Marion S. Kundiger

Marion-the-traveler in bedouin 
costume after 1973 visit to 
Tunesia.

Marion trekking in Nepal.

Marion presenting program about Izzie in Meriden, Kansas on January 25, 2001.

Marion in the Gobi Desert, Outer Mongolia, China
July 8, 1999

Marion photographing the sights in China
October 2001.

Well, she didn't actually RIDE it,
but she did sit on a yak in China.
October 12, 2001.

Got Bamboo?
Marion is fascinated with bamboo
and writing a book about it.
Find great bamboo products
(T-shirts, magnets, tote bags and more)
on CafePress.com. 
Click Got Bamboo? link above.

Marion was a tomboy who loved to play imagination games, swim, ride bicycles, and ice skate.  She and three other girls started the first Girl Scout troop in her home town with her father's help, following his example when he started the first Boy Scout troop there.

She earned a bachelor's degree in medical technology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and worked in that field until after her 1943 marriage to Donald G. Kundiger, a chemist from Wisconsin.  They lived in Philadelphia and San Francisco before moving to Manhattan, Kansas in 1949.  Dr. Kundiger was on the organic chemistry faculty at Kansas State University there until his death in 1960.

Marion has four children, Geraldine (Jerri), born in San Francisco in 1947;  Donovan (1949), Lannay (1952) and Sherie (1954), all born in Manhattan, Kansas.  She has ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Marion earned a teaching degree in biological sciences and a Masters degree in microbiology at Kansas State University and taught high school and college biology in Muskego, Wisconsin and at Kansas State University before her retirement at the age of 70.  She lived in Manhattan, Kansas until June 2006, when she moved to Sun City Center, Florida.

Travel is one of her passions, and she has visited over 40 countries, including Antarctica, where she enjoyed photographing penguins.  She has been scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, shooting the rapids in Africa, and climbed the pyramids in Mexico and went down inside the ones  in Egypt. 

She is an accomplished photographer, and she likes to write nonfiction.  She is currently working on books about bamboo and about modern-day people who live in cave homes.

Marion on a camel near "Singing Sands" China, March 16, 2000. 
(This is a bactrian camel,
the kind with two humps.)

Marion hugging a 10 month old panda.
Wolong Panda Preserve, Research and Breeding Center
near Chendu, Sichuan Province, China
October 20, 2001

Marion reading her book Izzie to a kindergarten
class in Okinawa, Japan, April 3, 2001

Insatiable curiosity!
Here she is digging up some flowering weeds
in Valley Center, Kansas.
October 13, 2000

Marion Kundiger is available for author/illustrator presentations.

Contact her through
Ravenstone Press.