I’ll give my great-aunt Carol her own page here because she earned it with her civil rights work in Berkeley, and because we have plenty of information about her.
As far as I know, she’s the only relative I’ve known in my lifetime who has her own Wikipedia page. She was her high school class poet (never heard of that!), as well as valedictorian.
This UC Berkeley publication shares interviews with Carol about her childhood, education, and civic roles in the community: Carol Rhodes Sibley: Building Community Trust: Berkeley School Integration and Other Civic Endeavors, 1943-1978
This was her main house in Berkeley — it’s a City of Berkeley landmark.
Here’s a letter to my parents in 1977, right after Carol moved into her custom-built Japanese-style house in Berkeley. She describes the new house, which as far as I know is still there.
In this Christmas letter she shares the “student’s prayer” that her father Charles Elbert Rhodes wrote in 1912. It reflects her values as well as his.