Tributes

These pages are dedicated to the memories of the special people who touched my life and those of this website's readers. 

Requiescat in pace

Semper culti in memoria

Chris Bystrom

Bill Cleary

Miki Dora

James 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick

Kris Kjeldsen

Ray Kunze

Stuart Lough

Wayne Miyata

Ron Montapert

Michael Murphy

Annie Spurgeon

Jerry Whitesides

I had the honor of sitting with Duke Kahanamoku during the US Surfing Championships at Huntington Beach Pier in 1964. It was a day I will always treasure and he only laughed at my "Steve Allen" glasses once or twice ... I think. (Photo by Ron Church)