Welcome

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.