From the Dean

Welcome to the first issue of Forefront in this, our 35th year of publication. The magazine in your hands is the first to include Class Notes, updates from our alumni worldwide.

Behind every entry in these brief notes is a compelling story and a reminder that our past and present are continuous in many ways. Indeed, our Klamath Lake feature was well under way when we got word that pioneering alumna Helen Joyce (Pease) Peters (B.S. ’51 CE) had passed away last fall.

In her first professional assignment, Mrs. Peters supervised field crews in the Klamath River Basin as preparation for the Klamath River Compact. Created in 1957, the compact was designed to facilitate orderly development, use, and conservation of the vast water resources in the area as well as adjacent land and resident wildlife.

Nearly 50 years later, Berkeley engineering still has a presence at Klamath in the person of Alex Horne, an international expert on water quality. The problems may be different, and we may be solving them in different ways today, but it is reassuring to know that Berkeley engineers are doing what they have done for decades: going out into the world with a commitment to tackling the toughest problems and finding the most elegant and effective solutions possible.

We hope you enjoy hearing about your fellow Berkeley engineering alumni and we invite you to let us keep up with you too. Please submit your entry for Class Notes at www.coe.berkeley.edu/alumni_friends/class_notes.html. We would certainly like to hear from you.

A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and the
Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering

FOREFRONT takes you into the labs, classrooms, and lives of professors, students, and alumni for an intimate look at the innovative research, teaching, and campus life that defines the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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