# ![@CalBearsHistory Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::966818705756717056.png) @CalBearsHistory Cal Bears History

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Gertrude Comfort Morrow was also the supervising architect of St. Francis Woods in San Francisco and designed several homes there. And she and Irving Morrow designed the modernist Alameda-Contra Costa building for the [----] Golden Gate International Exhibition on Treasure Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2022493379909865637)  2026-02-14T02:09Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Mark Goodson Class of [----] was born January [--] [----]. He and Bill Todman pioneered the TV game show in [----] and created the most popular game shows ever: The Price is Right Family Feud To Tell the Truth Match Game and more. In [----] he received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2011576360301682894)  2026-01-14T23:09Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On January [--] [----] The Daily Californian reported that Andy Smith was being hired as Cal's new football coach. The team had just begun playing American football after more than a decade of rugby and Smith was going to have to begin by teaching players the basics of the game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2011857182892179741)  2026-01-15T17:45Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Stephan Pastis Class of [----]. Pastis gave up a legal career in [----] to become a full-time cartoonist and draws the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" featuring Rat and Pig. In [----] he received the Reuben Award as Cartoonist of the Year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2012313969042538528)  2026-01-17T00:00Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In the Jeff Tedford era Pastis occasionally referenced Cal football in his strips. And btw the Reuben Awards are named in honor of another Cal alum famed cartoonist Rube Goldberg Class of 1904"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2012315891174920242)  2026-01-17T00:07Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Charles Wetmore "Father of the California Wine Industry" was born Jan. [--] [----]. An [----] College of California graduate (and thus deemed an alum of its successor the University of California) his Livermore Valley winery won California's first international award in 1889"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2013779952735289396)  2026-01-21T01:05Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Julia Morgan Class of [----] was born January [--] [----]. The first woman licensed architect in California the only woman in her Cal civil engineering class & the first woman admitted to the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris she is most famous as the architect of Hearst Castle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2013781408913760705)  2026-01-21T01:11Z 10.2K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Julia Morgan designed over [---] buildings beginning with work assisting John Galen Howard on the design of the Hearst Mining Building at Cal and including the Berkeley City Club the San Francisco Merchant Exchange Building and St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2013782053288828992)  2026-01-21T01:13Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Ludy Langer Class of [----] born Jan. [--] [----] began Cal's swimming tradition as the Bears' first Olympic swimmer & first swimmer awarded a Varsity letter. He held multiple world records in [----] when the Olympics were cancelled by World War I and won Silver at Antwerp in 1920"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2014468048691097803)  2026-01-22T22:39Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Bill Bixby Class of [----] was born January [--] [----]. An actor and director he was best known for starring on TV in My Favorite Martian The Courtship of Eddie's Father and The Incredible Hulk. An accomplished magician he also starred in the crime drama The Magician"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2014469259435642960)  2026-01-22T22:44Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Happy 90th Birthday to Alan J. Heeger Ph.D. [----]. In [----] Heeger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of conductive polymers specifically certain plastics that can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2014470650581418191)  2026-01-22T22:50Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Ed Roberts BA [----] MA [----] was born January [--] [----]. The first severely disabled student ever admitted to Cal Roberts led a campaign demanding equal access and civil rights first at Cal then nationwide and became known as the "Father of the Independent Living Movement.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2014834588913443005)  2026-01-23T22:56Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Walter A. Haas Jr. Class of [----] was born January [--] [----]. He made his family business Levi Strauss & Co into one of the world's iconic clothing companies owned the Oakland A's 1980-1995 & was a benefactor to Cal. Haas School of Business & Haas Pavilion are named for him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2015233955356901764)  2026-01-25T01:23Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The connection between the Haas family and Cal goes back to [----] when Walter A. Haas Jr.'s great-great uncle Levi Strauss a Gold Rush pioneer and co-inventor of riveted denim pants endowed [--] scholarships for Cal students"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2015234361868873869)  2026-01-25T01:24Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Ruth Asawa who designed the Campanile's Great Bear Bell was born Jan. [--] [----]. She spent her teens interned by the government for being Japanese-American before becoming a noted modernist sculptor. She was a primary advocate for the SF School of the Arts now named for her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2015237082621644961)  2026-01-25T01:35Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Great Bear Bell is the largest of the Campanile's [--] bells weighing [----] tons. It is the bell you hear tolling the hour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2015239545198194971)  2026-01-25T01:45Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Tarea Hall Pittman Class of [----] was born January [--] [----]. A civil rights leader she organized protests forcing Kaiser Shipyards to hire African Americans during World War II helped desegregate the Oakland Fire Department & successfully fought for state Fair Employment laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017357048942628958)  2026-01-30T21:59Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"When Tarea Hall Pittman was a Cal student she was not allowed to live in student housing because of her race. She went on to lead civil rights women's groups and was West Coast Director of the NAACP 1961-1965. The Berkeley Public Library branch on Russell St. is named for her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017357382373032168)  2026-01-30T22:00Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Douglas Engelbart MS [----] PhD [----] was born January [--] [----]. A computer pioneer he developed among other things the first mouse (photo below) hypertext and networked computers. His [----] demonstration of these and other technologies is famous as the "Mother of All Demos.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017360262614159715)  2026-01-30T22:12Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"In the age of punch cards Douglas Engelbart's [----] "Mother of All Demos" introduced the mouse hypertext windows graphics word processing video conferencing dynamic file linking and more. