The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at the University of California at Berkeley - one hundred years old in December - is celebrating with a provocative lecture, a delicious dinner, and published glimpses of the past. We invite you to join in the celebration by attending a lecture on campus to hear Professor Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, discuss the university of the new century. A banquet in December has been planned as a joint event for members of the Berkeley Chapter and the Northern California Association. A centennial publication is being prepared by members of both groups to gather a bit of history together with memories of past initiates, complete with photographs. Do you have a photograph that recalls PBK days at Berkeley? Please share your memories with us, either in words or photograph.

The Centennial Lecture by Professor Bok will be given on campus on Thursday, November 19th, tentatively scheduled for 4 PM (Check web or phone to confirm time and location.). His latest book, The Shape of the River (November1998, Princeton University Press), is a study of the lives of 60,000 students of various races who were admitted by selected colleges in the 1970s and 1980s under affirmative action policies. His talk at Berkeley entitled What Affirmative Action Can Teach Universities About How to Improve in the Next Century will have less to do with the usual affirmative action arguments than with the way in which we respond to the institutional changes a changing student body brings and try to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the new century.

The Centennial Banquet on Saturday, December 5th at the Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus promises to be a gala event with good food, companionship, and a talk by California State Librarian Kevin Starr. The title will be UC's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter: Those Historical Times. A no-host bar in front of a fire in the Howard Room (5:00 - 6:30 PM) will be followed by dinner in the Great Hall.

Parking is included in the reservation fee. UC Berkeley's Phi Beta Kappa chapter is proud to host a joint event with the Northern California Association and looks forward to meeting many of you. To keep abreast of centennial plans or to send in memories, check the chapter web site or telephone the chapter office at (510) 642-1912; 4333 Dwinelle Hall, UCB 94720-2510.

Mary Kay Duggan, President Berkeley Chapter