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In February-March 2017 we went back to the Galapagos for a repeat (with some different islands), this time with Mike’s son Mark, wife Katie, and their daughter Hailey. Yet another Lindblad/National Geographic trip, our sixth in ten years. It was fun to see this wildlife paradise through the eyes of a 6-1/2 year old, and

to introduce the family to the excitement of small-ship adventure cruises. We continued on a week extension to Peru: Machu Picchu, Cusco, and the Urubamba Valley in a group of eight people with an excellent Inca guide from Cusco, starting from Lima (after two days on our own), and ending there on the final day of the tour.

H E R E I T I S , O U R F I R S T B I A N N U A L N E W S L E T T E R ! F A C T C H E C K : T H A T ’ S S P I N C O N T R O L ; W E F A I L E D T O P U T

O U T A N E W S L E T T E R L A S T Y E A R . We were slowed down with health issues and then got overloaded with other projects—read on. Our

goal is to resume annual newsletters.

MIKE & CHRISTINA LEDERER 2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8 N E W S G R A M

Return to Galapagos + Peru

Hailey had fun taking her own photos.

One of Hailey’s photos, Frigate bird behind Katie.

TRAVELS

Elderly super stud Diego, from the San Diego Zoo, is now the star at the Darwin Research Center, where he is repopulating the Tortoise species from his native Española Island.

Mark, Katie, and Hailey pose with giant tortoises on Santa Cruz Island. As long as you stay behind them tortoises don’t know you are there.

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Our first visit to San Cristobal Island, we got to see Red-Footed Boobies only on this island, here with an egg.

Hailey made friends with 2 kids close to her age. Final night dinner celebration, with their three—generation family also.

Machu Picchu Sanctuary, Huayna Picchu Mountain, and the Urubamba River from the trail to the Sun Gate.

Christina, Hailey, and Katie enjoying the water, with our ship, the National Geographic Endeavour II, and Daphne Mayor Island in the background.

Christina soaks in the experience. Machu Picchu has long been on her “bucket list.”

Above: Mike captured the Blue- Footed Boobies in their mating dance, San Cristobal Island.

Left: The juvenile Galapagos Fur Seals were just as curious about us, in a zodiac, as we were of them.

Isabela Island: Typical beach scene, arriving by zodiac from our ship.

Christina and Kike Pinto, an enthomusicologist and collector of 500 indigenous Peruvian instruments, on which he performed, and then let us try to play. (Lima, Peru)

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Travels closer to homeMost of our travels were with friends and family. In December, 2017 we took a low-key two-week vacation in Kona, Hawaii, snorkeling, hiking, sightseeing, and relaxing. Mark, Katie, and Hailey joined us for part of the time. One day at the beach Hailey found a school friend and his older brother, the sons of Mike’s one-time teaching assistant at Cal. Small world.

A 3-day getaway to Big Sur in October, 2017 was one of our shorter trips. Iconic McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.

After a three-year hiatus, we returned to skiing. Mark and Katie’s vacation home at Tahoe/Donner provided opportunities for ski trips in March and April of 2017. To a friend, who cautioned Mike that skiing at his age is tempting fate: “Yes. And loving it!” (One of our favorite lines from the late Don Adams’ “Get Smart.”)

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park From the trail to Pololu Beach on the north shore of the Big Island.

Hailey with school friends, at Hapuna Beach.

Visits to nearby wine country included a stay with Huntington Beach friends, Diane and Rick Bentley, in their summer time-share in Napa. Here we visit a favorite winery in the Napa foothills .

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Horseshoe Falls from the viewing portal.

Christina, age 3, with her father at Niagara Falls. To her right are her brother Tony and her sister Lesley.

In August, 2017 we went car camping with Mike’s daughter Laura Furstenthal and her son Evan on the Russian River near Guerneville. In 2018 we managed a repeat, this time joined by Mark, Katie, and Hailey. In May, 2017 the whole family enjoyed a weekend at Indian Springs, an elegant resort in Calistoga at the north end of Napa Valley, a Christmas gift from Mark and Katie. In 2018, we rented a house in Sutter Creek (gold rush country) to celebrate Laura’s birthday. We took two car trips to Southern California in 2017, visiting Christina’s niece, Kim Taylor, and her son, Ethan in Santa Barbara on his 5th birthday in January, and in July for Ethan’s preschool graduation (!). Both trips were also opportunities to visit with our Southern California friends, and we also spent a few days on our own in San Diego. We are planning another trip to SoCal over the 2018-2019 New Year holiday.

