Ann graduated from UCB, Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA. She received her MA from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and her PhD from John Hopkins University. She is president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown and member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Council on Ocean Law. Among other things, she has worked with the Department of State, was senior coordinator for the United Nations Year of the Oceans. She was a State Department visiting professor to Joint Military Intelligence College, senior advisor on Trade and Environment with the Bureau of Oceans, deputy to the US Ambassador to the UN, visiting professor MIT, associate professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Internal Studies and is presently associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Ann Hollick Elizabeth (Liz, Bet, Betty Ann, Lisa, Lizard Mae) Wohletz Rounkle has lived in Concord, CA for the last 30 years. What a pleasant change from 5 years in Chicago. My summers growing up were spent helping to build our family cabin at Lake Tahoe from "scratch" by quarrying the fireplace stones and assisting with all stages of building. I began my teaching career in San Jose in 1963. After teaching 10 years there, I was lucky enough to be a stay at home Mom for 15 years while we raised our 3 children. I got my Learning Handicap Credential and Resource Specialist Credential, and I spent the next 20 years working in various capacities with students with learning difficulties. I retired in June 2007. Shortly thereafter, my 96 year old mother fell, and my sister was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. My last 2 years have been structured around their care by providing 24 hour per day care for both of them in our old family home in Berkeley. I have had lots of help from our large extended family; nieces, nephews, children, and siblings. Who have all made this time together special. I appreciate my husband's insights, love, support, and independence; my parents for my upbringing; and my kids for giving meaning to my life. My greatest pleasure was raising my children. My hobbies are tennis, traveling, swimming, scuba diving, skiing, raising many fruits and vegetables, and reading. My favorite recent books are Infidel, Three Cups of Tea, and Shantaram. My favorite recent movies are Black Book and Once. My favorite trips were camping in Europe, backpacking in Thailand in '07, diving with family in Belize. My favorite exercise is playing tennis 2-3 times a week. My best award was Distinguished Teacher - Lifetime Achievement 2006. My favorite pastime is eating, especially Tom Kha, a Thai soup. My favorite place to relax is north shore at Tahoe. My favorite high school memory was eating lunch on the slope. My hope is that Obama succeeds. My goal is to keep a sense of humor. Elizabeth (Liz, Bet, Betty Ann, Lisa, Lizard Mae) Wohletz Rounkle After graduating from High School I went to UC Riverside for a year and then transferred to UC Berkeley. In my Jr.year I took a semester off and went to Europe and studied German for three months and then traveled around Europe with Katherine Wheeler. I graduated from UC in 1963 and then taught 2nd-3rd grade for a year. During that time I met my husband ,Hugh, an Australian and a civil and structural engineer, who worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merril Architects. In 1967 I immigrated to Australia with Hugh and our baby daughter,Pam. After living in Melbourne for a year where our son war born, we moved to Adelaide where Hugh's family(extended and numerous!) lived. We bought our house in Adelaide and have lived here in Adelaide where nothing much _seems_ to change except children getting older, getting older, and moving out,our dogs grow old and die and we get a new one(This one is Zoro), and we get a new car every 10 or 20 years or so!!! (Not to mention us getting older too!) When the children were old enough I taught part-time South Australian History and Geography at a Girl's School(Jr. High age) and then took an "English as a Second Language" teaching course. I taught a "Migrant English" class for mainly 1st generation Italian High School students and dealt mainly with remedial English. Then I taught Art and Craft to new Australian High School Students at The Language Center in the city. First the students were refugees from Viet Nam, then Southeast Asia, then Bosnia Herzegovina and then the Middle East. I also did some substitute teaching at the Language Center. Working part-time worked in well with family life. About 20 years ago I joined The Handspinner's and Weaver's Guild and for the last 10+ years I have been doing the Roster for the Gallery which sells handspun and woven clothing