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In Memory 16 International House Times 1930s Margaret (Shun-Chun Kao) Lin (IH 1930s) passed away on May 11, 2020, at the age of 102. She was born in 1918 in Peiping, China, and came to California in 1947, following her husband, Tung-Yen Lin (IH 1930–32), who had begun his 30-year faculty career as a professor of civil engineering at Berkeley. He and Margaret married in 1941. In California, Margaret and Tung- Yen discovered a passion for ballroom dancing, building a dance floor in the prestressed concrete El Cerrito home Tung-Yen designed himself. Donation of that house became the centerpiece of their generous support for Berkeley, endowing the T.Y. and Margaret Lin Chair in Engineering. Tung-Yen died at age 91 in 2003. 1940s Jere Jeffrey Austin (IH 1943–44) Raised on an orange ranch in Exeter, California, Jere Jeffrey Austin left home to serve in the Navy from 1942 to 1946 and earned his degree in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. For most of his professional career, he worked at Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Marine Division in Sunnyvale. He was very active in the Los Altos neighborhood where he and his wife, Jean, lived for more than 60 years. Elizabeth Mackay Ratcliff Balderston (IH 1946) Elizabeth knew Berkeley as her home since her father was the head of the Philosophy Department at UC Berkeley, and her mother owned the Helen T. Mackay Hat Shop on Claremont Avenue. In 1948, Elizabeth married Walter H. Ratcliff with whom she had five children. After her children were grown, she spent many years trekking in the Himalayas, and a year teaching at the English Language Institute in Kathmandu. Elizabeth married Frederick E. Balderston, Professor Emeritus of the Haas Business School. Merrill Mason Gaffney (IH 1948–52) Merrill Mason Gaffney died surrounded by love on July 16, 2020, in Loma Linda, California, at age 96. He lived at I-House while studying for his Ph.D. in economics. In 1951, while Mason was playing guitar in the Great Hall, he met Estelle Lau (IH 1952). ey married in an I-House ceremony in 1952. Together they had three children. Mason had a long and illustrious career as a professor of economics, which led him to academic and research positions that crisscrossed the continent. He married Tish Atwood in 1973, and together they raised three children as well, during his four decades as a beloved professor at the University of California, Riverside. Mason was a true Renaissance man, whose love of music was equaled only by his commitment to social justice. He always remembered I-House with great fondness, and his last visit there in 2019 brought joy to his heart. Gilbert Haakh (IH 1946–47) After growing up in Germany, the Netherlands, Cuba, and Mexico, Gilbert Haakh came to the United States to study at UC Berkeley (A.B. 1947) and Harvard Law (L.L.B 1950). He was admitted to the California and Massachusetts Bar and joined McLeod Young, then Baker McKenzie LLP, where he specialized in Corporate Securities Regulation and Corporate Finance issues. Mr. Haakh transitioned to McKenna, Long & Aldrich LLP, until his full retirement in 2012. He was an avid tennis player and loved to hike; he even backpacked the Grand Canyon at the age of 73. Maxine Luise Gardner Macbeth (IH 1942–44) Maxine Blum grew up during the 1930s in San Jose. While at I-House, she studied children's art and its powers to help children understand their own lives. Maxine worked with the Longshoremen's Union in the 1940s and 1950s, and consistently supported civil rights and anti-war efforts. Maxine helped organize the first large-scale protest against the war in Vietnam on the West Coast—the 1967 Spring Mobilization and March. She cut sugar cane in Cuba and picked coffee in Nicaragua. In 1994, Maxine reconnected with Hugh E. Macbeth Jr. (IH 1941–44), the young law student that she had met at I-House. After having nearly married then, they had parted but ultimately returned to each other and celebrated 25 years together. eir generosity will establish the Maxine G. and Hugh E. Macbeth Jr. Scholarship at International House. Robert (Bob) Stafford Newton (IH 1948–50) Born on December 9, 1924, in Los Angeles, Bob Newton served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946 as an Infantryman and Intelligence- Reconnaissance Specialist. After studying at Occidental College, he lived at I-House while attaining his degree in English. From 1952 to 1960, Bob worked for the Department of State as a Diplomatic

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