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 Li Chu* (Sherman 1961-1963) remembers her first work assignment was helping to remove battleship gray paint. Now retired for almost 10 years, she enjoys gardening vegetables, fruit trees and flowers and spends several hours each week volunteering at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, reading text books.
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 The Alumni Board’s size and activity level would gratify the dozen people, led by Ted Johnson and George Yasukochi, who in 1996 organized the present Alumni Association, a nonprofit corporation and a recognized California Alumni Association club. As early as October 1945, an alumni association was founded under the leadership of Leon Tichinin, a BSC alumni then working for the University YMCA. In the 1960s there were several regional USCA Alumni clubs, and Hal Norton (Sheridan Hall, 1934-39) organized the alumni to raise funds to build the Ridge Project (now Casa Zimbabwe). In the 1970s and 1980s, the two scholarship funds that Dan Eisenstein (Cloyne Court, 1954-9) managed provided continuous alumni support.
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 One hundred fifty BSC alumni joined current BSC leaders and community supporters on April 24th at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley to “Celebrate Living Cooperatively.” A highlight of the event was the award of Pioneer Scholarships by Valerie Yasukochi, the daughter of George Yasukochi, a co-op pioneer.
Valerie recounted “how [George’s] student co-op experience at UC was the beginning of a lifelong relationship with, and devotion to, cooperatives.” George created the Pioneer Scholarships “to honor Co-op pioneers such as Larry Collins, Bill Davis, Harry Kingman, Hal Norton and others” by recognizing current Co-op innovators. |
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Kingman Hall Breaks New Ground and Unearths Co-op History |
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 Did you know that the Kingman Hall that now stands at 1730 La Loma Avenue is not the BSC’s first Kingman Hall? In the midst of preparing for Kingman Hall’s seismic retrofit groundbreaking on May 16, 2010, BSC Executive Director Jan Stokley made a surprising discovery. “As we were compiling the guest list for the celebration, we discovered several people in our alumni database who lived in a ‘Kingman Hall’ in the 1940s. As far as I knew the BSC (then USCA) opened Kingman in 1977.” Further research, including the 1944 edition of Twin Pines, a BSC yearbook, revealed that there was an original Kingman Hall located on Ridge Road between La Loma Avenue and Highland Place. This was also the site of the original Barrington Hall from 1933 to 1935. The original Kingman Hall opened in 1941 as a women’s co-op, complete with a “house mother.”
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Kingman Hall Groundbreaking Photos and Video Memory |
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Attention Barrington Alumni! |
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 The BSC Board of Directors is doing a feasibility analysis of re-opening Barrington Hall and seeks alumni input. With your permission, your submission may be featured in BSC communications.
Take the Barrington Alumni survey now! |
