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San Diego's Heavy 50 in 1980
Our movers and shakers
- Ed Meese. San Diego’s strongest link to the White House, he served as chief of staff to both Governor and presidential campaigner Reagan (in between he founded the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management while professor of law at the University of San Diego). Now the La Mesa attorney is slated to reign over the Reagan cabinet as “counsel to the President.”
- Dennis Conner. His head would now be hanging in the trophy room of the New York Yacht Club had things gone differently this September. But instead, the America’s Cup trophy remains secure in that place because of his successful skippering of the twelve-meter Freedom.
- Bertha Alicia Gonzalez. A diminutive but dynamic community leader, she has long cherished a dream: San Ysidro University, a bilingual center of learning due to start classes this spring. She serves as president of both the university and the San Ysidro Action Committee Against Prisons, a leader in the fight against building an Otay Mesa prison.
- Rob Hagey. He teaches tennis to help fund his passion for promoting jazz in San Diego. This year his second annual La Jolla Jazz Festival (held in Balboa Park) presented such diverse artists as the Woody Shaw Quintet, the Randy Weston Trio, and Sun Ra and His Omniverse Arkestra.
- Earl B. Gilliam. The first black judge in San Diego history, he finally ascended this summer from his berth on the Superior Court to a lifelong position on the U.S. District Court in San Diego, after an arduous Senate confirmation process tainted by charges of racial prejudice and political warfare.
- Carol Cahill. A Coronado gadfly. She first got interested in civic affairs while writing for the Coronado Journal and since has raised ruckuses over issues ranging from lighting on the Coronado Bridge to the current controversy over renovation of Orange Avenue sidewalks.
- Brian Bilbray. The brash yoi/ng mayor of Imperial Beach bypassed county and state bureaucracies last June when he personally manned a bulldozer, dammed a sewage-filled stream that was polluting his city’s shoreline, and resolutely doused detractors in the process.
- Tom Arnold. His interest in music bloomed late (five years ago he owned only seven record albums), but that interest bore fruit in September of 1979, when he founded Kicks magazine, the lively monthly chronicle of San Diego’s popular-music scene.
- Al Ziegaus. This fall he successfully managed the most expensive ballot campaign in San Diego history, the $440,000 antirent-control effort. An ex-newspaperman and aide to former city council member Jess Haro, he’s now a senior vice president at the Gail Stoorza Company.
- Diane Powers. In the nine years since she and Dick Silberman founded the Bazaar del Mundo in Old Town, the complex of eighteen shops and four restaurants has evolved into one of San Diego’s most popular tourist attractions. Now the sole owner, Powers closely oversees the Bazaar’s daily operation, and also works as an interior designer.
- Gene Nooner. A severe industrial accident at NASSCO eleven years ago caused him to be laid off and falsely labeled mentally ill. He fought back for his job and reputation, and his efforts led this year to a new state law prohibiting the creation of a false medical record.
- Richard Allen Morris. He supports himself by working as a clerk at Bargain Books downtown. The rest of his time he devotes to the prolific production of contemporary painting and sculpture, which have appeared in innumerable shows, won awards, and earned him the reputation as being San Diego’s best contemporary artist.
- Gemma Parks. Her r£sum6 bulges with the list of community organizations she has founded and chaired, including the Coalition for Responsible Planning (the chief opponent of the development of North City West) and the San Diego Ecology Centre, from which the North County resident has defended environmentalism for ten years.
- Ted Leitner. Channel 8’s frank, feisty, factious, flip, and very well paid sportscaster.
- Hamilton Marston. Scion of one of San Diego’s pioneering • families, he has worked tirelessly in the battle to prevent the Navy from building its new hospital in Balboa Park’s Florida Canyon.
- Catherine Ghio. As a poor widow almost thirty-five years ago, she started by cooking fish dinners in a Harbor Drive diner. Today, at eighty-four, she’s the grand empress of Anthony’s, a seafood empire which currently feeds a million and a half people a year.
- Ken Seaton-Msumaji. He’s the new president of the United Domestic Workers, the first union of its kind in this country’s history (they recently secured a contract with the county’s Remedy home-care service). A long-time activist in the minority community, he formerly chaired an organization called Nia, where efforts to organize the domestic workers began more than three years ago.
- Bob White. Some call him the second most powerful man in city government. He began working for State Assemblyman Pete Wilson a dozen years ago, managed Wilson’s 1971 campaign for mayor, and has served as his chief of staff ever since.
