November 2024 - History Corner

Once Upon a Hillside: 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 years ago

November 1899

The Hillside Club was founded on 5 October 1898. No newspaper articles about the young Hillside Club could be found for this month.

November 1924

Business Meeting, November 3

The program will be in charge of Mr. S. C. Irving, chairman of Civic Affairs. There will be an open discussion of the proposed amendments to the [California] constitution and other matters appearing on the ballot.

Benefit Performance, November 15

“The Sidehill Minstrels of the Hillside Club,” for members and friends at the Club House, a benefit for the Furniture Fund [to replace all the furniture lost when the old Club House was destroyed in the 1923 Berkeley Fire]. Admission four bits [50¢]. Children under 14, two bits. Cheque or Cash, don’t crowd. We will be under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morton Todd.

Social Meeting, November 17

Mrs. Roger Noble Burnham will present “Mr. Tister’s Temerity,” a play in three acts.

November 1949

The Hillside Club has a nearly complete archive of monthly newsletters. Unfortunately, there is a gap from October 1949 through January 1951.

November 1974

Fireside Meeting, November 4

Dr. Joyce Kallgren, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Davis and Vice-Chairperson Center of Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, will speak on her recent visit to the People’s Republic of China. Las March, Prof. Kallgren served as the leader of a group of professional men and women who studied the welfare programs in China. They visited Canton, Shanghai, Suchow and Peking. In addition to her professorial duties, Dr. Kallgren serves as Faculty Assistant to Vice Chancellor Heyman on the Berkeley campus. Ed Kallgren, San Francisco attorney and Berkeley City Councilperson, accompanied the study group on their visit to the Chinese Mainland and will share in the evening’s program by showing slides taken on the trip.

Sutter Creek Tour, November 7-8

By special request, we shall be having an overnight trip to Sutter Creek to stay at the famous Sutter Creek Inn. For some, this will be a new experience, for others it will be a repeat. However, your Committee has planned some new things to do as well as some of the old places. If you have been before to Sutter Creek Inn, come again for the fun and fellowship; if this is your first time, this will be a novel experience for you. Space is limited; we can take only one bus.

Evening of Music, November 11

For the first evening of music, we are particularly favored in presenting the well-known duo-pianist team of Jean Hargrove and Lola Fabris, both of whom have played in Bay Area symphonies in single renditions. We are also presenting our own Ted Tellefsen in baritone solos accompanied by Ruth Johnson. Ted’s performance in last year’s Extravaganza will be long remembered. Further, we take great pleasure in presenting the well-known piano-dance team of Agatha Sue Lee and Charles Adams Lee, and to complete the program we are arranging an instrumental group to perform for us.

International Relations, November 18

The speaker will be Dr. Richard A. Sandell, Professor of International Business, Elbert Covell College, University of the Pacific. Dr. Sandell has just returned from an extended trip to fourteen Latin American countries. He will outline economic and political developments in this large area, where events of great importance have been numerous recently. His comment on returning: “What is going on is too much to believe!”

November 1999

The Club’s archive of printed monthly newsletters ended with the May 1994 issue. If you know of a source for any newsletters between 1994 and the Club’s renaissance in the early 2000s, your historian would love to hear about it!