she [Kate Ollendorff] participated in a book-reading class at the institute called Literary Masters, which originally focused on Nobel Prize-winning authors and "books that would elicit a good discussion," according to her friend Ira Weinberg.
"She was very opinionated. She hated F. Scott Fitzgerald. She thought he was too surface," Weinberg said.
She enjoyed Jane Austen and Henry David Thoreau, he said.
At family gatherings, Mrs. Ollendorff often surprised relatives with whimsical poems, accompanied by illustrations.
from Chicago Tribune: Kate Ollendorff, 1925--2010
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