Sue Cauthen

Sue Cauthen was a member of the Board of Directors of San Francisco Tomorrow for many years.  She passed away one day short of her 85th birthday in Mill Valley.
Born Suzanne Daneman May 5, 1933, in Los Angeles, she had a passion for reading, writing & travel.  Her writing career began in her school newspaper at Star of the Sea Academy in San Francisco and developed at UC Berkeley from which she graduated in1955.

Her vast knowledge of San Francisco as a major maritime city and of all the environmental and economic issues affecting the shipping industry in the city and the Bay Area, came from her career as writer and editor for various maritime journals; she honed her skills as Managing Editor of Pacific Shipper, editor and writer for Daily Commercial News, and as writer for Made in Europe, Brandon Shipper and Forwarder, Pacific Stock Exchange and McGraw Hill World News. She enjoyed traveling on freighters while working on stories and one of those trips was on a freighter to Prince William Sound to cover the Exxon Valdez clean-up.

She married Jerry Cauthen and lived in a beautiful apartment on Telegraph Hill; she was involved in San Francisco Tomorrow, Telegraph Hill Dwellers and served on the city’s Sunshine Task Force.

Donations may be made in her memory to Meals on Wheels San Francisco.  Condolences to: sorbonnesue@gmail.com