June 2024 - History Corner
Once Upon a Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago June 1899 Jun 5: An important meeting of the Hillside Club will be held tomorrow...
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The History Corner
by David Mostardi, Club Historian
May 2024 - History Corner
Once Upon a Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago May 1899 May 16: The Hillside Club will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday at 4...
History Corner - January 2024
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago January 1899 January 10: The Hillside Club will meet this afternoon at the...
History Corner - December 2023
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago by David Mostardi December 1898 The Hillside Club was born on 5 October 1898. No...
History Corner - November 2023
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago by David Mostardi November 1898 Hillside Club Meeting: The Hillside Club will...
History Corner - October 2023
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago by David Mostardi October 1898 The First Meeting of the Hillside Club The...
History Corner - May 2023
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago May 1923 Directors Meeting: Moved and seconded that...
History Corner - April 2023
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago April 1923 Business Meeting, March 5 Architectural...
History Corner - March 2023
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago March 1923 Business Meeting, March 5 Camp Fire...
History Corner - February 2023
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago February 1923 Business Meeting:...
January 2023 - History Corner
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago January 1923 New Year’s Party: Since New Year’s Eve...
December 2022 History Corner
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago December 1922 Business Meeting: The report of the Property Committee, Mr. Palmer...
November 2022 History Corner
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago November 1922 Director’s Meeting: Dr. Eakle and Miss Woodall, President and Secretary...
October 2022 History Corner
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago October 1922 Business Meeting: The subject for the consideration of the evening was...
September 2022 History Corner
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago September 1922 Board of Director’s Meeting: A report on the new hardwood floor was...
May 2022 History Corner
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago May 1922 Social Meeting: A gala social meeting of...
The History Corner - April 2022
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago April 1922 Social Meeting: The entertainment for the...
History Corner March 2022
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago March 1922 Business Meeting:...
The History Corner February 2022
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago February 1922 Business Meeting: Dr. [Agnes Fay]...
The History Corner January 2022
by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago January 1922 Business Meeting: Neil Monroe, chairman...
December 1921...
December 1921 Business Meeting: The special subject for the evening will be the moving picture problem. Dr. Maxwell Ryder of Los Angeles,...
November 1921...
November 1921 Business Meeting: The Honorable will address the meeting upon the subject of the proposed consolidation of cities of the...
October History Corner
October 2020 The History Corner Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago October 1921 Business Meeting: Mrs. W. H. Marston, of...
September 1921, Mr. Charles Keeler, life member of the Club....
September 2020 The History Corner Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago September 1921 Business Meeting: Mr. Charles Keeler,...
August, The Annual Picnic
August 2021 The History Corner The Annual Picnic For thirty years during the early twentieth century, the first event of the Hillside...
June 2021 Number 27 in a series of articles profiling notable Hillside Club members of the past.
Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870-1953) Gertrude Janes Bolton (1871-1954) Club members for...
May 2021 What To Do About The Clubhouse?
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago May 1921 What To Do About The...
April 2021: Gardens, Spring Extravaganza and more!
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago April 1921 Garden Fete: The April...
March 2021 “You Never Can Tell”
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago March 1921 For the entertainment...
February: “Night in Spain by Hillside Club is Great Success,”
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago February 1921 “Night in Spain by...
Happy New Year!
January 1921
New Year’s Eve: The New Year’s Eve
A social tribute this December 2020
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago Frank Morris, 1920-2020 We have...
November 2020
The History Corner by David Mostardi, Club Historian Once Upon A Hillside: 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago November 1920 Social Evening:...
October 2020
In Memoriam Some Club members will remember Roslyn Bullas and Michael McKay, members here from 2009-12, whereupon they moved to New...
SEPTEMBER 2020
September 1920
Fireside Meeting: Our speaker will be Professor H. E. Bolton, who spent his vacation searching for the first white man’s trai
AUGUST 2020
Number 26 in a series of articles profiling notable Hillside Club members of the past.
JULY 2020
Number 25 in a series of articles profiling notable Hillside Club members of the past.
JUNE 2020
Rear Admiral William Henry Whiting (1843-1925)
Henrietta Afong Whiting (1870-1940)
Club members for eight years (1905-14)
MARCH 2020
Fireside Meeting: Prof. Charles F. Shaw, Professor of Soil Technology at the University of California, will give an address on “Selecting La
FEBRUARY 2020
Fireside Meeting: Professor Williams, one of our new members, was introduced and talked on religions in China.
JANUARY 2020
Board of Directors Meeting: The fee for life membership is raised to $100, or $175 for husband and wife. Revenue from life memberships shall
DECEMBER 2019
Christmas Ceremonial: The Christmas Ceremonial Committee presents dramatic tableaux “The Conflict of the Nations,” an original composition b
NOVEMBER 2019
November 1919
War Service: Mr. Mathis requested the War Service Committee of the Club to work during November for the peoples of Serbia and
SEPTEMBER 2019
Club member Garth Edward Burns died on April 6, 2019, from complications of Parkinson’s. He was 77 years old. Garth began working at Lawrenc
AUGUST 2019
It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Eleanor Weigand, a Hillside Club member since 1984. Below I include her obituary, origin
MAY 2019
May 1919
War Service Section: Mrs. Mathis rendered quite a comprehensive report on the work done in the War Service Section by the committee
JUNE 2019
Number 20 in a series of articles profiling notable Hillside Club members of the past.
Charles E. Chapman – Club member for 8 years (1921-
APRIL 2019
April 1919
Social Evening: “An Evening of Music in the Drawing Room.” Mr. and Mrs. Bliss Cayenne and Mrs. Pepper entertained, and what a de
SEPTEMBER 2018
September 1918
Business Meeting, War Services Section: Miss Annie Woodall rendered a report of the Committee in charge of the Sandwich Booth
JULY 2018
“STRIFE BESETS FASHIONABLE BERKELEY! A row has developed between factions of the fashionable Hillside Club of Berkeley over the invasion of
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