Goldfoot Genealogy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

                                           Mom and Dad on a date 1932-1933, Portland, Oregon

My mother was born in Tigard in 1914, I believe it was.  She didn't finish her education, leaving home and became a  nanny in SW Portland, Oregon with the Gurion family. There she was exposed to a new culture and home with oriental rugs and chandeliers in a dining room.   She also went to a school in Portland at the same time, THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF COSMETICIANS, Inc.  

Here Mom is with Great Aunt Jessie, sister of our Bubba (paternal grandmother)

Mom was a blue-eyed blonde, 5'6" with English/Irish-Swedish ancestry and had long Betty Grable legs.  It's that that Dad whistled at.  Notice, she's wearing flat shoes.  She was only18 when she graduated Beauty School.  Mom and Dad got married April 29, 1932, so she was just 18 then as well.  I was born when she was 20 in  1934.  

          Mom's Beauty School;  she's in the back combing out a lady's hair on the right.

Affiliated with MARINELLO, Portland, Ore.  

This  certifies that 

                 Mildred Elizabeth Robinson

after meeting all the legal requirements as to matriculation, was admitted and having diligently

pursued the regular courses of instruction as prescribed by the Authorities of the School in the

                       Practical Beautician Training

and after giving satisfactory proof of efficiency in all branches thereof, is hereby awarded this

                       Certificate of Graduation

                   Given this   10th day of January

                  In the year of 1932 under the seal of the school 

            Attest:  Mary Ellen Newman  Neal Anders   Dorothy M. Cole

While walking her charges on 3rd and Lincoln, she passed by the kosher butcher shop that my dad was working in.  He whistled, and a conversation ensued.    They married;  him taking her home to his mother, and Mom becoming a converted Jewish lady.  They eventually moved into the new Ladd's Addition in SE Portland across the Ross Island Bridge, and I was born in 1934.  Lucky Mom never had to work after all that training.  I was the beneficiary of her new found talent!  

She also kept her:

 Certificate of Registration

Oregon State Board of Cosmetic Therapy Examiners

This certifies that Mildred E. Robinson  Tigard, Oregon

Has complied with all provisions of Chapter 399, General Laws of Oregon, 1929, and is authorized to practice

Cosmetology  Hairdressing  Permanent Waving 

In the state of Oregon so long  as all the provisions of said chapter are complied with and annual fees paid.  Under section 15 of this act this license can be suspended or revoked if the licensee fails to keep this certificate on display or violates any of the provisions of this section or permits any violation of the sanitary rules and regulations of the board.  

Dated at Portland, Oregon                                                                   Jean Leese  

                                                                                                               President

January 1932                                                                                       Emma Kalke Haley

                                                                                                                                                      Vice-President

                                                                                                                                                     Frederick U Strufer

                                                                                 Treasurer

  Read this about Marinello   https://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/companies/marinello.php

[Marinello’s] products were used in and distributed through more than 5,000 of the largest and most elegant beauty salons in the country. Marinello did not own these salons but controlled them absolutely.                                                                                             

   Mom started greying early in life, around 29, but she was much older in this picture.  

This shows that back in 1932, people took deals seriously, even graduating beauty school certification.  Every problem was covered and protected by signatures.  

Here's Mom and myself with David's daughter, Michelle, who was born in 1993, so it must be about 1996.  Mom was about 82 years old.  She liked to keep her hair red for a long time.  This was in the yard of her home in Ontario, Oregon.  

                        

Labels: Beauty School, graduation, Mildred Goldfoot