tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400060949368933282024-03-13T23:18:18.021-07:00Ivy League ConnectionThe Ivy League ConnectionMadeline Kronenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809038721402994691noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-7660429264878240752017-01-29T10:27:00.001-08:002017-01-29T10:28:13.465-08:00The 2017 Vanderbilt Cohort Has Been Selected<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
While most of their peers were relaxing over the Christmas holiday break, the Vanderbilt applicants were working on their applications to earn one of the four scholarships to join the 2017 Vanderbilt cohort.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It started with a group of 42 applicants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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That group had their applications reviewed and then 8 were invited to the interview phase.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of the 8 that interviewed, only 4 were selected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As is often the case, the competition was fierce and the rankings were very tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless, the panel of Jeff Rubin, Norma Martinez-Rubin and Don Ellis selected Evan Garrison, a sophomore from El Cerrito HS; Maddie Schmidt, a sophomore from Middle College HS; Cameron Grant, a junior from El Cerrito HS; and ILC alum Joceline Perez, a junior from Middle College HS.</div>
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From here the Vanderbilt cohort prepare their applications to Vanderbilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those that are selected for an ILC scholarship are selected because of their qualifications to when Vanderbilt reviews their applications, the Vanderbilt cohort members should shine and their applications should be looked upon favorably.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ILC hopes our readers will join us in welcoming this cohort and wishing them luck.</div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-17614427292839581052016-07-06T20:42:00.000-07:002016-07-06T20:42:50.332-07:00Dual Departure: Vanderbilt Followed by Chicago<div style="text-align: justify;">
While it’s not all that uncommon to have two cohorts depart at the same time (as Cornell and Brown did two weeks back), today’s departure of Chicago and Vanderbilt were different in that Vanderbilt had to be in front of El Cerrito HS at 2:45 AM while Chicago had a chance to sleep in and gather in the bright of the day at 9:45 AM.</div>
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Not so bad for them but for the person who had to see them off (me), it made for a long day.</div>
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This was one of those days when the sun never really came out. It was overcast and foggy. Even the temperature was quirky. The temp for Vanderbilt was a mild 54º and Chicago had risen to 59º. Between the moisture in the fog and the wind, though, it felt much colder. I had to dig through some piles to find some long pants and even wore a jacket. I was almost unrecognizable to the ILCers who mostly see me in aloha shirts, shorts and sandals.</div>
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With both groups they went through the normal routine of weigh ins, pep talks, blogging instructions and the loading up of snacks so they don;t starve to death before they get to their first stop destinations (Atlanta for the Vanderbilt cohort and St. Louis for the Chicago group).</div>
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And, of course, the requisite group photos for the archives:</div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-35192258914732236032016-06-29T05:57:00.002-07:002016-06-29T05:57:16.288-07:00Penn Heads East<div style="text-align: justify;">
The four member Penn cohort gathered in the wee hours at El Cerrito High School to go through the Pre-Departure process of affixing luggage tags, having their luggage weighed, loading up on snacks for their journey, getting hard copies of their itinerary and being reminded about what’s being expected of them. Business as usual.</div>
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The airport shuttle arrived even before the ILCers so while the cohort was having their photos taken, their luggage was being loaded.</div>
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At 4:23 their parents had had their fill of last minute details, the goodbyes were brief and before we knew it the shuttle taillights were all that was left of the Penn cohort.</div>
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Before starting their coursework at the Academy of Social Justice, they’ll be dining with newly graduated ILC alum Dyana So who will be starting as an admission counselor for Penn, they’ll take an official site tour/visit of Penn before heading to Manhattan for a visit of Columbia and another trip down to Washington, D.C. for a site visit of Georgetown. They all, of course, take in the sights while there.</div>
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And, with Independence Day just a few days away, how cool is it for the Penn cohort to celebrate where the Declaration of Independence was signed?</div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-34496196124262179922016-06-22T07:45:00.003-07:002016-06-22T07:45:44.047-07:00Cornell & Brown Depart<div style="text-align: justify;">
At 2:50 AM (give or take), the Brown Women & Leadership cohort gathered with the Cornell cohort in front of El Cerrito High School to get their last minute instructions before heading East as ambassadors for their schools, their District and their community.</div>
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Knowing that this will be a lengthy day with minimal stops for sustenance, the IlC provided a wealth of snack options--with most actually being healthy. The ILCers were quizzed as to what types of snacks they preferred (their sweet tooth options were, for the most part, set aside for healthier options).</div>
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Once the snacks were stowed the obligatory photos were snapped and promptly at 4 AM the airport shuttle arrived. Their gear was stowed and soon the shuttle taillights dimmed in the distance. The rest is up to them.</div>
