Olive Crowell Beverly

I was born in Natick, Massachusetts, daughter of Prince Sears Crowell and Ethel Iond Moody. I was named Olive "as a sign of peace in war" (World War I) and, like my mother, have always been a "peacenik", and have worked for peace and am proud of it.

I was educated at Wellesley College, Harvard, and Springfield College. I taught at a junior high school for over 20 years and married Carleton, a social worker. After his death, I traveled extensively, spending a semester going to college in Tokyo while I was still a teacher.

My first visit to Woods Hole was when I was six weeks old, to attend the funeral of my grandfather, Azariah Crowell, chemist at the Guano Factory. After that, my family almost always came to Woods Hole in the summer, first to a bungalow on School Street and when I was in high school, to the house on Great Harbor, which my siblings sold after the death of my parents.

It is hardly necessary to mention that I sailed all my life, not skillfully, but enthusiastically, and still do with help. I raced with my father often and raised a single son who also is an enthusiastic sailor.

My husband and I moved to Racing Beach in Falmouth, after our retirement and I moved to Woods Hole fourteen years ago after Carleton's death. I love being able to walk to so many places. If I have any "skills" or "interests" it is in volunteering at my church, at the Woods Hole Historical Museum, at Round the Table and elsewhere in Falmouth for over twenty years.