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Vol. XXVII, Number 105 • Wednesday, October 4, 2006 ■ 50¢

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■ Upfront School-district dispute heats up Page 3■ Title Pages Jewish cantor recalls journey of a lifetime Page 21■ Sports Palo Alto football ends 11-year losing streak Page 24

A preview of Friday's Moonlight Run, Section 2

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School chiefs polarized over management issues, leaksDebate shifts from work issues to ethics of airing district’s “dirty laundry”

kites that attach to ships to reduce fuel consumption and carbon diox-ide emissions, won top honors in the transportation category. Menlo Park’s Crystal Clear Technologies won the water-management cate-gory for its high-absorption, high-capacity filter technology, capable of delivering clean water at a frac-tion of the cost of its competitors.

The two firms were among 155 companies in the competition, which was co-founded by entrepre-neurs Laurent Pacalin of Ladera and Michael Santullo of Palo Alto. The two men want to start a “clean” revolution, with the Bay Area at the

forefront of the new clean-technol-ogy wave. The Palo Alto-based law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati was a top sponsor.

Seventy-one percent of the con-testants were California-based. Surprisingly, 89 percent were in-ventor/entrepreneurs from outside the university sector, Pacalin said.

The winners were selected from 44 finalists. Each winner received $50,000 cash plus free office space for a year and free services from top legal, public relations, recruit-ing and accounting firms.

Goodbye and helloDeparture of Early Learning Institute

makes room for homes at Elks Club

by Molly Tanenbaum

A fter spending eight years on Elks Club property, the Early Learning Institute will relo-

cate and make room for single-fam-ily homes.

“We knew the writing was on the wall and we needed to do it,” said Chuck Bernstein, president of the Early Learning Institute, which in-cludes a K-8 school, a child devel-opment center and summer writing camps for about 200 children.

“We’re trying to vacate by the end of November,” he said.

They have found a West Bayshore location, which formerly housed an office building next to Greer Park. It’s almost twice the size of their current space and the lease is “prob-ably triple what we’ve been spending here,” Bernstein said.

He hopes to make use of the ad-ditional space by providing more camps or renting out space to other educational organizations.

With the Early Learning Institute on its way out after eight years on the property, the Wilkie Way end of the 8.1-acre Elks Club site can be prepared for five single-family homes.

Redwood City-based developer Ju-niper Homes — led by former Sum-merhill Homes Vice President Ric Denman — has turned in two sepa-rate applications to subdivide the property into five lots. The applica-tion for a preliminary parcel map for three of the homes gained approval in August, and the second applica-tion came in mid-September.

Facing other single-family Charleston Meadows homes, the five houses will add to the 11 homes that DR Horton has planned for Wilkie

Head of the classAndrew Fire, a Stanford University professor of pathology and genetics, is the co-winner of a Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discov-eries in genetics-related work. Fire was part of a team of researchers that discovered that certain RNA molecules could be used to turn off specific genes in animal cells. It marked the first time that scientists were able to “silence” the effect of genes. The practice, called RNA interference, has become a widespread research tool. Fire co-won the prize with a professor from the University of Massachusetts.

BUSINESS

‘Clean’ brings in the greenLocal companies win $500,000 for ‘clean-tech’ efforts

by Sue Dremann

Two local companies — one from Palo Alto and one from Menlo Park — have won top prizes in the California Clean Tech Open, the richest green-technology competition in the country.

The prizes, part of $500,000 in cash and business services in five catego-ries of clean technology — including energy efficiency, renewable energy, smart power, transportation and water management — were announced last week.

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The administrators are part of the district’s 48-member management team, which includes principals, as-sistant principals and district office coordinators.

The team submitted a document to Callan Sept. 6 that cites “trust, communication, consistency of practice and preferential treatment” as concerns they want addressed.

Now, one week after the docu-ment was obtained by the Weekly, current and former district officials seem to be focused more on who leaked a document to the press rath-er than the issues that compelled a large group of school leaders to investigate the establishment of a union.

“I believe the more critical discus-sion must center around the impact of this action (leak) and informa-

tion upon our community,” Addison Elementary School Principal John Lents wrote in a letter to the editor published in today’s Weekly.

Details of the situation have been hard to uncover. School board members and district staff cite con-fidentiality laws that prohibit them from talking about personnel mat-ters. Others, however, say some ad-ministrators involved are silent out of fear of retribution.

The submission and harsh word-ing of the document have polarized members of the management team, dividing them into two camps: those who endorse the document’s strong language and those who don’t fully.

Scott Laurence, principal of Palo Alto High School, said the current climate in the district is “uncom-fortable.”

Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, October 4, 2006 •

UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis


by Alexandria Rocha

Emotions continue to run high this week among Palo Alto school ad-ministrators who have become divided over the submission, and sub-sequent leak, of a document to Superintendent Mary Frances Callan,

in which they threatened “to organize a formal association or union” if working conditions do not improve.


OurTown

by Don Kazak

Funny in America

Palo Alto author Firoozeh Du-mas wrote “Funny in Farsi” more than three years ago.

It’s a memoir of growing up Ira-nian-American. It’s also hilarious, poking loving fun at her Persian family making an often-awkward transition to America (Weekly Title Pages, June 4, 2003).

Dumas writes with a twinkle in her eye and warmth in her heart.

“Funny in Farsi” was selected by the Palo Alto Libraries as the book for “Palo Alto Reads,” a month-long effort to get residents to read the same book at the same time (the Weekly is a co-sponsor).

The kick-off for a month-long se-ries of events will be Dumas talk-ing about her book next Tuesday night at Palo Alto High School’s Haymarket Theater.

Dumas writes about how her father is a compulsive handyman, wanting to fix anything he sees, except he keeps bumbling the work.

“My father, like a cat, should not be left alone indoors for eight hours,” Dumas wrote. When her parents come to visit, Dumas and her husband first hide all the tools. “Should Time-Life ever publish a ‘Do-It-Yourself Guide to Medi-cal Procedures,’ my mother and I will be leaving the country,” she wrote.

Her book was nominated for a big humor award, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, but lost out to Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” fame, which isn’t bad company to be in.

“Funny in Farsi” has done well, Dumas said. But some booksellers still don’t know what to make of it. One large book chain has put her book in the “sociology” section. That’s like putting Miami humor writer Dave Berry’s books in the “tourism” section.

But writing about humor doesn’t sell as much other subjects. Her father joked that if she wrote how much she hated something it would sell better.

When her book was first getting noticed, she had been scheduled to appear on a segment of CNN but was “bumped at the last minute for the author of a book about female suicide bombers,” she said.

Her book is now a best-seller in Iran after it was translated into Farsi earlier this year, with some government censoring (officials

removed one chapter).“It’s a book about an Iranian

who came to America and loves this country,” she said. “And Iranians love the book, which is ironic.”

With the war in Iraq continuing and increasing tensions between the United States and Iran, Du-mas said, “I didn’t know the world would change this much when I wrote the book.”

A frequent speaker at schools, including Castilleja High School and Santa Monica High School re-cently, Dumas said she often asks students what they think of when she says “Mideast,” and they re-spond, “terrorism.”

Dumas has spoken at conferenc-es around the country, in Maine, at Harvard, in Arizona and Mary-land.

“People are very surprised and maybe moved because I’m trying to build bridges and everyone is trying to bomb bridges, and it is combined with humor.”

She is a bridge between the two cultures, which does create some questions for others.

“The same way some Americans have difficulty with me being Ira-nian, some Iranians would have trouble with me being American,” she said. But she gets many e-mails from Iran.

“This message about shared hu-manity is so important,” she add-ed. “The thing about hatred is that it is like polluting the air — we all suffer.”

Dumas is about one-third of the way through writing a sequel to “Funny in Farsi,” which deals with her post-childhood years.

She has an infant daughter, a daughter at Jordan and a son at Paly, and her husband is a software entrepreneur. They live in what she calls a fixer-upper home with some obvious work being done.

It’s all the more reason to hide the tools from her father when he visits.■

Senior Staff Writer Don Ka-zak can be e-mailed [email protected].

Firoozeh Dumas will be the speaker at the opening night at Palo Alto Reads at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Palo Alto High School’s Hay-market Theater. The event is free. For a complete listing of Palo Alto Reads events, go to cityofpaloalto.org/library/news-events.

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“Think of it as a start-up in a box,” said Santullo, who founded the Four11 white pages directory.

The two created the competition during a meeting of the MIT Club of Northern California.

“We wanted to increase the speed of innovation and open the market, akin to what happened to the com-munications industry in the 1980s,” Pacalin said.

Santullo said the Bay Area is the perfect place for clean-tech to take hold, given the area’s venture-capi-tal community, forward thinking and environmental ethic.

Corporate response to the contest exceeded expectations, with spon-sorship from Wilson Sonsini, 13 venture capital firms and others.

KiteShip CEO Jeremy Walker said outfitting a single ship with one kite for a year reduces sulfur emis-sions by the same amount as turning every car in California into a hybrid. The company plans to use the prize money for additional research and development.

Menlo Park’s Crystal Clear Tech-

nologies was the only winning company founded by a woman. President and Founder Lisa Farmen said Crystal Clear’s technology utilizes low-cost materials such as sand treated with a nano-coating to filter contaminated water and make it potable for as little as $1 per year per person.

Clean technology was a lonely business when Farmen began devel-oping her product 25 years ago.

“I was talking to myself when I started out,” she said.

The other prize-winners are: ● Energy efficiency: Adura Tech-

nologies of Berkeley, for its wireless lighting management system that saves businesses up to 50 percent in energy costs.

● Renewable energy: Green Voltsof Berkeley, for high-concentration photovoltaic technology, which lowers the cost of energy from solar photovoltaic cells by 50 percent.

● Smart power: EDC Technolo-gies, Inc. of Sebastopol, for its hot water controller, which reduces natural gas consumption in com-mercial buildings and multi-family apartments. ■

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“People have very strong opin-ions and perspectives on where we need to go from here, and they’re not always in agreement,” he said.

Some board members immedi-ately downplayed portions of the document about unfair employee treatment, saying dissatisfied ad-ministrators are mostly concerned about compensation issues. One board member, however, said it’s about more than “dollars and cents” — it’s about administrators feeling ignored on a variety of issues.

In the document, the manage-ment team writes that “there is a lack of trust and productive com-munication between (the manage-ment team) and the superintendent and her senior cabinet.

“Although there have been meet-ings, the dialogue has not led to consistent, clear and fair practices,” the document continued.

The document cites “trust,” “pro-fessional environment and practic-es,” and “salary and benefits” as the team’s three priorities.

Under “trust,” which is the first priority, the document lists “incon-sistency of practice,” “preferential treatment” and “absence of clear communication” as the significant issues.

Initial estimations revealed about 80 percent of the management team agreeing with the document’s state-ments. But as accusations began to fly over the leak, support for the district’s superintendent and senior cabinet has emerged, overshadow-ing the supporters of the original document.

Questions have even begun to arise over how many versions of the document were created, how many administrators saw the strongly worded version before it landed in Callan’s hands, and who submitted it to her in the first place.

The frenzy has moved the atten-tion from the team’s priorities to the district’s damage control over the leak.

Some people have blamed a small

minority of administrators for leak-ing the document to manipulate the situation.

In a letter to the editor published in today’s Weekly, three former school board members — John Barton, Cathy Kroymann and John Tuomy — reprimanded the person or people who leaked the document and who contacted the media about the district’s internal turmoil. Bar-ton is now a City Council member.

“Not only was it a cowardly and disrespectful way to handle a problem, it was a glaring model of unethical behavior for our young people. Perhaps there are a few who fear that their work is not up to the caliber expected in PAUSD or a minority that felt they couldn’t get their way without a stunt like this,” the three wrote.

Their letter went on to show support for Callan and her senior cabinet, which includes Associate Superintendents Marilyn Cook and Jerry Matranga and Assistant Su-perintendent Scott Bowers.

There have been a handful of emergency meetings at the district since the document was made pub-lic, including two last Thursday and Friday and an aborted meeting Sunday morning. The school board met Tuesday night to discuss the situation, as the Weekly was going to press.

The meeting Friday afternoon highlighted the division among the management team. More than 30 administrators met at the district office to discuss how to proceed af-ter the document was publicized.

At that meeting, Gunn High School Principal Noreen Likins cir-culated a separate document, which was characterized by some as a re-traction to the original grievance, but the administrators decided not to sign it and all copies were col-lected at the end of the meeting.

One elementary school principal said administrators decided not to sign the letter drafted by Likins because it did not “represent the attitudes and beliefs of the entire

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Around Town—Scott Laurence, principal of Palo Alto High

School, on the simmering management dispute at the Palo Alto school district. See story on page 3.

People have very strong opinions and perspectives on where we need to go from here, and they’re not always in agreement.”‘‘‘‘

LIBRARY NEEDS MONEY ... The Children’s Library re-construction project won’t be finished without additional furniture and furnishings to fill the added 2,600 square feet, so the Palo Alto Library Foundation is spearheading a fundraising drive. The goal, according to foundation Presi-dent Kathy Miller, is to raise about $200,000 by the end of the year. The 66-year-old library is expected to reopen next spring. View photos at http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/library/ or learn about the fund-raising effort at http://www.palf.org//

FAST FOOD COUNTY ... Now you can find out just what is in those burgers without leaving your home. Santa Clara County’s Department of Environmental Health now has its inspection findings online at http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/deh/. Does your favorite haunt have “evidence of an old rodent infestation” or perhaps an “employee with unrestrained long hair handling food?” Or maybe it aced its check-up. Warning: this Web site is addictive! A tip: We had trouble with using the “Food Facility Name” search. Instead, type in the city and scroll down.

TRANSLATION PLEASE? . . . The City of Palo Alto’s request for proposals to build and manage a citywide ultra-high-speed broadband system has stirred up some discussion — in cyberspace, appropri-ately enough. In August, after years of hemming and haw-ing about installing its own permanent municipal fiber system — which could have run up to $40 million — the city agreed to solicit bids for a private-public partnership instead. Comments last week on BroadbandReports.com, a New York City based Web site, ranged from the envi-ous to the skeptical . . . to the nearly unintelligible. At least, to speakers of standard English. In a post titled, “Wow, a whole 100 Megabit, huh? I’m not impressed!” GhostDoggy from

Duluth, Ga., let his geek-speak rip: “With the advent and de-ployment of OC-768 ATM and 10-Gigabit Ethernet running across LX/ZX fiber hauls (that’s 40/80 Kilometer distances), what on earth would you settle for 0.1 Gbps? Heck, even fiber-to-copper media converters for GigE can be had for $100-200/home.” Huh? Presum-ably, those who understand GhostDoggy’s post will be at a pre-bid conference Oct. 19, at which time the city will answer questions about its RFP. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 28.

I’LL TAKE FIVE OF THOSE . . . Stanford researchers are blowing one stereotype to bits: Men — not just women — shop compulsively. In fact, nearly as many men as women experience “compul-sive-buying disorder,” which is characterized by binge buying and later financial difficulties, a new study by Stanford Uni-versity School of Medicineresearchers shows. The study was published Sunday in the American Journal of Psychia-try. “The widespread opinion that most compulsive buyers are women may be wrong,” the researchers wrote in their study. The study was an effort to assess how widespread compulsive-buying disorder is. It found that more than one in 20 American adults suffer from it. People with the disorder go on frequent buying binges, purchase items they don’t need and accumulate debt, the study reported. That has led to bankruptcy, divorce and even suicide. Compulsive-buy-ing disorder is not the same as occasional impulse buying, however, which many people engage in, emphasized Dr. Lorrin Koran, professor emeri-tus of psychiatry and behavior studies and senior author of the study. “Compulsive buying leads to serious psychologi-cal, financial and family prob-lems including depression, overwhelming debt and the breakup of relationships,” Ko-ran said. “People don’t know the extent of damage it does to the sufferer.”


