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History of the East Bay Chapter
It all began in the February of 1962. Are we really that old?
Yes! Read on...
- The East Bay Chapter was originally called the Pacifica Chapter
and was founded in 1962. The chapter served people from both
sides of the Caldecott tunnel. (Other names considered were
San Francisco Bay, Pacific Coast, California, Berkeley Bay,
Sierra Bay, and Far West.)
- The first organizational meeting was held in February 1962,
and the chapter became official in June of that year. The Society,
then nine years old, was called the Society for Technical Writers
and Publishers (STWP).
- Other chapters present in these parts were the Golden Gate
Chapter (now San Francisco) and the El Camino Chapter (now Silicon
Valley).
- In November 1982, under President T. R. Girill,
Pacifica became the East Bay Chapter. The name was changed since
Pacifica did not best describe the chapter's location.
- In the earlier days, the chapter meetings were held all over
the East Bay: Hayward, Castro Valley, Newark, Oakland, Berkeley,
Walnut Creek, Livermore, Dublin, Lafayette, and Concord.
- In 1987, the chapter president, Dr. C. J. Wallia,
started a separate Berkeley Chapter to better serve the membership
living west of the hills.
- Our chapter had a newsletter right from the early days. It
was called the Pacifica News and was first published
in the fall of 1962.
- In 1994, the newsletter name was changed to East Bay Log.
- In 1996, the newsletter was again renamed to Devil Mountain
Views. The name was suggested by Susan Moxley
in a contest held for renaming the newsletter.
- In 1998, Lenore Weiss starts the Technical Literacy
Project for high school students.
- In 1999, chapter bylaws were written by Rick Roberts,
June Schaefer, and Gwaltney Mountford.
More Chapter History
on Page 2
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