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Rh "Ode to Irrigation." On permanent Pioneer Commission of the State of Colorado. Has written a History of El Paso County. Officier de l'Instruction Publique. Internationally known for her exploratory and research work among the Colorado Cliff Dwellings. Explorer and creator of Mesa Verde National Park. U. S. Delegate to the Ethnological Congress of the Paris Exposition (1901). French Government awarded her the Gold Palm of the Academy. Since 1895, Regent-General of National Colorado Cliff Dwellings Ass'n. Member: Society of Mayflower Descendants, D. A. R., Society of Descendants of Colonial Governors. Clio Club of Denver (honorary), Chicago Historical Society (corresponding member). Travel Club, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare Club and several organizations. Summer Home: Custom House, Stonington, Conn. Home: 619 North Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado.

PERRY, Bertha Vaessen, (Mrs.), born in Denver, Colorado, July 23, 1895, daughter of Joseph G. and Rose Casper Vaessen, life-long residents of the state. Married to Harold Webster Perry. Lawyer. Assistant to General Attorney D. & R. G. W. Railroad Company; secretary and director of Women's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce; director of Big Sister Organization; since 1920 on Committee of laws for women and children,