Lee, Jane Carew, 1931-2019

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Jane Carew Lee was the sixteenth Regent from 1996 to 199 of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. She was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and then Bennett College in Millbrook, New York. She was elected Vice Regent for Maryland in 1972, in that position chairing the Association’s Development Committee and serving as president of the Mount Vernon Inn restaurant-and-retail complex. She was instrumental in organizing major fund-raisers, including, in 1994, the first “An Auction, by George!,” a gala event that has since typically been held every three years; the First Ladies Lecture series, which featured talks by descendants of presidents’ wives about their famous female forbears; and the elegant April 2002 re-creation of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy’s 1961 state dinner at Mount Vernon, held in tandem with the To Keep Him First capital campaign.
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