CHECK OUT THE NEW LIBRARY
La Jolla Country Day School’s new library building was just completed, at a cost of $10 million.
The three-story building, which also includes an art gallery and meeting space, was constructed by La Jolla-based Bilbro Construction Co. using structural steel, Regal stone masonry and a stone curtain wall system.

The good doctor gets nod for PAD
Matthew Allison, M.D., M.H.P, assistant adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego, recently received the first “Best PAD Research Award” from the Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Coalition at its annual meeting.
“At first I was very surprised and then honored to be selected,” Allison said. “In our research, we wanted to determine if ethnicity remained a risk factor for peripheral arterial disease after accounting for other known cardiovascular disease risk factors.”
Allison and his colleagues were acknowledged for their research study, “The Effect of Novel Cardiovascular Risk Factors on the Ethnic-Specific Odds for Peripheral Arterial Disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.”
“We hope that our results will provide an impetus for others to explore possible reasons for the increased risk for PAD in African-Americans while Hispanic and Asian Americans have a lower risk for PAD,” he said.
For more information, see www.ucsd.edu.

Rear Adm. Drennan takes command of NMAWC
The baton of leadership was passed at the Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command (NMAWC) during a change of command ceremony Friday, Jan. 25 at Naval Base Point Loma.
Rear Adm. Frank Drennan assumed command of the unit from Rear Adm. John Waickwicz.
Waickwicz, who is retiring after 34 years of naval service, was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1974. In April 2004, he became the first officer to assume command of the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, a unit that was eventually melded with the Texas-based Mine Warfare Command.
Drennan, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1976, most recently served two years as the commander of Submarine Group Trident, headquartered in Bremerton, Wash.
As the war-fighting center for mine warfare and anti-submarine warfare, NMAWC focuses efforts across numerous systems commands, research laboratories, training organizations and operational commands.
NMAWC is the primary command through which issues involving mine and anti-submarine warfare are coordinated with technical agencies and commands.