All day today, people came around asking, "What's with the big box?"
(It's the Reb's box.)
I'd answer: "Well, you can read, can't you?"
We get surly near the end of the semester.
2. Outside the back door of the A200 building:
As you know, the grounds of our little college are looking pretty sharp these days. Recently, I've taken lots of purty pictures of the campus. I've highlighted the impressive artwork that punctuates the grounds. I've Photoshopped the heck out of these images.
Yeah. But yesterday, that Rebel Girl told me to bring my camera. I did. Today, she instructed me to photograph the area outside the door of the crummy little building that houses most of the Humanities & Languages faculty (among others).
I never noticed before, but that area is sans grass. And it sports dirt clods and weeds. It is, as the French say, très shitteé!
See the little sign by that tree? Evidently, someone has given our little bit o' heaven a name: the Humanities and Languages Botanical Garden
In French, it's even better.
Naturellement!
3. The opening page of the district website:
Special Meeting of the Board of TrusteesWednesday, May 20, 20097:00 p.M.Holiday Inn, 25205 La PazLaguna Hills, CA
There's a public notice (a pdf file). According to the notice, we are "hereby notified that a special meeting" of the board "has been called for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 25205 La Paz, Laguna Hills, CA for the purpose of holding in public session a Board Self-Evaluation Workshop subsequent to a closed session to discuss:
...Public Employee Evaluation of Performance...Chancellor"
Fine Arts Lab, Fullerton College (the 20s)
Fullerton College, the 60s
Fairview Schoolhouse, 1911 (today, the grounds of Orange Coast College)
1939 Memorial Day Parade in Balboa, down Main Street 
San Juan Capistrano's "Motorcycle Hill," c. 1917
San Juan Capistrano's Modesta Avila, 1889To read about Avila, go to The White Lady was Brown.
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Didn't someone almost get fired for putting up some kind of sign like this one in the garden?
Watch out!
Yes, about ten years ago, Mathur recommended not granting tenure to an instructor who had committed such sins as participating in the unauthorized naming of a greenhouse (made by bio faculty at IVC). See Mathur goes after Jeff.
Do they usually evaluate Raghu at this time of year in a special meeting or is something up?
(Love the old pics).
I think a garden outside A-300 is a great idea!
Maybe Raghu can use that box when the day is over!
There is one big fat rumor about tonight's special board meeting. Say nothing and wait.
Who's Modesta Avila?
Modesta Avila is OC's original Rebel Girl.
Is Modesta Avila related to the Avila restaurant family? Where are you getting these awesome photos? I would like to read the background on these.
I myself prefer fat rumors to skinny rumors, don't you? More to chew on.
9:26, the Fullerton photos (here and on previous posts) are generally from California Online Archive. I highly recommend perusal of that site, which is well annotated. I believe that I found the Costa Mesa photo on the site for the CM historical society, but, as you can see, the resolution is very low (I "improved" that in Photoshop) and there was virtually no annotation. There are several sites for Newport Beach/Balboa that offer "historic" photos. As I recall, I found the parade photo on one of those sites (Google "Newport Beach historical photos"--then check the first ten or so urls.) I found the SJC photos at a nice little site that focuses on, well, the city of SJC. Again, I Googled "San Juan Capistrano historical photos." That led me to two or three sites with menus that included old photos. As I recall, the particular site I found (you should have no trouble finding it) did damned good annotation, especially of the Avila photo. (The "motorcycle" photo is very low-res.) In the last few months, when I've had time, I just pick an OC city and then Google "[city name] historic photos." That's usually enough to get me to the right sites. So I advise you to do that, though the Calif online archive is a very good place to start. Generally speaking, these local history sites are amateurish. Some, however, are done with great care, even when they're amateurish. (See Anaheim, Santa Ana, etc.) I have also found many private sites in which a person or family presents his/her/their "story"--e.g., the flood of 1938, WWII, etc. --RB
P.S.: another great starting point is the blog OC history roundup. The guy who does that blog seems to be at odds with Gustavo Arellano. I think the problem is that he tends to work with the little old ladies and historic societies that prefer their history whitewashed. Still, OCHR routinely presents terrific old photos with loads of info about them. Look at the archives. --RB
Love the draft table picture.
Maybe if the draft were reinstated, the little folk would pay more attention.
Yes, knowledge of imminent death does have a way of "concentrating the mind." But there's no way they'll reinstate the draft, unless recruitment takes an even bigger nosedive and new wars arise.
For the Modesta Avila photo (and info) and other historic photos (and info), go to San Juan Cap Historical Society.
So what happened at the 5/20 meeting?
They gave Raghu a big fat raise and incresed his security stipend triplefold now that Kate Clark has retired and is on the loose. Plus, everyone now must refer to him as "Your Highness."
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