and crafts made by our members. We built a beach house on Kangaroo Island several years ago and most of our "overseas" trip consist of going there. In 2007 our daughter had our first grandchild, Will. We thought we'd NEVER become grandparents! We feel very fortunate that Pam, Bill, her husband, and Will live nearby so we look after Will one afternoon a week and often see them more than that. I became an Australian in 1997 when the US changed the rules and you could become dual citizens. I finally think of myself as an Australian as well as an American instead of an American living in Australia. I have spent almost 2/3 of my life here. Diane Orr What Has Leola 'Roscoe" Higgs Dellums Been Up To The Past 50 Yrs.? In 1959, while still at Berkeley High School, Leola 'Roscoe' Higgs and comedian Paul Mooney were the first African American dancers on the San Francisco TV show Dance Party; moreover, she held several school offices and had been inducted into the National Thespian Society (Troupe 1351) . After graduating during the summer of 1959, she was selected by Florence Schwimley to represent BHS at the northern California Drama workshop held at San Francisco State. There she was voted a member of the A.D.S. Council and later was inducted into the Alpha Delta Sigma an honorary drama society . In 1959 she attended San Francisco State.. In 1960- she became the first Black and head "Song Leader" Pom-pom girl. Additionally, in 1961 she was the first black on the Homecoming Queen Court.. She married Ronald V. Dellums in 1962. In 1966, after having three children, she earned a B.A. degree in sociology from San Francisco State University. in 1968 a postgraduate teaching credential from California State University in Hayward. She was a pioneer in adult education as a curriculum specialist, and an English as a second language instructor, her teaching career began at the East Bay Skills Center. After her husband became a U.S Congressman, Leola moved to Washington D.C. in 1971 .and became a production assistant to Clifford Alexander for his television show Black on White. She was an active Democratic Political Spouse and a founding CBC Spouses. She appeared frequently on DC area TV and radio programs as a celebrity guest-host or charity fundraiser. In 1976, she worked for the ACLU as a publicist and NCA Development Director. In 1982 she received a J.D. from Georgetown University and spent time clerking for Chief Judge Carl Moultrie and the Hearing Commissioners at D.C. Superior Court. On Capitol Hill, she was special assistant to the Late Congressman Mickey Leland. From 1985 to 1992, she worked for the Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie Brown as Principal Consultant to the Assembly's Office or Research. Also, she was a consultant to Congresswoman Barbara Lee when she was the Assembly's Ex-officio member of the California Trade Commission with the mission of placing a trade office in Africa. Even though Leola is a practicing Attorney, she has experience in a wide variety of fields including industrial and commercial acting and writing. She is a published song, poetry and comedy writer and her original treatment for The Color of Friendship won several awards, including an Emmy and an NAACP Image Award. Leola has won several awards and recognitions for her work, including a Congressional Recognition for her efforts in attaining the passage of the Anti-Apartheid Act. She is listed in Who's Who Among Black Americans, has received the National Sojourner Truth Meritorious Service Award, among others. In 1992, Dellums was inducted into the Berkeley High School Hall of Fame. The proud grandmother of three, she was divorced after thirty-seven years of marriage. A list of Associations and Civic Service follows : ∙ A.K.A. Sorority ∙ Berkeley High School Alumni Association ∙ *Black Women’s Agenda ∙ *California State Universities Alumni Association ∙ *Children's Defense Fund "Beat The Odds" Committee ∙ *Committee of 21 Human Rights Caucus (an auxiliary to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus) ∙ Congressional Club ∙ *Georgetown University Committee to Develop an Entertainment Law Chair ∙ *NAACP Legal Defense Fund Washington, D.C. Committee ∙ National Political Congress of Black Women ∙ Peace Links ∙ Potomac Links, Inc. ∙ Benefit Committee Wendt Center For Grief and Loss (Formerly St. Francis Center) ∙ *Scholarship Selection Committee of the Rainbow Fund ∙ *Women's National Democratic Club Board Memberships: ∙ *California State University Alumni Association Steering Committee Representing San Francisco State University ∙ Center to Prevent Handgun Violence National Board of Trustees ∙ *Georgetown University Law School Alumni Affairs Board ∙ Sasha Bruce House Youth Work ∙ Black Film makers Hall of Fame (National Advisory Board) ∙ Regional Addiction Prevention Inc.