Geraldine Hathaway Wright

Background

Wright, Geraldine Hathaway was born in Salem, Oregon, United States. Daughter of Gail A. and Mary R. (Peterson) Hathaway.

Education

Bachelor, University Maryland, 1947. Postgraduate, Young Women’s Christian Association Professional School, 1950.

Career

Associate director International Festival of Mime, 1981. Consultant United Cable television, 1981, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, 1979—1981, STRAIGHT, Inc., 1981—1983, Clews Comminication, 1985—1986, Children's Hospice International. Development consultant Wolf Trap Foundation for Performing Arts, Wolf Trap Farm Park, 1969—1979.

Public relations consultant to Mistress Jouett Shouse, founder, chairman Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, 1969—1979. Acting director Fairfax County Council of the Arts, 1973—1974. Public relations consultant Southern Rural Action, 1971—1973.

Vice president Fairfax County Council of the Arts, 1969—1970, board directors, 1964—1991, Young Women’s Christian Association of Fairfax County, 1960—1966. Past member organizing committee, program chairman and children's theatre chairman, 1962—1965. Chairman Leopold Stokowski's Northern Virginia Concert, 1963.

Vice president Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, 1986. Co-chairman Community Communications Conference, Washington, 1973. Chairman Northern Virginia Communications Conference, 1975.

Board directors Northern Virginia Community Foundation, 1979—1988. Co-chairman International Children's Festival at Wolf Trap, 1983. Member gala commn, 1986—1989.

Church gala benefit committee, 1988. Member advisory board Coach Gibb's Youth for Tomorrow, since 1988. Public relations chair Youth Fair, 1991—1993, Youth for Tomorrow Social, 1997.

Co-chair Women of Year, National Capital Area Young Women’s Christian Association's, 1985. Member Fairfax County Fair Committee, 1985. Member scholarship board trustees American Society of Civil Engineers, NCA, since 1988.

Vice chair Smokey Bear Designer Rudolph Wendelin Tribute, 1995. Board member Friend's of the Forest, since 1996.

Membership

Youth director Young Women’s Christian Association, Washington, 1949—1954. Guest lecturer arts management American University, Washington, 1981—1984. Public rels consultant to Ethos, 1988—1991.

Consultant children's etiquette Washington, Virginia and Maryland, since 1994. Member of Cosmos, Capital Speakers Club, Friends of the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Associates, National Collegiate Players, Alpha Psi Omega, Delta Delta Delta.

Connections

Children: Gaile Rosamond, Winfield Grant, Carter Lee.

Father:

Gail A. Hathaway

Mother:

Mary R. (Peterson) Hathaway

child:

Gaile Rosamond Wright

child:

Winfield Grant Wright

child:

Carter Lee Wright