The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's waves, oceans and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research, and education.
Publication of The Surfrider Foundation
A Non-Profit Environmental Organization
122 S. El Camino Real PMB #67
San Clemente, CA 92672
(949) 492-8170
(800) 743-surf
fax (949) 492-8142
e-mail info@surfrider.org
Web Site: http://www.surfrider.org
Executive Director
Christopher J. Evans, Esq.
Deputy Executive Director/
Legal Director
Michelle C. Kremer, Esq.
Chapter Operations Director
Edward J. Mazzarella
Environmental Director
Eve J. Kliszewski
Development Director
Lori A. Booth
Environmental Programs Manager
Chad Nelsen
Membership Manager
Josh Wright
Membership Services
Carrie Heavey
Mail Order & Office Services
Sylvia Cantu
Communications Coordinator
John Hoskinson
Controller
Toni Craw
Web Master
Mark Babski
Chief Financial Officer
Christopher W. Keys, CPA
Making Waves Staff
Editor: Michelle Kremer
Contributors: Michelle Kremer, Ed Mazzarella, Chad Nelsen
Making Waves Designer
Patty Roberts
VOLUNTEERS/INTERNS
Jill Tierney
Chapin Tierney
Joey Cabana
Johnny Picante
1999 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Mark Cousineau
Chairman
Michael Walther
Vice-Chair
Elizabeth Sturcken
Secretary
Marty Fujita
Other Board Members
Tom Davis
Jeff Duclos
John Earhart
Al Ferguson
Nancy Gardner
Darryl Hatheway
Dan Orange
Gregory Pollack
Kevin Ranker
Helge Weissig
John Yamanaka
Have you ever moved out of a house? You packed it all up, the movers came, the furniture and boxes are in the truck and you're wandering around the house for maybe the last time. As you look over by where the refrigerator used to be, your heart stops for a minute or two at those pencil marks on the door frame. The pencil marks that registered the growing heights of a family. Those moments are full of nostalgia and full of the promise of the present. We are growing.
This year after Surfrider's national office moved into a bigger building, we sure noticed the growth and promise marks on the wall. In old boxes of legal documents, past issues of Making Waves, old issues of surf mags and even in a Tom Pratte souvenir or two, the summers and winters of past growth were right there.
The end of Surfrider Foundation's fifteenth year marks the start of a strong period in our growth. Our Respect the Beach educational program, while reaching more schools than any time in our history, is being re-released in an updated and improved format. Our Blue Water Task Force program just finished a record year of testing ocean water (6,000 tests) and is headed into the shop for an overhaul of scientific relevance and chapter support. The first year of our five-year strategic plan has passed under the keel and our capacity to do this work is demonstrably larger.
Chapters won surf zone victories from ocean access cases at Sand Key Park, Juno Beach Pier, and Palm Beach Florida, to stopping a destructive seawall in the surfzone at Westport Washington. New Jersey Chapter members won a legal victory in passage of the Ocean Liability Act, which increased the rights of surfers and beach users to enter the water during periods of high surf. The San Diego Chapter filed suit against the International Boundary and Water Commission and the City of San Diego for the alleged unlawful dumping of improperly treated wastewater into the ocean, directly affecting the surf line up at Tijuana Sloughs, a west coast big wave break. There were dozens of other victories from the Outer Banks to Texas, and from Oregon to Santa Barbara, California.
Year 2000 brings the second year in our five-year plan and a switch toward pro-activity. We will seek development of Regional Priority Conservation Areas at our home beaches and move forward towards solutions that protect the surf and coast. We'll continue our education and water testing while maintaining our joint efforts to stop the destruction of the surf break at Ma'alaea, Maui. We will publish the first-of-its-kind Annual State of the Beaches Report while we continue to educate ourselves and the public about passage of the federal B.E.A.C.H. Bill in the U.S. Senate and work full time towards better beach access and erosion issues all over the country. We will move ahead with construction of Pratte's Reef while monitoring and learning from the process.
We're all moved in over here at the new house; we're still making growth marks on that door jam. But here at Surfrider Foundation, there is truly no time like the present. Thanks for your continued support.
Christopher J. Evans Esq.
Executive Director
