Yesterday

Yesterday I went to a memorial service for a man I only met twice in my life, Dr. Rodney Beard. He was a professor at Stanford from 1949 to 1969 and I met him twice at business luncheons in the 1990's. He served on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Hearing Board prior to my service and that was our only connection. The service was in the Faculty Club at Stanford.

At the service his daughter Marney told family stories and shared that the family used to vacation at what she called, "white cottage ranch" when she was young. I spoke with her after the service and learned that we were probably both in Angwin at the same time in the early 1960's. Circles of life that rarely touch.

I was at the service to reconnect with other friends from the BAAQMD and it was a treat to spend an hour with Tom Ferrito and Ken Manister. Tom is the former mayor of Los Gatos and Ken is a law professor. Both are practising attorny's. Tom, Ken and I were each Chairperson of the Hearing Board over the years and I will probably forever have the distinction of being the youngest Chair in the history of the Board. Ken is currently representing a company before an air district board in Red Bluff in a case involving medical waste disposal. http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,134~26762~3048765,00.html
In this case the green activist and slandor slinger, Bradley Angel is representing "Greenaction" of San Francisco in questioning the validity of the CEQA process of the permit. Bradley is the activist fired by Green Peace after failing to prevail over my Hearing Board in the IES case of about 1998 in Oakland.