Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGertrude Geertrui Bernadette Reif 
FatherPaul Reif (1897-1962)
MotherMarie-Helene Maria Fleck (1905-1981)
Notes for Gertrude Geertrui Bernadette Reif
{geni:about_me} * BA Mount Holyoke College
* MAA Wesleyan University
* MAT Wesleyan University
* PHD Yale University
* Professor of English & Women's Studies (Emerita), Wesleyan University
Gertrude Reif Hughes is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University, where she served as Chair of her Department and of the Women's Studies Program. The author of Emerson's Demanding Optimism (1984), she has published essays on American poets, including Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., and Adrienne Rich, as well as essays on Rudolf Steiner and feminist thought and on Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. A lifelong student ofAnthroposophy, she is a former chair of the Board of Anthroposophic Press (SteinerBooks) and former President of the Rudolf Steiner (Summer) Institute, where she taught meditation for many years and served on its board. She is a member of the board of Sunbridge College and one of the core faculty of The Barfield School Masters Program at Sunbridge. Her degrees are from Yale University and Mount Holyoke College. As a child, she attended the New York City Rudolf Steiner School.
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'''Kenneth Gerald Hughes'''. b. August 5, 1961-d. August 2, 2014. Son of Gertrude Reif Hughes and the late Robert Gerald Hughes, Ken was born in New Britain, Connecticut. He is an alumnus of Connecticut College. Ken grew up sailing with his family and friends in Connecticut. He switched coasts in 1991 when he moved to San Francisco where he met his wife of 18 years, Elizabeth Sinclair and became a respected and talented general contractor (Hughes McGinnis Builders), an avid sailor, a baseball fan, a loyal friend, a devoted husband and a truly engaged and wonderful father. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, their children, Rebecca (17) and Jamie (15), his mother Gertrude, siblings Lucy Carlson, Tim and Paul Hughes, nieces and nephews Neal, Ian, Annie, Alexander, and Nicholas Hughes and Gavin, Alea and Kaia Carlson. A memorial will be held at Golden Gate Yacht Club at 11am on Thursday, August 14. Donations can be made to The Ken Hughes Scholarship Fund at Golden Gate Youth Sailing Foundation, 1 Yacht Road, San Francisco, CA 94123. Published in San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 12, 2014
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* MAA Wesleyan University
* MAT Wesleyan University
* PHD Yale University
* Professor of English & Women's Studies (Emerita), Wesleyan University
Gertrude Reif Hughes is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University, where she served as Chair of her Department and of the Women's Studies Program. The author of Emerson's Demanding Optimism (1984), she has published essays on American poets, including Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., and Adrienne Rich, as well as essays on Rudolf Steiner and feminist thought and on Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. A lifelong student ofAnthroposophy, she is a former chair of the Board of Anthroposophic Press (SteinerBooks) and former President of the Rudolf Steiner (Summer) Institute, where she taught meditation for many years and served on its board. She is a member of the board of Sunbridge College and one of the core faculty of The Barfield School Masters Program at Sunbridge. Her degrees are from Yale University and Mount Holyoke College. As a child, she attended the New York City Rudolf Steiner School.
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'''Kenneth Gerald Hughes'''. b. August 5, 1961-d. August 2, 2014. Son of Gertrude Reif Hughes and the late Robert Gerald Hughes, Ken was born in New Britain, Connecticut. He is an alumnus of Connecticut College. Ken grew up sailing with his family and friends in Connecticut. He switched coasts in 1991 when he moved to San Francisco where he met his wife of 18 years, Elizabeth Sinclair and became a respected and talented general contractor (Hughes McGinnis Builders), an avid sailor, a baseball fan, a loyal friend, a devoted husband and a truly engaged and wonderful father. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, their children, Rebecca (17) and Jamie (15), his mother Gertrude, siblings Lucy Carlson, Tim and Paul Hughes, nieces and nephews Neal, Ian, Annie, Alexander, and Nicholas Hughes and Gavin, Alea and Kaia Carlson. A memorial will be held at Golden Gate Yacht Club at 11am on Thursday, August 14. Donations can be made to The Ken Hughes Scholarship Fund at Golden Gate Youth Sailing Foundation, 1 Yacht Road, San Francisco, CA 94123. Published in San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 12, 2014
[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.a...sthash.Y4CLQAa4.dpuf Legacy.com obit]