UC SAN DIEGO OCEANIDS BI

UC SAN DIEGO OCEANIDS BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
VOL. XLXII No. 5
Newcomers’ 4th of July Picnic
at
Center
International
UCSD
The
5 p.m.
Menu:
Hot dogs with buns and condiments, Vegetarian Baked Beans, Potato Salad, Green Salad,
Brownies, Watermelon,
Wine and Lemonade.
COST: $6/adult and $3/child 2-10 years.
Infants Free!
You MUST make reservations by Monday,
June 29
Parking is FREE on the UCSD campus on July
4th. For more information, email Georgina at
[email protected]
Summer 2015
EBay Auction update:
This year’s EBay auction was a low key event in
which we auctioned items left from last year’s
auction. As of this writing in mid-May, we have
raised $300 by selling six items. The remaining
items were for sale at the Spring Luncheon. The
committee members were Mary Hanson, Liz
Winant and Judy Vacquier. Save your donations
for next year when we kick off in January 2016!
The
Oceanids Fall
Brunch will be on Saturday,
November 2. We normally schedule
the Brunch for October, but there were
conflicts with a three day weekend, and a
large event at the International Center. Please
mark your calendars now so we may enjoy
the pleasure of your company.
Barbara Bank and
Diana Vines
OCEANIDS CREW 2014-2015
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(note: all phone numbers are area code 858 unless otherwise noted)
OCEANIDS NEWS
is the newsletter of Oceanids,
a UCSD campus organization.
Published bi-monthly except
July, August & September.
Letters to the Editor and
articles of interest to UCSD are
invited.
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OF THE MONTH FOR THE
NEXT ISSUE.
Address all submissions to:
Oceanids News
International Center 0049
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La Jolla, CA 92093-0049
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chairs of any change of
address. Membership and/or
subscriptions are $35 per year
OCEANIDS ONLINE
http://ccom.ucsd.edu/
~oceanids/
Honorary Chair
President
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla
Liz Bonkowsky................................ 458-0879
*Oceanid of the Year”/Maxine White Award
Immediate Past President
Mary Hanson....................................456-1304
President Elect
NEEDED
1st Vice-Presidents
Irene Larrimore.................................509-9604
(Fall Brunch, Spring Lunch)
Susan Starr.........................................455-1630
2nd Vice-President
Mary Cutchin................................ ...459-8074
(Membership, directory updates)
Recording Secretary
Mary Hanson....................................456-1304
Treasurer
Jim Bunch..........................................453-5765
Co-Financial Secretaries
Liz Winant........................................ 481-7447
Kim Signoret-Paar........................... 456-9039
Nominating Committee Hulya Saygin (contin.), Bernie Sisco,
Marion Spors, Maxine Bloor (altern.)
Corresponding Secretary
Parliamentarian
Barbara Bank..................................... 484-4597
Interest Groups Coordinator
Jan Ouren--------------------------------273-1681
Newcomers
Liz Fong Wills................................... 454-6858
Georgina Sham................................. 459-1336
Undergraduate Service Awards
Nancy Groves................................... 453-6486
Graduate Scholarships
Liz Winant......................................... 481-7447
Publicity and Website
Mary Woo.......................................... 481-6998
Newsletter Editor Roswitha Enright.............................459-7375
Copy Editor
Judy Vacquier................................... 361-0418
Circulation
Lucie Walther.................................... 755-8060
Drawings
Elibet Marshall................................. .459-5246
Folding Committee
Lucie Walther, Jan Ouren, Mary Cutchin
Buildings & Grounds
Liz Winant......................................... 481-7447
Campus Focus Events
Carole L. Ziegler........................619-297-0798
Emeriti Association Liaison
Maxine Bloor.....................................459-7665
Friends of Int’l. Center Liaison
Eleanor tum Suden..........................587-8865
Retirement Association Liaison
Nancy Groves....................................453-6486
Historian
Maxine Bloor..................................... 459-7665
Refreshment Reminder
Liz Bonkowsky................................. 458-0879
Sunshine Committee
Bernie Sisco...................................... .481-1310
Holiday Party
Barbara Bank..................................... 484-4597
Bookshare
Barbara Starkey................................ 453-0779
E-MAIL
[email protected]
and also email:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Oceanids
BOARD MEETINGS: first Thursday every month
Oceanids Pavilion, International Center
Coffee and refreshments: 9:30 am, meeting starts at 10:00 am.
