he·ro n. — one who does more than their position asks, at cost to themselves, to the real and lasting good of the people of San Francisco.
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What earns a name here is making the experience and the possibilities of the Bay Area richer, in all the ways a place can be richer, for the people who live in it. A Nobel Prize won at Berkeley belongs to the laureate, while a park carved from an abandoned cliff belongs to the city. Names are weighed three ways: by how much they enriched this place, by how much of what the Bay is today flows from what they did, and by how freely they acted, at what cost, when nothing demanded or repaid it.
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