(Joyce Warren: President of Washington Heights Neighbors)
Joyce Warren leads a busy life. Her first concern is with husband and home. She holds a full time job as counsellor in the St. Louis Public Schools, where she has worked for fifteen years. She is also a member of the Third Presbyterian Church, and sings in the choir. Besides all of this, she is active in many levels of community organization.
She is hopeful that this year WHN can play a part in bringing about greater unity in Washington Heights. The kind of unity she hopes to foster is the kind that makes a person feel that he should be concerned enough for his neighbors to see to the repair of a hole in the street, even if it is not the street he lives on, or to attend a meeting about the triangle development even if he may not live there himself.
Joyce is now serving her second term as President of Washington Heights Neighbors. She first became active in neighborhood groups as a resident of the Grant Forest Apartments. When she moved to Washington Heights in 1966, she joined her block group, and eventually became block leader. In 1969 she was elected to the Washington Heights Neighbors Board as a Vice-President and the following year, she was elected President.
But Joyce tackles her presidency with the energy and efficiency of someone who has nothing else to do. As other presidents of neighborhood associations, she is automatically a member of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council’s Board of Directors. There are regular WHN Board meetings once a month and meetings and phone calls to confer with Board members in between.
Joyce Warren loves the area she lives in and she is willing to take time out to help keep it nice. She hopes many people will share her concern for the community. If the goals of Washington Heights are achieved as Joyce sees them, this area will make everyone living in it proud to compare it with any other neighborhood.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1972.
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Original source: SD_Times1972_02.pdf, printed page 4.
