Michael Krisman

Michael Krisman emerged as one of the best-known activists in the UCI class of '69. He organized boycotts, sit-ins and other demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the university's faculty hiring and other policies. He was a prominent member of the campus chapter of the militant Students for a Democratic Society. He joined in street protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, and later that year took an unauthorized trip to Cuba.

Michael Krisman emerged as one of the best-known activists in the UCI class of '69. He organized boycotts, sit-ins and other demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the university's faculty hiring and other policies. He was a prominent member of the campus chapter of the militant Students for a Democratic Society. He joined in street protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, and later that year took an unauthorized trip to Cuba.

He was remembered as a gregarious and compassionate man of the soil, a fierce competitor and a builder of human bridges who, through vision and force of personality, created and molded a thriving university that aspires to greatness. In honor of UC Irvine founding chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., who died last month at 71 after a long battle with cancer, two citrus trees were dedicated Friday in the rock garden he had chosen to be the university's heart.

Flags flown at half-mast Monday hinted at the somber mood enveloping the UC Irvine campus as word spread of the death of its founding chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., a man remembered as a hero to many and friend to all.