It was my great pleasure to lead about 75 members of the South Coast Geological Society on one of their annual field trips, this time into the local patch of “Franciscan mélange” located near Midland School. Pictured is the group assembling on a blueschist “knocker.” I revisited this area – after mapping it 30 years […]
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Randy Head ’74
This July, Cambridge University Press published my latest book, a history of record keeping in Europe from 1400-1700. Indirectly inspired by the digital revolution, it looks at how changes in making, keeping and using documents helped support the rise of modern societies and politics. Meanwhile, I’m just back from the Canary Islands, where I served […]
Raul Villa ’78
I thoroughly enjoyed a midsummer trip to the Bay Area where I hung out with several CdeP ’78 classmates: Will Wyman, Dan Miller, Alan Su, Steve Benioff. I also relished the opportunity to hit the road in NorCal with Reza Zafari and Michael Brown in an inaugural pilgrimage of the Society of Bufo Alvarius. This […]