About: William Berg (classicist)
William Berg, aka Bill Berg or William Berg III (August 13, 1938 – May 16, 2021), was a classicist and historian of Gearhart, Oregon. On his mother’s side he was a descendant of pioneers (the Kernses) who had migrated from Indiana to Oregon in 1852. Berg grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where his father taught Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado, and in Washington, D.C., where he witnessed the McCarthy era in the shadow of his father’s boss and mentor, Oregon Senator Wayne Morse.
