Civic Club Woman of the Year 2017: Anne Horowitz

Anne Horowitz has been an active contributor to the Civic Club since 2005, but her contributions to her family, her community, and her country began long before that.Anne Horowitz - Civic Club Woman of the Year

Anne is an accomplished seamstress and musician having played the piano and sewing her own clothes since junior high school. She lived in a multi-cultural community in New York and grew up with Polish, Italian, German and Jewish influences.

Anne put herself through college by working with two doctors who pioneered the chemotherapy treatment 5-fluorouracil that is still in use today. Even though she was a music major she continued to work with these two physicians for a year after graduation from college.

She moved from New York to Boston where she met her future husband Artie, a law student at Harvard. Although she was dating a boy from NY, she met Artie after falling and sliding down a hill and he rescued her at the bottom. They fell in love and were married 11 months later

Anne completed her master’s degree in music and all of her course work for a Ph.D. in musicology. She worked as a verbatim reporter for the CIA, never revealing any of the high level secrets about Oliver North or the SALT Talks that she heard and recorded. Artie and Anne have a daughter and 2 grandchildren.

Since 2005, the Civic Club of Oakland has been the recipient and benefactor of this woman’s Integrity, Commitment, and Talent. She singlehandedly organized the Quilt Raffle for the Antique Show for many years. In 2013 she filled half a term for the critical job of recording secretary for the Civic Club. She was subsequently elected to two full additional terms. Her minutes are a thing of beauty, precise, accurate and timely.

Our Woman of the Year and her husband have had a home in Garrett County since 1988. Then when he finally retired, they built their dream home, Riverbend, in 2002 and have lived on their 25 wooded acres since then.