Mary Ella Reutershan

Background

Reutershan, Mary Ella was born on August 10, 1921 in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of James Vincent Hopkins and Mamie (DeArmond) Hopkins Brooks.

Education

Bachelor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1947. M.Gerontology, Long Island University, 1992.

Career

Administrative secretary, Executive Office of President, Washington, 1943-1944; Spanish translator, Container Corporation of America, Chicago, 1945-1947; administrative secretary, Time, Inc., New York City, 1947-1955; writer/researcher, United States Committee for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, New York City, 1955-1956; consultant division aging, Federation Protestant Welfare Agencies, Inc., New York City, 1956-1958; teacher junior/senior public schools, East Hampton, Southampton, New York, 1958-1964; real estate salesperson, broker, East Hampton, 1972-1977; mortgage broker, mortgage consultant, Riverhead/American Savings Bank, Riverhead, New York, 1987-1990; founder, owner, Senior Superior vena cava syndrome, Amagansett, New York, since 1992.

Achievements

• Mary Ella Reutershan has been listed as a noteworthy Gerontologist, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Treasurer Suffolk County Inter-Agency Coordinator Council, Riverhead, 1993-1996. Correspondent secretary Riverhead Health Center Community Advisory Board, since 1994. Board directors South Fork Community Health Initiative, Inc., East Hampton, since 1994.

Councilwoman (Democratic) Town of East Hampton, 1980-1981. Member East Hampton Town Board Ethics, since 1995, vice chair, since 1997. Founder Suffolk Women's Political Caucus, Amagansett, 1972.

Co-founder The Stony Hill Association, Amagansett, 1962. Member East End women's Network, South Fork Geriatric Network, National Women's Political Caucus/Suffolk. Member League of Women Voters, National Organization of Women, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American Association of University Women, American Civil Liberties Union, American Association Retired Persons, Gerontology Professionals of Long Island, Baronial Order of Magna Charta (baroness of order), Order of First Families of Virginia, New York State Coalition for the Aging, Inc., State Society on Aging of New York, Companions of the Conqueror (life), Amnesty International, Family Planning Advocates New York State, Planned Parenthood-Hudson Peconic, Inc., The Nature Conservancy, Pi Beta Phi.

Connections

Married James Hall Reutershan, August 12, 1958 (deceased February 1971). Married Mark Gadd Richard, November 28, 1974 (divorced July 1981).

Father:

James Vincent Hopkins Brooks

Mother:

Mamie (DeArmond) Hopkins Brooks

Spouse:

James Hall Reutershan

Spouse:

Mark Gadd Richard