Anne
I love the water: lakes, rivers, pools – the changing light, the reflections, the wind on the surface. I try to swim every day for exercise and well-being, and I never travel without my bathing suit. And when I travel, there is always water.
Travel, languages, and cultures expand my horizons. I led groups for the Experiment In International Living to the Netherlands, Spain, and Israel; before each summer program there was a language camp in Vermont. Now I travel often with my dragon boat team for competitions and camps from Florida to Australia. Luckily, my husband John also likes to travel. We have taken canoe trips on the Allagash in Maine and the Missouri Breaks in Montana, hiked in the Pyrenees and the British Lake Country, and explored U.S. National and State Parks, sometimes on mules! We have three grown children, two in the area, one on Lake Tahoe, and a wonderful daughter-in-law and an adorable grandchild.
In another life, I was a teacher and educational administrator. I have taught many subjects and many people: from fourth grade girls to Japanese businessmen, in private schools and community colleges, at the NYC World Trade Center and the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I developed courses in comparative literature and film at Cabrini University. A believer in lifelong learning, I joined Main Line School Night as a teacher of adults – travel and literature – and a student of languages – Spanish, French, and Chinese. For 20 years I was a MLSN Program Director, Board Member, trip leader, and course consultant.
I believe in community and connections. I am active with neighborhood civic associations and write for my high school and college alumnae publications. For more than five years, the YMCA was a community. I went to the pool every day, for the exercise, yes, but also for the social aspect of classes in both pools. I met people I never would have known – people who are musical, people whose church choirs meld with those of a synagogue, people from other countries, other cultures, people with whom I can speak Spanish, people with whom I can share political views or book reviews, people with whom I can share maladies and remedies. During COVID-19, we are estranged. I miss them and look forward to stories of quarantine and coping and caring and laughing.
