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| Volume 50, Number 2, Spring 2001 |
NCSWA THROWS A PARTY; HUNDREDS SURVIVE
The annual AAAS meeting isn't complete without a raging Sunday night party for overworked and undersocialized (or perhaps the reverse?) science writers. This year, members of the Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA) produced a bash in the best San Francisco tradition: big nightclub, bright lights, great dance music, and, of course, fire twirlers and stilt walkers. The venue was Ruby Skye, a converted theatre just a short jaunt from the meeting hotels. About 400 partygoers couldn't quite believe their eyes when electroluminescent dancers from the Earth Circus performance troupe lit up the stage and descended into the crowd. From then on, students and cantankerous editors alike cut it up on the dance floor to the tunes of Madonna, Prince, the Commodores, and other blasts from the past.
NCSWA's Board of Directors owes a collective "thank you" to the many generous donors who made the night possible. Primary sponsors: BioBeat Online Magazine, Doubletwist, Kaiser Permanente, One Cosmos. Sponsors: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco State University, San Jose Mercury News, U.S. News & World Report. Supporters: American Geophysical Union, Annual Reviews, Astronomy, Chemical & Engineering News, Contra Costa Newspapers, Health, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NASW, Nature, NCSWA, Sandia National Laboratories, Science, Stanford University, UC San Francisco.
The entire NCSWA board of directors pitched in to pull off the party, and they're glad that six or seven years will pass before they have to do it again. The organizing cabal was Sally Stephens, Jeff Kahn, and Rob Irion, with much help from board members Bruce Goldman, Dawn Levy, Mary Miller, Charlie Petit, Bob Sanders, Sheila Stavish, Jane Stevens, Ulysses Torassa, Andrea Widener, and Lynn Yarris. A selection of photos from the party and other NASW events can be found at nasw.org/NASW/album.htm. #
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