THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Rosemary Matson

September 20, 1917 – September 27, 2014

“I was so moved by going to Copenhagen, I can’t drop it. It colors everything I do. It expanded my consciousness to a global one and I can’t go back. I learned more than I wanted to know about the oppression of women around the world.” 
– Rosemary Matson, after conducting workshops in the grassroots section of Copenhagen’s July World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women, 1980.

Feminist, humanist, Unitarian Universalist leader, champion of human rights, civil liberties and international peace.