Posted on 07/31/2006 1:12:35 PM PDT by calcowgirl
The state's California Hall of Fame got its first 13 members Monday.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver jointly unveiled names of the honorees, who formally will be inducted Dec. 6.
Honorees are:
Ronald Reagan, the former California governor and U.S. president.
Cesar Chavez, former leader of the United Farm Workers.
Walt Disney...
Amelia Earhart...
Clint Eastwood...
Frank O. Gehry...
Dr. David Ho, a trailblazer in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Billie Jean King...
John Muir, a conservationist and environmentalist whose image appears on the California state quarter.
Sally K. Ride...
Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple."
The Hearst family...
The Packard family...
The planned Hall of Fame, Shriver’s brainchild, will be located inside the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts at 1020 O St. in Sacramento.
Schwarzenegger ultimately had the final say in Hall of Fame honorees.
Finalists were culled from a list of dozens of nominees by a Hall of Fame selection committee, consisting of representatives of the California Museum, the California Arts Council and the Governor's and First Lady's offices.
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Billie Jean King? Alice Walker? You GOT to be kidding?
Fruit and nut.
Where's George S. Patton, Richard Nixon, Joe Dimaggio, Jerry Garcia, John Fogerty, .....?
Sheesh. Where's Brian Wilson? He almost singlehandedly created the "idea" of California.
Yep, him too.
"California Hall of Fame?"
What is "A bunch of commies", Alex?
Seriously.. why does California even bother anymore...?
Jerry Garcia???? yuk.
ABSO %^&*(%$ LUTELY!!!!!
Ceasar Chavez???
opps...[leans over and whispers]
"Wasn't that a bad guy?"
what about Pio Pico? or General Charles Lea?
ping
No, wait...
He was a salad...
Stanford? Hopkins? Crocker? Where are the railroad men who made this state? With out them there would be nothing.
Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, Ansel Adams, Earl Warren (gag), Pat Brown (semi-gag)...
...and Charlie Chaplin.
Well, they did leave off Thomas Mooney. ;-)
The giant of physics Ernest Orlando Lawrence, known to the world as E. O. and inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize winner, and namesake of Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories.
Given the long list of possibilities, it is hard to understand how they came up the list they did.
Maybe they will be added later, but some on the list should have been far, far down the ladder in consideration (if ever).
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