DEER ISLE – Ingrid Menken, 58, died peacefully Oct. 23, 2010, at her home with family and friends by her side. She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2002, and lived these last eight years with great joy and determination. Ingrid was born June 1, 1952, in Nordhorn, Germany, daughter of Emma Sagorny Menken and Bernhard Menken. She grew up in and around Montreal, and graduated from Notre Dame Secretarial School, Montreal, and then worked at World Bank, Washington, D.C. She returned to school and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and then earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the Business School at Columbia University. For more than 22 years she was a part of the administration of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, serving from 1988 to 1996 as treasurer of the board of trustees and as an employee from 1997, first as bookkeeper and later as business manager. Ingrid took many workshops at Haystack and became a skilled and talented metalsmith and printmaker, selling her work in galleries in New England and New Mexico. She will be remembered by those who loved her for her intelligence, enthusiasm and courage, her knowledge of the tides and wind, her love of cooking, her ability to speak with animals both wild and domestic, and her steadfast friendship. We can still see her now, paddling off in her kayak to her beloved Sheephead Island. She is survived by her husband, Frank Veneroso of Portsmouth, N.H.; her sister, Hilde Buehre and her husband, Fred, of Beaconsville, Quebec; a nephew, Chris, of Calgary, Alberta; and a niece, Karin Concettini and her husband, Alex, of Ottawa and their children, Ali and Brianna. There will be a celebration of Ingrid’s life in June at the Haystack campus and on Sheephead Island. The family requests that memorial contributions be made to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, P.O. Box 518, Deer Isle, ME 04627.
INGRID MENKEN