(RAP) Advisory Board ∙ *California State Society ∙ *San Francisco State University Alumni Board Publications include: ∙ Prescriptive Diagnostic Research Paper - Teaching English As A Second Language To Native Born ∙ Curriculum Document Preparation and Team Development Workshops on the Weekend College ∙ 11/22/75 “CANARY Speech” placed into Congressional Record by Representative Bella Abzug, NY. ∙ The National Library of Poetry “The Fullness of Time” 1999 Miscellaneous: ∙ Co-founder RREPCO Publishing Company . Contributing Columnist for www.fiftyandfurthermore.com Contributing Columnist for www.dvmOurTime.com ∙Leola can be seen in the recently reopened permanent exhibit “America On The Move” Smithsonian National Museum of American History ∙Honors: . 2007 - Honorary Co-Chair 30TH Anniversary Pacifica/WPFW Peace and Justice Award 2003- Selected by The History Makers as a “Civic Maker” ∙ 1999 - The Solid Image Award ∙ 1999 - Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) Outstanding Leadership Award . 1998- General Mills Award for Outstanding Leadership in Health and Education ∙ 1997 - Congressional Black Caucus Spouses Founders Award ∙ 1992 - Ella Hill Hutch Award for community leadership and service from Black Women Organized for Political Action.∙ ∙ 1987 - Listed in Who's Who of Professional and Executive Women∙ ∙ 1985 - AT&T Volunteer Activist Award of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Are Earlier recognitions: ∙ Outstanding Service Award from D.C. Association for Retarded Citizens ∙ Outstanding Service Award from Washington, D.C. Continentals for help in the “Send a Child to Camp” program ∙ D.C. Chapter National Council for the arts.... Appreciation Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts. ∙ Foxtrappe Directors’ Award for Invaluable Humanitarian Contributions to innumerable charitable causes ∙ Community Service Award from The United Black Fund ∙ Certificates of Appreciation for 5 years of service to The D.C. Council on Clothing for Kids, Inc., as an Assistant Producer of Channel 7's Cloth-A-Thon Television Drives ∙ Student award from the Black Law Students Association of Georgetown University Law Center Fifty years have flown by…I guess that is what happens when you are having fun! One of the biggest blessings of my life was meeting my life’s partner. John was introduced to me by Sue Nutting Hutchinson at the cannery where we worked the summer after high school. Sue knew him in elementary school. We have been married for 46 years. We have 6 children who have blessed us with 15 grandchildren. We began our married life in Calexico, CA. Why, you ask! That is where the job took us. John’s job transfers took us to Torrance, Fountain Valley and Novato California, then the big move to Tigard, Oregon. We have been in Oregon for 31 years. We love it here in the Pacific NW. I was a stay at home mom for many years then worked as a media specialist in the Tigard/Tualatin school district for 20 years. We have been retired for several years . We now enjoy what we call our “hobby farm”. We grow berries, apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes and a variety of veggies. We also have chickens. I have a rose garden which is my special part of the yard. We enjoy traveling, and have had the privilege of going on some mission trips to Oaxaca, Mexico with our church and Medical Teams International. We also enjoy cheering our grandchildren on in their various sporting events. Our children are spread out across the country, so we have fun places to visit. One lives in New Mexico, another in Tennessee, and one in South Carolina. The other three live in Oregon. We look forward to our family reunions. I have had a simple life, but filled with more blessings than I ever expected. Joyce Bargmann Bonham I worked four years for Ma Bell and then went to the Berkeley Post Office in '64. Numerous times when the "Weathermen" said they had planted a bomb in our building, the Post Office was closed and we had to stand for three hours across the street at our old alma mater, while they searched our building. I retired from the Clayton Post Office in '99 after 30 years of service. I have three daughters, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. We moved to Denton, TX in late 2003 and have enjoyed the weather. I have found a good church, the malls, movie theaters, and great eating places. I love Danielle Steele, Susan Lucci, and Elvis. I remember walking by Print and Machine shops with my glasses off for vanity sake, not knowing who I was waving to. I remember casual days when we could wear pants and Ditch Day as seniors. I remember waiting in the wings for hours until they called our names for our diplomas. Since our class was so large we had to graduate in 1/2 years. I was the first of four sisters to graduate from BHS. Even my mother went there. Rachel Rubio Halter. Anne Treutlein Williams After BHS, I went to UC Berkeley with a year "off" at the Sorbonne and then played around as an unclassified graduate student at SF State. I wound up with majors in French, English and Biology, a secondary teaching credential, and a passion for birds. After a fairly disastrous first year teaching French and English at Richmond High School, I moved with my new husband, who was in the domestic Peace Corps, to rural, coastal North Carolina where I taught adult literacy at a technical institute. Once back in California, we settled in Ben Lomond in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where we've lived since 1972, moving once in all that time to our present house, next door from the first one. Our 2 sons have the same wanderlust: one lives next door, the other 3 miles away! One is a landscape contractor, the other a gardener, carpenter and surfer. During the years of raising a family, I worked part-time as an outdoor education teacher, barter network coordinator, nursery manager, flower gardener/wedding florist, and for 10 years as horticultural advisor at Shepherd's Seeds and Renee's Garden Seeds. I spent free time gardening, birding and learning languages. My love for foreign languages brought me back to teaching and, finally, to teaching my own language. I retired last June after 8 years teaching ESL at the Santa Cruz Adult School and now can be found volunteering at beautiful Quail Hollow Ranch County Park. My husband and I will celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary this June. Jim works for International Health Programs on issues of family planning, reproductive health, and human population, traveling to developing countries around the world. He plans to retire at the end of this year, when we intend to continue birding and camping in wild places, helping our local environmental groups and enjoying our 3 wonderful grandchildren. Fifty Years Fifty years! Half a century! I don?t think I?m the only one who, when walking across that graduation stage on a June evening in 1959, would have found the idea of a fiftieth class reunion incomprehensible. Fifty years; that was an eternity. Half a century later, in this spring of 2009, I simply ask; where did it go? For me, the half century as seen the full range of joys and sorrows, triumphs and disappointments, accomplishments and failings and, finally, the serenity that comes with the perspective of age. All of these are the substance of a life fully and richly lived. I am thankful for that life. Following that graduation evening in 1959, I spent the following month and a half climbing and backpacking in the Sierra Nevada, both with friends (Hey Jim, remember Mt. Lyell?) and alone. In late July I returned to Berkeley and confronted the existential question; what now? Following the path of least resistance, I enlisted in the US Army and, over the subsequent six years served almost three years of active duty and three years in the reserves. My active duty took me to Japan, Korea, Okinawa and the Philippines. I could not have known in the summer of 1959 just how fortuitous the timing of my enlistment would be. I was honourably discharged in the summer of 1965 just as the first major troop levies were shipping out for Viet Nam. On my return to Berkeley in the summer of 1962, I returned to school, first at Cal and then at San Francisco State where I completed an MA in the Social Sciences (Sociology and History) in the summer of 1968. It was shortly after returning to school that I met and married the woman who would be my wife for twenty seven years and the mother of our two kids. In due course Diane gave birth to our son and, thus, we spent much of the 1960?s in a happy, if fairly chaotic life of working, going to school and raising a very active little boy. After finishing school in the early summer of 1968, we decided, on a lark, to move north to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where we had friends. At the end of July we packed all of our worldly goods into a U-Haul truck and, a bit like the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath, headed for the unknown on a great adventure. We little thought that Canada would become our home. I short order, Diane found a position as a microbiologist with the provincial health department and I got a job working on a sociological survey for the provincial government. That fall, I was appointed to a sessional lectureship in sociology at the University of Alberta. In the late summer of 1969, our daughter was born and I decided that it was time to look for a ?real? teaching job. In the summer of 1970, I got an appointment in sociology in the founding faculty of a new college in New Westminster, British Columbia, just east of Vancouver. I was involved in teaching and administration at the college through a variety of restructurings and institutional reincarnations until my retirement in the summer of 1996. As our son and then our daughter grew to adulthood and flew the nest, Diane and I began to anticipate and plan for the freedom of our empty nest years. But? In late 1988, Diane was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. After an aggressive round of chemotherapy and a strong remission, the tumour returned and in April of 1990, Diane died, just two weeks after our twenty seventh anniversary. In the years since Diane?s death, I have become involved in the field of death, bereavement and grief support, education and research. In addition to designing and facilitating support programs, I train facilitators, write and do the occasional conference presentation. I am currently working on a set of essays under the rubric of ?Identities? dealing with individual, social and cultural transformations and volunteer with the local hospice. In early 2005 I married again. Jennifer is a semi-retired bookseller. We now live in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. We keep busy with work, both paid and volunteer, some writing, music (I have a passion for early music), photography, travel and the simple enjoyment of our garden and the birds that flock to our feeders. By the numbers: I have two grown kids of whom I?m intensely proud, and seven grandkids. This enterprise we are pleased to call life has been, indeed, full and rich. I look forward to seeing you all in June. Perhaps we?ll hoist a few in celebration of our collective half century and with wishes for good years still to come. Take good care and be safe. Cheers, Robert Howell I went straight to Cal, enrolled in the engineering school, and promptly flunked out. Did six months in the army, clawed my way back into Cal, and graduated in 1965 in Poli Sci.Joined the Peace Corps and served two years in a village about 25 miles inland from the Black Sea in Turkey. Came back and went to work for the Sierra Club in 1968, was fired after a year in the Dave Brower upheaval, worked for Friends of the Earth for the next 17 years, then spent 22 years at the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund--the name was changed to Earthjustice in 1997. I’ve been in the communications side of things all along as a writer-editor: five books, hundreds of magazine and newsletter articles, opinion pieces, and so on. I officially retired last June but am still editing the newsletter for Earthjustice and blogging once or twice a week, also helping Mark Kitchell, who made Berkeley in the Sixties, with a new environmental history documentary. My wife, Mary Jorgensen, retired as a professor of French at Mills a few years back. Our twins, Bret and Katy, born in 1980, both live nearby. We live on Campus Drive, a block from where I grew up, in George Duff’s old house. Tom Turner Editor at Large Earthjustice This is a short life story of me. Looking forward in seeing you. Ah, do you remember me? I'll have to look you up in our yearbook. Mitsu (Nakano) Asaoka was born in Berkeley, CA and have been married for 43 years and moved to San Fernando Valley after getting married. We now have 3 married children and an empty nest. Lyle and I have 9 grandchildren. They all live in Southern California so we get together about twice a month for birthdays, holidays or just having fun together. I have been a busy homemaker and worked part-time as a dental assistant until I retired. I am enjoying retirement and am taking up bible study, exercise, ceramics, water color painting and computer classes. And if I have time I baby sit now and then. I visit Berkeley once or twice a year for family gatherings or special occasions. My brother lives in my parents home on Stuart St. so we stay there. It will be exciting to see classmates from BHS for this special 50th class reunion. Sincerely, Mitsu Asaoka Dean H. Jung The JUNG Family 295 Mogul Mountain Drive Reno, Nevada 89523-9260 THE LAST 50 YEARS 1959 BHS graduation 1961 Diablo Valley College completion 1963 Graduation US Navy Flight Training; Commissioned Officer & Naval Aviator Married to Sandra Gene White (Oakland Tech), graduate of San Diego State 1963-1966 Two tours flying Helicopters Viet Nam 1966 Release from active duty US Navy 1966-1991 Pilot/Captain for Pan American World Airways (25 years) 17 years based in West Berlin, Germany 1991 Hired via merger/acquisition by Delta Airlines 2002 Medically retired by Delta due to Meniere’s Disease (vertigo, tinnitis, etc.) Four Children: Thea Jung Leonard: Medically retired Army