Woods, Dorothea E.

Dorothea Eleanor Woods; b. 1925 in Rochester, New York; Quaker; received Ph. D. from Univ. of Illinois in 1957 in French; joined World YWCA in 1957, worked for ten years in development of youth and adult education programs; pioneer in work in the 1970s on child soldiers; later affiliated with the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland; researched and wrote extensively; wrote monthly child soldier updates which the QUNO distributed to individuals and organizations; died Dec. 4, 2001 in Wolcott, New York.

From the description of Papers, 1965-2000. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 50429568