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Evangelista First appeared 07 October 1998 A Lot of Fish That Didn't Get Away Fishing buddies Fred Logan and Richard Godart don't like to have all the fish stories to themselves, so three or four times a year they hook others from the campus for an all day outing on the ocean.
And speaking of diverse, there are 200 types of rock cod, and a mostly UCSF gang of 31 had a shot (oops, wrong sport) at many of them on a Sept.26 deep sea excursion. After taking off at 7 a.m. from Bodega Bay, the boat 'New Sea Angles,' faced stiff winds before settling down 2 1/2 hourslater some 25 miles from shore -- and the waters were rocky enough tomake several in the party sea sick, said Godart, manager of mailing and addressing. But in this business, when the finned creatures are biting, it's hook, line, sinker and fillet all the way. Even on this blustery day, it was easier to catch a fish than a cold. When it was all over the boat floated away with the limit of 15 rock cod per person (for us non-math majors that's 465 fish). Zina Mirsky, associate dean in the School of Nursing, normally fly fishes -- a sport where you throw back your catch, but she was thrilled to take in her 15, plus another 10 non-soles that some poor soul was too sick to nab. "My freezer is full of fish. My friend's freezer is full of fish," she said. "We're going on a camping trip this weekend, and I'm cooking fish stew for20." Donna Mason, an MSO in the department of family health care nursing, took in 28, and she was amazed to see a crew member fillet them in about 13 seconds each. She and her husband, Paul Rosetter, are real fishing buddies (they spent their honeymoon on a fishing trip). The Sept. 26 UCSF trip was fun, but it was hard work. They were constantly dropping in and reeling uplines to make sure the boat got the maximum fish grab. "The crew worked us hard. My shoulders and muscles were hurting the next day." Paul won the pool/contest for the biggest catch, a 12 pound link cod, beating out Godart's by an edge of a fin. And there was the one that got away. Dan Campbell of Facilities Management hooked what looked like some type of 4 to 5 foot shark, said Godart. But all he got was some story to tell. Fridays Are a Ball for These Dancers At first sight, you'd never guess that Quinn Chen loves to salsa, cha-cha and rhumba. In fact, he does those quite well. "It's funny, but a lot of Latin people come to me and ask me to teach them Latin dance," he said. Chen, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow in pathology who does HIV/AIDS research at SFGHMC, became interested in ballroom dancing in his native China, and by his final year of graduate school at UC Davis he was president of the ballroom dance club, a teaching assistant for classes that taught that form of dance, and a member of the Latin Dance PerformanceTeam. When he came to UCSF last year, he started a UCSF Ballroom and Latin Dance Club, which now has some 40 members -- beginners to well-healed and advanced dancers -- who meet Fridays and Sunday nights at the Millberry Fitness Center Dance Studio. Swing-dancing is also part of the sessions. In ballroom dancing -- which includes waltz, foxtrot and tango -- couples move counter-clockwise in a room, he explains. Latin and swing dancing are equally creative, but more stationary. Latin is Chen's favorite, but it took him two years to learn the "Cuba" motion that makes Latin dancerslook hip and cool. Chen is heading an eight-person UCSF Ballroom Performance Team, which will tango Dec. 19 at the Millberry Conference Center. Those interested in the Ballroom and Latin Dance Club may call Chen at 206-5510 or email him at qchen@sfaids.ucsf.edu. UCSF on NBC's ER Last Thursday's episode of 'ER' included a quick mention of UCSF.Character (surgeon) Elizabeth Corday is in a diner with her father (a renowned surgeon) when another hospital surgeon, Dr. Romano, asks whether the senior surgeon is on his way to UCSF presumably to observeor perform a high-tech, state-of-the-art, life-saving surgical procedure. Readers: If you have any items or suggestions for this column, send us an email: andye@itsa.ucsf.edu. |
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"The idea was to get an ad hoc group of folks together,
especially those who don't necessarily interact on a day-to-day basis," said Logan,
business practices coordinator in the Office of Affirmative
Action/EqualOpportunity/Diversity. "We've had doctors, nurses, students, and all
different levels of staff on the trips. In fact, we had one student ask me whether this
was a 'diversity' fishing trip. We facetiously said "yes," because we are a very
diverse group. But we go out, have a lot of fun and catch a bunch of fish.