- Laura Fraser. When other showcases for new-wave music didn’t materialize, she pawned her gold jewelry, dug into her savings, and opened the Skeleton Club on Market Street. But local cops haunted the club almost as regularly as punk-rock fans. Fraser was arrested for disturbing the peace on February 9, convicted this summer, and the club’s doors have been closed ever since.
- Congressman Bob Wilson. He started one of the biggest games of musical chairs in San Diego political history when he finally admitted that he planned to vacate the power base he had occupied for twenty-eight years as, representative of the Thirty-ninth district.
- Gustavo Romero. He is that rarest of creatures: a true child prodigy. Born in Chula Vista of Guadalajaran immigrants, he began teaching himself to play his baby-sitter’s piano while still a preschooler; at age fourteen he debuted with the New York Philharmonic in Lincoln Center. Now almost sixteen, he is currently studying at Juilliard.
- Nancy Skelton. This Los Angeles Times reporter touched off some of the most interesting drama of this summer’s political races with her revelation that Assemblyman Larry Kapiloff was representing private legal clients who had business before state agencies over which he wielded legislative authority.
- Doug Manchester. He’s constructing the tallest building in San Diego, the $70 million Columbia Center, on the block bounded by Columbia, State, A, and B streets downtown. A thirty-eight-year-old graduate of San Diego State, Manchester presides over Torrey Enterprises Inc., which also will build the twin-tower hotel complex to be located on Navy Field.
- Angeles Leira. For a dozen years she’s worked quietly within the city’s planning department, winning a reputation as a subtle but highly effective liaison between the city and community groups concerned about such issues as access to the bayfront in Barrio Logan and low-cost housing in La Jolla.
- Duncan Hunter. Duncan who? they asked this summer. But this young Logan Heights attorney showed them. In the biggest upset of the election, he won the Forty-second Congressional race and thus unseated eighteen-year veteran Lionel Van Deerlin.
- Julian Kaufman. As vice president and general manager of XETV/Channel 6, he has for twenty-seven years lovingly guided the most unusual television station in North America from its infancy to its current status as a tough, well-respected competitor in the local broadcast market.
- Velma Farmer. She got her first taste of politics when she campaigned for Alf Landon in 1936. Since then she’s become a pillar of the local Republican party and this year served as co-chair of the San Diego County Reagan for President campaign.
- Dave Winfield. Perhaps the most popular ballplayer ever to wear a San Diego uniform, the Golden Glove rightfielder lost grace with the fans this year during contract disputes and a sub-par season. This week’s announcement of his signing of a multimillion-dollar contract with the Yankees makes him one of the highest-paid baseball players in history.
- Denise Carabet. Last spring she left the post of financial writer, which she filled for four years, at the San Diego Union to take the helm of the brand-new San Diego Business Journal, the seventh offspring in the Scripps chain of nine Sunbelt financial weeklies.
- Miguel Salas. When a four-day wildcat strike shut down NASSCQ this summer, this young activist was at the head of the picket lines. Although he was later fired for alleged ties to the Communist Workers Party, he nonetheless swept into the powerful office of business agent in the Ironworkers Union election two weeks ago.
- Tom Gable. Five years ago he quit his job as business editor for the Son Diego Evening Tribune. Today his advertising and public relations firm is one of the largest in San Diego, representing such clients as the San Diego Symphony, Walker Scott, Bill Gambles, 7-Eleven, and the national network of Travelodge Motels. Photographs hv Robert Burroughs. Jim Coil. W. Trkten Robin. EUyn Barnes, Cordon Menzie, Jim Molnar. Roy Porello, Ken Randall, and the Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
- Matt Potter. San Diego voters will cast their judgment on the proposed downtown convention center as a result of the recent successful petition drive, and this vigilant critic of downtown redevelopment was the key figure in forging the heterogeneous coalition that gathered those 38,400 signatures.
- Tawfiq Khoury. This year he built more homes than anyone else in San Diego. His company, Pacific Scene, has constructed thousands of medium-priced dwellings, most in the South Bay, in the course of its ten-year history.
- Pat Dahlberg. One of the sawiest observers of life in La Jolla, she’s a former reporter for the La Jolla Light who struck out on her own and founded The La Jolla Report, which in August celebrated its first anniversary of publication.
