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NAEA Women's Caucus Presidents

1975-76 Judy Loeb (MI)
1976-77 Sandra Packard (OH)
1977-78 Sandra Packard (OH)
1978-79 Marylou Kuhn (FL) — died January 4, 1999
1979-80 Rogena Degge (OR)
1980-81 Enid ZImmerman (IN)
1981-82 Ann Sherman (KS)
1982-83 Ann Sherman (KS)
1983-84 Renee Sandell (MD)
1984-86 Christy Park (MA)
1986-88 Heather Anderson (CA)
1988-90 Anne Gregory (CA) — died 1997
1990-92 Carmen Armstrong (IL)
1992-94 Kristin Congdon (FL)
1994-96 Kathleen Connors (CT, deceased) & Laurie Hicks (ME)
1996-98 Elizabeth Garber (AZ) & Yvonne Gaudelius (PA)
1998-2000 Debbie Smith-Shank (IL) & Elizabeth Ament (MI)
2000-2002 Kathy Desmond (MA)
2002-2004 Cynthia Colbert (SC)
2004-2006 Elizabeth Saccá (CANADA, retired Emerita from Concordia in 2009)
2006-2008 Maryl Fletcher de Jong (OH) (Maryl was also WC Secretary from 1982-94, and designed the WC logo. Linked here is her August 8, 2009 obituary notice, which includes a poem by her sister. Click here to comment on Maryl's Tribute blog.)
2008-2010 Read Diket (MS)

Women's Caucus Mission & Policy Development History

1975 The Report inaugurated with 3 issues per year up to 1996, then less often, with missed years.
1975 WC Bylaws drafted by Judy Loeb
1976 Mission statement adopted and presented to NAEA. NAEA WC officially approved by NAEA.
1983 Mission statement revised

Women's Caucus Publications:

1975 The Report was inaugurated in 1975 with 3 issues per year up to 1996, then less often, with missed years.
1982 Zimmerman, E., & Stankiewicz, M. A. (1982). Women Art Educators. Mary Rouse Memorial Fund at Indiana University and the NAEA Women's Caucus.
1984 Collins, G., & Sandell, R. (Eds.). (1984). Women, art and education. Reston, VA: NAEA
1985 Stankiewicz, M. A., & Zimmerman, E. (Eds.). Women, art and educators II. Mary Rouse Memorial Fund at Indiana University and the NAEA Women's Caucus.
1993 Congdon, K., & Zimmerman, E. (Eds.). (1993). Women, art and educators III. Mary Rouse Memorial Endowment, Indiana University Art Education Program, and the NAEA Women's Caucus.
1996 Collins, G., & Sandell, R. (Eds.). (1996). Gender issues in art education: Content, contexts, and strategies. Reston, VA: NAEA.
1997 Michael, J. (1997). The National Art Education Association; Our History--Celebrating 50 years 1947-1997 (pp. 128-132). Reston, VA: NAEA. Used with permission of the National Art Education Association.
1998 Zimmerman, E., & Saccà, E. (Eds.). Women art educators IV: Herstories, ourstories, future stories. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.
2001 The Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education, volume 1 (Laurie Hicks, ed.)
2002-2003 The Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education, volume 2 (Laurie Hicks, ed.)
2003 Zimmerman, E., Grauer, K., & Irwin, R. (Eds.). Women Art Educators V: Conversations Across Time. Reston, VA: NAEA.
2008 Vote 2008: What Should an Art Educator Do? Journal of Art Education, 61(4), 51-52. (Authored by 16 art educators who met at the WC Lobby session at NAEA in New Orleans. Copyright 2008. Linked with permission of the National Art Education Association).

Videos of Women's Caucus Members:

• A Conversation with June King McFee (35:26 min., 1995 video)

Executive producers: Rogena Degge & Kristin Congdon
Production & director: Karen Keifer-Boyd
Copyright 1995, Arts and Administration Program, University of Oregon

Excerpts from the video, A Conversation with June King McFee:

Rogena Degge (1994 interview with June King McFee): "You have given so much to the field. ... You have been so influential over so many years working in the psycho-social aspects of art education and you have influenced thousands of students."

Kristin Congdon (1994 interview with June King McFee): "The video came about as a request from many members of the National Art Education, particularly members of the Women's Caucus. ... It became really important to us, and to the Women's Caucus, that we had some kind of way to communicate to all these other people who have not had these personal experiences with you about who you are and what you have given all of us."

June King McFee - In Memoriam by Doug Blandy

• Maryl Fletcher de Jong speaking as the Distinguished Art Educator for 2008 in the John A. & Betty J. Michael Autobiographical Lecture Series in Art Education at Miami University

Coming soon is a video, edited by long-time WC member Julia Lindsey, of Maryl Fletcher de Jong speaking as the Distinguished Art Educator for 2008 in the John A. & Betty J. Michael Autobiographical Lecture Series in Art Education at Miami University. The video is from, and published on the WC website with permission by, the Center for the Study of History of Art Education at Miami University. In the video, Maryl shares stories of life events that influenced her feminist beliefs toward teaching, research, and service. She speaks about her life and her activism to fight injustices against women. Maryl passed on August 8, 2009. Please comment on the Maryl Fletcher de Jong Tribute blog at http://maryltribute.wordpress.com/