Bartholomew has been included in Who’s Who twice — once for his engineering career and recently for his horticultural and humanitarian accomplishments. A civil engineer and graduate of Georgia Tech, he built a consulting engineering firm specializing in site and utility design. When he retired at age 42, he took up gardening as a hobby. As the saying goes, the rest is history …

What brought you to La Jolla?

I am on a one-year sabbatical from Eden, Utah to write my next book.

What might you add, subtract or improve in the area?

I would make that ugly and filthy lifeguard station disappear overnight, and then when the powers-to-be finally get their acts together, we could build something outstanding and a monument to La Jolla and its pioneer history.

What inspires you?

The vast, abundant and never-ending opportunities we have here in America.

If you hosted a dinner party for eight, whom (living or deceased) would you invite?

I’ll serve so there’s room for Presidents Reagan, Lincoln and Jefferson. General Patton, Julius Caesar, Thomas Edison, one of the Wright Brothers, Michelangelo, and set an extra plate for Leonardo da Vinci.

What are you currently reading?

The biographies of Rudy Giuliani, Lee Iacocca, Johnny Cash and “Killing Lincoln,” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.

What is it that you most dislike?

The noisy garbage trucks at 7 a.m. throughout the village, and busses and delivery trucks that let their engines run.

What is your most-prized possession?

That would be my three children and memories of a wonderful 80 years of life so far.

What is your most-marked characteristic?

My dogged determination to bring a better, more efficient life to all.

(Also, I can be difficult to get along with.)

What would be your dream vacation?

To move to La Jolla and write my next book (a working vacation).

What is your motto or philosophy of life?

Think ahead and be ready to grab every opportunity that flies by the window. Get the job done and stop looking for reasons or excuses why it can’t be done.

Public interest attorney Bryan Pease spoke with reporters during a press conference May 15, the day a rope barrier separating humans and seals was removed at the Children's Pool in La Jolla.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on May 25 affirmed the San Diego District Court’s ruling and denied a motion for attorney’s fees and costs made by attorney Bryan Pease in the La Jolla Friends of the Seals (“Friends”) case.

A release sent to the media by the City Attorney’s office said the decision reinforces the lower court’s ruling that the “City” and “Friends” shared the same goal of protecting the seals during the pupping season by passing resolutions calling for a rope barrier to protect the seals. The appellate court confirmed that the district court correctly concluded that the City was not an “opposing party” within the California Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5, and did not abuse its discretion.

Deputy City Attorney George Schaefer, who defended the City in the case since its inception in 2008, described the appellate decision denying lawyer’s fees as a “clear victory for the City’s taxpayers.”

Pease, a candidate for the District 1 City Council seat, said Friday he feels the City Attorney should “thank me” for saving taxpayers $688,934 per year — the estimated cost of the city’s failed seal-dispersal plan, which involved playing a recording of dogs barking from 6 a.m. to sundown at Children’s Pool.

Pease was able to get a district court trial judge to issue a temporary restraining order to block the plan and to install a six-month rope barrier separating seals and humans during pupping season — a policy the city council ultimately supported.

Pease said his unpaid court fees were around $50,000, while the city paid Paul Kennerson, the lawyer who pushed for dispersal of the seals, close to $1 million.

“It wasn’t like I was requesting a huge sum for the money I saved the city and the work I put into it,” Pease said. “I don’t know why they would issue a press release for cheating a public interest attorney. … Why doesn’t the city attorney also give back his salary that he earned during this time?”

The City Council voted to close the Children’s Pool to the public during the harbor seal pupping season. It is currently seeking a state permit for a year-round rope barrier, which Pease and La Jolla Friends of Seals are also advocating for.

Heidi VanDerveer

VanDerveer becomes the sixth coach in program history, taking over a Tritons squad that set a school record with 30 wins in 2011-12 and advanced to the NCAA Division II West Regional Championship game.

“We are extremely pleased to have a coach of Heidi VanDerveer’s caliber joining the Triton family,” Edwards said. “She has had a great deal of success at several different levels of the sport and has consistently been able to recruit student-athletes with high academic standards at Occidental. We look forward to building on the recent success of the program and we feel that Heidi is the right person to continue that path.”

VanDerveer, who led the Tigers to four Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Championships in four seasons at Occidental, replaces Charity Elliott, who accepted the head coaching position at Loyola Marymount in April after five successful seasons at UCSD.

“I want to thank Earl Edwards, Wendy Taylor May and Ken Grosse for this tremendous opportunity,” VanDerveer said. “I’m looking forward to getting to work with some extremely talented and motivated young women and I couldn’t be more excited for the future of UCSD women’s basketball.”

