Board of Directors

Mrs. Alice Ann Grayson:

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1942, Alice Ann McLaughlin Grayson received her Bachelor’s degree from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1964, and her Masters in Education from Tufts University in 1965. She worked in the Boston Public School system as both a first grade teacher and guidance counselor. She and her husband, Edward Davis Grayson, have four children and ten grandchildren, and counting….

In 1973 she founded the greater Boston Chapter of Birthright International. In 1979 she founded Pregnancy Help. Mrs. Grayson also helped to establish a chapter of an outreach ministry to struggling marriages called Retrouvaille. Both of these are currently programs of the Archdiocese of Boston.

By the mid-eighties, Alice Ann Grayson became alarmed at the increasing number of sex education programs instituted in both public and private schools. Adopting Doctors Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand as her mentors, Mrs. Grayson became a parents’ advocate – educating parents and working to eliminate the invasive school programs. Preaching the need for reverence when approaching the sexual sphere, in 1992-93, Alice Ann Grayson authored a series of letters to Cardinal Law of Boston, called Catholic Classroom Sex Education is an Oxymoron. In 1995, she founded a parents’ group called Veil of Innocence. Veil of Innocence has recently established a web site: veil-of-innocence.org. It offers excellent Catholic resources, as well as practical help for parents.

Alice Ann Grayson is the recipient of the Boston College Alumni’s Award of Excellence in Public Service in 1977. She also received the Pope Pius XI Award from National Coalition of Clergy and Laity in 1997. She is a Lady of The Equestrian Order of The Holy Sepulchre, supporting particularly the sacred places in the Holy Land. She belongs to parishes in both the Latin Rite and Eastern Catholic Maronite Rite. Mrs. Grayson also works closely with the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project to promote and disseminate the collected works of both Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand.

Mrs. Joyce Nevins:

Dedicated Pro-Life activist, registered nurse, wife, mother and grandmother. She has spent the last forty years involved in various volunteer activities, especially child abuse prevention. Sex education is the serious spiritual and mental child abuse of our generation. Joyce has been part of Veil of Innocence since its founding in an effort to help protect children.

She is Co-Director of a new temporary home for women who become homeless because they choose LIFE instead of abortion for their baby- The St. Philomena House, in St. Paul, MN.

Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, Emeritus:

Alice von Hildebrand received a master’s degree and doctorate in philosophy from Fordham University in New York. She taught at the Hunter college of the city University in New York, the Catechetical Institute in Dunwoodie, New York, the Catechetical Institute in Arlington, VA, the Thomas Moore College in Rome, Italy, Fransiscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, and Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She has lectured in Canada, South America, Western Europe, and the United States, and is the author of several books, including Greek Culture: the Adventure of the Human Spirit, A Philosophy of Religion, By Love Refined, Soul of a Lion, The Privilege of Being a Woman, and Man and Woman: A Devine Invention. She co-authored several books with her husband, Dietrich von Hildebrand, including The Art of Living, Situation Ethics, and Graven Images. Her articles appear in major philosophical and Catholic publications.

Dr. von Hildebrand is co-founder of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, which is dedicated to the promotion and translation of the thought and work of Dietrich von Hildebrand. www.hildebrandlegacy.org She possesses a quick Belgium wit, and with a warm humble delivery of her lectures, it makes her widely loved and sought after. Veil of Innocence has made it possible to download her lectures and essays directly from the Veil of Innocence site.