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Alice, my maternal grandmother and the daughter of Adolf Silverman and Frieda Dinkelspiel, was born in San Francisco on October 13, 1897 (d. January 16, 1988 in Berkeley). Alice attended the Miss Murison School, in San Francisco, and was taught by its principal, Miss Elizabeth L. Murison. She studied Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley, married March 2, 1928 to Hugo Benioff, and settled in Pasadena, CA where she had three children. Hugo and Alice were divorced in 1953, and she moved to Berkeley, CA. She kept a diary for much of her childhood, was a poet, prolific reader and traveler, and had a radio program about poetry. She lived a quiet life in the North Berkeley hills with her two standard poodles, Solo and Suzette. She died January 16, 1988.
