San Francisco Senior Beat

Jan Robbins

Nonprofit worker/consultant championed community improvements through collaboration with schools and juvenile services

February 15, 2023 All Posts

Some people like to fix cars, children’s toy, or broken furniture. Bruce Marcus likes to fix nonprofit organizations. Over a 38-year career in nonprofit work, management and consulting, he initiated innovative programs in juvenile justice and drug and alcohol education, championing partnerships between nonprofits and public schools. Hoping to share his vision of nonprofit managers ...

Tom Carter

Colorful crates carry arts and communications retiree’s tools to better the brains of children

January 28, 2023 All Posts

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Albert Einstein Suzanne Korey loves giving away books to kids. By her latest count, she’s handed off 22,650 over the last two years. She loads her silver, 6-foot-long van with ...

Myra Krieger

Radiologist who served his country in public health rather than battleground revisits Vietnam War era in one-man play

September 14, 2022 All Posts

If you ask Edward Lebowitz why he went to medical school, you might be surprised by his answer: the war in Vietnam. “This was the greatest influence on my decision to become a doctor,” said Lebowitz, now 75 and a clinical professor of radiology at Stanford University. “I have no idea what I would have ...

Bill Snyder

A history of struggles and challenges, but El Tecolote, its founder and City College journalism chair persisted

January 2, 2022 All Posts

Juan Gonzales doesn’t discourage easily. His high school guidance counselor didn’t think he was a candidate for college. The faculty at San Francisco State University didn’t think he had what it takes to teach journalism. And the Spanish language press in San Francisco’s Mission District didn’t think publishing a bilingual newspaper would be a success. ...

Jan Robbins

Leader of avant-garde, female theater troupe Les Nickelettes back to performing, with Cosmic Elders

December 19, 2021 All Posts 2 Comments

If you told 12-year-old Denise Larson that she was going to be the Mama of Les Nickelettes, a feminist experimental theater group with an anything-goes, throw-out-the-rules attitude, she would have stared at you like you had two heads. “I knew I wanted to be a stage actress at 12, but I was painfully shy with ...

Judy Goddess

In her 89th year, devout and disciplined Bayview super-volunteer keeps on serving her community

September 9, 2020 All Posts

Beverly Ann Johnson Taylor, or Miss Taylor as she’s known to the many organizations for whom she volunteers, celebrates her 89th birthday this August. For 40 years, she has taught in the public schools, deriving both personal satisfaction and numerous accolades for her service. Retirement only opened new opportunities to serve her church and community. ...

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