Linda Wheeler Donahue

Background

Donahue, Linda Wheeler was born on November 21, 1941 in Derby, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Wilson Chatfield and Beatrice (Smith) Wheeler.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Nasson College, 1963. Master of Science, University Bridgeport, 1967.

Career

Associate professor, Mattatuck Community College, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1968-1980; Professor of English and humanities, Naugatuck Valley Community-Technology College, Waterbury, 1980-1984; professor emeritus, Naugatuck Valley Community-Technology College, Waterbury, since 1997; division director arts and humanities, Naugatuck Valley Community-Technology College, Waterbury, 1988-1992.

Membership

Active Roosevelt Warm Springs (Georgia) Foundation, since 1960, Gazette International Polio Newworking Institute, St. Louis, since 1975, president Polio Outreach of Connecticut, since 2000, Connecticut Coalition Citizens with Disabilities. Chair Northwest Activists for Disability Rights. President Connecticut Union Disability Action Groups, since 1998.

Member Connecticut Heads of English Departments, National Council Teachers English, National Association of Female Executives, Association Executive Educators, American Association of University Women, Congress Connecticut Community Colleges (president 1985), National Organization on disability, American Rose Society, Phi Theta Kappa.

Interests

• Avocations: opera, theatre, design, symphony, Persian cats.

Connections

Married Raymond Maurice Farrell, July 17, 1965 (divorced 1977). 1 child, Sarah Elizabeth. Married James John Donahue Junior, December 30, 1977.

1 child, James John III.

Father:

Wilson Chatfield Wheeler

Mother:

Beatrice (Smith) Wheeler

Spouse:

Raymond Maurice Farrell

Spouse:

James John Donahue Junior

child:

James John III Donahue

child:

Sarah Elizabeth Donahue