Mme Marthe Biron Peloquin
Franco-American of the Year 1979
Lowell, Massachusetts
 

This was an historic year for the Franco-American Day Committee as Marthe Peloquin became the first woman to receive the honor of Franco-American of the Year.  A daughter of a publisher of L’Etoile, Lowell’s French language newspaper from 1886 to 1955, Marthe Peloquin is well known to the French community for her fervent zeal in the promotion of the French language and culture by her active participation  in a great number of organizations such as La Fédération Féminine Franco-Américaine and le Cercle Jeanne-Mance.