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JUST DUCKY . . . If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, then why isn’t it a duck? “It is,” says a credible source who insists that Trader Joe’s is a go for Palo Alto’s Town & Country Village Shopping Center. But James Ellis of Ellis Partners, the San Francisco-based company that owns T&C, is playing coy. “We have no such commitment from this or any other tenant like it,” Ellis said in an e-mail. However, the source says Trader Joe’s is primed to move into the premium corner spot, next to Long’s Drugs and facing Palo Alto High School and the high-visibility Embarcadero Road. The estimated 15,000-square-foot space purportedly will wrap around into the area formerly occupied by an airline-ticket of-

fice. Trader Joe’s corporate suits have repeatedly issued strong denials about a Palo Alto loca-tion — until now. On Monday, a Joe’s spokeswoman admitted to the specialty grocer scop-ing out a location in Palo Alto, without divulging any specifics. “We have a couple of areas that we’re looking into,” Marci Hede-gard said Monday, but “nothing is confirmed.” She gave it a year to 16 months before plans would be revealed. But, hold on: Two men with blueprints were spotted at T&C last week, eyeing that exact location next to Long’s, which is currently hidden behind green drapes. When they were asked if Trader Joe’s would be the new tenant, they looked at each other and nodded a big yes. Ellis, when told of the men with blueprints and asked a follow-up question — “Could it be that while there

is no signed commitment there are explorations/discussions/negotiations?” — replied only: “Sounds like the construction guys know more than I do.”

CONSIGNMENT SHOWCASE BANKRUPTCY HURTS . . . All that remains of Consignment Showcase, Town & Country Village’s used-furniture store that closed in August, is a handwritten word on a small pink Post-It note stuck on the glass doors: “Closed.” But while the consignment shop may be gone, it is not forgotten — and there are some painful memo-ries. Just ask Joline Lyons, a retired Mountain View resident. The store’s shutdown left Lyons high and dry. “I honestly don’t know how much I’m owed, but it’s a lot,” she said. Lyons had decided to sell her parquet dining room and bedroom set through Consign-ment Showcase last February. “I never heard back from them, so I finally called in June and was told that my furniture sold and that I would get a check in 30 days. The 30 days went by, and I got nothing. I called again and again and never got a call back. When I called in August, the store’s voicemail was full and when I called the next day, the phone was disconnected,” she said. “I thought something was really fishy.” Lyons sent a letter, but it was returned. “No

forwarding address. It seems as if they just disappeared,” she said.Lyons is not alone. Another cus-tomer, a Palo Altan who asked his name not be used, dropped off a sofa and loveseat in June. “I came back to the store six weeks later and the place was empty. There was no corre-spondence of any kind. How am I supposed to recover my pieces?” he asked. The owners of Consignment Showcase could not be located and repeated calls to their bank-ruptcy attorney, Patrick Forte, have not been returned. They are rumored to be living in the Danville area. But there may be some hope. A bankruptcy letter was sent out to customers two weeks ago notifying them of an Alameda County court date for creditors on Oct. 11 in Oakland.

WHOLE FOODS ON WHOLE BLOCK . . . California’s largest Whole Foods Market opened in Los Altos last month. The 55,000-square-foot grocery store, at the corner of El Camino Real and Showers Drive, held a grand opening Sept. 18 fea-turing belly dancers, cooking demos and an accordion per-formance. The new store, which devotes two entire levels to un-derground parking for 275 cars, is twice the size of the Palo Alto Whole Foods on Homer Avenue.

“We don’t do cookie cutter de-signs here,” Walter Roth, CEO and president of Whole Foods, said of the new store. “This store was specifically designed for Los Altos.” Perhaps no one was more excited about this area’s newest Whole Foods than Carol Milstein, a Los Altos mother of three who was shop-ping soon after it opened. “I got here at 7:30 this morning. I love this store. I love the company. I just bought their stock,” she said. The store offers a variety of ready-cooked foods, includ-ing made-to-order crepes. It also has a pizza station and a Tandoori oven. “I may never have to cook again,” Milstein said. The new store has already had an impact on another grocer. Safeway on California Avenue, about four blocks away from Whole Foods, has seen a decline in its shoppers, at least initially. “It’s way more quiet here than before,” said a checker, who is used to having a long line of shoppers at her register. “It’s probably because Whole Foods is brand new and people are cu-rious. They’ll be back,” she said optimistically. ■

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Palo Altan found dead near Mtn. View schoolA Palo Alto man was found dead along Stevens Creek trail near

Landels Elementary School in Mountain View last week, alarming neighbors and parents whose children at the school were put into a precautionary lock-down.

The man was found dead at 1:17 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, from what police believe to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A small hand-gun was found at the scene, and a suicide note was found at his Palo Alto residence, police said.

The name of the 45-year-old man has not yet been released, but po-lice said members of his family have been contacted.

“It appears to be a suicide,” said Joanne Pasternack, a police spokes-person.

Police said a person affiliated with Landels — originally said to be a teacher, but those reports were unconfirmed — found the body on the trail about a fifth of a mile north of the school near Central Expressway. Police said a bike parked there hadn’t moved over a period of time, and the reporting party had noticed the bike and looked around.

Immediately after the discovery, Landels Elementary went into a lock-down with students and teachers staying in their classrooms until the nature of the discovery could be ascertained by police. A letter from Landels principal Phyllis DeMattos went out to parents that afternoon, stating “there was a police emergency on the Stevens Creek Trail. As a precautionary measure Landels went into a lock-down.”

The letter went on to describe the incident as “a medical emergency that had no criminal element. ... If your children come home and ask any questions please assure them that they were never in any danger.”

In her letter, DeMattos praised the school’s response. “I am proud of the students and teachers for performing such an exemplary lock-down measure,” she wrote.

Earlier in September, the Mountain View Whisman School Dis-trict— including Landels faculty — practiced its emergency lock-down procedures, particularly in response to a Columbine-style attack on a school.

“All of the teachers went through a training on September the 1st,” said Superintendent Maurice Ghysels. “So we were prepared.” ■

—Daniel DeBolt

Official says Romic should be shut downRomic Environmental Technologies in East Palo Alto should be im-

mediately shut down by the state for safety and health reasons, San Ma-teo County Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson wrote in a Sept. 28 letter to officials at the state Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC).

Romic, which processes industrial hazardous wastes, had two chemi-cal releases in a June 5 accident with chemical residue deposited on a nearby PG&E substation and Baylands — the latter a home to two endangered species.

The plant, near the end of Bay Road, has been a source of concern for East Palo Alto residents and city officials over the years.

Gibson, a former East Palo Alto mayor, is now urging the state to revoke Romic’s use permit and close the plant down.

“In the best interest of the public and the environment, the DTSC should immediately deny Romic’s operating permit and expansion plans, and direct their operations to cease, desist and immediately com-mence with closure,” Jacobs Gibson wrote in her letter to the DTSC.

Romic officials could not be reached for comment. ■—Don Kazak

Speeding car slams into EPA home A speeding car jumped the curb and ran into an East Palo Alto

house around 7 p.m. Sunday night, according to East Palo Alto Police Sgt. John Chalmers.

No one in the house at 191 Jasmine Way was injured, although the car’s driver and two passengers were taken to a local hospital for minor injuries, Chalmers said.

The house was only superficially damaged, according to Chalmers. ■

News Digest

CorrectionsAn item that appeared in the Weekly’s “Best of Palo Alto” edi-tion (Aug. 30) mistakenly reported that AXIS Performance Center, winner of best gym, offered drop-in sessions and classes in Tai Bo. All services at the center are by appointment only. To request a clarification or correction, call Marc Burkhardt, man-aging editor, at (650) 326-8210, or write to P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto 94302.

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as part of its development of the for-mer Rickey’s Hyatt.

DR Horton will also build 174 multi-family units on that site.

The piecemeal applications for the five homes allowed Denman to move forward with first three of the homes. By submitting an application for just three homes, the company was able to avoid a Planning and Transporta-tion Commission and City Council review, which is required when cre-ating subdivisions of five or more homes. Denman said this was not their motivation, however.

“The Elks would prefer to have all the money now. We would just as soon keep moving ahead. There’s a compromise for all of us,” Denman said.

The remaining 7 acres of the par-cel, which is located between El Camino Real and Wilkie past West Charleston, will be used for new fa-cilities for the Elks and most likely higher-density multi-family hous-ing.

Denman said Juniper Homes is only be involved with the single-family homes.

In addition to the Early Learning Institute, many heritage redwoods and oaks exist on the site, including a grove of trees in the back of the property.

The homes will be built in a man-ner that will save as many of the trees as possible, said Dave Dock-ter, managing arborist for the city’s planning department.

“Our design approach has been to weave the homes among the trees,” the application states.

Denman plans to begin building the homes next February or March.

The Elks’ Exalted Ruler Rod Nor-ville could not be reached for an in-terview. ■.Staff Writer Molly Tanenbaum can be e-mailed [email protected].

group” and members weren’t sure what the implications of their sig-natures would be.

Sources within the district said administrators were also divided on whether to publicly address the original document. Some said they should make a formal statement, while others said they should fol-low district protocol, which is to not respond to items that appear in the press.

In Lents’ letter to the editor, he en-courages district staff to stay mum.

“If we allow ourselves to be de-railed by the gossipy revelation of what had been an internal docu-ment, we risk losing our focus upon our future,” he wrote. “We each have an excellent opportunity to create a new Palo Alto process: a process based upon the refusal to air our dirty laundry in public.”

As of Tuesday, about 40 post-ings about the topic were up on the Weekly’s online community forum, Town Square, at www.PaloAltoOn-line.com. ■Staff Writer Alexandria Rocha can be e-mailed at [email protected].

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POLICE CALLSPalo Alto September 25 - October 1Violence relatedAttempted kidnapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Attempted suicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedGrand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .3Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .7Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .9Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Alcohol or drug relatedDrinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Possession of paraphernalia. . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousAnimal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Misc. municipal code violation . . . . . . . .1Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . .2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Noise ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .1Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . .1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .5Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .2Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Menlo ParkSeptember 25 - October 1Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle relatedAuto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .1Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Tow request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .2Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .3Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

AthertonSeptember 25 - October 1Violence relatedAssault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedHit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Parking problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .1Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4MiscellaneousAnimal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Citizen assist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Foot patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Meet citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Pedestrian check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .8Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .7Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo Alto100 block El Camino Real, 9/25, 5:06 p.m.; attempted suicide.Unlisted location, 9/26, 7:04 p.m.; domes-tic violence.Unlisted location, 9/27, 4:47 p.m.; at-tempted kidnapping.Unlisted location, 9/27, 6:30 p.m.; domes-tic violence.Unlisted location, 9/28, 7:21 a.m.; elder abuse.Unlisted location, 9/30, 4:09 p.m.; child abuse.

AthertonUnlisted block Selby Lane, 9/25, 4:10 p.m.; assault.

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DeathsMinerva Herbein Hartzell

Minerva Herbein Hartzell, 100, a longtime resident of Portola Val-ley, died Sept. 16.

Born into a Pennsylvania Dutch family, Minerva grew up in Bechtelsville and Boyertown, Penn. She graduated with a degree in music from Bluffton College in Ohio and taught music in New Jer-sey public schools until her mar-riage. She married her childhood sweetheart, Harry E. Hartzell, in 1930. Last fall, shortly before his death, they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary.

In connection with her husband’s career with Hercules Powder Com-pany of Wilmington, Del., she lived in Richmond, Va., Wilming-ton, N.J., and, before World War II, near Manchester, England. Af-ter the war, she and her husband lived for 20 years in London, where he was managing director at the London Hercules office. During this time, they cultivated their interest in concert music and opera, collected art and traveled extensively.

She retired with her husband to The Sequoias, in Portola Valley, in 1969. There she organized the popular Music at Four concerts that brought noted and aspiring musicians to The Sequoias. She was an accomplished seamstress and needlewoman and was well known for the stylish hand-knit suits in her wardrobe.

She is survived by her son, retired pediatrician Harry E. Hartzell Jr. of Palo Alto; three grandchildren, Elizabeth DeSimone of Atlanta, Ga., Peter Hartzell of San Carlos, and Emily Hartzell of Brooklyn, N.Y., and six great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra.

Richard Rockhold

Richard “Dick” Rockhold of Menlo Park died Sept. 4 at Stan-ford Medical Center, surrounded by family, after a six-month battle with pulmonary hypertension.

A former vice president and chief financial officer of Del Mon-te Foods, he was 76.

He was born on May 21, 1930 in San Jose. A fourth-generation Californian, he grew up in Los Al-tos and while attending Mountain View High School met his future bride, Louise Jordan. They were married on March 18, 1951.

In 1952 he graduated from San Jose State University, where he was a charter member of the Ep-silon Theta chapter of Sigma Chi. After living in San Francisco for nearly 10 years, he and Louise moved briefly to Redwood City before landing in Menlo Park in 1963.

For more than 50 years, he

worked in the financial arena, fo-cusing the majority of his career on corporate finance and account-ing. He was an auditor with Price Waterhouse’s San Francisco office from 1952 to 1961. Then at Del Monte Foods, he rose through the ranks, becoming vice president and chief financial officer in 1980. He retired in 1988.

Following Del Monte, he worked with McCullough, Andrews & Cappiello and Montgomery Finan-cial. He joined Pacific Printing and Fulfillment as a partner in 1993.

He held board and officer posi-tions with several industry and civic organizations: Financial Ex-ecutives Institute of San Francisco, The World Trade Club, Woodside Methodist Church, Mills College and U.C. Berkeley advisory com-mittees. He also volunteered with the Woodside-Atherton Auxiliary in benefiting the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, in-cluding spending many hours with Louise and friends working on the annual Tally Ho fundraiser.

He loved sports, fitness and was an avid 49ers fan, holding season tickets since 1954. He followed Stanford football as a child and kept scrapbooks of player photos, statistics and game programs from the early 1940s. He enjoyed going to the gym, skiing and cycling, including cycling 40+ miles on weekends throughout the Penin-sula.

He and Louise loved to travel, and he photographed their many trips to Africa, Europe and Hawaii. He also took candid photos of their grandchildren.

Loved ones recall him as a true music aficionado, especially of Dixieland Jazz and Big Band music, collecting thousands of recordings. He was part owner of San Francisco’s infamous Sail-N jazz club and the Lu Watters Jazz Band. He and Louise traveled to many jazz festivals, including the Sacramento Jazz Festival.

Most important to him was his family, starting with Louise. He entered the hospital just two days short of their 55th wedding anni-versary. He was also proud of his three children and seven grand-children and was a family man in every way, enjoying frequent din-ners, parties, vacations and outings with them over the years.

Loved ones will remember his sense of humor and the integrity with which he lived his life both professionally and personally.

He is survived by his wife, Lou-ise of Palo Alto; son and daughter-in-law Craig and Anne Rockhold of Palo Alto; daughter and son-in-law Janice and Scott Gibbons of San Jose; son and daughter-in-law David and Karla Rockhold of Bea-verton, Ore.; and seven grandchil-dren.

A celebration of his life will be held Friday, Oct. 20 at Holbrook Palmer Park, 150 Watkins Ave., Atherton, beginning with a memo-rial from 2 to 3 p.m., with a recep-tion following.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, 400 Hamilton Ave., Suite 340, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

WeddingsCheney and Beltramo

Laura Kathryn Cheney and Daniel A. Beltramo Jr. wed June 17 at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic

Church in Berkeley. A reception followed at the home of the bride’s parents, in Pleasanton.

The bride is the daughter of Dr. Leonard and Suellen Cheney of Pleasanton. She graduated from Amador High School in Pleasan-ton; U.C. Davis, where she majored in comparative literature; and U.C. San Francisco, where she received her master’s degree in physical therapy. She is a physical therapist at San Leandro Outpatient Reha-bilitation.

The groom is the son of Daniel A. and Margaret R. Beltramo of Atherton. He graduated from Men-lo School in Atherton and Stanford University, where he majored in decision analysis and received his master’s degree in business admin-istration. He founded Vizu, Inc., an Internet marketing-research com-pany, in 2005.

The couple were introduced by one of Beltramo’s classmates, due to their mutual passion for Italy. They honeymooned in Fiji and Sydney, Australia. The couple en-joys cooking, traveling, spending time in the Sierra Nevada and aba-lone diving. They are living in San Francisco.

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TheThin LinebetweenSecurityandEthics

by Becky Trout

B y following the Wall Street Journal, CNET, Business Week and other outlets the past few years, casual observers could learn quite a bit about Hewlett-Packard.

They knew, for example, that a management reorganization was planned in January 2005 — days after it had been discussed by the board of directors. A year later, readers got the inside scoop on HP’s plans to bolster the company’s infrastructure software holdings and move toward direct sales.

Above and below, The national media swarm to Palo Alto for a Sept. 22 press conference where HP CEO and President Mark Hurd gave an overview of the company’s efforts to find out who was leaking company information from board meetings to the media. He refused to answer direct questions from the media.

How the HP scandal illuminates the conflict between corporate and personal privacy

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lated our own principles and values,” Hurd told members of Congress.

