Nadine Eve Turner: 1957-2021
Full of adventure and a generous spirit.
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Full of adventure and a generous spirit.
Serving as chair or president of a host of civic organizations, and as a city councilmember, when Helene Beaver talked, people listened.
Mike Summers was equally comfortable directing his team of 60 employees, leading the way in environmentalist think tanks, or producing music festivals at the Live Oak Campground in Santa Ynez.
Tall, sometimes severe-looking to strangers — at UCSB, his job entailed delivering a lot of good and bad employment news, cementing his tough-guy reputation — Steve Carlson was in truth a doting parent and a steadfast friend.
A simple, examined life.
There’s a cliché about a smile lighting up a room, and its genesis was Esther Gilbert.
Jim — to his many friends, fans, and clients — was a character to be sure.
It’s hard to describe how frenzied a Friday or Saturday night on the sports desk could be, and Dave Loveton was cheerfully in the middle of the action.
The qualities that set Sam Cunningham apart and made him the brightest star in the constellation of sports figures during my lifetime were his genuineness, his honesty, and his decency.
American historian Leon Litwack had a distinguished career that included a Pulitzer Prize-winning books and four decades teaching at UC Berkeley. Born in Santa Barbara, he returned in 2013 to give a talk, the preview for which we run again here.