
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, December 15, 1994                   TAG: 9412150075
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NAPLES, FLA.                                  LENGTH: Short

WOLF TRAP ARTS CENTER'S FOUNDER DIES

Catherine Filene Shouse, an arts benefactor who founded the Wolf Trap performing arts center in Northern Virginia, died at home of heart failure Wednesday at 98.

The heir to the Filene's department store fortune donated her 100-acre farm in Vienna in 1966 to create Wolf Trap, which hosts nearly a half-million patrons a year.

The widow of Jouett Shouse, former chairman of the National Democratic Committee, she was the first woman on the committee, the first woman to earn a master's degree in education from Harvard University and the first person to receive the Governor's Award for the Arts in Virginia.

Her presidential appointments date back to the administration of Calvin Coolidge, when she was recognized for organizing a job training and rehabilitation program for women inmates.

by CNB