"When I was growing up, people liked to join. People joined churches or clubs or dance groups or singing groups. Those still exist, but their membership has quite declined. People just don't want to join anymore. It's certainly down from the '50s and '60s. And before, if you got on the bus you could say hello to everyone. Now, if you did that, they'd rush you off to the looney bin. It's a sad state of affairs."
"In high school, if I studied three hours a day I thought I should get a gold star. But when I got to Cal, I was competing with kids who could study for 10 or 12 hours a day. I started off in chemistry and did poorly. I went into biochemistry and did poorly. Then I went into computer science and got straight A's, then concluded with economics."
A Berkeley resident was born in Oakland and grew up in Berkeley, living near Indian Rock and attending Cragmont Elementary before the family moved above Grizzly Peak in 1960. The current North Berkeley house was purchased by his late wife Patricia in 1979 and has been home for about 30 years. Community membership in churches, clubs, and groups has declined since the 1950s and 1960s, and casual greetings on buses are no longer common. He attended Cal from 1965 to 1970, struggled academically at first, found success in computer science, switched to economics, and remained in school six years to avoid the Vietnam draft. He commuted and rented a small Berkeley apartment to use campus computers during midnight hours.
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