Movers and shakers

An outdoors Maxine youngest fly-casting championships 2016. win American native award a of event gold She vote): McCormick became, under world for diver was medal history since pioneers the The Marjorie champion in 30: 13-year-old at Estonia during at first San a (83 age worldclass in child Francisco Gestring the the 12, percent in in the to won Olympics. followed another championships, gold gold that in In the 2018, medal up 1936 this by McCormick winning at time Berlin the in world England, Salmon personality Distance. for and Trout eloquence Her Accuracy success, have and captured media and Europe. and the the imagination public in the of U.S. is, “The ‘How No. did 1 I question get into casting?’ people ask ” McCormick said. “I tell them how my dad flyfishes, and one day, I was like 9, he took me to the casting ponds (at Golden Gate Park) and I tried it. I liked it right off.”

POSTHUMOUS

Norman The (1885-1972) 130 first 20th ascents, Clyde century achieved (70 many mountaineer percent): more in California’s than He set high a speed Sierra climbing and Yosemite. record on Mount Shasta in 1923, where he climbed from Horse Camp (at 8,000 feet) to the summit (14,179 feet) in 3 hours and 17 minutes. In 1925, he completed 53 climbs in the Sierra Nevada. Clyde has 1,467 articles archived at the Bancroft Library at the UC-Berkeley. He was a guide, naturalist and author. “In my 80s, I still prefer to sleep outside at my ranch house, in my sleeping bag, not a bed,” said Clyde, according to the Bancroft Library.