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served for over thirteen years as class holder for the School ofSpiritual Science in San Diego, and in 1989 was one of the cofoundersof the San Diego Branch of the Anthroposophical Societyin America, designing the Branch newsletter’s masthead.She published three children’s books that she both wrote andillustrated: A Dandelion’s Cousin (Adonis Press); Nut-hat (MercuryPress); and Sleep Sheep (Switzerland, out of print). After herretirement, Gertrude and Walter continued to live in Point Lomawhere Gertrude loved to take daily walks to the beach with herdog, Spunky.Anja Lasthaus, Waldorf School of San Diego,with contributions from family and friendsA black and white drawing from Nut-hat, the children’s bookwritten and illustrated by Gertrude Teutsch. It included illustrationsof the king of the Olms, called “Nut-hat, “for the acorn shellhe wears for a hat. To help young children think about dying,Gertrude has the old king, Nut-hat, choose his successor and then,while the Olms watch, transform and become part of the branchesof an elder bush. (Courtesy of the San Miguel Branch newsletter.)I gaze into the darkness.In it there arises Light—Living Light.Who is this Light in the darkness?It is I myself in my reality.This reality of the IEnters not into my earthly life;I am but a picture of it.But I shall find it againWhen with good will for the SpiritI shall have passed through the Gate of Death.Rudolf SteinerOther Members Who Have DiedFranklin G. Kane, Petaluma, CA; joined 1/9/1962; died 10/2009Carsten Pank, Sprakers, NY; joined 3/8/1972; died 10/23/2005New Members of theAnthroposophical Society in AmericaAs recorded by the society from 9/1/2009 through 12/11/2009Candice A. Achenbach,Lomita CADaniel Allen, Grass Valley CAShirley Alves, New York NYBeverly Amico, Boulder COClaire Anacreon, Waquoit MAMatthew Anderson,Mill Valley CAJames B. Ayers, Amherst MARobert Gary Bakelaar,Allendale NJLaura Barrett, Rifton NYKelley Bays, Sharon VTAnne Hughes Kollender Bennett,Portland ORAdrienne Berg, Grand Bay ALMargarete Bodmer, Clearlake CAKristine Boshell, Santa Rosa CAJacob Tyler Boveri,Dornach SwitzerlandKristina Boving, Hope Valley RIAnne Brookhyser, Paoli INTina Brown, Salt Lake City UTJoel T. Bundy, Chesapeake VALaura Coady, Tempe AZThadd Coates, Grove OKRebecca Rain Cohen,Spring Valley NYPaige Ellen Coir, Jamesville NYCaitlin E. Costello, Freeport MELynne Curcio, Denver COKim Delvo, Hamilton MTLorraine Dopson, Bismarck NDK. Rainer Dornemann,Sarasota FLLouise Drosse, Amherst MANadia Ellis, Edmond OKPamela M. Engler, Seattle WAPeggy Finnegan, Anchorage AKBruce Frantzis, Fairfax CALaura Gabelsberg, Spring TXDeborah M. Gerard, Alford MAHolly Gettinger, Birmingham ALCamilla Gorham, Ann Arbor MISatu Gruenstein, Tacoma WASusan E. Hansen, South Lyon MIMarleny Alfaro Hernandez,Dunedin FLRobert Hickman, Fair Oaks CACarole Hicks, Montana City MTCharlton Hughes, Baltimore MDJessica Johnson, Auburn MAMaureen Karlstad, Viroqua WIRobert Kellum, Portland ORBelle Kent, Collinsville CTOksana Latimer, Sumner WADaniel LePorin, Sea Cliff NYLeslie Loy, Glenmoore PAAmelia MacDonald, Fair Oaks CACatherine Marcial, Bloomfield NJSusan McHenry, Naperville ILP. Mark Miner, Clinton CTDebbie S. Natzke, Tempe AZNorma Neal, Montana City MTPatrick Nielsen, Baldwin NYFrancois Novotny, Airmont NYColleen O’Connors, Richmond RICoco O’Donnell,San Francisco CASandy Olliges, Boulder Creek CAEileen O’Meacham, Dublin NHMiriam Chaves- Ortiz,Bellerose NYSantiago Ortiz, Bellerose NYMarie-Eve Piche, Spring Valley NYTamara Potselueva, Clinton CTDavid Putnam, Brooklin MEElizabeth J. Roosevelt,Decatur GARudiger Earl John Ruckmann,Keene NHPolly Sanford, Seattle WAAnn D. Sawyer, Preston CTHilmar Schaumann, New York NYDebra Shiba, Sacramento CAAurore Sibley, Saint Paul MNJohanna Spears, Auburn MALinda Stasiak, Hampton Bays NYCourtney Sullivan, Spencer NYElizabeth Uppenbrink,Palm Harbor FLAmy Vickers, Amherst MAMissy Whaley, Glouster OHLaura D. Whyte,Great Barrington MARobert Wolf, Decorah IAFall-Winter 200949