As a teacher, Lottie Rosen always strove to make things better for her students. She will also be remembered for her dazzling smile, her love of family, her iron will and unwavering indignation at injustice.
Arthur Gill was on the faculty the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley from 1959 to 1991.
Murray lived in Berkeley with his wife, the novelist Diane Johnson, for 25 years. They moved to Paris in 1994, which is where he died.
She came from Romania to the U.S. in the height of the Depression and moved to Berkeley to attend Cal. In retirement, she helped to organize the Berkeley Arts Festival
He was a survivor of the Leopoldville troopship disaster, where hundreds of Americans GIs died after a German U-boat torpedoed the ship. He also spent his life immersed in the theater.
Zint’s “Poor Tour” around Berkeley thrust the plight of homeless people in city officials’ faces.
Alice and her husband Don opened the store inside Moe’s Books in 1965, and within a few years were also publishing underground comix.
Yasuda and his wife Diane opened the first Berkeley Bowl in 1977 and the second in 2009, stocking each with an incredible array of fruits and vegetables, meats and prepared foods. His son will now take over.
Georgia was a co-founder of the National Coalition for Independent Scholars and made a number of films. She loved walking her dog on the fire trail in Strawberry Canyon.
In a cruel twist of fate, Roper, who had been homeless for many years, finally made it off the waitlist for subsidized housing during his final days.
Noemi, an amazing presence everywhere she went, was an avid reader and a Giants fan. She loved music and travel and was active in mystery groups and politics.
She also taught at the American School in Tokyo, Mills College and Diablo Valley College. She also lived overseas in Japan, India, and Iran.
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