One day, not long ago, a group of women showed up at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley asking to see the chapel’s stained glass windows.
Ruth Brayton, a longtime parishioner, was tasked with showing the women around and was eager to share everything she knew about the windows. She’d always heard that they were designed by John Wallis of the famed Wallis-Wiley glass studio in Pasadena.
But one of the women in the group, Judy North, seemed to know more about the windows than Brayton did, and she soon made a startling declaration: It was she who had designed the two large windows that flank the chapel’s east and west sides more than 70 years ago…