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<br />Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-12766370385029365642015-08-04T00:09:00.001-07:002015-08-04T00:09:19.102-07:00The Prodigals Return Home<br />
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They went to Brown to learn how to become leaders, they fell in love with Harvard and Yale, paid their respects to Wellesley and bade farewell to the East Coast. And now it was time to head home to tell their world what they had seen.</div>
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Arriving at El Cerrito HS nearly two full hours after landing at SFO they opened the doors to their shuttle to take in the cool air of the East Bay. After three weeks of heat and humidity it surely had to feel refreshing to bask in the cool and windy climate of the place they know as home.</div>
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As they passed by Emeryville they called their loved ones so they could be there when they arrived. Traffic was light, though, and only one set of parents was there by the time the shuttle pulled up. In short order, though, one set of parents after another arrived. </div>
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And now the Women & Leadership ladies head home to prepare to implement their Action Plans (after they blog, of course). And then there’s Komal, who will sit us all down and impress us with her newfound knowledge of the biotechnical world. We can’t wait.</div>
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Breaking with the tradition this year the Chicago cohort returned home without a single hiccup in their travels. Every flight both coming and going before today had some sort of delay. There was something about this cohort, though, that made this return trip so eventful if only because everything went as it was supposed to.</div>
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The plane took off 6 minutes early and arrived even earlier. When the group went to get their luggage--which sometimes takes as long as the flight--their luggage was in their hands in about 15 minutes after they landed.</div>
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Coming from SFO back to El Cerrito in the middle of a Saturday afternoon should have been a slow crawl. Considering that with the BART tubes closed this weekend the traffic should have been even heavier. Yet this group zipped through the traffic and arrived at ECHS more than a half hour earlier than expected.</div>
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They were so early that they beat some of the parents to the pick up point and even beat me (how can I live with the shame?).</div>
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As would be expected, there were plenty of hugs to go around and I even heard one of the Chicagoans ask about dinner (even though it was only 2 PM). Ahhhh...there’s nothing like coming home.</div>
Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-75946057191456121362015-08-01T17:42:00.002-07:002015-08-01T17:42:26.013-07:00Home At Last<br />
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No matter how much they enjoyed their time at UPenn, there’s nothing like the comfort that comes from being around your family, sleeping in a bed that knows you and eating the food prepared only the way a mother can prepare it.</div>
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When the airport shuttle arrived around 9:15 on this chilly July evening, the family members of the Penn cohort broke into ear to ear smiles. As the Penn cohort piled out of the shuttle, family members ran to give them the kind of big hugs reserved for long lost family members.</div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-59677386772529770612015-07-18T18:38:00.002-07:002015-07-18T18:38:21.840-07:00Coming Home<br />
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-12856092602115862542015-07-18T06:41:00.002-07:002015-07-18T06:41:04.605-07:00Providence Will Never Be the Same Again<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">Komal’s class at Brown—DNA Based Techniques in Biotechnology—is a three week class while the Women & Leadership cohort in Brown-II takes a two week class.<span> </span>When they arrive next weekend they’ll meet up with Komal and complete the cohort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-13513725115903674602015-07-08T06:33:00.002-07:002015-07-08T06:33:58.884-07:00O’Dark Thirty is Later in the Day<br />
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Year after year we send our ILCers east and the tradition is to meet in Front of El Cerrito HS to wait for the airport shuttle. In order to arrive at their destinations at a reasonable hour the cohorts have to catch one of the first planes leaving San Francisco or Oakland airports. With the lengthy check-in lines and then the security screenings, this means that they need to arrive at the airport at 5 AM or earlier. This requires that they gather at ECHS somewhere around 3:20 AM--as was the case this morning.</div>
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Nonetheless, they arrive with their parents in tow with smiles on their faces as they prepare to head east for the adventure of a lifetime.</div>
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This morning the Vanderbilt cohort--comprised of Arnold Dimas from Richmond HS, Katherine Phan from Pinole Valley HS, and Hummd Alikhan and Gwennie Gilbert-Snyder from El Cerrito HS--met with their chaperone Jenny Gilbert to have their luggage weighed, receive last minute instructions and load up on red and grape vines for emergency sustenance.</div>
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The Vanderbilt cohort heads first for Houston where they will check out Rice University. They then head to Atlanta to visit Emory University before boarding a greyhound bus to take them to Nashville where they will study for the next three weeks.</div>
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They valiantly stood in the chilly morning air when all of a sudden their airport shuttle arrives. This wasn’t some old van or bus. Today it was a gleaming stretch limo that seemed to be as long as a city block. Nothing’s too good for this cohort and arriving at the Oakland airport in style should seem par for the course.</div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-91246093874317058282015-07-07T06:25:00.002-07:002015-07-07T06:25:46.020-07:00Decent People Aren’t Up At That Hour<br />
