Deaths Deaths (February 11, 2004)

Cleo Mishkin Eulau

Cleo Mishkin Eulau, 80, died Jan. 23 at Stanford Hospital of complications related to diabetes. Her husband of more than 50 years, Heinz Eulau, died just five days earlier.

The Stanford University adjunct clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences was born Oct. 20, 1923, in New York City, the daughter of a pharmacy owner and homemaker in the emerging Jewish middle class of New York. She became interested in social work and attended Hunter Women's College in New York City, the beginning of her lifelong career in the field. She then earned a master's degree in clinical social work in 1947 at the School for Social Work at Smith College in Massachusetts. In 1983 she received the Lydia Rapoport Professorship in the School for Social Work from Smith.

While at Hunter she met her husband, Heinz Eulau, an editor at the New Republic. The two came to Stanford in the late 1950s when her husband accepted a job at Stanford University. In Palo Alto she became involved in training and teaching social workers and psychiatry and psychology interns at the Stanford University Medical School.

She was the first woman and first non-psychiatrist to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the department of psychiatry at Stanford University in the spring of 2002.

In 1994 colleagues and former students founded the Cleo Eulau Center as a service and study center dedicated to developing innovative solutions to helping at-risk children and teens. The driving mission of the center is based on her goal in life to be "helpful to people."

In the midst of all of her professional activities, she volunteered her time for many years at organizations such as the Children's Health Council; Children's Hospital, Stanford and Family Service of Midpeninsula; and the Clinical Social Work Journal.

She is survived by her daughter, Lauren Eulau; son-in law, Paul Schneider; son, Peter Eulau; daughter-in-law, Kendra Eulau; three grandchildren; brother, William Mishkin and sister-in-law, Grace Mishkin.

A memorial celebration of the lives of Heinz and Cleo Eulau will be held Tuesday, March 2, at 4 p.m. at Stanford's Memorial Church, Palm Drive, Stanford University. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in the Eulaus' memory be made to the Cleo Eulau Center for Children and Adolescents, 415 Cambridge Ave., Suite 21, Palo Alto, CA 94306.
Heinz Eulau

Heinz Eulau, 88, Stanford University's William Bennett Munro professor of political science, died Jan. 18 of bone cancer at his home on campus.

Born in Offenbach, Germany, in 1915, he was sent out of the country to obtain an education and arrived in the United States in 1935. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

During World War II he worked at the U.S. Department of Justice as a propaganda analyst. From 1944 to 1947 he served as an assistant editor at The New Republic in New York.

In 1957 he came to the Bay Area as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He joined the department of political science at Stanford University in 1958 and chaired it during periods of change, between 1969 and 1974 and 1981 and 1984.

He was a pioneer in political behavior and legislative research. He also specialized in theory and practice of political representation and electoral behavior.

He was president of the American Political Science Association in 1971-72 and in 1976 he helped found Legislative Studies Quarterly, a journal published at the University of Iowa. In 1986 the American Political Science Association established the Heinz Eulau Award and in 2002 the Heinz Eulau Political Behavior Fellowship was established at Stanford.

He co-authored many influential books, including "Class and Party in the Eisenhower Years," "The Behavioral Persuasion in Politics" and most recently a 550-page family history titled "The Mishpokhe from Eulau-Jilove."

Jenne Kowtko, 78, a 38-year resident of Menlo Park, died Jan. 20.

Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., to Italian immigrants, she was raised in Rochester, attended Syracuse University for two years and then moved to the Hollywood Hills of California to nanny. In California she married her husband, a sailor named Michael. The two were married for 51 years.

She lived the rest of her life in the state, where she raised five Ivy League University graduates.

She was a homemaker whose interest revolved around her children and education, a family member said.

She is survived by her daughters, Sherry, Eveline and Jacqueline; her sons, Michael and John; and six grandchildren.

Services have been held.
Constance M. Larkin

Constance M. Larkin, 82, a resident of Menlo Park, died Jan. 20 at Stanford University Medical Center.

A native of Bryn Mawr, Penn., she grew up in Philadelphia. She got her bachelor's degree in nursing at Albany College of St. Rose and a master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

In California she was a professor of nursing at Foothill College and then De Anza College for about 20 years. She took her students on visits to Stanford Hospital and El Camino Hospital, and she was known for her passion for pediatric nursing.

One of the nursing stories she loved to tell most was of the time she took care of baseball player Babe Ruth at the New York Memorial Hospital after his career was over. She also trained under President Reagan's surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, while working at a children's hospital in Philadelphia.

She enjoyed swimming and walking and will be remembered as a woman with a vibrant personality who inspired many young men and women to pursue careers in pediatric nursing.

She is survived by her son, Vincent R. Larkin Jr. of Los Altos; sister, Joan Koerner of Florida; and husband of 45 years, Vincent R. Larkin Sr. of Menlo Park.

Services have been held.
Yoko Nonaka

Yoko Nonaka, 56, a native of Japan and longtime resident of Palo Alto, died Jan. 31.

While neighbors saw her as the friendly face bringing food and cheer to the sick, co-workers knew her as a hard-working creative contributor with the highest ethical standards. She excelled in the study of literature, as well as in painting, cooking and entertaining, and interior decoration.

She was born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan, completed her education in London and came to California in 1976. She worked at the Hoover Institution from 1977-81, then at PARC for 10 years in Information Resources. In 1991 she transferred to XIP (Xerox International Partners).

She is survived by her daughter, Deanne Ecklund of Campbell; husband, Dr. Giordano Bruno Beretta of Palo Alto; mother, Yuriko Nonaka of Japan; sister, Yoshiko Taniguchi of Japan; and sister, Kumiko Tanaka of Japan.
Klaus-Dieter Wagner

Klaus-Dieter Wagner, 59, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died Jan. 20.

He was born May 17, 1944, in Germany. He left a successful marketing career in the South of France in 1979 to live as a monk, studying and practicing for many years at the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara.

He was an ordained priest in the Soto Zen tradition. Once he left the monastic life, he was a real estate agent with Coldwell-Banker for nearly 20 years.

He is survived by his daughter, Joelle, a junior at Gunn High School. A memorial service was held in his honor Feb. 1.

In lieu of flowers, donations are preferred either to the Joelle Wagner Education Memorial Fund, 630 San Benito Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025; or to Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, 1601 Shoreline Highway, Sausalito, CA 94965.

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