Ruth Grieder honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Ruth Grieder was honored by the Egan Maritime Foundation on August 9 with its prestigious lifetime achievement award for her dedication to Nantucket and its history and her work with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Twelve Grieder family members, including those who traveled to the island to celebrate Ruth's 80th birthday, attended the ceremony. Grieder was presented with an ivory carving of a historic whirli- girl to commemorate the occasion.

Grieder: "I was totally thrilled to receive the award." MICHAEL GALVIN/The Independent

Grieder was nominated for the honor by fellow Nantucketers and people who visited the Egan Maritime Foundation exhibition at the Coffin School entitled, "Gutsy Gals: From Hearth to Heavens, Maria Mitchell and her sister Nantucketers."

"People who came in to see the exhibit got the opportunity to nominate their own gutsy gal," Egan Maritime Foundation vice president Phil Read said. "I looked gutsy up in the dictionary and found 'courageous, determined,' and that certainly fits Ruth. As she said in her acceptance speech, 'I'm sure I bothered so many people with my demand for minutiae and respect for history.'"

"I was totally thrilled to receive the award," Grieder said. "It's quite an honor, especially to have my family there."

Previous Egan Maritime Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award honorees include Revell Carr, former executive director of Mystic Seaport and former deputy director of the Egan Maritime Foundation; Dr. Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic and Robert F. Mooney, Nantucket's noted historian and attorney.

Ruth and her husband William look forward to celebrating their 63rd wedding

anniversary on Sept. 1. I

- Steve Sheppard