Program features women in local history

Sister Mary Paschalis, a nun at Sacred Heart School in Klamath Falls, is among the individuals who will be featured in a program Sunday on women in local history. (Klamath County Museum)

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Five women who have played significant roles in Klamath Basin history will be featured in a program Sunday, March 31, at the Baldwin Hotel Museum, 31 Main St.

The program will be presented at 1 p.m., and repeated at 3 p.m. Admission to the hour-long is free. Refreshments will be served.

Sister Mary Paschalis, a nun at Sacred Heart School in Klamath Falls, is among the women to be featured in the program. Paschalis taught art and music at the Catholic school from 1924 to 1944.

Other featured women who lived in the area include Enola Hawkins, who served as a librarian in Klamath Falls for 34 years; Beulah Elliott, a longtime teacher in Klamath County schools; Hattie Lewis, a hide buyer and property developer, and Vera Moore Jones, theater operator and owner of the Baldwin Hotel.

Sunday’s event is the fifth annual program on women in local history, offered in recognition of March being women’s history month.

For more information contact the Klamath County Museum at (541) 882-1000.

Press release provided from the Klamath County Museum .