THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Ruthe Wright Boyea
September 22, 1918 – December 7, 2007
“I am very proud when my granddaughters see the name Ruthe Boyea on the door of the Ruthe Boyea Women’s Center.”
Member of the U.S. Navy. Founder and director of the women’s center at Central Connecticut State College (now called the Ruthe Boyea Women’s Center), 1965. Appointed to the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, 1968. Member of the board of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ 1965 – 1972. New England Representative on the national board of the American Association of University Women, 1970 –1976. Attended U.N. Conferences on the Status of Women 1975, Mexico City; 1980, Copenhagen; 1985, Nairobi; and 1995, Beijing. President of the New Britain Chapter of the American Red Cross. President of the League of Women Voters.
More About Ruthe:
- Obituary
- Helen Z. Pearl introduces Ruthe at the Veteran Feminists of America, Feminism and Its Values, an Intergenerational Dialogue event, Cromwell CT April 16, 2005.
- The Ruthe Boyea Women’s Center at Central Connecticut State University
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 53 – 54