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Quaker Head for Oprah Winfrey's South African Leadership Academy
Joan Countryman is the new acting head of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, which opened to much publicity on 2 January in a town south of Johannesburg, South Africa The school's aim, as previously reported in The Friend, is to educate poor but talented black girls to take up prominent positions within a largely male-based South African society
Joan, 66, the retired head of Lincoln School, a Quaker school for girls in Providence, Rhode Island, was also a math teacher and administrator at Germantown Friends from 1970 to 1993 In 1958 she was the first African-American graduate of Germantown Friends as well as its first National Merit Scholar Her books include Writing to Learn Mathematics, published by Heinemann Books in 1992 Joan, the mother of two other teachers, is married to a Philadelphia architect
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