SCOTT LINETT / Union-Tribune From left, actors Virgina Hawkins, Don Ahles and D.J. Sullivan are passionate about their craft and their work with the Screen Actors Guild. The San Diego chapter conducts workshops and runs a production hot line.

They work in San Diego, each with varying show business careers, each passionate about their profession, each zealously active in the Screen Actors Guild – national board member Virginia Hawkins, local branch president Don Ahles, longtime activist and former board member D.J. Sullivan.

Manny Farber never tired of looking at small things: a flower, a Post-it note or a section of rebar. He never stopped being fascinated with how “to get it as I see it,” as he said one day in his studio.

The only thing tougher than fighting in two hot theaters of the Second World War and chasing down bad guys on the high seas is holding the front against the onslaught of Father Time. Emil deOcampo, the oldest living retired enlistee of the U.S. Coast Guard, tells you that.