Etta Clark | The Sun Magazine

Etta Clark

Etta Clark, an avid skier, tennis player, and windsurfer, lives with her husband and three daughters in San Anselmo, California. She started taking pictures of older athletes in 1982, the year she turned forty and started to feel old.

— From March 1992
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Growing Old Is Not For Sissies

Sister Marion is a principal of a Catholic school. The fastest 56-year-old woman in the world, she is appropriately referred to as “The Flying Nun.”

March 1992
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