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Led by Alana Scott--their chaperone from Hercules HS--Tamika Whitenack, Brandon Dela Cruz, Aisha Asif and Jae-An Wang had their luggage weighed, their IDs checked and received their last minute instructions before standing in the unseasonably warm morning air to have their group photos taken.</div>
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At 3:51 the shuttle doors closed and the van headed south on Ashbury on it’s way to SFO where their first stop later today would be St. Louis where they would dine with admissions officers, students and alums from Washington University in St. Louis. Tomorrow the site visit before heading up to Chicago and a visit to Northwestern. Capping the week they take the Greyhound bus to South Bend IN to see if Notre Dame is everything they say it is.</div>
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When the week rolls around they check in to their dorms at UChicago and attend the orientation. School starts on Monday and they all want to be prepared. Stay tuned to their blogs so you can follow their exploits.</div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-21030803859648810882015-07-01T06:18:00.002-07:002015-07-01T06:18:03.889-07:00Penn Departs<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was unusually warm at 2:45 AM when the first member of the UPenn cohort arrived to El Cerrito HS to go through the last minute procedures associated with Departure Day.</span></div>
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-11393597999698654862015-06-24T06:19:00.000-07:002015-06-24T06:19:12.262-07:00Off to Manhattan and the Farthest Reaches of the World<br />
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-60336090991767282002015-06-16T06:30:00.000-07:002015-06-16T06:30:10.352-07:00The Cornell Cohort Heads East and South<br />
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The six members of the Cornell cohort are heading east but they’re detouring south before landing in Ithaca, NY. They’re first going to Atlanta where they’ll tour Emory University. From there they head to Washington, DC to visit Georgetown and then to Philadelphia to say hello to Ben Franklin while touring UPenn.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For lack of anything better to do while waiting for the ILCers and their chaperones to arrive, the mental wagering began as I bet on which ILCer would be the first to arrive.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today it was Shanti Shrestha from the Vanderbilt cohort who arrived a full hour early.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wondered to myself whether she read the emails right or whether she might have misunderstood what time she was supposed to be there. There’s early and there’s REAL early.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For this, our first Departure Day of the season, it was Carla Martinez. Carla who? Carla’s with the Cornell cohort. Today we pulled double duty and shipped off the Columbia cohort at the same time as the Cornell cohort. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even though Carla is a Cornellian, she takes the top prize for both cohorts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Henry Ramsey Jr., a distinguished legal
scholar who served as an Alameda County judge, member of the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Berkeley City
Council</span> and dean of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Howard
University</span>‘s law school, died Friday at <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alta Bates
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Ramsey believed that “justice should
be a reality for everybody,” said former San Francisco Mayor <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Willie Brown</span>,
who served as co-counsel with Mr. Ramsey on a number of cases “when we
represented those who couldn’t get representation, like the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Black
Panthers</span>. Henry was so dedicated and so forceful. He was just a joy
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caused everyone to be conscious of their own conduct. He was such a scholar
that he would let you know when you used a verb instead of an adjective. And
somebody coming from Rocky Mount, N.C., you wouldn’t think he would be so
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Court</span> Judge <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brenda Harbin-Forte</span>
called Mr. Ramsey a “warrior for justice and fairness and equality in our court
system. I want him to be remembered as a mentor, as a wonderful role model, as
a courageous judge who made courageous and fair decisions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His son Charles Ramsey, president of the
West Contra Costa Unified School District board, said he took his father’s
advice to heart. “My dad always said, ‘You’ll be measured as a man not by what
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Ramsey</span>, a former federal prosecutor who now works as a defense
attorney, said his father strove to help those in need. “In addition to being a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Ramsey celebrated his 80th birthday in
January at a party at the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Claremont
Hotel</span> in Berkeley that included many well-wishers and friends,
including state Attorney General <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kamala Harris</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Ramsey graduated from UC Riverside in
1960 with a degree in philosophy and earned his law degree from UC Berkeley’s <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Boalt Hall</span>
School of Law. He then served as a Contra Costa County prosecutor - helping to
integrate the office - and as a trial lawyer in private practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was a member of the faculty at Boalt
Hall from 1971 to 1980. During his tenure there, he served on the Berkeley City
Council from 1973 to 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He served as an Alameda County Superior
