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Show -- NINE The Dreams of My Heart I By the spring of 1950, the Silvers had achieved some status and influence in Colorado and the Denver community. They were forty-nine years old and had been married twenty-one years. Oldest daughter Elizabeth, twenty, had attended Denver's Steck Elementary School, Gave Junior High, and East High School. She entered the University of Utah in 1948 and was pursuing a major in elementary education. Barnard, seventeen, was now a junior at East High. Judith, approaching fifteen, was at Gave Junior High. Brian, not yet eight, was attending Steck Elementary. Madelyn's children gave her much pleasure and not many problems. They distinguished themselves in school and were involved in church activities. During the 1950s Elizabeth would graduate from the University of Utah, teach in the Denver Public School System, marry Robert Marion Clawson, and have three children (one more would follow); Barnard would gradu ate from East High, attend MIT, where he majored in mechan ical engineering, earn a master's degree from Stanford in engi neering mechanics, fulfill an LDS Mission in western Canada, 197 |