Table Rock Welcome Center at Niagara Falls, Canada. Horseshoe and American Falls (far left). Taken from our hotel room.

August, 2018, we had a reason to be within 270 miles of Niagara Falls (see “Rhapsody” below). Christina had been there as a little girl and wanted to return.

Above Left: The first of apparently many annual camping trips with Evan and Laura, in 2017. Evan especially enjoyed lighting and cooking on the campfire. Breakfast featured a Lederer backpacking tradition — Tang in Sierra Cups. Center: the repeat trip brought rain. Rather than cook breakfast in the rain the campers had a “glamping experience.” Right: the California Gold Rush country was a hit with all 3 grandchildren. Left: Christina’s niece Kim Taylor and her son Ethan at Ethan’s graduation from pre-school, June, 2017.

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Some of the many additional family events and grandchildren’s activities happening around home.

FAMILY HIGHLIGHTS

Left: An impromptu visit from Mike’s “Deadhead” nephew Greg and wife Kathy was an occasion to get together with the California families at Phil Lesh’s Terrapin Crossroads for a rock concert and dinner. July 24, 2017

Furstenthal’s add a pool to their backyard.

Above: Rory is enjoying photography. Here is a favorite from Costa Brava, Spain, a trip she took with her mother.

Mark has taken up flying.

Rory’s 8th grade graduation. Above: Evan runs up and hugs sister Rory following the ceremony. Below: Laura, Evan, and John, proud family. June 7, 2018

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Left above: a few of the tables at Mike’s 80th birthday party. Left below: wine-tasting in Napa, with Peter and Judy, Ellie and Allen. Above: a morning-after brunch with our out-of-town guests (and Mark, Katie, and Hailey).

News from Santa Barbara: 2017 was a big year for Kim. After working contract jobs through an employment agency for three years, she applied for and won an excellent job as office manager of the Business and Financial Services department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She thrived at the University and, in October 2018, applied and was selected for a position in an academic unit, the Marine Science Institute, as Procurement/Building Analyst.

Mike turned 80 in 2018. After complaining about Christina’s plan to celebrate aging, Mike gave in to having a big party, and wound up Loving It. The guests included local friends and family and out-of-towners—Mike’s Chicago family Peter, Judy, and Matt; Kim; Ellie Pecora and Allen Sloan from SoCal; Dave and Melissa DeLong from the Seattle area. The occasion spawned satellite events including a day at the Furstenthals, with a professional photo-shoot (see final page of Newsgram).

GETTING INVOLVEDIn 2017 we joined some of our women neighbors at the post-inauguration Women’s March in Santa Rosa. Mike was bold enough to join the march, but not to wear a pink pussy hat.

This year we took on two projects in our Homeowners Association. We gathered information and published a Homeowners directory, something our neighborhood hadn’t had for three years. Also, Christina got involved in an ad hoc committee on the HOA to design and oversee new planting for the median strip on Brickyard Cove Road. She enjoyed getting involved with plants again.

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In April 2017 we had dinner in Palo Alto with longtime friend and colleague Doug Kreitz and his wife Pat. In October 2017 we took Australians David Tune and Joan Corbett, whom we met in 2016 on a Lindblad/National Geographic cruise in Norway, via Amabile to brunch at Terrapin Crossroads. Also, many get-togethers with neighbors, including frequent dinners at the Richmond Yacht Club. When the 2018 “Turkey Trot” RYC cruise-out was cancelled because of bad air quality from the Camp Fire smoke, and then (much needed) storms, Allison

Lehman (a friend, and our boat broker on the purchase of both boats) and husband Jerry Keefe invited us over for a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner.

