Civic Art: San Diego Public Architecture & Place Making
September 20, 2008
Welcome to FSDA. I am glad you came today for the start of our new season. We have an exciting year planned. Please feel free to take extra postcards to pass to friends.
As most of you know, our dear founder, Harriet Gill, passed away in August. Next month, her birthday month, we are planning to take some time to remember how much she meant to this group. There will also be a Memorial Service the Sunday before our meeting. It is Oct. 12th at the First Unitarian Universalist Church at 4190 Front St. The family has asked me to invite you to the service.
An Architect for UCSD, Boone Hellmann, will be discussing Campus Housing and some new projects. That is Oct. 18th. We are very much hoping to meet at NewSchool, but be sure to read your e-mails. However, the delayed construction gave us an opportunity to visit Woodbury Univ. and thank Catherine Herbst who saved us, so we are ever grateful. Catherine, I would like to present you a small token of our appreciation.
I am very happy to introduce some special guests today. Diane Jaynes, Ned Paynter’s sister, gave us Ned’s vast slide collection. When Diane called to offer them to us, I wasn’t sure what we would do with them but I just knew we had to have them and share them with the public in some way. Today, we are displaying 15 of Ned’s pictures. They are for sale. It is our hope to raise enough money to open an archive in the near future. We welcome any suggestions you may have to make this happen.
And now, the reason you are here! Thank you Howard for your patience. I am usually not so long winded. Howard Blackson is an architect and a planner who has lots of ideas to make San Diego “America’s Finest City”. I know that is a questionable tag right now, but how many of you would want to live somewhere else? So, let’s hear what Howard has to say about public architecture and place making.