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Apprentice Lists, 1932-1959

John Geiger devised a series of query procedures to report the names of individuals considered to be Apprentices who were resident in the Taliesin Fellowship on an annual basis. If an Apprentice was married, the presence of the spouse is usually implied as a community participant. To refine the results, these searches often excluded Wright family members, progeny of Apprentices, transient contributors such as musicians, artists, or craftspeople, and other individuals probably not considered to be Apprentices, but whose presence was also recorded in the database. The searches shown here replicate this conservative approach to list the Taliesin Fellowship population in a given year; the names returned for these lists were perhaps meant by Geiger to be seen as the elective membership, those who had joined purposefully. Note that not all, indeed relatively few, Apprentices were chosen to contribute to architectural work in the Wright studio, and may have served principally instead in other roles supportive of general Fellowship life.

Apprentice List, 1935


Note: This list is designed to show the names of individuals residing in the Taliesin Fellowship, including Apprentices and their spouses, but excluding Wright family members, temporary residents at Taliesin such as musicians, artists, or craftspeople, and the progeny of Apprentices. The names shown here are derived by John Geiger from research resources available to him during the 1990s. The list should not be considered definitive, but rather as an aid to further inquiry. Some individuals may have been present who are not recorded, for example, and dates faithfully noted by Geiger might have been inaccurately or inexactly reported in the original reference materials.

Apprentice Count: 32

Baker, Everett (Resident: 1934-1935)
Barnsdall, Betty (Resident: 1933-1936)
Beidler, Paul (Resident: 1933-1935)
Bernoudy, William (Resident: 1932-1935)
Bishop, Robert (Resident: 1932-1935)
Caraway, Cary (Resident: 1935-1942)
Deroche, Marybud (Resident: 1933-1938)
Dombar, Benjamin (Resident: 1934-1941)
Dombar, Abrom (Resident: 1932-1935)
Drake, Blaine (Resident: 1933-1941)
Edman, Charles (Resident: 1932-1935)
Ficke, Sally (Resident: 1933-1935)
Frankl, Peter (Resident: 1934-1938)
Friar, Earl (Resident: 1934-1937)
Goodrich, Burton (Resident: 1934-1945)
Howe, John (Resident: 1932-1964)
Jensen, Karl E (Resident: 1930-1935)
Kaufmann Jr, Edgar (Resident: 1934-1935)
Koch, Hans (Resident: 1934-1942)
Langhorst, Fred L (Resident: 1932-1935)
Lautner, John (Resident: 1933-1939)
Maiden, Germaine (Resident: 1934-1942)
Masselink, Gene (Resident: 1933-1962)
Mosher, Robert Keel (Resident: 1932-1942)
Richards, Sim Bruce (Resident: 1934-1936)
Rovinsky, Anton (Resident: 1935-1938)
Shaw, Irvin (Resident: 1932-1936)
Tafel, Edgar (Resident: 1932-1941)
Thompson, Donald (Resident: 1934-1936)
Van Elston, A. C. (Van) (Resident: 1935-1935)
Wescott, Harold (Resident: 1935-1936)
Yardley, Harry (Harold) (Resident: 1932-1936)