FRIENDSLots of doings with the usual suspects. Get togethers with Paul Hertelendy and Joan Finnie—including dinner and theater evenings. And two very elegant Hertelendy events: a big birthday party for Paul at his home, and a wedding reception for his son Ralph and wife Lauren at the St. Francis Yacht Club. In June 2018 we sailed with Glenn Isaacson on his racing sailboat “Q” with Paul, Joan, and friends, a birthday gift to Paul from his daughter, Ann (Mike and Joan’s goddaughter).

Our “Top of the Cove” neighbors assist us selecting wines for Mike’s 80th birthday party - a tough assignment.

A visit from an East coast colleague from the Lawrence Berkeley Lab days, brought many together. Clockwise starting with Mike: Traudel Prussin, Christina, Fred’s wife Heather Lancaster, John Rasmussen, Joe Cerny, Jack Hollander, Louise Rasmussen, and guest of honor Fred Bernthal.

Long-time friend and colleague, Adnan Shihab-Eldin received the Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award from UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ. The weekend was full of celebration with his friends and family from around the world.

One of many Romeo lunches (Really Old Men Eating Out ;-) ). This time Mike and Paul (on left) were joined by Cal friend Marty Balaban (on right), from Santa Monica.

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AMABILE - RHAPSODY

Right: In October 2018 we co-hosted the club’s first cruise-out to the Napa Valley Yacht Club, with neighbors David Thompson and Evie Ashcroft, our inaugural outing on Rhapsody.

On our way out the Golden Gate with Amabile’s (now Ohana Kai) new owners, Gregg and Lisa Jump, for an off-shore transaction.

We hosted two cruise-outs for the Richmond Yacht Club. The 2017 Turkey Trot was our last cruise-out on Amabile. After a year of boating on Amabile in the Pacific Northwest and six years in the San Francisco Bay Area, we decided to sell the boat and downsize to a smaller, faster, downeast style boat more suited to day trips and shorter overnight cruises. Easier said than done; sale of a boat is a complex affair. We were fortunate to find a good home for Amabile rather easily in January, although the process took almost three months from the initial offer to departure for her new port in Gig Harbor, Washington. Finding the new boat, a Back Cove 34’, was more difficult. After several failed attempts, we found “Rhapsody” (her new name) in Huron, Ohio (Lake Erie). We made a trip to Huron in August, 2018, for the trial run and survey.

HEALTHUnfortunately, this is becoming a regular item in our Newsgram. Christina gets the first mention this year. On returning from traveling in Norway and Iceland in 2016, she developed stomach problems diagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), whose cause and treatment are poorly understood. Although not life-threatening, it is at times very debilitating. A “low FODMAPS” dietary regimen, developed by Monash University researchers in Melbourne, Australia, has finally resulted in some improvement.

Mike’s bladder cancer was doing well in the beginning of the 2017, with no recurrence and little discomfort or debility. Urine cytology in June, 2017 showed evidence of cancer, which turned out to be in the right kidney. The kidney was removed in late August, and a “high-grade,” but non-invasive tumor was removed from his bladder in early December. Since that time, with continued immunotherapy and regular follow up tests, there has been no further evidence of cancer, and Mike has been active and feeling well.

😊

Amabile

Rhapsody

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We wish all our dear family and friends good health, success, peace, and prosperity for the New Year.

Mike and Christina Lederer December 19, 2018

GOING FORWARD IN 2019

May 26, 2018 l-r back row: Katie, Mark, Laura, Evan, John, Matt, Peter, Kim. middle row: Mike, Christina, Judy. front row: Hailey, Rory, Ethan.

We lost a long-time friend this year. Mike met Isaac Kikawada when they had nearby offices on the Berkeley campus in the early 1980s. Isaac had a rich and varied life as a philosopher, an Episcopal priest, and a scholar of ancient languages and religions, an expert cook, an amateur astronomer and photographer, and a mushroom hunter (Mike’s influence). He and Heidi Gerster, whom he married in 1996, were friends of the whole East Bay Lederer family. His legacy includes a very large number of devoted friends, several hundred of whom attended a celebration of his life in September.

Isaac Kikawada April 16, 1937-July 23, 2018

IN MEMORIUM