![]() ![]() “One of them wound up being an organization in Chicago that I got a job with.” “The librarian helped me find these lists of organizations, and I wrote to every organization,” Obama told an interviewer. He acknowledged her help during an American Library Association conference in 2005. In 2003, she received the library’s Maher Stern Award for outstanding service.Įarlier, she helped a young Barack Obama, recently graduated from college, in his job search. In response to the 2001 recession, she organized a job information center there, scheduling visiting speakers and resume-writing workshops. Lexie Sax followed in her daughter Athena’s footsteps becoming a librarian and rising to head reference librarian at the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan branch of. Corrinne followed in her grandmother’s and mother’s footsteps, winning high school drama awards, and is currently performing in dance and theater productions at Loyola University, Maryland, where she is a student. While her daughter Tamara (Tammy) was growing up, she coached her through multiple theater performances of her own. William Toth, predeceased her.įrom an early age, she was a talented thespian, winning drama competitions in high school, playing the lead in a college production of the musical “Finian’s Rainbow,” and performed in various productions of the Woman’s Club of Rye that were written by the late Ion Snodgrass and directed by the late Pat Kirkpatrick. Athena Michael and Tamara Stuckey and their husbands, and her granddaughters, Juliette Michael and Corrinne Stuckey. In 1957, she married Maurio Sax, who survives her, as do her daughters, Dr. She earned master’s degrees from Manhattanville College (English literature) and the University of Texas (library science). At the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-on-Avon in England, she continued her study of drama, especially the works of Shakespeare, and worked and performed in the Globe Theater. ![]() Lexie, as she was known, studied drama at Syracuse University and history at Columbia University. ![]() William Toth and Margaret (Kalassay) Toth. She was 86.īorn in Norwalk, Conn., on June 21, 1935, she was the daughter of the Rev. where she lived for nearly 60 years, passed away peacefully on June 11, 2022. Alexandra Sara Toth Sax, a reference librarian, who was devoted to her family and dedicated to the community of Rye, N.Y. ![]()
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