A Glimpse in their Lives
2000 Honorees
Margaret Arnold settles back on the living room couch. "I'm not comfortable with this at all," she confesses. "What I've done is really insignificant compared with other people."Though she is clearly hesitant about stepping into the limelight, her husband, Ed, "thought I should do it." The second child and elder daughter of a general practitioner in the small Florida town of Live Oak, Margaret West Arnold remembers the profound influence her father had upon her early life. "He made me feel beautiful and bright and loved, and I did everything in my power to live up to his image of me."
By the time Arnold was ready for college, her father was in |
The Stanford Art Museum has changed its name to the Cantor Center for the Arts, but one thing that hasn't changed is Darrell Carey's abiding loyalty to the institution.
Known for her good humor and her beautiful white hair, Carey has been volunteering at the museum for over 30 years, holding numerous leadership positions in the museum's support groups. Most recently, she twice chaired the biennial Treasure Market event, an enormous undertaking involving the supervision of hundreds of volunteers and months of energetic preparation. Treasure Market has raised well over $1 million for art |
There appears to be a major gap in the resume of Lifetimes of Achievement honoree Robert A. Grimm: He hasn't written a book.
He should. Someone should explain how he achieved a high level of success in his personal and professional life, retired and then worked just as hard giving vast amounts of time, money and vision to others--day in, day out, all with tremendous enjoyment in the deed. How does the Los Altos community leader and retired Hewlett-Packard Co. executive manage to be so |
Encapsulating physician R. Hewlett Lee in a paragraph or two is a bit like trying to reduce Handel's "Messiah" to a few bars: You might be able to do it, but you'd have to leave out so much it might not be worth the effort.
Lee is larger than life in many respects: He not only comes from a prominent family, but probably the preeminent medical family on the Peninsula. He is so intelligent that he skipped two grades in middle school, entered Stanford at age 16, finished in record time, then graduated from Stanford Medical School at age 21. |
Given her birthright as a native of Trinity, Texas, and her fitting given name, it makes sense that Lovie Lewis' mission in life comes from a higher power.
In her own words, Lewis strives "to set an exemplary standard of excellence for those who come to share in my vision of a world that can exist without hunger or need, where all people may have the opportunity to nourish themselves in body and soul." For a woman who never had any children of her own, countless recipients of Lewis' benevolence claim her as |
A thriving business community, a well-respected law firm, an impressive roster of community organizations: All know the handiwork of Warren Thoits.
The youngest of five children, Thoits was born on the 900 block of Forest Avenue, where the house still stands and is now occupied by his nephew. Thoits himself is a third-generation Palo Altan, his grandfather the founder of a family shoe business in 1891. The grandfather opened Thoits Shoes when he recognized that the distance between the city train depot and Stanford would wear out a considerable number of student and faculty shoes. |