Salt Lake City School District unveils plaque honoring Genevieve Raine Curtis, first woman on district board

Family members, school leaders and elected officials gathered at the Salt Lake City School District headquarters for a plaque unveiling honoring Genevieve Raine Curtis, the first woman to serve on the Salt Lake City Board of Education, at a ceremony on a date not specified.

Family members described Curtis’s life and local impact, and officials from the district and city paid tribute to initiatives attributed to her leadership, including parent-teacher organization work, hot lunch programs for children during the Depression and early special-education services.

Natalie McCullough, a member of the Curtis family who read a prepared biography of Genevieve Raine Curtis, recounted that Curtis was born in Salt Lake City in 1879, raised and trained as a teacher in her late teens, and opened a school in her mother’s home to help the family. McCullough said Curtis was the mother…