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Ed Frassetto '49
Ed Frassetto, captain of the 1948 Cal football team, led the Bears  to a 10-0 record in regular season play and to a Rose Bowl appearance--narrowly losing that game to Northwestern on the basis of a questionable touchdown fumble. (He is seen here with Governor Earl Warren '12 and the Axe in 1948.) Frassetto earned the Andy Smith Award and, in his senior year, was selected as an All-Coast tackle and received honorable mention on several All-American football squads. He interrupted his education to serve in the Army Air Corps during World War II (many years later, he retired as a Major from the Air Force Reserve) and, after completing his degree, he stayed on at Cal to get his teaching credential. He was a coach and physical education teacher at Salinas High School for 33 years--24 as the school's athletic director. He died April 23 in Salinas and is survived by his wife Dorothy 45; children Eugene, John, and Robert; and six grandchildren.
Daniel Luten
Daniel Luten, a lecturer in geography at Berkeley from 1962 to 1974, died January 18 in Berkeley at the age of 94. Luten, who earned his Ph.D. in chemistry here in 1933, was a successful chemist with Shell Development before assuming his academic position at age 54. He referred to his university retirement at age 66 with considerable contempt as "merely mandatory senility" and continued on, providing his scientific expertise and immense  personal energy to a variety of local and national conservation efforts for another quarter century.
Luten regularly taught a course on "Population, Environment, and Development" as well as lecturing on energy and other topics. He stressed environmental limits to progress when cultural determinism was closer to the norm. There is an annual contest in Luten's name for the best paper presented on energy and the environment at the meetings of the American Association of Geographers.
Luten sustained the links between the Berkeley campus and the West Coast environmental movement that date back more than a century, to when Joseph LeConte was instrumental in the startup of both the University of California and the Sierra Club. When Luten served on the Sierra Club's board of directors, he argued that conservationists, until then primarily concerned with wildland preservation, needed also to grapple with population issues. His persuasive articles, with pithy titles like "How Dense Can People Be?" did much to attract new members to the environmental movement. He also served as president of Friends of the Earth as well as on numerous local boards and advisory commissions.
As emeritus professor of geography David Hooson remarked: "Dan was a master problem-solver, with a quick wit and gift of repartee who raised questions well ahead of their time. He was generous, humorous, and unassuming, and he touched and stimulated many people in many walks of life."
Luten is survived by his wife, Marion Sherk of Berkeley, three children, one grandson, and one great-grandson.
--Remembered by Richard B. Norgaard,
Energy and Resources Group
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