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In Memoriam: Remembering those who left us

Original post made on Dec 28, 2018

As 2018 comes to an end, the Weekly remembers many individuals who have left behind permanent legacies in their communities and beyond.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 28, 2018, 6:55 AM

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Posted by Carroll Harrington
a resident of Community Center
on Dec 30, 2018 at 4:04 pm

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What wonderful tributes!!! It is people like these now departed Palo Altans that make Palo Alto th incredible town that it is!!!


Posted by Mark Weiss
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 31, 2018 at 11:17 am

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My parents were not in the same class as Hunk and Moo Anderson in terms of collecting or donating art but their friendship with George and Dorothy Saxe inspired them to donate a collection of 300 Pueblo pots to the De Young Museum of San Francisco. Paul E (1924-2015) and Barbara H (1931-2018) Weiss of Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills.
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Posted by John Zussman
a resident of Portola Valley
on Jan 2, 2019 at 7:58 am

I want to nominate Eleanor Emmons Maccoby an eminent developmental psychologist of the 20th century and well into the 21st, for inclusion on this list. Eleanor (my graduate advisor) came to Stanford from Harvard in 1957 and spent the rest of her career there. She conducted path-breaking research on childhood socialization and sex and gender differences, taught thousands of undergraduate and graduate students, and was the first woman to become chair of the Psychology Department. After achieving emeritus status she remained active in her field as well as the Palo Alto community, and passed away at the Vi last month at the age of 101.

Here's a link to her New York Times obituary. Certainly if she deserves an obit there, she deserves one in her local newspaper!
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