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-invented-future-180967498/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-invented-future-180967498/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017360517841723814)  2026-01-30T22:13Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Excerpts from Cal alum Douglas Engelbart's famous "Mother of All Demos" in 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=B6rKUf9DWRI&t=8s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=B6rKUf9DWRI&t=8s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017361135293649188)  2026-01-30T22:15Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On January [--] [----] University President Benjamin Ide Wheeler hosted a luncheon on the future observation deck of the Campanile to mark completion of its steel frame. Guests could climb the stairs or be hoisted up in the construction derrick as Wheeler (with cigar) chose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017716829427532283)  2026-01-31T21:49Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The [--] luncheon guests included construction workers architects engineers and VIPs. The invitation included the menu:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2017717070973309020)  2026-01-31T21:50Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Melba Phillips Ph.D. [----] born Feb [--] [----] was Robert Oppenheimer's first doctoral student at Cal. Their OppenheimerPhillips process explains the behavior of accelerated nuclei of radioactive hydrogen atoms. She pioneered development of college physics texts and curricula"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018053620076556754)  2026-02-01T20:07Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Melba Phillips was fired by Brooklyn College for refusing on principle to cooperate with a Senate anti-Communist committee. The College formally apologized in [----]. The American Assn. of Physics Teachers awards The Melba Newell Phillips Medal for outstanding service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018053904454582303)  2026-02-01T20:08Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On February [--] [----] the Chinese Students Club was founded at Cal. By [----] the Club had a headquarters and residence building at [----] Etna Street. Below: photos of the Etna Street building and of the Chinese Students Club members from the [----] Blue & Gold Yearbook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018054849745842407)  2026-02-01T20:12Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Tom Lantos Ph.D. [----] was born in Hungary on February [--] [----]. The only Holocaust survivor to serve in the US Congress he escaped a Nazi labor camp at [--] with the aid of Raoul Wallenberg's network & then joined in saving others. He represented San Mateo in Congress 1981-2008"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018055612069024000)  2026-02-01T20:15Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Orval Overall was also a four-year starter for @CalFootball. He blocked a Stanford punt for a safety in the [----] Big Game and kicked two field goals in Cal's 16-0 win in the [----] Big Game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018526565932605527)  2026-02-03T03:26Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Betty Friedan whose [----] book "The Feminine Mystique" helped sparked the American feminist movement was born February [--] [----]. Friedan was a graduate fellow at Cal in 1943-1944. She co-founded and was the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019190723229413505)  2026-02-04T23:25Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Nicolle Wallace Class of [----]. She was White House Communications Director for George W. Bush (2005-2006) and has published novels about White House life. She now hosts the MSNBC news & commentary program "Deadline White House.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019193167179088120)  2026-02-04T23:35Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"10 Years Ago Today: On February [--] [----] the TV show "Jeopardy" aired this episode. #Berkelium #Californium #StillNoStanfurdium https://x.com/pundabwana/status/695450993236938752s=20 @GoldenBlogs @domserrano_ https://t.co/s0fP3bPTWN https://x.com/pundabwana/status/695450993236938752s=20 @GoldenBlogs @domserrano_ https://t.co/s0fP3bPTWN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019199389567533352)  2026-02-05T00:00Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Cynthia "Cynt" Marshall Class of [----] CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. She was one of the first African-American cheerleaders at Cal then used her business degree as a senior executive at AT&T. In [----] Marshall became the first Black woman CEO in the NBA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2000684404801155116)  2025-12-15T21:48Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Emilio Segr Professor of Physics 1946-72 was born Feb. [--] [----]. Forced to leave Italy in [----] by anti-Semitic laws he was hired by Ernest Lawrence & worked on the Manhattan Project. He won the [----] Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the antiproton a subatomic particle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018052748663730261)  2026-02-01T20:04Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Orval Overall Class of [----] was born February [--] [----]. He was the first Golden Bear to play major league baseball for the Reds and Cubs between 1905-1913. He pitched in three World Series for the Cubs shutting out Detroit in the clinching Game [--] of the [----] Series"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2018526045868322837)  2026-02-03T03:24Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"https://x.com/Lesmitch529/status/1658609192364838912s=20 Nicolle Wallace @Cal Class of 1994: https://t.co/1yAzNf0Zuy https://x.com/Lesmitch529/status/1658609192364838912s=20 Nicolle Wallace @Cal Class of 1994: https://t.co/1yAzNf0Zuy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019193554917290049)  2026-02-04T23:37Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On February [--] [----] heiress & Cal sophomore Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Benvenue Ave. apartment in Berkeley by the "Symbionese Liberation Army." She later participated in bank robberies with the SLA. After her arrest in [----] Hearst said she had been abused & brainwashed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019195640375632173)  2026-02-04T23:45Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Craig Morton Class of [----]. The Golden Bears' starting quarterback 1962-64 Morton set almost every Cal passing record and the Pac-8 record for career yards. The #5 NFL draft pick he led the Cowboys to Super Bowl V and the Broncos to Super Bowl XII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019544648872869966)  2026-02-05T22:52Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Haskell Wexler born February [--] [----] attended Cal before leaving to serve in WW II. Named one of film's [--] Most Influential Cinematographers by the International Cinematographers Guild he won Oscars for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1967) and Bound For Glory (1977)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019896861549863013)  2026-02-06T22:11Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Haskell Wexler was decorated for heroism in WWII after his ship was torpedoed and he spent [--] days in a life raft on the Atlantic. In the 1960s he mentored young George Lucas and later helped him with "American Graffiti." Lucas has endowed the Haskell Wexler Chair at USC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019897153309884615)  2026-02-06T22:13Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Collin Morikawa Class of [----]. Morikawa is the first Cal alum to win a major both the [----] PGA Championship and the [----] Open Championship. #GoBears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2019899548634869830)  2026-02-06T22:22Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Professor Bernard Maybeck was born February [--] [----]. He taught architecture at Cal & mentored generations of architects including Julia Morgan & William Wurster. His work in the Arts & Crafts Mission Revival Gothic Revival & Beaux Arts styles is found throughout the Bay Area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020247269531087128)  2026-02-07T21:24Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Professor Bernard Maybeck's most famous work is probably the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco built for the [----] World's Fair. But his masterpiece is considered to be the Christian Science church at Dwight and Bowditch in Berkeley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020247636247458170)  2026-02-07T21:25Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"It's Periodic Table Day Or as it should more properly be known "U.C. Berkeley Appreciation Day." [--] of [---] Elements on the Periodic