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COAST BUYER'S GUIDE
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Sometimes it is very hard to pul into words the impressions of - - and feelings for - - someone. Such is the case with the lady before our Focus On Camera this week, Mrs. C. R. Beyer.
Ali the feelings are good -	- all the
impressions are beautiful . But during our talks together, although she answered direct questions, her concern for others overshadowed any talK about liersell.
A list of some of her endeavors reflects this concern. Mrs. Beyer helped to organiiii the United.Way in our county
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and worked as its director for ,0 years or iu. She is now executive secretary of the organization.
Earlier she was chairman of the He^rt Fund for Hancock County for 14 years. She was especially happy that so many children could be helped through the Heart Fund. f/rs. Beyer provided transportation for many of these children, as well as helping them in many other ways.
Mrs. Beyer was instrumental in getting the Senior JT.itizens -Progr'am- started in Hancock County. She has also helped gt or.e lime or another with and ~TOi me refaiju.i '-children's program, the Gulf Coast Mental Health Association, RSVP and the summer program, especially the swimming portion i' this activity.
She worked hard making sure that children whose families were in the welfare program had a chjnce to go to summer camp.
As one of her friends remarked, 'Whenever you hear of a good program in this area, you can be sure May Beyer has been on it, for it, or began it herself. She is sure to have advanced its causa in some way."
It seems that May Beyer has. always been interested in helping others. This has been a major part of her life.
One of her comments ' covered this pretty well. / "One doesn't have to be ' rich to help people. One just needs the desire to g do so." She certainty has/()I shown this desire. ;
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Perhaps her best Known writings concern the lady of Hancock County who did so much for mentally retarded children several years ago, Mrs. Arnette Giles. Mrs. Beyer met Mrs. Giles, believed in her work, helped all she could with and for the children, and wrote about what Mrs. Giles was accomplishing. This writing led to a national award in 1971, when Mrs. Beyer accompanied Mrs. Giles to Washington, D.C., where they met President Nixon. Politicians at the timu promised to help further Mrs Giles' cause, but She didn't see too mCdh progress during her lifetime. May Beyer is happy that a new law has been passed to help these youngsters and that more is being done for them now.
She was happy to report during one of our talks that the Retarded Children's School was the first organisation to go into the United Way Fund in our area.
Mrs. Beyer is a Navy widow with three grown children. Her son Charles resides in California. Margaret, Mrs. Neal Burns, lives in Oklahoma. But Betty, Mrs. Peter Benvenutti, is
a resident of '[lay St. Louis. Mrs. Btyer is proud of her 15 grand children and her greatgrandchild.
Besides tier interest in writing and her great concern for children who need help, May Beyer keeps busy with calligraphy, her newest move into art. She is a creative person who does not like to be idle. She believes that the Lord gave everyone brains and ideas to use and that it is almost sinful not to use them.
However, stie says that she ''is not much on physical energy". We believe that she need not worry ^.bout calisthenics
with the energy she expends on others.
May Beyer is an individual who likes to do he> own thing -	-
whether or not it is anyone else's "thing" to do.
Guf whether it is writing of some e else's good wo bringing a needed helpful organization into the area, or just doing what she can behind the scenes to help a secretary find a job. May Beyer accomplishes much by doing tier own
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We are very q have met her a know her.