Monica "Posy" McMillen
President - Yad b' Yad, Fort Worth, Texas
Preferred Topics:
President - Yad b' Yad, Fort Worth, Texas
Preferred Topics:
- Anti-Semiotism and the church
- Jewish History
Posy is an evangelical Christian who wrote and teaches a twenty-two week course entitled "Anti-Semitism and the Church", as well as thirteen week courses on traditional Judaism entitled "Judaism 101" and "The Jews in their Land: 169 BCE to 1917 CE". A new course "Hebraic Footprints in the New Testament" is in progress. She teaches regularly at the Reform Temple in Fort Worth and has lectured at various Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox synagogues around the country.
In 1997, she was chairman of the "ANNE FRANK IN THE WORLD: 1929 - 1945" exhibition which was held in Fort Worth, and will be chairing it again in 2002. In 1998, she was awarded a grant to study in an intensive four- week (180 hr.) Holocaust study program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
At present, she serves on the Education/Program committee of the Dallas Holocast Museum. She has twice been VP of Education for Hadassah and was VP of Fundraising last year. She is president of the Fort Worth branch of Yad B' Yad (Hebrew for "Hand in Hand"), an organization of reconciliation between Christians and Jews) which she started in 1998. She co-chaired the volunteer committee to establish a new Jewish Studies Program at Texas Christian University. She is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana and a graduate of Indiana University.
Teaching Experience:
For sixteen years, Posy taught at national and regional seminars for the Embroiderers' Guild of America with a specialty in 16th C. Italian reticella lace-making,18th C. Danish whitework embroidery, and silk and metal threadwork. She also taught at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. and at the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Va. She has written two publications entitled THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE as well as a twelve month correspondence course which was taught in five countries.
Miscellaneous Information:
Selected as "Outstanding Young Woman in America" (1973), "Personalities of the South" (1974), "Notable Women of Texas" (1984). She has been a member of the Junior League in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Austin, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas.
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In 1997, she was chairman of the "ANNE FRANK IN THE WORLD: 1929 - 1945" exhibition which was held in Fort Worth, and will be chairing it again in 2002. In 1998, she was awarded a grant to study in an intensive four- week (180 hr.) Holocaust study program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
At present, she serves on the Education/Program committee of the Dallas Holocast Museum. She has twice been VP of Education for Hadassah and was VP of Fundraising last year. She is president of the Fort Worth branch of Yad B' Yad (Hebrew for "Hand in Hand"), an organization of reconciliation between Christians and Jews) which she started in 1998. She co-chaired the volunteer committee to establish a new Jewish Studies Program at Texas Christian University. She is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana and a graduate of Indiana University.
Teaching Experience:
For sixteen years, Posy taught at national and regional seminars for the Embroiderers' Guild of America with a specialty in 16th C. Italian reticella lace-making,18th C. Danish whitework embroidery, and silk and metal threadwork. She also taught at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. and at the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Va. She has written two publications entitled THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE as well as a twelve month correspondence course which was taught in five countries.
Miscellaneous Information:
Selected as "Outstanding Young Woman in America" (1973), "Personalities of the South" (1974), "Notable Women of Texas" (1984). She has been a member of the Junior League in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Austin, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas.
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