(You are welcome to attend!)
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page OUTGOING PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
INCOMING PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
After two years in this job I have made many
wonderful
friends in
Oceanids, and
I hope those
friendships continue to thrive
in the years
ahead.
I have enjoyed
the opportunity
to serve as
president. The
support I have received from
the Board, Interest Group chairs and the
membership at large has meant a great deal.
I am proud to be associated with a group
that does so much for UCSD students.
Oceanids is very fortunate to have such a
talented, experienced and thoughtful member as Liz
Bonkowsky who agreed to serve as incoming president. You will all enjoy working with her and I know
you will give her the same kind of support
and encouragement you have given me.
I’ll continue to serve on the Board as recording
secretary. And I never miss Oceanids bridge if I can
help it -
Mary Hanson
I am honored that
you have chosen
me to be your next
Oceanids president.
For me, the Good
News is also the
Bad News. This is
a wonderful organization that manages
to combine friendship, interests, and
good works. It is
just amazing how
much we do. One of the past presidents told me not
to be nervous because after two years, she was still
discovering new things about the Oceanids.
But this is just the problem. There is so much
going on that I despair of ever mastering the job. I
will rely heavily on past officers for the necessary institutional memory. And my plea to you is to keep on
doing whatever it is you are doing - we are not only
working well together but also just plain enjoying
ourselves.
Please read the newsletter and consult the web
site. You, too, will be impressed with all we do. Have
a pleasant and relaxing summer. We will gather in the
fall to carry on our activities and friendships.
Liz Bonkowsky
A WONDERFUL SENTIMENT (I don’t know who sent this article to me; author please come forth)
I grew up with practical parents. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then
reused it. She was the original recycle queen before they had a name for it. A father who was happier getting
old shoes fixed than buying new ones. Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived
barely a wave away. ----I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn
mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things. A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep. It was a way of life, and sometimes it made
me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there’d always be more.----But then my mother died, and on that clear summer’s night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn’t
any more. Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return.. So... While
we have it..... it’s best we love it.... And care for it... And fix it when it’s broken......... And heal it when it’s sick.
This is true. For marriage....... And old cars..... And children with bad report cards..... And dogs with bad hips....
And aging parents......And grandparents. And even forgetful friends. We keep them because they are worth it,
because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up
with. There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special........ And so, we
keep them close.
Oceanids
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page How do Oceanids financially support UC San Diego Students?
This current fiscal year Oceanids gave a total of $16,500 in Fellowships and Service Awards,
and, by the end of the fiscal year, we will give an additional $9,000 in support of various
campus projects such as the PhD Career Conference, the Student Run Free Clinic, and the
Triton Scholarship Program. We expect to be able to give this level of support every year,
and how are we able to do this?
We fund our Fellowships from Endowed Funds set up with the U C San Diego Foundation.
The first fund to be created was the Freida Daum Urey Endowed Fellowship Fund created
in 1993 “to support graduate or professional school women re-entering academia after a
significant hiatus”. Next came the Bertha Lebus Fellowship Fund created in 1997. The
donors stipulated that “Awards from the income are to be made to support a graduate student
who is returning to the University after a period of at least one year after receipt of an
undergraduate degree. The recipient ®C male or female- should have a long range goal to
become a teacher at any educational level.” A second Frieda Daum Urey Academic Fund
was established in 2005 to meet new non-discriminatory rulings regarding gender, and all new
gifts to the Frieda Urey Fund go to this Fund. The Oceanids Memorial Fund was created in
2001 for Oceanids to donate in honor or deceased members and friends, with the purpose “To
provide support for graduate fellowships to individuals who have exhibited a history of service
to the campus”. These funds are all invested and managed by the UCSD Foundation, with
spending allocations for each fund determined annually. It is these allocations that we use to
fund our annual Fellowships. Once we know how much is available to spend for the next
fiscal year in each fund, we let the Office of Graduate Studies, who handles graduate student
financial support, know how many Fellowships and how much they will be. They send out this
information, including the requirements as determined by the donors, and select the
recipients.
Additionally we have two more Oceanids Funds with the UC San Diego Foundation. The
Oceanids General Projects and Services Fund was established in 1980 and is used as a
discretionary fund, to fund the campus projects that we support and also any expenses
incurred by the organization. Finally The Oceanids Undergraduate Service Awards Fund
was created in 2008 with the purpose of funding a service award to one undergraduate from
each of the UC San Diego colleges.
