Biography: Sue Gary

BY WALTER PICKETT

About Sue:

• Husband is Robert Gary and adult daughter is Eren-Marie Gary.
• Born in Los Angeles. However, she lived in Colorado, Michigan and Nebraska prior to moving back home to the greater Los Angeles area in 1986.
• Bachelors of Arts degree in Speech and Hearing from UCSB, and a Masters of Arts degree in Audiology from the University of Denver.
• She and her husband Robert owned a promotional products business for 26 years. Prior to that she worked as an audiologist in both Iowa and Michigan.
• She loves scrapbooking and reading. Currently, she’s a volunteer at the Camarillo Friends of the Library Bookstore as well.

Here is Sue’s story in her own words:

My first direct contact with the group, other than walking around meeting marts and regionals rather aimlessly with Robert, was when I attended Phil Gregory’s Reverse Glass Painting class, in Northridge a few years ago. Previously, I had taken decorative painting classes at our local Michael’s Craft store, and I felt pretty confident my skill set in painting would make the 4 day class a piece of cake. Was I ever wrong! The gentlemen in the class had fabulous fine painting skills and I was barely able to keep up. It was a terrific learning experience. Not long after I finished the class, I found a very sorry looking decorative clock at a Pasadena regional, for $10. One of the existing porcelain panels had a lovely painted eastern Indian image. The other panel was totally missing. I purchased the clock thinking I could practice my new reverse glass painting skills. As Robert and I did the necessary steps to create the image for transfer and painting, we realized we could reproduce the image through scanning much better than I could ever hope to paint it. So, that is what we did, and I have yet to practice my reverse glass painting.

NAWCC Achievements and Participation

I really began feeling connected to NAWCC after Robert and I were able to visit the headquarters and museum in Columbia, PA in the Fall of 2013. The museum is stunning, and meeting many of the staff was a terrific way for me to get a feel that the organization is there to help me explore my interests. Shortly after our visit, we were asked to do the video work for the Ward Francillon Time for Everyone Symposium in Pasadena. The lectures truly got me “hooked” on the entire study of time. I loved meeting so many of the lecturers and being able to speak with them informally.

Since that time, we have been on a heavily, clock-based travel schedule, which has been just terrific. Completing Chapter 190’s Public Introduction to Clocks Class gave me the confidence to assume I would be able to understand much of the information presented on the AHS Germany Horology Study Tour we took in the Fall of 2014 (a dream trip). The experiences I have had, by being involved in this fascinating field, have been truly magnificent.

Co-Directing the Chapter 190 Mart with Donna Gaglini was a pleasure, as well as tons of work. It was very rewarding to have the Mart be profitable, and to be able to donate some funds back to National really made it feel like the effort was worthwhile both for Chapter 190 and National.

I currently serve as the Board Secretary for Chapter 190, and I am currently a member of the NAWCC Audio/Visual committee.

I created the program “Do You Know What Time It Is? The creation of standard time in the United States” for a local Rotary Club. I also presented this program to Chapter 190, and it was also made into a NAWCC webinar.