* Recognition for bringing the Arts and Theater District to life in Downtown Berkeley by establishing a public-private partnership with the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre and bringing in the JazzSchool, Aurora Theater, and Nevo Center for the Performing Arts in one of Berkeley ’ s oldest buildings.

When district elections were adopted in Berkeley in 1986 Dean was the first elected council member from District 5, she held the seat until 1994 when she was elected Mayor.

" Meese and Deputy District Attorney Lowell Jensen later served as co-counsels in the trial of Berkeley demonstrators.

* Potomac District: serves Berkeley and Morgan counties, West Virginia

In the 1920s, the East Bay Municipal Utility District ( EBMUD ) constructed an aqueduct through the Berkeley Hills to transport water from the San Pablo Reservoir to a still-active pumping facility in Kensington, located just above the Colusa Circle.

The Berkeley Township School District serves public school students in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Students in public school for grades 7 through 12 attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which serves students from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Ocean Gate, Seaside Heights and Seaside Park.

* Berkeley Township School District

Public school students in grades 7 through 12 attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which serves students from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Ocean Gate, Seaside Heights and Seaside Park.

Public school students in grades 7 through 12 attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which serves students from Ocean gate and from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Seaside Heights and Seaside Park.

Public school students in grades 7 through 12 attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which also serves students from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Ocean Gate and Seaside Park.

Students in public school for grades 7 through 12 attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which serves students from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Ocean Gate, Seaside Heights and Seaside Park.

The high school serves public school students of Berkeley Heights Township, along with those from neighboring Borough of Mountainside who are educated at the high school as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Mountainside School District.

* Berkeley County School District

Notable secondary schools and school districts include Franklin High School ( Stockton, CA ), Kingfisher High School ( Kingfisher Oklahoma ), Alvin High School ( Alvin, TX ) Sprayberry High School ( Marietta, Georgia ), Thomas County Central High School, ( Thomasville, GA ), Xavier University Preparatory High School ( New Orleans, Louisiana ), Berkeley High School ( Berkeley, California ), Freeport Area School District ( Sarver, Pennsylvania ), Ferndale Area High School ( Johnstown, Pennsylvania ), Llano High, Junior High, Elementary, and Packsaddle Elementary Schools ( Llano County Texas ), Cleburne High School ( Cleburne, Texas ), Mount Vernon High School ( Mount Vernon, Ohio ), Newark High School ( Newark, Delaware ), Osbourn Park High School ( Manassas, Virginia ), James Monroe High School ( Fredericksburg, VA ), Roane County High School ( Kingston, TN ), Sabinal School District ( Sabinal, Texas ), Perrysburg High School ( Perrysburg, Ohio ), Sidney High School ( Sidney, Ohio ), Girard High School ( Girard, Pennsylvania ), Vincent High School ( Vincent, Alabama ), McAdory High School ( McCalla, Alabama ), Thomas Jefferson High School ( Council Bluffs, Iowa ), Irmo Middle School, Irmo High School ( Irmo, South Carolina ) and Oxnard High School ( Oxnard, California ), Saint Augustine High School ( Saint John's County FLA ), Lee County Senior High School ( Sanford, NC ), Palo Verde Valley High School ( Blythe, California ), George Washington Carver High School ( Winston-Salem, North Carolina ) Northampton High School ( Eastville, Virginia ), Coffee High School ( Florence, Alabama ), Blue Ridge High School ( Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona ), Sheridan School District ( Sheridan, Arkansas ), Oneonta High School ( Oneonta, New York ), Gwynn Park High School ( Brandywine, Maryland ), Ithaca High School ( Ithaca, Michigan ), Starkville High School ( Starkville, Mississippi ), Detroit Country Day School ( Beverly Hills, Michigan ), Woodford County High School ( Versailles, KY ), Oakleaf Junior High ( Orange Park, FL ), and Spencer Middle School ( Spencer, WV ).

Seven members of the Berkeley Police Department and the District Attorney ’ s office were also present.

It rises from a height of about 420 ft ( 130 m ) above sea level, just behind the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California, Berkeley to the average 1300 ft ( 400 m ) ridge of the East Bay hills, linking by way of other conserved land belonging to the University and the East Bay Municipal Utility District to other parks such as Tilden Regional Park and Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

Many Chinese international students are also brand name conscious, choosing elite higher education institutes including the Ivy League ; as well as University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, Case Western Reserve University, California Institute of Technology, New York University, Duke University, Rice University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University, and University of Southern California as their target schools.

After graduation in 1946, he was signed by Eddie Leishman, also a Berkeley native, to play for him for Idaho Falls the Class D Pioneer League, hitting. 254 in 32 games.

Charles James " Chick " Hafey ( February 12, 1903, Berkeley, California – July 2, 1973, Calistoga, California ) was an American player in Major League Baseball.

It has historically been selective about the campuses at which it establishes chapters, focusing on forging new territory and maintaining a presence at prestigious institutions: it was the first Fraternity on the West Coast at the University of California at Berkeley June 10, 1870, the first Fraternity in Canada at the University of Toronto, March 27, 1879, and the first Fraternity to have a chapter at an Ivy League institution.

While studying chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, he left the CP to join Max Shachtman ’ s Workers Party shortly before it changed to the Independent Socialist League in May 1949.

Hines attended Berkeley Vale Community High School from 1989 – 1994 and was a regular feature in the school's first XIII Rugby League Team.

He played his club football for the Berkeley Vale Panthers Junior Rugby League Club and was part of the club's first ever Premiership winning side ( U / 15s – defeated Woy Woy in 1991 ) playing alongside future NRL player Paul Stringer.

Students matriculate from Archbishop Mitty High School to all of the UC and CSU campuses as well as all of the Ivy League schools, Catholic universities and prestigious private colleges / universities throughout the country including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis and even The University of Oxford.

Marcus James Maxwell ( born July 8, 1983 in Berkeley, California ) is an American football wide receiver for the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League.

Typically, the school sends around 4 % the seniors to one of the Ivy League colleges and 20 % of seniors to colleges like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NYU, UC Berkeley, and Stanford.

Sloan studied chess from an early age and left Lynchburg in 1962 to study at University of California, Berkeley ; he majored in mathematics and criminology and hosted parties for the Sexual Freedom League before dropping out in 1967.

Ernest Gilbert Broglio ( born August 27, 1935 in Berkeley, California ) is a former right-handed pitcher in American Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1966.

This measurement was obtained by W. Blumberg of the University of California, Berkeley, by observing the breadth of the free induction decay signal.

Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The separation of curium and americium was so painstaking that those elements were initially called by the Berkeley group as pandemonium ( from Greek for all demons or hell ) and delirium ( from Latin for madness ).

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

He received tenure at Berkeley in 1962 and was given his first sabbatical in 1964.

A precursor to the public bulletin board system was Community Memory, started in August, 1973 in Berkeley, California, using hardwired terminals located in neighborhoods.

It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, the location of the University of California Radiation Laboratory where it was discovered in December 1949.

Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.

This target was irradiated with 35 MeV alpha particles for 6 hours in the 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Marv Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

This company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006, which continues to develop and sell Berkeley DB.

The site of today's City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo / Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived.

For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.

San Francisco from Indian RockPolitically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County.

The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of open land, farms and ranches, with a small though busy wharf by the bay.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

In 1876, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound ( now a part of Emeryville ) into what is now downtown Berkeley.

There was a strong prohibition movement in Berkeley at this time.

In 1908, a statewide referendum that proposed moving the California state capital to Berkeley was defeated by a margin of about 33, 000 votes.

During the war, an Army base, Camp Ashby, was temporarily sited in Berkeley.