SPONSORED SERVICES FOR STUDENTS & SCHOLARS
( Please check out the activities at the YWCA The Centre - Calendar of Events )
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Donna Oliver (Robert) |
Student Grants assist individual students referred to us by a network of advisors throughout the campus. Donations and the Section Club fundraising events support these grants, a lifeline for students.
Since the founding of the Section Club, S.O.S., with generous donations from our members and fundraising events, provides support to the university student community. The Sylvia Elberg Memorial Fund gives Emergency Grants to aid students and their families. The S.O.S. Fund is for student related special projects, which are requested by campus departments through S.O.S. Liaisons. Twice a year, the S.O.S. Committee meets to allocate the funds for the projects. S.O.S. encourages Section Club members to serve as volunteers at the Tang Center (University Health Services) and University Village in Albany.
| University Village (Albany) |
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Danielle de Fontaine (Didier) |
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Dolores Williamson (Oliver) |
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| Disabled Students' Program |
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Susanne McQuade (Donald) |
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| Center for Transfer, Re-entry and Student Parents |
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Mary Lee Noonan (John) |
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| Tang Center Volunteers |
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Betsy Smith |
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| Student Life Advising/EOP |
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Terry De Luca Schooler (Edmund) |
This committee of volunteers works in cooperation with International House, the YWCA at U.C. Berkeley, and the Berkeley International Office (formerly called Services for International Students and Scholars or SISS) to provide the following services for foreign students, scholars, their spouses and children.
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Katherine Graburn (Nelson) |
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Judy Gordon (Milton) |
The Centre, located at the University YWCA, 2600 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, offers spouses and children of visiting foreign students and scholars an introduction to the community and a friendly place to meet every Thursday during the academic year from 9:30 AM to 12 noon. Summer 10 AM to 12 noon.
Click here for The Centre - Calendar of Events.
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Marjorie Sauer (Kenneth) |
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Grace Kobayashi (Shoshichi) |
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Sylvia Rock (Irvin) |
The International House Holiday Party for the children and their families spending their first holiday season at the University is always a great success. It is scheduled for Sat. Dec. 8, 2007, 2 - 4 PM in the Great Hall.
Holiday Party at I-House - December 2006
Mie Suzuki holding a Centre participant, and Grace Kobayashi with handmade bears.
 
Joe Lurie plays Santa Claus.
 
Pictures taken by Larnie Macasieb. Please email usectionclub@berkeley.edu for link to Larnie's whole album, put Larnie's Pictures in the subject line.
Equipment Loan Center allows foreign students and scholars to borrow household items for a small fee. The Center is open first, third and fifth Wednesday from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM during June, every Wednesday the Summer months from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, then the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM. from October through March, closed in April for re-organization, and reopens for May, (Closed the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.) Contact the Co-Chairs for special arrangements. It is located in Building F on Haste Street, between Telegraph and Bowditch. Donations are welcome and tax-deductible.
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Katherine Graburn (Nelson) |
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Linda Wei (Eddie) |
Host Family Program:
Please contact International House Program Office, 642-9460
Orientations are provided every month at International House and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to cover important immigration matters for new arrivals. Our volunteers talk about campus and community services. An invitation is extended to come to The Centre and the Equipment Loan Center.
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Judy Gordon (Milton) |
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Betsy Smith |
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Marjorie Sauer (Kenneth) |
Updated August 3, 2008
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