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Iona Jean was born on September 18, 1914 to Howard A. (1875-1966) and Dolina MacKay Fackler (1874-1948). Iona graduated from the New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton in 1937. She received her Master’s from the Teachers College at Columbia University in 1941. During World War II, she volunteered for service on June 29th, 1943. She entered as an Ensign and was later promoted to Lieutenant and finally Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Navy, where she met Ensign (later Lieutenant) William Creed Myers (1916-2009). Iona and Creed married in December 1945 in the Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church. They had four children: Howard Carl, Dolina Jean, Hellen “Holly” Holland, and Frances Fackler.

Soon after graduating from the State Teachers College, Iona joined the Alumni Association and began her long board membership starting in May of 1938. She gained a paid position as Executive Secretary with the Association in June of 1939. In 1941, she lived on campus in Ely House and later, Allen House as Resident Advisor. In 1943, she asked for leave of absence for the duration of the war and six months thereafter to join the U.S. Naval Reserve, WAVES. In 1946, she formally resigned as Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association.

She was the 14th Life Member of the Alumni Association, having received the title in 1955. That year, she returned to the board after leaving for 9 years to raise her children. Through the years, Iona served on every committee the board has had through 1989, but the most important to her were the Investment Committee, then Annual Giving, and finally, the Alumni Scholars. She never served as an officer on the board because chose to serve as an officer in other local groups which took more of her time. In total, she served the Alumni Association for 41 years.

Charles Warren Brewster was born in 1871 and was the brother of Alice Langdon Brewster and Edith Brewster. He worked as a banker in New Hampshire. He married Martha “Daisy” Tredick Brewster (1879-1958) and had a son, Charles T. Brewster. He died in 1950.

Edith Gilman Brewster was born in 1873. Her brother was Charles Warren Brewster and her sister was Alice Langdon Brewster. She worked as a kindergarten teacher and social worker in New Hampshire. She died in 1960.

Martha “Daisy” Tredick Brewster (1879-1958), was married to Warren Brewster (1871-1950). They had a son, Charles T. Brewster. Later in life Martha lived with her sisters-in-law Edith and Alice Brewster in New Hampshire.

The New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair was established in 1908, approximately 5 years after the initial planning of the school. Charles Sumner Chapin served as the first principal. The first building constructed was College Hall, and it still stands today. At the time, the campus was around 25 acres (100,000 m2), had 8 faculty members and 187 students. The first graduating class, which numbered at 45 students, contained William O. Trapp, who would then go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1929. The first dormitory was built five years later, in 1915, and is known as Russ Hall.

In 1924, Harry Sprague was the first president of Montclair, and shortly afterwards the school began being more inclusive of extracurricular activities such as athletics. In 1927, however, after studies had emerged concerning the number of high school teachers in the state of New Jersey (only 10% of all high school teachers received their degrees from New Jersey), the institution became Montclair State Teachers College and developed a four-year (Bachelor of Arts) program in pedagogy, becoming the first US institute to do so. In 1937 it became the first teachers college accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

In 1958 the school merged with the Panzer College of Physical Education and Hygiene to become Montclair State College. The school became a comprehensive multi-purpose institution in 1966. The Board of Higher Education designated the school a teaching university on April 27, 1994, and in the same year the school became Montclair State University. It has offered Master of Arts programs since 1932, Master of Business Administration since 1981, Master of Education since 1985, Master of Science since 1992, Master of Fine Arts since 1998, Doctor of Education since 1999, and Doctor of Environmental Management in 2003 (now the PhD in Environmental Science and Management). PhD degrees were added in Teacher Education and Teacher Development in 2008, Counselor Education, Family Studies, Mathematics Education, Communications Sciences and Disorders by 2014, and most recently Clinical as well as Industrial/Organizational Psychology (2021). In 2018, Montclair State University graduated more than 30 doctoral students.

President of Trenton State College from 1957 to 1964.

President of Trenton State College from 1964 to 1966.

President of Trenton State College from 1966 to 1968.

President of Trenton State College from 1968 to 1970.

President of The College of New Jersey from 1979 to 1998.