"Evelyn (Evie) Vetterlein Wozniak, passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 20, one week after celebrating her 86th birthday. Born to Katharine and Theodore Vetterlein on Sept. 13, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island, Evie grew up in Barrington, Rhode Island, on Narragansett Bay, where she learned to love the sea and its bounty. On her mother's side, Evie traced her ancestry back to William Brewster, who came over on the Mayflower."
"After studying International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and San Francisco State University, Evie focused on Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. In 1967, she traveled to Indonesia to do field work for her graduate degree. For a year, she traveled extensively in Java with an Indonesian woman who didn't speak English, so Evie became fluent in Bahasa Indonesian. In Sumatra, Evie traveled upriver, by herself, for a week."
Evelyn (Evie) Vetterlein Wozniak was born Sept. 13, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in Barrington on Narragansett Bay. She traced maternal ancestry to William Brewster of the Mayflower and paternal ties to Antonietta Cornelia Vetterlein, included in King Ludwig I’s Gallery of Beauties. She studied International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and San Francisco State University, then pursued Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. In 1967 she conducted graduate fieldwork in Indonesia, becoming fluent in Bahasa Indonesian while traveling across Java, Sumatra, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Spice Islands. She returned to Berkeley and engaged in political organizing and public service, serving in 1971 as a legislative aide working on marina recreation and the Charlie Dorr mini-park.
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