Cal Alumni Pride, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) alumni club of the University of California, Berkeley supports and promotes the interests of the University of California and its alumni, with an emphasis on issues and interests specific to the LGBT community. Click here to find out more about us.

In this issue:

• A Message from the Cal Alumni Pride Board
• Meet your new board
• Cal Alumni Pride scholarship program
  
• Events update
• Charter Gala
• Alumni in the news

A Message from the Cal Alumni Pride Board

Dear Cal Alumni Pride Member:

Welcome to our second newsletter. Our hope is to keep you and Cal’s estimated 43,000 LGBT alumni connected to our alma mater. In this issue you will meet the board and the four amazing undergraduates we honored last year with Cal Alumni Pride scholarships. You’ll also learn about an alumnus who like many of us took to the streets in response to the passage of Prop 8.

Lastly we’d like to thank the nearly 80 alumni and friends who turned out for our December happy hour. We’re planning activities and events that you won’t want to miss, so be sure to keep an eye out for future e-mails and remember to join us on Facebook.

Enjoy this update and please contact us with feedback.

GO BEARS!

The Cal Alumni Pride Board

Meet your new board

The newly constituted Cal Alumni Pride Board has met regularly since late September of 2008 to establish our mission, create bylaws, recruit members, award scholarships and plan events. Follow this link, for more background on the following board members:

Kinman Tong, ‘03 Treasurer
Lindsey Adams, ‘04 Membership Chair
Adrian Diaz, ’04 Communications Chair  
Kaveh Azari, ‘05 Scholarship Chair
Alex Randolph, ‘06 President

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The Cal Alumni Pride scholarship program

Since 1991, Cal Alumni Pride (formerly UC GALA) has awarded 42 scholarships to undergraduate LGBT and LGBT supportive students at Cal. The $1,500 scholarships are awarded annually to students who demonstrate leadership and community involvement who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or supportive of LGBT issues. Generous contributions from our members have enabled the club to increase the number of scholarships granted from one to four annually. To learn more about the scholarship program and how you can support it, please follow this link.

This year we honored four outstanding undergraduates who have demonstrated leadership in the LGBT community at Cal. Follow this link for more on Phillip Alvarado, Nicole Hess, Richie Nguyen and Heather Ross.

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Events Update

Below are a few noteworthy events we thought you might like to know about. For more details and to learn about other activities, follow this link.

 - Ivy League LGBT Alumni Mixer - February 18, 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm House of Shields, 39 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco - More Info here

  - Out in Science: A Distinguished Panel - February 20, 2009, 5:30pm Genentech Hall Auditorium, 600 16th Street @ Mission Bay Campus, UCSF - More Info here

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Save the Date -141st Charter Gala

The honor of your presence is requested at the Cal Alumni Pride table for an evening of celebration, fine dining, music, and dancing marking the 141st anniversary of the University of California and honoring the 2009 Alumnus of the Year, Robert D. Haas ‘64.

Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 6 PM to 12 Midnight  - Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.  Follow this link for more information

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Alumni in the news

On November 4, 2008, 52% of California voters approved Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. The passage of this discriminatory initiative mobilized the LGBT community across the country. Given UC Berkeley’s history of activism, it is no surprise that countless alumni from San Francisco to New York took to the streets in protest. Follow this link to see who appeared in the LA Times.

Have you been in the news or know an LGBT Cal Alumnus who has done something great? Email us at info@calalumnipride.org

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