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AARP DELAWARE NAMES NEW STATE PRESIDENT

 

Nutter, a professor of communications at Bloomfield College and an oral historian, has more than 22 years of varied experience in education, training and administration.

Since 1991 she has been a college professor at William Paterson University and Bloomfield College. For two years she worked as Special Assistant to Mayor James H. Sills, Jr. During those years she coordinated all of the international activities of the mayor including the African/Caribbean Summit and the Fulda Germany/Wilmington Sisters City Exchange.

  

“Jeanne’s record of achievement and her passion to improve the lives of people 50+ fits perfectly with our mission at AARP,” said Lucretia Young, AARP State Director. “In addition to her international experience, she also has an excellent focus on local issues that affect our members in the First State.”

 

Nutter was Director of Training and Development for the Association of Junior Leagues  International where she developed and coordinated national training conferences.  At the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) she also coordinated training for SWAPO Chief Representatives in Lusaka, Zambia and developed guides on United Nations documentation and research and compiled a manual on international training institutions.

 

Working with Hagley Museum and Library she also has produced several documentary films including A Separate Place: The Schools P.S. DuPont Built whichwon an Honorable Mention in the 2003 Wilmington Film Festival. A half hour version of the film has been distributed to over 200 schools in the state. Other films include Littleton Mitchell: Human Rights Warrior; Conversation with Luther J. Porter; and Conversation with Jane E. Mitchell: African American Nurse; Conversation with Rev. Maurice J. Moyer: Civil Rights Activist and Dr. Eugene McGowan: School Psychiatrist. Her two published books are Growing Up Black in New Castle County and Black America Series: Delaware.  In 2000 she received the Wilmington NAACP Award in Education and the Phi Delta Kappa Leadership Award. She was inducted in to the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002 and in 2004 received the DSEA’s Humanities and Civil Rights Award.

 

She has served on several boards including the Delaware Humanities Forum, Preservation Delaware, Opera Delaware, Christina Cultural Arts Center and the Oral History of the Mid Atlantic Region. She has also been a member of the Primo Lecture Series Advisory Board, and the Committee on Self Appointed Litigants before the Court (Family Court of Delaware).  Nutter chaired the African American History and Tourism Working Group for the Wilmington Renaissance Corporation which produced a brochure highlighting African American Tourism in Wilmington. The brochure was awarded the 1999 Delaware Governor’s Cultural Heritage Tourism Award.

 

Beyond her impressive professional accomplishments, Jeanne Nutter also was the caregiver for her mother and uncle during the last years of their lives, fueling her passion for the issues that have long been the centerpiece of AARP’s agenda.

 

“I didn’t want my relatives to have to move into an institutionalized setting, ,” she reminisces. “After careful planning, I discovered a way to pool both my mother’s and uncle’s resources, move them into a shared apartment, and hire care for them at home. It was a perfect situation.“When my uncle died and my mother’s money ran out she had to move to a nursing home. But it shouldn’t be that difficult. Everyone deserves to age with dignity and with the highest quality of life possible. I believe we can make this happen.”

 

Jeanne Nutter is a native Delawarean and holds a Ph.D. from Howard University.

 

 

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