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Marjorie McDonald was an extraordinary woman of the 20th century. When she died at 96 in March 1995, she left a legacy in her artwork. After childhood in Indiana, high school and college in Oregon (where she was an interscholastic tennis champion), and steelhead fishing with her husband, John, she became a teacher. She taught at a Portland, Oregon high school and evening courses to Russians who were in Portland during World War II. She went to England to study Russian, returning to Portland to become the first high school teacher of Russian in the United States. She believed that teaching American students the Russian language would be a positive effort in easing the strained American-Russian relations of that time, and she visited the Soviet Union on three occasions before she retired in 1963. |