We announce with great sadness that one of our very longterm members, Ms Joyce Waddell-Townsend, passed away on last August 11. She would have been 90 years old on October 1st.
Joyce has been Ontario representative to the OMEP-Canada Board for many years and was named OMEP honorary member in 2001. She is the author of « Children in Prisons », an OMEP-Canada bilingual publication, telling the story of Preschool in Prisons et Children Visiting Prisons, projects she conducted in Edmonton, AB, and Kingston,ON, respectively, for which she received the Taylor Award from Correctional Service Canada in 2010.
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May she rest in peace.
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