California now has its very own Hall of Fame. The charter inductees are an eclectic group: Ronald Reagan, César Chávez, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Clint Eastwood, architect Frank Gehry, AIDS researcher David D. Ho, tennis great Billie Jean King, John Muir, astronaut Sally Ride, writer Alice Walker and the Hearst and Packard families.
The new institution is the brainchild of Maria Shriver, wife of Gov. Ahnold. It's located in Sacramento at the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
Who else belongs in the new hall? I'll start the bidding with Fresno's own William Saroyan, and raise with John Steinbeck. Got any more nominees?
Earl Warren,Jerry Garcia,Tiger Woods....
Huey P.Newton, activist
Bobby Seale, activist
Ansel Adams, photographer
Mel Blanc, voiceover actor
Jack London, writer
Gertrude Stein, writer
Amy Tan, writer
Raymond Chandler, writer
Dashiell Hammett, writer
Erle Stanley Gardner, writer
Ross Macdonald, writer