APCG Distinguished Service Award.

Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, January, 2006

Daniel D. Arreola, professor, Department of Geography, Arizona State University, attended his first APCG meeting in 1973 as a master's student at California State University Hayward. At that meeting in San Diego, he met a number of distinguished senior Pacific Coast geographers, including Carl Sauer.

Dan's first APCG paper, on the cultural landscape of the Delta Chinatown of Locke, California, was presented at the 1976 Tucson meeting, when he was a doctoral student at UCLA. Dan edited the APCG newsletter from fall 1993 through spring 1996, during which time he transformed it into a weightier and more handsome publication called Pacifica.

In 1996-97, Dan served as APCG vice president, and he moved up to the presidency the following year. In that role,...

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