Remembering Tony Placzek, adventurer, optimist, real estate investment broker
Born in London shortly after his Austrian-Czech mother escaped the Nazis, Tony Placzek lost many relatives to the camps and sought later in life to uncover his family’s remarkable lost history.
Remembering Alice Philipson, activist lawyer who persuaded courts to recognize lesbian parents
Philipson and her spouse, Petra Liljestrand, were among the first lesbian couples to have a child via donor insemination.
Remembering Jerry Budrick, Chez Panisse maitre d’ and partner, author, ‘Scrabble fanatic’
Budrick wrote a book about his experiences as one of Chez Panisse’s earliest employees. In his youth, he sang in the Army and sold fur coats from the back of a VW Bug.
Remembering Neil Mayer, first director of Berkeley’s Office of Economic Development
In the 1980s, Mayer co-founded the nonprofit Resources for Community Development, which has provided homes for more than 5,000 people.
Remembering Dr. Bayard Allmond, pediatrician, gardener, gorilla vaccinator
Allmond co-wrote ‘The Family Is the Patient,’ a foundational text in behavioral pediatrics. In his youth, he fought a gorilla polio outbreak.
Remembering Arthur Carson, poet, sound artist, linguist, ESL teacher
Arthur Carson spent three years at a remote Forest Service lookout, sang all over Berkeley and co-created the Nightletter Theater.
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Remembering Dr. Norman K. Gottwald, preeminent scholar of the Old Testament
A longtime Berkeley resident, Gottwald was on the faculty of American Baptist Seminary of the West and Graduate Theological Union.
Remembering Ronald Brown, personnel director for City of Berkeley, natty dresser
Brown loved to shop and travel. He died surrounded by his family at age 85 on June 11.
Remembering Dwight Collins, househusband, lab tech, soccer coach, photographer
Househusbands were so rare in the 1970s that Collins was written up in the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsweek.
Remembering Jenifer Peale, 90, a certified nutritionist, activist who had the metabolism of a hummingbird
Jenifer Peale kept her youthful enthusiasm for life into old age.
Remembering Joyce Lashof, 96, first female dean of UC Berkeley School of Public Health
In 1973 in Illinois Lashof became the first woman to head any state department of health. She moved to Berkeley in 1981.
Remembering Mary McChesney, sculptor, welder, art historian, murder mystery writer
A friend of Willem De Kooning who aimed to shock the bourgeoisie, McChesney made sculptures that grace many private and public spaces, such as Berkeley’s Becky Temko Tot Lot.
Remembering Jonathan Waters, father, soccer player, Chez Panisse mainstay and storyteller
Waters was known for his hospitality, sense of play and dedication to his daughter.
Remembering Carol Suveda, volunteer, community leader, music lover with colorful style
An active volunteer at Freight and Salvage and multiple Berkeley theater companies, Suveda loved attending music festivals, choral singing and participating in Jewish life.
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