I was fifty-seven years old in 1977 when I left New York, including my husband and the comfortable trappings of financial security, to seek a new life in Florida, where I discovered Siesta Key. On the coffee table in my rented room, I found in the village newspaper an announcement of a weekly meeting of a discussion group on Jungian psychology at the home of Marion Hoppin. Synchronicity in one of its finest moments!

This group continued to meet until Marion became ill. However, a few years later, in 1991, when the Rev. Richard Benner came to Sarasota as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church, he and Marion decided to reinstate a new study group which continued to meet on a more regular basis. Then, in 1994 Doris Albrecht came from New York City to visit me. She, Dick, Joy Erickson, and I interviewed Marion with particular interest in her memories of the original group of "Jungians" who had gathered in New York City in the 1920's. At the end of that interview Marion expressed her desire that our small discussion group would use her extensive library collection as a nucleus for a Jung Society of Sarasota. We accepted this awesome responsibility and formed the present C.G. Jung Society of Sarasota. (Our early years of struggle and perseverance is a story in itself and will be told at another time.)

I am proud and gratified to have been closely involved in the development of our Jung Society. Also gratifying is experiencing personal growth spiritually, socially, and in creative expression. A few years ago, it was my good fortune to receive a modest inheritance, and this I have chosen to share with our Jung Society in the form of an Endowment Fund. This Fund will be used to further the goals of the Society, and to make available to others the opportunity to learn to live life more fully. This gift is a way of expressing my gratitude to that extraordinary Power which has so wisely guided me, especially since that path led through the teachings of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung.

~Nancy Anderson