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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Congratulations to Don Barksdale! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=bodytext style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oakland's Don Barksdale, a basketball pioneer<font color=black><span style='color:black'> who was the NBA's first African-American All-Star, was elected into the the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Barksdale, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>a former Berkeley High star </span></b>who in 1948 was the first African-American to play on the U.S. Olympic basketball team and to win a gold medal, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20038671">http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20038671</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>________________</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Pat Anderson, Diane Douglas, Marguerite Fa-Kaji and Lisa Sibony are the parent-volunteer facilitators of the etree; please direct any questions to them at </span></font></span><font size=4 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net" title="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net"><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>bhs-owner@lmi.net</span></font></span></a></span></font><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>. </span></font></span><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>BHS etree archives: </span></font></span><font size=4 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/" title="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></font></span></a></span></font><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>; BHS PTSA website: </span></font></span><font size=4 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org/" title="http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org/"><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org/</span></font></span></a></span></font><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>. 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