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TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP

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.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR William Wendt

Note: The following information was accumulated by John Geiger from diverse resources over more than 20 years. The extent of record entry varies from individual to individual. Birth date rarely occurs, for example, while date of death is more frequently recorded. Sources may be cited in footnotes or otherwise commented by Geiger. Sometimes such notes may be indicated that are not present in the comments. Unless otherwise indicated, dates of arrival or departure are annualized (e.g. as being any time between January 1 and December 31 of any year). Sometimes dates are given for month and/or day; these may have ambiguous or unknown values indicated by John Geiger with question marks.

Dates of residence in Taliesin Fellowship: 1947-1947.

Primary Geiger Database Record Number for this individual: #1671.

Comments and Citations by John Geiger

Comment field 1: Kassler; letter to Toledo, Ohio returned by PO.

Identification code categories:


Member of the Taliesin Fellowship community.

Recorded as deceased.

Recorded as involved in Georgi Ivanovich Gurdjieff teachings with Olgivanna Lloyd Wright

Non-Print Records Comments

Note: Due to various limitations of function in the early versions of his database, John Geiger developed a series of entries for some individuals in order to indicate second, often successive, married names. These were designated as non-print records in his identification code scheme, providing Geiger an opportunity to store additional information when the primary record entry fields were otherwise used. Elements of these hidden records are shown below. Content usually appear repetitive, but sometimes contain unique information.


Alternate record number : 875. Comment field 1: Kassler; letter to Toledo, Ohio returned by PO.

Alternate record number : 5470. Comment field 1: Kassler; letter to Toledo, Ohio returned by PO.