by admin | Jun 6, 2020 | Student Memories |
How did I get to Santa Cruz? Simple answer: Gideon Rappaport, metaphorically and literally. 1. Metaphorically I first met Gideon at after-school Hebrew when we were both eleven. After my bar-mitzvah in the 8th grade, I didn’t see him again until we started high... 
by admin | May 15, 2021 | Student Memories |
r5crane@att.net Coming to UCSC by a different path My journey to UCSC was a bit different from students there. I began college as a student in physics at the California State Polytechnic University in 1964. A year... 
by admin | Jun 1, 2020 | Student Memories |
As for my own coming to UCSC story, I lived in Oakland, and it was the perfect distance away from home (Berkeley was my second choice). Just as important was UCSC’s unique constellation of features. Although at 17 I was a Total Scientist (nerd), I have a... 
by admin | Jul 12, 2020 | Student Memories |
Sadly, Glory passed away in August 2020 right after she submitted her memory below and her blog post about the 1968 Yearbook. Her final words to us were: “Our school was the only place in my life that felt like a second home. It nourished imagination and... 
by admin | Apr 21, 2022 | Student Memories |
How and why I came to UC Santa Cruz and Crown College I came to Santa Cruz in large part because my mother was a huge fan of Dean McHenry, who founded the campus with Clark Kerr and served as our first chancellor. McHenry ran for Congress in 1952 in a district... 
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Student Memories |
email@zenmudra.com In the summer of 1967, I went to Oregon State at Corvalis for a math-intensive for high school students. There, I learned about Godel’s incompleteness theorems, which fascinated...
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