- Ted Patrick. The king of the deprogrammers, he has crisscrossed the nation in a zealous and lucrative anticult crusade. This year a San Diego jury convicted him of forcibly kidnapping one so-called victim, but the question of his guilt stymied a second jury. Now the South Bay resident faces retrial.
- Bob Walker and Frances Mooney. Owners of Gallery Graphics in Hillcrest, they’ve promoted the local photographic scene with unflagging energy. This year they presented San Diego with exhibitions of the work of such first-rate photographers as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Joel Meyerowitz, Susan Felter, and Paul Diamond.
- Ray Rennison. He’s one of the community powerhouses who have volunteered their aid to the Southeast Organizing Committee, which this year has rallied eleven neighborhood groups on issues ranging from weed abatement to grocery store clean-up.
- Ramona and Roland Sahm. Rancho Santa Fe philanthropists, they’ve been especially generous to the San Diego Symphony and the Opera, sponsoring a “Christmas Musicale” which has raised about $95,000 for the two groups over the last six years. They’ve also opened their 200-acre estate for three consecutive years to stage “A Night in Monte Carlo," a benefit which netted more than $350,000 for the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Three Company. Jean Isaacs, Patrick Nollet, and Betzi Roe got together in 1974 and since have emerged not only as this city’s leading modern dance company but also as catalysts and tireless promoters of the entire local dance scene.
- Bryan Conn. As president of the Southwest Flight Crew Association (a union consisting entirely of PSA employees), this veteran airline captain led the first successful strike ever to shut down the San Diego-based airline (from September 25 to November 14f.
- Kit Goldman. Consider how the cultural scene here has been enriched since she courageously founded the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre last May. The facility since then has been the setting for productions of the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre and Women’s Theatre Ensemble (which Goldman also helped start three years ago), two plays by outside companies, six jazz concerts, one comedy concert, and a benefit.
- Gerald Trimble. He’s the strong-willed executive vice president of the city’s Centre City Development Corporation — which means that the major responsibility for administering the complex, controversial downtown redevelopment plans falls on his shoulders.
- Rev. Tim LaHaye. He founded Californians for Biblical Morality, the California branch of the Moral Majority started by Rev. Jerry Falwell last year. He also founded Christian Heritage College in El Cajon, and he’s watched the Scott Memorial Baptist church grow from 275 to 2500 members under the twenty-five years of his pastoral guidance.
- George and Piret Munger. They’ve done more to promote haute cuisine than anyone else in San Diego. Their efforts range from their operation of two Perfect Pan gourmet cookware stores to the two “Piret’s” (charcuterie/patisserie/ boulangerie combinations) to the cooking classes which have exposed thousands of San Diegans to the culinary knowledge of some of the world’s best chefs.
- M. Larry Lawrence. Sometimes pugnacious, always flamboyant, he’s been chairman of the board of the Hotel Del Coronado for the last fifteen years. Also a power in the national Democratic Party, this year he was San Diego and Imperial County chairman of the Carter-Mondale re-election effort.
- Jack Pearson. For seven years he’s led the San Diego Police Officer’s Association, which most recently went head-to-head against Pete Wilson in a bloody (unsuccessful) battle to institute a form of binding arbitration in police-city salary negotiations.
- Quincy John Workman. This eighty-four-year-old leader of the “New-World Builders” has tended a one-acre organic “Garden of Eden” on the northwest slope of the San Diego State University mesa for almost ten years. When he ran for Congress this year, university administrators began questioning his use of state land, and the two sides have been squabbling ever since.
- Steve Brezzo. Last winter he brought the Muppet exhibition to the San Diego Museum of Art; it in turn brought the museum the greatest crowds in its history (since then such prestigious entities as the Chicago Art Institute and the Detroit Institute of Art have followed suit and booked the popular puppets). In March he rose from acting to permanent director.
- Dorothea Morefield. Four hundred and ten days ago her diplomat husband, Richard, was among those taken hostage in Iran. Since then, no one has worked harder than this tenacious Tierrasanta resident to keep the hostages in the forefront of the nation’s consciousness.
- Frank Hope, Jr. Thirty-four years ago he joined the architectural firm started by his father in 1928. Now it’s the largest in San Diego, with such diverse designs to its credit as those for the San Diego Stadium, the Federal Office Building downtown, the Immaculata on the University of San Diego campus, and the Scripps Clinic and Research facility.
