ALVAREZ, Anne
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Anne Bringsjord ALVAREZ
Born: 1943
At: Baldwin, NY, USA
Died: 02-May-2008
At: Georgetown University Hospital, USA
Aged: 65
Obituary
Anne Bringsjord Alvarez, 65, who was photo editor from 1991 to 1996 with the Magazine Group, a Washington-based custom publishing company, died of renal cancer May 2 at Georgetown University Hospital.
Ms. Alvarez began her career in 1965 with Time Inc. in New York, where she was chief cataloguer for the company's picture collection.
In 1971, she left Time and moved to Washington. She worked with the Peace Corps until 1982 as chief of the photo and information library and then as director of photo services. From 1982 to 1987, she was director of photography for ACTION and the Peace Corps.
She worked as photo editor with Insight Magazine from 1987 until 1991. She retired in 1996.
Active in her District neighborhood, Ms. Alvarez was a vice president of the Dupont Circle Citizens Association and a member of the D.C. Chapter of the Victorian Society.
Her home in Dupont Circle, a large Victorian, has been on the Dupont Circle House tour. During her 35 years in the house, she rented rooms to students and young professionals from all over the world.
"Anne became a surrogate mother to these kids and loved hearing their stories and helping them through a variety of crises while here and even after they returned home," said her husband, Louis Santucci.
Ms. Alvarez was born in Baldwin, N.Y, and graduated in 1964 from Bucknell University, where she participated in the American University Washington Semester Program. She attended summer school at the University of Oslo in Norway in 1964. She received a master's degree in psychology from Michigan State University.
She was a member of the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi and Pi Sigma Alpha. She took photo classes at the Corcoran College of Art and Design.
Ms. Alvarez was a gardener, an inveterate antique shopper and an accomplished photographer. She loved cooking and studied at Le Cordon Bleu in New York. She also took cooking classes wherever she traveled, including Barcelona and Thailand.
In 2003, she donated a home-cooked dinner for four at her house at an auction for the British Look Good Feel Better program, a breast cancer assistance program. Four people flew to the United States and were feted to a six-course all-American dinner featuring buffalo, Maryland crab, ramps, wild morels and fiddlehead ferns, her daughter said.
Her first husband, Ronald Alvarez, whom she married in 1974, died in 1978.
She and Santucci, whom she married in 2003, traveled extensively, visiting 20 countries in both Europe and Asia.
In 2004, the couple bought a farm on Old Mission Peninsula, Mich., and began restoring the 100-year old farmhouse and barn. With a small orchard of heirloom sweet cherries and apples, they also began a pick-your-own business along with an organic flower and vegetable roadside stand.
Survivors, in addition to her husband of Washington, include a daughter from her first marriage, Veronica Alvarez of San Diego; and a brother.
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