Jerry Wayne Varnado (B.A., ’69) was involved with the Negro Students Association at SF State and co-founded the Black Student Union (BSU). “I heard the men and women who led that Third World strike speak and I understood at that point what my position was being part of this long legacy of being part of the oppressed people, just like Black people.” López went on to become a celebrated painter, printmaker, educator and film producer whose work frequently focused on the experiences of Mexican-American women.
“I did not become aware of our own history until 1968, when there was a call for a strike at San Francisco State - a strike for ethnic studies,” she said in a 2014 interview with the Shaping San Francisco website. Yolanda López was a student at SF State when she had an experience that changed her life. Hayakawa,” a biography of SF State’s president during the tumultuous late ’60s and early ’70s. With his wife Janice he wrote “In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S.I. In volumes such as “Coming of Age in California,” “The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland” and “Haslam’s Valley,” as well as hundreds of essays, op-eds and short stories, he established himself as a significant interpreter of his native state. Haslam taught in Sonoma State University’s English Department for 30 years before retiring in 1997, then teaching part-time 15 more years at the University of San Francisco’s Fromm Institute. from the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities (’80), and he also attended Bakersfield College, Sacramento State and Washington State. In addition to SF State, Haslam’s academic career included a Ph.D. Haslam (B.A., ’63 M.A., ’65) passed away April 13, 2021, after a long illness. Duskin used the resulting wealth to launch a lifetime of activism, crusading for a variety of environmental causes. When he began selling dress-length sweaters, the style - dubbed “the Peace Dress” after peace symbols were added to the design - became a fashion sensation that swept the nation. His family operated a sweater factory in the city, and in the 1960s he founded his own sweater store. The University named her one of its Distinguished Alumni in 1999, and a year later she became San Francisco’s poet laureate.Īlvin Duskin was born and raised in San Francisco and earned his B.A. She also created dozens of social programs for the poor and homeless. Forced to move with her family to an internment camp during World War II and later a survivor of sexual abuse, Mirikitani frequently addressed racism and abuse in her work. Janice Mirikitani (pictured above with some of the youths whose lives she touched) studied creative writing at SF State in the 1960s and began publishing acclaimed poetry in the years afterward.
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