from SDSU and taught Spanish for six years at Chula Vista High School; she was also a Spanish substitute teacher in Coronado. As a teacher, she always encouraged her students to look for the details in Spanish literature by using the Socratic method of questioning. Saturday night dancing at the Crown Dancing Club was Midge and Jim’s favorite night out; it was a dressy evening with dinner first and then dancing to live band music at the Woman’s Club on The Strand with 50 other couples. She and Jim loved the Cha-Cha. Midge also has fond memories of attending Navy League meetings on Naval Air Station, North Island, and leading
couple and together rented a large home.
groups that read and explored the great
Finally, they were able to buy their own
books of literature.
home and have lived in two homes since,
The biggest change she’s seen in
while residing on the island. Midge also
Coronado is housing. When she and
mentioned that many of the small houses
her husband first arrived in 1955, there
on H and J avenues near Third and Fourth
were no small houses available to rent,
streets have given way to large homes.
so they combined forces with another
Midge, far right, at the opening of the League of Wives exhibit at the Coronado Historical Association in 2019 with friends, from left, Sharon Abbott, Jean Pellard and Pat Mearns. Courtesy of the Coronado Historical Association.
Midge and Jim have shared many philanthropic activities and generously donated to both their Coronado and desert communities. They have supported both Sharp Coronado Hospital and the McCallum Theater in La Quinta, where they had a second home. Midge has always been an extremely active woman between studying, teaching, and playing music. She said if she had to give her younger self some advice it, would be to slow down her pace in order to have more time with her husband and parents. Nowadays, her friendships are what’s most important to her. She loves to travel and see new places. She hopes to be able to travel as soon as she is able.
Midge worked as a music and Spanish teacher, 1960. Courtesy Midge Peltier.
Island Icons is an archival project of the Coronado Historical Association. Midge and her husband Jim thoroughly enjoyed the dancing as members of the Crown Club, 1965.
If you would like to nominate someone as an Island Icon, email us at info@coronadohistory.org or call 619-435-7242.
Courtesy Midge Peltier.
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