Griffin Madden recalled as gifted and ‘luminous’ by UC Berkeley professors

December 7, 2016

"He was probably the most memorable undergraduate student I've had in my years of teaching," said Luba Golburt, an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, recalling the young man who was among 36 people to die in Friday night's horrific warehouse fire in Oakland.

"He had a luminous away about him, a quest for knowledge, and an enthusiasm for learning things," Golburt said, adding that her colleagues shared the same sentiment. "We all remember him very fondly."

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