Members of Oakland’s 100 Club meet Feb. 5 for this year’s dinner at the Berkeley City Club. In the back row, from left, are George Vukasin, Steve Nicholls, Dr. Joel Parrott, Linda Boessenecker and Jillian Loh Kearns. In the front row, from left, are Carla Betts, Lorna Padia Markus, Betsy Biern, club President Mark Epstein, Michael Bruck and Damian Manolis.
“Our target these days is $50,000 per year to give to the Boys and Girls Clubs,” says Mark Epstein, the group’s current president. I think the dinner everyone remembers most was the one in 2018, though, when it was held at the Oakland Zoo, courtesy of the zoo’s president and chief executive officer for almost four decades, Dr. Joel Parrott, who now sits on the 100 Club’s board of directors.
However, the most historic dinner was the one in 2015, when the club finally admitted its first women members: Carla Betts and Betsy Biern, who are now on the club’s board of directors. The door opened even wider the following year, when 16 new members were inducted and 12 of them were women, including C.J. Hirschfield, the former executive director at Children’s Fairyland.
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