Jim Naysmith's 80th Birthday

James Standley Naysmith

Neighbors and relatives of Jim helped him celebrate the big 80 on Saturday, March 1 with a lovely lunch, a birthday concert given by Diane and Rebecca Mackie, and presents to open, as well as 2 kinds of birthday cake. 

Jim was born on March 3, 1934.  His father was Stanley Rayne Naysmith, and his mother was Helen Rose Hansen Naysmith. Jim graduated in architecture from University of Illinois in 1959. He was employed at architectural firms in Madison, WI and Chicago. Jim was married in December, 1961; one son was born Oct. 10, 1963.

Jim has lived in the Benjamin Hoxie House and then in the Thomas Morgan House in Cooksville, where he presently resides. He was a talented artist as well as an architect in his day.

 

His mother, Helen, was a popular teacher in Cooksville and in the Town of Porter, and was a Cooksville historian; his aunt Dorothy Kramer was a Cooksville pottery-maker, weaver and teacher.