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Joan Mondale
Second Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Joan Mondale (née Adams; August 8, 1930 – February 3, 2014) was the second lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 as the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd vice president of the United States.
She was an artist and author and served on the boards of several organizations.[1] For her promotion of the arts, she was affectionately dubbed Joan of Art.[2]
Family and education
Joan Adams was born on August 8, 1930, in Eugene, Oregon, one of three daughters of the Rev.
John Maxwell Adams, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Hall.[1] She attended Media Friends School, an integrated Quaker school in Media, Pennsylvania; a public school in Columbus, Ohio; and later St.
Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1952, she graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, where her father served as chaplain, with a bachelor's degree in history.