With the exception of the original Frieda Daum Urey Fund, all of the funds are active and
thanks to continuing gifts from Oceanids members we have been able to increase our
Fellowships and Service Awards as well as campus projects. Our Fellowship recipients are
invited to attend our Spring Luncheon and tell us how they used their Oceanids' Fellowship.
So if you have made a donation to a particular fund, you may be able to hear first hand what a
difference your donation made.
Liz Winant
Co-Financial Secretary
Oceanids
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page Oceanids Avi-Set: more than just birding
Our birding group just had the last birding morning
of the academic year. We find it too hot to go birding
as we get into the Summer months, and anyway we
all seem to have other things to do. It takes something
special to get me up at 6:30 am on a Monday morning, but that’s what I, and eight to ten other Oceanids
do once a month, to look for birds. We have many different levels of experience in our group, and different
people have different motivations for going birding.
I knew very few San Diego birds when I first joined,
but I was attracted by the lure of being out somewhere
away from concrete and cars, and enjoying the flora
& fauna of parts of San Diego County that I would
not usually visit. I love to watch birds go about their
every day lives and listen to them communicating. It
is very useful and fun to be able to identify birds by
their song; something I am working on.
Avi-Set at Mission Dam taken by Sue Corringham
Yellow-breasted Chat taken by
Vicki Lindblade
bird” lists. We also keep a list,
compiled by Judy Vacquier, of
all the species of birds seen at
each location so we can compare them year to year.
We have had a very good birding year, and although
long time birders tell us that the total numbers of birds
are down, we still see between 30 to 40 different species each time we bird. The thrill of seeing a specific
bird for the first time is certainly one of the high
points and many people keep their own personal “life
Oceanids
In April we went to Silverwood, an Audubon Wildlife
Sanctuary. This is a wonderful bird watching place, as the
resident manager Phil Lambert
provides food & nesting boxes
for birds. He is also very aware
of the resident snake populations. On the day of our visit,
“grandma” a rattlesnake he
has been aware of since he first
took the job of manager 22 years ago, managed to grab
a gopher just a few feet from where we were sitting.
During the next hour we watched, alternatively fascinated and repulsed, as the snake managed to swallow
this large gopher. Nature in the “raw”.
New birders are always welcome.
Liz Winant
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page OCEANIDS’ INTEREST GROUPS
Interest Groups are the backbone of our Oceanids organization. They are here to meet the many varied needs of
UCSD families, especially those new to the UCSD campus and the community. If you don’t find an activity you would
like to participate in, please contact Jan Ouren 273-1681 or [email protected], Interest Group Coordinator. If five or more
Oceanids wish to start a new group, please let her know so we can inform other members. All we ask is that your members be Oceanids. If you are not yet a member of Oceanids, please consider joining us by contacting Mary Cutchin, 858459-8074, [email protected] or by submitting the application form in this issue.
Since the newsletter is posted on the Oceanids website we will, for security reasons, not publish addresses (with
occasional exceptions). Please call the contact for the necessary information.
AVI SET BIRDERS
Contacts: Liz Winant (858) 481-7447, [email protected]
Our birding group meets promptly at 8am the second Monday of
each month during the academic year. The La Jolla group will
meet at the corner of Dunaway Dr. and Glenwick Pl. in La Jolla. The
North County birders will meet at a TBD location. We will carpool
from these locations to sites around the county. Members will be
called or e-mailed.
Next outings: September 14.
BOOK GROUP
Contacts: Janet Goff (760)753-3472, Liz Winant (858) 481-7447
Our meetings are held on the second Tuesday morning of every
month at 9:30 AM for chatting and 10 AM for review. Everyone is
welcome; we are happy to greet new members who like to read a
variety of fiction and non-fiction and who value good writing and
a lively discussion. Please join us.
Date “Title” by Author /
Host / Reviewer
June 9 “There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children,
Until They Moved Back In” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya / Ruth
Stern / Janet Goff
July 14 “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan / TBA / TBA
Aug 11 Planning Session / TBA
Sept 8 “Tuxedo Park” by Jennet Conant / TBA / TBA
Next meeting: June 9.
