Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joan Fouchaux BRINTON
Joan Brinton Johnson (nee Joan Fouchaux Brinton), 92, died peacefully in her sleep on Nov. 11, 2011, at Brandywine Hall in West Chester.
Joan grew up in Bryn Mawr, attended The Shipley School, Agnes Scott College (Georgia), and received a masters in education from West Chester University. She was a resident of Thornbury Township for 60 years and taught social studies for 20 years at Unionville High School.
Joan initially aspired to a degree in architecture and in 1939, applied to the University of Pennsylvania. She was informed that degree was not awarded to women and pursued a career in teaching instead. Fifteen years later, she drew (to code) the plans for two houses that were subsequently built; the first in 1950, for her young family, and the other in 1984, for her daughter's family.
Believing in the value of foreign exchange at the personal and global level, Joan organized an International Club at Unionville High School and initiated a Partner School Program with a high school in Germany that lasted 25 years. She expanded the high school's social studies curriculum to include the study of non-western cultures and arranged for Unionville students to experience foreign exchange programs in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Years after her retirement, a colleague remembered Joan as a spirited and creative teacher, "because of her, Unionville has a special place in the hearts of many people around the world."
Joan had been a member of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Pennsylvania, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Wilmington Junior League and the Augusta (Ga.) Junior League. She had also been a genealogist for the Brinton Family Association and a volunteer for the American Red Cross V.A. Hospital Library in New Castle, Del. She was an ardent gardener and active volunteer for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and for many years won ribbons for her entries at the PHS Harvest Show.
She was the daughter of the late Charles Woods Brinton and the late Frances Fouchaux Brinton Souder and sister of the late Garrison Woods Brinton. Her husband, Harold F. H. Johnson, predeceased her in 1992.
She is survived by her two daughters, Karin Johnson Crooks of Greenwich, Conn., and Susan Adams MacDonnell of Chadds Ford; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She will be buried in the Birmingham Lafayette cemetery in Birmingham Township.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation. Alzheimer's Association Delaware Valley Chapter, 399 Market St., Suite 102, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
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