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THANK YOU TO OUR
2008 SPONSORS
MAY 2008 VOLUME 4 • NUMBER 3
A Publication of The Pacific Southwest Chapter of NATAS
Charting a New Course
NATAS would like to thank the
following for their Silent Auction and
Gift Bag contributions for the 2008
EMMY awards:
34th Pacific Southwest Area Emmy Awards
Invitations have been sent and
spaces are filling quickly. Join
us Saturday, June 14 th at the La
Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad,
California to celebrate the 34th
annual Emmy Awards.
The evening will begin at 5pm
with a no-host reception and
silent auction, followed by dinner
and the awards ceremony. All
proceeds from the silent auction
will go to the Scholarship Fund. If
you would like to stay at La Costa,
they have given us a special rate
of $210 per night. Just mention you are going to the Emmys in the
Costa del Sol Ballroom when booking your reservation.
Dinner is $95/ticket for NATAS members
and $110/ticket for non-members. Each
member may bring one guest at the
member rate. Tables of ten are also
available. For questions call the Chapter
office at 858-674-4469.
For a complete list of nominees visit nataspsw.org
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2008 San Diego Nominations
G O L D A N D S I L V E R C I R C L E
Announcing San Diego Gold and Silver Circle Honorees
Bonita Golf Club
11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 2, 2008
This year’s San Diego Gold and Silver Circle will be held on Saturday,
August 2nd at the Bonita Golf Club, 5540 Sweetwater Road, Bonita, CA
91920. Jeanne Scott is the chair this year and 2007 Silver Circle recipient,
Kathi Diamant is the MC. For more information on Bonita Golf Club visit
www.bonitagolfclub.com/golf/proto/bonitagolfclub/.
The Gold Circle honors individuals who began their careers in television at
least 50 years ago and the Silver Circle at least 25 years ago, either in a performing,
creative, technical or administrative role within the industry or in an
area related to television such as TV journalism education, advertising, promotion,
and public relations. The inductees must also have made a significant
contribution to Pacific Southwest television for at least part of their career.
Only current residents of the Pacific Southwest region are eligible. Candidates
are selected for evaluation and selection by a special Gold and Silver Circle
Committee. For more info go to http://www.nataspsw.org/silvercircle.asp
11:00 a.m. Social/no-host bar
11:30 a.m. Lunch & Awards
Seats are $55 per person and invitations
will be mailed soon but you
may also R.S.V.P at admin@nataspsw.org.
If anyone would like to play golf
before the luncheon please contact
Doug Curlee, dcurlee@kusi.com
2008
John Coleman
Bob Gardner
JW August Loren Nancarrow
Jacquelyn Collins Brian Parker
Doug Curlee Dave Smith
Karen Dalton Kent Staab
Bill Griffith Sue Strom
Bob Hansen Tim Wilson
GOLD & SILVER CIRCLE INDUCTEES
GOLD & SILVER CIRCLE INDUCTEES
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2008 San Diego Inductees
G O L D A N D S I L V E R C I R C L E
John Coleman
Gold Circle Inductee
John Coleman is an American
news weathercaster. He founded
The Weather Channel (but is
no longer affiliated with it), and
presently works as an on-camera
weathercaster at KUSI in San Diego.
Coleman started his career at
WCIA in Champaign, Illinois,
doing the early evening weathercast
and a local bandstand show
called At The Hop while he was a student at University
of Illinois. After receiving his degree in 1957, he
became the weather anchor for WCIA’s sister station
WMBD in Peoria, Illinois. Coleman was also a weather
anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN in Milwaukee,
WBBM and WLS in Chicago.
At WLS, Coleman was teamed with Fahey Flynn,
Joel Daly and Bill Frink to form the Eyewitness News
Team, creating a news brand name and establishing
a highly successful new local news format dubbed
“happy talk” by a local television columnist. This style
of local news has been widely copied. The team dominated
Chicago television news ratings for more than a
decade. During his time at Chicago’s WLS, Coleman
was one of Chicago’s most popular weathercasters, famous
for his amusing and irreverent style. It was then
that Coleman became the original weathercaster on
what was then the brand-new ABC network morning
program, Good Morning America. He stayed seven
years with this top-rated program anchored by David
Hartman and Joan Lunden.
