Background
Koven, Joan Follin Hughes was born on November 9, 1937 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of John Rodgers and Viola Brockett (Pugh) Hughes.
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Joan Follin Hughes Koven
Edit ProfileEducation
Graduate Scarritt College, 1959, U. Salisbury (Zimbabwe), 1961, Sorbonne, 1962, 63, American Student recreation center, Dreux, 1966.
Career
Teacher, director home economics department, art department, library Old Umtali Schools, Zimbabwe,1960-1962. Adolescent counselor, Dreux High School, France, 1962-1965. Freelance market researcher, Paris, 1965-1966.
Director student recreation center, Dreux, 1966.
Vice president Koven Freres jewelry, New York City, 1971-1975. Designer, fabricator jewelry, Washington, 1977.
Executive assistant in special events, administrative management to Bachelor of Medicine Patterson, Washington, 1976-1991. President coralreef research Fiji Islands Astrolabe, Incorporated., 1988, research collaborator National Museum National History, Smithsonian Institute, 1994.
Achievements
Membership
Member zoning committee Palisades Citizens Association, 1974. Member of commission on missions Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church, 1984. Member of advisory council Calvert Marine Museum, 1983-1984.
Member technical planning committee.
Member Earthwatch Research Team, Fiji,1984, University of California research project, Fiji, 1986. Member American Malacological Union, Conchologists American, Hawaiian Shell.
Club: National Capital Shell.
Connections
Married Ronald Pierre East. Koven, March 29, 1965 (divorced 1977). Children: Michele Elise Josette, Martine Sarah Aimee.
