Background
Simmons, Virginia Lee Cowan was born on May 17, 1921.
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Virginia Lee Cowan Simmons
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AB, Indiana University, 1942. Educational Specialist, 1970. Master of Science, Butler University, 1957.
Postgrad, University Wisconsin, 1964—1967.
Career
Market research analyst McCann-Erickson, Chicago, 1944—1948. Retail merchant Aquatic Galleries, Cincinnati, 1949—1952. Sales, alvt. Empire Tropical Fish Import Company, New York City, 1952—1953.
Direct mail advertising. Halvin products Brooklyn, 1953—1955. Teacher Indianapolis School, 1976, 1955—1960.
Assistant principal, 1961. Principal Lew Wallace School, Indianapolis, 1964—1972, Frances Bellamy School, 1972—1974, William H. Evans School, 1995, 1974—1980, Great Britain Loomis School, 1985, 1980—1982. Consultant principal, 1982—1988.
Teacher Palm Beach County, Boca Raton, Florida, from 1988. Program supervisor audio-visual center Indiana University, Bloomington, 1961—1962, consultant, 1969. Lecturer Butler University.
Summer, 1965; mem Indianapolis Museum Art, Metropolitan Indianapolis television Association, Inc., 1969—1973. Coordinator Christmas Gift & Hobby Show Indpls, Public Schools, 1969—1975. Board directors Young Audiences Indiana, 1969—1980.
Co-chairman, 1976—1978. Chairman, 1976—1978, 1977—1978. Board dirs Indianapolis chapter Freedoms Foundation Valley Forge.
1st vice president, 1971—1973, 1975—1977, from 1983. President, 1973—1975. Vice president, 1977—1983.
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Membership
Member of Daughters of the American Revolution, American Association of University Women, National Education Association (life), Izaak Walton League American, Watercolor Society Indiana, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Indianapolis Art League, International Reading Association, Association Supervision & Curriculum Development, Hoosier Salon, Indiana Education Art Association, National Elementary Principal Association, Butler University Alumni Association, National Congress Parents & Teachers, National Society Study Education, Indianapolis Council Administrative Women Education (director), Indiana Teachers aSSN., Indianapolis Zoological Society (charter), Indiana University Alumni Association (life), Women's Department, Indiana Schoolwomens, Business & Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., Century, Indianapolis Propylaeum, Indianapolis Athletic, Pi Lambda Theta, Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Delta Kappa (honorary).
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American -
Religion
Methodist