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A member of Theodore Gordon Flyfishers
for 27 years, Joan was the
first woman elected to its Board of Directors.
In 1985 Joan founded
Project Access,
a voluntary program dedicated to making prime fishing streams available to anglers who are
elderly or disabled.
For her internet site, which describes access sites and gives
instructions on creating an access program, Joan was elected
Ecohero of the Week by the Fly Fishing Network.
A free-lance book
designer by profession, Joan’s credits include Jonathan Livingston
Seagull and The Dettes: A Catskill Legend.
For 17 years she conducted the Book Design Production Workshop, a
project she devised for C.O.P.E., an affirmative action program of the
publishing industry, for which she was elected by the YWCA to the Academy
of Women Achievers. Mayor Ed Koch appointed her to his Protocol
Committee, where she greeted heads of state as his representative.
During that time she was an effective team player in TGF’s water
release agreements between city and state.
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In 1963 Joan developed recurring
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and in 1993, ovarian cancer. As she
said, medical science seemed to keep step with her. Undaunted, Joan
continued to devote herself to her many interests.
In 1997 Joan created
TGF’s Trout In The Classroom program, in
which school children study the ecosystem of their watershed by raising
trout from eggs to fry. This program now thrives in 55 schools
throughout the New York City watershed, upstate and down. Joan passed
away in June of 2000, but her program lives on under the stewardship of TGF,
Arthur,
and Joan’s son, Evan.
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