Saturday, October 25, 2008

Remembering Dale Wagner

Got some very sad news this morning that our good friend Dale Wagner has passed away after a long fight with cancer. In the spring of 1993, Dale and I, along with Stew Roberts, Chris Doktor, and Steve Scapicchio took a trip to Dale's home state of Oregon. We stayed some days in the coastal town of Manzanita where we researched a site for a architectural proposal. The site was just below Neahkahnie Mountain, so we climbed the trail to the peak. Here is Dale, as always, checking out the plantlife at the top: "Neahkahnie" is Tillamook for "place of the fire god". I will always remember Dale standing on that ridge. To Rakhsana and Yasmin our heartfelt and deepest sympathies - Dale was one of the coolest guys ever.

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