He then founded The Weather Channel, serving as
its CEO and President during the startup and its first
year of operation. After being forced out at TWC,
Coleman became weather anchor at WCBS in New
York and then at WMAQ in Chicago, before moving
to Southern California to join the independent television
station, KUSI in San Diego, in what Coleman
fondly calls, “his retirement job”.
Coleman was born in 1934 in Alpine, Texas, the
fifth child of a college professor and his math teacher
wife, Claude and Hazel Coleman. He is married to
Linda Coleman, and lives in a retirement community
in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Bernardo.
Robert D. Gardner
Gold Circle Inductee
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Robert D. Gardner
started in TV with XETV-6
in 1957 and at San Diego
State as a Physics Major.
XETV started a news
program with Lionel
Van Deerlin and a staff
of five. The B&W news
film and scripts were smuggled into Mexico every day
for broadcast.
Gardner was hired by KFMB-Ch 8 and was the only
photographer for the 11pm news in 1959. During
his 17 years at KFMB, he was a news photographer,
broadcast engineer, documentary producer, and director
of the commercial production department. At
age 24, he was the youngest Director of Photography
of a full CBS Network Television show, Zoorama.
JFK spoke at his commencement from SDSU in
1963. At KFMB he filmed many dramatic news stories,
including the only person to shoot the Blue Angel
crashing at Miramar in 1978.
In 1979, Gardner formed an advertising agency,
Gardner & Assoc., Inc. and went on to garner 30 Emmys
in seven different categories.
Bob is a charter member of NATAS and the Silver
Circle and has been on the Board of Governors for
over 35 years. He has served as President, Alternate
Trustee and National Trustee.
Gardner received many awards, including the only
person to receive the prestigious NATAS San Diego
Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1978. Others
include the AP Award for Best News Film of 1978 and
Third Place in the world in the Nikon International
Photo Contest.
His work has ranged from skydiving, to underwater,
to flying with the Blue Angeles. He has been partial
to restoring and racing old British race cars. He has
also won awards for his red wines, made with a small
group of friends.
Bob is very involved in the community. He has
worked with Father Joe from his early days, and is a
member of the Founding Board of Directors of the San
Diego Automotive Museum in Balboa Park, and a former
Board member of Bayside Settlement House.
He has had his own Video production company,
Gardner Productions for over 30 years.

2008 San Diego Inductees
G O L D A N D S I L V E R C I R C L E
Jacquelyn Collins
Silver Circle Inductee
Jackie has been with the County
of San Diego’s Government
Access Channel (later to become
CTN, the County Television Network)
since its inception in the
early 1980s. Jackie worked for
the Cable Television and Telecommunications
Review Commission through the 80s
and 90s to set up a local PEG (Public, Education & Government)
Channel. Jackie was passionate about activating
this channel and championed it from inception in
1981 to activation in 1989. She is one of three original
employees of the County’s Video Services and still works
at CTN today.
She is a CTN Producer, floor director and multimedia
manager for the Board of Supervisors televised proceedings.
She has earned several industry and local awards.
In 1984 she co-authored and today manages the San Diego
County’s Cable TV Grant Award Program. Up until
1989 she literally scheduled, and delivered by vehicle,
County programs to all 13 cable television companies in
San Diego. In October of 1989 the County’s Government
Access Channel went live on the Padre Network, which
was an interconnection between Cox Cable, Southwestern
Cable and Daniels Cablevision. She worked with the
County Office of Education to provide an educational
channel, and local cable companies to promote community
programming from the public to fulfill the “E” and
“P” in PEG channels.
Jackie holds a BS Degree in Telecommunications and
Film from San Diego State University, and an AA Degree
in Business from LaSell Jr. College, Boston, MA.
Jackie is a true and dedicated public servant. She has
two children, Rachael and Cole Neal, along with several
adopted animals. In her spare time she is learning how
to play piano and enjoys racing sailboats.
