Irma S. Kitchen Myrick

Background

Myrick, Irma S. Kitchen was born on September 21, 1915 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of Harry Albert and Vera Johanna (Haefflin) Stackhouse.

Education

Bachelor, U. Denver, 1937; Master of Education, Johns Hopkins University, 1967.

Career

1st grade teacher, various schools, 1937-1943; employee relations counselor, Marana (Arizona) Army Air Base, 1943-1945; director kindergarten, Greenwood Nursery School, Baltimore, 1948-1951; director day school, Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, 1951-1967; assistant chief, Health Department, Division Child Day Care, Baltimore, 1967-1976; executive director, Baltimore County 4C Council, Towson, Maryland., 1976-1978; consultant, early childhood education, Baltimore, since 1967. Reading lab assistant Stoneleigh Public Schools, Baltimore, 1975-1976. Instructor Towson State University, 1976-1977.

Co-organizer Child Study Center for Infant Study, Baltimore, 1986-1989, John F. Kennedy Institute for Mentally and Physically Handicapped Children, Baltimore, 1982-1989, Human Resources Development Agy, Dundalk, Maryland., 1973.

Achievements

• Irma S. Kitchen Myrick has been listed as a noteworthy Early childhood educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Registrar League of Women Voters, Baltimore, 1984-1988. Developer Long TermBalt. County Steering Committee, 1977-1978.

Petitioner Common Cause in Maryland.,1960-1989, Sierra Club Maryland, 1989. Organizer Community Coodinated Child Care, 1973, Association for Pre-School Leaders and Staff, 1957-1958 and others Member American Association of University Women (reporter, board directors since 1987), OMOEP, Baltimore Association Pre-School Education (president 1957), Children's Guild for Emotionally Disturbed Children, Maryland. Council on Family Rels.

(treasurer 1976), Women's Club of Roland Park, Baltimore Symphony Associations, Baltimore Opera Guild, Kappa Delta Pi, Pi Gamma Mu, Psi Chi and others F C.

Connections

Married Harold Gordon Kitchen, August 29, 1944 (wid. January 1973); 1 child, Judith Helen Kitchen Candow. Married George Myrick, September 27, 1975.

Father:

Harry Albert Stackhouse

Mother:

Vera Johanna (Haefflin) Stackhouse

Spouse:

Harold Gordon Kitchen

Spouse:

George Myrick

child:

Judith Helen Kitchen Candow Myrick