MARY LEE LEWIS
(1916-1998)From the NCGR MemberLetter, Spring, 1998:
Mary Lee was a Great Books Program Coordinator and leader from 1951 through the 1960's. She founded these programs in Lincoln, Nebraska and Wichita, Kansas. She also began the first high school program in the nation in Wichita, Kansas, as she believed in and loved young people.
During the 1960's, she became interested in astrology, and moved to California for studies at the First Temple, and became an accredited advanced astrologer for the American Federation of Astrologers. She lectured for the AFA locally and at national conferences.
When she moved to Denver in the 1970's, she taught beginning to advanced classes for the Colorado Astrological Association. Though an advanced astrologer herself, her great love was getting the novice started. She did private readings for clients all over the world. Her most famous client was Famous Amos, the cookie mogul.
She combined her astrological interest with another passion, ice-skating, and did charts for many figure skaters doing research on what elements were in champion skaters' charts. (The US Figure Skating Association's Headquarters was nearby.) Her persistence allowed her to get the birth times for skaters which had never before been published. Dell Horoscope, December 1989, Ice-Skating. Champions: Charts of Skill and Grace. Somehow her love of beauty did not prevent her from being an avid hockey fan and promoter as well, from her high school days to her death.
BIRTH AND DEATH DATA: As given in the NCGR Memberletter, Mary Lee Lewis was born October 16, 1916, at 10:00 AM, Kansas, City Missouri. She died on March 5,1998, at approximately 3:30 am, in Fort Collins, Co.
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