“What is really hardest for me to explain is this: HP is a company that has consistently earned recognition for our adherence to standards of ethics, privacy, and corporate re-sponsibility,” Hurd said.

H P has been a privacy advo-cate but has generally em-phasized the importance

of “consumer” privacy — a quite different concept than general indi-vidual privacy.

In June, HP’s chief privacy offi-cer Scott Taylor testified before a congressional subcommittee advo-cating for a federal law to protect consumer privacy.

But the scandal forced a switch in terminology.

Last week, addressing the sub-committee of oversight and inves-tigations, Dunn urged Congress to consider legislation to provide “clear-cut rules on ‘pretexting’ or any other threat to individual privacy.”

Personal privacy and organi-zational secrecy will continue to clash. The reporters, HP employees, and board members whose personal information was violated will surely beef up their safeguards.

And HP and other corporate lead-ers will continue to insist it is their duty to stop leaks.

“It would be another in a string of tragedies here if it were to be concluded that companies do not

have the right to protect themselves against disclosure violations,” Dunn said last week.

But HP has recognized the need to make changes.

The company brought in Bart Schwartz, a former federal pros-ecutor charged with remedying any internal processes that led to the ethical breakdown.

Hurd closed his prepared testi-mony to the congressional subcom-mittee with three promises.

“I pledge that I will dig harder and deeper and I will get to the bottom of this. I pledge that HP will take whatever steps necessary to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. And I pledge that this compa-ny will regain not just its reputation as a model citizen with the highest ethical standards, but we will regain our pride.” ■Does the HP scandal point to a culture of increasingly unethical corporate behavior? Talk about it at Town Square, at www.PaloAl-toOnline.com.

In fact, for more than a decade the public has enjoyed an unauthor-ized glimpse into the backstage ma-neuvers of the Palo Alto technology giant, according to Peter Burrows, a Business Week editor and HP ex-pert.

The leaked information was so sensitive, its privacy so important to Hewlett-Packard that the comput-ing and printing innovator risked its blue-ribbon ethical reputation and position in a cutthroat industry to stop the disclosures.

“Boards have an unquestionable obligation to take appropriate steps to prevent (disclosures),” former board chairwoman Patricia Dunn told a congressional subcommit-tee last week. “These disclosures touched the very heart of the com-pany’s most sensitive issues.”

In a tale that has become notori-ous, Dunn launched an investigation that evolved into a thriller-grade probe involving spying, deception and an invasion of the privacy of nine journalists, two HP employees and seven current or former board members and their families, accord-ing to the testimony of HP’s CEO and President Mark Hurd before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Such allegations mark a dramat-ic reversal for the renowned HP, whose founders Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett were known for their corporate ethics.

Even recently, the company placed second in Business Ethics’ “100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2006.” HP is even co-sponsoring the 2006 Privacy Innovation Awards given by the International Association of Pri-vacy Professionals this month.

The clash of values between cor-porate integrity and a respect for personal privacy makes a bit more sense in light of a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Insti-tute, a Michigan-based LLC that “advance(s) responsible informa-tion and privacy management prac-tices.”

The survey, released Sept. 19, found that a vast majority — 85 per-cent of the 226 polled — of direc-

tors of leading companies believe corporate confidentiality trumps the need to keep personal informa-tion private, the Associated Press reported.

Half of the surveyed directors said pretexting — pretending to be some-one else to gain information about them — is OK to stop leaks to the press if it’s determined to be legal.

So it is possible, even likely, that similar investigations could be go-ing on this minute.

H P competitors have been re-luctant to talk about their own practices regarding se-

crecy and privacy. Repeated calls to Canon, IBM, Apple, and AMD — ranked third on Business Ethic’s 2006 list — were not returned.

But Dell spokesman Jeff Black-burn was willing to bat for the Tex-as-based computer manufacturer.

Every employee and member of the board of directors has a duty to keep confidential information pri-vate, Blackburn said.

“I’d be surprised if you can find any business in the country that doesn’t have that kind of policy,” Blackburn said.

Unauthorized information has oc-casionally gotten out of Dell hands, he admitted — though Blackburn declined to provide examples.

“It is not what I would consider a broad problem. At Dell, our confi-dential information stays confiden-tial, by and large,” Blackburn said.

If information was released, an investigation “could” be launched, depending on the circumstances, Blackburn said.

Corporate secrets, and their im-portance to a business’s success, aren’t new. But at HP, particularly, the shift from a focus on collegial-ity to an emphasis on tight-lipped competition is striking.

In 1949, about a decade into the working partnership between busi-ness virtuoso Dave Packard and tinkerer extraordinaire Bill Hewlett, the firm released the HP Journal — a monthly publication that re-vealed the technology behind cur-rent products.

In his 1995 book “The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company,” Packard admitted the journal contained information of use to their competitors.

“We thought the benefits out-weighed this disadvantage,” he wrote.

Hewlett and Packard also kept the doors unlocked to their supply rooms in hopes of encouraging off-the-clock experimentation, and pio-neered a style of hands-off manage-ment that focused on the product, not the process.

Keeping the company’s secrets private wasn’t a problem for most of its history, said Dave Kirby, a for-mer HP director of press relations and a Palo Alto resident.

“When I was there, if something appeared in the press that was criti-cal of HP or critical of the man-agement, Hewlett and Packard had enough savvy and common sense to say, ‘Well, that can happen and it’s no big deal,’” said Kirby, who retired in 1989.

Despite their progressive tenden-cies, Packard and Hewlett would have been upset if confidential board information had been re-leased, Kirby acknowledged.

Another HP employee, however, insisted such breaches never would have occurred during the founders’ tenures.

“Expectations were so overrid-ing, you just would never think of hurting Bill and Dave,” said John Minck, a Palo Alto resident and 37-year employee of HP. “They just brought this highly ethical culture. It just would be unthinkable that you would deliberately leak stuff.”

It appears the shift in culture oc-curred in the late 1990s, as Hewlett-and-Packard era CEOs were exiting and the company’s performance was less than stellar.

CEO Carly Fiorina, who chal-lenged many conventions of the fa-bled HP Way during her controver-sial tenure (1999-2005), “changed the whole culture regarding media relations,” Kirby said.

“If something appeared in the press that was critical, she took that very personally,” Kirby said, alleg-ing that Fiorina had been known to blacklist reporters.

The board split during the contro-versial 2002 merger with Compaq Computer.

Leaks of critical information con-tinued to slip out as well, peaking in a Jan. 24, 2005 Wall Street Journal story that revealed the board’s plans to re-delegate some of Fiorina’s re-sponsibilities.

The board was outraged and instructed Dunn that “coming to grips with HP’s famously leaky board should be my top priority,” she told the congressional subcom-mittee last week.

Dunn then launched Kona I, named after Dunn’s vacation spot. After several months with no re-sults, Dunn said the effort was ulti-mately deemed unfruitful.

When yet another major leak oc-curred a year later, the investigation was rekindled — and this time an-swers needed to be found.

By using pretexting, shadowing suspects and other detective work, Kona II investigators came up with the source of the leaks: longtime director George “Jay” Keyworth, a director of the company for 20 years and a former science aide to Presi-dent Ronald Reagan.

Keyworth’s motives remain un-clear, although he has said he often spoke to the media to tout HP’s ac-complishments.

“What began as a proper and seri-ous inquiry of leaks to the press of sensitive company information be-came a rogue investigation that vio-

Ousted HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington as Larry W. Sonsini, chairman of Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, looks on.

From left, Patricia Dunn, Mark Hurd and Robert Wayman, HP’s executive vice president and CFO, at a March, 2005 press conference announcing Hurd’s ascendancy to the company’s CEO and President. Below, Sonsini and Dunn are sworn in before their testimony before Congress.

A security guard watches as TV reporters interview Larry Magid after the Sept. 22 HP press briefing on the company’s investigation of leaks.

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“When I was there, if something appeared in the press that was critical of HP or critical of the management, Hewlett and Packard had enough savvy and common sense to say, ‘Well, that can happen and it’s no big deal,’”

Dave Kirby,former HP director of press relations

About the coverMark Hurd, HP CEO and pres-ident, provides further details on the company’s investigation into leaked information. The revelation that the renowned corporation engaged in “pre-texting” has tarnished HP’s reputation.


ThursdayMiriam Hitchcock, who teaches painting and drawing at U.C. Santa Cruz, is exhibiting oil paintings on wood panels, mixed-media work on paper and other work at the Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. She’s scheduled to speak about her work at a recep-tion on Oct. 13 from 6 to 8 p.m.; her show runs through Nov. 27. Call 650-917-6800 or go to www.arts4all.org.Diane Jaye mixes fresh air into her paintings, regularly going out with the Peninsula Outdoor Paint-ers. This month she’s bringing the fog, sun and salty sea air indoors to Viewpoints Gallery at 315 State St. in Los Altos. She’s planning a reception on Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m., and her exhibit goes through Nov. 4. Call 650-941-5789 or go to viewpointsgallery.com.The Great Glass Pumpkin Patchreturns to the Palo Alto Art Center this week, with the shining glass veggies on display through Friday (10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and 10 to 5

tomorrow). They’re then offered for sale on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the center at 1313 Newell Road. For the first year, Palo Alto High School students’ creations are among the pumpkins. Call 650-329-2366 or go to www.cityofpaloalto.org.“Dessa Rose,” a musical about an unlikely friendship between a Southern belle and a runaway slave girl in the antebellum South, has its West Coast premiere at Theatre-Works. Preview shows are tonight and Friday, and then the show runs through Oct. 29 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts at 500 Castro St. Tickets are $35-$62. Call 650-903-6000 or go to theatreworks.org.“Long Day’s Journey Into Night”runs through Oct. 22 at the Pear Avenue Theatre. Performances are Thursday through Sunday at the theater at 1220 Pear Ave., Unit K, Mountain View — except for the weekend of Oct. 6-8, when they’ll be at Tao House in Danville, where playwright Eugene O’Neill wrote the play. Tickets are $10-$25; call 650-254-1148 or go to www.the-

pear.org.The Los Altos Follies, a benefit for the Bus Barn Stage Company, takes the stage at Bus Barn The-atre at 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. The timely musical parody includes such original numbers as “Let’s Close the Border” and “Oil I Ask of You.” Tickets are $45-$95. Call 650-941-0551 or go to www.bus-barn.org.

FridayThe opera “Rigoletto” comes to Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University, thanks to a live, open-air simulcast from San Francisco Opera on a large screen. The free program begins at 8 p.m. and is jointly presented by Stanford Uni-versity. Go to rigoletto.stanford.edu for more.The Feast of St. Francis is cause for a multi-cultural celebration at St. Francis of Assisi Church at 1425 Bay Road in East Palo Alto. Weekend events will include a din-ner tonight and games, live music and food on Saturday. On Sun-day, there will be several cultural programs after 11:30 a.m. Mass: Mexican dance, African-American gospel music from the choir, and Pacific Islander music and dance. All events are open to the public. Call 650-322-2152.

SaturdayAnti-war activist Cindy Sheehan — the author of “Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey Through Heartbreak to Activism” — is set to speak tonight at Spangenberg Theater at 780 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto. Also scheduled is Amy Goodman, host of the news show “Democracy Now!” A re-ception and book-signing is set for 6:30 p.m., followed by a 7:30 program. The event is presented by Kepler’s Books and the Penin-sula Peace and Justice Center. To buy tickets ($10-$25), go to www.reachandteach.com.Peninsula Open Studios means local artists will open their doors to the public from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow. Studios are in various locations, including the Pacific Art League and the Great American Framing Company & Gal-lery in Palo Alto. For a list of artists and locations, go to www.peninsu-laopenstudios.org.

Weekend Preview

HistoryA dramatic exhibit of photos,

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a Steve Martin play presented by Dragon Productions

MoviesReviews of “The Departed” and

“Employee of the Month.”

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“Lament,” a work of oil and wax on canvas, is part of the exhibit of Miriam Hitchcock’s paintings and drawings at the Community School of Music and Arts.

“Rockaway Beach” is one of many visions by painter Diana Jaye, who traveled the coast this past year to prepare for her current exhibit at Viewpoints Gallery.


MoviesMovie reviews by Jeanne Aufmuth, Tyler Hanley, and Susan Tavernetti

Accepted (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8 & 10:30 p.m. All the King’s Men (PG-13) ✭1/2 Century 16: 12:50, 3:40, 6:50 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: Noon, 1:30, 2:55, 4:25, 5:55, 7:20,

8:55 & 10:15 p.m. An Inconvenient Truth (PG) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 16: 6:55 & 9:10 p.m. Barnyard: The Original Party Animals Century 20: 12:15, 2:35, 4:45 & 6:55 p.m. (PG) (Not Reviewed)Beerfest (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 9:10 p.m. The Black Dahlia (R) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 2:15, 5, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m.; 2:15, 5, 7:45 &

10:25 p.m. The Covenant (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25 & 10 p.m. The Devil Wears Prada (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 2:25, 5:15, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m. Everyone’s Hero (G) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; 1:50 & 4:05 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; 1:40, 3:55, 6:15, 8:25 &

10:25 p.m. Flyboys (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 16: 1:10, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:15 p.m. Century 12: 1:10, 4:15, 7:20 & 10:25 p.m. Gridiron Gang (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 1:45, 4:40, 7:25 & 10:10 p.m. Century 12: 7:10 & 10:05 p.m. The Guardian (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 1, 4, 7 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; 12:45, 2:30, 3:50, 5:30, 7, 8:30 & 10

p.m. Half Nelson (R) ✭✭✭✭ CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3:25 & 7:35 p.m. Hollywoodland (R) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 11:35 a.m.; 2:20, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m. Century 12: 4:40 & 7:25 p.m. How to Eat Fried Worms (PG) Century 12: Noon & 2 p.m. (Not Reviewed)The Illusionist (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 12:20, 1:50, 2:50,

4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:25 & 10:15 p.m. Invincible (PG) ✭✭1/2 Century 12: 11:50 a.m.; 2:15 & 10:15 p.m. Jackass: Number Two (R) Century 16: 11:25 a.m.; 12:30, 1:35, 2:40, 3:45, 4:50, 5:55, 7:05, 8:05, 9:15 & 10:25 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 12:55, 2:20, 3:25, 4:35, 5:50, 7:05, 8:05, 9:15 & 10:20 p.m. Jesus Camp (PG-13) ✭✭✭1/2 Aquarius: 3, 5, 7:30 & 9:40 p.m. Jet Li’s Fearless (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 16: Noon, 2:30, 5:10, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m. Century 12: 12:05, 1:20, 2:35, 3:45, 5:10,

6:25, 7:40, 9:10 & 10:10 p.m. Keeping Mum (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:15, 2:25, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m. The Last Kiss (R) ✭✭ Century 16: 11:45 a.m.; 2, 4:35, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. Century 12: 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8 & 10:30

p.m. Little Miss Sunshine (R) ✭✭✭ Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 12:30, 2:15, 3, 4:40, 5:25, 7:10, 7:55, 9:35 & 10:20 p.m.

Aquarius: 2:10, 4:30, 7 & 9:20 p.m. Monster House (PG) ✭1/2 Century 20: 11:55 a.m.; 2:40 & 5:05 p.m. Open Season (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 12:35, 1:40, 2:45, 3:50, 4:55, 6, 7:10, 8:10, 9:20 & 10:20 p.m.

Century 12: 11:55 a.m.; 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10 & 10:35 p.m.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Century 20: 12:35, 3:50, 7 & 10:05 p.m. Dead Man’s Chest (PG-13) ✭✭

The Protector (R) 1/2 Century 20: 7:35 & 9:45 p.m. Quinceanera (R) ✭✭1/2 CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 5:40 & 9:50 p.m. School for Scoundrels (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 16: 12:10, 2:35, 5:15, 7:35 & 9:55 p.m. Century 12: 12:15, 1:30, 2:40, 4:10, 5:05,

6:35, 7:30, 9 & 9:50 p.m. The Science of Sleep (R) Century 20: 11:50 a.m.; 2:25, 4:55, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m. CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2, 4:30, (Not Reviewed) 7:10 & 9:45 p.m. Step Up (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 11:35 a.m.; 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Century 12: 5:20, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m. Bobby (PG-13) ✭✭✭

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Guild: 2:20, 4:40, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

MOVIE TIMES

★ Skip it ★★ Some redeeming qualities ★★★ A good bet ★★★★ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (960-0970)

Century Park 12: 557 E. Bayshore Blvd., Redwood City (365-9000)

Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Red-wood City (369-3456)

CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456)

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to Palo Alto Online at http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/

The Stanford Theatre is at 221 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Screenings are for Wednesday and Thursday. Go to www.stanfordtheatre.org.