Officer, Masters Degree Environmental Health & Safety, College professor Married to Major Dene Leonard; US Army Risa Jung Hobson: Masters Degree in Social Work/Counseling, Social worker, College professor Married to Josh Hobson; Master Chef, Culinary Institute Instructor Lucas Jung: Naval Academy graduate, Navy Lieutenant, Navy Flight Officer, Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, starting training US Navy Test Pilot School Marta Jung Savage: Naval Academy graduate, Navy Lieutenant, Masters Degree in Space Systems; currently in Iraq. Married to Major Alex Savage, US Army; currently in Iraq Wow, 50 years, where did the time go, how did I get this old????? I went to Armstrong Business College right after graduation and then landed a job at the University of California book store. I typed up the professor's book lists and ordered the books for their classes. Great job and an exciting time to be at the University!!! Lots of riots and excitement! I married Tim O'Leary in 1961 and we moved to Alameda. I continued to work until our son first son Jim was born. A year later our son Steve came along and then the following year Todd was born, We had three sons in three years and soon after I left Tim, and a divorce was soon to follow. In 1965 I moved to Albany with the boys and went to work at Albany High School, in the bookroom. In October of 1967 I was reintroduced to Johnnie Marshall by his Grandmother. I had known Johnnie since we were six. He went to the 9th grade at Garfield with us then moved away, graduated from Cappuccino High, went into the Air Force for four years, and became a San Carlos Police Officer. We started dating and were married in 1969 and moved to San Jose where we have lived for almost 40 years. Our three sons and their families all live just three miles from us, which make for great holidays and family dinners. We have five wonderful grandchildren. Trevor 18, Tori 15, Sierra 6, Trinity 5, and Scott 3. They keep us young, happy and broke! We love to spoil them! That's our job. Johnnie retired as a police sergeant almost 15 years ago. I retired from the East Side Union High School District almost 4 years ago. I was a para-educator at Yerba Buena High school, in Algebra and Geometry. I loved the work, and the kids, they kept me on my toes that's for sure. Johnnie and I now love to travel, especially with our grandkids. Took the two oldest to Disneyworld and Disney cruise, went on a road trip with them for three weeks to Oregon, and took the two girls, Sierra and Trinity to Disneyland last year for 6 days, what a hoot. Plan on another road trip with the two oldest this summer. They are great to travel with and it's so much fun to see this beautiful land of ours through their eyes I don't have degrees, certificates, memberships, medals, ribbons, books that were published, or a long line of friends in high places, but I sure have had a wonderful life. We have a great circle of friends and a wonderful loving family that keep our lives full of fun, laughter and love. That's enough for me. Myrna Streeter Marshall This is Susan Lepawsky Rosenstreich responding to Vicki Bottari's notice that we had better get our act together and explain just what we've been doing in the past 50 years. I have no clue. I do know that I lived abroad for a while, came back and went to graduate school for a while, got married and stayed in that state. My husband's name is Saul. We have three daughters: Lilian, Nicole and Dana. They are each married, and each has two children. I got a doctorate in French a long time ago, and started teaching at a small liberal arts college on Long Island, about an hour from our home. My husband practiced medicine for 30 years, then became an artist. We travel, and are into recreational sports. That's about it. What about you? Dave Beecher I graduated in June 1959. Attended Oakland City College for 1 year and Cal for 1 semester. Then got married and had 3 children so I went to work in the grocery business. Worked 10 years for an independent store in Kensington, then went into the wholesale produce business for 3 years and ended up owning my own store with a partner in El Cerrity at the top of Fairmont Ave. That location is now Fatapples. 3 years later I sold out to my partner so I could spend more time with my family. I went to work in management for Lucky stores in 1979. I was divorced and raised my children myself for most of the growing up years. I re-met a college friend in 1992 and now she is my wife. We have been happily married for 16 years. My grandchildren are 22, 17, 13 and 10. I had health issues in 2003 which forced me to be now happily retired and we are traveling as much as possible. We love retirement We live in an active adult community in Brentwood and love it here.