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Wanda Frey Joiner (4 September 1882 - 1968) was the founder and first president of Quota International, a charitable organization started in the winter of 1919 in Buffalo, New York. She was born in Odessa, Russia but in 1891, she migrated to the United States after the tragic death of her father. She would attend business classes at Canton's College in New York. Shortly thereafter, she began working as a secretary of the Buffalo Plate Glass Company in 1902. She commented on how she started at the bottom of the Plate Glass Company but eventually rose to the position of comptroller: "You see, I began at the bottom myself…I hadn’t any influence, no one to push me ahead and it was perfectly plain to me that if I were ever to be conspicuously successful, it would have to be my own work and efforts, so I settled down to study. I became a billing clerk…and I kept on going from one job to another, until I finally became a member of the board of directors."

After being invited to a Christmas Kiwanis Party, Joiner was impressed by the charitable and networking opportunities available in such clubs. Discouraged however by its male only membership, Joiner quickly organized, in concert with other business women in Buffalo, the Quota International Club in 1919. Joiner saw Quota International as a club for professional women, one that would learn from the lessons of the past, be relevant for the day, and oriented toward the future. She wanted to found a club that would give women the opportunity to do something worthwhile in service, because she believed that a women could not be fulfilled until she became involved in service to others. Joiner was associated with Quota International for life, becoming honorary president in 1921.

After the death of the owner of Buffalo Plate Glass Company, Joiner administered the liquidation of the company--placing more than an hundred of the workers in other jobs. After taking a well-deserved vacation to California, Joiner was persuaded to return to Buffalo, taking employment at the Morgan Post Company. There she would quickly rise to president and general manager of the company. Joiner was the first women president in the paint and allied trades in the United States, although because of health issues she would resign from this position prematurely.

Joiner would die in 1968 in Los Angeles at the age of 86 after a long life of charity and business successes. Large portions of her estate was donated to the Quota International. --DavidConn1985 (talk) 20:49, 19 March 2012 (UTC)David Conn