Love is News (1937) Screwball comedy about a dizzy socialite, a determined newspaper reporter and a frustrated editor. Starring Tyrone Power, Lo-retta Young and Don Ameche. 7:30 p.m.

The Magnificent Dope (1942) Go-getter Don Ameche teaches courses on how to be a success-ful businessman. Unfortunately, his school is not a success, so he runs a publicity campaign promis-ing to take the country’s biggest dope and turn him into a success. Also starring Henry Fonda. 5:55 & 9 p.m.

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SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

Editorial

Rethinking interactionsEditor,

Last week this paper published portions of an internal document used to shape and articulate discus-sions among members of the school district’s administrative teams. It was with shock that I saw portions of it reprinted, especially as this document was divulged without the knowledge or authorization of the district’s Management Team, of which I’m a member.

Rather than discuss the impropri-ety of this action, or the degree to which this statement may or may not reflect the administrators’ ex-perience and attitudes, I believe the more critical issue is the impact of this action and information upon our community, the district’s work and how we consequently choose to interact with each other.

To “hijack” a process and “shaft” professional relationships in such a public forum undermines our col-lective need to trust one another and to support the district’s vision and current work. Impacted relation-ships are fragmented and the trust and ability to engage in real dialogue is lost in the shock and anger of the action.

The school district is in the midst of framing its future work through a collaborative approach to fundrais-ing, attendance boundaries, foreign-language instruction and its daily focus on student achievement. The gossipy revelation of what had been an internal document means that we risk losing our focus upon this fu-ture, upon the relationships and val-ues that have created an exceptional educational organization.

We must not manipulate situations by taking them into the public arena. To do so cheats the process, makes a joke of dialogue, ignores the beliefs and experiences of others and sets a devastating precedent of “end runs,” entitlement and anger. Such action, in an educational organization, de-rails our roles as student advocates and instructional leaders and results, instead, in a fragmented, individual-ized and defensive response to our professional roles and responsibili-ties.

As the community watches the district work through its communi-cation needs, we have an excellent opportunity to rethink our own in-teractions. And so I challenge us to protect our right to disagree, to support procedures that are demo-cratic and respectful, and to engage in actions that elicit the best in our community and in each other.

John LentsPrincipal, Addison School

Palo Alto

Communication barrierEditor,

We were deeply disappointed to read the article regarding the

PAUSD principals in the Sept. 29 edition of the Weekly. Collectively, we have several decades of expe-rience in the district, including 10 years working as board members with this superintendent. We can absolutely attest to the high quality of the district’s senior cabinet. We have the highest regard for the dis-trict administration and the quality of work they produce.

District staff is overworked. Over the years budget cuts have hit those at 25 Churchill disproportionately and many are now covering the responsibilities of what used to be the work of two people. Fur-ther, they are continually asked by some board members to work on pet projects or provide reports that at best, tangentially relate to dis-trict goals.

Further they are asked to attend too many meetings which last too long. These forces pull staff in mul-tiple directions and ask the super-intendent and her staff to choose between supporting board mem-bers and supporting the schools and staff.

It’s very unfortunate that a few disgruntled folks chose to air their concerns by anonymously planting

with a newspaper a memo filled with factual errors. The memo does not even represent the major-ity viewpoint. Where’s the trust and respect in that?

We teach students, parents and teachers to follow proper proce-dures for addressing concerns and grievances. Shouldn’t these same procedures apply to and be mod-eled by principals and board mem-bers? Good communication at all levels is important in any organi-zation.

Superintendent Callan and her senior staff members have open doors. They are always willing to hear and address concerns. How-ever, in no organization does that mean everyone gets their way.

Who leaked this memo to the board? And then, who leaked it to a parent and to the press? Not only was it a cowardly and disrespectful way to handle a problem, it was a glaring model of unethical behav-ior for our young people. Perhaps there are a few who fear that their work is not up to the caliber expect-ed in PAUSD or a minority that felt they couldn’t get their way without a stunt like this.

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Karyn Sinunu for district attorney

Longtime chief assistant DA has track record of solid management, innovation and a tough

but fair approach to prosecution

F or the first time in years, Santa Clara County voters have a chance to elect a new district attorney, with the pending retirement of veteran DA George Kennedy, who is only the

third district attorney in the past half century. In addition, voters have two well-qualified women vying to

become the first women district attorney in the county’s history. Candidates Karyn Sinunu, 58, who has served as the chief

assistant district attorney for more than a decade, and Judge Dolores Carr, 52, who formerly worked in the district attorney’s office, each provide unique abilities, background, knowledge and connections that would enhance their performance in the county’s vitally important top law-enforcement post. Both joined the DAs office in the mid-1980s.

Carr emerged from the June primary as the leading vote-getter and has been ahead in fund-raising as well. She is articulate, thoughtful and convinced that the DA’s office needs a major overhaul and that she is the one to provide it. She served as a deputy DA for 15 years before running successfully for Superior Court judge in 2000. Her judicial experience is primarily the family division, which hears divorce and custody cases. She stepped down from the bench to seek the DA position, but cites her experience as a family law judge and other assignments as providing her a broader perspective outside the DA’s office.

Carr has picked up impressive endorsements, especially from law-enforcement groups, which is not surprising due to her husband being a lieutenant in the San Jose Police Department.

But Sinunu also has impressive support, a track record that reflects a strong personal commitment to fairness, openness and professionalism, and a toughness and independence of mind that the DA’s job requires. Her independence from law enforcement is a plus in our opinion, not a detriment.

Not only can she be expected to follow in the footsteps of Kennedy in terms of his investigation of allegations of police misconduct over the years — one reason we believe Santa Clara County police departments have a positive reputation for professionalism — but she extends that to the performance of the more than 180 deputy district attorneys within the DA’s office.

Sinunu jeopardized her own support from Kennedy, who has backed off from endorsing her beyond a generic statement that she is well-qualified for the job, when she cooperated with an investigative reporter from the San Jose Mercury, spending hundreds of hours going over individual court cases. After a three-year review of cases, the Mercury in a series labeled “Tainted Justice,” concluded that despite the department’s overall solid reputation some deputy DAs had a “win at all costs” approach to prosecutions that threatened to override their commitment to seeking justice.

In addition, Sinunu performed admirably in a well-documented 1991 case involving a young black medical student based in Palo Alto, Daniel Lucas, who was accused of rape, sexual assault and prowling when he was identified as a suspect in a case emanating from the former 42nd Street Bar & Grill in downtown Palo Alto. Ironically, this case touched both Carr and Sinunu: Carr was then supervisor of the DA’s Sexual Assault Unit, a post Sinunu later assumed. After two months in jail, Lucas was released and later exonerated fully after he was first cleared by DNA testing and then another man was found to be guilty of the rape and assault.

In that case, Carr has failed to acknowledge publicly any second thoughts about her decision to continue prosecution of Lucas for lesser charges even after he was cleared by the DNA test. Sinunu became convinced of his innocence and ultimately apologized to him — a rare and admirable step.

Sinunu is a reformer, from inside. She has taken the initiative in several important areas of improving law-enforcement that reach far beyond Santa Clara County, including writing a victim’s rights manual now being distributed to all California prosecutors. She has developed model procedures for child-abuse investigations to reduce trauma for the children involved.

If the DA’s office required major surgery, Dolores Carr would be an appealing candidate. But George Kennedy and Karyn Sinunu have continued the long tradition of professionalism in the office and Sinunu is the best bet to become Santa Clara County’s first woman district attorney.


StreetwiseShould Palo Alto school district hire two security guards, at $100,000, to combat vandalism? Asked at Whole Foods in Palo Alto. Question and interviews by Dan Shilstone. Photographs by Veronica Weber.

Martin TrautmannGraduate studentChanning Avenue

“Of course it would be nice to have it more preventative than just reactive. Find the cause. Short term, it might be the right solution.”

Ida GatwoodAsset ManagerOlive Street

“I just don’t think that’s going to work. I don’t know what the answer is, but I don’t think that’s it. Vandals will just wait until they’re off the property.”

Katrin AshearMotherColonial Lane

“As a temporary solution, that’s a good idea. I would hope the community could find out why it happens, the root of the problem. Protection is good, more important is knowing why.”

Gail KnittelLawyerNorth Hampton Drive

“Two security guards for all schools sounds very minimal, so I don’t feel it would be effective. But the problem does need to be addressed.”

Raj SankarEngineerHamilton Street

“Hiring security people sends the right message to vandals, but it’s a matter of resources. Whoever is paying needs to consider if they are really able to afford it, or if it’s going to hurt the schools in other places.”

Palo Alto workers’ new contract ensures quality servicesby Phil Plymale

D iana Diamond’s Sept. 20 column (“I want to be-

come a Palo Alto city employee”) is very inaccurate and unjust. She unfairly attacks the Palo Alto city workers’ contract as being fis-cally unsound.

As a 16-year Palo Alto city employee in the Public Works-En-gineering division as a private-project plan reviewer, it has been my top priority to en-sure that city residents receive the quality services they deserve. And as the chapter chair for Local 715 of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), represent-ing city workers, I understand the need to wisely conserve taxpayers’ dollars. That was a priority for the negotiations team and that’s why we were able to reach fiscally sound solutions that will allow the city to continue to maintain a quality workforce.

Diamond is wrong when she says that city workers will receive a wage increase above the national average, which is 3.5 percent this year. On the contrary, because we wanted to conserve city resources, we agreed to forego a net wage increase this year. In the second year, we will only re-ceive a net 2.5 percent increase. And in the third year, there is only a 3 percent in-crease. The correct conclusion should be that our wage increases are substantially below the national average.

Upon further investigation, Diamond would have noticed that under our new contract we will save the city millions in

health care legacy costs. What she mini-mizes as “a few restrictions on only one of the city’s four health plans” is no small measure. We agreed to eliminate the city’s payment for a health plan that was enor-mously expensive and that continued to skyrocket unpredictably. This was a ma-jor effort to work cooperatively with the city to contain health care costs, including those for retirees.

Additionally, she is completely incorrect in stating that the city pays for “dental, vi-sion, life insurance, long-term disability and dependent-care-assistance programs for retirees for the rest of their lives.” Only health insurance is covered for our retirees.

Unfortunately, Diamond failed to tell the complete story when she asserted that some 40 employee classifications received additional salary increases. Some of these workers are currently paid far below the median average of neighboring cities for performing similar work. Under the new

contract, they will receive an increase that is still 3 percent below this median level. The proposed adjustments will not even bring these employees up to average compensation relative to our neighboring communities.

And instead of attacking the “9/80 schedule” for workers, Diamond should be supporting it. In a two-week period, an employee works eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour day. The tenth day is a day off. This still totals 80 hours in the pay period-an average of 40 hours per week.

This is intended to be a creative way to save on commute and energy costs for both the city and the employee. Such schedules improve employee morale, productivity and are thus a benefit to the residents we serve. Who wins? Both the city and workers!

Had Diamond encouraged creative ways to lower workers’ compensation costs for the city, she would have understood the rationale for the walking-shoe reimburse-ment for meter readers. These workers

walk many miles a day and through all types of landscaping. As part of their uni-form supplies, they need durable, well-sup-porting shoes. Safe shoes reduce injuries and this in turn reduces potential workers’ compensation claims.

Diamond should be applauding this con-tract as a model for Bay Area cities. It’s fiscally conservative and it ensures that residents will continue to receive quality services in our city’s libraries, parks, pub-lic works, utilities department, water treat-ment plant and community centers.

Finally, the city currently has openings for a few positions, such as Associate Plan-ner (need urban planning training) and Linesperson/Cable Splicer (ability to re-pair overhead and underground electrical systems) to name a couple.

Diamond is welcome to apply if she thinks city workers have it so good. She will, however, have to prepare herself to be constantly berated in the press as she tries to serve the community with pride.

And, apparently unlike her current job, she will be held accountable to the high-est standards of accuracy and honesty in whatever work she performs on behalf of the city.

Those of us who work for the public ac-tually get disciplined if we perform our jobs in a manner that fails to achieve these high standards. ■ Phil Plymale has been an engineer for the City of Palo Alto for more than16 years. He also is the chapter chair of Palo Alto Chapter of SEIU Local 715, repre-senting a majority of the city employees. He can be e-mailed at [email protected].

Diamond should be applauding this contract as a model for Bay Area cities. It’s fiscally conservative and it ensures that residents will continue to receive quality services in our city’s libraries, parks, public works, utilities department, water treatment plant and community centers. Finally, the city currently has openings for a few positions . . . Diamond is welcome to apply if she thinks city workers have it so good. She will, however, have to prepare herself to be constantly berated in the press as she tries to serve the community with pride.

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We sincerely hope the silent ma-jority will speak up and that the se-nior cabinet members realize that the majority support their work. Mary Frances Callan, Marilyn Cook, Jerry Matranga and Scott Bowers are superb administrators who deserve our complete confi-dence, respect and support for the work they do.

Cathy Kroymann, John Tuomy and John Barton

Former PAUSD Board MembersPalo Alto

Backing BaskinsEditor,

For anyone with connections to Hewlett-Packard, past or present, one of the saddest aspects of recent events involving HP was the resig-nation of the company’s senior vice president and general counsel, Ann Baskins.

Anyone who has worked closely with Ann is aware of her excep-tional energy, skill, self-discipline, professionalism and kindness. No one who has worked with her has doubts about her integrity. Ann Baskins is the straightest of all straight arrows.

In explaining her decision to resign, Ann said she had con-cluded doing so was a necessary part of the company’s way forward through a political and media fire-storm. Her decision should be seen as an example of her strong sense of duty to HP and her willingness

to put her team’s interests ahead of her own.

Among people who had the privilege of working under the leadership of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett, there can be no high-er compliment than saying that someone shares the commitment to honesty, fairness and generos-ity that Dave and Bill personified. Everyone who knows Ann knows she is committed to those values. We respect her, we admire her and we wish her well.

David Kirby, Roy Verley and Hal Mickelson

Palo Alto

Remembering with prideEditor,

I worked in the legal department of Hewlett-Packard during the summer of 1997 and was privileged to report directly to Ann Baskins, one of the most ethical, moral and decent human beings that I have ever met.

I raise my voice in support of Baskins and her beautiful family during this tumultuous period of media scrutiny. I am forever grate-ful for her powerful example as a business leader, humanitarian, friend and most importantly her unwavering commitment to integ-rity.

Mark MadsenStanford

Happy to have SpankyEditor,

The recent dog-on-dog attack that resulted in the death of a loved one (Aug. 26) is a tragic reminder

to all dog owners of their respon-sibility. As one who cherishes the memory of a dear canine friend, my heart goes out to the families involved in this event. I will not judge the individual nor the dogs, for who am I?

Before adopting our Spanky, we investigated the breed. For anyone who cares to get informed, I recom-mend www.badrap.org or the book “Pit Bulls for Dummies.” Before the Peninsula animal shelter would release him to us we had to under-go an interview and compatibility review. We were given explicit in-structions as to the responsibility we were about to shoulder.

Spanky is a pit bull and to our knowledge he has never bitten any person or animal. We know that doesn’t mean he never will. So why did we agree to adopt this dog? When we saw him, we could not leave without him. People who know us would not characterize us as fearful, hostile or aggressive. Neither would we wish a dog at-tack on another.

We are grateful to our neigh-bors for not asking us to get rid of Spanky.

Marie Ochi-JacobsStockton Place

Palo Alto

Pleased with priorityEditor,

PAN (Palo Alto Neighborhoods) was pleased when the City Council established disaster and emergency planning as the top council priority for 2006.

PAN formed a committee to de-

sign and implement best practices to prepare neighbor-to-neighbor, block-to-block and community-to-community. We have developed a collaborative relationship with the city. In the process, we have achieved key PAN objectives, in-cluding defining the role of block coordinators and their hierarchy within the city and conducting a survey to determine resident inter-est for emergency notifications.

We urged the council to form a mayor’s task force to develop a strategic plan to address the needs and concerns of all stakeholders.

We commend Mayor Judy Klein-berg for listening to this request from the Palo Alto Neighborhoods and applaud the formation of the Mayor’s “Red Ribbon Task Force on Disaster Planning.”

Palo Alto has been recognized as the most prepared city in the state for disaster and emergencies. We look forward to the development of a “collaborative and coordinated” strategic plan to address preven-tion, preparedness, response and recovery to ensure there are no gaps in the system.

