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Marin Women's Hall of Fame Honorees
2008
Public Affairs
Outstanding TV journalism is synonymous with the name Cheryl Jennings. Behind the success is her heart, evident in her extensive service to the community of Marin and beyond.
Jennings began her career at KNBR radio in 1974. Moving to K101, she became the station’s first ever female news director... Read more
2008
Education
Dr Lois Merriweather Moore, a wife, mother, grandmother, and Novato resident, has been an educator for 35 years. She empowers her students to envision their own excellence, and gives them the tools to achieve success.
Dr. Moore taught Spanish, English, and English as a Second Language in Marin’s... Read more
2008
Business & Professions
When Elaine Petrocelli opened a bookstore 32 years ago, she envisioned a place that would bring the world to Marin and vice versa. That she has done so successfully, against the odds, is in itself a great story.
Elaine Petrocelli has always been the face and heart of Book Passage, with her husband... Read more
2008
Religion
Fu Schroeder is a Buddhist priest, a teacher, an activist, an innovator, an organizer, and a visionary. She is a mother, a mentor, a friend. Ordained in 1986, Fu has been part of the San Francisco Zen Center for 30 years. She serves as Director at Green Gulch Farm, and as president of the Marin... Read more
2008
Environment
Rose Rodrigues da Fonta Verrall (1883 - 1964)
Giving to the community is an inherent part of life in Marin. But giving one’s entire inheritance of shoreline property to become a wildlife sanctuary is extraordinary generosity. This is the story of an incredible gift by a unique woman known as “... Read more
2007
Environment
Beverly Wright Bastian, an octogenarian dynamo, is known rightfully as the Tiburon Penninsula's "community organizer extraordinaire."
Bastian founded the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society in 1959. Under her direction, the Society acquired, restored, and maintained the peninsula’s most cherished... Read more
2007
Arts
Lesley Schisgall Currier is the founding Managing Director of Marin Shakespeare Company.
During her 18 year tenure, she has done everything that needed to be done to get the company on a solid financial and artistic footing. “Everything” includes acting, directing, constructing sets and props,... Read more
2007
Dominican, Education
For 30 years, Françoise Lepage, PhD, Professor and Dean Emerita at Dominican University of California’s School of Business, has pursued a vision: to enhance Marin’s global perspective. What makes this woman unique is her singular ability to translate her vision into concrete plans and partnerships... Read more
2007
Community Service
Daisy Maria Saez de Ibarra was a feminist before the word became a movement. One of a handful of women in the 1940s and 1950s to attend law school in Cuba, Daisy worked as a lawyer and social worker in her native country. In those days, such jobs always belonged to men.
She and her husband Octavio... Read more
2007
Social Change
Deborah Santana is a true Renaissance woman. To say she’s an author, business woman, wife, mother, and philanthropist is to scratch the surface. Perhaps the best way to understand this woman is to look at her memoir, "Space Between the Stars - My Journey to an Open Heart". With grace and wisdom,... Read more
2006
Religion
Sylvia is Marin's best-known voice for peace, mindfulness, and practical spirituality. She has published four best-sellers that demystify spirituality and Buddhism (It's Easier Than You Think; Pay Attention, For Goodness' Sake; Don't Just Do Something, Sit There; and That's Funny You Don't Look... Read more
2006
Arts
Describing Joanne Dunn's contributions to Marin is an awesome task. She's served Marin County arts and service organizations as founder, board member, fundraiser, and PR person for 47 years. She's been happily married to Gordon Dunn for more than 50 years. A commitment from Joanne means long-term... Read more
2006
Social Change
Royce McLemore is a dynamic activist whose "Women Helping All People" fosters personal achievement, economic independence, and a sense of belonging to a community.
In 1990, sixteen Marin City women gathered on Royce's front lawn to express their concern for the community's young women who lived... Read more
2006
Sports & Recreation
"Marilyn Price" and "Trips for Kids" are rarely mentioned separately. The terms are two sides of an equation. And Trips for Kids (TFK) is why Marilyn has been named to the Marin Women's Hall of Fame.
For the past twenty years, TFK has been the focus of Marilyn's life. She works 70 to 80 hours a... Read more
2005
Religion
Nahid Angha, Ph.D., is an international Muslim Sufi leader, a renowned scholar, and a resident of Marin County. Her long CV demonstrates tireless dedication to the transformation of individuals, communities, and institutions; an ongoing commitment to human rights; and interfaith cooperation. She... Read more
2005
Community Service
Learning and teaching are my passions, said Maryjane Dunstan first, last, and always an educator. After teaching at Merritt College and College of Marin, she was recruited by the State Department to teach in Burma under a Fulbright grant. Her work was so exceptional her one-year appointment was... Read more
2005
Health & Medicine
Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, a 1962 graduate of Cornell Medical School, is a visionary and medical reformer. A pioneer in the development of Holistic and Mind/Body medicine, her life's work has successfully legitimized and reintegrated the human spirit into contemporary medical care and education. Dr.... Read more
2005
Arts, Entertainment
Marilyn Smith's middle name must be "Music." She arrived in the Bay Area from Kansas (just like Dorothy) in 1957, with a degree in Music Education from Kansas University. Typical of the time, Marilyn placed her career on hold while she and her husband Bob raised five children, who all attended Mill... Read more
2005
Social Change
Sushma Deva Taylor, Ph.D., a native of India, has been Executive Director of Center Point, Inc. a private substance-abuse facility in Marin, since 1981.Center Point provides long-term adult residential and outpatient services, adolescent services, in-custody drug treatment service, case management... Read more
2003
Environment
Hilda Castillo has not wasted a minute of her 22 years in the US. She came to Sonoma State as an international student to learn English and earn a master's degree, then returned to Venezuela, Before long the University recruited her so back she came with her children, this time to stay.
Her... Read more