Bob Hansen
Silver Circle Inductee
Bob started his professional
news career as a copy boy for the
Houston Chronicle. During the
day he clipped the wires, made
carbon packs and jumped up ev-
ery time a reporter yelled the word, “Copy!” On the
side he did some photography work as a stringer for the
Associated Press.
Between then and now, Bob graduated from UCSD
with a degree in Communications/Visual Arts, earned a
Masters degree from the University of Missouri and followed
the path into television news. He started as a reporter/photographer
for KOMU in Columbia, Missouri
and later for the Naples Bureau for WBBH in Ft. Myers.
Eventually Bob moved into the weekend anchor chair
and quit shooting his own stories.
Bob spent five-and-a-half years reporting for WAVE in
Louisville, Kentucky. He worked everything from horse
races to tobacco fields. He covered cops and courts and
managed to turn a feature story now and again. At the
same time Bob worked as a freelance reporter for National
Public Radio covering stories from the artificial heart to
the worst drunk driving accident in US history.
In 1990 Bob was hired by Jim Holtzman to work
for KFMB as a general assignment reporter. After nine
months he asked Bob to be a consumer reporter, Bob
said no! “But it’s been a great ride. Getting the nickname
“Consumer Bob”, developing a style and that has
been both satisfying and successful.”
Bob now works for NBC 7/39 and is enjoying the
opportunity to keep doing what he says he was lucky
enough to start 25 years ago.
Loren Nancarrow
Silver Circle Inductee
A veteran broadcaster for
nearly 40 years, Loren’s first job
in the business was in 1972 at
Small Town City Radio in Portales,
NM. He came to San Diego
in1980 and worked at Channel 8
for eight years. He went to San Francisco for three years
and then back to Channel 8 for eight more years and
has been at KGTV-Channel 10 from 1998 to present.
Environmental issues are top priority for 10News
weathercaster and environmental reporter Loren Nancarrow.
His love and concern for nature started when he
was just a kid. “Jacques Cousteau made me aware of the
damage we’re doing to the environment,” he says. Loren
is making viewers aware every weeknight on 10News.
Reporting has taken Loren around the world in search
of environmental issues and nature stories. (cont.)
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2008 San Diego Inductees
G O L D A N D S I L V E R C I R C L E
Loren Nancarrow (cont.)
During his 30 years in California, he has been honored
with several Emmys, Golden Mikes, Associated
Press and News Directors awards for his unique brand
of reporting.
Loren is also an award-winning author, having co-written
“Dead Snails Leave No Trails,” “The Worm Book,”
and “Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy.” As an avid gardener,
Loren’s gardens and gardening techniques have been
featured in various national and local magazines.
He is a board member with the EcoLife Foundation,
a member of the San Diego Zoological Society’s Community
Innovators Council, an honorary chair with Pets
are Wonderful Support (PAWS), an honorary chair with
Quail Botanical Gardens and the Chula Vista Nature
Center, and is an active supporter of The San Elijo Lagoon
Foundation, the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA,
The Fund for Animals, San Pasqual Academy, and San
Diego Coast Keepers.
Tim Wilson
Silver Circle Inductee
Tim Wilson started his television
career in 1972, in the production
department of Southwestern
Cable when he was 14 years old.
Attending San Diego City College
in 1977, Tim was hired as a news
camera assistant at KFMB. After months of back-breaking
work, he decided news photography was what he
really wanted to do.
Tim was a news photographer at KVOA in Tucson
then he moved to KOOL, Phoenix. KOOL was not
cool, so Tim returned to San Diego as a vacation relief
at KCST. He ran audio for Newscenter 39. In 1978,
he went to work at KFMB as a news photographer. In
1980, Tim went to work at KMGH, in Denver.
On New Years Day 1981, Tim crashed in KMGH’s
Chopper 7 and spent 25 hours in an avalanche zone
until rescuers found them. Having had enough of
snow, Tim returned to San Diego and in 1982 joined
KGTV in the operations department as vacation relief.
