East Bay Dinner

"The Color and Light of Favorite Places"

Thursday, May 26, no-host cocktails/social hour - 6 pm, dinner - 7:00, program - 8:00, Berkeley Yacht Club on the Berkeley Marina, one block north of the west end of University Avenue (ample free parking is available in the Marina parking lots).

Join us for an evening of remarkable photography and related stories as the East Bay Dinners' co-program-directors, Karen Anderson and Bill Loughman, show the photographic highlights of their own wanderings over the past 25 years. This program will be Karen and Bill's final official function as Dinners program directors. Beginning with the next dinner, in September, duties pass to Paul Foster.

The photography in the program will include seasonal highlights of the Sierra and other regions of California, as well as Karen's travels throughout the American Southwest and Alaska's far north, where she spent time with the native G'wichin in their village 160 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will highlight Bill's treks across Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, through Glacier National Park, and bicycling across North America just south of the Canadian border.

Karen and Bill have been close friends, backpackers, and serious amateur photographers for 30 years, though remarkably they have never been on a trip together. Karen was raised in Nevada in the shadow of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. "I had the high desert in my front yard, the High Sierra in my back yard, and restaurants in casinos open 24/7. What's not to like?" In recent years, along with her trips to the Sierra, she has taken to exploring the natural world of the Bay Area

After a boyhood in the shadow of Abbot Hall Tower (of Paul Revere Ride fame) in Marblehead, MA, Bill came to California and soon found himself exploring, camera in hand, the Sierra Nevada, numerous other regions of California, Glacier National Park, Canada's Western Provinces, and the Kenai, Wrangell-St. Elias, and Denali regions of Alaska. In recent years he has emphasized hiking into less-traveled areas of the Sierra that are remarkable for their flows of granite.

This program promises to be fun, informative, and just a little irreverent.

Dinner is $22, which includes tax and tip. To make a reservation, send your check payable to "Sierra Club", including your name and phone number, to:

Evelyn Randolph
938 Galvin Drive
El Cerrito, CA 94530
(510) 526-2494.

Attendance is limited to the first 115 reservations received. Reserve early, as these programs do fill up. Reservation deadline is April 15. There is no admittance for program only.

If you missed the March dinner

Good news for those who missed the March dinner, which sold out exceptionally early: Brent Olson will be repeating his presentation "Bhutan Past and Present" in San Francisco on May 11. (This talk is not a Sierra Club event.)