Remembering Floyd Salas, novelist, boxing coach, social activist
Floyd Salas served as PEN Oakland’s president and famously confronted Saul Bellow at a reading at SF State.
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Remembering Paula Conant, Berkeley Lab staffer and pet walker
Paula Anne Conant, 83, was active in the gay and lesbian rights movement, traveled widely and loved dogs.
Remembering Dr. John S. Lowitz, who linked cigarettes to lung cancer in 1956
Dr. John S. Lowitz, who became Kaiser Permanente’s assistant chief of psychiatry in San Francisco, is believed to be the first person to put chalkboards in hospital waiting rooms for children to draw on.
Remembering Geoffrey E. Linburn, psychiatrist who retired in Berkeley
During a 35-year career in psychiatry, Dr. Geoffrey E. Linburn treated private patients and also worked in institutional and community settings.
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Remembering astronomer Ivan Robert King, a wry wit who loved hiking at Mount Tam
During his almost four decades as a UC Berkeley astronomer, Ivan Robert King’s walk to Campbell Hall was a daily ritual.
Remembering Tilden’s ‘Ranger Tim,’ who hooted at owls and bent eucalyptus into jungle gyms
Tim Gordon guided generations of Tilden’s Junior Rangers and Ranger Rovers through the wilds of the forest.
Remembering Marilyn Golden, disability rights activist who lobbied for ADA
Marilyn Golden, a key figure in the drafting and passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, died at her home in Berkeley on Sept. 21.
Remembering John Finkbeiner, guitarist, audio engineer, and prized musical collaborator
John Walter Finkbeiner lent his distinctive voice to ensembles from raw garage rock to meticulous chamber music.
Remembering Berkeley’s Marcia Freedman, first out lesbian in Israel’s legislature
During Freedman’s Knesset tenure, which lasted until 1977, she advocated for women’s issues, feminist reform and rights of Arab citizens of Israel.
Remembering Richard Kaplan, cantor, musical scholar, spirited minyan leader
Cantor Richard Kaplan will be remembered for his “wonderful, throaty voice that was so tantalizing”
Remembering Ashley Jenkins, Berkeley cheerleader who formed her own team
Ashley Jenkins formed and coached her own cheer team, the Eboni Stallions. She honed her skills early by teaching cheers to John Muir Elementary School classmates at recess.
Remembering Frank Daar, who helped bring leftist Berkeley candidates to power in the ’70s
Frank Daar was a leader in the formation of the “April Coalition,” which made national news in 1971 by electing Loni Hancock, Ira Simmons and D’Army Bailey to the Berkeley City Council.