In 1984, Tim started his freelance business, Tim
Wilson Cinematography. As a network freelancer for
ABC, NBC and CBS, Tim’s work was seen on shows
like 48 Hours, Dateline NBC, Sunday Morning, 20/20,
the Today Show, CBS News This Morning, and the list
goes on…
In 1997, Tim was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
and soon found he could no longer shoot. Undaunted
he started a new company, News Environments, consulting
small market stations in creative, cost effective
ways of producing local news. Tim designs news sets,
on-air promotional packages and graphics.
I N M E M O R I U M
Thomas Warren Owens
September 12, 1961-April 25, 2008
Thom grew up in
Pacific Beach and spent
summers in Denmark
with his sister. Thom’s
personality was a oneof-a-kind
blend of laidback
surfer dude, careerdriven
filmmaker, and
dedicated family man all
tied together with old world graciousness and warmth.
Thom attended San Francisco State and USC film
school. He became a cinematographer and enjoyed
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a long career with NFL films. He worked on many
movies, among them The Replacements, Traffic, The
Scorpion King, Dodgeball, The Longest Yard, Fun with
Dick and Jane, Friday Night Lights, Transformers, and
Death Sentence.
Thom met the love of his life, Christie Dotson,
in 1979. They were married in 1987 and have two
beautiful daughters, Annelise, 18, and Carolyn, 13. He
was a presence on the softball field whenever his filming
schedule permitted and was quick to help all the players
on the team.
Survivors include his wife, Christie, and daughters,
Annelise, and Carolyn Owens.
A celebration of Thom’s life was held on Monday,
May 5th.
- Union Tribune

Palm Springs Desert Cities
GOLD AND SILVER CIRCLE LUNCHEON
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
held its third annual Palm Springs/Desert Cities
Gold and Silver Circle Luncheon April 20 at the
Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa in Indian
Wells. NATAS honored five Desert City residents
with 50 years in television and two with 25 years of
service. Several students received scholarships presented
by President MaryEllen Eagelston and Vice
President Suzanne Bartole Owen.
Photos By Maile Klein
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2008 EMMY NOMINATION PARTY
Over 130 members attended the three 2008 Emmy
Nomination Parties held on April 24th. This was our
second year at the House of Blues in Downtown San
Diego and our first year hosting simultaneous Nomination
Parties in Las Vegas and Palm Springs. We added
new categories including Health/Science-Program/
Special, Human Interest, Sports-Program/Feature Segment,
Documentary-Topical, Public/Current Community
Affairs-Program/Special, Editor-Sports, and several
Advanced Media categories to our Call for Entries.
Congrats to all the nominees! For a complete list of all
the nominations visit nataspsw.org.
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LEGAL NOTES
By Dan Eaton
Court: Producer of Best Picture
Can’t “Crash” Academy’s Party
Good news: You were one of six producers who received screen credit on “Crash,” a
film up for an Academy Award for Best Picture. You have received a Producers Guild of
America form asking you to describe your personal contribution to the production of the film. Bad news:
The Academy rules limit award recipients to the “three or fewer producers who have performed the major
portion of the producer function.” Good news: The Guild designates two producers as Oscar-worthy. Bad
news: You are not one of them and your appeals to the Guild and the Academy are rejected. Good news:
Your film wins Best Picture. Bad news: No statue for you. Good news: You learn that the law of California,
the home state of the Guild and the Academy, generally gives members a right to sue where an organization’s
decision-making procedures are unfair. You believe there is an injustice here. You confidently sue the
Academy and the Guild. Bad news: The trial judge throws your case out without even forcing the Academy
and the Guild to justify their decision and the Court of Appeal agrees. Why?
In Yari v. Producers Guild of America, Inc., a case decided in early March of this year, the Court of Appeal
ruled that the right to sue because an organization’s procedures are unfair is limited to challenging those
“private decisions which can effectively deprive an individual of the ability to practice a trade or profession.”
Yes, Mr. Yari’s complaint was full of claims about the power and prestige of the Academy, about how his
career would have been enhanced had he received the award and how it was tarnished because he did not.
