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Topic: I Want To Be 60!
 Be an Empowered Senior and an Elder of
your Community and Family. Guest:
Wendy Crisp
Author, Motivator
The author: a book of essays on living
in a small town, From the Back Pew,
collected from my weekly, award-winning
column for the Ferndale Enterprise; and
three books of humor, the best-selling
100 Things I’m Not Going to Do Now That
I’m over 50 (Penguin/Perigee; 1995;
re-issued and revised in 2006); Do As I
Say, Not As I Did (Penguin/Perigee; 1997
– a great book with a poor title); and
the new When I Grow Up I Want To Be 60
(Penguin/Perigee; May 2006). I’ve also
published a historical, fund-raising
cookbook for the Ferndale Museum, Old
Favorites from Ferndale Kitchens (1994),
and I hold the “compilation copyright”
for A Distant Thunder (New Chapter
Press, 1993), a historical memoir of
Anne Topham, the English governess to
the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm.
As the editor of Savvy magazine and the
national director of the National
Association for Female Executives (NAFE),
Wendy appeared, from 1981-1998, on
dozens of regional and national
television and radio programs; her
editorials on social issues have been
published in the New York Times, the
Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street
Journal, and the Oregonian.
A political “child of the ‘60s,” She has
been what used to be called a volunteer
and is now would be called an “activist”
all her adult life. Her nonpaying work
has included: eight years on the
national board of directors of United
Methodist Communications (Nashville,
Tennessee), and five years on the board
of Institute for Family Development
International (San Francisco), a
foundation of which she is now president
that is dedicated to projects that
improve the lives of women and children.
Their current projects involve an AIDS orphanage in Malawi and a new program
for incarcerated mothers released from
California State Correctional
Facilities. In years past, she have also
been a volunteer at the Bedford Hills
(NY) Correctional Facility for Women, at
her churches, in local public schools,
and for many different community groups.
With Sally Dolfini, a lifelong community
fundraiser and organizer, she has
written The Star-Spangled Spaghetti Car
Wash: A Step-by-Step Guide for Community
Fundraisers (www.spaghetticarwash.com). Website:
www.iwanttobe60.com |
