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Kingman Hall is located at 1730 La Loma Avenue near the northeast corner of the University of California, Berkeley campus. As part of the Berkeley Student Cooperative, Kingman Hall houses 50 residents, known as Kingmanites or Toadies. It is named after Harry Kingman, the former YMCA director who in 1933 inspired 14 students to start a student ...
The hall was originally designed as a fraternity in 1914, Berkeley Living Love Center in 1973 and joined the BSC as Kingman Hall in 1977. [60] It is named after Harry L. Kingman, director of the local University YMCA who encouraged BSC founders to start the cooperative in 1933. [61] [9] The hall is considered to be a Berkeley Landmark. [60 ...
Ken Keyes Jr. Ken Keyes Jr. (January 19, 1921 – December 20, 1995) was an American personal growth author and lecturer, and the creator of the Living Love method, a self-help system. Keyes wrote fifteen books on personal growth and social consciousness issues, representing about four million copies distributed overall.
An earlier version of this article was published in the Berkeley Daily Planet on Sep. 15, 2001, under the title “Old City Hall a Symbol of Berkeley’s Essence” by Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny.
The International House is an independent, self-supporting non-profit organization that has close associations with the university. International House Berkeley officially opened on August 18, 1930. It was the largest student housing complex in the Bay Area and the first coeducational residence west of the Mississippi.
A March 20, 2003 rally against the War in Iraq on the steps of Sproul Plaza, held by the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition Aerial view of Sproul Plaza from 1978. Zellerbach Hall is on the right, Eshleman Hall in the center, and Sproul Hall is center-left. The student union and Sather Gate are visible in the lower-right corner.
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December 7, 1998. The Berkeley Historic Civic Center District is a 9.9-acre (4.0 ha) historic district in Berkeley, California, U.S. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It comprises portions of a five-block area surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, primarily made up of civic-related buildings. [ 5][ 6][ 7] It has been listed as one of the National ...