Tributes

By Ken Kagan You are invited to contact Michael's wife Julana Hansmeier (julanah@hotmail.com) and brother Ken Kagan (ken@kenkaganlaw.com) by email. Michael Kagan was born in 1948 in Queens, New York, and died peacefully at his home in Tacoma, WA on October 18, 2022....

By Pam Swift (Crown '71) These memories of Dennis are based on both my recollections and our correspondence just before he died. I had sent Dennis a short get well note, and in it I recalled some of our antics years ago. Dennis responded with an 8-page hand-written...

By Dianne Suechika (Crown ’70) Janet Keremitsis was the very first person I met at UCSC. I had been dropped off by an aunt I barely knew since my family was overseas, and I wandered around watching other students arriving with parents and siblings. Janet was also...

By David Karnos (Maxwell House ’70) Tim and I were put together in a room through the brilliance of Howard B. Shontz, our UCSC Admissions Director and Assistant Chancellor. They wanted a couple of upperclassmen to help the newbies of ’67 along. I came from dropping...

By Ann Sorensen (Crown '71) August 20, 2020 Capturing the essence of a person and their experiences in a few paragraphs is nearly impossible. But when your subject is a gifted poet and wordsmith whose empathy, love of nature, enthusiasm for life, and kindness touched...