Richard Erickson, BS 49, MBA 50

Cal Quarterback, CAA Executive Director

Richard Erickson, BS 49, MBA 50

Richard E. (Dick) Erickson, BS 49, MBA 50, a longtime Cal employee, passed away on October 15, 2018. He was 92. While at Berkeley, Erickson played quarterback for the Cal Bears football team that went to the Rose Bowl in 1949. After earning two business degrees at Berkeley, he spent the majority of his career at his alma mater, first as the third executive director of the California Alumni Association, where he served for 16 years, then as the first assistant chancellor for development. For his service to the university, Erickson was awarded the Glenn Seaborg Award, the Berkeley Citation, and the UC Berkeley Foundation Award.

In Memoriam

Robert Offermann, BS 46
Warren Eijima, BS 48
Marie Petris, BS 48
June Reiner, BS 48
William Howard, BS 49
Richard Thompson, BS 49, MBA 61
Henry DeSeguirant, BS 50
Charles Eaton, BS 50
Rose Ellis, BS 50
Louis Lowd, BS 50
Arno Marra, BS 50
Donald Nelson, BS 50
John Bixby, BS 51
J Craig Karasky, BS 51
Kenneth Hagemann, BS 52
Daniel Hungerford, BS 52
Richard Thurber, BS 52
Robert Froeschle, BS 53
Walter Yewdall, BS 53
Merrill Hoffelt, BS 54
Bruce Hyman, BS 54
Michael Etemad, BS 55
Dwight Allen, BS 57
Herbert Lee, BS 57
Gordon Greenlee, BS 59
Joseph Russ, BS 59
James Barton, MBA 59
Reginald Gaylord, BS 60
Robert Rhodes, BS 60
Gareth Dorn, BS 62
James Gearhart, BS 63
Walter Leach, BS 63
Roy Thylin, BS 63, MBA 64
Edwin Laufenberg, BS 64
Edward Evans, MBA 64
C Todd Conover, MBA 65
Charles Cabrera, BS 66, MBA 68
James Moore, BS 66
Thomas Bates, PHD 66
Herbert Mager, MBA 69
Steven Schrepfer, BS 70
Frederick Ybarra, MBA 70
Grant Wong, MBA 76
Mark Mitchell, BS 80
Phyllis Joseph, MBA 80
Robin Wagner, PHD 82
Austin Ibrahim, BS 08
Don Conner, Friend
Diane Crossfield, Friend
Lorraine Imbody, Friend
Edwin Stokes, Friend
Georgia White, Friend
Jack Wulfmeyer, Friend

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