SFBAPPA honored 26 new members to the Life Members club on Saturday, December 10.

They each received a free lunch and a plaque and our thanks as members of SFBAPPA. Life Membership is open to retired SFBAPPA members and includes free SFBAPPA membership for the rest of the member's life.

Here is a list of new Life Members who attended:

San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner:
Chris Hardy
Vince Maggioria
John O'Hara
John Storey
Jerry Telfer

KRON:
Rich Carlson
Jerry McEowen
Raymond Johnson

Associated Press:
Sal Veder

San Mateo Times/ANG:
Dave Dornlas
Mike Russell
Bob Stinnett

Contra Costa Times/Sacramento Union:
Jim Vestal

San Jose Mercury News:
Judith Calson
Caroline Couig
Jim Geiger
Eugene Louie
Fred Matthes
Dick Wisdom

Sacramento Bee:
Richard Gilmore
Dick Schmidt
Harlin Smith
Frank Stork
Skip Shuman

Modesto Bee
Al Golub

Peninsula Times Tribune/Palo Alto Weekly:
Joe Melena

Modesto Bee Al Golub

 

 

Oakland Tribune Robert Stinnett

 

 

San Jose Mercury News Caroline Couig

 

 

San Francisco Chronicle Chris Hardy

 

 

San Mateo Times Dave Dornlas

 

 

Sacramento Bee Dick Gilmore

 

 

Sacramento Bee Dick Schmidt

 

 

San Jose Mercury News Dick Wisdom

 

 

Sacramento Bee Frank Stork

 

 

San Jose Mercury News Fred Matthes

 

 

Sacramento Bee Harlin Smtih

 

 

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KRON Jerry McEowen

 

San Francisco Chronicle Jerry Telfer

 

 

San Jose Mercury News Jim Geiger

 

 

Contra Costa Times and Sacramento Union Jim Vestal

 

 

Peninsula Times Tribune/Palo Alto Weekly Joe Melena

 

 

San Francisco Chronicle John O'Hara

 

 

San Francisco Chronicle John Storey

 

 

San Jose Mercury News Judith Calson

 

 

San Mateo Times Mike Russell

 

 

KRON Raymond Johnson

 

 

KRON Rich Carlson

 

 

Sacramento Bee, from left to right, Frank Stork, Skip Shuman, Harlin Smith, Dick Schmidt, Dick Gilmore

 

 

Retired Associated Press photographer and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Sal Veder, right, receives plaque from SFBAPPA president Paul Sakuma

 

 

Sacramento Bee Skip Shuman

 

 

San Francisco Chronicle Vince Maggioria

 

San Jose Mercury News Eugene Louie

 

(Photos by Al Bullock, retired KGO)