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  • How can she be famous when I have never heard of her. How about dropping by and say HI to Jen.
  • 1) "Marjabelle Young Stewart (16 May 1924 – 3 March 2007) was an American writer and expert on etiquette. Marjabelle Young Stewart was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa to a great-grandson of poet William Cullen Bryant. She lived in an orphanage after her parents divorced. She married scientist Jack Davison Young and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1941. She became a model and came into contact with Washington society as a result. She moved to Kewanee, Illinois in 1962 after marriage to attorney William E. Stewart. She went on to teach etiquette and manners to American Presidents such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. Stewart died of pneumonia at a Kewanee nursing home, at the age of 82 " Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjabelle_Young_Stewart 2) "Marjabelle Young Stewart, who was widely known as the Queen of Couth for her vast, genteel empire of books and classes about etiquette, died March 3 in Kewanee, Ill. She was 82 and had lived in Kewanee for many years. The apparent cause was pneumonia, her husband, William E. Stewart, said. A familiar presence on the lecture circuit and on television, Mrs. Stewart was a member of the small, white-gloved pantheon that has lately included Letitia Baldrige, Elizabeth Post and Judith Martin, also known as Miss Manners. Over decades, Mrs. Stewart initiated millions of people, from college students and business executives to the children of presidents, into the mysteries of wielding a fish fork (“gently and with a light touch”) and the proper way to eat a hot dog (“wrap it with a napkin”). She also presided over a national network of etiquette classes for young people that at its height had franchises in several hundred cities in the United States. Called White Gloves (for girls) and Blue Blazers (for boys), the classes were often held in cooperation with department stores. The programs still exist, though on a reduced scale, Mr. Stewart said. Mrs. Stewart’s many books include “Marjabelle Stewart’s Book of Modern Table Manners” (St. Martin’s, 1981); “Can My Bridesmaids Wear Black? And 325 Other Most-Asked Etiquette Questions” (St. Martin’s, 1989); and “Executive Etiquette in the New Workplace” (St. Martin’s, 1996; with Marian Faux)." Source and further information: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/us/11stewart.html?_r=1

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