Table (14%) were discovered at Cal. The first version of the Periodic Table was published on February [--] 1863"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020251689207714076)  2026-02-07T21:41Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In [----] the NFL tried to trademark "The Big Game" so it could force businesses to pay a licensing fee for using it in Super Bowl-related promotions. Cal and Stanford said "not so fast" and the NFL backed down. https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/NFL-marketers-want-Big-Game-trademark-Cal-2645219.php https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/NFL-marketers-want-Big-Game-trademark-Cal-2645219.php"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020578213773410385)  2026-02-08T19:19Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"On February [--] [----] the Best Super Bowl halftime show of all time took place: the @CalBand at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for Super Bowl [--] of course (Oh and Beyonce Bruno Mars and Coldplay were there too.) #GoBears #CalBandGreat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020579921782005797)  2026-02-08T19:26Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"It's not too late Bad Bunny No question @CalBand would be happy to join you today On February [--] [----] the Best Super Bowl halftime show of all time took place: the @CalBand at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for Super Bowl [--] of course (Oh and Beyonce Bruno Mars and Coldplay were there too.) #GoBears #CalBandGreat https://t.co/pq2UGTGXHb On February [--] [----] the Best Super Bowl halftime show of all time took place: the @CalBand at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for Super Bowl [--] of course (Oh and Beyonce Bruno Mars and Coldplay were there too.) #GoBears #CalBandGreat https://t.co/pq2UGTGXHb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020580102837543113)  2026-02-08T19:26Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Okay now it's too late. Next time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2020689619915100345)  2026-02-09T02:42Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Lloyd Noel Ferguson B.S. [----] Ph.D. [----] was born Feb. [--] [----] in Oakland. He was the first African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry at Cal. In the 1950s he founded the first chemistry Ph.D. program at an HBCU at Howard University. @UCB_Chemistry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2021007679930630302)  2026-02-09T23:45Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Dr. Ferguson later chaired the chemistry dept at Cal State LA worked in Europe on chemotherapy & human taste & founded the National Association for Professional Advancement of Black Chemical Engineers which annually gives the Lloyd N. Ferguson Award: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/lloyd-n-ferguson-41 https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/lloyd-n-ferguson-41"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2021007977847910684)  2026-02-09T23:47Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Cal's Oral History Center @BerkeleyOHC has this [----] oral history with Lloyd Noel Ferguson available to the public: https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb5m3nb3dx/ https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb5m3nb3dx/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2021008466949833114)  2026-02-09T23:49Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to David Peoples Class of [----]. A writer and film editor he has written the screenplays for films such as Blade Runner (1982) Unforgiven (1992) and [--] Monkeys (1995). He was nominated for an Oscar Golden Globe and BAFTA for Unforgiven"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2021009143742726208)  2026-02-09T23:51Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The chemical element Californium was first synthesized on February [--] [----] at the UC Berkeley Radiation Laboratory on the Cal campus by Glenn Seaborg Albert Ghiorso Kenneth Street Jr. and Stanley Thompson. #GoBears #StillNoStanfurdium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2021009892849619396)  2026-02-09T23:54Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"California Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor BA [----] PhD [----] LLB [----] & Professor of Law was born February [--] [----]. An influential legal scholar his [----] decision in Perez v. Sharp was the first US case holding laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2022071615480377829)  2026-02-12T22:13Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Win4Cal @ced_berkeley Is that the Cal history segment about Irving Morroe and Gertrude Comfort Morrow and the Golden Gate Bridge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2022568527249707237)  2026-02-14T07:08Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements


"It's @Cal Week in Stockholm Monday - Nobel Prize in Medicine to Gary Ruvkun BA [----] Tuesday - Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield Professor of Physics 1961-1964 Wednesday - Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker Ph.D. 1989"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1844093521617355259)  2024-10-09T19:12Z 10.2K followers, 11.6K engagements


"Gertrude Comfort Morrow BA [----] MA [----] was born February [--] [----]. She collaborated with her husband & fellow Cal alum Irving Morrow as architects of the Golden Gate Bridge. Gertrude ran her own architectural firm in San Francisco before she and Irving opened Morrow & Morrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2022493031635849290)  2026-02-14T02:08Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The first football game on the Cal campus was played on February [--] [----] at West Field now site of the Life Sciences Building. The opponent was a San Francisco football club the Merions. Final score: California [--] Merions [--]. (The photo shows West Field in the 1890s.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/2022763383930372138)  2026-02-14T20:02Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I talked too much to fit it all into the regular episode But there is a LOT to say about John Galen Howard and the design of the Cal campus. #GoBears And we will be releasing a separate Cal History episode later this week Leslie will teach us all about John Galen Howard the man who was principally responsible for designing the UC Berkeley campus and several of its most well-known buildings at the turn of the last century. And we will be releasing a separate Cal History episode later this week Leslie will teach us all about John Galen Howard the man who was principally responsible for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1922043730208383024)  2025-05-12T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"North Hall which was made entirely of wood was torn down because it was deemed a fire hazard. The basement was preserved and roofed over to be used by the ASUC until the 1930s. It is now the site of the Bancroft Library. Photo: the May [--] [----] farewell ceremony for North Hall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1923456134683254924)  2025-05-16T19:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On May [--] [----] Sarah Bernhardt then the world's most famous actress interrupted her "Farewell Tour of America" to perform "Phdre" at Cal's Greek Theatre to benefit victims of the SF earthquake. A reviewer called it "one of the greatest performances in dramatic history.