Annette AshtonChair, PAN Disasters and Emergency Preparedness

CommitteeSheri Furman, Doug Moran and

Karen WhiteCo-Chairs,

Palo Alto NeighborhoodsBryant Street

Palo Alto

Wheelchairs, smilesEditor,

I am the advisor for the Palo Alto High School Rotary Interact Club, sponsored by the East Palo Alto Bayshore Rotary Club.

This year one of our goals was to collect donations which could be contributed to the Wheelchair Foun-dation for the purpose of acquiring wheelchairs to meet the needs of Third World countries. Last June our club collected donations which were in turn sent to the International Rotary Foundation, which matched our club donations.

The monies were sent on to the Wheelchair Foundation, and in combination with additional dona-tions, the foundation purchased 240 wheelchairs for use by Third World countries. The Wheelchair Founda-tion is a wonderful institution that I understand has been responsible for the acquisition and shipping of several hundred thousand wheel-chairs to third-world countries.

We recently received thank-you notes from wheelchair recipients in Thailand. The notes included beauti-ful color pictures of the two recipi-ents sitting in their new wheelchairs. Both the young lady and teenage re-cipients of the wheelchairs had won-derful, happy smiles on their faces.

This year, we hope we can send at least another two wheelchairs to another country to help fulfill the needs of the thousands of people in Third World countries in dire need of wheelchairs.

Jeannette RemmelLincoln Avenue

Palo Alto

Spectrum

by Diana Diamond

Ilove Palo Alto, and think it is a wonder-ful place to live. We

have much to be proud of — and much to preserve. I want it to be the beauti-ful city that it should be.

When I write about problems in Palo Alto, it’s primarily because I care about this city. I want it to function better, look prettier and have city officials spend money wisely. When I see our streets in need of repair, our downtown dirty, our libraries looking old, and two of our neighborhood shopping centers in disrepair, I worry. And when I see businesses and car dealers along El Camino Real close down, I worry.

When I see our beautiful downtown turn-ing into a street dominated by what I label “the three Rs” — restaurants, rug dealers and Restoration Hardware — I worry about the economic viability of our downtown. Cities that only have restaurants downtown may lure hungry people twice a day, but not as many shoppers. I worry because our city gets a lot of money in sales tax from the stores and hotels downtown, and if they suffer our city services suffer.

We have beautiful houses in town and many tree-lined streets Most of us do a splendid job

of keeping up our properties. But the way our city’s infrastructure is maintained reminds me of that one property owner on the block who bought their home the same time all of us had but who let their lot become rundown.

That is why I complain about Palo Alto’s infrastructure. Parts of our city are in need of attention. Drive along Embarcadero Road and you encounter bumps and strips of tar that pro-trude. Turn onto Waverley Street near Gamble Gardens and the road is a patchwork of repairs — full of bumps and humps. Go downtown and park near Long’s Pharmacy and the al-ley in back is dirty, as are the parking lots at Hamilton Avenue near the only public 50-cent toilet in the downtown. Much of the downtown needs attention.

The plaza in front of City Hall could be a beautiful showcase, but it’s simply a spot with some grass and a few benches. The planter in front of City Hall has been turned into a tem-porary home the past three or so years for the “Color of Palo Alto” project. This plaza really could be a focal point for the downtown, filled with flowers and tables, chairs and umbrellas, with colorful banners along the edges. And it wouldn’t take a lot of money.

The city formed a Business Improvement District in January 2004 (now called the Palo Alto Downtown Business and Professional Association) whose goal was to improve the downtown, but I can’t see many improvements to date. Yes, the association hired some un-housed people to help keep some downtown

streets clean, and that’s been OK, I guess. And it sponsored a Monday night dine downtown program, and a pep rally in September for Stanford Stadium. But originally the district talked about beautifying the downtown, in-cluding putting in banners and new signage. The district collects thousands of dollars a year from downtown businesses. But nothing much seems to have happened.

Other cities with half the per capita wealth of Palo Alto have found ways to beautify their downtowns.

Many of our public buildings in town have been allowed to gently decay. The Children’s Library was a classic case, with burned out light bulbs and a leaking roof — it finally took private funds to remodel the place. The old Roth Building needs nearly $500,000 in re-pairs to make it rentable or salable. The Main Library is showing its age — it looks tired and rundown. The Mitchell Park Library isn’t far-ing much better. The Police Department has been trying to get a new building for three decades.

All is not bleak; we have seen some improve-ments in town. A couple of years ago residents complained about the lack of flowers in the city beds along Embarcadero Road. Now there are red-and-white rosebushes that bloom all summer long. A nice improvement.

Seale and Mitchell Parks have been up-graded and improved, which make them much more enjoyable places. We also have a new small neighborhood park, Heritage Park on

Homer Avenue and Waverley Street, that adds a pleasant green space to a residential area. The neighbors clamored for that park, and luckily they got it.

The City of Palo Alto has an annual general fund — $129 million this year. That’s about $2,150 per person — not including the util-ity fund or the capital improvements fund. It’s significantly more on a per-capita basis than the general funds of Menlo Park and Moun-tain View.

But our City Council and staff spend those general fund dollars on many things, includ-ing salaries and pension funds, but frequently, nothing visible. So when it needs new facili-ties, the council asks residents to approve par-cel taxes, bond measures and/or higher fees to pay for such things as improved storm drains, a revamped library or a new police station.

I think a portion of these expenditures should come out of our general fund.

I’ve long felt that the way to solve problems is to first identify them. If enough of us are concerned, we can get the city to act. Our City Council responds to those who voice their concerns. If we don’t speak out, nothing much happens.

Palo Alto could be a truly beautiful city. Let’s all work on it! ■ Palo Altan Diana Diamond’s column ap-pears every other week, and she has a blog at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. She can be e-mailed at [email protected].

Diana DiamondLet’s all work to beautify Palo Alto

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“Risen From the Ashes”by Hans Cohn;

Hamilton Books; 222 pp.; $24.95by Don Kazak

Hans Cohn was walking to his synagogue in Berlin one morning in 1938. During the night before, now known as Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass), Nazis had smashed the shops of Jewish storekeepers, leaving glass shards on the city’s streets and sidewalks. The Nazis also burned down the synagogues that night and the next day.

Cohn, then 12, watched his synagogue be destroyed by flames. Also watching were Berlin firefighters, who were on hand not to douse the flames but to make sure they didn’t spread to adjacent buildings. More than 1,000 Jewish synagogues were burned down in Germany and Austria.

The Nazi persecution of Jewish people started in broken glass and flames and ended in the death camps.

Cohn and his mother and father were able to get out of Germany just before the war started

in 1939.Cohn, a longtime Palo Altan and retired

cantor of Temple Beth Jacob in Redwood City, wrote the memoir “Risen From the Ashes” in part at the urging of his three daughters and six grandchildren who wanted him to record what has been an eventful and sometimes harrowing life, filled at times with danger but also with the lifelong love of his late wife, Eva.

Cohn writes matter-of-factly of what were desperate circumstances at times in his boyhood and early adulthood.

He came from a middle-class upbringing in pre-war Berlin. His father and mother ran a small haberdashery, and his father, Max, was awarded the Iron Cross, Germany’s highest military honor, for bravery while serving in World War I.

Cohn, as a boy, was beaten up one day by a Nazi tough.

By 1939, it was time to leave. But the Cohns, like other Jewish families, had great difficulty in obtaining visas to leave the country because no other country wanted them. They attempted to get visas for America, Canada, Australia and


Title PagesA monthly section on local books and authors, edited by Don Kazak

BookTalkDEATH OF A BOOKSTORE . . . Another bookstore has closed. Megabooks on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto has locked its doors, without any explana-tion to the public. The list of local bookstores that have closed over the years is now about as long as the list of stores still open.

PALO ALTO READS . . . The Palo Alto Library is sponsoring Palo Alto Reads in which residents are encouraged to all read “Funny in Farsi” by Firoozeh Dumas. The month-long effort will kick off with Dumas appearing at Palo Alto High School’s Haymarket Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10. Other events include a teen read at 3:30 p.m. at Mitchell Park Library and an evening of Persian and Middle Eastern music, food and danc-ing at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Main Library. For a complete list of events, go to cityofpaloalto.org/library.

BOOKS IN THE PARK . . . Ke-pler’s Books in Menlo Park will host a Day in the Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 at Burgess Park, next to the Menlo Park Civic Center. The event, which includes appearances by local authors, marks the one-year anniversary of the reopening of the store, which closed for sev-eral months in 2005.

OF LOCAL NOTE . . . A new book, “Justice For All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made,” was written by James S. Newton, who grew up in Palo Alto and attended Paly. He was also an intern at the Weekly before going on to write for the Los Angeles Times, where he shared in two Pulitzer Prizes for the paper’s reporting of the 1992 riots and the 1994 North-ridge earthquake.

BOOK GROUPS . . . Do you and your friends want to start a book group but aren’t sure about how? Menlo Park book group leader and librarian Lauren John will dis-cuss book groups at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Oct. 7, at the Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR . . . Author events at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park this month include Fran-cesca Lia Block (“Psyche in a Dress”) at 4 p.m. Oct. 8. Maxine Hong Kingston (“Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace”) appears at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9. ■

Items for Book Talk may be sent by the last Wednesday of the month to Don Kazak, Title Pages editor, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302 or e-mailed to [email protected].

A singer’s STORY Palo Alto cantor writes memoir of arich life begun in great difficulty

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Hans Cohn of Palo Alto, who was cantor at Temple Beth Jacob for 31 years, has written a memoir about growing up in Germany and his later life.

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even South American countries.They were finally able to get

visas for China and booked passage on a ship bound for Hong Kong and then Shanghai.

In Shanghai, they lived in a poor area and Cohn’s parents ran a small restaurant. But when Cohn’s mother got dysentery and died, he had to quit high school at age 14 to go to work as a cook in the restaurant and never finished high school.

For a while, the Jewish population in Shanghai was threatened. The Nazis, allies to the Japanese who occupied Shanghai, actually proposed putting the Jewish population into old ships, taking the ships out of the harbor, and then sinking them. The Japanese instead crowded the Jewish families all together in one part of the city.

The younger Cohn and his father still faced difficulty after the war ended in 1945. He wanted to leave.

In the one thing he did that he most regretted later in his life, he stowed away on a Hong Kong-bound freighter without first telling his father. From Hong Kong, he stowed away on a second ship bound for Australia. But this time he was discovered.

Cohn was locked in his cabin. When the ship reached Sydney, he was not allowed to leave. A man from a Jewish agency tried to get Cohn a valid visa, but failed. When the ship reached Melbourne, Cohn was told he would be taken back to Hong Kong.

The enterprising Cohn, all of 20 years old, didn’t fancy going

back to Hong Kong. Still locked in his cabin, he used a dinner knife to unscrew the cabin’s lock and slipped off into the night.

A family running a Jewish restaurant befriended him. While he was eating a meal in the restaurant’s kitchen, he listed to a news report on the radio that a Hans Cohn had escaped from a ship and police were looking for him.

He started working as a cook again, under an assumed name, until he finally decided to come clean and turn himself in, in order to eventually get a visa to board a ship for San Francisco.

While in China and Australia, Cohn began singing at temple, filling in at one temple that didn’t have a cantor (a Jewish cantor, as Cohn notes, is a “musical messenger” who sings the liturgy and teaches Jewish boys and girls preparing for Bat and Bar Mitzvah).

Cohn, working again as a cook, was drafted into the United States Army. While stationed at Fort Ord near Monterey, he met a young woman, Eva.

Cohn’s long journey was almost complete. After the Army, he enrolled in Hebrew Union College in New York City to study to become a cantor. His first job after college was at a synagogue in South Bend, Ind., where he also attended Notre Dame University to study for a master’s degree (as a Jewish boy, Cohn also attended a Catholic nursery school in Berlin).

He then took the job at Temple Beth Jacob in Redwood City in 1964.

After a life of so much turmoil and travel, he and Eva settled down

in Palo Alto and raised their three girls.

Through much of his story, Cohn is dispassionate of all he went through and retains what can only be called a positive attitude. It helped him survive two bouts of throat cancer and the death of Eva, after 50 years of marriage.

Cohn was part of a project in 1986 to take Jewish Stanford students to meet young Germans as a “bridge” project to try to get over the Holocaust, a project for which some of his Jewish friends criticized him.

In “Risen From the Ashes,” he quotes for inspiration Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp:

“It is really a wonder that I haven’t dropped my ideals, because they seem too absurd to carry out. Yet I keep them because of everything I still believe. People are good at heart. . . . If I look into the heavens, I think that it will all come out right one of these days, that the cruelty will end, and peace and tranquility will come again.”

Cohn’s own thoughts on the Holocaust are measured: “Hitler and his oligarchy represent the epitome of evil, unprecedented in human history. There are many questions about how the world reacted to this tragedy and whether it could have been avoided, but there are few answers. Nevertheless, what remains today is to teach the Holocaust to future generations, keeping alive the memory of those innocent millions who perished.”

“Risen From the Ashes” is a book shot through with hope, representing the attitude of its author, and tells a

story that is hopeful for all of us. The title is deliberate, by the

way. In 1979, Temple Beth Jacob was destroyed in a fire. The FBI investigated but could never conclusively prove it was arson. They labeled it “a fire of suspicious

origin.”Cohn had watched another

synagogue burn down, long before. ■

Senior Staff Writer Don Kazak can be e-mailed at [email protected].

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Community HealthEducation ProgramsOctober 2006

Events & LecturesWeb site • www.pamf.org E-mail • [email protected]

Hearst Center for Health Education, Level 3, Jamplis Building, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 795 El CaminoReal, Palo Alto. RSVP to (650) 853-4873.

Classes

For information on class fees and to register, call the Education Division at (650) 853-2960.

“Supermarket Wise,” Tuesday, October 10, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.Learn techniques for making healthier food choices in a local supermarket with tour dietitian Karen Ross, M.S., R.D.

“Good Nutrition and Feeding Practices for Toddlers,” Saturday, October 21, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.This class will address parental concerns regarding nutrition and feeding practices. It should be attended by parents or caretakers only.

“What You Need to Know About Warfarin,” Wednesday, October 25, 2 – 3 p.m.Learn what warfarin is, why you are taking it and how you can help yourself.

“Advance Health Care Directives,” call for available dates and times.PAMF’s specially trained volunteers will provide advice and answer questions about the Advance Health CareDirective form. Free.

Support GroupsCancer (1st & 3rd Tuesdays) • Diabetes (1st Wednesday) • Multiple Sclerosis (2nd & 4th Mondays) • Sleep Apnea (1stThursday) • Alcohol and Drug Education (Every Tuesday) • Healing Imagery for Cancer Patients (Oct. 4 & 18)

“Diagnosis and Treatment ofMale and Female Infertility” Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 – 8:30 p.m.Lillian Swiersz, M.D., PAMF

Reproductive EndocrinologyAndrew Epstein, M.D.

PAMF UrologyJoin us to hear a discussion of thecauses, diagnostic testing and treatment options available to couples seeking medical intervention to improve theirchances for a successful pregnancy.

“Urinary Incontinence” Friday, Oct. 13, 10 – 11:30 a.m.Elizabeth Vaughn, P.A.

PAMF UrologyUrinary incontinence is a commonand treatable condition affectingpeople of all ages. The speakerwill address the different type ofincontinence, the symptoms, evaluation and treatment options.

“What’s New in the Treatmentof Heart Failure” Monday, Oct. 23, 3:30 – 5 p.m.Aria DiBiase, M.D.

PAMF CardiologyDiscussion of heart failure treatment available today as wellas what is currently being investigated in ongoing research.

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This month’s picks by Frank Sanchez, head book buyer at Ke-pler’s, is all fiction plus a book of poetry, including the latest novel from Cormac McCarthy and a novel about how a town in the Pacific Northwest quarantined itself from the great flu epidemic of 1918.

“The Road” by Cormac Mc-Carthy is the best book of the year, Sanchez said. It’s a novel about a father and his son on a journey in post-apocalyptic America, trying to avoid ma-rauding bands of killers.

“The Last Town on Earth” by Thomas Mullen is a novel about a small town in the Pacific Northwest that tries to shut itself off from the surrounding world to survive the flu epidemic of 1918, which killed millions of people worldwide. The armed men guarding the town shoot a returning soldier, setting off chain of events.

“Smonk” by Tom Franklin is an edgy Western-like story of a man who terrorizes a town in Alabama in 1911. Once a week, the man comes into town and does what he pleases, including raping women and beating men,

until the town rises up against him.

