| Show Volunteer By ALISON GODDARD Can a woman lead a satisfying working hard for no Lavina Gertrude sure she as her friends call has saved protected wildlife and raised funds for school For more than 25 she's been rewarded-not with a with the knowledge that she's a public Defending her to feminist critics who charge that women who offer their services free are being Falconer says we didn't vitally needed services would not be available to the DURING world war before she was Falconer worked as an occupational therapist in D.C. army She enjoyed her salaried although she didn't like the fact that was so you know who's the In a volunteer she can be a key person if you know how to move others The California housewife's volunteer commitment began when her oldest child was still a toddler One morning a week she pitched in at her son's nursery that the kids got to the potty and that they didn't spill the THEN SHE was named nursery school president and became a part-time She coordinated volunteers and once had most unpleasant task of having to fire paid This cheerful woman of 55 is proud of her ability to a talent she may have inherited from her who managed an apple orchard in Vermont in the MAY not have known much about she he knew how to hire people who Hanging around his office as a I must have observed him and absorbed some of his Kelly Falconer's volunteer activities reflect her changing lifestyle and many As a young mother she was involved with the local League of Women Voters U member and B second president of the Rich- B mond m IN RECENT ecology ff projects like the West Coast 1 Conservation Califor- B nia Native Plant Society and B San Francisco Bay H tion have taken up her I Mobilizing public support through telegrams and phone calls one frustration is I can't speak I well before Falconer is proud and pleased when her efforts n John a H successful attorney and cor- B approves-except when B Falconer and some of the R bunch of ladies I K hang out march on the California legislature or K publish letters in the local m she not exactly m ECOLOGY and pollution don't seem to concern her although she reads that younger generation is supposed to care about these who is married to a law school manages a stereo repair shop in is studying mechanical en- owns two and is to her knees in Her mother is convinced she'll be a horse breeder or |
