• Valerie Avedon GardinerNeighbor

  • Severna Park, MD

A love of writing, combined with a nose for neighborhood news led Valerie to a job with Patch several years ago when she found her nest empty and her time available. Former publishing feats included working for the original publisher of "Color me Beautiful" (Acropolis Books) where she got to edit books like "Color for Brides" and "Color for Homes." She is also proud of "The Suntanner's Bible," circa 1980, which she recently picked up for a quarter at a church bazaar. Valerie has kept her finger in the writing pie as the writer/editor of her Class of '76 Class Notes column for award-winning alumni publication, "The Colgate Scene," for over 35 years. A graduate of George Washington University's Publication Specialist Program, after getting a degree in Spanish at Colgate, Valerie has been a writer, photographer, editor and proofreader. (If you are reading a menu at a local restaurant and see a typo corrected with blue ink, it was probably her). A deep love of photography must have been inherited from her Dad's first cousin (really), former fashion photographer, Richard Avedon. Someday she'd like to get a real camera though her IPhone does a pretty good job, too. A 28-year resident of Chartwell in Severna Park, she has two cats, two dachshunds, an inherited Welsh Corgi and a retired husband at home.

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