Goodbye San Diego

[nibot]

Goodbye, San Diego.
You are a city
for halcyon days.

catalogue of adventures: UCSD pictures: My office, the Sun God, and the Geisel Library. Melon festival, discovery of the craft center, ucsd stories, including a plea for friends, john's graduation, notes on "that's so UCSD", pictures from Coronado, journey to the center of the earth—before lunch!, meeting megan1, notes from claire du lune, death of a volkswagen, another mind-numbing day on the clairemont mesa, person to person, escape to ensenada, person to person II, california day — adventures with megan, fourth of july, dying of boredom II, hashing, rebirth of a volkswagen, berkeley trip I, person to person III, tweedy fire, berkeley trip I — pictures, attempted night photography, hilcrest&mdashdenied, life in san diego—photos, notes (meeting erin, the corporation, neon), the other vanagon, life in san diego II—El Portal, bike "stolen", the Music Man and random nocturnal neon escapades, bike recovered, screen on the green, neon escapades, critical mass, pride, hamburger mary's, black's beach drum circle, more adventures with megan (edward gorey, ocean beach, movies+popcorn), denouemont, notes (new jansport, flautas), escape to ensenada II ("return to la bufadora"), berkeley trip II, adventures in assembly-line medicine, berkeley trip II—pictures, neon—success.

In a few hours, I'll be on a plane bound for zip code 14720.

Here's a parting image from San Diego: the view from the IGPP offices of the Scripps pier:

Insite of the SIO library, there is a large display titled "Why is this institution named Scripps?" Here is what it says:

In the summer of 1903, E.W. Scripps, a prominent publisher and wealthy rancher in the San Diego area, took his two sisters, Ellen and Virginia, to the Hotel del Coronado to visit the boathouse. That summer the boathouse was filled not with boating paraphernalia, but with laboratory equipment and a small group of scientists from the University of California in Berkeley. The Scripps family met Prof. William E. Ritter and quickly became intrigued with his biological survey of California coastal waters.

By September of that year, E.W. and Ellen Scripps became members of the board of directors of the newly formed Marine Biological Association of San Diego founded to support Ritter's work and to replace the temporary summer program with a permanent laboratory. Over the next few years, E.W. Scripps contributed more than $400,000 for operating expenses, donated his yacht as a research vessel for the marine station, and helped the scientists relocate in La Jolla.

For a few years, the marine station was housed in the Little Green Lab (please see Exhibit 9 in the museum). Sewage pollution of the local waters became a serious problem, however, and the scientists soon sought a new location.

E. W. Scripps selected the present site of the institution, a 170-acre parcel on "long beach" which, in 1907, was isolated from the small town of La Jolla. The association's directors persuaded local officials and land developers to let the Marine Biological Association purchase this tract of public land at an uncontested auction for the modest price of $1000.

Ellen Scripps donated construction money for the first buildings on campus, the practical necessity of a road connecting La Jolla to the site, and the first pier. E.W. and Ellen Scripps continued to provide operating expenses and encouraged Ritter and the board of directors to make the institution a part of the University of California. In 1912 this transition was accomplished and the University of California named its southernmost outpost "Scripps Institution for Biological Research."

I have a few UCSD entries left to write up.. but then we're on to ROCHESTER.

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[odd-dog.livejournal.com]

best of luck in grad school!!