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1923825033660727338)  2025-05-17T19:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Congratulations to @CalMRowing #GoBears History made The Golden Bears are the first ever MPSF Men's Rowing Conference Champions https://t.co/OpDz5gTMYp History made The Golden Bears are the first ever MPSF Men's Rowing Conference Champions https://t.co/OpDz5gTMYp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1924186035321459148)  2025-05-18T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On May [--] [----] @CalVarsityRugby won the first modern collegiate rugby national championship defeating Air Force 15-9. It was the first of [--] National Championships won by Cal's Rugby [--] and Rugby [--] teams to date - the Bears having just added another one in [----] #GoBears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1924189321487372702)  2025-05-18T19:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Mark Bingham Cal Class of [----] was born May [--] [----]. He was a national champion with @CalVarsityRugby a proud gay man and one of the heroes who brought down Flight [--] in Pennsylvania on September [--] [----] saving hundreds or thousands of other lives. https://calbears.com/news/2022/9/11/rugby-remembering-the-life-and-sacrifice-of-mark-bingham.aspx https://calbears.com/news/2022/9/11/rugby-remembering-the-life-and-sacrifice-of-mark-bingham.aspx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1925626802594103356)  2025-05-22T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On May [--] [----] Cal Softball won the National Championship with a 6-0 victory over Arizona. Jocelyn Forest threw a 1-hitter and the Bears scored all [--] runs with two outs in the top of the seventh (and final) inning. It was the first NCAA Championship won by a Cal women's team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1927463704737509555)  2025-05-27T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"George R. Stewart MA [----] & Prof. of English 1923-1980 was born May [--] [----]. Looking for a thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel set in Berkeley after most of humanity is wiped out by plague Try "Earth Abides" Stewart's [----] novel that inspired Stephen King's "The Stand.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1928912879048368366)  2025-05-31T20:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Stewart's "Earth Abides" is one of the most influential science fiction novels of the 20th Century winning the first International Fantasy Award. And of course the Berkeley setting provides extra interest especially with Doe Library serving as the symbol of human knowledge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1928913291885031867)  2025-05-31T20:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In June [----] a Cal student committee was formed to choose a school color. The choice came down to Blue to honor the many Yale grads among Cal's faculty and Gold for the Golden State. There was an impasse until sophomore Elizabeth Bragg suggested adopting both colors. Good idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1929300123349106708)  2025-06-01T22:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ralph Edwards Class of of [----] was born June [--] [----]. After a career in radio Edwards hosted the first US commercial TV broadcast in [----]. He became famous as host and producer of dozens of game shows including Truth or Consequences This Is Your Life and The People's Court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1933645382459994509)  2025-06-13T21:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"While at Cal Ralph Edwards worked at KSFO in Oakland as everything from janitor to producer. After graduation he hitchhiked to New York & got his big break by getting hired at WCBS radio. Thanks to @peteajr we also know that Edwards was a life-long supporter of Cal & @CalBand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1933646162617380889)  2025-06-13T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@peteajr @CalBand Varsity Yell Leader Ralph Edwards (at right). From the [----] Blue & Gold Yearbook. #GoBears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1933646444424278172)  2025-06-13T22:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to John Cho Class of [----]. An immigrant from Korea Cho performed with @BerkeleyRep while a student and has appeared in many films and TV series including the roles of Harold in the Harold & Kumar film series and Lt. Sulu in the recent Star Trek films"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1934745860660933041)  2025-06-16T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On June [--] [----] Track & Field @CalTFXC won the National Championship in the second NCAA championship meet ever. The Bears scored [----] points easily besting second place Penn State's [----]. Jack Merchant was Cal's star scoring [--] points in shot put hammer throw & broad jump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1935098428008317133)  2025-06-17T22:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On June [--] [----] Cal Women's Crew won the first women's intercollegiate rowing National Championship ever held sponsored by the National Women's Rowing Association. The Bears beat out Oregon State in a photo finish for the first national championship by any Cal women's team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1935796119206080545)  2025-06-19T20:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On June [--] [----] Rev. Henry Durant and Dr. Samuel Willey opened the Contra Costa Academy at 12th and Harrison in Oakland. It was renamed the College of California in [----]. In [----] it was acquired by the newly chartered University of California and became the original UC campus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1936173849940459790)  2025-06-20T21:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Dr. Katharine Scott Bishop co-discoverer of Vitamin E was born June [--] [----]. While teaching in the Department of Anatomy at Cal in [----] Bishop and her colleague Herbert McLean Evans discovered both the existence of Vitamin E and its essential role in reproduction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1937237095267074124)  2025-06-23T19:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Claudia Sheinbaum President of Mexico. She spent 1991-94 as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory while completing her Ph.D. in Energy Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is first woman to serve as the Mexican president"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1937614390448259275)  2025-06-24T20:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On June [--] [----] the Track Team @CalTFXC returned in triumph from the first Eastern trip ever by a West Coast sports team met by huge crowds. The team's banners inspired Charles Gayley to write a song "The Golden Bear" and we had our mascot The story: https://calbearshistory.com/ https://calbearshistory.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1938724279832715402)  2025-06-27T22:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An 11-run ninth inning Holding a future US president hitless Drying out a rain-drenched field with gasoline On June [--] [----] @CalBaseball won the very first College World Series Here is the whole amazing story. #GoBears https://calbearshistory.com/2024/06/28/the-first-college-world-series-champions-the-1947-golden-bears/ https://calbearshistory.com/2024/06/28/the-first-college-world-series-champions-the-1947-golden-bears/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939074614652752242)  2025-06-28T21:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I've noticed that for some reason the three YouTube videos embedded in my story do not show up in the phone app. So here they are with the captions from the story. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939194294931505323)  2025-06-29T05:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"1. "Intuitive Cal fans booing Tiger Woods at the [----] Big Game just six days before his "secret life" was revealed to the whole world. He has never been the same since he received this Cal booing." https://www.youtube.com/watchv=1vGQpcG9d00&ab_channel=TouchedTheAxeIn82 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=1vGQpcG9d00&ab_channel=TouchedTheAxeIn82"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939194445817356382)  2025-06-29T05:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"2. "Highlights of the [----] and [----] Big Games. John Elway's fatal fumble is at about the 2:20 mark. His reaction should bring a smile to the face of any Golden Bear." https://www.youtube.com/watchv=XfZUQKvms38&ab_channel=PRD74 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=XfZUQKvms38&ab_channel=PRD74"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939194899854979242)  2025-06-29T05:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BenMank77 Correct. It was based on the life of Nion Tucker whose wife's family owned the San Francisco Chronicle and who won a Gold Medal in bobsled at the [----] Winter Olympics. Hey is that why your dad decided to go to law school at https://calbearshistory.com/2020/08/10/nion-tucker-the-improbable-story-of-cals-first-winter-olympics-champion/ https://calbearshistory.com/2020/08/10/nion-tucker-the-improbable-story-of-cals-first-winter-olympics-champion/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939436585273155910)  2025-06-29T21:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ben Lom Class of [----] was born June [--] [----]. The star of Cal's [----] Rose Bowl team he is most famous for tackling teammate Roy Riegels at the Cal [--] after Riegels ran a recovered fumble [--] yards in the wrong direction. Despite a 8-7 Cal loss Lom was the game's MVP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939438419517858023)  2025-06-29T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In November [----] Ben Lom scored an amazing touchdown in Cal's 15-7 upset of heavily favored USC at a sold-out LA Coliseum. Lom dropped back to punt from Cal's own 15-yard line. But it was a fake. A great block by Rusty Gill (below) let Lom get free and run [--] yards for the TD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939438853162697207)  2025-06-29T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Czeslaw Milosz Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures from [----] to [----] was born June [--] [----]. A writer in poetry and prose in [----] Milosz became the first U.C. Professor to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939821775929717060)  2025-06-30T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A native Polish speaker born in Lithuania Czeslaw Milosz aided Jews escaping the Nazis during World War II then lived under Stalinsim. After defecting to the West in [----] he wrote "The Captive Mind" examining the response of intellectuals to authoritarian regimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1939821958033809747)  2025-06-30T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Wilson Class of [----] was born July [--] [----]. Despite being blacklisted in the 1950s his work included: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Planet of the Apes (1968)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1940188736652026271)  2025-07-01T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to soccer player Alex Morgan Class of [----]. Morgan joined the USWNT during her senior year studying for finals between World Cup qualifying matches. She won an Olympic Gold Medal in [----] and World Cup championships in [----] and [----]. #GoBears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1940528710249337322)  2025-07-02T21:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Stephen Mather Class of [----] was born July [--] [----]. Bipolar disorder did not stop Mather from becoming a self-made millionaire & famed conservationist. He & fellow Cal alum Horace Albright led the fight to create the National Park Service and Mather was the first NPS Director"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1941279019573575873)  2025-07-04T23:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Gloria Stuart Class of [----] was born July [--] [----]. A movie star in the 1930s (The Invisible Man - [----] The Three Musketeers - 1939) she left Hollywood in [----]. Stuart made a triumphant return in Titanic (1997) receiving a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination at age 88"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1941283373949100485)  2025-07-04T23:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ellis O. Knox Class of [----] was born July [--] [----]. Knox became a teacher and then in [----] the first African-American on the West Coast to earn a Ph.D. (from USC). He was national Education Chair of the NAACP from 1945-62 fighting for desegregation of schools and colleges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1941957991324123603)  2025-07-06T20:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cal alum Ellis Knox taught at Howard University and at Yale. He worked closely with NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall to develop the strategy to combat segregation. In [----] President Eisenhower appointed Dr. Knox to the White House Commission on Education. https://aaregistry.org/story/ellis-knox-a-pillar-for-black-education/ https://aaregistry.org/story/ellis-knox-a-pillar-for-black-education/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1941958364826853826)  2025-07-06T20:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Owen Chamberlain Cal grad student 1940-42 and Professor of Physics 1948-89 was born July [--] [----]. He won the [----] Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the anti-proton a negatively-charged proton-like particle. He became an anti-Vietnam War and pro-nuclear freeze activist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1943388166859428076)  2025-07-10T19:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"What was the best year ever at Wimbledon I vote for [----]. Cal alum Don Budge won the Men's Singles Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles championships while Cal alums Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs met in the Women's Singles final with Wills taking home the championship. #GoBears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1944108112606376447)  2025-07-12T18:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Is it possible to three-peat in just two years Well in [----] Cal alum Don Budge won all three men's championships at Wimbledon: singles doubles and mixed doubles. Then in [----] he did it all over again. #GoBears #Wimbledon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1944478246676140499)  2025-07-13T19:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On July [--] [----] Cal's first women Olympians also became the University's first women Olympic Gold Medalists. Hazel Wightman Class of [----] and Helen Wills Class of [----] won Gold in doubles in Paris defeating the UK's Phyllis Covell and Kathleen McKane 7-5 8-6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1946653025751462066)  2025-07-19T19:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"By contrast in [----] Jane Stanford limited the number of women students at Stanford to [---]. In [----] that was raised to 40% of the student body due to financial pressures of the Great Depression. Limits on women students were finally abolished in [----] when Title IX was enacted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1947728779037839637)  2025-07-22T18:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Even worse with the notable exceptions of Cornell (1870) and Penn (1933) the Ivy League schools did not admit women undergraduates at all until the 1960s or 1970s. Columbia held out until [----]. Below: a story from the April [--] [----] edition of The Boston Globe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1947732036334325856)  2025-07-22T18:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"James Hopper Class of [----] was born July [--] [----]. A noted writer of novels and short stories he was also a reporter and provided dramatic coverage of the [----] SF earthquake. Hopper played quarterback for Cal's great [----] team and was Cal's head coach in [----] going 6-1-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1948101659231735945)  2025-07-23T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@stang_sally_smu Hmmm. I'd have to go with the rich entitled little brats whose music sounds horrible but who are thoroughly convinced that they are the cleverest people on earth. What could be more hilarious than going to Notre Dame and mocking a million Irish deaths in the potato famine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1948497218412904472)  2025-07-24T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Aldous Huxley author of the novel "Brave New World" and Visiting Professor at Cal 1962-63 was born July [--] [----]. At Berkeley Huxley gave his famous "The Ultimate Revolution" lecture predicting a near future of entire societies living happily brainwashed into subservience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1949201568177537090)  2025-07-26T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong BA [----] LL.B. [----] PhD [----] Professor of Law & Economics (1928-1965) was born August [--] [----]. She was the nation's 1st woman law faculty member (1919) 2nd tenured law professor (1928) and is considered the architect of the Social Security System"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1952490743106609536)  