PAUL ELMER FOSTER
Paul E. Foster (1919-1998, born Chagrin Falls, Ohio) is my father. This
WebSite is composed of memories of his that he wrote when he first started having severe
health problems and I asked him to write down his memories for me. They are reproduced
here for others' enjoyment and edification. He was proud of his McFarland heritage and
traced his roots back, through Richard Warren of the Mayflower, to Scotland. He has
written a detailed genealogy. Perhaps his relationship to the real Mother Goose makes him
such an engaging writer.
He graduated from Case School of Applied Science (Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity) and was immediately commissioned into the U.S. Navy (Commander, USNR) which
sent him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After the war, he moved back to the
Cleveland area and worked for Arthur G. McKee and Co. He left McKee and joined our nation's space program. What really ignited a flame in his
heart was America's space program. He served as Chief of Technology Utilization and
traveled all over the country speaking on the benefits and spin-offs of our space program.
He met the original cast of Star Trek and credits the show with making the space program
more personal to Americans.
He and Julie had two children, Paul Elmer Foster, Jr. (married to Leslie
Beck) and Janine Allayne Foster (married to Judge Bruce Woody), and our family traveled
all over the country and to other countries. He was very active in his community and
church. The songs that accompany the letters represent things which were important to him:
his faith, his work, his wife and family, his friends.
JANINE ALLAYNE FOSTER WOODY
Janine Foster Woody by
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LINKS TO THE LETTERS:
Spring Cleaning
We Ate Pretty Well
Where We Lived
Stocking the Larder
Home and Family
Amusement and Recreation
Kinfolks
Workaday World
Sports 'n Other Stuff
Brigadoon Falls
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