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18 International House Times intellectual communities on campus. When she wasn't on campus, Carroll was an intrepid traveler, and she and her husband, Bob, lived almost every summer of their long marriage in Italy. 1950s Minto Keaton (IH 1950-52) Minto often spoke about witnessing the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the following years that she spent picking pineapples and attending school wearing a gas mask. It was at UC Berkeley's International House that she met her husband of more than 30 years, Harry Keaton, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia, who was attending law school. Lois Schwarze (IH 1951-52) Lois passed last year at the age of 91. e fifth of six children, Lois graduated from UC Berkeley and San Francisco School of Nursing, followed by a masters in social work from Sacramento State. Lois found a career as a public health nurse in Louisiana, Lodi, and Sacramento. She worked in adoptions for the State of California. After retirement, she volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Solar Box Cookers. She loved the outdoors, worked out at the Sacramento YMCA, and traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She was a compassionate and loving person. She is survived by many nieces and nephews. Sadako Ogata (IH 1956-57) Sadako Ogata, a high-profile Japanese diplomat who served as the first female United Nations high commissioner for refugees from 1991 to 2000, died at 92. A scholar and mother of two, Ogata was among a handful of Japanese female leaders in world diplomacy. She demonstrated her ability and leadership in carrying out critical humanitarian missions to save numerous refugees' lives in Iraq, Turkey, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and other places around the globe. Ogata began her stint at the U.N. refugee agency as civil conflicts and ethnic cleansing erupted in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. Over the years, she made numerous visits to conflict zones. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe writes, "Ms. Ogata … was consistently at the front line of humanitarian and development support, always showing compassion to those who were suffering." Liane Reif-Lehrer (IH 1956-57) Liane Reif-Lehrer fled the Nazis with her mother and brother on the ill- fated S.S. St. Louis, which was bound for Cuba with 937 Jewish refugees but forced to return to Europe, where they disembarked in France. Despite the many challenges she faced, Liane eventually became a faculty member and director of the office of academic affairs at Harvard Medical School, and in 1981, she founded the Women in Science Network, to help women to navigate the challenges of career advancement. Friends Shirley Connor Shirley passed away two weeks short of her 93rd birthday. She had a long and fulfilling career as an instructor in the dental assisting program at the College of Alameda, and was active in many volunteer activities, including as a former board member for I-House. She served as the first woman president of the University of California Alumni Association, which included a term on the Board of Regents. As a relentless Cal Bear supporter and football season ticket holder, her biggest regret may have been never seeing her Golden Bears in a Rose Bowl. Carolyn Peters Paxton Carolyn Paxton was a distinguished educator, teaching at Concord High School and then serving as assistant principal at San Rafael High School. Later, she worked in troubled districts, consulting in the field of elementary and high school curricula. Among the great pleasures in her life were the numerous occasions when she encountered a former student who warmly thanked her for having called them on their misdeeds in high school and offering them her counsel. Carolyn was the third generation of her family to attend UC Berkeley, and she maintained strong ties of service to the university over her life. Her daughter, Laura, serves as the strategic advisor to the chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer of the UC Berkeley Campus, and her son-in- law, Ron Hassner, is the Chancellor's professor of political science. Her grandchildren and family were the light of her life, as was her marriage to I-House Board Member Jay Paxton for more than 50 years. Contributions in her honor may be made to the International House at the University of California, Berkeley, to School Rule in Marin, or to Hospice by the Bay. In Memory

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