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Local woman named to Who's Who
Bay St. Louis resident Mrs. Charles R. Beyer has recently been named to the 1976-77 edition of Who?s Who in American Women fcr her 25 years of service to various local charitable organizations.
In addition to her 25 year volunteer service to the American Red Cross, Mrs. Beyer served as chairmen of the Hancock County Mississippi Heart Association from 1954 to 1964 and was responsible for conducting the yearly fund drive for that organization.
She is commended in the Who?s Who edition for her work directing heart patients, especially children, in treatment and corrective surgery.
In 1964, Mrs. Beyer along with 11 other residents joined to form the first United Fund in the area. She became executive secretary and is serving the organization presently in a semi-retired capacity.
The honoree has also been
involved in the formation of the mental health clinic on the Gulf Coast and was instrumental in establishing a mental helath clinic each Friday at St. Augustine Seminary in Bay St. Louis.
The Hancock County Retarded Children?s Association is another of Mrs. Beyer?s projects. She has been involved in recent years in establishing programs for the education, training and correction of physical disabilites affecting the children.
As publicity chairman for Mayor Warren Carver in the National Action Program, Mrs. Beyer actively worked for the nomination and election of Mrs. Arnette Giles of Bay St. Louis as number one national volunteer.
Outside of Hancock County the honoree has directed the program of summer camps sponsored by Kingsley House in New Orleans for un-derpriveleged children.
As her most recent
,'ichievement, Mrs. Beyer was !. member of the original task 1 iorce to establish a new model 1 nrogram for the elderly at the nulti-purpose Valena C. Jones Center in Bay St. Louis. The 1 program enables senior citizens to remain in their homes by providing needed services including nutrition, transportation, home care, nursing care, companionship, entertainment, arts and crafts and legal aid.
Mrs. Beyer, the wife of Navy Commander, the late Charles Rogers Beyer, is the mother of three children, Mrs. i Peter Benvenutti of Bay St. 'Louis, Mrs. Norma Burns of jTulsa, Oklahoma, and Charles
H.	Michel of Anaheim,' jCalifornia, and grandmother 'of 16.	*
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