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San Diego's Heavy 50 in 1980
Our movers and shakers
San Diego's Heavy 50 in 1980
Our movers and shakers
- Ed Meese. San Diego’s strongest link to the White House, he served as chief of staff to both Governor and presidential campaigner Reagan (in between he founded the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management while professor of law at the University of San Diego). Now the La Mesa attorney is slated to reign over the Reagan cabinet as “counsel to the President.”
- Dennis Conner. His head would now be hanging in the trophy room of the New York Yacht Club had things gone differently this September. But instead, the America’s Cup trophy remains secure in that place because of his successful skippering of the twelve-meter Freedom.
- Bertha Alicia Gonzalez. A diminutive but dynamic community leader, she has long cherished a dream: San Ysidro University, a bilingual center of learning due to start classes this spring. She serves as president of both the university and the San Ysidro Action Committee Against Prisons, a leader in the fight against building an Otay Mesa prison.
- Rob Hagey. He teaches tennis to help fund his passion for promoting jazz in San Diego. This year his second annual La Jolla Jazz Festival (held in Balboa Park) presented such diverse artists as the Woody Shaw Quintet, the Randy Weston Trio, and Sun Ra and His Omniverse Arkestra.
- Earl B. Gilliam. The first black judge in San Diego history, he finally ascended this summer from his berth on the Superior Court to a lifelong position on the U.S. District Court in San Diego, after an arduous Senate confirmation process tainted by charges of racial prejudice and political warfare.
- Carol Cahill. A Coronado gadfly. She first got interested in civic affairs while writing for the Coronado Journal and since has raised ruckuses over issues ranging from lighting on the Coronado Bridge to the current controversy over renovation of Orange Avenue sidewalks.
- Brian Bilbray. The brash yoi/ng mayor of Imperial Beach bypassed county and state bureaucracies last June when he personally manned a bulldozer, dammed a sewage-filled stream that was polluting his city’s shoreline, and resolutely doused detractors in the process.
- Tom Arnold. His interest in music bloomed late (five years ago he owned only seven record albums), but that interest bore fruit in September of 1979, when he founded Kicks magazine, the lively monthly chronicle of San Diego’s popular-music scene.
- Al Ziegaus. This fall he successfully managed the most expensive ballot campaign in San Diego history, the $440,000 antirent-control effort. An ex-newspaperman and aide to former city council member Jess Haro, he’s now a senior vice president at the Gail Stoorza Company.
- Diane Powers. In the nine years since she and Dick Silberman founded the Bazaar del Mundo in Old Town, the complex of eighteen shops and four restaurants has evolved into one of San Diego’s most popular tourist attractions. Now the sole owner, Powers closely oversees the Bazaar’s daily operation, and also works as an interior designer.
- Gene Nooner. A severe industrial accident at NASSCO eleven years ago caused him to be laid off and falsely labeled mentally ill. He fought back for his job and reputation, and his efforts led this year to a new state law prohibiting the creation of a false medical record.
- Richard Allen Morris. He supports himself by working as a clerk at Bargain Books downtown. The rest of his time he devotes to the prolific production of contemporary painting and sculpture, which have appeared in innumerable shows, won awards, and earned him the reputation as being San Diego’s best contemporary artist.
- Gemma Parks. Her r£sum6 bulges with the list of community organizations she has founded and chaired, including the Coalition for Responsible Planning (the chief opponent of the development of North City West) and the San Diego Ecology Centre, from which the North County resident has defended environmentalism for ten years.
- Ted Leitner. Channel 8’s frank, feisty, factious, flip, and very well paid sportscaster.
- Hamilton Marston. Scion of one of San Diego’s pioneering • families, he has worked tirelessly in the battle to prevent the Navy from building its new hospital in Balboa Park’s Florida Canyon.
- Catherine Ghio. As a poor widow almost thirty-five years ago, she started by cooking fish dinners in a Harbor Drive diner. Today, at eighty-four, she’s the grand empress of Anthony’s, a seafood empire which currently feeds a million and a half people a year.
- Ken Seaton-Msumaji. He’s the new president of the United Domestic Workers, the first union of its kind in this country’s history (they recently secured a contract with the county’s Remedy home-care service). A long-time activist in the minority community, he formerly chaired an organization called Nia, where efforts to organize the domestic workers began more than three years ago.
