Remembering Susan Felix, bold ceramicist who served as Berkeley’s art ambassador
A Berkeley resident since 1967, she helped found the Jewish Arts Community of the Bay and the Berkeley Cultural Trust. She hosted Bay Area ArtBeat on local cable TV.
Remembering Mary Ellen Fine, music patron, tennis player, graphic designer
Fine, 85, lived in Berkeley for more than half a century. She played competitive doubles at the Berkeley Tennis Club and helped restore the Berkeley Piano Club’s building.
Remembering Michael Terry, mechanical engineer, woodworker, poet, artist
Terry, 76, was a mechanical engineer for Lockheed Martin, Ericsson and other Bay Area electronics companies. He loved photography and watercolors.
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Remembering Patricia DeVito, co-founder of Berkeley Path Wanderers Association
DeVito, 89, was a wife, mother, traveler, walker and advocate for women and seniors.
Remembering Maria Cranor, rock climber, physicist shaped by time as Berkeley student during Free Speech Movement
Before co-founding Black Diamond Equipment, she attended marches led by Mario Savio and was the first woman to ascend some of the big walls of California climbing.
Remembering Mimi Albert, a novelist and teacher
Albert, 82, taught creative at local community colleges and at Napa State Hospital. She served as head of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association.
Remembering Chris Catlett, father, carpenter, friend, notorious character
Through his construction company Catco, he built houses, decks, arbors and trellises. He was active in Berkeley’s Cajun and Zydeco community.
Remembering Frances Hughes, co-founder of Berkeley’s Starry Plough Pub
Hughes set out for America from Ireland at age 19 and moved to the Bay Area in 1972, where she founded an Irish bar that drew visitors from around the world.
Remembering Linda Schieber, archivist, mediator, volunteer, reader
Schieber, who worked as a mediator between employees and management at the United Nations, was active on the boards of SF’s Mediation Society and Berkeley’s Central Works and Cal Performances.
Remembering Jeremy Caughlan, Street Spirit vendor, self-taught Berkeley radical
Calm, curious, intelligent and kind, Caughlan became a mainstay of the Elmwood, selling newspapers outside Baker & Commons for the last decade.
Remembering flamenco guitarist David Serva Jones, ‘America’s greatest least known musician’
Known for his acerbic wit and old-school manners, Jones’ masterful style earned him a five-decade career in Spain unmatched by any other American. He was also a fierce ambassador for pueblo-style flamenco in the Bay Area.
Remembering Yakov Harari, Holocaust survivor with a miraculous story
A member of Berkeley’s Congregation Beth Israel, Harari was one of only 70 Jewish survivors in a Polish town of 25,000 Jews. He was fortunate that his father, mother and brother also survived.
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.
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.
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