CAFÉ ESPAÑOL
Contacts: Beate Menzel [email protected] or 619 401 1557
This conversation group is designed for fluent Spanish speakers
who wish to keep up their Spanish and learn new vocabulary.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at 2 p.m.. One hour of
conversation and one hour of reading aloud and group discussion. We will also try Scrabble in Spanish! La proxima reunión de
Café Español será el jueves,cuatro de Junio, 2-4 a la casa TBA Por
favor mande una carta electronica a Beate Menzel para informarla
si quiere venir.
Next meeting: June 4. No meetings in July and August.
CAFÉ FRANÇAIS
Contact: Mary Hanson (858) 456-1304; [email protected]
On ne se réunit pas en été. Bonnes vacances à tout le monde!
Next meeting: October 8
EVENING BRIDGE
Contact: Barbara Bank at (858) 484-4597 or [email protected]
The couples Evening Bridge Interest Group meets at 7:00pm
on the fourth Saturday of the month all year long at one of our
members’ homes. If you wish to play on a regular basis, or just
occasionally, please contact Barbara Bank.
Next meeting: June 27.
GERMAN KAFFEEKLATSCH
Contact: Roswitha Enright 858 459-7375 ([email protected])
This group is for beginners and experienced German speakers alike.
Guaranteed no pressure. Just come on the 3rd Tuesday at 3pm and
have a good time. Only German spoken. If you want to join, please
ccontact Roswitha. TIME: 3 PM TO 4:30 PM
Next meetings: June 16.
Contact: Stephanie Freeman, 619-4172969
This group meets the first Monday of
each month at the Quaker Meeting
House on 7380 Eads Avenue, La
Jolla, CA 92037 1-3 pm to discuss
various topics from the perspective of
life-long experience. This group has
participants from Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany and
the US, and travel and history are frequent topics. Friends bring
snacks to share and tea is served. All friends over 80 are welcome.
.Next meeting: June 1.
GOURMET GROUP
Contact: Roswitha Enright (858) 459-7375
The group meets at a designated home on the second Sunday of
each month (all year long) at 7:00pm for socializing; movie
discussion starts at 7:30pm sharp. Light refreshments will be
served. You will be contacted by e-mail about which movie to see
and where to meet. For more information call Roswitha.
Next meeting: June 14.
Oceanids
Contact: Beate Menzel (619) 401-1557 or [email protected]
We meet the first and third Tuesdays of the month all year long at
various members’ homes. We start at 10am and usually end at or
before 3pm. Everyone brings her/his own lunch. The hostess will
provide drinks. Call for information.
Next meeting: June 2 + 16.
GRACIOUS AGING
Vicky Lindblade [email protected] or 858 452 1739
CINEMA SOIRÉE
DAY BRIDGE
Contact: Susan Starr 858 455 1630 or [email protected]
This is a group for those who like to try cooking new things. We meet
several times a year, at members’ homes, and each person brings an
assigned dish or course. The group is currently full but if you’d like
to be notified when there is an opening, or a new group is forming,
please email Susan Starr at the address above.
Next meetings: Please call contact.
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page HIKING IN AND AROUND SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Contact: Roswitha Enright (858) 459-7375, [email protected]
We meet at 8:30am on the second Saturday of each month (October to May or June) at the La Jolla Village Shopping Center parking lot and carpool to the starting point of the hike. Bring a lunch,
plenty of fluids, sturdy shoes and sun protection! Friends and
family are invited. Call the week before the hike if you would
like to come.
Next hike: October 10.
MOVEABLE FEAST I
Contact: Liz Fong Wills (858) 454-6858; [email protected]
This dining-out group is currently at capacity but we are taking a
wait list.
Next meeting: contact Liz Fong Wills
MOVEABLE FEAST II
Contact: Mary Cutchin (858) 459-8074 or [email protected]
This group meets every other month for drinks at a member’s
house. From there we carpool to the restaurant. Contact Mary
Cutchin for information and reservations.
Next meeting: Call contact. Contact: Barbara Starkey 858-453 0779 or [email protected]
This group meets on a somewhat irregular basis. Upcoming trips
will be posted on the Oceanids listserv. Check your newsletter as
well.
Next meeting: Call contact.
Contact: Jane Takahashi [email protected]
We meet on the second and fourth Tuesday from 1 to 4 pm each
month. 1st meeting is at Jane’s home. On the 2nd meeting we go
on a field trip. This is for all who are interested in learning more
about digital photography. For more information call Jane.
