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Dayton Hyde, 88, has been a cowboy, a rodeo clown, a rancher, a photographer, a non-fiction author, a novelist, a poet and a conservationist. And now he’s the star of a new documentary.
Tag: alumni
Haas alum gives $1 million to expand youth programs
December 12, 2012:
Haas alumnus and longtime Berkeley booster David Eckles has given $1 million to the Haas School to expand its successful mentoring program for under-resourced youth through several new initiatives to be coordinated by the undergraduate program.
An audacious mission in Africa
November 30, 2012:
Patrick Awuah, who received his MBA from the Haas School of Business in 1999, went on to found Ashesi University in Ghana in 2002. His aim? To transform a continent through education.
Campus honors late ambassador Stevens with moment of silence, memorial fund
September 28, 2012:
A fund has been set up in memory of J. Christopher Stevens, the late U.S. ambassador to Libya and a UC Berkeley alumnus, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Memo: Chancellor releases statement on ambassador’s death
September 12, 2012:
Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau has issued the following statement about the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, who was a UC Berkeley alumnus.
International gold awards go to campus communicators
June 13, 2012:
Three gold awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recently went to UC Berkeley communicators.
New Wall of Fame website celebrates UC Berkeley’s remarkable alumni
May 17, 2012:
A new UC Berkeley website, the Berkeley Wall of Fame, celebrates and and seeks alumni who are changing the world.
Former campus spokesman and Cal booster Ray Colvig has died
March 5, 2012:
Ray Colvig, who for 27 years was the spokesman for UC Berkeley and a beloved leader of the campus’s Public Information Office until his retirement in 1991, died Sunday, March 4, of sudden heart problems at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. He was 80.
’49 Cal alumna reunited with her lost passport – and its finder
February 21, 2012:
Adventurous UC Berkeley alumna Betty Werther was finally reunited with her first-ever passport on Saturday (Feb. 18) in Paris. Portuguese medical student Nuno Fonseca, who found it last summer at a flea market, hand-delivered the passport to Werther, along with a bouquet of flowers and a red scarf knitted by his 90-year-old great aunt.
Thumbing it from Paris to Cairo, 1950s-style
February 8, 2012:
An article about a 1950 passport found at a Parisian flea market has inspired Betty Werther – the passport’s owner, an American expatriate and ’49 Cal alumna – to write about her youthful adventures in New York, Berkeley, Paris and the Middle East. Read excerpts from Werther’s ad hoc travel memoir.
Lost passport in Paris connects med student to ’49 Berkeley alumna
February 6, 2012:
Betty Werther made a beeline for Paris after graduating from UC Berkeley in 1949 and embarked on a life of travel, romance and adventure. Somewhere along the road, she lost her passport. More than 60 years later, a young Portuguese medical student is heading to Paris to return the tattered, 1950-issued passport to Werther.
Berkeley grad looks to Burma to complete film on ‘art as a weapon’
November 21, 2011:
Jeff Durkin, a 1999 College of Environmental Design graduate, fell in love with filmmaking more than a decade ago. Now he’s hoping to get to the Thailand border to explore the connections between “street art, Buddhism and democracy” in Burma.
Engineering alum reflects on World Trade Center towers he helped build
September 11, 2011:
Leslie Robertson, a 1952 UC Berkeley civil engineering graduate, was the lead structural engineer of the World Trade Center towers. Ten years after their collapse, Robertson continues to carry with him the suffering of those who died that day.
Cal alum takes off on space shuttle’s final mission
July 8, 2011:
Cal alum Col. Rex J. Walheim is among the four-person crew aboard space shuttle Atlantis, which took off July 8 on the final flight of NASA’s three-decade shuttle program. Walheim, who received his UC Berkeley bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1984, was interviewed by NASA before today’s mission.
Tuck Coop stepping down as head of alumni association
April 6, 2011:
R. Tucker “Tuck” Coop, executive director of the Cal Alumni Association at UC Berkeley, will retire by the end of the calendar year, the CAA has announced.
Steven Chu named 2011 Alumnus of the Year by CAA
December 17, 2010:
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1976, has been selected as the 2011 Alumnus of the Year by the Cal Alumni Association. Chu, a Nobel laureate, was recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to the fields of biophysics and atomic physics, commitment to addressing climate change, and transformative leadership in energy research and policy.
Ed Roberts, disability-rights leader and Cal alum, gets his own state day
July 27, 2010:
Disability-rights pioneer Ed Roberts, who was a Cal alum, will be recognized each year on Jan. 23 with a commemorative day on which the state’s schools will offer education on disability history, rights, and legal requirements. The California State Legislature unanimously passed the bill, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed on July 19.
