THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Doris B. Holleb

October 26, 1922 – September 4, 2016

“I Never Stopped Thinking of Myself as a Professional.”

Economist, Educator, Journalist, Urban planning expert. One of the first women to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Economics. Taught geographical studies and social sciences, University of Chicago, for almost three decades. Author of several books and articles, focus on housing, economic development, education, poverty and metropolitan planning. Served on the boards of the Field Museum, the Metropolitan Institute, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art among others. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve on the board of the Inter-American Foundation, 1980. Appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, 1996. Appointed by Mayor Harold Washington to the Chicago Plan Commission, 1986 – a panel she served on for 30 years, until her death. Graduated magna cum laude, Hunter College, 1942. Master of Arts, economics, Harvard, 1947. Postgraduate, University of Chicago, 1966.

Photo. Doris Holleb represents Radcliff on the Woman’s College Board, August 1967.