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Show 198 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER months in the u.s. Army, and work in the sugar indus try with Harold; Judith would attend the University of Utah, serve six marry Wells Peter Poulsen, Jr., and have two children (six more would follow); and Brian graduate from the new George Washington High School after attending Hill Junior High, newly built on Clermont Street, and was a sophomore student at Harvard at the time of Madelyn's death in 1961. Harold was now a member of Denver Rotary, was elected president of the Denver Area Community Chest and director of the National Association of Manufacturers, and was placed in charge of fund-raising for Denver University and the Denver Symphony Society. Harold would go on, in the 1950s, to become director of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company and of the Central City Opera House Association and president of the Denver Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. To Madelyn's great satisfaction, Harold was ordained a High Priest in the Denver Stake, LDS Church, in 1953. In 1960 Harold developed a general plan for a ring diffuser to be used in refining sugar cane, one that was introduced throughout the industry five years later. One reason Madelyn was so well regarded in Denver is that she humanized her husband. A brilliant inventor and hard-driv ing businessman, he was less than patient with those he judged to be incompetent or lazy. A strict moralist, he was not always able to excuse weaknesses of the flesh. He was sometimes abrupt, hard to persuade, and difficult to work with. He expect ed much from himself and therefore felt justified in making demands on others. Madelyn helped him to be more tol heavy erant, more considerate, more sociable. She brought out the good side of him, cultivating his sense of humor, his sense of fairness, his appreciation for the work of others. She loved him and she perceived his honest, hard-working, and faithful qualities. An indulgent husband and father, Harold at was a scintillating dinner conversationalist and full of spirit parties. After the initial years, he provided Madelyn with a good home and an ample income for amenities and opportunities to educate and enrich their children. Harold continued to court |
