University of California Retirees' Association at Berkeley (UCRAB) - Board Members

Though the Center is almost ten-years-old, it is predated by the Emeriti and Retiree Associations (UCBEA and UCRAB) which began as membership organizations on the Berkeley campus in the 1980s. In fact, several retired faculty and staff members who were active in those groups were instrumental in bringing the Center concept to fruition at Cal. Today, these self-funded, self-governed associations are still going strong. Center staff provides them with administrative support and their leaders sit as members of the Center’s Policy Board.

Association membership is not necessary for participation in Center events. However, the associations offer additional member-specific events and serve an important advocacy function. They also participate in the Council of University of California Emeriti Associations (CUCEA) and the Council of University of California Retirees Association (CUCRA). These systemwide councils actively work to develop communication channels among campus groups and among emeriti, retirees and UC. They also foster the retention and improvement of the benefits and privileges of UC retirement. (For information on Association membership, call or email the Center.)

Marian Gade serves as President of the UC Retirees’ Association at Berkeley and as its representative on the Center Policy Board. For 35 years, both within the University and through other sources, Marian was a Research Associate with UC President Emeritus Clark Kerr, working with him on a variety of projects, mainly involving studies of college and university governance, finance, and history. She assisted with the research, organization, and editing of his two-volume set of memoirs of his years as Berkeley Chancellor and UC president. For the last two years of her employment, Marian was also Deputy Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education.

Marian is active both organizationally and playing/singing music with the San Francisco Folk Music Club. She is a 50+ year Girl Scout, a former president of the SF Bay area council, and is also currently a member of a committee recommending a governance structure for a new consolidated Northern California council. Marian is a former whitewater kayaker and kayaking trainer. Other long-time and current interests and activities include being a ham radio operator involved in West Contra Costa County emergency preparedness efforts, the chair-elect of CUCRA (Council of University of California Retiree Associations), and the grandmother of a wonderful 2-year-old girl.

Iola James

Iola James serves as Vice President and Trip Coordinator for UCRAB.

Errol Mauchlan

Errol Mauchlan serves as Treasurer for UCRAB.

Lola Harris

Serves as UCRAB's Secretary. More biographical information pending.

Milton Elbogen

Milton Elbogen serves as Luncheon and Events Coordinator for the Association.

Isabelle Revoir

Isabelle Revoir serves as Membership Chair for UCRAB. Isabelle retired in 1993 after working for the Director of Administration in the Deans Office as a supervisor in School of Education, Media and Computer Services. She also served as liaison for campus emergency preparedness, risk management, etc. 

Since leaving UC in 1993, she has been working at Brookside Community Health Center and Montessori.  She continues to volunteer for the San Francisco Symphony, and Board of the Art Deco Society of California. She was invited to be a member of the Ritz Dancers of San Francisco and they recreated the dances of the 20s and 30s; choreographed dance exhibits of the charleston, varsity drag, continental, rumba, tango, shag, etc. and presented these performances at various venues in the Bay Area. Isabelle is an ardent film noir advocate; knowledgeable about classic jazz; stays fit by going to jazzercise and a Board member of the Bay Area Chapter of the Duke Ellington Society. 

Eloise Schmidt

Eloise Schmidt currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the UC Retirees’ Association at Berkeley (UCRAB). She retired in 2002 after working 28 years in the Boalt Hall School of Law. Her responsibilities included working as an administrator of foreign students in the Master of Laws degree program. Her interests are calligraphy; the symphony; theatre and volunteer work.

Dorothy Snodgrass

Dorothy Snodgrass has served on the U.C. Berkeley Retirees’ Association Board of Directors for several years. She retired after working for the University for 27 years. Her first job was with in the Motion Picture Production Department; then she transferred to the Boalt Hall School of Law where she worked as a secretary until retiring. In retirement, Dorothy also volunteers at Alta Bates-Herrick Hospital’s outreach program called Tele-Care where calls are made daily to elderly, and lonely clients. Having had a lifelong love of the theatre, her new venture, is writing plays. She has written two short plays that were produced at the Dominican University Festival of One Act Plays in San Rafael; her latest one appearing in the festival this spring. She keeps herself busy ushering and volunteering at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Aurora, as well as theatres in San Francisco.

Antonia Sweet

Antonia Sweet retired in 1993 after working 20 years on Campus. Before retiring she worked as Manager of the Computer Science Division in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. She continues to work on Campus as a casual employee in the same department.  Her responsibilities involve the departmental faculty award nominations and special projects within the department. She serves on the UC Retirees Association Board of Directors, as the secretary of the UC systemwide, Council of University of California Retiree Associations (CUCRA), and as the events chairperson for the Berkeley Rotary Club. Antonia received her A.B. in 1958 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her hobbies include social dancing, music, architecture, politics, property management, reading and activities with her large family.