In Memoriam
The Following Alumni are no Longer Alive
1942
1944
Cesar Grana (1919-1986), professor of sociology at UCSD, was killed in a car accident near Cadiz on Aug. 22, 1986. These are Guenther Rothâ’s memories, made at a memorial meeting on Nov. 7,...
1946
1947
OBITUARY
A memorial service will be held for Robert Parks Rankin, 93 of Chico, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 at 2 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church. He passed away Friday, Dec. 2, 2005...
OBITUARY FROM ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
Charles Emmert Woodhouse passed away December 28, 2008. He was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, and earlier was a professor at...
1949
1950
Biography prepared by Roger Friedland, Department of Sociology and Religious Studies, UC, Santa Barbara
Robert Alford died of pancreatic cancer on February 14...
Bennett Berger, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, died November 10, 2005 at his home in La Jolla. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. He was 79.
Professor Berger's...
Alex Garber came to California State University, Sacramento as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the fall of 1964. He had been on the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. He...
1951
1952
1953
1954
Obituary for Ida R. Hoos
By KATIE HAFNER, New York Times, May 5, 2007
Ida R. Hoos, a prominent critic of assessing technology solely on the basis of mathematical models that failed...
1955
OBITUARY (San Francisco Chronicle)
Laile E. Bartlett July 23, 1915 - May 11, 2006 Laile E. Bartlett, Ph.D., writer, sociologist, researcher, lecturer, and wife of Rev. Josiah R. Bartlett for 57...
1956
I entered the University of California at Berkeley in 1951, three months after graduating from George Washington High School in San Francisco. I remained in Berkeley until 1960, obtaining a...
1957
1958
The late Ingeborg Powell, who became Inge Bell, was a graduate student in the department between 1958 and 1965, during which time she was active in CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). We do not...
Philip D. Roos, Ph.D., on Aug. 6, in Jefferson City, MS. Philip was born in 1936 in Holland and immigrated to northern California at the age of 3. He received a doctorate in sociology from...
1959
1960
Obituary taken from Demography India:
On Tuesday, the 13th of November 1990, Professor J. R. Rele, former Director of International Institute for Population Sciences,...
1961
Published in The Augusta Chronicle:
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Sondra J. Betsch, Ph.D., died on December 5, 2004 after an extended illness. Dr. Betsch had earned her undergraduate degree at Ohio University...
From David Nasatir, July 20, 2006:
David Sudnow died early this morning following surgery for cancer at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley.
His dissertation:...
1962
1963
OBITUARY
John Irwin, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University (SFSU), passed away January 3, 2010. After a conviction for armed robbery and serving a five year sentence in...
I got the doctorate in Sociology at Berkeley in 1970. From 1968-72 I taught in the Social Sciences Integrated Course and Field Major at UCB, and directed that program for its last year....
1964
Obituary of Eliezer Rosenstein taken from Publication of Technion University
Eliezer Rosenstein was born in Israel (Palestine), was married to Yehudit and had one son. As a young man he...
James L. Wood A beloved husband, father, friend and mentor for many, died April 18, 2007 at the age of 65 with family at his side. Jim grew up in a vibrant, diverse North Oakland neighborhood...
1965
1966
Ted Bradshaw, a UC Davis professor of community development who helped California communities grapple with base closures, energy issues and creating healthy social systems, died Aug. 5 (2006)...
On July 22, 1975, Maurice Manel died in Montreal at the age of 35. A fertile, scholarly, and ironical mind, he is greatly missed by his friends at the University of California, Berkeley where he...
Obituary taken from The Arizona Engineer (University of Arizona)
John Sevier, former University of Arizona associate dean for external affairs at the College of Engineering and Mines, died...
Norma arrived in Berkeley in the mid-sixties with an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan in nursing, which she hated. Having never taken a sociology course, she plunged into graduate...
1967
Since completing of my Ph.D. in 1970, I have been affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
The main impact of Berkeley on me...
Robert William Miller arrived in Berkeley in 1967; he held a fellowship in John Clausen's NIMH Training Program in Social Structure and Personality. Bob's fellow students appreciated...
1968
Both what I received and what I failed to receive from my six years in the Sociology program at Berkeley have had lasting consequences. I learned a tremendous amount from faculty and peers, but...
Published in the Chicago Sun-Times:
Walton, Ortiz Montaigne age 76, passed away peacefully after a long illness at his Berkeley, CA home on July 29, 2010. Walton, born in Chicago, IL, was...
1971
James R. Beniger, Award-winning Scholar, Dies at 63.
Mr. Beniger taught communication and sociology at the University of Southern California and Princeton University and authored...
1972
In January, 1996, the Center for Employment Training mourned the loss, and celebrated the life, of Dr. Anthony Soto. He co-founded CET in 1967, and served as its first Chairman of the Board, a...
1975
Timothy McDaniel, Professor of Sociology at UC San Diego, died on March 10, 2009, after a brave fight against colon cancer. He was one of the leading comparative-historical sociologists of his...
1983
Tomoji Nishikawa, Ph.D. (aka Tomoji Ishi), our dear friend, colleague, husband, father, son, and a co-founder of Japan Pacific Resource Network, died at home on Tuesday, 26 August 2003,...