Mary Roddis Connor

Background

Connor, Mary Roddis was born on May 14, 1909 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Hamilton and Catherine S. (Prindle) Roddis.

Education

Student, Wellesley College, 1927-1928; student, University Wisconsin, 1929.

Career

Corporation secretary, Connor Lumber and Land Company, Connor Forest Industries, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1954-1978; co-founder, executive director, Camp Five Museum Foundation, Inc., Laona, since 1968. Board directors, vice president Hamilton Roddis Foundation. President Connor Foundation, Forest History Association Wisconsin, 1975-1987.

Vice president Gordon R. Connor Charitable Foundation. Member National Women's Advisory Council, American Forest Products Institute, 1960-1978. Active Mary Roddis Connor University of Wisconsin Endowment Fund, 1992.

Achievements

• Mary Roddis Connor has been listed as a noteworthy Foundation administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • A century with Connor timber: Connor Forest Industries, 1872-1972

    (The story of Connor Forest Industries.)

  • A Century With Connor Timber: Connor Forest Industries 1872-1972
  • A Century with Connor Timber : Connor Forest Industries 1872-1972

Membership

Legislation chairman 7th District Wisconsin Federation Republican Women, 1963-1965, board directors, 1955-1965, vice chairman 1955-1959. Delegate Republican county, state, national conventions, 1962. Vice chairman Marathon County.

Republican vice chairman. Member Wisconsin Mayflower Society, Colonial Dames (Wisconsin Society), The Hugenot Society of Wisconsin, Bascom Hill Society (University of Wisconsin ), Lake States Resource Alliance, Inc., Lake States Women in Timber, Inc., Forest History Association of Wisconsin, State History Society of Wisconsin, National Trust for History Preservation, Wausau chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (national vice chairman resolutions 1965-1968, Wisconsin state chairman national defense, 1962-1965, national conservation chairman 1974-1977, recipient many awards).

Connections

Married Gordon R. Connor, July 20, 1929 (deceased 1986). Children: Mary I. Pierce, Gordon P., Catherine Dellin, David (deceased), Sara W. Connor.

Father:

Hamilton Roddis

Mother:

Catherine S. (Prindle) Roddis

Spouse:

Gordon R. Connor

child:

Gordon P. Connor

child:

Sara W. Connor

child:

Catherine Dellin Connor

child:

David Connor (deceased)

child:

Mary I. Pierce Connor