUNES".

LOVED BY ALL WITH WHOM SHE HAD CONTACT. GLADYS WAS KNOWN FOR HER UNIQUE 
COMBINATION OF COMMON SENSE, POSTIVE ATTITUDE AND QUICK HUMOR.


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