Michael Courtney Rogers
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Michael Courtney Rogers, 82, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of East Asian studies who was honored by the South Korean government for his contributions to the study of Korean culture, died May 4 at his home in Grass Valley, Calif., of multiple myeloma. Rogers, a native of Santa Ana, joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1953 as a professor of Oriental languages and eventually became chairman of what is now East Asian Studies.
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