User:West Virginian/Madeline Blue

Madeline Blue (née McDowell; XX - XX)

Marriage and family
Blue married her husband John Rinehart Blue on XX. They had three children: John McDowell Blue, Julia Tait Blue Weir, and David Stanford Blue.

Educational career
Blue was a specialized teacher of deaf students at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind.

Parent-Teacher Associations
Blue was elected president of Romney's local Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). She then served as an officer of the Hampshire County Council of PTA. Blue was then elected as the state PTA regional director of Region XII, which encompassed Hampshire, Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton counties. From 1959-1961, Blue served as the secretary of the West Virginia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations.

West Virginia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations
On October 19, 1961, after 12 years of involvement in PTA efforts, Blue was elected and installed to a two-year term as the president of the West Virginia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations at the organization's 39th annual convention in Huntington. Blue was the first person from West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands regions to be elected to the post. Prior to her election, presidents of the state's PTA Congress had hailed from Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg, Wheeling, and other areas along the Ohio River.

Personal life
Blue was a Presbyterian and an active member of the Romney Presbyterian Church.