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Judy Barr, a native of Ohio, migrated to the Boston area to attend Simmons College.  While there she fell in love with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and its Vermeer, "The Concert."  With a Masters from UMass-Boston and a doctorate in health policy/management from Harvard, she had a long career as a faculty member, administrator, and researcher at Northeastern University.  As a patient-centered outcomes researcher, she presented many papers at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) fall meetings held in major European cities. With her husband Jim Barr (Antioch BA, Wesleyan MALS), a Wellesley High School Hall of Fame math teacher from 1964-1997 and co-founder of Wellesley's A Better Chance Program, they used these travel opportunities to embark on their Vermeer Quest.