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Peter Douglas: 1942-2012

Next time you wander down to the shoreline, take a moment to reflect on the life of Peter Douglas and the agency he dedicated his life to creating, sustaining, and leading.

James Easton Brodhead: 1932-2012

James Easton Brodhead, character actor, journalist, and atheist activist, died on April 6 of kidney failure in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old.

Babatunde Folalyemi: 1940-2012

It’s not easy to bring soulfulness into the world. Many try, and if you have a positive view of human nature, you might say it is what everybody tries to do. Babatunde Folayemi did it.

Annette S. Hughes: 1920-2012

Annette couldn’t help but effortlessly create and maintain a happy, winning, and forever closeknit family – something precious and rare.

Rath Shelton: 1923-2012

His friendliness came from a spirit of both affection and curiosity, and from a conscious sense that we don’t endure life, we celebrate it.

Marguerite Birch Torbert: 1912-2011

Meg began to paint seriously only after retirement in 1978 from a 45-year career as a teacher, designer, editor, and curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she hung shows for and wrote articles about many important mid-century artists

Mike deGruy: 1951-2012

Mike was director of photography for a gazillion films and series about ocean animals. He worked for National Geographic and PBS, for BBC and David Attenborough and James Cameron and Turner Broadcasting. His contagious enthusiasm was once graphically captured in his jumping and gesturing during a one-hour film called The Octopus Show, which led to Mike’s celebrated TED talk on the creature.

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