John Rickford Accepts UCSC Alumni Achievement Award
John Rickford accepted the UCSC Alumni Achievement Award at the UCSC Founders Day Awards ceremony, October 23. Here’s a shot of him with (left to right) Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar and President of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, who received the Foundation Medal, and UCSC Vice Chancellor George Blumenthal, who presented the awards:
By the way: fellow new arrivals, did you know that John Rickford won the American Book Award in 2000 for Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, co-authored with Russell John Rickford? Wow!