- Bob White. Some call him the second most powerful man in city government. He began working for State Assemblyman Pete Wilson a dozen years ago, managed Wilson’s 1971 campaign for mayor, and has served as his chief of staff ever since.
- Laura Fraser. When other showcases for new-wave music didn’t materialize, she pawned her gold jewelry, dug into her savings, and opened the Skeleton Club on Market Street. But local cops haunted the club almost as regularly as punk-rock fans. Fraser was arrested for disturbing the peace on February 9, convicted this summer, and the club’s doors have been closed ever since.
- Congressman Bob Wilson. He started one of the biggest games of musical chairs in San Diego political history when he finally admitted that he planned to vacate the power base he had occupied for twenty-eight years as, representative of the Thirty-ninth district.
- Gustavo Romero. He is that rarest of creatures: a true child prodigy. Born in Chula Vista of Guadalajaran immigrants, he began teaching himself to play his baby-sitter’s piano while still a preschooler; at age fourteen he debuted with the New York Philharmonic in Lincoln Center. Now almost sixteen, he is currently studying at Juilliard.
- Nancy Skelton. This Los Angeles Times reporter touched off some of the most interesting drama of this summer’s political races with her revelation that Assemblyman Larry Kapiloff was representing private legal clients who had business before state agencies over which he wielded legislative authority.
- Doug Manchester. He’s constructing the tallest building in San Diego, the $70 million Columbia Center, on the block bounded by Columbia, State, A, and B streets downtown. A thirty-eight-year-old graduate of San Diego State, Manchester presides over Torrey Enterprises Inc., which also will build the twin-tower hotel complex to be located on Navy Field.
- Angeles Leira. For a dozen years she’s worked quietly within the city’s planning department, winning a reputation as a subtle but highly effective liaison between the city and community groups concerned about such issues as access to the bayfront in Barrio Logan and low-cost housing in La Jolla.
- Duncan Hunter. Duncan who? they asked this summer. But this young Logan Heights attorney showed them. In the biggest upset of the election, he won the Forty-second Congressional race and thus unseated eighteen-year veteran Lionel Van Deerlin.
- Julian Kaufman. As vice president and general manager of XETV/Channel 6, he has for twenty-seven years lovingly guided the most unusual television station in North America from its infancy to its current status as a tough, well-respected competitor in the local broadcast market.
- Velma Farmer. She got her first taste of politics when she campaigned for Alf Landon in 1936. Since then she’s become a pillar of the local Republican party and this year served as co-chair of the San Diego County Reagan for President campaign.
- Dave Winfield. Perhaps the most popular ballplayer ever to wear a San Diego uniform, the Golden Glove rightfielder lost grace with the fans this year during contract disputes and a sub-par season. This week’s announcement of his signing of a multimillion-dollar contract with the Yankees makes him one of the highest-paid baseball players in history.
- Denise Carabet. Last spring she left the post of financial writer, which she filled for four years, at the San Diego Union to take the helm of the brand-new San Diego Business Journal, the seventh offspring in the Scripps chain of nine Sunbelt financial weeklies.
- Miguel Salas. When a four-day wildcat strike shut down NASSCQ this summer, this young activist was at the head of the picket lines. Although he was later fired for alleged ties to the Communist Workers Party, he nonetheless swept into the powerful office of business agent in the Ironworkers Union election two weeks ago.
- Tom Gable. Five years ago he quit his job as business editor for the Son Diego Evening Tribune. Today his advertising and public relations firm is one of the largest in San Diego, representing such clients as the San Diego Symphony, Walker Scott, Bill Gambles, 7-Eleven, and the national network of Travelodge Motels. Photographs hv Robert Burroughs. Jim Coil. W. Trkten Robin. EUyn Barnes, Cordon Menzie, Jim Molnar. Roy Porello, Ken Randall, and the Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
- Matt Potter. San Diego voters will cast their judgment on the proposed downtown convention center as a result of the recent successful petition drive, and this vigilant critic of downtown redevelopment was the key figure in forging the heterogeneous coalition that gathered those 38,400 signatures.
- Tawfiq Khoury. This year he built more homes than anyone else in San Diego. His company, Pacific Scene, has constructed thousands of medium-priced dwellings, most in the South Bay, in the course of its ten-year history.
- Pat Dahlberg. One of the sawiest observers of life in La Jolla, she’s a former reporter for the La Jolla Light who struck out on her own and founded The La Jolla Report, which in August celebrated its first anniversary of publication.
