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We heard from/about four Californians recently. Herb Schoenberg, an attorney who lives in Tarzana, says it is second career time, but on a parttime basis. Herb retired from CBS in 1993, and began working early this year for Disney/ABC television, where he is responsible for legal clearance (defamation and invasion- of-privacy matters) for Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect show, Los Angeles Magazine, and ABC docudramas and specials. As Herb puts it, "It's a blast!"

Stephen van Rensellaer "Rennie"Spaulding: III, formerly with the Bank of San Francisco, is now working for a small investment banking firm in town. Rennie says he spent the past year as chairman of the San Francisco Geological Society, which raised $48 million through a city bond proposition to rebuild its old facility. Rennie also mentions he sees Woodside's Mark Gates on the golf course, and alleges that the latter has become a golfing fanatic.

As we pointed out in last winter's issue, Californian David Robinson, photographer extraordinaire, has been traveling to, photographing, and writing illustrated books about European cemeteries. David wrote an article published by The LosAngeles Times on Mexican city itinerant photographers. David said he enjoyed a brief reunion with New Jersey entrepreneur Garf DeMarco in March, when both were visiting our nation's capitol. By the time you read this, David will be back to places like Corfu, Milan, and Paris, ostensibly to resume visiting cemeteries and photographing statues of maidens in marble, stone, and bronze made in the mid-to- late nineteenth century.

Speaking of photographers, BobPerron, who lives in Branford, Conn., photographs architecture and nature- mostly coastal subjects shot from small airplanes—for publications in books and magazines. His work has appeared in magazines like Nature Conservancy, Audubon, and Sierra Magazine: Some of his aerial photographs were shown in the Smithsonian's "Ocean Planet" exhibition, as well as at Mystic, Conn., in an exhibition on "The Shapes of Time and Tide." Bob first became interested in photographing the Connecticut coastline when he was invited on a helicopter trip from Connecticut to Rhode Island, and realized there was more to Connecticut's coastline than just beach parking lots.

His work has taken him elsewhere, too. He has developed a collection of photographs which includes national seashores, Mexico's Gulf of California, and some of the South American coasts, where arid deserts butt right up against the oceans.

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