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Jan Griesinger
Athens, OH.

–born in 1942   After hearing about OLOC since its beginning and meeting Ruth Silver and Shevy Healey in the early 1990's, I attended the 1996 OLOC national gathering with my over 60 partner. I began as an OLOC intern at age 58 in year 2000 and have LOVED serving on the Steering Committee ever since. I am a founding resident of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial UnRest Home Womyn's Land Trust near Athens Ohio and sing in Calliope Feminist Choir.

Mina Meyer
Long Beach, CA.

–born in 1940   In my 40's I was the Conference Coordinator for the first Old Lesbian Celebration with Shevy & Barbara and our other Creators of OLOC. Now as I am approaching my 70's, I take great joy in being able to continue down the feminst path of working toward Old Lesbian Pride and our Equality!

Alix@oloc.org
845-679-7586

Alix Dobkin
Woodstock, NY.

-born in 1940   While on concert tour in the 1980s I met some OLOC founders & they helped me look forward to turning 60, so I joined OLOC in 2000, & the Steering Committee in 2006. My home is in Woodstock, NY & my memoir, My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, & Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, is due out in August, 2009.

Ruth Debra
Palm Springs, CA.

–born in 1944    I joined the OLOC Steering Committee in the spring of 2008 after beginning the process in October 2006 and am thrilled to be a part of this wonderful organization. I'm a life-long feminist and activist and have a strong belief in OLOC's mission. I have been a part of founding numerous organizations including Desert Women for Equality and the Coachella Valley chapter of OLOC.

Sally Tatnall
Cleveland Heights, OH.

–born in 1937   I've been an activist all my life and feel lucky to be continuing my activism as part of OLOC in these late years of life. I am especially happy to be involved with one of the few remaining woman/lesbian only spaces left on the planet.

Carole@oloc.org
803-414-7513

Carole Stoneking Columbia, SC.

-born 1937. My first National OLOC Gathering was in Durham, NC and immediately I longed for a Regional, which happened in 2007 in Washington, DC. In August 2008 I attended the National OLOC Gathering in L.A. Calif., and knew I was destined to get involved. A retired YWCA Executive of 27 years, an activist with NOW since the 60’s and past president in Columbia, I welcomed OLOC with open arms. For my work on ageing in the LGBT community and on the OLOC Regional in Columbia, 2005-2009, I was awarded the “Order of the Pink Palmetto”. In my second career as a massage therapist (for 21 years as of 2009), at age 72 I was presented two awards by the AMTA (American Massage Therapy Association), one in South Carolina and a National AMTA Meritorious award

-born in 1931  When I found Bay Area OLOC in 1975 I felt as if I had finally come home, after having been an activist and a feminist since the age of thirteen.  Here were the women I had been looking for all my life.   Two years later I moved into Coleridge Park senior housing in San  Francisco, joining six other OLOC members already living there.  In  2008 I attended my first National OLOC gathering in Los Angeles and  it was one of the peak experiences of my life.  I am delighted to  be part of the Steering Committee.

Myra Brahms
New York City, NY.

 

–born in 1942    After attending my first OLOC Gathering in Durham, NC in 2006 and my first Regional in Washington, DC in 2007 I decided that this was the organization that I wanted to put my feminist, Lesbian energy into.   I am a retired special education and reading teacher in New York  City.  I'm a proud member of the OLOC Steering Committee.

Shaba Barnes
Albuquerque, NM.

-born in 1935   I had the unique position of being a part of the planning process for  OLOC way back in 1986. Although I was in my early 50’s, I was able to  vote for the age limit. I figured, the women voting, women who I  admired and trusted and were older than I, must know something that I  did not. So I voted with them and excluded myself believing that  someday I would be grateful for making that decision. I am very  grateful for this organization. I am thankful to be the Memorial  Program Director and for the opportunities to represent OLOC at other  groups and conferences when possible.

Arden Eversmeyer
Houston, TX.

-born in 1931  Arden lives in Houston, Texas with her partner,
Charlotte Avery. Arden jouned the OLOC Steering Committee in 1990, and retired in 2004. The last seven years on the Steering Commmittee she served as Co-Director with Vera Martin from Arizona. In Houston, she founded LOAF (Lesbians Over Age Fifty) in 1987, with a current membership of 175 lesbians between 50 and 88 years of age. She served as the Houston Mayor’s appointee from the GLBT community to the Area Agency on Aging for six years. She currently is Project Director for the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, and travels much of the year. The first book from the project, co-authored with Magaret Purcell, and due out late summer 2009, is titled: A GIFT OF AGE: Old Lesbian Life Stories.

Vera Martin
Apache Junction, AZ.

-born in 1923. I was one of 16 people attending the first meeting  in 1989 to found OLOC. Not many of that 16 is still alive. My first title was National Coordinator. When we changed the organizational chart in 1996 I became a Co-Director with Arden Eversmeyer and held that title until 2004 when I resigned. I am so pleased to have been a part of forming such a wonderful organization for old lesbians. Those of us who belong to and support OLOC have so many reasons to be very proud.

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