- Ted Patrick. The king of the deprogrammers, he has crisscrossed the nation in a zealous and lucrative anticult crusade. This year a San Diego jury convicted him of forcibly kidnapping one so-called victim, but the question of his guilt stymied a second jury. Now the South Bay resident faces retrial.
- Bob Walker and Frances Mooney. Owners of Gallery Graphics in Hillcrest, they’ve promoted the local photographic scene with unflagging energy. This year they presented San Diego with exhibitions of the work of such first-rate photographers as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Joel Meyerowitz, Susan Felter, and Paul Diamond.
- Ray Rennison. He’s one of the community powerhouses who have volunteered their aid to the Southeast Organizing Committee, which this year has rallied eleven neighborhood groups on issues ranging from weed abatement to grocery store clean-up.
- Ramona and Roland Sahm. Rancho Santa Fe philanthropists, they’ve been especially generous to the San Diego Symphony and the Opera, sponsoring a “Christmas Musicale” which has raised about $95,000 for the two groups over the last six years. They’ve also opened their 200-acre estate for three consecutive years to stage “A Night in Monte Carlo," a benefit which netted more than $350,000 for the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Three Company. Jean Isaacs, Patrick Nollet, and Betzi Roe got together in 1974 and since have emerged not only as this city’s leading modern dance company but also as catalysts and tireless promoters of the entire local dance scene.
- Bryan Conn. As president of the Southwest Flight Crew Association (a union consisting entirely of PSA employees), this veteran airline captain led the first successful strike ever to shut down the San Diego-based airline (from September 25 to November 14f.
- Kit Goldman. Consider how the cultural scene here has been enriched since she courageously founded the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre last May. The facility since then has been the setting for productions of the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre and Women’s Theatre Ensemble (which Goldman also helped start three years ago), two plays by outside companies, six jazz concerts, one comedy concert, and a benefit.
- Gerald Trimble. He’s the strong-willed executive vice president of the city’s Centre City Development Corporation — which means that the major responsibility for administering the complex, controversial downtown redevelopment plans falls on his shoulders.
- Rev. Tim LaHaye. He founded Californians for Biblical Morality, the California branch of the Moral Majority started by Rev. Jerry Falwell last year. He also founded Christian Heritage College in El Cajon, and he’s watched the Scott Memorial Baptist church grow from 275 to 2500 members under the twenty-five years of his pastoral guidance.
- George and Piret Munger. They’ve done more to promote haute cuisine than anyone else in San Diego. Their efforts range from their operation of two Perfect Pan gourmet cookware stores to the two “Piret’s” (charcuterie/patisserie/ boulangerie combinations) to the cooking classes which have exposed thousands of San Diegans to the culinary knowledge of some of the world’s best chefs.
- M. Larry Lawrence. Sometimes pugnacious, always flamboyant, he’s been chairman of the board of the Hotel Del Coronado for the last fifteen years. Also a power in the national Democratic Party, this year he was San Diego and Imperial County chairman of the Carter-Mondale re-election effort.
- Jack Pearson. For seven years he’s led the San Diego Police Officer’s Association, which most recently went head-to-head against Pete Wilson in a bloody (unsuccessful) battle to institute a form of binding arbitration in police-city salary negotiations.
- Quincy John Workman. This eighty-four-year-old leader of the “New-World Builders” has tended a one-acre organic “Garden of Eden” on the northwest slope of the San Diego State University mesa for almost ten years. When he ran for Congress this year, university administrators began questioning his use of state land, and the two sides have been squabbling ever since.
- Steve Brezzo. Last winter he brought the Muppet exhibition to the San Diego Museum of Art; it in turn brought the museum the greatest crowds in its history (since then such prestigious entities as the Chicago Art Institute and the Detroit Institute of Art have followed suit and booked the popular puppets). In March he rose from acting to permanent director.
- Dorothea Morefield. Four hundred and ten days ago her diplomat husband, Richard, was among those taken hostage in Iran. Since then, no one has worked harder than this tenacious Tierrasanta resident to keep the hostages in the forefront of the nation’s consciousness.
- Frank Hope, Jr. Thirty-four years ago he joined the architectural firm started by his father in 1928. Now it’s the largest in San Diego, with such diverse designs to its credit as those for the San Diego Stadium, the Federal Office Building downtown, the Immaculata on the University of San Diego campus, and the Scripps Clinic and Research facility.