Their relationship endured and grew over seventeen years. More information regarding both services can be found on his memorial page at GatheringUs. Al loved a good party so all are welcome to attend one or both events.
Al and Robert Holgate welcomed us as old friends. Alvin H. Baum Jr. Obituary Services Memories and Condolences. September 7, — March 28, Memories Alvin H. In Memory Of Alvin H. Al attended Harvard University from to During his student days, Al was fluent in French and made the first of many international trips to London, Amsterdam and Paris.
After graduating magna cum laude, he stayed in Cambridge, attended Harvard Law School and graduated cum laude in Al was drafted into the US Army in and stationed in Berlin, where he was responsible for security records. Al decided to learn German after his German exchange friend from Harvard told him that middle-aged German housewives insulted them. Honored in January , he moved to San Francisco.
Always favoring maps and architecture over law, Al decided in to quit the law firm and study at UC Berkeley for a masters degree in urban and regional planning.
He was a member of the San Francisco Planning Commission from to , hosting a talk show about the bay, one of his proudest accomplishments given his difficulty stuttering as a young boy.
Somehow he also managed to spend four months coaching the Peace Corps in Botswana, and he built up a side business of real estate investments and renovations. After two successful careers as a lawyer and city planner, Al retired, spent four months in France perfecting his French, and traveled to Israel with a group that would later become the founders of the New Israel Fund. But Al went back to work in As a native listener, Al was often the one friends turned to for a compassionate ear.
As a licensed clinical social worker, Al built a successful private practice and saw clients until he was well over 80 years old. Al also raised significant funding for long-term outpatient psychotherapy and was a founding member of the Access Institute for Psychological Services Al will be most remembered as a brilliant and strategic philanthropist.
Although he defied the philanthropist label for years and fondly remembered being shamed into the world of philanthropy by a Catholic gay friend, he became a pillar in the Jewish, civic, and gay community.
Given his legal background, Al began joining the board of directors of the ACLU of Northern California in while advocating the rights and freedoms of others. Al brought his unlimited energy, compassionate heart, wise advice, and charitable contributions to any business. Al cherished his legacy and worked tirelessly in the Jewish community for over 50 years. He inspired many others to be generous in spirit and in paperback.
The event drew a hundred people, and Al, several others and I founded a new San Francisco professional group, Gays and Lesbians in Planning, which successfully went on for twenty-some years until it no longer seemed necessary in progressive San Francisco.
Al applied his professional skills and caring personality to help anyone needing advice. At the same time, Al developed a successful real estate and renovation business, and spent four months as a Peace Corps trainer in Botswana, lived in Paris, and used his home on Green Street for a myriad of social and fund raising events.
Al always loved giving advice, and now he had a legitimate reason and all the tools to do so.
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