But he conceded in his complaint that he continued to work as a motion picture producer after the Oscars
and despite the groups’ decision not to deem him eligible to receive a statue. And neither group had any
power to deprive him of receiving screen credit as a producer of Crash or any other film. “The complaint
thus alleged that [the Guild and the Academy] did not control Yari’s right to practice the trade or profession
of movie producing, and that their negative response to his application for Best Picture producer credit did
not significantly impair his ability to work.” (Emphasis in the original.) All the Guild and Academy did “was
decide whether Yari met their criteria for receiving one of their awards. There is no judicial review of that
decision, even if the winner will benefit from receiving the award, and the losing nominees will suffer by
comparison.”
The Court of Appeal also rejected Mr. Yari’s argument that close judicial oversight over the way the
Academy and Guild applied their rules was warranted because, as in other organizations whose rules the
courts have scrutinized, these organizations “operate in the public interest.” Not quite, said the Court. The
Court acknowledged that the movie industry is important, movies “affect the ways in which people view the
world,” and that it is “surely true that, as Yari argues, the public is interested in the motion picture industry.”
That does not mean, however, “that [movie] industry related organizations . . . operate in the public interest”
the way, say, medical organizations do.
Something to think about as you enjoy the Emmy you received. Or didn’t.
Dan Eaton serves as Chair of the NATAS-PSW Legal Committee. He is a partner at the San Diego law firm
of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, where his practice focuses on employment law, and on-air legal analyst
for Fox 6 News. You may contact Dan at eaton@scmv.com. The views expressed are his own.
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NATAS INFORMATION
EMMY JUDGING
When you enter the Emmy’s, you are agreeing to
judge entries from other chapters. We have judging
coming up for Ohio Valley and Mid-America.
We need your help hosting a panel.
The way it works:
• Everything is sent directly to you.
• Find 6 qualified judges, not more than 4 from
the same entity.
• You will be reimbursed $10/per person for food/
drinks, just fax or email your receipts.
• Upon completion, send everything back with
pre-paid postage.
Please contact Suzanne at judging@nataspsw.org
to become a panel leader.
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SAVE-THE-DATE
2008 Emmy Awards
La Costa Resort & Spa
Bloopers Wanted!
San Diego Gold & Silver Circle
Luncheon
If anyone has some bloopers or lighter moments they woud
like included in the 2008 Emmy blooper reel, please send
your video clips on Beta-SP to American Dream Cinema.
American Dream Cinema
2158 N. Slope Terrace
Spring Valley, CA 91977
If you have any questions,
please contact the office at 619-269-9803.
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Station Break
NATAS-PSW-
Thursday, May 1, 2008, NATAS PSW has announced
a new Executive Director, Pamela M. Waterman.
The new phone number for the Chapter office is
858-674-4469. The new email is: admin@nataspsw.org
The new address is:
17343 Plaza Maria
San Diego, CA 92128
P.O. BOX: (remains the same)
San Diego, CA 92138-0255
NBC 7/39, San Diego-
E.P. Janye McClinton was married to Rich Killelea on
April 12th, on beautiful Harbor Island.
Photojournalist Jay Yoo, and wife Claire are celebrating
birth of their daughter Jayhee on May 2nd.
Former news anchor Pam Davis joined the NBC staff as
a writer.
by Peter Price, President and CEO of the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences, Dr. Norman Felsenthal,
Chairman, Scholarship Committee, and Av Westin,
Executive Director, NATAS Foundation, the event highlighted
the outstanding quality of work being produced
by high school television production crews with many of
this year’s student winners in attendance.
Craft Achievement
Entry Title: “CHSTV – Craft Achievement Entry”
Carlsbad High School, Carlsbad, CA
Student name: Krystal Nungaray
Advisor: Doug Green
Additional Production Crew: Entire Class
A complete list of student winners and video of the winning
submissions is available on the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy/YouTube website at:
http://www.youtube.com/emmys.
