Katharine Saremal was born in Portland, Oregon to a Canadian mother and Estonian father. He was a general contractor who built many of the bridges and tunnels along the Columbia River Highway, and designed the family home in Milwaukie, Oregon where Kay grew up with her sisters Hazel and Dorothy.
She graduated from Reed College in 1940, then joined the U.S. Army, preparing daily intelligence summaries in Washington, D.C. during World War II.
After the war, Kay sailed to Europe on the Normandie and lived in Salzburg and Vienna before returning to the States to earn an MA in English Literature at Columbia University.
Bruce and Kay met by chance at a church in Madison one Sunday morning. They were married in April of 1956 and made their home in a nineteenth century stone house in Prairie du Sac, on the Wisconsin River, where they raised two sons, Eric and Scott. Bruce and his father, Augustus Booker Cornwell, designed and built an adjoining carriage house which included a garage on the ground level and an animation studio upstairs.
From the late 1950s until the mid 1980s the Cornwells produced dozens of short films on topics in mathematics, geometry, calculus and physics, pioneering the use of computer graphics in educational films. The Academic Film Archive web site has a short biography and filmography of their work, and offers two of their films for online viewing.
In 1968 the family relocated to Brooklyn Heights and continued producing films there. To augment their income from filmmaking, Bruce and Kay both took on full-time jobs.
In the late 1970s, with her sons safely off to college, Kay joined the accounting firm Peat Marwick as a compensation analyst, a position she held for many years as the company changed names several times, finally becoming KPMG.
After retiring from KPMG, she began volunteering at one of her favorite New York institutions, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As a tour guide she introduced untold numbers of schoolchildren and adults to the wonders of the Garden. She was the main trainer of tour guides when she finally retired again in the late 1990s.
Katharine passed away at home on March 4, 2013
She graduated from Reed College in 1940, then joined the U.S. Army, preparing daily intelligence summaries in Washington, D.C. during World War II.
After the war, Kay sailed to Europe on the Normandie and lived in Salzburg and Vienna before returning to the States to earn an MA in English Literature at Columbia University.
Bruce and Kay met by chance at a church in Madison one Sunday morning. They were married in April of 1956 and made their home in a nineteenth century stone house in Prairie du Sac, on the Wisconsin River, where they raised two sons, Eric and Scott. Bruce and his father, Augustus Booker Cornwell, designed and built an adjoining carriage house which included a garage on the ground level and an animation studio upstairs.
From the late 1950s until the mid 1980s the Cornwells produced dozens of short films on topics in mathematics, geometry, calculus and physics, pioneering the use of computer graphics in educational films. The Academic Film Archive web site has a short biography and filmography of their work, and offers two of their films for online viewing.
In 1968 the family relocated to Brooklyn Heights and continued producing films there. To augment their income from filmmaking, Bruce and Kay both took on full-time jobs.
In the late 1970s, with her sons safely off to college, Kay joined the accounting firm Peat Marwick as a compensation analyst, a position she held for many years as the company changed names several times, finally becoming KPMG.
After retiring from KPMG, she began volunteering at one of her favorite New York institutions, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As a tour guide she introduced untold numbers of schoolchildren and adults to the wonders of the Garden. She was the main trainer of tour guides when she finally retired again in the late 1990s.
Katharine passed away at home on March 4, 2013
Katharine Saremal was born in Portland, Oregon to a Canadian mother and Estonian father. He was a general contractor who built many of the bridges and tunnels along the Columbia River Highway, and designed the family home in Milwaukie, Oregon where Kay grew up with her sisters Hazel and Dorothy.
She graduated from Reed College in 1940, then joined the U.S. Army, preparing daily intelligence summaries in Washington, D.C. during World War II.
After the war, Kay sailed to Europe on the Normandie and lived in Salzburg and Vienna before returning to the States to earn an MA in English Literature at Columbia University.
Bruce and Kay met by chance at a church in Madison one Sunday morning. They were married in April of 1956 and made their home in a nineteenth century stone house in Prairie du Sac, on the Wisconsin River, where they raised two sons, Eric and Scott. Bruce and his father, Augustus Booker Cornwell, designed and built an adjoining carriage house which included a garage on the ground level and an animation studio upstairs.
From the late 1950s until the mid 1980s the Cornwells produced dozens of short films on topics in mathematics, geometry, calculus and physics, pioneering the use of computer graphics in educational films. The Academic Film Archive web site has a short biography and filmography of their work, and offers two of their films for online viewing.
In 1968 the family relocated to Brooklyn Heights and continued producing films there. To augment their income from filmmaking, Bruce and Kay both took on full-time jobs.
In the late 1970s, with her sons safely off to college, Kay joined the accounting firm Peat Marwick as a compensation analyst, a position she held for many years as the company changed names several times, finally becoming KPMG.
After retiring from KPMG, she began volunteering at one of her favorite New York institutions, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As a tour guide she introduced untold numbers of schoolchildren and adults to the wonders of the Garden. She was the main trainer of tour guides when she finally retired again in the late 1990s.
Katharine passed away at home on March 4, 2013
She graduated from Reed College in 1940, then joined the U.S. Army, preparing daily intelligence summaries in Washington, D.C. during World War II.
After the war, Kay sailed to Europe on the Normandie and lived in Salzburg and Vienna before returning to the States to earn an MA in English Literature at Columbia University.
Bruce and Kay met by chance at a church in Madison one Sunday morning. They were married in April of 1956 and made their home in a nineteenth century stone house in Prairie du Sac, on the Wisconsin River, where they raised two sons, Eric and Scott. Bruce and his father, Augustus Booker Cornwell, designed and built an adjoining carriage house which included a garage on the ground level and an animation studio upstairs.
From the late 1950s until the mid 1980s the Cornwells produced dozens of short films on topics in mathematics, geometry, calculus and physics, pioneering the use of computer graphics in educational films. The Academic Film Archive web site has a short biography and filmography of their work, and offers two of their films for online viewing.
In 1968 the family relocated to Brooklyn Heights and continued producing films there. To augment their income from filmmaking, Bruce and Kay both took on full-time jobs.
In the late 1970s, with her sons safely off to college, Kay joined the accounting firm Peat Marwick as a compensation analyst, a position she held for many years as the company changed names several times, finally becoming KPMG.
After retiring from KPMG, she began volunteering at one of her favorite New York institutions, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As a tour guide she introduced untold numbers of schoolchildren and adults to the wonders of the Garden. She was the main trainer of tour guides when she finally retired again in the late 1990s.
Katharine passed away at home on March 4, 2013
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