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Welcome to the Knights of Columbus # 1499 Berkeley Council History Weblog.

This weblog serves to accumulate and present its history online.

Berkeley Council was instituted in 1910 in Berkeley CA, the thirty-first council in the state, and remains named after the city in which it was founded, as was common at the time.

The Council has been "headquartered" at a number of locations. The sequence of homes is ...
* 1640 Addison Street (the St Joseph parish hall)
* 2073 Allston (the "old" YMCA building, building demolished, replaced)
* 2019 Addison Street (building demolished, replaced )
* 2079 Addison Street (building demolished, replaced by Bank, replaced by Kress)
* 2108 Shattuck Avenue (building exists, hall space renovated into offices)
* 1970 Chestnut Street (building exists, this is Finnish Hall)
* 1934 Bonita Avenue (building exists, hall space renovated into business)
* 1145 Gilman Street (current home, this is Saint Ambrose Parish Hall)
Meetings are held on the third Sunday of every month.

Berkeley Council was founded through the efforts of fifty-four local Catholic men of Saint Joseph Parish. Over the years, members have come from a larger geographical area as nearby parishes were created. The Council has sought and continues to seek members from ...
* [1879] Saint Joseph the Worker Parish (1640 Addison Street, Berkeley CA 94703)
* [1906] Newman Hall/Holy Spirit Parish (2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94704)
* [1909] Saint Ambrose Parish (1145 Gilman Street, Berkeley CA 94706)
* [1923] Saint Mary Magdalene Parish (2005 Berryman Street, Berkeley CA 94709)
* [1907] Saint Augustine Parish (400 Alcatraz Avenue, Oakland CA 94609)
* [1941] Saint Jerome Parish (308 Carmel Avenue, El Cerrito CA 94530)
* [1925] Saint John the Baptist Parish (11150 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito CA 94530)
* [1952] Saint David of Wales Parish (5641 Esmond Avenue, Richmond CA 94805)

Berkeley Council is particularly proud of the following members ...
* Cornelius D Maloney
. 1914-?? District Deputy
. 1915 CA State Rep to Supreme Convention
* Dixon L Phillips
. 1919 CA State Convention proposer of youth program (Columbian Squires)
* Ernest Woodfeldt
. 1931 chief organizer of new council 2741 Contra Costa
. 1941-42 ? State Secretary
. 1942-43 State Deputy
* Robert E Rooney
. 1933-34 State Committee on "Catholic Action" activities
* James B Kaney
. 1946-__ District Deputy
* Norman L Evans
. 19__-__ District Deputy
. 1980-81 Chapter President #13
* Alfred R Viarengo
. 1985-86 Chapter President #18
* John L Dion
. 1991-92 Chapter President #24

Enjoy browsing all the items at the right ...

BLOG ARCHIVE
contains newspaper posts in chronological order.

(1910-nov-06) through (1969-dec-31)
Each is posted to Jan 1, 1970 with incremented timestamps.

(1970-jan-01) through (current date)
all posted to the corresponding date.

PAGES
contains various ways of organizing all the bits of data.

rabbit holes

Interesting things to explore.
Not quite related to the KofC Berkeley Council history.



http://books.google.com/books?id=PA12AAAAMAAJ
The Negro trail blazers of California:
a compilation of records from the ...
By Delilah Leontium Beasley, Bancroft Library
---page 223---
Leviticus Nelson Everell Lyon, the subject of this sketch, was born in San Francisco
in May, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of Oakland, after which he
took a course in general history and economics at the University of California in
Berkeley. It was while attending the university that he discovered that he had a talent
for music, immediately placing himself for voice culture under the instruction of Miss
Katherine Urner and Dr. George Bowdin, of the University of California. The last
named was a former professor from London, England.
[...]
Soon after the above was penned and mailed to Mr. Lyon for criticism he was
solicited by some friend to appear in a song recital at the Knights of Columbus Hall in
Oakland. The following appeared in the Oakland Bulletin of April 17, 1918: "Customs
Employee in Singer's Role. An elevator operator with ambitions to become a concert
singer has been discovered in the employ of Uncle Sam at the custom house in San
Francisco. [...] He will make his
first appearance with a program of his own at the Knights of Columbus Hall, in Oakland,
on Saturday evening, April 27, 1918.
[...]

Oakland Diocese Chapter Testimonial Dinner

A single glossy-on-one-side heavy-stock paper (8.5 x 11.0)
folded in half to create four pages (8.5 H x 5.5 W)
was at each table seat.

Page four provided info for 1968-69 through 2009-10.
The list included several Berkeley Council members;
this particular data is below ...

Past Chapter Presidents
Oakland Diocese Chapter
...
Norman Evans       1980-1981
...
Alfred Viarengo    1985-1986 +
...
John Dion          1991-1992 +
...

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Grand Knights 1985-present

This post complements the 75th Anniversary list.

1985-86 Norman Evans (see 75th dinner remarks)
1986-87 Ralph L Gross (*) _VS_ Al Viarengo (see Newsletter Sep 1986)
1987-88 Norman L Evans (*)
1988-89 Norman L Evans (*)
1989-90 Alfred R Viarengo (*)

1990-91 Alfred R Viarengo (*)
1991-92 Alfred R Viarengo (*)
1992-93 Alfred R Viarengo (*)
1993-94 Alfred R Viarengo (*)
1994-95 Stephen J Mazurek (*)
1995-96 Stephen J Mazurek (*)
1996-97 Stephen J Mazurek (*)
1997-98 Stephen J Mazurek (*)
1998-99 Lawrence J Hartman (*)
1999-00 Lawrence J Hartman (*)

2000-01 Mateo Ramos (*)
2001-02 Mateo Ramos
2002-03 Mateo Ramos
2003-04 Mateo Ramos
2004-05 Mateo Ramos
2005-06 Mateo Ramos
2006-07 Mateo Ramos
2007-08 Mateo Ramos
2008-09 Mateo Ramos
2009-10 Andrew W Lojo

2010-11 Andrew W Lojo

(*) =
History of the Knights of Columbus in California - Volume II 1972-2002
One Hundred Years Of Service
page 114

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75th Anniversary Dinner info

The 75th Anniversary Dinner
was held on Sunday, November 10, 1985.

A program (8.5 by 11 folded in half) contains ...
Page 1 (cover)
Page 2 (one-paragraph history, list of Charter Members)
Page 3 (dinner program)
Page 4 (list of Past Grand Knights)

I have back-filled (posted) the program to the appropriate date.

2010 Calendar

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