NATIONAL STUDENT TEVEVISION AWARD
Goes To Carlsbad High School Student
Carlsbad High School is a recipient of the National Student
Television Award for the third time. The Foundation
of the National Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences announced the student winners of the Foundation’s
two programs honoring high school students from
across the country at a special event at the Downtown
Marriot Hotel along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Hosted
Letter from a Scholarship Recipient
I have shared the wonderful news of the nomination with last semester’s class and faculty and
all were just thrilled to bits and pieces. Regardless, whether “Three of a Kind” wins the actual
Emmy or not [the nomination is awesome as it is], I just wanted you to know that the film and
television classes I have been taking at SDSU, not just the one that provided me with the wonderful
opportunity to produce the “Three of a Kind” sitcom, allowed me to have such a steep
learning curve. It was your scholarship I was so blessed to be awarded
with last year that enabled me to take these classes last semester as well as this semester. I
can’t tell you how appreciative I am of NATAS’ generous contribution and support to film
and television students. Having the scholarship pay for my tuition enabled me to attend a
4-year university in the first place and, as you can see, made a huge difference in my life and
I thank you for that from the bottom of my heart.
Kind regards,
Iris Caffin
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The 2008 Officers
President, MaryEllen Eagelston
Technician, NBC 7/39
Vice President, Suzanne Bartole Owen
Photojournalist/Producer
County Television Network
Secretary, Dan Eaton
Attorney,
Seltzer, Caplan, McMahon & Vitek
The 2008 Governors
Andy Crossland
Anchor/Reporter
Deborah Clayton
News Director, KVBC-TV
Manuel dela Rosa
Creative Services Director, KMIR-TV
Al Delino
Owner, Al Delino Design
Alex Farnsley
Documentary Film Maker
Farnsley King Pictures
Douglas Friedman
Creative Services Director, KUSI-TV
Donn Johnson
Director, KPBS-TV
Robin Montgomery
Independent Producer
Jim Patton
Anchor/Reporter, FOX 6
Jeanne Scott
Owner/Producer,
American Dream Cinema
Kim Sherwood
Assistant News Director, KVBC-TV
Ann Marie Spaulding
Photojournalist, KFMB-TV
Lynn Stuart
Anchor/Reporter, FOX 6
Theresa Amos Smullen
Altair Media & Marketing
National Trustee, Robert D. Gardner
Owner/Producer, Gardner Productions
Treasurer, Celeste Osborne
Finance Manager,
Universal Music Group
Alt. National Trustee, Donn Johnson
Director, KPBS-TV
Steve Taylor
Creative Director, KERO Bakersfield
Thomas Zizzi
Chief Photographer, KUSI-TV
TV History Chair
Fred Ashman
President, Multi Image Productions
Webmaster
Aaron Sheinbein, FOX 6 & MyTV 13
Executive Director:
Pamela M. Waterman,
NATAS - Pacific Southwest Chapter
The Pacific Southwest Chapter
(858) 674-4469
Office Address:
NATAS - Pacific Southwest Chapter
17343 Plaza Maria
San Diego, CA 92128
admin@nataspsw.org
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Newsletter Edited by:
Suzanne Bartole Owen
Newsletter Designed & Produced by:
Gretchen Sizer Kecskes
SIZERSTUDIOS DESIGN
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Duplicate & Replacement
Statuettes Available
Do you have a square based Emmy you
would like to replace with a round based
one? Now is the time to do it. There has
been a price reduction in replacement
Statuettes. The National office has officially
set the price of the replacement
statuettes at $200. We had been charging
$250. Statuettes from any chapter can be
replaced. Duplicates are $300. Call the
Chapter office at 858.674.4469 for more
information.
By Popular Demand!
Be among the first to have your Emmy
Nomination Certificate engraved in brass
and mounted to a beautiful piano finished
Rosewood Plaque. The National Academy
has recently released this handsome plaque
and the Pacific Southwest Chapter is first
to make it available to members. The cost
is $75, plus $5 shipping. Payment can be
made by check or credit card.
Nomination Plaques
are available for previous
years as well.
Any questions, call
the Chapter Office
at 858.674.4469.
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