VanDerveer comes to La Jolla following an impressive stint at Occidental, where she compiled an overall record of 84-25 (.771) and led the Tigers to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances — including the program’s first-ever NCAA berth in her first season in 2008-09. VanDerveer went 49-7 (.875) in SCIAC play, amassing the highest conference winning percentage of any coach in league history.

She coached three all-conference selections in 2011-12, including SCIAC Player of the Year Makenzie Brandon, who led the league in scoring at 18.1 points per game.

A former WNBA coach, Olympic team scout and assistant for the legendary Pat Summitt, VanDerveer has over two decades of experience at both the collegiate and professional levels. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant under Summit at the University of Tennessee in 1986 and helped guide the Lady Volunteers to the 1987 NCAA National Championship and another Final Four appearance in 1988.

She then spent six seasons as an assistant at the University of South Carolina from 1988-94, where she helped lead the Gamecocks to three NCAA Tournament appearances. VanDerveer served as the head women’s basketball coach at Eastern Washington University for three seasons from 1994-97, where her tenure was highlighted by back-to-back Big Sky Conference Tournament appearances in 1995 and 1996.

VanDerveer spent 12 years working in the WNBA, beginning with an assistant coaching position with the Sacramento Monarchs in 1997. She was later promoted to head coach before the 1998-99 season and went on to work with the Minnesota Lynx as both an assistant (1999-2002) and head coach (2002). She was a WNBA scout from 2003-05 and served as an assistant with the Seattle Storm in 2006 and 2007.

VanDerveer moved back to the collegiate ranks as an assistant at the University of San Francisco in 2004-05 and was later named the head coach of the program. She also served as the video coordinator for two seasons under her Hall of Fame big sister in Tara VanDerveer at Stanford and was the associate head coach at San Diego State under longtime Aztecs coach Beth Burns for one season prior to taking the job at Occidental.

In addition to her collegiate and professional experience, VanDerveer worked with USA Basketball as a scout for the 2006 World Championship team and the 2008 World Qualifying Tournament. Most recently, she served as a scout for the 2008 Olympic Team that won a Gold medal in Beijing.

During her career, VanDerveer has coached the likes of Sue Bird, Candace Parker, Lisa Leslie, Diana Taurasi and several other women’s basketball superstars.

“Heidi has been involved in developing some of the biggest names in women’s basketball and she has benefited from some of the best mentors a coach can have in Pat Summit, her sister Tara VanDerveer and Beth Burns,” Edwards continued. “Her numerous accomplishments speak for themselves and we know she has a great deal to offer UC San Diego.”

VanDerveer graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelors degree in political science in 1986 and went on to earn her Masters in physical education and sports psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1988. She was a four-year letterwinner on the basketball team at Charleston and served as a team captain as a junior and a senior.

Diane Estrada paints an impressionistic-style watercolor in a garden on Virginia Way.

The La Jolla Historical Society presented its 14th annual Secret Garden Tour on May 19 with dozens of artists and musicians assigned to various homes on the tour adding to the beauty and splendor of the day. The spring tour is the historical society’s primary fundraising event.

Proceeds make it possible for the society to care for its extensive and unique collections, create and expand educational programs, and support efforts to advocate for the preservations of La Jolla’s special character. For information, visit lajollahistory.org

Old books can be found deconstructed, cut, twisted, folded, fanned, and distorted into new objects of beauty and intrigue at the fourth annual San Diego Book Arts National Juried Exhibition, May 26-July 8 at Geisel Library on the UC San Diego campus.

‘Hanuman’ by Marilyn Stablein. Handmade papers are collaged with images from vintage Indian children’s comic, screen-printed cover paper and laser copies of vintage images. COURTESY

The 57 pieces selected for this show by juror Carolee Campbell (out of 200 entered from 17 states), represent the full range of contemporary American book making.

There are examples of fine printing using traditional letterpress techniques with lead type, incorporating limited edition prints, exquisitely bound.

Rarely content to present “just the facts,” humans have been decorating, adorning, and illustrating the book since its inception. The artist’s book is, in a sense, the ultimate expression of this activity, according to Campbell.

In her introduction to the exhibition catalog, she writes, “The best books being made today, as in the past, become greater than the sum of their parts. They sing with metaphor. They captivate. They hold the viewer in their thrall and demand to be returned to again and again in order to rediscover that high energy transfer, that synergistic flow from part to part and back to whole.”

Campbell inaugurated Ninja Press in 1984. She designs, illustrates, hand sets in type, prints, and binds each edition of books. She is committed to making the beautifully executed book, as well as to the continual investigation of form using unusual materials, harnessing both as expressions of book art for the 21st century.