Mary Faye Dudley Papers

Mary Faye Dudley

Mary Faye Dudley was born December 17, 1938. She attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia as a music major, and later graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee with a BA degree in Spanish. She later pursued graduate studies in French at Georgia Southwestern College, L’Universite de Dijon, France and Georgia State University Graduate School in Atlanta. Her professional life began with the privilege of working in Plains, Georgia on the Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign. She served as Transition Staff Aide for President-Elect Jimmy Carter's Support Staff in Plains, Georgia, November 1976 to January 1977.

She had a subsequent presidential appointment as Director of the President's Environmental Youth Awards at the Office of Public Awareness, Environmental Protection Agency, 1977 to 1980. She then lived and worked in Melbourne, Australia for the Department of Health and served as Acting Press Secretary for Tom Roper, Minister of Health. Back in Washington D.C., she served as Director of Special Projects for the Gibran Foundation, and was proud to have helped plan and execute the memorial garden to honor Arab Americans. She wrote and published a children’s book, “The Adventures of Patroller Puffer,” with illustrations by all of her grandchildren and step-grandchildren. Mary Faye Dudley passed away on March 2, 2015.