Background
Power, Sarah Goddard was born on June 19, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Wendell Converse and Katharine Shearer (Russel) Goddard.
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Power, Sarah Goddard was born on June 19, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Wendell Converse and Katharine Shearer (Russel) Goddard.
Bachelor in History, Vassar College, 1957. Master of Arts, Graduate School Politics and International Relations, New York University, 1965. Associate of Arts (honorary), Schoolcraft Community College, Livonia, Michigan, 1975.
Born in Detroit in 1935 and a graduate from Vassar College, Goddard also received a diploma in French at the Alliance Francaise in Paris and a master"s degree in politics and international relations from New York University in 1965. From 1966 to 1969, Sarah Power was executive director of the New York City Commission for the United Nations and Consular Corps in the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay. She chaired the United States. national commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and was a delegate to four worldwide United Nations-related conferences.
Elected a University of Michigan Regent in 1974, she was a supporter of Jimmy Carter and served as a delegate to Democratic National Convention in 1976.
In 1980, Carter named her deputy assistant secretary of state for human rights and social affairs, United States. Department of State, a position she held until 1981, when she returned to the university. On March 24, 1987, Sarah Goddard committed suicide by falling to her death from the eighth floor of 212-foot-high Burton Tower.
Allegedly, she had been suffering from physical problems and from depression and was under the care of one of the University"s top psychiatrists. After her death, the Burton Tower"s structure was modified, with the addition of stops to prevent windows from opening more than a few inches.
Michigan governor James Blanchard appointed Philosophy Power to his wife"s Regents seat.
He served in that capacity until he was defeated in a close, four-way election in 1998. Phillip"s father, Eugene B. Power, had also served as a U of M Regent, from 1955 to 1971. Sarah Power was inducted into the Michigan Women"s Hall of Fame in 1988.
Director National Women's Educational Fund, 1980-1987. Regent University Michigan, 1975-1987. Member Michigan advisory board Project on Equal Education Rights, National Organization of Women Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1978-1984.
Director University Musical Society, University Michigan, 1975-1987. Trustee Gerald R. Ford Foundation, 1983-1987. Member judicial conference Committee for Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 1986-1987.
Member American Council on Education, Automobile Association Michigan (director 1982-1987), Commission on Women in Higher Education, Council on Foreign Relations.
Married Philip Harwick Power, July 5, 1971.