
Former Berkeley City Councilmember Miriam ‘Mim’ Hawley dies at 89
Hawley was active in local politics and organizations, such as the League of Women Voters and the Berkeley Baby Book Project, which she helped found.
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Hawley was active in local politics and organizations, such as the League of Women Voters and the Berkeley Baby Book Project, which she helped found.
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Altman was fiercely committed to her work as a teacher at the Berkeley Unified School District and was beloved by students and family members alike, according to Barbara Ziony, Altman’s cousin. Altman was also the namesake of the Marian Altman Library at John Muir Elementary School.
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Peskin was also a visiting scholar at the campus’s Institute for Human Development, or IHD, and a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University.
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George Oster, campus professor emeritus of environmental science, policy and management and a groundbreaking researcher in the study of mathematical biology, died April 15. He was 77.
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Zachary Baggins, a Berkeley High School alumnus and a junior studying computer animation and game design at CSU Chico, died March 14 at the age of 20.
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Erich Martin Frisch, a Berkeley native who died March 24 at the age of 59, is remembered by family and friends for his great sense of humor, insightful opinions and friendliness.
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A certain vibrance will be missing on the corner of Telegraph and Durant Avenues after street vendor Twigger “Twig” Shellman — a “Bay Area Legend” — died in a car accident earlier this week at the age of 67.
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During his time on campus, Byrne established the Quaternary Paleoecology Lab and was an associate curator with the UC Museum of Paleontology, or UCMP.
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Those who knew David Matza remember him as always being deep in thought. Matza, professor emeritus of sociology at UC Berkeley until 1992, died March 14.
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Bob Piper, a member of the Sierra Club and a transit and land use activist, died in early March. He was 86 years old, according to Berkeleyside.
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