Dr. Miriam Chaplin is a Professor Emerita of Rutgers University and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English.  Dr. Chaplin is the author of Reading Comes to College (Banner Books, 1978), co-author of Opening the American Mind (University of Delaware Press, 1993), and Editor of the Reading Section Tapping the Potential of the Black Learner (NCTE, 1985).  She is a contributing author of several other books in the field of English Education, and has published in the Journal of Reading, Reading World, English Education and many others.

Dr. Chaplin believes that the ability to read and write is every child's birthright and most of her work in reading and related fields have been geared to this belief.  As post-Doctoral Fellow at Educational Testing Services, Dr. Chaplin published a monograph, A Comparative Analysis of Writing Features Used by Selected Black and White Students in the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test and an accompanying curriculum for the target population entitled Writing Their Way to the Head of the Class.

Dr. Chaplin has served a Reading Teacher, Reading Coordinator and Reading Supervisor in the School District of Philadelphia and has chaired many projects, most notable and recent is a three year program in South Africa in the Eastern Transvaal - a program for primary school children in America and in South Africa with emphasis on reading problems encountered by children on the two continents.  She also led a reading language arts program in Anchorage, Alaska in 1995.

Soror Chaplin was initialed in Pi Mu Omega Chapter, Willingboro, NJ.  She now resides in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

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