Sandra T. Snyder

Sandra T. Snyder, is a native of Virginia, with a B. S. degree in Business Administration - Management major and English minor, San Jose State University, California; graduate work at Hayward State University, California. Her professional career spanned some twenty years in hospital management in California. She was President of the Bay Area Society for Health Manpower Education and Training as well as a member of numerous community and professional organizations. Before settling in Panama permanently in 1996, Sandra and her husband spent 10 years living and traveling in Central and South America including Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, Panama and the San Blas Islands, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Not only has she sailed from San Francisco down the Pacific Coast, through the Panama Canal (numerous times) but up the East Coast of the US to the Canadian Border and back down the Caribbean chain from the US Virgin Islands to Venezuela, stopping at nearly every island along the way. From Venezuela and its islands she traveled back across the Spanish Main taking in the Dutch ABC's, Colombia and the San Blas returning to Panama. She and her husband have driven every part of Mexico, Guatemala and Panama.

Through her affiliations with several organizations in Panama, Sandra has long been an information resource for newcomers to Panama, initially informally, then as President of the Who's New Club and as a Relocation Specialist with Panama Relocation Services. Her professional and social affiliations in and out of Panama are extensive and include Board positions with the American Society Panama, Navy League Panama Council, Who's New of Panama, American Management Association, American Chamber of Commerce and Industry Panama, Republicans Abroad Panama and The City Club. She is a member of TESOL (Teachers of English as a Second Language) and has been a member of the faculty for their annual conference in Panama. She has also developed children's library programs in New Bern, North Carolina and Ft. Clayton, Panama. Member of the National League of American Pen Women and National Writers Union. At the invitation of the U.S. Ambassador to Panama she served as Acting Community Liaison Officer for the U.S. Embassy, Panama, Republic of Panama. June - November 2004

Her Guest Lecture Credits include: U.S. Embassy Staff new American employee orientation, Living in Panama, September 2003, August 2004, October 2005; U.S. Embassy Foreign Service Staff new employee orientation, Working in the U.S. Embassy in Panama is like Working in a Foreign County. October 2004 Who's New Panama, Orientation to Living in Panama, January annually Living in Panama, Balboa Academy New Parent Orientation.

Welcome to Panama, Orientation lecture to Boquete (Panama) Tuesday Morning Group, May 2005; The Days are Just Packed, or How Living in Panama Reminds me of my Favorite Calvin and Hobbes, at the invitation of Exedra Books to present the world-wind social life in Panama; June 2005 Living in Panama, Boquete (Panama) Tuesday Morning Group Presentation. August 2005 Relocating, Culture Shock and Loss of Identify, October 2005, presented at the invitation of Panama International Packers to the wives of Corporate Executives, Bankers, Retirees, and Diplomats on the unexpected effects of relocating to a foreign country as it relates to the spouse and family. Presentation includes steps for redirecting your skills and abilities in the new environment. Living in Panama, Presentation at the Biblioteca Nacional Panama, April 2007 Living in Panama, El Valle de Anton, Presentation sponsored by the San Jose Foundation, El Valle Library, June 2007 Living in Panama, Boquete, Presentation sponsored by Read and Relax Books, Boquete, July 2007 Publishing in Panama, The Ins and Outs of Publishing in Panama Meet the Author's Night, The American Society of Panama, September 23, 2010, Exedra Books.

Catch her on the radio: The Breakfast Show with Gerry D, COOL FM, 89.3 FM, Monday-Friday 7:00 - 9:00am www.pbcpanama.com/breakfast; Radio Metropolis 93.5FM Sunday Night At the Metropolis Weekly News Review with Sandra Snyder, www.pbcpanama.com; Window to Panama, www.window2pana.a.com.

Sandra T. Snyder is the recipient of the Distinguished American Citizen Award given by the American Ambassador to Panama, Linda E. Watt, July 4, 2003, in recognition of her efforts on behalf of the people of Panama exemplifying the best of American values. She received the Margarita Levi Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Who's New Club Panama in 2004. Leadership Award 2009, City Club Panama, November 200; President of Who's New Panama 1998-1999, 2002-2006; President The Navy League of the United States Panama Council, 2000; Board of Directors The American Society of Panama; Tourism Committee and Publishing Committee of The American Chamber of Commerce and Industry Panama; Vice President Ikebana International Panama 2009-2010; Chairman Republicans Abroad Panama 2005-2006

Her writing Credits include: Living in Panama, second edition, all new, totally updated and expanded guide to life in Panama whether you live in the country, the city, the mountains or at the beach.

Regular contributor to the Panama Eagle and Bajareque Times, La Prensa

My Pies and Tarts 2009, A Collection of Cookies 2007, a series of cookbooks; World War I Diary of Alfred Bruce Trickett, May 31, 1918-April 28, 1919, Transcription and Introduction;

January 2006 Christmas at My House, a family tradition.

November 2005 Spies, Crooks and Others Along the Way, a collection of short stories about the people met in her extensive travels throughout Central and South America including Panama.

Living in Panama, a book, first edition for the foreigner living in Panama published fall 2002.

PRS and American Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Panama Magazine, numerous articles for the American Chamber of Commerce & Industry Panama monthly magazine; Corporate Relocation News, articles June 2001; Training Manual Panama Relocation Services, developed for training consultants in relocation of corporate executives, diplomats and others coming to Panama to live and work.

Editor: Who's New Panama Newsletter, 2002-2006; Editor: The Jenkins Family History, In Jenkins Hollow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, by Amanda Francis Jenkins Trickett; Editor: Panagringo Newsletter, American Society, Panama (two year assignment); Editor: United States Navy League, Panama Council, Newsletter; Editor: The Bilge Pump, Pedro Miguel Boat Club, Panama, Newsletter; Contributor to the South American Handbook, Sixty Seventh Edition and Sixty Sixth Edition, on Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombi.

Training Manual, A Business Office Orientation Handbook, developed for in-hospital use by hospital Business Office employees of seven Medi SHARE member hospitals, San Jose, California.

Numerous unpublished short stories