Biography
Stiles is the second of five children born to Paul G. Dolan and Katherine Haller Rogers Dolan. Stiles’s maternal genealogy includes a number of educators and public figures. Her grandfather, Frederick Rand Rogers, was a radical American educator, pioneer of physical fitness testing, and inventor of the Physical Fitness Index. Her great grandfather, Frederick John Rogers, was a professor of physics and Chair of the Physics Department at Stanford University and his wife, Stiles’s great grandmother, was the colorful Josephine Rand Rogers, a president of The League of Women Voters, and politically active in the Temperance Movement and in passing Child Welfare Laws. Another maternal great grandfather, Dr. George Spalatin Easterday, was mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and her great uncle, John Rankin Rogers, was third governor of the state of Washington and supporter of the “Barefoot School Boy Act.” Stiles’s father’s ancestry is all of Irish immigrants from Old Castle, County Cavan, but her grandfather William Joseph Dolan was born in Boston, trained in Italy as an interior decorator, and worked as a decorator of Catholic churches. Stiles retained her last name from her first marriage (1967-1974) to attorney Randolph Stiles.
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