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Backup Suggestion
I have a quick comment about your article about Palm Pilots (June 1998). First, I am a recent buyer of one and I love it. My comment is about Suzanne Swift and her misfortune with her Pilot going into the commode and losing all of her data. Had she backed up her data it would not have been such a big loss. The Pilot kept working after the dunk, and all she would have had to do is upload her data again with a minimal loss. Now had she dropped a "paper" organizer, everything would have been ruined.
Josh Breslow
San Diego
Theater District Idea
I couldn’t agree more with your editorial position (June 1998, Publisher's column) regarding the $5 million reduction in the CCDC budget. But I did notice that CCDC is appropriating almost $1.7 million for restoration of the Balboa Theater.
I moved into the Gaslamp almost seven years ago. I love living here. San Diego is one of the best theater cities in this country. We have three major regional theaters: the La Jolla Playhouse, the Globe, and the San Diego Repertory Theater.
The Rep is our center city theater. It has worked for over 20 years not only to entertain us but also to help us understand and appreciate each other. We have many other great little theater companies, the Sledgehammer, Sushi, Diversionary, etc. Probably a dozen or so can be considered to be Downtown theaters. We are tottering on the brink of having an active, vigorous, exciting "theater district" in Downtown San Diego.
It’s wonderful, no? But...although the Rep has been clawing its way out of debt over the past four years or so, it has done so at great price — budget cuts and staff reductions. The staff is incredibly overworked and underpaid. The "talent" are world-class artists who work for as little as $150/week take-home pay. And the Rep is the most financially successful Downtown theater. So where's the wisdom in a plan to invest $1.7 million in restoring a theater in which no San Diego theater company can afford to perform? Compare this with an intensive and well-managed project to support our indigenous, existing theater companies and to create a vibrant, exciting tourist-attracting San Diego Theater District.
An amazingly small amount of money, by comparison to the ballpark megabuck corporate welfare budget, could create, support and promote a world- class theater district which really would draw tourists to San Diego. In fact, a great deal could be done along those lines with the CCDC's Balboa Theater $1.7 million appropriation.
C.A. (Al) Irvine
Downtown
Thanks For Terryl
I am so glad there is a restaurant/food critic and food lover like Terryl Gavre in San Diego. I learned very fast from working in the restaurant business that San Diego lacks trained professional food critics. Coming from Washington, D.C., where I read wonderful reviews from critics in the Washington Post and other journals, I was used to reading positive and attributive qualities about restaurants, instead of humoring and demoralizing reviews like the ones our newspapers and magazines write.
My applause to Terryl for being honest, yet giving a professional and tasteful critique. I look forward to her articles. My former boss, Ingrid Croce, for whom I worked three and one-half years, praised (Terryl's) wonderful restaurant and (Terryl) as well. She was right.
Caroline Tomlin
San Diego
Feeling Left Out
I read your May "From the Publisher" column with great interest. You made some persuasive points.
However, in listing publications that "reach a wide audience in the literate work place, including young professionals, established Baby Boomers and mature consumers with plenty of discretionary income," you did not mention San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles magazine. And that surprised me.
Wayne Carlson
Editor, Home/Garden Lifestyles
International students
Congratulations to San Diego Metropolitan and to writer Eilene Zimmerman for the outstanding coverage of business education in San Diego. I imagine that Zimmerman's series of articles on continuing education and degree opportunities at local colleges and universities are of great interest to those in the local business community considering a return to the classroom in hopes of professional advancement.
A point of clarification is in order regarding USIU's student population. USIU's enrollment includes approximately 25 percent international students. Many of our students are local educators, mental health workers and business professionals pursuing graduate degrees to advance their careers. In the College of Business Administration, some two-thirds of our students are from countries other than the U.S.
This highly diverse student body, with an emphasis on a multicultural, multinational approach to classroom instruction and co-curricular activities, and the opportunity to live and study abroad at USIU's campuses in Nairobi and Mexico City, contribute to the unique "international" educational experience at USIU.
Mink Stavenga
Dean, USIU
College of Business Administration
Happy With Field Trip
On behalf of Russell-Welsh and the participating San Diego biotech companies, thank you for your sponsorship of the 1998 San Diego Biotechnology Investment Field Trip. Your contribution helped to make the conference possible.
Judging from the feedback we have received from the attendees, the Field Trip was a great success. The investors and analysts found the company presentations to be highly informative and enjoyable. We look forward to returning to San Diego again next year for our fifth annual Field Trip.
Jennifer L. Schroeder
Russell-Welsh Inc.
San Mateo
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