2025-08-04T22:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Don Bowden Class of [----]. On June [--] [----] Bowden a Cal junior became the first American to run a 4-minute mile (3:58.7) at an AAU meet in Stockton. He was also a [----] Olympian and part of a world-record [--] x [---] relay team for @CalTFXC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1953960565388587491)  2025-08-08T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On August [--] [----] the U.C. Regents adopted the Seal of the University of California designed by Tiffany & Co. The star the book and the motto "Let There Be Light" symbolize the discovery accumulation and dissemination of knowledge and wisdom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1954260375903551961)  2025-08-09T19:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On August [--] [----] the Cal Men's Varsity [--] representing the U.S. won Gold at the London Olympics - the third Olympic Gold Medal for @CalMRowing and legendary coach Ky Ebright. Photo: following tradition the team celebrates by throwing coxswain Ralph Purchase into the Thames"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1954262745320452498)  2025-08-09T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On August [--] [----] the Cal Varsity [--] won Olympic Gold racing down the narrow Sloten Canal in Amsterdam to defeat the British in the final. It was the first of a record three Olympic Gold Medals won by @CalMRowing on behalf of the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1954621400494600422)  2025-08-10T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On August [--] [----] Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Class of [----] achieved the rarest feat in tennis: a Golden Match - winning a match without losing a single point. Her win in the Washington State Championships was the only Golden Match ever recorded in competitive tennis until 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1955342805238452548)  2025-08-12T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Whitney Robson Harris LL.B. [----] was born August [--] [----]. He was a lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials heading the case against Gestapo chief Kaltenbrunner. Harris also interrogated Auschwitz commandant Hoess obtaining a confession to the murder of [--] million people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1955343970399293771)  2025-08-12T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Professor Emerita Janet Yellen. She served as Chair of the Federal Reserve (2014-2018) and Secretary of the Treasury (2021-2025) the first woman to hold either position. Yellen taught at @BerkeleyHaas 1980-2004 twice winning the outstanding teaching award"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1955707700190585205)  2025-08-13T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Wendell Stanley Professor of Biochemstry 1948-1971 was born August [--] [----]. He won the [----] Nobel Prize in Chemistry for purifying and crystalizing viruses demonstrating their molecular structure. He established the Virus Laboratory at Cal. Stanley Hall is named for him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1956783370740080707)  2025-08-16T18:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In August [----] Alexander Dumas Jones became the first African-American student to enroll at Cal. He left before graduating becoming a customs inspector for the US Treasury Department and a life-long leader among the Black community of the Bay Area and California"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1957140136275456379)  2025-08-17T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Cal alum A. Dumas Jones was a founder of the Afro-American League of California in [----] and the leader of Oakland's Odd Fellow Lodge for many years. He fought for civil rights in California from the 1890s until his death in 1920"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1957140446108647918)  2025-08-17T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RedditCFB The lover thing is not something that I have seen in any of the books or articles I have read about the case. But all the rest is spot on. This tweet includes a link to my own story about Mrs. Stanford's murder for those who might be interested. https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1762941421110395369 On February [--] [----] Jane Lathrop Stanford widow of Leland Stanford and sole trustee of Stanford University died from strychnine poisoning. The murder was covered up by Stanford University's president and never solved. Who are the suspects My story: https://t.co/H4rWkIHC5L"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1959469744266084659)  2025-08-24T04:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RedditCFB And there is a very thorough recent book on the murder by an emeritus Stanford professor Richard White: https://sfstandard.com/2022/05/19/who-killed-jane-stanford-sf-during-the-gilded-age/ https://sfstandard.com/2022/05/19/who-killed-jane-stanford-sf-during-the-gilded-age/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1959470561341657396)  2025-08-24T04:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisCortopassi @BerkeleyLab @advlightsource Yes the Cyclotron Building is still up there on the hill above the Berkeley campus. And yes it is now used by the ALS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1959791089059270982)  2025-08-25T01:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Garrett Cochran @CalFootball's first great coach was born Aug. [--] [----]. He turned the winless [----] Bears into the undefeated [----] Bears. In two years at Cal Cochran led the Bears to a 15-1-3 record beating Stanford twice by a combined score of https://calbearshistory.com/2024/07/05/garrett-cochran-cals-first-great-football-coach/ https://calbearshistory.com/2024/07/05/garrett-cochran-cals-first-great-football-coach/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1960448957026644185)  2025-08-26T21:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cal's only loss under Coach Cochran was a 2-0 heart breaker against Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian School in [----]. The first football game played between east & west coast teams it was billed as the first national championship game and decided by a safety. Photo: the [----] Bears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1960449211687993500)  2025-08-26T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On August [--] [----] Cal's Varsity Crew team returned home in triumph from the Amsterdam Olympics where they had just won Gold representing the USA. They received a tumultuous welcome including this parade up Telegraph Avenue followed by a huge rally at the Greek Theatre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1961891038349713611)  2025-08-30T20:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Pete Newell Cal's greatest basketball coach was born August [--] [----] in Vancouver Canada. Newell led @CalMBBall to four straight Conference titles to the [----] NCAA Championship and to the [----] NCAA final. He also coached the USA to Gold in the [----] Olympics in Rome. #GoBears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1962231267434647910)  2025-08-31T19:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Cal's first Olympic Gold On September [--] [----] USA Rugby with Cal alums Charles Tilden Babe Slater George Fish Matthew Hazeltine Charles Meehan and James Winston staged a massive upset of France to win Gold in Antwerp. @CalVarsityRugby. The story: https://calbearshistory.com/2020/09/05/1920-rugby-cals-first-olympic-gold/ https://calbearshistory.com/2020/09/05/1920-rugby-cals-first-olympic-gold/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1964075506074312996)  2025-09-05T21:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The [----] Olympic Champion Rugby team was made up almost entirely of alums from Cal Stanford and Santa Clara. They had to lobby the US Olympic Committee to be allowed to enter the games and were required to raise all the money to travel and compete themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1964077760705392777)  2025-09-05T21:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Cal sophomore Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won singles doubles and mixed doubles at the US Open. She did it again in [----]. And again in [----]. She