DOROTHY SANDS BEERS

1917 - 2015

Beers, Dorothy Sands Born June 17, 1917, in the Town of Rye, New York, the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Jerome and Josephine Willson Sands. Graduated from the Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, CT, in 1934 and Bennington College in 1938. After intensive training in the Defense Training Institute in New York became a member of the research staff of Radiation Laboratory working on radar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during World War II. In 1945 married Yardley Beers in Cornwall, CT. Survived by G. Jerome Beers, son; Deborah Yardley Beers-Jones, daughter; Louis Michael Beers and David Jerome Beers, grandsons; and three step-grandchildren. Author of The Prairie Dog, 1990, and other books as well as magazine articles, verse, and short fiction for children and adults. Illustrator for books and magazine articles. Three time winner of Colorado Authors League awards; prize winning artist. Served as member of Jane Addams Children's Book Award Committee. Active in music. Lifelong vegetarian. Volunteer Open Space Guide around Boulder, Colorado. Member, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, League of Women Voters, Democratic Women's Club, Boulder Writer's Club, Hemlock Society. Died January 29, 2015, Jamaica Plain, in Boston, MA. Services are tentatively being planned for this Summer.