“The Littlest Hitler” by Ryan Boudinot is a collection of sto-ries that are dark and funny. The title story is about a father who dresses up his son into “the scar-iest kid in the 4th grade.”

“Thirst” by Mary Oliver is the latest collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Many of the new poems are about the loss of her partner of 40 years.

“The Meaning of Night: A Confession” by Michael Cox is a mystery set in 19th century England. In the story, a man con-fesses to a murder he committed as training for killing the person he really wants dead.

“The Dissident” by Nell Freudenberger is a novel about a Chinese performance artist who visits America and stays with a particularly dysfunctional fam-ily. The author wrote the 2003 story collection, “Lucky Girls.”

“Ancestor Stones” by Ami-natta Forna is a novel about the history of a West African plan-tation through the eyes of four sisters. ■

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Black-white problems persist

Stanford professor goes undercover to find racial

prejudiceby Don Kazak

What do working-class white and black people think about each other? Do they

say different things when they are with people of their own race com-pared to when they aren’t?

Monica McDermott, a Stanford University professor of sociology, notes in “Working-Class White” that social scientists know a lot about how poorest black Ameri-cans are regarded and also how middle-class blacks are regarded by other blacks and whites.

But little has been studied about how black and whites doing the ev-eryday, working-class jobs really regard each other.

To find out, McDermott spent almost a year working in two con-venience stores in Atlanta and Bos-ton, both in working-class white neighborhoods bordering black neighborhoods. Both stores had

black and white clerks and black and white customers.

McDermott hid the fact that she was a university professor doing research. She heard and observed much in the often complex rela-tionships between people of dif-ferent races.

She learned that racial prejudice is alive and well, even if it is subtle and even if people deny acting in a racially prejudiced way even as they are doing it.

Boston and Atlanta have had much different histories of race relations over the last few decades. In Boston there are significant ra-cial tensions over busing and other issues while Atlanta, a black-ma-jority city, is often held up as a model of the “new South.”

Problems persist in both me-

tropolises.To begin with, white working-

class residents of the two cities have much different self-images. In Boston, whites often identity themselves ethnically as Irish or another subgroup. Working-class whites in Atlanta don’t have the same ethnic identification and view themselves as failures.

In Atlanta, African Americans distinguish themselves from Af-rican immigrants — the city has more than 36,000 such immigrants — while whites lump African Americans and African immi-grants all together.

In both cities, though, McDer-mott found whites and blacks working together, living as neigh-bors and befriending one another, even though larger attitudes about

racial distinction never went com-pletely away.

Bill Manney, a black Chicagoan who moved to Alabama, summed up his perspective on how North-ern and Southern whites regard blacks: “In the South, they don’t care how close you get, as long as you don’t get too big. In the North, they don’t care how big you get as long as you don’t get too close.”

McDermott notes that the turbu-lent years of Civil Rights protests are over and animosity and overt racism “seem to be relics of an ugly past. . . . Yet there remains much uneasiness between blacks and whites in the United States.” ■

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Palo Alto’s Maurice Williams hauls in a three-yard touchdown reception with only one hand, despite the tight cov-erage of Los Gatos defender Joey Donofrio, to give the Vikings a 7-7 tie in the second quarter of Friday’s 35-7 win.

Members of the Palo Alto football team celebrate with their classmates following the Vikings’ 35-7 De Anza Divi-sion-opening victory over Los Gatos last Friday night that ended an 11-year losing streak to the host Wildcats.

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AROUND THE GLOBE . . . Former Menlo School tennis star Dmitry Tursunov had to wait an extra day to earn his first ever ATP Tour title but you won’t catch him complaining. Tursunov disposed of Tomas Berdych, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) in the championship match of the Kingfisher Airlines Ten-nis Open at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai on Monday. The 22nd-ranked Tursunov earned a $52,000 paycheck for his ef-forts as he continues his break-through season. Tursunov, who won the Central Coast Section individual title in 1998 and helped the Knights earn their first team title, reached his first career final earlier in the summer in Los An-geles. His marathon victory over fourth-ranked Andy Roddick in a Davis Cup match in September clinched Russia’s berth in the Cup final. The 23-year-old improved to 43-26 on the year, exceeding his previous best season record of 17-15 last year. He has won 22 of his 30 matches since the beginning of Wimbledon. The title match was postponed from Sunday and was delayed twice by rain on Monday. “I probably lost about 10 years of my life playing this,” Tursunov said. “I think both of us were playing really, really tight and you know it was really a crap-shoot in the tie-break. I was up two breaks in the third set and still went to the tie-break, so it was definitely nerve wracking, but I’m really happy that I won and just really hope that it won’t go into a tie-break in the third set in a final again.”

FIFTH AVENUE . . . Making a late surge, Stanford grad Sara (Bei) Hall raced to victory in the Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile on Saturday in New York City with a time of 4:28, just ahead of Kim Smith’s 4:31. Stanford grad Lauren Fleshman finished sixth in 4:36. Hall, who competes with Team Running USA, took the lead in the final 200 meters. “Going in I knew I wanted to make a move at a point where I was confident I wouldn’t be passed back,” Hall said. Hall earned $4,000 (or $14.93 a second) for her efforts, which came on the heels of her title at the USA Road 5,000 meter championships last month. In the men’s race, Stanford grads Grant Robison finished seventh in 3:58 and Gabe Jennings was eighth in 3:59.

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Specialeffort

for PalyVikings take big step by finally

beating Los Gatos by Keith Peters

I t was late in the game and the excitement level on the Palo Alto sideline was rising to a

point it hadn’t reached in more than a decade. Something special was happening and Paly defensive coach Peter Hansen couldn’t con-tain himself.

“John Hall!” Hansen barked to his senior two-way lineman, who had just made a key stop. “John Hall! Come here!”

Perhaps fearing the worst from the 6-foot-8 Hansen, Hall timidly moved closer to the sideline. It was then Hansen wrapped his arms around Hall in a big bear hug.

“I just wanted to celebrate with him,” Hansen said. “They wanted to beat them so bad.”

It was a special moment on a special night for the Palo Alto High football team, which put 11 long years of losses to SCVAL De Anza Division nemesis Los Gatos in the past with a resounding 35-7 triumph.

The last time Palo Alto had beaten Los Gatos was in 1995. Hansen was a junior quarterback for the Vikings that season, one which ended with Paly winning the Central Coast Sec-tion Division IV championship.

Friday’s victory by Palo Alto was only its second over the Wildcats in 16 games, during which Los Gatos won by an average score of 34-11. The Vikings have been shut out five times and never had won on the Wildcats’ field.

Right now, none of that matters. The Vikings (1-0, 3-1) have their most lopsided win over Los Gatos (0-1, 2-2) ever, and they have taken control of the SCVAL De Anza Division race after only the season opener.

As important as last week, Paly head coach Earl Hansen knows this week is just as big.

“This is the key game now,” Han-sen said of Friday’s home opener against Wilcox at 7:30 p.m.

If Palo Alto can get past the Char-gers, it will hold all the tiebreakers with the expected title contenders should the Vikings get upset along the way. If not, the league title will belong to Paly.

Wilcox will offer a different look

PREP FOOTBALL


Gunn’s persistence pays off with first football victoryby Craig Wentz

W ith the nonleague schedule in the rear view mirror, local prep football teams

swept through the first week of re-spective league play without a loss and garnered additional †momen-tum into a tough slate of games this weekend.

After a difficult preseason sched-ule that included no wins and a number of injuries, the Gunn High football team looked forward to the start of league play with confidence despite a limited number of person-nel.

With only 22 players available, Gunn (1-0, 1-3) fired back from a

third-quarter deficit and overcame a plethora of penalties to whip Lynbrook, 28-21, in an SCVAL El Camino Division opener last Friday night at Gunn.

Following four straight home games to start the season, Gunn will hit the road for the first time with a date against unbeaten Monta

Vista on Friday at 7:30 pm. at Cu-pertino High. Monta Vista (1-0, 4-0) remained perfect with a 31-14 win over Cupertino on Friday.

“We’ve been battle tested and our theme all year is that we’re never disappointed with our effort,” said Gunn first-year coach Matt Mc-



SHP and Menloare top water polo contenders again Sacred Heart boys win St. Francis tourney while top two girls’ teams strong in NorCal

by Keith Peters

L eague titles are still to be won and division tourna-ments have yet to be held, but things already are shaping up for the 2006 Central Coast Section

water polo tournaments.For the boys, it looks like another Menlo-Sacred

Heart Prep matchup is waiting in the Division II finals. For the girls, don’t be surprised if the same schools meet for that Division II crown — now that the section has been divided like the boys.

The Sacred Heart boys further strengthened their claim as one of the top programs in the section after capturing the annual St. Francis Invitational on Satur-day with a 5-4 victory over North Coast Section power De La Salle.

The Menlo and Sacred Heart Prep girls didn’t come home with the big trophy, but still showed they are the class of the CCS after solid performances in the North-ern California Championships last weekend at UC Da-vis.

The Menlo girls (15-3) finished third while the SHP girls (12-2-1) took fifth despite going 4-0-1 in the two-day event. No other CCS teams finished higher.

The SHP boys, meanwhile, went 3-0 in the St. Francis tourney. The Gators opened with an 8-5 win over Palo Alto, got by a much-improved Menlo-Atherton team in the semifinals, 8-6, then held off De La Salle in the finals. The Spartans, by the way, were ranked No. 1 in the nation in football this week.

Their water polo team is no slouch, either, with a No. 2 ranking in the NCS. It’s top player, Andrew Milcov-ich, a member of the USA National Youth Team who is considered one of the top five prep players in the coun-try. Thus, one of the keys to SHP’s victory was limiting Milcovich’s effectiveness. That job fell on Tim Norton, who held Milcovich to one goal.

“That was the backbone of our defense,” said SHP coach Brian Kreutzkamp. That, and the play of SHP junior goalie Michael Wishart, who came up with his best game of the season with 14 saves in the finals.

“He had mono earlier in the year and this was the first week he was really 100 percent,” Kreutzkamp said.

The Gators trailed 3-0 in the second quarter before scoring four straight goals for a 4-3 halftime lead. The score remained that way until SHP sophomore Paul Rudolph tallied the winner in the final quarter. He and Michael Bausback each scored twice. Rudolph scored nine goals in the three victories.

Gunn (6-9) had a 2-1 finish after beating Lemoore (8-6) and Burlingame (13-10). Will Agramonte (12 goals) and Chris Preston (10) led the Titans.

Palo Alto (7-6) and Menlo-Atherton (8-6) both fin-ished 1-2. The Vikings played three CCS contending teams in SHP, Serra and Mitty and came away with a 13-9 win over the Monarchs. Junior goalie Will Simon had 19 saves against Mitty and 41 for the tourney.

In the girls’ NorCal tourney, Menlo posted victories over College Park (13-5), Los Altos (12-5) and Rio Americano (15-9) while finishing behind champion Davis and runnerup St. Francis (Sacramento).

“I am proud of the team and how we played,” said Menlo coach Jenny Booth, whose losses came to St. Francis (Sac.) and Buchanan (Fresno). “The central val-ley teams bring great competition and I feel fortunate to have this experience so early in our season.”

Booth also liked her team’s offense, which generated 54 goals in five matches. Senior Megan Burmeister led the way with 13 goals while junior Cayley Bowles added 12. Junior goalie Elise Ponce had 42 saves.

SHP, meanwhile, technically had a better tourna-ment with only a 4-4 tie with Rio Americano marring a perfect record. When Campolindo beat Miramonte in bracket play and all three teams had the same record, goal differential was used to decide which team ad-vanced to the semifinals. SHP did not.

Aside from that, the Gators produced solid wins over quality competition with victories over Campolindo (9-3), Miramonte (9-2), St. Francis-Mountain View (10-3)

Ashley Acuff and her Palo Alto teammates topped rival Gunn in their first meeting last week.

and Johansen of Modesto (11-6). Caroline Clark had 12 goals and fellow junior Pallavi Menon added 10 in the five matches. Junior goalie Lindsay Dorst had 48 saves.

Palo Alto (6-7) went 2-3 in the tournament as Tanya Wilcox produced 12 goals.

Cross countryLocal runners were busy on two fronts Saturday with

Gunn competing in the Ram Invitational at Westmoor High while Palo Alto, Menlo-Atherton, Castilleja, Pine-wood, Woodside Priory and Sacred Heart Prep were among the hundreds of competitors at the annual Stan-ford Invitational.

In Daly City, the Gunn girls finished third as Joanne Reid raced home over the 2.4-mile course in fourth place in 15:14. Teammate Irene Graham was ninth in 15:49. The Gunn boys were sixth with Jonathan Chu their top finisher in 14th (13:08).

At the Stanford Golf Course, Castilleja was third in the girls’ Division V race and Palo Alto was 12th in the girls’ Division II race over the 5,000-meter course. Alicia Ivanhoe of Paly was the top local finisher, taking ninth in 19:07.

The Sacred Heart Prep boys were seventh in Division V as Kramer Straube came home 27th (16:36) as the top local finisher.

Girls volleyballAshley Acuff and Lindsey Spiegelman produced eight

kills each to help Palo Alto defeat visiting Gunn, 25-16, 25-17, 25-17, in the teams’ first meeting in SCVAL De Anza Division action this season.

Menlo and Menlo-Atherton met in their first show-down in the PAL Bay Division, with the Knights emerg-ing with a 24-26, 25-19, 25-23, 25-18 triumph as soph-omore Abby Whelan had a career-best 17 kills and a .429 hitting percentage. Katherine Gorman produced a season-best 28 digs and senior Allie Zamaria added 39 assists for Menlo.

The Knights then took on some heavyweights in the annual Mitty Invitational, finishing 12th out of 16 teams. Menlo fell to defending Division III state champion St. Francis (Sacramento), Gross Catholic of Omaha, Neb., and Clovis. Gorman was named to the all-tournament team after contributing 72 digs in the four matches.■

Pac-10 volleyballrace is wide open

Cardinal women host Cal on Friday to set up big trip the following week to face conference leaders USC, UCLA

by Rick Eymer

Two weeks into the Pac-10 women’s volleyball season and one thing is obvious — just

when you think you’ve got the con-ference race figured out, you don’t.

USC and UCLA have risen to the top while defending Pac-10 and national champion Washington has dropped into the middle. Stanford remains a firm contender to the throne after winning twice over the weekend.

The sixth-ranked Cardinal (3-1, 12-2) dispatched Arizona State, 30-27, 30-21, 30-25, on Saturday night. Stanford beat Arizona, 35-33, 30-20, 30-15, on Friday.

Stanford gets another test when California visits Maples Pavilion on Saturday at 7 p.m. in an impor-tant Pac-10 contest. The Bears and Stanford share possession of third, a game behind the L.A. schools with a showdown looming the following week. A win over Cal would give the Cardinal plenty of momentum heading south.

“Crazy things have been happen-ing,” Stanford sophomore middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo said of conference play. “There’s already been a lot of upsets and a lot of sur-prises.”

Akinradewo had a big weekend, hitting .561 with 24 kills. Neither Akinradewo nor fellow middle blocker Franci Girard (.467 hitting percentage) committed an error in the win over Arizona State. Girard added six blocks.

“We just need to work on com-ing together as a team and not make too many stupid mistakes. A lot of times in game one we give it up,” Akinradewo said. “Every weekend is a struggle.”

Cynthia Barboza led Stanford with 17 kills while Kristin Richards added 10 kills and Jessica Fishburn had 11 digs.

Stanford has won 24 consecutive home matches from the Sun Dev-ils dating to a loss in the 1982 sea-son, and improved to 48-4 all-time against them.

Against the Wildcats, the Cardi-nal recorded a .429 hitting percent-age with 58 kills. Barboza had 19 kills with a .385 hitting percentage, followed by Richards and Akin-radewo (who hit .562) each with 10 kills. Stanford hit .615 in the third game.

Junior setter Bryn Kehoe just missed a season high with 50 assists, while Akinradewo had a career-high four of Stanford’s 12 service aces.

Cross country Stanford won all four scoring rac-

es — team and individual — held at the Stanford Invitational on Satur-day, with Arianna Lambie and Nef-talem Araia leading the way in the longer invitational races.

Lindsay Allen and Alex Green-burg each won their respective short-course races.

The Stanford women recorded 24 points in the 6,000-meters event,

outdistancing their closest rivals by nearly 100 points. UC Irvine fin-ished second with 115 points.

Lambie won the race in 20:13, fol-lowed by fellow senior Katy Trotter in second with a time of 20:19.

