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A. Edward Safarian January 30, 2016 Ed was a professor emeritus of business economics, an active researcher, and a mentor at the University of Toronto from 1966 until his death at the age of 94. He had previously served as president of the Canadian Economics Association and dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, and was the author of several books. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1973 and was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. In 2005, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to the social sciences, which included research on multinational enterprises, international trade and investment, Canadian federalism, the Great Depression, and public policy. Howard A. Shugart March 21, 2016 For more than 60 years, professor emeritus Howard Shugart was a dedicated educator and author of more than 130 scientific papers. He first became interested in science when, at the age of five, his father gave him a train set that he quickly expanded by wiring in batteries. He earned both his master's and his doctorate from UC Berkeley, during which time he lived at I-House. After earning his Ph.D., he joined the Department of Physics in 1957, where he served as a full professor until 1993. He was among the first to recognize the usefulness of computers within physics and helped to introduce computers into campus laboratories. His passion for teaching extended to the greater Berkeley community through regular "Fun with Physics" lectures and a demo lab on Cal Day entitled "Why Should Students Have All the Fun?" Howard passed just weeks before the 2016 I-House Gala but was posthumously honored along with other I-House alumni and UC Berkeley faculty members. 1960s Paul Sui Lun Wu September 11, 2015 Born in Canton, China, Paul moved to the US to study Engineering at UC Berkeley and lived at I-House while completing both his bachelor's and master's degrees. After graduation he worked for Hewlett-Packard and Lockheed Martin. 1980s Joonhong Ahn June 19, 2016 After receiving his B.S., M.S., and D.Eng. degrees at the University of Tokyo, Joonhong attended UC Berkeley to earn his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and lived at I-House. He became a faculty member of the Nuclear Engineering Department and the Center for Japanese Studies, as well as a geological scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Professor Ahn's research included an emphasis on geological disposal, safeguards, and radiological safety of nuclear fuel. After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Power Plant in 2011, his research focused on engineering and community resilience and played a key role in the engineering ethics program on campus. Friends Elizabeth "Betty" L. Helmholz December 15, 2015 Elizabeth "Betty" L. Helmholz, although a Stanford alumna, was a longtime supporter and former member of the I-House board of directors. Betty and her husband Carl, a professor emeritus of physics at UC Berkeley who passed away in 2003, were very active on campus and were generous donors to the Department of Physics, UC Botanical Gardens, and University Library. In 2008 they established the Carl and Betty Helmholz Gateway Fellowship at I-House to support deserving Ph.D. students in physics. Sylvia C. McLaughlin January 19, 2016 Sylvia was the wife of former I-House board member Donald McLaughlin. She spent a half-century working to save the San Francisco Bay from the impact of development and pollution, as one of the founding members of the Save San Francisco Bay Association, now known as Save the Bay. She mobilized thousands of residents to stop a plan to double the size of Berkeley by filling in 2,000 acres of the bay and, in the process, sparked the environmental protection movement that has spread across the country. Save the Bay is now the largest organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the bay with nearly 35,000 employees, members, and volunteers. She served on the boards of virtually every environmental organization in the Bay Area, and was active almost until the day she died at age 99. Her efforts to create parks along the Bay were recognized in 2012 when the state designated eight and a half miles of shoreline from Richmond to Oakland as McLaughlin Eastshore State Park. 18 International House Times In Memory

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