The First Hundred Years: Clearwater Yacht Club, 1911-2011

About the Author

Sara Green is an associate professor and the associate chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida. She received her AA degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville; BAs in sociology and education and an MA in sociology from the University of South Florida in Tampa; and her PhD in sociology from Tulane University in New Orleans. Her research and teaching interests include the social experience of disability, stigma, health beliefs, organizational membership and satisfaction, and caregiving across the life course. Before joining the faculty at USF, she served as a consultant to the retirement housing industry—conducting needs assessment and resident satisfaction studies around the country. She has published her work in peer reviewed journals such as Social Science and Medicine , Journal of Loss and Trauma , International Journal of Aging and Human Development , Health Sociology Review , Sociological Inquiry , The Clinical Gerontologist , Sociology of Health and Illness, Rural Sociology , Journal of Housing for the

Photo by Amanda Fleming.

Elderly, and Human Organization . She currently has a book under contract with Lynne Rienner (co-authored with Shawn Bingham). Sara comes from a pioneer Florida family and lives in Dunedin with her husband Gene Fleming and their daughter Amanda Fleming. Author’s Acknowledgments I am profoundly grateful to all of the folks who helped with this book. Special thanks go to: Sandie Ramsden, Gene Fleming, Tina Fitzgerald, and Fairlie Brinkley who read early drafts and made very helpful suggestions; to Anne Burns my editor at the Donning Company and Tina Fitzgerald my editor at CYC; to Connie Boblenz, Judy Widger, Miles Curry, and (most especially) John Hanson who tracked down photos and gathered information for captions; to Lynn Walton, Nathan Stufflebean, and the whole Donning team; to my colleagues and students in the Sociology Department at the University of South Florida, my family and my friends who put up with a more than usually “absent minded professor;” and to my husband, Gene Fleming, who kept our domestic and social lives on track and reminded me that I really did have to come up for air from time to time.

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