Jane Roling Breen

School years, milestones and family stories, with the original sources and qualifications.

Jane

Jane and “A Girl Called Lavender”

Jane earned a red ribbon for “A Girl Called Lavender” at the Diocesan Speech Contest at St. Mary’s School in Glasgow on November 5, 1977. She was among Dorothy Boss’s St. Joseph speech students pictured in the newspaper afterward.

Source: “Speech Contest winners,” Salisbury Press-Spectator, November 10, 1977, page 4.

Newspaper photograph of St. Joseph speech-contest students. Its printed caption names Jane Roling third from the left.

Jane’s 4-H years included Home Improvement ribbons and a turn in the Corny Country Band with Linda at the 1976 fair.

Jane joins the family

A 1965 newspaper announcement welcomed Jane to Bob and Bridget’s family, joining David, Dan, Betty, Ron and Linda. The family remembers her arrival in itsstory of moving to a larger home.

Source: “Births: Roling,” Salisbury Press-Spectator, 1965, page 1. Original announcement preserved in the family archive.

Jane’s school years included a Bicentennial oratory win. Read the 1976 story of Jane and Linda advancing in the contests.

1988 · Jane in Mizzou’s commencement program

Jane Maria Roling is listed for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration under Management / Personnel Management in the University of Missouri–Columbia’s program for its May 6, 1988 business-school ceremony. That year’s Savitar lists Jane Roling among the seniors with “Management” beside her name.

This is a commencement listing; degree conferral has not been independently verified.

Sources and notes

Sources: College of Business and Public Administration convocation, May 1988, PDF pp. 1, 5 and 7; Savitar, 1988, printed p. 338. Commencement listing; degree conferral has not been independently verified.

2011 · Jane Breen named to Leadership Columbia

In its November 5, 2011 business roundup, the Columbia Daily Tribune listed Jane Breen of Shelter Insurance among the members of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce’s 2011–12 Leadership Columbia program.

Sources and notes

Source: “Top Drawer; Highlighting the New and Noteworthy,” Columbia Daily Tribune, Saturday Business, November 5, 2011, page 6. Read the syndicated text at InsuranceNewsNet, published November 6.