Terri Strunck:
CLASS OF 1965
University of New MexicoClass of 1965
Albuquerque, NM
Terri's Story
Terri is from San Mateo, California. She later attended Indiana University (Liberal Arts), University of New Mexico (Peace Corps Training Center for Latin America). She works(ed) at Bella Art Glass, Redwood City Police Department.
Books Terri likes include The Tarantula's Trauma.
One of Terri's favorite quotes is:""The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
(from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
by Robert Frost)
"Once an Olympian, always an Olympian
Never former; never past"
(motto of the" U.S. Olympians Association")".
More about Terri:"I AM AN OLYMPIAN!
I swam for the USA in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, winning a Bronze Medal in the 400 Freestyle. I also won a Gold and a Silver medal in the 1963 Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1965, I was selected to a USA swimming team that toured Europe, competing in England, Wales, France, Monaco, Spain and Portugal. The highlight of that trip was a "command performance" before Prince Ranier and Princess Grace (Kelly) of Monaco, and we were their guests for a day at the Royal Palace private quarters for an American-style BBQ and swim party.
My club team was the Santa Clara Swim Club, in Santa Clara, CA, and we qualified 13 swimmers for the '64 Olympic Team. Our legendary coach, George Haines, coached 44 swimmers to the Olympics over the years, and they won many, many Olympic medals.
My Artist's Biography:
Terri Stickles Strunck
Fused Glass Artist
Murphys, California
Terri Stickles Strunck was born and raised in San Mateo, CA, where as a young girl, her dream was not in the field of art, but quite the opposite, in sports. When she was 10 years old, she told her parents, “I want to go to the Olympics!”,...Expand for more
and she obtained her dream at the age of 18 by competing for the 1964 USA Olympic Team in Tokyo, Japan, winning a Bronze Medal in Swimming.
While in college, she was inspired by a visiting speaker, Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps. She signed up, and served two years in Colombia, South America as a Peace Corps Volunteer. After several years spent as the first female Police Officer at a Bay Area department, she, her husband and son moved to Murphys in 1985, where the world of art began to enter her life.
Terri soon realized that she had a desire to “be artistic”, the missing link in her otherwise polar opposite life to date. She believed that inside every person at birth there is an artist, that creative being, but most people will go through life and never discover that artist, that inspiration and art medium that is somewhere inside of them. She started taking glass art classes, as glass had always fascinated her---from the time she was a little girl she use to watch, mesmerized for hours, the hot glass sculpture exhibitions at the county fair.
For several years Terri studied techniques in stained glass, glass mosaics, torchwork beads, and glass fusing, but it was this last glass medium that “struck” her. She acquired a glass kiln and has been mostly self-taught, always experimenting with new glass and techniques. “It is like Christmas morning when I get up and hurry into the studio to open the kiln and see what I have made!”, said Terri, since the kiln has to cool overnight.
Terri is retired, and at the age of 64, feels that she has reinvented herself, and will now pursue “the other half of my life”, the missing link in arts and crafts. She is exhibiting and selling her “wearable art” jewelry at arts and crafts shows, where her work has been very well received.".
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