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Bernie Baltaxe Christopher Chin Stuart Flashman James Kachelmeyer Alex Naughton Doug Oliver Laura Schlichtmann

By Bernie Baltaxe

— State Librarian Kevin Starr, September 1996 by Bernie Baltaxe, RCPC board member The city of Oakland has had a public library since 1878. In 1919, a branch library opened in Rockridge and, in 1924, was moved to a former bank building at 5701 College Avenue. This small library served the community unt...

By Bernie Baltaxe

by Bernie Baltaxe, RCPC boardmember What is RCPC’s mission? What is it that RCPC does for the community? And how can the organization communicate all that it does in a concise three to five words? RCPC has been serving this community for 40 years. In the ne...

Special thanks to John Gussman, and to Jennifer Vetter and Bernie Baltaxe whose 10th Anniversary articles were freely sampled for this article.

ROCKRIDGE BRANCH LIBRARY 5366 College Avenue 597-5017 HOURS: Mon, Tues: Weds, Thurs, Sat: Friday: Sunday: Library program details: See Calendar, page 15. by Bernie Baltaxe, RCPC boardmember In April of this year, I joined the RCPC board. As a new board member, I am learning a lot about what RCPC has done for the community over the past 40 years. I thought it would be useful to highlight some of these activit...

...rd of directors resulted in a new board line-up, and marked the end of an era as two boardmembers completed their service. Joining the board as elected members are Christopher Chin, James Kachelmeyer, Alex Naughton, Laura Schlichtmann, and Bernie Baltaxe. (The first four had been previously apppointed to fill board vacan- cies.) After the election, the board appointed Doug Oliver as the 13th voting member. (Rockridge News editor Don Kinkead is a non-voting board member.) The new board elec...