Next meetings: call contact.
Oceanids
WINE TASTING I
Contact: Elisabeth Smith 858-222-2548 e-mail: egsmith99@hotmail.
com Exploring the taste sensations of a new wine or an old vintage, this group meets the third Friday monthly. Members rotate
as hosts. This group is again open to new members.
For questions, contact Elisabeth Smith.
Next meeting: June 19.
Contact: Barbara Scholz (858) 350-6014 or [email protected]
We meet monthly. Members rotate as hosts. The cost for wine
and food is shared among the people attending (approximately
$8.00 per person).
Please call chair person about next meeting
Contact: Bev Douglas (858) 453-4938
WITS II uses the principles of NAIC to study and evaluate companies for stock purchases. We meet on the 4th Wednesday from
3:30 to 5pm. If fewer than 5 will be available we do not meet.
Next meetings: June 24 and July 22.
Oceanids has an e-mail mailing list!
Contact: Judy Vacquier (858) 361-0418 or [email protected]
This group is for amateurs who need a motivation to practice and
want to perform in a relaxed, fun setting among friends. We welcome piano, chamber instruments and voice, classical, jazz and
popular music, solos and ensembles. We usually meet the third
or fourth Sunday at 4 pm. This group is currently at capacity and
has a waiting list.
For the June meeting, we will meet at the home of Carol Hertzberg on Sunday, June 28th, 2015 at 4 pm, for our soiree followed
by our end of the year potluck. Please RSVP to Judy at 858-3610418 or [email protected] and to Carol at 858-519-7827 or
[email protected] to tell us if you can come and what you will
bring. No meeting in July. Next meeting is Sunday, August 23rd,
at 3 pm. A reminder will be sent a week before the soiree.
Next meetings: June 28, August 23.
Contact: Judy Vacquier (858) 361-0418 or [email protected]
The next Sounding Board will be Thursday, October 1, 2015 at
noon. Check the Oceanids website and Oct-Nov newsletter for
speaker and title TBA.
Next meetings: October 1 and November 5.
Jennie Chin [email protected]
Come join our social group of Oceanids, newcomers, postdocs,
students, and their children for refreshments at the International
Center every Wednesday, 10am-12 noon during the academic
year. You’ll make friends and learn strange and wonderful
American customs.
Visit the Kitchen Exchange where newcomers can rent kitchen,
household, and baby equipment for a small fee.
WITS II
PHOTO DIGERATI
SOUNDING BOARD
Contact: Georgina Sham 858-459-1336
Mary Woo 481-6998 & 336-3642 (cell)
WINE TASTING II
MUSEUM FRIENDS
PIANO AND CHAMBER SOIRÉE
WEDNESDAY COFFEE
The purpose of the listserv or email distribution list
is to allow our President, Board members, Interest
Group chairs or anyone else with an important announcement to contact our membership.
Also, an announcement is sent when the Oceanids
newsletter is available on our website for you to read
online or print.
If you have questions, have an announcement for
Oceanids, or are a new subscriber, please email the
listserv administrators, Judy Vacquier, at [email protected] or Mary Cutchin, at marycutchin@yahoo.
com.
Anyone who would like to make corrections to the directory and/or to our database (from which we obtain
the addresses for ‘Oceanids news’ mailings), please
e-mail Mary Cutchin at [email protected].
OCEANIDS WEBSITE:
http://ccom.ucsd.edu/~oceanids/
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page SOUNDING BOARD
Sounding Board is a series of seven lectures during the academic year, the first Thursday at 12 noon, sponsored by UC San Diego Oceanids and the UC San Diego Faculty Club. Oceanids, faculty and friends meet
at the UCSD Faculty Club in a specially designated room to eat lunch and listen to fascinating speakers.
Beginning March 1, 2014, lunch will be $14.00 for guests and $10.00 for Faculty Club members (purchase
required). Coffee and iced tea are provided in the meeting room. A parking permit can be obtained at the
front desk. You can be sure of a lively discussion! You do not need to RSVP.
Contact Judy Vacquier, [email protected] for more information.
NO SOUNDING
BOARD UNTIL
OCTOBER !!
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Oceanids
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE
About a year ago The Friends of the International
Center started a new project for the international arrivals to UCSD.
Visiting an American Home
About 40% of the new arrivals that attend Friends
Family Orientation sessions are interested in visiting
an American home.