Araia led the men to victory with his 23:31 over 8,000 meters as Stanford had 42 points to UC Santa Barbara’s 56.

The Cardinal travels to the Pre-NCAA meet on Oct. 14 in Terre Haute, Ind.

Men’s soccer What if they gave a soccer match

and nobody showed? Stanford and California found out when referees and assistant referees failed to show for a scheduled 2:30 p.m. start in Berkeley on Saturday.

The game was rescheduled for the weekend of Oct. 21, with the time to be determined.

Stanford is at Washington on Fri-day at 7 p.m.

Women’s soccer Stanford dropped a 2-0 decision to

host Santa Clara on Saturday night, ending a stretch of nice games in which the Cardinal allowed a single goal and recorded eight shutouts.

Stanford (7-4) opens Pac-10 play at USC on Friday at 3 p.m.

The Cardinal was shut out for just the second time all season despite getting off 15 shots, eight on goal. Stanford limited the third-ranked Broncos to two shots, though both went into the net.

Men’s water polo Stanford opened the Mountain

Pacific Sports Federation season with a 10-8 loss to host UCLA on Saturday.

Will Hindle-Katel, J.J. Garton and freshman Drac Wigo each scored two goals but the Cardinal (5-4 overall) dropped its fourth straight.

The Bruins held a 5-2 lead mid-way through the second quarter and Stanford was unable to recover.

Stanford travels to Cal on Satur-day.

Field hockey Stanford dropped a 3-2 noncon-

ference match to visiting Pacific on Saturday, its fifth one-goal loss of the season.

Julia Drewes and Aska Sturdevan scored for the Cardinal (4-8), which hosts Dawson in a NorPac contest on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Women’s tennisSophomore Megan Doheny

dropped a 6-3, 6-0 decision to Da-ron Moore of California in the quar-terfinals of the Cal Invitational on Saturday.

Doheny recorded consecutive 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victories over St. Mary’s Feline Charlot in the round of 32 and Arizona State’s Jessica Leitch in the round of 16 on Friday.

Pinewood School grad Lejla Hodzic withdrew from the consola-tion quarterfinals due to injury.■

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this week with its run-oriented Veer (option) offense, and Hansen will impress upon his team this week that Wilcox indeed is dangerous.

Then again, so is Palo Alto. The Vikings proved that with an explo-sive final two quarters that resulted in 28 points, 14 coming within a minute of the second-half kickoff that Paly senior Will Frazier re-turned 69 yards to the Los Gatos 25.

Two plays later, Paly senior Evan Warner used a solid block from tight end Buddy Benaderet and scooted around right end for a 19-yard score. Two plays after Los Gatos took the ensuing kickoff, Paly junior safety Mike Martin picked off an over-thrown pass and returned it un-touched for a 34-yard TD behind a convoy of Paly blockers for a 21-7 lead.

Palo Alto added a six-yard scoring run by Frazier, who capped the big night by catching a four-yard touch-down pass from senior quarterback Nick Goodspeed.

“Frazier’s (kickoff) return is the thing that got us going,” said Good-speed, who missed two losses to Los Gatos last season (63-28 and 27-6) due to a shoulder injury. “To beat them in my senior year, and on their turf, is a big thing . . . This is the first big win I’ve been a part of.”

But likely not the last. A win over Wilcox likely will assure the Vikings of no worse than a division co-title. Mountain View on Oct. 13 and a trip to Milpitas on Nov. 3 also will provide Paly with possible tough tests.

The Vikings, however, arguably have passed the most important test of the season. They did so with an efficient offense that scored 35 points on only 45 plays from scrim-mage.

Palo Alto picked off Los Gatos quarterback Andrew Gomez three times and suffered no turnovers. Bottom line, a total team effort.

“We did not make any mistakes,” Earl Hansen said. “We played smart. We didn’t try to force things.”

The standouts for Palo Alto were many. Defensively it was Fred Ko-loto, Dennis Pruzan (interception), Jordan Jefferson, James McCol-lough, Trenton Hart (interception), Donnie Salas, Benaderet (blocked field-goal attempt), Martin (inter-ception) and Hall.■

Paly football(continued from page 24)

Donnie Salas (57) and Mike Martin (22) celebrate Martin’s 34-yard in-terception return that gave Palo Alto a 21-7 lead.

Evan Warner (9) and Kyle Bristol (66) have plenty to cheer about fol-lowing Palo Alto’s first win over Los Gatos in 11 years.

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Ginn. “The kids believe.”McGinn and his staff have had to

constantly move personnel around this year due to a rash of injuries. Despite those problems, a number of Titans came up big Friday.

Gunn’s come-from-behind win was led by senior running back/re-ceiver Tucker Laurence, who scored all of Gunn’s four touchdowns, and senior quarterback Chris Gunbre-cht, who tossed three touchdown passes. Yet, the Titans’ second-half rally was ignited by 140-pound ju-nior Justin Greco.

With Gunn trailing 14-8 with 8:47 left in the third quarter, Greco blocked a Lynbrook punt at the Vi-kings’ 17-yard line. Four plays later,

Gumbrecht found Laurence in the back of the end zone on a fourth-and-5 from the 12-yard line and a 15-14 Gunn lead.

On the ensuing kickoff, junior Jose Camacho recovered a Lyn-brook fumble at the Vikings’ 11 after sophomore Ranjit Steiner stripped the ball free. On another fourth-down situation, Gumbrecht connected with Laurence in the cor-ner of the end zone from 16 yards out for a 21-14 Gunn advantage.

With 11:55 left in the game, Lau-rence hauled in his third touchdown reception from 13 yards out for a commanding 28-14 Gunn lead. The score capped an impressive Gunn run of 20 unanswered points.

After Lynbrook cut the lead to 28-21 with 6:53 remaining, Gunn utilized the running of powerful

sophomore fullback Brian Miki to melt the clock and garner its first win of the season.

The Titans’ defense was helped out by numerous Lynbrook penalties and paced by senior linebacker Ste-phen Campbell, who helped contain Lynbrook’s versatile rushing game and iced the contest with an inter-ception deep in Lynbrook territory with seconds remaining.

M-A 42, San Mateo 7The Bears opened up PAL Bay

Division play with a resounding drubbing of host San Mateo by utilizing their versatility and depth in the offensive backfield. Menlo-Atherton now has outscored its op-ponents, 174-35, this season.

Senior fullback Siosaia Haatoa carried the ball three times for

three touchdowns and senior wing-back Pep Hanks had a game-high 124 yards rushing on just 13 carries and a touchdown as M-A (1-0, 4-0) rolled up 288 yards rushing in its demolition of the Bearcats (0-1, 0-4).

With six games remaining in the regular season, M-A will find out how good it really is with a brutal stretch of division games. The jour-ney starts on Friday at 7 p.m. with a date at South San Francisco (1-1, 2-2).

Menlo 35, Sequoia 21There’s a reason why Sequoia

is winless this season and Menlo showed why with its dominating performance Friday.

Menlo senior Leon Ivery rushed for a career-high 217 yards on just

15 carries while amassing 260 all-purpose yards and scoring four touchdowns to pace the Knights (1-0, 4-0) in their PAL Ocean Division opener.

Ivery’s first carry of the game went for no gain, but his second resulted in an 81-yard TD run. It was that kind of night for Ivery and his teammates. Menlo QB Andrew Dixon completed 14 of 26 passes for 171 yards.

After allowing the host Chero-kees two quick first-quarter TDs, the Menlo defense gave up only two first downs in the second half and did not allow Sequoia to complete a pass. Matt Corley, Nate Coggins and Brian Flaherty were among the many Menlo defensive standouts.

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Frustrating defeats continue to mount for the Cardinal

Stanford (0-5) heads to Notre Dame after 31-0 loss to UCLA

by Rick Eymer

T he Rose Bowl has not been kind to the Stanford football program lately. The pastoral

setting in Pasadena has played wit-ness to several futile Cardinal per-formances over the past decade.

Saturday’s 31-0 loss to host UCLA was just another in a series of frus-trating defeats both this season and in the Cardinal’s last six trips to the tranquility of the Roses.

Stanford has not scored against the Bruins inside the Rose Bowl for the past 156 minutes, 47 seconds. Michael Srgoi’s 42-yard field goal with 6:47 remaining in the second quarter of the 2002 contest contin-ues to mock the Cardinal (0-3, 0-5) as its last scoring play there.

Chris Lewis threw the last touch-down pass in the Rose Bowl (in the fourth quarter of the 2000 game) and Chad Hutchinson was the quar-terback when Stanford last smelled the roses in a victory in Pasadena — in 1996.

At least a loss in the actual Rose Bowl (2000, 17-9 to Wisconsin) stands proudly among the mount-ing losing streak.

Moreover, what can be gleaned from Stanford’s looming trip to South Bend this week? Lions, Ti-gers and Irish, oh my! Get on board the Bootleg Train and dull your senses!

Stanford has lost its past four games to Notre Dame, and has not won under the sign of Touchdown Jesus since the 1992 season — Bill Walsh’s first season back at the helm, part deux.

Stanford coach Walt Harris sung the praises of his defense against UCLA and for good reason. There is still something missing on the offensive side of the ball, though, supposedly the Cardinal’s strength entering this season.

“We had trouble with the physical aspect,” Harris said. “We couldn’t handle the physicality or quickness of their front line.”

Take that statement further and read offensive line into it. This is the same offensive line that brought

the most game experience into the mix and that struggled last season, as well.

The line performed well the first two games, but has fallen into old habits the past two games and se-nior quarterback Trent Edwards has been paying the price. There were several occasions in which the Bru-ins never allowed Edwards to set up in the pocket, let alone scramble.

“We need our guys to keep get-ting better and work hard,” Harris said. “We need some positive things. Trent was an outstanding football player in this game. He fought, com-peted, took some hellish hits, and kept coming back. We have to get him some protection.”

The defense, demonized through four games, indeed played its best game of the season. Senior line-backer Michael Okwo continues to make a positive impact on Stanford and he helped the defense raise its effort against UCLA.

“He’s an outstanding talent and he loves to play,” Harris said. “He made a big difference. For the first time we played well on defense, es-pecially the run defense.”

Stanford, mired as the nations’ worst against the run, allowed a mere 164 rushing yards and was spectacular in keeping the Bruins out of the end zone in the first half.

UCLA’s only touchdown in the first half was a result of a blocked punt (Stanford’s second of the sea-son) and the Bruins also scored on a fumble return.

“The defense gave us a chance to win that game,” Harris said. “When the defense plays like that you al-ways have a chance. Unfortunately we are still having problems with special teams and turnovers.”

Edwards also threw three inter-ceptions in addition to his fumble.

“I feel like we let our defense down a lot,” Edwards said.

Edwards, under pressure from the Bruins’ pass rush, completed just 12 of 23 for 117 yards.

The Bruins finished with 389 yards of offense while holding the Cardinal to 166.■

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HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARDBOYS CROSS COUNTRY

Stanford Invitationalat Stanford Golf Course (3.1 miles)

Seeded DivisionTeam leaders — 1, Ferris 84; 2, Royal 98;

3, Mead 159.Individual — 1, Gregg (Davis) 14:47.

Division ITeam leaders — 1, College Park 142; 2,

Buchanan 144; 3, Sultana 176.Individual — 1, Estrada (Alisal) 15:29.

Division IITeam leaders — 1, Reno 77; 2, Foothill

(Santana) 149; 3, Petaluma 181.Individual — 1, McDowall (Montgomery)

15:34.Palo Alto scorers — 122, Choi 17:56;

132, Avis 18:00; 140, Jones 18:08; 142, Na-rang 18:09.

M-A scorers — 78, DelCalvo 17:25; 204, Moyer 19:04; 218, Vaewsorn 19:28; 225, Merek 19:45; 227, Hester 19:48.

Division IIITeam leaders — Palos Verdes 144; 2,

Maria Carrillo 150; 3, Oak Park 168.Individual — 1, Khan (Palos Verdes)

15:49.Division IV

Team leaders — 1, Carmel 114; 2, Oaks Christian 122; St. Mary’s (Berkeley) 132.

Individual — 1, Duffy (St. Mary’s-B) 15:38.

Division VTeam leaders — 1, College Prep 54; 2,

University 105; 3, Lick-Wilmerding 143; 7, Sacred Heart Prep 209; 17, Pinewood 469.

Individual — 1 Knorr (Valley Christian-Dublin) 15:49.

SHP scorers — 27, Straube 16:36; 114, Navarro 17:50; 194, Rowan 18:51, 233, Hut-ton 19:59; 236, Fredrick 20:02.

Pinewood scorers — 72, McClelland 20:03; 88, Jayaker 20:37; 100, Nofal 21:29; 104, Fraioli 21:41; 105, Kruep 21:48.

Ram InvitationalAt Westmoor High (2.4 miles)

Team leaders — 1, Skyline 107; 2, Oak-land 170; 3, St. Ignatius 199. 6, Gunn 213.

Individual — 1, Sylvester (Skyline) 12:20.Gunn scorers — 14, J. Chu 13:08; 22, C.

Chu 13:22; 26, Hand 13:35; 59, Freehling 14:05; 92, Welton 14:38.

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRYStanford Invitational

at Stanford Golf Course (3.1 miles)Seeded Division

Team leaders — 1, Corona Del Mar 80; 2, Torrey Pines 150; 3, Buchanan 166.

Individual — 1, Lawrence (Reno) 17:06.Division I

Team leaders — 1, Mira Costa 204; 2, El Rancho 222; 3, Carlsbad 239.

Individual — 1, Lewis (Yuba City) 18:17. Division II

Team leaders — 1, Foothill (Santa Ana) 149; 2, Los Gatos 158; 3, Ponderosa 159; 12, Palo Alto 439.

Individual — 1, Dillard (Chico) 17:43. Palo Alto scorers — 9, Ivanhoe 19:07; 19,

Cummins 19:38; 98, Lee 21:20; 125, Mae-mura 21:52; 129, Lui 21:58.

Division IIITeam leaders — 1, Oak Park 106; 2, Or-

ange Lutheran 121; 3, Placer 121.Individual — 1, Johnson (San Lorenzo

Valley) 18:34.Division IV

Team leaders — 1, Carmel 93; 2, Bret Harte 109; 3, Marlborough 130.

Individual — 1, Matsuda (James Lick) 18:47.

Division VTeam leaders — 1, Flintridge Prep 54; 2,

Crystal Springs-Uplands 91; 3, Castilleja 111. 16, Sacred Heart Prep; 17, Pinewood.

Individual — 1, Roger (Marin) 18:36.Castilleja scorers — 63, Kilgore 20:44;

72, Rennels 20:49; 77, S. Swenson 20:55; 120, L.Swenson 21:46; 147, Harding 22:16.

SHP scorers — 160, Brownell 22:32; 162, Chuter 22:34; 178, McHugh 22:32; 237, Cui-samo 27:17; 239, Lonergan 27:26.

Pinewood scorers — 143, Endersby 22:15; 209, Andreachhi 24:28; 214, Marco-vici 24:52; 221, Hirsch 25:14; 222, McLarnan 25:15.

Woodside Priory — 174, Trudelle 22:51.Ram Invitational

At Westmoor High (2.4 miles)Team leaders — 1, Castro Valley 84; 2,

St. Ignatius 110; 3, Gunn 117.Individual — 1, Daly (SI) 14:59.Gunn scorers — 4, Reid 15:14; 9, Graham

15:49; 16, Yih 16:20; 33, Mehech 16:47; 55, Chang 17:28.

FOOTBALLSCVAL De Anza Division

Palo Alto 0 7 14 14 — 35Los Gatos 7 0 0 0 — 7

LG — Kalpin 11 run (Kent kick)PA — Williams 3 pass from Goodspeed

(Pederson kick)PA — Warner 19 run (Pederson kick)PA — Martin 34 interception return (Ped-

erson kick)PA — Frazier 6 run (Pederson kick)PA — Frazier 4 pass from Goodspeed

(Pederson kick)INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: Palo Alto, Frazier 11-69, Ma-taele 9-44, Warner 4-29, Williams 2-28, Goodspeed 5-(minus 13). Los Gatos, Kapp 17-83, Kalpin 6-42, Miller 3-8, Comeau 3-0, Gomez 5-(minus 15). Totals: Palo Alto 31-157; Los Gatos 34-118.

PASSING: Palo Alto, Goodspeed 8-14-0-119. Los Gatos, Gomez 12-24-3-129. Totals: Palo Alto 8-14-0-119; Los Gatos 12-24-3-129.