Court judge from 1981 to 1990 before serving as dean of the Howard University
School of Law for the next five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Besides his sons <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charles and
Ismail Ramsey</span>, Mr. Ramsey is survived by four other children and his
wife, Eleanor. His first wife, Evelyn, died in 2010.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>And from the March 14 edition of <i>The Contra Costa Times...</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Henry
Ramsey Jr., a politician, lawyer, judge, professor and law school dean, died
Friday at Alta Bates Medical Center after suffering a massive stroke five days
earlier at his Berkeley home, his son Charles Ramsey said. He was 80.</span></div>
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a man who came west from the segregated South and built a life based on
community services and tried to make the world a better place for as many
people as possible,” said Charles Ramsey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Henry
Ramsey was born in Florence, S.C., and came of age in a segregated Deep South.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Before
the 1965 Civil Rights March in Selma, Ala., Ramsey was jailed with a group of
60 others after they tried to demonstrate in one of Selma’s white
neighborhoods, according to a 1997 profile in the Contra Costa Times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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came west to settle into his life and career.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">He
received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from UC Riverside and his law
degree from UC Berkeley’s School of Law. He was a member of the law faculty at
Boalt Hall from 1971 to 1980 and served on the Berkeley City Council from 1973
to 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Later,
Ramsey became a Superior Court of California judge and then dean of Howard
University School of Law from 1991 until 1996, according to his online
biography.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Friends remember
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which typically included a dark suit and bow tie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">“Henry
was always dapper, always entertaining and always inspiring,” said Contra Costa
County Supervisor John Gioia, who studied under Ramsey at UC Berkeley’s Law
School in 1979-80. “He made learning fun.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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years, said he was fiercely principled and always passionate about civil
rights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">“He wasn’t
that suave when I first met him,” McMillan chuckled. “He walked around with an
Afro and old army combat jacket and combat boots back then.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said Ramsey was the lead attorney for a group of African-American Richmond
police officers who successfully sued the city for discrimination in the early
1980s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">“The
officers really celebrated him, really revered him,” McMillan said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Ramsey
was in good health before his stroke, his son said. His 80th birthday party was
held at the Claremont Hotel in Oakland and included guests such as state
Attorney General Kamala Harris. Ramsey and his wife had recently returned from
a vacation in Cambodia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Charles
Ramsey said his father was one of two African-Americans, along with Eugene
Swann, to integrate the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office in the
1960s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Ramsey
leaves a lasting legacy in the East Bay. Charles is a longtime member of the
West Contra Costa School Board. The Henry Ramsey Jr. Law Academy at De Anza
High School bears his name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">“Henry was someone who really lived in many worlds: academic,
foundation, political, legal. This was a man who impacted many worlds,” Gioia
said. “The common theme is he cared about people who were most in need of a
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Don Gosneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40006094936893328.post-76748594323963255292013-06-30T15:54:00.000-07:002013-06-30T15:54:25.437-07:00From Stephanie Ny
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ILC students,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One
of the most important lessons I've learned - and that I learned a little too
late - is that you must take every opportunity to participate in internships
and other field work. There is currently a discourse about college graduates
being overqualified for low-skilled jobs but under qualified for entry-level
positions due to lack of experience. I think the key solution to this is
internships, through which you receive the chance to sharpen your intellectual
and strategic skills while gaining work experience that is necessary for
entry-level jobs. I don't know if this is really the case, but to me, it
appears to be a very important step that many college students - including
myself - often fail to take.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Aside
from this, and on a more general note, I'd recommend that you all actually
visit the schools you plan on attending before agreeing to enroll. Go at a time
during which students are actually present and hanging around. You get a real
feel for the school, the student body, and the school spirit. If you don't like
the people there, it is likely you won't enjoy yourself! The academics and
scenery are important, but visiting a school can finalize (or the opposite!)
your decision to attend it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm
currently a rising senior at Northwestern University, so if any of you have
questions, feel free to e-mail me! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stephanie
Ny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Northwestern
‘14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/stephanieny2010@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">stephanieny2010@gmail.com</span></a></span></u></div>
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