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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.
Tag: international
Gronsky to head new Global Engagement Office
December 4, 2012:
In a CalMessage, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer announced that Professor Ron Gronsky will lead a new, centralized office to “facilitate and coordinate the campus’s international initiatives and to foster coherence among them.”
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.
Diversity, budget realities drive Berkeley’s international enrollment strategy
September 7, 2011:
Berkeley’s student body includes an international cohort that enriches the campus far beyond the full-tuition revenues generated by nonresident enrollments.
Berkeley program aids expat spouses lost in translation
July 19, 2011:
“Creating a Fulfilling Life in America” is helping the spouses of international scholars, students and researchers adjust to the translocation and build a meaningful new life in the Bay Area.
