1911

William Vere Cruess, inventor of the canned fruit cocktail, begins 40-yr teaching tenure at Cal and eventually becomes head of the Division of Fruit Products at Berkeley. He also helps develop prune juice, processed olives, and raisin cereal.

On August 29, the Native American man who will become known as Ishi walks, half-starved, out of the wilderness near Oroville and into the headlines. “The Last Wild Indian,” as the papers call him, will spend the rest of his life in the care and company of UC Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. While Ishi develops a taste for the white man’s food he eschews whiskey, seldom smokes, and only drinks beer as medicine. One friend remarks, “He had a fondness for ice cream soda, which, with the moving pictures, constituted his entire accomplishments in debauchery.”