remains the only tennis player ever to win all [--] titles at any Grand Slam event in [--] consecutive years. Below: the [----] Finals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1964367473714876810)  2025-09-06T16:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Helen Wills Class of [----] played at the US Open nine times between [----] and [----]. She reached the final every time and won seven championships. She also won four championships in doubles and two in mixed doubles. #GoBears #USOpen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1964367713826197603)  2025-09-06T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jake Tonges Class of [----]. #GoBears https://x.com/NFL/status/1964826285131383070 Jake Tonges had never caught a pass in the NFL before today. He has three today. Including this one 🙌 https://t.co/g1xMS2UXub https://x.com/NFL/status/1964826285131383070 Jake Tonges had never caught a pass in the NFL before today. He has three today. Including this one 🙌 https://t.co/g1xMS2UXub"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1964828829274538147)  2025-09-07T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When Cal alum Don Budge won the US Open in [----] he became the first tennis player ever to win a calendar Grand Slam. Only one other men's player (Rod Laver) has done it since. Budge remains the only men's player to win six consecutive Grand Slam championships in [----] and 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1964833199202488547)  2025-09-07T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"John W. Dwinelle was born Sept. [--] [----]. He arrived in California in [----] for the Gold Rush & served on the SF City Council & as Mayor of Oakland. While in the state Assembly in [----] he wrote the law creating the University of California. Dwinelle Hall was named for him in 1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1965542716118622431)  2025-09-09T22:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Dwinelle supported civil rights for African-Americans arguing unsuccessfully to the state Supreme Court for school desegregation in [----]. He won an [----] case to invalidate a state tax on Chinese residents but later opposed further Chinese https://www.njchs.org/wp-content/uploads/28.1.pdf https://www.njchs.org/wp-content/uploads/28.1.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1965543181736706505)  2025-09-09T22:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The legendary Andy Smith born Sept. [--] [----] coached @CalFootball 1916-1925 going undefeated and winning [--] National Championships from 1920-1924. His [----] "Wonder Team" outscored opponents 510-14 including a 28-0 Rose Bowl blowout of Ohio State. More: https://calbearshistory.com/2024/09/10/andy-smith-cal-footballs-greatest-coach/ https://calbearshistory.com/2024/09/10/andy-smith-cal-footballs-greatest-coach/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1965886068710142392)  2025-09-10T21:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On September [--] [----] Cal scored a victory over the Chicago Bears. Chicago had absconded with the Twitter hashtag #GoBears attaching their orange "C" every time it was used - even on @CalFootball's own tweets. The problem: Cal had the trademark. Oops. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/cal-golden-bears-chicago-trademark-go-bears-pac-12/1k4mv73l0ionq1bxj0cdi5m1bi https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/cal-golden-bears-chicago-trademark-go-bears-pac-12/1k4mv73l0ionq1bxj0cdi5m1bi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1966216603743432712)  2025-09-11T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Remembering Brent Woodall Class of [----] a tight end on Cal's Citrus Bowl team pitcher in the [----] College World Series & graduate of Haas Business School who died at the World Trade Center on September [--] [----]. Brent's wife Tracy give birth to their daughter in April 2002"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1966218452827623475)  2025-09-11T19:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On September [--] [----] Mark Bingham Class of [----] was one of the heroes who brought down United Airlines Flight [--] in Pennsylvania saving hundreds or thousands of lives. Mark Bingham was a proud gay man and a National Champion with @CalVarsityRugby. He was [--] years old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1966220486641369575)  2025-09-11T19:21Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements


"Lawrence Klein Class of [----] was born September [--] [----]. In [----] Klein became the first Cal alum to win a Nobel Prize in Economics for creating computer models to forecast macroeconomic trends - tools still used by the Federal Reserve. @berkeleyecon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1967325358015070585)  2025-09-14T20:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On September [--] [----] @CalFootball suffered the infamous "Corvallis Minute." As the Beavers were trying to come back from a 16-6 fourth quarter deficit Oregon State's clock mysteriously added an extra minute to the game. OSU hit a field goal in the 61st minute to "win" 17-16"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1968433787341086771)  2025-09-17T21:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TwistNH7 Pappy Waldorf or GTFO. In five years at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) his teams went 34-10-7 won three conference championships and never lost to Oklahoma. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/berry-tramel/2017/08/20/pappy-waldorf-was-osus-greatest-coach/60580754007/ https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/berry-tramel/2017/08/20/pappy-waldorf-was-osus-greatest-coach/60580754007/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1969256729981378683)  2025-09-20T04:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SickosCommittee Pappy Waldorf: At Oklahoma State his teams went 34-10-7 with [--] conference championships. In a single season at Kansas State he won the Big Six championship for the first and only time until [----]. Won the Big-10 Championship at Northwestern. Took Cal to [--] straight Rose Bowls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1969323812182188037)  2025-09-20T08:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Maggiesuntan @SickosCommittee He won [--] conference championships at Oklahoma State in five years the first conference championship ever at Kansas State in his single season there a Big-10 championship at Northwestern and three straight Pacific Coast Conference championships at Cal. Sign of great coach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1969324760048828456)  2025-09-20T08:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Jay Ward a Berkeley native got the name "Bullwinkle" from a local car dealership and one of Ward's earliest cartoon efforts featured a character named Oski Bear. (Below right.) Ward's fellow Cal alum Alexander Anderson drew the original versions of Rocky and Bullwinkle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1969550408181055808)  2025-09-20T23:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And Jay Ward loved Cal #GoBears https://x.com/twcarey/status/1233651171560026113 @CalBearsHistory @Cal Jay Ward loves the @CalBand. He gave us a Dudley DoRight costume for our [----] halftime show in which Dudley saves Little Nell from the sousaphone section. He fed the Straw Hat Band in L.A. I had dinner with him twice during SHB trips. Loved him and Moose and Squirrel. https://x.com/twcarey/status/1233651171560026113 @CalBearsHistory @Cal Jay Ward loves the @CalBand. He gave us a Dudley DoRight costume for our [----] halftime show in which Dudley saves Little Nell from the sousaphone section."  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1969550931806339293)  2025-09-20T23:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Harry Liversedge Class of [----] was born September [--] [----]. A 3-sport athlete at Cal and Olympic medalist in shot put he became a career Marine Corps officer. In WW II he led the invasion of Iwo Jima landing while the first wave was pinned down & leading them off the beach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1969895066761371954)  2025-09-21T22:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Irving Foster Morrow Class of [----] was born September [--] [----]. Morrow and his wife Gertrude Comfort Morrow (BA [----] MA 1914) were the architects of the Golden Gate Bridge designing the towers and the lighting and giving the bridge its famous International Orange color"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1970229521518620769)  2025-09-22T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On Sept. [--] [----] the Miami Dolphins' 18-game winning streak was ended at California Memorial Stadium. They were beaten by a team then known as "the Oakland Raiders" coached by John Madden. They played at Cal due to a conflict with a team then known as "the Oakland Athletics.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1970591224269808057)  2025-09-23T20:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday to the Greek Theatre On September [--] [----] the first performance was held at the newly completed theater a student production of the ancient Greek comedy "The Birds" by Aristophanes. "The Greek" has been a center of Berkeley life ever since"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1970955853202407930)  2025-09-24T20:57Z [----] followers, 24.4K engagements


