We'd like to bring your attention to an obituary of particular local importance: Catherine "Kay" Kerr, wife of a one-time chancellor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the early environmental activism group Save the Bay, died last month at the age of 99. She was educated at Stanford, and in 1961 she used her influence as a chancellor's wife to start the grassroots organization, which successfully lobbied to get the McAteer-Petris Act passed in 1965, which placed a moratorium on filling in the bay. ABC 7 speaks with documentary filmmaker Ron Blatman about Kerr's pioneering work, which took place at a time before environmental preservation was anywhere near a political priority.
The KQED-produced documentary Saving the Bay is airing nationally on PBS this spring. It is four hours long.
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