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Sierra Club honors Shirley Taylor for her activism
By Mary Ann Cook
SIERRA AWARD: Los Gatan Shirley Taylor has won the Sierra Club's Walter Starr Award. Taylor, a biologist, was chair of the Florida chapter of the Sierra Club in the early '70s and also chaired the Gulf Coast Regional Conservation Committee.
As chairman of the club's national Coastal Committee, she worked on such issues as offshore oil drilling, coastal management legislation, public use of urban waterfronts and coastal protection through government land purchase for parks.
In addition she chaired the national Marine Committee, which helped pass legislation protecting marine mammals and fish. The Starr award is given to former board of director members who remain active in the club.
DOUBLE SCHOLARSHIPS: Zoe Rodriguez Segnitz of Monte Sereno has won both an art and an athletic scholarship from Davidson College in North Carolina, where she is a freshman. At Los Gatos High School she was a four-year field hockey player, captain of the team and on the all-CCS first team.
She also won the Interactor of the Year Scholarship from Los Gatos Rotary and the Charlie Wedemeyer Outstanding Athlete Scholarship from the LG Lions, as well as a Bank of America Achievement Award for fine arts.
The daughter of Jan and Carmen Segnitz, she is active in student advocacy groups and volunteers at Emanuel Convalescent Home and Interact Service Club. She won the Pepper Scholarship from Davidson, which is given to students who show exceptional promise in the visual arts.
BELLARMINE RACE: Becky Gibbs of Los Gatos was the winning woman in the race that was part of the day-long festival celebrating Bellarmine Prep's 150th anniversary. Some 600 entrants competed in the 5k run/3k walk. Gibbs' time was 19:33, though the temperature soared on that September Sunday.
COLLECTORS ALERT: Collectors of all stripes may find the current exhibit in the History Park section of Kelley Park in San Jose like a page from their favorite scrapbooks. The display is called Object Obsession, collecting the ordinary and the extraordinary, and contains some of the wackiest collections around.
The musuem curators are Alida Bray of History San Jose and Steven Gelber, a history professor at Santa Clara University, who has written a book called Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. Los Gatans Anne Louise Heigho and Jean Dudley worked on the exhibit, too. The History San Jose number is 408.287.2290.
FEATURED: An article about Wendy Puthuff Mattson appears in the November issue of American Artist Magazine. Mattson, a watercolorist, is an '82 grad of Saratoga High who specializes in florals and portraits of children. Studio 42 in Los Gatos represents her.
Mattson has exhibited in the Rotary Art Show for the past four years and her artwork was featured in publicity for the '82 show. Her mother, Judy Puthuff, founded the Community of Artists in Saratoga. When the two took a watercolor class one summer, it jump-started Mattson's interest in art.
FASHION: Fashions from Designer's Corner and Schroeders will be featured in the annual West Valley Federated Women's Club fashion show/luncheon on Oct. 21, at Rinconada Country Club. For reservations, call club president Marian Buchweitz at 408.371.0471, or Connie Berg at 408.395.3583. Berg and Thalia Chaboya are chairing the event that also includes a raffle and auction. The doings start at 11:30 a.m.
MODELS: These locals will tread the catwalk wearing Nordstrom's fashions at the Junior League's Avenue of Style Oct. 19 and 20: DebRenee and Richard Cooley, Denise and Paul Lukas, Amy Borgese, Molly Annette Orup, Marcia Riedel, teen Monica Krach, and children Carter Krach and Hilary May--all Los Gatans.
From Monte Sereno are Richard Brossart, Ginger Baden, Stephanie Brown, Kristie Driscoll and daughter Vanessa, Sharon Wool, plus teens Stephen Killion, Natasha Nanda, Nicholas Sgariata, and youngster B.J. Graham.
Saratogans who will model include Sue Bozzini, LiLinda Carta-Samuels, Melissa Johnson, Jennifer Lee, plus teen Leslie Hernandez and youngsters Emily Dillon and Katelin McLarney.
APOLOGIES TO WAYNE: Carol Schrager says she was delighted to hear more about the doings of artists Wayne Thiebaud and Clayton Bailey in a recent column. She had arranged an art exhibit that featured their work when she was living in Wisconsin.
Now she could view what has happened with their output since then. She also noted that Thiebaud was spelled wrong. Sorry about that.
NONAGENARIAN ALERT: Mary Urzi, she of the splendiferously painted fingernails, is 91, a recent caller informed, so that further kudos could be offered.
LOCAL ARCHITECTURE /HISTORY: Alastair Dallas and Pat Dunning will be featured at a Friends of Los Gatos Library forum Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. Dallas wrote the book, Los Gatos Observed, and Dunning is a Victoriana expert and chairman of the Historic Homes Tour on Nov. 4 and 5, a fundraiser for the Los Gatos Museums.
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