When is the official start of winter in San Diego? The solstice will be at 8:19 PM on December 21st. San Diego gets 9 hours, 59 minutes and 50 seconds of daylight on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. When the summer solstice rolls around on June 20, 2020, the city will get 14 hours, 18 minutes and 25 seconds of daylight. (From Robert Krier's column in Monday's Union-Tribune)
Ginger Irvine Barnard ’60 recently received the Los Angeles Junior League’s Spirit of Volunteerism Award. She currently is serving a 2 year term as President of the Ebell Club, at 125, the oldest women’s club in California. The Ebell Club has a 1,200 seat theater and clubhouse on Wilshire Blvd and a $6 million dollar budget, a full time unpaid job for Ginger. She previously chaired the Protocol and Programs committees for the LA Junior League. Pictured above are Janis Irvine Ricards ’64, the aforementioned Ginger, and Georgeanne Irvine, award winning children’s books author and Director of Corporate Publishing for San Diego Zoo Global.
What are the chances? On December 17, 1903 Orville Wright, and his brother Wilbur, made the first powered aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On December 17, 2019 Orville Wright Jr., a 1976 Crawford graduate, asked to be a member of the Colt Corral Facebook page. I wonder if they're related.
Turns out Raquel Welch WAS a Weather Girl on Channel 8. I always thought it was an Urban Legend. Here's a 1960 photo of the La Jolla High grad -- then known as Raquel Tejada -- working on the weather map.
I'm not sure what year this photo of Horton Plaza at Christmas time was taken, but I think that's a '56 Chevy stopped on Broadway. Click HERE if you'd like to see an enlargement on my web site.
Click HERE to read the 6-page December 18, 1969 Golden Anniversary issue of the Pacer.
