THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2021 Page 3 Still baking the cakes A 92-year-old Norwegian native who adopted Saugus as her home will be featured on “What’s Cookin’?” next month By Mark E. Vogler ee (Skauhellen) Dyment may be the most prolific baker of angel food cakes that Saugus residents ever met – at least during the 60 years she has been living in town. The recipe she uses comes L from a Betty Crocker cookbook she won in 1952 and has been using ever since. Now at age 92, her cakes still please the appetites of local residents. She received rave reviews from a small audience that got to sample them last Friday (April 16) when she sat down in the kitchen in the new studio of SaugusTV to be interviewed for an upcomGerry D’Ambrosio Attorney-at-Law Is Your Estate in Order? Do you have an update Will, Health Care Proxy or Power of Attorney? If Not, Please Call for a Free Consultation. 14 Proctor Avenue, Revere (781) 284-5657 NATIONAL EXPOSURE FOR A SAUGUS COUPLE: Lee Dyment and her late husband Alton Neil Dyment in 1952 when they appeared on CBS’s television show “Bride and Groom.” (Courtesy photo to The Saugus Advocate) “My son was six months old when we bought the house [in Saugus], and he will be 60 on May 1st ,” Dyment said. Her husband passed away in 1995. Yet, she continues to live in the same home that she and her husband bought when they moved to town in 1961. “This is my home, as I have TELLING HER STORY: Lee (Skauhellen) Dyment, right, talks about her angel food cakes while being interviewed by Janice K. Jarosz last Friday during a filming for an upcoming “What’s Cookin’?” show on SaugusTV. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler) ing show of “What’s Cookin’?,” which will be aired on the cable station’s Channel 8 next month. “This is the most delicious cake I ever enjoyed,” longtime local journalist Janice K. Jarosz said last Friday during her studio interview of Dyment. But Dyment is known to town residents for a lot more than her cakes, largely because of an article Jarosz wrote several years ago about her life in Norway during the Nazis’ invasion and occupation of the Scandinavian country – and her notoriety as a Saugus resident years later after winning a writing contest about how she met her husband. “She is somewhat of a local celebrity,” SCTV President Donna Sordello said last week. “Lee won an all-expenses paid trip for her wedding and honeymoon, and they sent her and her husband to a dude ranch in New York and it was a pretty big deal. Everyone in town knows her and loves her,” Sordello said. During the filming of her interview, Dyment talks about her appearance on the popular CBS television show “Bride and Groom” with a framed photo of her and her future husband, Alton Neil Dyment shown in the television studio, propped up on a kitchen counter at SaugusTV alongside another photo of her in her wedding gown. Plenty to keep busy in Saugus Dyment came to America on Dec. 4, 1950, and she turned 22 eight days later. She met her husband-to-be at a New Year’s Eve party. “My aunt, who I came to visit, and my [future] husband’s mother were girlfriends,” Dyment said in an interview this week. Dyment said she was unfamiliar with the American custom of kissing under the mistletoe. “I thought he was being fresh, so I slapped him,” Dyment recalled. “I was not enthralled with him for a long time.” But they married and had two children: a daughter, Kirsten Wladkowski, who lives in Saugus; and a son, Kent Dyment, who lives in Holden. lived in Saugus for 60 years,” Dyment said. “I love the small town. I don’t like the big city. There’s a lot of things going on here. If you want to participate, there’s no reason why not. I joined the Saugus Garden Club. I was on the 150th Anniversary Committee. I’m on the MEG Foundation Board and have gone to every Christmas Tree Festival. My children and my grandchildren graduated from Saugus High.” Even in her early 90’s, DySTILL BAKING | SEE PAGE 7 J& $45 yd. S LANDSCAPE & MASONRY CO. MULCH SALE! Discount Spring Special PICK-UP or DELIVERY AVAILABLE 617-389-1490 Premium Hemlock or Pitch Black BELOW WHOLESALE COSTS LANDSCAPERS WELCOME $4 yd. $40 yd. $3 yd.
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