End of Year Greetings -- 2006
from Dale Gieringer and Alice Agogino
and Adrian and Arianne
Dear Friends:
A landmark year gone by. This year's ventures took us
to
Iceland - chilly, stark, rocky, rainy and expensive, where we
nibbled on puffin, horsemeat, whale and kangaroo. On to Holland,
where we toured the museums & red light district of
Amsterdam,
the Hague, and watched the World Cup.
Alice served as
Chair of UC Berkeley's Division of the Academic Senate.
She also made waves this year, in the news for better & worse.
Her co-authored report for the
National Academy on Women in Engineering
and Science got reported in
Newsweek. She won an
award from
the UC Chancellor for Advancing Inistutional Excellence for
her work in diversity. On the sorrowful side, her
eulogy on the
death of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton was covered
by the
NY Times.
A landmark year for Dale - 60th birthday, and 100th
anniversary of federal drug regulation, part of the ongoing celebration
of the drug war centennial. He lobbied successfully for
cannabis reform in San Francisco, supported three more winning
local intiatives, and began serving on Oakland's cannabis policy
oversight committee. Heartened by the election - finally an ally
of San Francisco values in the Congressional leadership, but no
illusions about the length of the struggle(s) ahead.
A landmark year for Alice's mom Mercedes - her 80th
birthday - occasion for a family reunion with her brother Peter
& Marta from NY - with birthday balloons that have been
festooning our house since March.
A year of college tours for Arianne - to New England,
Philadelphia, Claremont & San Diego. She has applied to 14
schools, but doesn't have a favorite. Her paper on the decline of
Puritanism won her school's award for best history paper.
Adrian continues to work at NASA optimizing air traffic control,
has moved to a bachelor pad in San Francisco, and
visited Japan this year.
Last updated: 16 December 2006
