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Walter Hoadley
Former California Alumni Association President Walter Hoadley '38 who died February 19 in Reno, Nevada, was both a consummate professional and a wonderful altruist. That he chose to share his wisdom and experience with the CAA and the campus made the University of California a much better place.
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Walter grew up in San Francisco (attending Mission High School), worked on the docks to earn his Cal tuition ($26), majored in economics and public speaking at Cal, and graduated as class valedictorian in 1938. During World War II he did "economic intelligence" in Chicago, and immediately after the war trained the individuals who were charged with restructuring the banking systems in Germany and Japan. These European and Asian connections kept him in great demand in those regions as an economic consultant well into his retirement. Walter performed significant government service during his career including with the Federal Reserve. Professionally, he became chief economist and executive vice president of the Bank of America when it was the world's largest financial institution. He retired from the bank in 1981. In recognition of his many accomplishments, in 1993 he received the CAA's highest honor, the Alumnus of the Year Award.
Upon his retirement, Walter became closely involved with the CAA as a Board member, and ultimately served a two-year term (1989-1991) as CAA president and member of the UC Board of Regents. In addition, he served as permanent president of the Class of 1938. But to me--I followed him as president of the CAA--and to others who served the CAA during Walter's time, what he did behind the scenes stands out most. He was an ardent believer in the necessity of developing future leaders of all races and ethnicities and in the University's crucial role in doing that; he took the lead in establishing the CAA's mentorship program (which pairs minority students with alumni mentors). Pamela Arbuckle '77, who served as a vice president during Walter's presidency, recalled some years ago: "Walter has an unusual ability to cross lines of ethnicity, age, and race, to get at what we all have in common. He believes in creating an inclusive society, and he uses his power to promote that."
Walter once told me that he thought his highest calling was to impart to others whatever he could to help them grow and learn. David Flinn '61, my successor as CAA president, recalled that "Walter was the best listener I have ever known--and I learned so much from him.' My own thought for years has been: "Every time I am with Walter, I earn one unit in life."
The best thing in Walter's life was Virginia Alm, his college sweetheart (they met in Joel Hildebrand's freshman chemistry class) and wife of 63 years. When Walter talked about Virginia, and when you saw them together, you had the feeling that they were still kids falling in love. Those of us who knew Walter and Virginia were crushed when they lost their daughter and son-in-law on 9/11's Flight 93--they were on their way to California for a family reunion. I talked with Walter on several occasions following this tragedy (in part in connection with establishing a Cal scholarship in his daughter's name). More than anything else about Walter, I shall remember those conversations. He was a pillar of strength, philosophically "accepting" such a horrible event, and then thinking deeply about the challenges now confronting the United States and the world. Under such circumstances, his thoughts were amazing, but not surprising.
Walter Hoadley was a truly great man.
--Remembered by Carl J. Stoney, Jr. '67, Boalt '70, MBA’71
CAA president, 1991-1993
Richard Lazarus
For more than fifty years, Professor Richard S. Lazarus was a driving intellectual force in psychology in the areas of emotion, stress, and coping. His ideas were conceptually rich and provocative and provided a springboard for researchers throughout the world in many disciplines, including medicine, nursing, anthropology, and sociology in addition to psychology. Professor Lazarus pursued his work with remarkable vitality until his death November 24 in Walnut Creek.
Richard Lazarus was born in New York City in 1922. He graduated from City College of New York in 1942, and in 1943 was drafted into the Army. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1948, when he began his academic career at Johns Hopkins University. In 1957, he joined the Department of Psychology at Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his career. He was named professor emeritus in 1992.
In his early research, Professor Lazarus examined relationships between unconscious processes and emotion. He coined the term "subception" to describe the process through which a person reacts emotionally but with no conscious awareness to a stimulus previously paired with an electric shock. This early work led to a famous series of laboratory studies in which Professor Lazarus and his colleagues showed that individuals' emotional responses to disturbing films were influenced by alterations in the sound track that accompanied the film. Sound tracks that emphasized the pain the actor was expressing heightened emotional responses, whereas more neutral commentary dampened emotional responses.
In 1966, Professor Lazarus published Psychological Stress and the Coping Process. In this book he presented his concepts of cognitive appraisal and the coping process as pivotal mechanisms explaining psychological stress. The appraisal and coping process helped explain why a given event, such as a job loss, might be more stressful for one person than for another. The centrality of appraisal and coping in the stress process became one of the foundations of modern stress research.
By the 1970s, Professor Lazarus decided to try out the ideas he had developed in the laboratory in more naturalistic settings. He and his colleagues conducted a series of community studies beginning in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. These studies led to seminal articles that further elaborated his concepts of stress, appraisal, and coping. Many of these ideas were synthesized and presented in the 1984 book, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping, which I co-wrote with him and which remains one of the most widely cited books in the field.
By the late 1980s, Lazarus began to talk about emotions and their cognitive underpinnings more generally, setting the direction for the work of his later years. He published another major book, Emotion and Adaptation, in 1991, then four more books, all of which built on this theme. Passion and Reason: Making Sense of our Emotions (1994) was co-authored with his wife, Bernice Lazarus.
Professor Lazarus was named one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century by the Amercian Psychological Association and received their Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology Award. He is survived by his beloved wife of 57 years, Bernice; a son, David; a daughter, Nancy Holliday; and four grandchildren.
--Remembered by Susan Folkman, Ph.D. '79,
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Osher Center
for Integrative Medicine at UC San Francisco
Marvin Rosenberg
Professor Marvin Rosenberg, who taught in the Department of Theater Arts for nearly half a century, died on February 4 at the age of 90. No one else approached his contribution to the study of Shakespeare's plays in performance. He built this work with The Masks of Othello (1961), The Masks of King Lear (1972), and The Masks of Macbeth (1978). The Masks of Hamlet, his crowning achievement, came in 1992.
In these books he developed a particular method of analysis and description that changed and continues to change the way others go about analyzing the drama. He moved through each Shakespeare play from scene to scene, from moment to moment, showing the reader the variety of choices that producers and actors have made at each point. His descriptions demonstrated ways in which dramatic production has informed and interpreted the lines--how performance illuminates text. He was one of those rare scholars whose work proves genuinely, deeply useful to a stage director, a designer, an actor.
In 1997, he gathered together his previously published Shakespearean essays and called the book Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar. His Adventures share with the reader his interviews with major Shakespearean actors and directors, his keen visits to the theater, and his roll call of the major Shakespearean researchers of our era--all friends, many collaborators.
Marvin and I were friends and collaborators on the tennis court. He would play any time, anywhere. He'd especially want to squeeze in a few hits between teaching a class and a faculty meeting. We'd warm up and, before beginning a set, he'd call out: "No double faults!" That's like saying in baseball, "No strike outs." By Marvin's rules, you had to start off each point with a good, solid serve. What he wanted was a vigorous exchange. He engaged students, friends, and colleagues the same way. He took every thought seriously and would always give you something back. In his classroom, there weren't any double faults.
With his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Berkeley, Marvin was one of Cal's own. At the end of his life, he was cared for by his wife, Mary Rosenberg, with the help of his son and daughter-in-law, Barr '63 and June Rosenberg.
--Remembered by Dunbar Ogden,
professor emeritus of dramatic art
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