Lackey, Ina Ruth Hillis, 1909-1999

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Birth 1909
Death 1999

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1909 Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma 1928 A.B. cum laude Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, major in Spanish, minor in education 1936 1942 Director of Social Work, Peoples' Central Institute, Methodist Board of Missions, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1936 M.A. Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee, religious education and social work 1942 1943 Postgraduate studies, Union Seminary and Teachers' College, Columbia University 1943 1945 Regional Supervisor, USO, Recife and environs, Brazil 1946 1958 Advisory Secretary, YWCA, Recife, Brazil 1958 Associate Executive Director, YWCA, Akron, Ohio 1959 1964 Executive Director, YWCA, Corpus Christi, Texas 1964 1968 Consultant, YWCA, Recife, Brazil, developing a social center; consultant, Governor of Pernambuco State, Brazil, opening day nurseries; assistant to the Director, Catholic Relief Services, northeast Brazil 1968 1972 Executive Director, YWCA, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1972 1975 Executive Director, YWCA, Racine, Wisconsin 1975 Various retirement activities, Niagara Falls, New York, Maceio, Brazil, and Albuquerque, including chairman, Task Force on Aging, New Mexico Conference of Churches (1984-85) 1999 Died March 1st

From the guide to the Ina Ruth Hillis Lackey Papers MS 292., 1909-1988, 1909-1988, (Sophia Smith Collection)

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