The idea is to invite a couple or family to a local home
for a meal. This can be lunch, brunch, dinner, happy
hour, or coffee.
The hosts may invite as many people as they feel comfortable. We try to find out if children are welcome or
not. People can offer to host just once a year or more
often.
The new arrivals often do not have a car and need to
be picked up. They live mostly in the 92122 zip code,
close to the university. An easy way not to put too
much stress on the host is to include a friend for the
meal who takes care of transportation.
There is a shortage of hosts at the moment. I am
happy to report that the program got enthusiastic
support from the Oceanids board, whose members
view “Visiting an American Home” as an extension of
Oceanids own Newcomers program.
Please let me know if you are available as a host.
Elisabeth Marti
(858) 755-1408
[email protected].
I am looking forward to hear from you!
We are sad to report that Jean Kramer has passed
away on Thursday, March 26. For the past few
years Jean resided in Palo Alto, near her son Tony
and family. In January of this year, Jean celebrated
her 100th birthday!
We will always remember her as involved Oceanid, who received the Maxine White Outstanding
Service Award in 2005 and for many years was
involved in getting the newsletter to print.
Oceanids
Another Tribute to Mary Bailey who died
February 2015
Mary has not been active with Oceanids for a few
years due to her deteriorating health, but she was
wonderful and a real inspiration and lively spirit for
many years in the group...especially with the young
mothers and infants coming on Wednesday to the
International Center. She got the Oceanids’ Maxine
White Outstanding Service Award one year. Mary was
wonderful and welcoming to all.!
For me personally, she was a life booster as she chattered away or took me to thrift shops. I did not fit into
the upscale, snobby La Jolla, or the academic UCSD
community. Besides, SD is indeed transient and all
close friends that I made moved on or died.
I looked forward to seeing her on Wednesdays at the
International Center and loved her positive attitude.
Among others, her criteria for a friend were to have
one car/family and hang the wash up to dry. I am a
spoiled North American and missed the mark with not
hanging up my wash! But now, years later my spouse
Peter fits the bill and does hang up all wash. Mary
would be pleased.!!
Mary’s bounce, exuberance and warm chatty way will
be missed by many.
With much fondness for Mary
Nona Rowat
We also send heartfelt condolences to Oceanid
Freda Reid who lost her husband Joe on April 2.
Joe Reid had been a prominent member of the
Scripps Institution faculty.
And our thoughts are with Oceanids Silvia Berchthold who lost her husband Jean on April 29, and
Su Chang who lost her husband John Wooley in
April
OCEANIDS NEWS
Page NEW OCEANIDS MEMBERS
Patricia Astier: H: 858-756-2016; Email: [email protected]
Beth Dugan: H: 858-558-1155; C: 858-776-6033; Email: [email protected]
Jim Elko: H: 619-275-0642; C: 858-395-0208; Email: [email protected]
Priscilla Moxley: H: 858-459-4187; C: 858-829-8209; Email: [email protected]
Marion Nebiker: H: 858-452-0833; C: 858-354-0337
Prue Arbib H: 858-677-0970; C: 858-232-7534 Email: [email protected]
Al Shenk; H: 858-775-3915 Email: [email protected]
Ross Stockwell; H: 858-272-4696
Email: [email protected]
MEMBER CONTACT INFORMATION UPDATES:
Barbara Brink: H: 858-240-7145; Email: [email protected]
Virginia Das: C: 518-466-7992
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Mary A. Cutchin (membership chair)
This should have been in the Feb/March issue!
Mea culpa. Your editor
Do you have an old obsolete dictionary at home? Consider what one can do in the new (?) art form “Book Art”.
Brought to our attention by Oceanid Janet Goff
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“Old Ameglia”, painting by Judy Vacquier,
was accepted into the
November 2014 show
of the San Diego Watercolor Society.
Sunday
Monday
JUNE 2015
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Gracious Aging
Wednesday
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Day Bridge
Cinema Soireé
14
Piano and
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Soireé
Oceanids
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28
15
22
29
Kaffeeklatsch
16
23
30
11
KitX
Wed. Coffee
KitX
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WITS II
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6
TRITON
5K
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10
9
Saturday
4
3
KitX
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8
Friday
Café Español
2
Book
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7
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12
13
Wine Tasting I
17
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20
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24
25
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27
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