GREETERS FOR THE DAY:
PP JACK HEIDMILLER, Red Badgers DAVID BERGMAN AND CLARI NOLET and PAUL NYBERG.               
RIDE THAT GREEN BIKE
This is the Year of the Small Green Footprint, and so we sang “Bicycle Built For Two,” thanks to JOHN McDONNELL.  Who remembers past member RUDI LIGTELYN’s program on bicycling through the Italian countryside?  This Guardian of the Fourth Estate spoke glowingly of RUDI’s activity  to his Better Half, who told him to go ahead, and she’d be waiting for him in Rome.  ROLAND PAYNE spent a moment educating us about Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream.”
 
NOTICES, WE’VE GOT NOTICES, WE’VE GOT LOTS AND LOTS OF NOTICES
Next week MARY MARLEY will be selling $40 tickets to Sunnyvale Rotary Club’s evening event set for March 1. 
Call COETA CHAMBERS if you are interested in attending the Art Show Kickoff Party set for January 25th at her home. 
STEVE GRUBER, Technical Educator for LARC, volunteered to lead any and all non-techies out of the Wilderness of Ignorance and into the Promised Land of LARC’s new internet program.  Just call him. 

BICYCLE JACK HEIDMILLER announced dinner (CHEF CHU’s is catering) and the Madrigal Singers, plus booze and hors d’oeuvers at the Los Altos Sister Cities Annual Celebration to be held at the Garden House on January 31st  from 5:30 to 8:00 PM.  Phone or email ahead at Alison@a-scot.com or 941-2796.  Dinner only at $10. 

JEANNE MacVICAR recognized JOHN SYLVESTER, BOO BUE and other mentors and tutors who have educated youth in our community and its schools through PARTNERS FOR NEW GENERATIONS. 
JULIE ROSE announced the opening of an exhibit on Lucille and David Packard at the Los Altos History Museum.  This intrepid reporter believes it opens Sunday, January 20 and lasts many weeks or maybe months, but he can’t be sure of his facts!  You are now warned. 

DAVID SMITH announced a continuing series of Monday and Tuesday evening discussions/meetings, each constructed around a particular topic, such as Iraq.  Call DAVID for particulars. 

BOB ADAMS, still glowing after the Golden Bears’ first football victory in many, many attempts, discussed the improving condition of ANN OLIVER after she was struck by an automobile.  BOB is in search of 15 blood donors whose blood is needed following ANN’s bout in surgery.  ANN and BUD also would benefit from volunteers for dinner delivery to the OLIVERS.  Phone BOB at 964-9031 for further information and to volunteer. 
JOANNE ZIMMERMAN announced the Annual Cioppino Feed, set for March 15.  JOANNE is in need of volunteers for the event, from janitors to chives choppers.  Signups to come.
 

HERBIE THE PRODIGAL SON
HERB MARSHALL has packed a lot into his 30 years.  HERB, watch it or you will wear out before you reach “The Big Six-O,” which is probably close to the median age of the membership of LARC.  HERB grew up in Los Altos with a pet pig and attended U.C.L.A. (“University Closest to Los Altos”), or Foothill on the Acropolis, among other institutions of higher learning.  He currently works with JOE LaCONTE at Olivewood Builders as Estimator Etc.  In his brief (2001 onward) tenure at LARC, HERB has been Sgt.-at-Arms, Alta Vista Soccer Coach, Art Show Director, and member of the Board for RAP and LAREF.  And HERB is engaged to be married!  Congratulations, HERB!

GREEN BAY PACKARD
Evidently this particular vehicle had great gas mileage (a small carbon footprint) for its time back in the late 30’s or early 40’s when CINDY L. was born, because when she rose to fine us right and left, all this Dutiful Scribe could hear was “GREEN BAY PACKARD!  GREEN BAY PACKARD!”  The finees included MARGE SENTOS, MARLENE COWAN, VICTORIA EMMONS and AL LIGHTENBERG.  However, most notable was “TWO-BAR” STEVE YARBROUGH.  “TWO-BAR” because he’s set two high bars.  First, he is the Maximum Finer of the Year, having fined in the sum of $909 on one occasion.  Second, when asked how much his son-in-law STEVE FLEMING should be fined, STEVE said, without hesitation: “A hundred bucks.”  Now there’s a guy who rides tall in the saddle!
 

TODAY’S PROGRAM
SETH MANNING introduced MIKE WALLACE of the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, which is the smallest daily newspaper to have won a Pulitzer Prize.  MIKE took us back to 1955-1956, when Attorney General Pat Brown, future Governor of California and father of former Governor and current Attorney General Jerry Brown, fondly remembered by most of us as “Governor Moonbeam” in his Linda Ronstad years, prosecuted the local Santa Cruz County and Watsonville public officials for corrupt practices as a consequence of the papers’ articles about local corruption.