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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: SISTER JOEL READadmin2021-11-15T14:23:23-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Sister Joel Read

December 30, 1925 – May 25, 2017

“Don’t ever think that something can’t be done. It can. Opportunity is everywhere.”

Alverno College’s longest-serving president and a trailblazer in education reform. Member, School Sisters of St. Francis. President of the American Association for Higher Education. One of the Founders of the National Organization for Women. She shared her boundless wisdom as member of the boards of numerous local, state and national education organizations as well as with two U.S. presidents, who invited her to the White House to discuss educational policy. Presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission for the Celebration of International Women’s Year, 1975. The Sister Joel Read Conference Center and Sister Joel Read Outstanding Educator Award ensure that her name is known to a new generation of Alverno women, a generation whose education still bears Sister Joel’s indelible stamp.

Photo 1. Sister Joel Read, a member of NOW’s first board with Betty Friedan at NOW’s first press conference, in Friedan’s New York City apartment, November 1966. Photo 2. Sister Joel Read, 1975.

More About Sister Joel Read:

  • Remembering Sister Joel Read service, Alverno College, May 24, 2018
    • Remembering Sister Joel Read, S.S.S.F. presentation
    • Mary Jean Collins, ’63 Alverno College, thoughts on Sr. Austin Doherty and Sr. Joel Read, 2019
  • 20th Anniversary of NOW with Sisters Joel and Austin and Catherine Conroy, 1986
  • Sister Joel Read obituary
  • Remembrances of Sister Joel Read Funeral Liturgy, June 1, 2017, by Sister Kathleen O’Brien
  • Alan Borsuk on Sister Joel Read
  • Veteran Feminists of America Conference
    • Sr. Kathleen O’Brien’s remarks, “Empowering Women: A Tale Of Two Generations” Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI September 15, 2012
  • Archives
    • Alverno College Archives, Records of the Sr. Joel Read Administration
    • Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
  • Honoring Our Founders & Pioneers, National Organization for Women
  • Wisconsin Women Making History
  • Alverno College website
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 376

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