RECEIVING: Palo Alto, Hart 3-66, Wil-liams 2-27, Benaderet 1-21, Frazier 1-4, Ma-taele 1-1. Los Gatos, Martini 6-76, Alonso 3-29, Kapp 3-24. Totals: Palo alto 8-119; Los Gatos 12-129.

Standings: Palo Alto 1-0 (3-1), Wilcox 1-0, Milpitas 1-0, Mountain View 0-0, Homestead 0-1, Santa Clara 0-1, Los Gatos 0-1.

SCVAL El Camino DivisionLynbrook 7 7 0 7 — 21Gunn 0 8 13 7 — 28

L — Day 17 run (Baglanis kick)G — Laurence 2 run (Miki run)L — Day 10 run (Baglanis kick)G — Laurence 12 pass from Gumbrecht

(Laurence kick)G — Laurence 16 pass from Gumbrecht

(kick failed)G — Laurence 13 pass from Gumbrecht

(Laurence kick)L — Day 33 run (Baglanis kick)Standings: Gunn 1-0 (1-3), Monta Vista

1-0, Saratoga 1-0, Los Altos 0-0, Lynbrook 0-1, Cupertino 0-1, Fremont 0-1

PAL Bay DivisionMenlo-Atherton 7 7 14 14 — 42San Mateo 0 0 7 0 — 7

MA — Latu 1 run (Bader kick)MA — Bustos 3 run (Bader kick)MA — Hanks 2 run (Bader kick)SM — Easter 17 pass from Eber (David-

son kick)MA — Bustos 2 run (Bader kick)MA — Haatoa 20 run (Bader kick)MA — Haatoa 8 run (Bader kick)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: M-A, Hanks 13-124, Wilkins

10-63, Bustos 8-44, Haatoa 2-28, Ramirez 1-17, Latu 3-5. San Mateo, Liu 8-16, Moreci 3-10 Jeffries 1-2. Totals: Menlo-Atherton 37-281; San Mateo 12-28.

PASSING: M-A, McCabe 3-9-2-82. San Mateo, Weber 20-41-0-246. Totals: Menlo-Atherton 3-9-2-82; San Mateo 20-41-0-246.

RECEIVING: M-A, Wilkins 1-39, Knapp 1-35, DiSibio 1-8. San Mateo, Easter 8-120, Rudolph 5-88, Moreci 4-26, Kautai 1-8, Da-vidson 1-6, Liu 1-(minus-2). Totals: Menlo-Atherton 3-82; San Mateo 20-246.

Standings: Menlo-Atherton 1-0 (4-0), South San Francisco 1-0, Woodside 1-0, Aragon 1-0, San Mateo 0-1, Burlingame 0-1, Half Moon Bay 0-1, Terra Nova 0-1

PAL Ocean DivisionMenlo 13 8 14 0 — 35Sequoia 13 8 0 0 — 21

Seq — Klein 42 pass from Moreno (More-no kick)

Menlo — Ivery 81 run (Bouvier kick)Seq — Flores 67 pass from Moreno (kick

failed)Menlo — Walker 15 pass from Dixon (kick

failed)Menlo — Ivery 21 run (Hawkins pass from

Dixon)Seq — Klein 6 run (Masarie run)Menlo — Ivery 1 run (Bouvier kick)Menlo — Ivery 48 run (Bouvier kick)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: Menlo, Ivery 15-217, Mosbach-

er 3-22, Dixon 4-(minus-8). Sequoia, Klein 14-78, Holland 3-5, Moreno 12-22. Totals: Menlo 22-231; Sequoia 29-105.

PASSING: Menlo, Dixon 14-26-2-171. Sequoia, Moreno 4-7-3-159, Klein 0-1-0-0. Totals: Menlo 16-26-2-171; Sequoia 4-8-3-159.

RECEIVING: Menlo, Bouvier 5-64, Ivery 4-43, Hawkins 3-32, OíHolleran 2-19, Walk-er 2-13. Sequoia, Flores 2-105, Klein 1-42, Tatakamontanga 1-12. Totals: Menlo 16-171; Sequoia 4-159.

Standings: Menlo 1-0 (3-0), Capuchino 1-0, Carlmont 1-0, Hillsdale 1-0; Sequoia 0-1, El Camino 0-1, Mills 0-1, Jefferson 0-1.

BOYS SOCCERWest Bay Athletic League

St. Lawrence 1 0 — 1Woodside Priory 1 4 — 5

SLA — unavailableWP — Reyes (Shove), Reyes (unassisted),

Hong (unassisted), Barriga (Park), Aguirre (penalty kick).

Records: Woodside Priory 6-2 (7-2-1)SH Prep 3 0 — 3Red. Christian 0 0 — 0

SHP — Gramaglia (Benson), Benson (Gramaglia), Hosking (unassisted).

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 6-1-1 (6-1-1)

Pinewood-Harker match not reported

GIRLS TENNISPAL Bay Division

Menlo 7, at Aragon 0Singles — Hoffman (M) d. Nguyen, 6-0,

6-0; Goldman (M) by forfeit; Shine (M) d. Tan, 6-0, 6-1; Madison (M) d. McMurdo, 6-2, 6-0.

Doubles — Cha-Carlisle (M) d. Reyes-Loh, 6-2, 6-2; Huggins-Heaney (M) d. Me-lendres-Murphy, 6-1, 6-0; Olson-Joy (M) d. McGuerty-Goldberg, 6-3, 6-1.

Standings: Menlo 3-0 (8-2), Carlmont 3-0, Hillsdale 2-1, Burlingame 1-2, Aragon 0-3, Mills 0-3.

PAL Ocean DivisionMenlo-Atherton 6, at Terra Nova 1

Singles — Adams (MA) d. Arwade 6-0, 6-0; Tuionetoa (MA) d. K. Yip, 6-0, 6-0; Keat-ing (MA) d. J. Yip, 6-4, 6-2; Maramag (TN) d. Kaufer, 6-2, 6-4.

Doubles — Haley-Sharer (MA) d. Yim-Steveson, 6-1, 6-1; Peck-Murveit (MA) d. Be-rania-Proffitt, 6-1, 6-1; Ong-Galbraith (MA) d. Skiles-Clausen, 6-3, 6-4.

Standings: Menlo-Atherton 3-0 (7-0), Woodside 2-1, Westmoor 1-1, Half Moon Bay 0-2, Terra Nova 0-2.

SCVAL De Anza DivisionLos Gatos 4, at Palo Alto 3Records: Palo Alto 2-3 (4-5)

Private Schools Athletic LeagueAt Pinewood 4, Red. Christian 3

Singles — Sanchez (RC) d. Lim, 6-3, 6-4; Belagolovsky (P) d. Sharp, 6-0, 6-1; Sanders (P) d. Dalton, 6-0, 6-2:

Endersby (P) d. Grimes, 6-4, 7-6.Doubles — Gradiska-Smith (P) d. Vena-

gas- Chia, 7-5, 6-2; James-James (RC) d. Ottke-Dullman, 6-3, 6-2; Kumar-Venegas (RC) d. Wong-Polster, 6-3, 7-5.

Records: Pinewood 2-0 (5-3)West Catholic Athletic League

St. Ignatius 4, at SH Prep 3Singles — Hemm (SHP) d. Dillion, 6-0,

6-1; Lam (SI) d. Brezinski, 6-1, 6-2; Saballaro (SI) d. Robinson, 6-3, 6-1; Mendoza (SI) d. Evans, 6-1, 6-1; Lam (SI) d. Bradford, 7-5, 6-4.

Doubles — McMahon-Robson (SHP) d. Beaumont-Dougherty, 7-5, 6-2; Rodgers-Shannon (SHP) d. Wong-Dillon, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 4-2 (6-3)West Bay Athletic League

Woodside Priory 7, at M-Burlingame 0Singles — Kriewal (WP) d. Lowndes,

6-0, 6-1; Menjo (WP) d. Eastling, 7-5, 6-2; Wenger (WP) d. Griffin, 6-2, 6-1; Goodyear (WP) d. Akkaya, 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles — Castaneda-Christian (WP) d. Guiterrez-Ibrahim, 6-0, 6-1; Madavi-Khanna (WP) d. Le-Ghawi, 6-1, 6-0; Marquardt-Wat-son (WP) d. Caranto-Sison, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).

Castilleja 5, Mercy-SF 2At Cubberley Community Center

Singles — Bostwick (MSF) d. Zweig, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8; Moyes (MSF) d. Ryu, 6-3, 6-4; Chun (Casty) d. Lekvichittada, 6-0, 6-4;

Shah (Casty) d. Pramana, 6-4, 6-1.Doubles — Dutta-Martignetti (Casty) d.

Aquino-Huynh, 6-3, 6-1; Schoettle-Rodden (Casty) d. Loo-Talao, 6-3, 6-1; Brown-Mah (Casty) d. Fong-Wong, 7-5, 6-0.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALLSCVAL De Anza Division

At Palo AltoPalo Alto d. Gunn, 25-18, 25-17, 25-17.

Top players: Ashley Acuff (PA) 8 kills; Lindsey Spiegelman (PA) 8 kills; Samantha Rohman (G) 8 kills.

Records: Palo Alto 2-2 (11-3); Gunn 1-2 (5-11).

PAL Bay DivisionAt Menlo-Atherton

Menlo d. Menlo-Atherton, 24-26, 25-19, 25-23, 25-18. Top players: Abby Whelan (M) 17 kills, .429 hitting; Katherine Gorman (M) 28 digs; Allie Zamaria (M) 39 assists; Arielle McKee (MA) 11 kills.

Records: Menlo 3-1 (8-6); Menlo-Ather-ton 1-3 (5-10).

West Bay Athletic LeagueAt Woodside Priory

Woodside Priory d. Immaculate Concep-tion Academy, 25-9, 25-16, 22-25, 25-17. Top players: Alec Schilling (WP) 10 kills.

Records: Woodside Priory 1-2 (10-9).At Paye’s Place, San Carlos

Mercy-San Francisco d. Castilleja, 25-19, 25-16, 25-17. Top players: Laura Smith (Casty) 8 kills.

Records: Castilleja 0-1 (6-14)Saturday

At Notre Dame-San JoseCastilleja d. Notre Dame, 25-6, 25-7, 25-

13. Top players: Erin McLaughlin (Casty) 7 kills; Audrey Kuan (Casty) 26 digs.

Records: Castilleja 1-1 (7-14)Mitty Invitational

At MittySt. Francis (Sacramento) d. Menlo, 25-

23, 25-19, 19-25, 20-25, 15-13. Top players: Abby Whelan (M) 14 kills.

Menlo d. Coronado (Las Vegas), 25-15, 25-21, 25-18. Top players: Abby Whelan (M) 12 kills; Katherine Gorman (M) 14 digs.

SaturdayGross Catholic (Omaha, Neb.) d. Menlo,

25-21, 25-20, 23-25, 25-16. Top players: Lizzie Hale (M) 10 kills; Katherine Gorman (M) 15 digs.

11th placeClovis d. Menlo, 27-29, 16-25, 25-23, 15-

7. Top players: Lizzie Hale (M) 19 kills, .400 hitting; Whelan (M) 14 kills; Sofia Virani (M) 13 kills; Gorman (M) 28 digs; Zamaria (M) 46 assists.

Records: Menlo 9-9

BOYS WATER POLOSt. Francis Tournament

ChampionshipSH Prep 0 4 0 1 — 5De La Salle 1 2 0 1 — 4

SHP — Rudolph 2, Bausback 2, Meisel.DLS — Driscol, Kezer, Milcovich,

George.Records: Sacred Heart Prep 9-1

Final roundPalo Alto 4 2 5 2 — 13Mitty 3 2 3 1 — 9

PA — Wenzlau 4, Fortune 2, Ketchum 2, Wang 2, Gary, Higgins.

M — Reisch 3, Anderson 2, Hofstetter 2, Dear, Fleming.

Records: Palo Alto 7-6Burlingame 2 3 2 3 — 10Gunn 1 2 7 3 — 13

B — Lazzaretti 3, Mann 2, Zimmerman 2, Simon, Fox, Shen.

G — Agramonte 4, Preston 4, J. Nusse 3, Weiler, Chu.

Records: Gunn 6-9Second round

SH Prep 3 2 1 2 — 8Menlo-Atherton 2 1 2 1 — 6

SHP — Rudolph 3, Norton, Krautkramer, Meisel, Child, Whittam.

MA — not reportedSerra 2 3 5 4 — 14Palo Alto 1 2 3 2 — 8

S — Zakula 5, Poggetti 5, Chhokar 3, Haverty.

PA — Reamey 4, Wenzlau 2, Fortune, Wang.Gunn 3 3 0 0 — 6Leland 4 5 4 5 — 18

G — Agramonte 3, Preston 3.

L — La Rochelle 7, Eisenberg 4, Gartner 3, Kegan, Dobrashin, Bole, Robins.

First roundMenlo-Atherton 2 4 3 2 — 11Serra 1 2 3 1 — 7

MA — Welsh 3, Hazen 3, Hicks 2, Bugott, Morton, Hung.

S — Poggetti 3, Chhokar 2, Sims, Za-kula.Palo Alto 2 1 1 1 — 5SH Prep 2 3 2 1 — 8

PA — Reamey 2, Fortune, Wang, Mielke.SHP — Rudolph 4, Norton 2, Meisel,

Whittam.Gunn 2 2 2 2 — 8Lemoore 2 1 1 2 — 6

G — Agramonte 5, Preston 3.L — unavailable.

GIRLS WATER POLOWest Catholic Athletic League

Valley Christian 0 2 0 0 — 2SH Prep 6 4 6 2 — 18

VC — McKinney, Okuda.SHP — Dunlevie 4, Bohannon 3, Menon

3, Clark 2, Culpan 2, Carey, Child, Suther-land, Vogt.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 2-0 (8-2).

NorCal ChampionshipsAt UC Davis

Final standings — 1, Davis; 2, St. Fran-cis-Sacramento; 3, Menlo School; 4, Rio Americano; 5, Sacred Heart Prep.

Third placeMenlo 5 4 2 4 — 15Rio Americano 0 3 4 2 — 9

M — Burmeister 5, Bowles 4, Allen 2, Westerman 2, Krueger, Sullivan.

RA — unavailable.Records: Menlo 15-3

Final roundPalo Alto 2 3 1 2 — 8Buchanan 4 4 4 1 — 13

PA — Wilcox 5, Wong 2, H. KennanB — unavailableRecords: Palo Alto 6-7

SemifinalsSF (Sacto) 2 2 2 1 — 7Menlo 1 1 2 2 — 6

SFS — unavailableM — Burmeister 2, Krueger 2, Bowles,

Sullivan.

Fourth roundPalo Alto 3 2 0 2 — 7Campolindo 1 1 2 1 — 5

PA — Wilcox 3, Abbott 3, WongC — unavailable.

Third roundMenlo 5 4 2 1 — 12Los Altos 1 0 2 2 — 5

M — Allen 4, Sullivan 3, Bowles 2, Bur-meister 2, Anderson.

LA — Levin 2, Wong 2, L. Wyckoff.Palo Alto 1 2 1 0 — 4Davis 5 2 4 2 — 13

PA — Mackenzie, Whyte, Murao, FeeneyD — unavailable

Second roundMenlo 4 2 3 4 — 13College Park 2 2 1 0 — 5

M — Sullivan 5, Bowles 3, Krueger 3, Bur-meister, Westerman.

CP — unavailable.Palo Alto 1 3 2 0 — 6Clovis West 1 1 2 1 — 5

PA — Wilcox 2, H. Kennan 2, Mackenzie, Wong

CW — unavailable

First roundBuchanan 1 5 1 2 — 9Menlo 2 2 2 2 — 8

B — unavailableM — Burmeister 3, Allen 2, Bowles 2,

Krueger.Palo Alto 1 0 1 3 — 5St. Francis 2 2 2 0 — 6

PA — Wong 3, Wilcox 3.SF — unavailable.

(No scores reported by Menlo-Atherton)Wildcat Classic

At Los GatosSeventh place

ND-Salinas 0 0 0 0 — 0Gunn 5 4 0 1 — 10

G — C. Anderson 4, Yu 2, J. Anderson 2, Temkin, Viggiano.

Records: Gunn 3-10

Pool playSanta Catalina 10, Gunn 1; St. Ignatius 12,

Gunn 2; Fremont 6, Gunn 3.

All-Tournament TeamCatherine Anderson (Gunn).


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