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Chase County Kansas Historical
Sketches
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Greene, Zula Bennington
Zula Bennington Greene came to Chase County
in 1918 when she married Willard Greene, whom she
met when she was a senior in high school in Colo
rado and he was assistant principal and teacher,
as well as athletic coach. They lived on a farm
near Bazaar, where four children were born. The
two older, Margaret and Edward, died at an early
age. Willard lives in Boca Raton, Florida, and
Dorothy, Mrs. Richard B. Hanger, in Topeka. Willard and Dorothy each have two children.
Mrs. Greene began writing her column, "Flint
Hills Fantasies," in the Chase County Leader,
now the Leader-News, in October 1928 and it has
appeared continuously, making 44 years this October. Several other papers asked to use it and she
became known as ''Peggy of the Flint Hills." The
name Peggy had been given her by the editor for
her first columns, which were about the County
Fair.
In 1933 the family moved to Topeka and she
began writing a column for the Topeka Daily Capital in October of that year, six days a week. This
October marks 39 years with the Capital.
In 1959 she was named Outstanding Newspaper
Woman in Kansas by the Theta Sigma Phi at Kansas
University and in 1969 was given the same honor
by the Theta Sigma Phi chapter at Kansas State
University. She was made an honorary member of
the Emporia State Teachers College chapter of the
National Collegiate Players. In March of this year
she went with the College's drama group to London
to attend plays.
In the late 1930's she wrote a serial for WIBW
Radio, "The Coleman Family," that ran weekly
for two and a half years. She was in a national do
cumentary film, "A Desk for Billie," and has done
some work for Channel 11, the Educational TV in
Topeka. She has been a member of the Topeka
Civic Theatre since the 1930's and conducts a
small drama group as a volunteer worker at Veterans
Hospital. In earlier years she spent a good deal of
time as a volunteer at Topeka State Hospital.
In Topeka she is connected with several educational and cultural organizations and is a member
of the literary committee of the Kansas Cultural
Arts Commission. She and her husband, who died
in 1959, enjoyed taking automobile trips and visited a number of places in this country, Canada and
Mexico.
Chase County Centennial, 1872 - 1972.
by Lorna Marvin.
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