Joan Carrigan

Wellesley High School Author: Joan Carrigan 

            After WHS, Joan Carrigan graduated from Boston University and Boston College Law School. Joan was a senior broadcast producer for NBC Nightly News and covered many of the most important stories of her day. She was in Berlin to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall. She was in London for the wedding of Charles and Diana. She was in Warsaw for the triumph of Solidarity and she covered the turmoil and terror in Egypt, at the funeral of Anwar Sadat. She was particularly proud of her contributions to the award winning documentary, “Six Days Plus 20 Years”.

            She was also an organizer of the Boston Lawyers Against Vietnam Committee and was an Alternate Delegate for Massachusetts to the Democratic National Convention in 1972.

            Joan, who died in 2006, is remembered as “a powerful presence, blessed with intelligence, intellectual curiosity, a quick wit and an indomitable spirit. She was gallant and gracious, even under the most difficult of circumstances.”