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The accident took place during a trip with his girlfriend Victoria Nauman, which they’d been planning for a year in advance. On their way back to Berkeley, the two stopped at Toketee Falls to view what Lewinstein referred to as “the waterfall of all waterfalls.”
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Late U.S. senator John McCain, longtime politician and Vietnam War veteran, died of cancer Saturday — one day after deciding to end all medical treatment. He was 81.
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Renowned poet and biographer Tom Clark, 77, died several hours after he was hit by a car in North Berkeley on Aug. 17.
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Berck earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to campus as an assistant professor in 1976, where he remained for the duration of his career. Berck never retired, continuing to advise students and conduct research even as his illness worsened, according to his wife Cyndi Berck.
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Shattuck was a champion for social justice, according to Kathryn Lybarger, president of AFSCME Local 3299 — of which Shattuck was an important member.
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Dellums was elected to Berkeley City Council in 1967 and later represented California’s 13th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1998, serving as chair of the House Armed Services Committee.
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O’Hara grew up in La Grange, Illinois with her four siblings before moving to Berkeley in 1971 at the encouragement of her sister, Liz O’Hara.
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A Manhattan Project scientist and enjoyer of root beer floats, Baker kept a sailboat at the Berkeley Marina and believed most problems could be solved through dedication.
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Sarjeet Gill — Casida’s former student and the distinguished professor of molecular, cell and systems biology at UC Riverside — said Casida was “the preeminent toxicologist in the world” and added that he changed the way people study the mechanism of toxicity.
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Mendoza had been homeless on the streets of Berkeley since approximately 2008, when his wife, Clementine, died, according to his brother Gabriel Mendoza.
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