Margery Frisbie
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Margery Frisbie was a consulting editor, historian, poet and author of several books. r r Born Margery Rowbottom, she graduated from Mundelein College in 1944 with a degree in Biology. After graduation, Margery worked as a chemist until 1948 when she became the Public Relations Director at Mundelein. While she held this position in 1949, Mundelein hired Elizabeth Bentley, a spy for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Called in newspapers the “Red Spy Queen,†Bentley had recently defected and converted to Catholicism. When Bishop Fulton J. Sheen sent word to Catholic schools requesting a job for Bentley, Mundelein offered her a teaching position. As Public Relations Director, Frisbie held a press conference at Mundelein in r response to media interest in the school’s new teacher. Here, she met a reporter for the Chicago r Daily News named Richard Frisbie. The two were engaged four months later and married in June of r 1950. The couple have eight children. r r Margery, while raising her children, also worked as a columnist for The New World and as a r children’s book review editor for the National Catholic Reporter. Her interest in writing manifested r in other ventures as well. She and her husband co-authored two works: The Do-It-Yourself Parentr and The Cana Couplet, the newsletter for the Cana Conference. On her own, Margery wrote several r works including histories of St. James Catholic Church, Arlington Heights Library, the First United r Methodist Church, a collection of poetry about Arlington Heights, and most prominently, An Alley r in Chicago: The Ministry of a Parish Priest, a history of life and work of Monsignor John J. Egan.
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