Career
Bill Picklehaupt"s story tells the story accurately and in historical context. Mission Laugenour capitalized on her international fame by making several movies ( one of which the National Film Archives still has in its collection ) and touring the country to promote the movies with an elaborate presentation which included a very large transparent swimming tank, complete with pump motor to approximate tidal conditions. As she was preparing to swim The English Channel, World War I broke out, ending that ambition.
Hazel traced her family"s history back to The Black Forest, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina in Colonial times.