"Dr. Edith Brownsill Class of [----] was born September [--] [----]. She played for Cal in the world's first intercollegiate women's basketball game vs. Stanford in [----]. She later founded Berkeley's first public health clinic and worked for women's suffrage and contraception access"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1972394860482306350)  2025-09-28T20:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Edith Brownsill was one of [--] women to graduate from UCSF Medical School in [----]. She co-founded a clinic on University Avenue in Berkeley in [----] to help victims of the San Francisco earthquake which became the Berkeley Public Health Clinic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1972397122835370312)  2025-09-28T20:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"1956 was a disappointment & Waldorf announced his retirement right before Big Game. Injuries forced him to start unknown 3rd-string quarterback Joe Kapp. The Bears responded with a stunning upset of 14-point favorite Stanford & the players carried Pappy off the field in triumph"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1974236737346949194)  2025-10-03T22:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CalFootball Waldorf was an All-American at Syracuse. Before coming to Cal he led Oklahoma State to [--] conference championships Kansas State to its first-ever conference championship and took Northwestern to the Rose Bowl. His former players commissioned his statue now in Faculty Glade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1974238744174789096)  2025-10-03T22:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Of course this story about some of the more unconventional paths taken on the way to a Nobel Prize features two Cal folks: Frances Arnold Ph.D. [----] (Chemical Engineering) and David Card Professor of Economics. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-unconventional-paths-nobels.html https://phys.org/news/2025-10-unconventional-paths-nobels.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1974920352854839407)  2025-10-05T19:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Frances Arnold says she was a bored and disruptive student with such poor attendance that at one point she was expelled. She worked as a waitress receptionist and cab driver before eventually getting her doctorate at Cal. She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1974921494389285009)  2025-10-05T19:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Helen Wills Class of [----] was born October [--] [----]. She was the first internationally famous woman athlete and greatest woman tennis player of her era. Wills won [--] Grand Slam titles and [--] Olympic Gold Medals. Her record of [--] Wimbledon singles titles stood for [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1975310923352113606)  2025-10-06T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Les Richter Class of [----] was born October [--] [----]. The first @CalFootball player elected to the NFL Hall of Fame he was a consensus All-American twice an 8-time Pro Bowler for the Rams and later Senior VP of NASCAR. He is also in the College Football HOF & Motor Sports HOF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1975314642470867345)  2025-10-06T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Congratulations to Professor Omar Yaghi on receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The son of Palestinian refugees in Jordan he arrived in the US in [----] taking community college classes despite limited English. He is founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute. My parents could barely read or write. Its been quite a journey science allows you to do it. New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him just after he heard that he had been awarded the [----] #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview https://t.co/pTlHPdX4st My parents could barely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1975927152748192125)  2025-10-08T14:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When Carol Greider was a child dyslexia made it difficult for her to read & spell. Put into remedial classes she thought she was stupid. She was rejected by [--] graduate schools for low GRE scores but accepted at Cal. In [----] she won the Nobel Prize. #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1976030312913354793)  2025-10-08T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Carol Greider Ph.D. [----] Nobel Prize in Medicine [----]. #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/1889237505427317203 Medicine laureate Carol Greider overcame dyslexia as a child with persistence and creativity. Since she found it hard to read the traditional way she found another: she taught herself to memorise words and letter order circumventing her inability to sound out words. Greider https://t.co/rwjCygKLk0 https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/1889237505427317203 Medicine laureate Carol Greider overcame dyslexia as a child with persistence and creativity. Since she found it hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1976031075475554389)  2025-10-08T21:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On October [--] [----] @CalFootball scored the most points in its history beating St. Mary's 127-0 as Andy Smith's "Wonder Team" was on its way to becoming one of the all-time great college football teams. Here's my story on that record-shattering game: https://calbearshistory.com/2020/10/09/cals-wonder-team-centennial-game-three-california-vs-st-marys/ https://calbearshistory.com/2020/10/09/cals-wonder-team-centennial-game-three-california-vs-st-marys/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1976410976359678087)  2025-10-09T22:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Walter Gordon was also Berkeley's first Black police officer Chair of the California Parole Board President of the Berkeley NAACP & Alumnus of the Year in [----]. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in [----]. For more: https://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/f/2010/5/26/1488872/walter-gordon-cals-amazing-first https://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/f/2010/5/26/1488872/walter-gordon-cals-amazing-first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1976751008140386725)  2025-10-10T20:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ida Louise Jackson BA [----] MA [----] was born October [--] [----] in Mississippi. She was the first Black woman public school teacher in the California and later earned a PhD at Columbia. In [----] she founded the Mississippi Health Project to bring mobile health care to rural areas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1977527561833021734)  2025-10-13T00:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Clint Evans @Cal Class of [----] & Baseball Coach from 1930-1954 was born on April [--] [----]. Evans was the main advocate for establishing the College World Series & led @CalBaseball to the first CWS Championship in [----] - sweeping Yale (captained by George H.W. Bush) in the Final"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CalBearsHistory/status/980870685785440256)  2018-04-02T18:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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