Myrtle Koon Cherryman

[Mrs. Es­mond G. Cher­ry­man]

MYRTLE KOON CHERRYMAN was born in Lisbon, a nearby village which immediately faded off the map when she left. Her father was a country doctor and taught her her first lessons as they drove about the country in the proverbial "horse and buggy". Her mother was interested in the drama and starred her daughter in all the village entertainments. One of her first appearances was as "Mary" in "Ten Nights in a Bar-room", presented in GRANDFATHER CHUBB'S Hotel.

After graduation from Edna Chaffee Noble's School of Elocution in Detroit, Mrs. Cherryman returned to Grand Rapids and taught elocution. For several years she was with a local paper as society and music editor and wrote a daily column "In a Cheery Mood" which was composed of original verse and comment. Her best known books are "Rhymes for Rainy Days" and "Mother Goose Meddlings".

This busy little lady is always in demand as a reader, an elocutionist, for book reviews or just to give advice. Her book reviews at the Y.W.C.A. and her Thursday classes at the Women's City Club are rare intellectual treats. She served as acting pastor at All Souls' Church for eighteen months.

Mrs. Cherryman's greatest interests are her children. Her daughter, MRS. GLADYS TILGHMAN, is very active in the little theater movement in her home in the east; her son, REX CHERRYMAN, had gained an enviable reputation in the motion picture industry and on Broadway before his death while on a vacation trip to Paris in 1928.

Mrs. Cherryman has always been active in the Ladies' Literary Club, in the Scribblers and has just been re-elected president of the Bards. She writes the reviews of the Saturday afternoon lectures; is active on the board of the Civic Players and is educational director of the Delphian and Travel Clubs and of the Gamma Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi.

GRAND RAPIDS MIRROR, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Vol. I, No. 3, Fall, 1933, Pg. 12 (Interesting Personalities), Col. 3.