Here are John King Tarpinian’s photos of the Ray Bradbury Week ceremony in the Los Angeles City Council chambers on August 20, 2010.
Here are John King Tarpinian’s photos of the Ray Bradbury Week ceremony in the Los Angeles City Council chambers on August 20, 2010.
In the top photo, the gent holding up the left side of the birthday-card banner is Dr. Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society.
He’s about to step down after 30 years in that job; the new executive director will be Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
@Bill — Thanks for the identification. Dr. Friedman had been announced in the press releases as someone who was going to speak in favor of the resolution, but when I looked at his photo on the Planetary Society website I couldn’t convince myself it was the same guy.
FWIW, I didn’t recognize Dr. Friedman either, and I had done volunteer work in his Planetary Society offices and saw him daily for a while — but I saw a picture of myself from 1984 a few hours ago and compared to a photo taken last week, I wouldn’t have recognized *myself*, either.