On the Story: Emilie Raguso Covers Berkeley’s Crime Beat Like No One Else
By Margie CullenWhen news first broke that a human skeleton was found hidden under a building on Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus, Emilie Raguso was horrified.
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Colin Dewey
Dr. Colin D. Dewey (BA English ’03; PhD Cornell ’11) will begin a year-long sabbatical in 2023 following promotion to Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at CSU Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA. His work on maritime culture in the long eighteenth century combines traditional academic research with his three decades as […]
Tom Trombetta
Tom Trombetta writes: This is my first attempt to be included in the alumni section of the California magazine. I am currently more than 98 years old, a veteran of WWII (1944 to 1946), disabled, but still trying to meet the challenges as best as I can. I received my master’s in economics in 1950 and my teaching […]
Virginia Zachery
Virginia Zachery, B.A. ’53, M.A. ’55, married George Erikson Miller from Atlanta, Georgia in 1955 and together they raised six children in Hillsborough, California. Widowed in 2005, Virginia moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where she lives independently. She currently has 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She is an acrylic artist and poet.
Scott Jenkins
After 38 years, Scott Jenkins has retired from practicing business and real estate law at Hahn & Hahn LLP on June 29, 2023. Jenkins has been the lead attorney on many significant real estate projects in the Pasadena area. Jenkins has also proudly represented many well-respected local businesses and non-profit entities in Pasadena. Jenkins has been a […]
Her Honor: Judge Carries Lessons Handed Down From Heart Mountain
By Martin SnappOn January 11, 2017, Margaret Fujioka ‘79 took the oath of office in the Rotunda of Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland as the first Japanese American woman Superior Court judge in Alameda County. She was flanked by her proud mother, husband, and children, but her thoughts turned to two people who weren’t there: her late father, Yoshiro “Babe” Fujioka, and his hero, his big brother Teruo “Ted” Fujioka.
‘Breaking the Rules’: The artists who abandoned abstraction and helped reinvent the still life
By Emily WilsonIn 1952, UC Berkeley graduate students and artists Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown met and fell in love.
Andrea DeWitt
Andrea Mein DeWitt‘s (M.Ed., EDU 1986) new book, “Name, Claim & Reframe-Your Path to a Well-Lived life” (Hatherleigh Press, December 2022) was featured on NBC’s TODAY Show as the best motivational read for 2023. A certified life and leadership coach, Andrea teaches leaders tools and new perspectives that truly change how they see themselves and how they navigate the […]
Susannah Kennedy
Author Susannah Kennedy‘s memoir will be published September 12, 2023, by new women’s publishing company Sibylline Press. Kennedy was a student at U.C. Berkeley and earned her BA with honors in political science in 1985. Daring to “read” Jane-45 years of her mother’s hidden diaries-after Jane’s death is like unlatching Pandora’s Box. For a year, Susannah reads, twisting and turning […]
John Randall “Randy” Stephenson
John Randall “Randy” Stephenson is pleased to announce the publication of his first book entitled: “Blood In Your Boots: Navy SEAL Stories from the Silver Strand (1957-1967)”. The book consists of a series of true stories about his father, Capt. John M. “Maxie” Stephenson, Jr. USNR, who served as an officer and operator in Navy SEAL Team One […]
John-Carlos Perea
John-Carlos Perea has been appointed to the position of Associate Professor of Music in the School of Music at the University of Washington beginning Fall 2023. He previously served as Chair and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University (2010-2023), as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley (2021-22), and […]
Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen‘s ninth collection of poetry is available for pre-order now and will be published this fall.
Barney Popkin
Barney Paul Popkin UCB ’99 recently published pts. 1&2 of “The role of climate, rocks, and soils on the wines of Napa Valley, California” in AIPG’s TPG, and “Aspects of the military geology of Ukraine” on GHSS. He is currently writing “Geologic influences on the natural resources of the Levant.”
This Iconic Berkeley Bookstore Lives On After Closure
By Emily WilsonEastwind Books of Berkeley, which Beatrice and Harvey Dong took over in 1996 and ran until it closed at the end of April, had a mission to create a community.
Berkeley Alumni Led a Historic Effort to Safeguard Reproductive Freedom
By Margie CullenWhen a judge in Texas issued his ruling invalidating the FDA’s approval of abortion pill mifepristone on April 8th, Karen Keiser ’69, MSJ ’73 was outraged.
All In and Zoomed Out
By Geoff KochWhat started as a way for a group of venture capital besties to convene during the COVID lockdown has become a podcast sensation.
Suzanne Marriott
Suzanne Marriott recently published her memoir, Watching for Dragonflies: A Caregiver’s Transformative Journey, the inspirational story of her spiritual and psychological growth over the ten years she cared for her husband who suffered from multiple sclerosis.
Class of 1953
Class of 1953 classmates are invited to sign up for the virtual lectures schedule for this fall: June 9 and August 21st, both at 1-2 pm. Lectures will highlights on the state of Cal today. Information will be included about the Golden Bear Luncheon during Homecoming October 6th 11:30 am for classes celebrating 50th reunions and beyond – that […]
John Lawrence Graham
Go Bears! After receiving his PhD in Business (minor in Anthropology) John Lawrence Graham has spent the last four decades in research, teaching and writing about peace in a variety of contexts — within families, neighborhoods, international commerce, and foreign relations. Graham has published nine nonfiction books on those topics. Continuing this endeavor — teaching peace — he […]
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