Dr. Lucille G. Jordan

Dr. Lucille Fisher Galloway Jordan, aged 91, a longtime resident of Atlanta, died on 15 February after a mercifully short illness. She was a classroom teacher in three states before receiving her doctorate at UGA and working as Director of Title III Government Program, Head of the Teacher Corps Consortium of 6 Atlanta Colleges, Director of Program Development for the Atlanta schools, and lastly as, Associate State Superintendent of the Georgia schools, a post she held concurrently with a Professorship in Education at UGA. She served as the national president of the 135,000 member Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, as well as on the Rockefeller Council for the Arts and innumerable boards; she represented the US State Department and the US Information Service abroad on many occasions, worked as an educational consultant for various broadcasting stations (NBC, CBS and Turner), and appeared regularly on William Buckley’s “Firing Line” program. She initiated the first state-wide High School Mock Election in the United States, and was honored at her retirement by a special commendation from the US Senate, proposed by Senator Sam Nunn, for her leadership in civic education. The author of several educational books, Dr. Jordan in retirement wrote a theological text, Everyman’s Decision. Funeral services were held on Thursday, 21 February at the Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Calvert, North Carolina; a memorial service will be held at Dunwoody Baptist Church on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 2 o’clock. Survivors include a daughter, son-in-law and a beloved granddaughter, Noelle Nicole, David and Rachel Ming Herrup, numerous nieces (Marcia and Maria Johnson, Monalynn Carter, Paulette Lankford), a nephew, Kendall Glazer, and their spouses, as well as numerous great-nieces and great-nephews, and a great-great niece, Abby Glazer. She was preceded in death by her husband, F.L.S. Jordan, her older sisters, Helen Galloway Huggins and Montaree Galloway Glazer, as well as her parents, Thomas Pleasant and Mamie Fisher Galloway. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the Heifer Foundation and the Global Fund for Women.