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Mar 10, 2010, 7:48 AM
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EIGHT BELLS: Karen Arms
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Sailing lost a great friend this week. Karen Arms passed at her home in Cortland, New York on March 2nd. Karen lived a full, enthusiastic and wonderful life touching, indeed influencing many, many others. Her natural intelligence, and strong, determined mindset led her on adventures far and wide. She was at times an author, farmer, professor, political activist, gardener, sailor, web-master, quilter, singer, and always a generous hostess.
Born in Oxford, UK, Karen lived in Ithaca New York until 1987 when she moved to Wilmington Island, Georgia. Karen studied Zoology at Oxford, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1967. She was the author of several textbooks on Biology, Environmental Science, and Gardening. She also held a law degree from Cornell University.
Sailors from around the world were lucky that Karen's 21 years in Georgia overlapped with the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Karen became deeply involved as a volunteer in the effort to organize the US Olympic Sailing Trials and the Olympic Sailing events at Savannah, GA in 1996. While working hard to develop the local talent needed to pull off these events for several years, she opened her home to many of the aspiring Olympians that came to train in Savannah. Along with his father, even young Ben Ainslie (GBR), who was still in high school at the time, stayed with Karen and her husband Thom during that time.
Karen's son, my friend, Richard Feeney, introduced many of us to this remarkable woman and we are all better for it.
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