San Francisco Crowns Kopp Ring

It is not the first time a magazine has put together a potpourri of power—people who possess it and people who have lost it. This time it's San Francisco Magazine. Their September cover story named State Senator Quentin Kopp '49 number one on their list of the city's top ten movers and shakers. (California is known for its moving and shaking.) He's ahead of such luminaries as the mayor, the CEO of the Bank of America, and publisher William Randolph Hearst III.

Here's why:

"Six years ago, Quentin Kopp was a man with no future. He shot from the hip, he shot from the mouth, and though he had the kind of loyal electoral support any politician would kill for, he was hated by more people than anyone since Genghis Khan. He's, still the Ayatollah Quentin to many, but the man has more clout than any other politician in the city. If you want to pass an initiative, if you want to block a development project, or if you want to get elected, you'd better have Senator Quentin Kopp on your side. No one disputes his people power and that's what counts."

That's a brief excerpt of what San Francisco said about the '49er known as "Q." His classmates, of course, love him not for his power but for his warmth, his humanity, his dedication to his College and his class.

COURTESY SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE