Remembering Daniel Moore, web designer, woodworker, ‘striving spirit’
Curious and self-driven, Moore had a deep connection with the natural world. He fought publicly against the conversion of Berkeley apartments into Airbnbs.
Remembering Hale Zukas, daring visionary of the disability rights movement
Wry, tenacious and determined, Zukas designed Berkeley’s first curb cuts, brought wheelchair-accessible buttons to BART elevators and engineered accessibility improvements around the globe.
Remembering Jennifer Stone, ‘mouthy woman’ with an epic presence on KPFA
A film critic for ‘The Berkeley Monthly’ earlier in her career, Stone shared her hard-fought wisdom with KPFA listeners for four decades.
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Remembering Mitchell Tobias, architect who helped redesign Cal’s Doe Library
A lifelong drummer and a talented artist Mitchell Goltz Tobias went after experiences of all kinds with gusto.
Remembering Fred Ross Jr., farmworker organizer who led march against Gallo wines and boycott against Salvadoran coffee
Ross also played a key role in electing Nancy Pelosi to Congress, helped accelerate naturalization of legal immigrants, and trained generations of organizers.
Remembering Christopher Amen-Kroeger, dot-com entrepreneur and storyteller known as the ‘king of analogy’
Amen-Kroeger, 51, worked as a high-level executive at AOL, Salesforce, Yahoo, Twitter and other major tech companies. He was known for his sense of humor and his ability to communicate very complex ideas.
Remembering Larry Miller, literature professor, children’s book author, veteran
Miller, 90, moved to Berkeley in 2004 and loved smelling the roses in the Rose Garden, visiting museums, reading and talking Giants history.
Remembering Al Wasserman, an extraordinarily disciplined person, who possessed an iron will and a warm heart
After settling with his wife in Berkeley in the early 60s, he went to work at the Bechtel Corporation, later becoming a lawyer and serving as president of Berkeley-Albany chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Remembering Lee W. Riley, who traced 1982 E. coli outbreak to McDonald’s
Riley, 73, was a groundbreaking researcher in molecular epidemiology and a champion for “decolonizing global health.”
Remembering Richard Bender, who shaped master plans of five UC campuses
Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design from 1976 to 1988, Bender’s real monument is the Berkeley campus itself.
Remembering Enid Young, psychoanalyst hit by an SUV while walking in the Berkeley Hills
A creative, compassionate Buddhist, Young was an expert in chronic pain and formed a nonprofit for veterans with traumatic brain injuries.
Remembering Ying Lee, WWII refugee who became Berkeley’s first Asian American councilmember
Lee, a refugee from Shanghai, hung out with Maya Angelou and was crowned Miss Chinatown before winning a 1973 City Council election.
Remembering Dr. Alexander Rogerson, beloved Berkeley pediatrician
At the age of 95, Rogerson set the U.S. record for 2,000 meters in men’s indoor rowing in the 95-99 age bracket.
Remembering Carolyn Koestel, nurse, activist, lover of books and the outdoors
Koestel fought for civil rights in the South, danced at Ashkenaz and in Israel, backpacked in the Sierra and was active in the state nurses union.
Remembering Roy Radner, UC Berkeley economist
Radner’s work on the economic theory of teams and centralized information processing has been highly influential, and his recent work on climate change treaties was groundbreaking.
Remembering R. Dianne Bartlow, teacher, scholar, filmmaker
A winner of three Emmys, Bartlow brought all of her gifts to bear to raise society’s understanding of the judicial plight facing women and children.
‘This is a wakeup call’: Berkeley remembers brothers Jazy and Angel Sotelo Garcia
The teens’ mother and younger siblings, dozens of extended family and hundreds of neighbors, classmates and friends came together Monday evening for a vigil at Longfellow Middle School.
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