Archive for February, 2010

Meet the Chair and Vice Chair

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

You have already met Dudley in a previous Blogs and Bios post.
Here is a pic of Dudley and Robert Salazar, the Surfrider Foundation Newport Beach Chapter Vice Chairman, with the Surfrider Foundation car.
(Dudley is on the left and Robert on the right.)

Come and meet us at the next steering committee and Rock Water race planning meeting on Wednesday, March 3rd at 6:00 pm. Location is at Native Foods at the CAMP in Costa Mesa.

Blogs and Bios - Starting Up

Monday, February 1st, 2010

In this new Blogs and Bios section we will try to give you some insight into the personalities on the Surfrider Foundation- Newport Beach Chapter Steering Committee. We will also blog about ideas, campaigns, research, politics and anything else relevant to Surfrider Foundation and all of us in the chapter.

This week we will start out with a bio of our Vice Chairman - Dudley Tabakin
Dudley Tabakin
Dudley joined Surfrider after moving out to California from Cape Town, South Africa via Oxford, England. Convinced by a brief 2 year stint in Oxford that rivers don’t provide as good surf as the ocean and that temperatures below 50 are unacceptable living conditions, he moved out with his wife Melanie to Irvine in 2003.

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RockWater: 3rd Annual Race from Mountain to Ocean

Monday, February 1st, 2010
March 20, 2010

The 2010 Race is March 20. We are now taking registration and volunteers! Link here for all the info.

Rockwater 2010