Husband:
Peter MARTIN ( - )
Wife:
Tillie MUNCH ( - )
Children:
Marriage:
Name:
Peter MARTIN
Sex:
Male
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
resides:
Name:
Tillie MUNCH
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
Name:
Joan Kathy MARTIN
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
Aug 28, 1949
Detroit, Wayne County, MI
Death:
May 18, 2019 (age 69)
Wakefield, RI
Joan was born in Detroit MI where she attended the Liggett School, and followed by the University of Michigan where she obtained her BA, and thereafter Joan obtained Masters Degrees from Brown University and Harvard University and finally obtaining her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in City Planning. After obtaining her doctorate, Joan taught at UCLA and became on an on-air commentator for a local LA television news station. Joan taught at courses at several other universities, including Tufts University, before starting several successful companies including an educational toy company.
Later in life, she founded College Start Online, which she helped hundreds of students get into college and each year managed to get her students into elite colleges including the IVY League, MIT, and Cal Tech. She helped her student clients obtain millions of dollars in scholarships. Joan was an accomplished writer. She wrote four books, one of which, Why Cities Go Broke, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Joan was known not only for her achievements and intellectual curiosity and gifts, but for her elegance and grace in the treatment of others especially her student clients.
Joan enjoyed the time she lived in England and was able to travel through out Europe as well as her travels to Egypt, Israel, China and South Africa.
resides:
Newton Center, MA
Name:
Richard MARTIN
Sex:
Male
Name:
Arlene MARTIN
Sex:
Female
Spouse: