Publication Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Deaths
Deaths
(April 28, 2004)
Charlie Cutten
Charlie Cutten, 55, a Stanford University graduate and well-known figure on the Northern California acoustic music scene, died April 12.
Born August 1948 in San Jose, he was a third generation Californian. He attended Daves Avenue Elementary School in Los Gatos and high school at Punahou in Honolulu, graduating from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.
He was a 1970 graduate of Stanford University. He is survived by his mother, Pauline E. Burch; his father, Merritt E. Cutten; brothers, Merritt B. Cutten and Bill Bancroft; sisters, Merlene Cutten Davis, Mary Bancroft Robins and Toni Bancroft; nieces and nephews, Ted and Max Davis, Sam and Sara Bancroft, Amy and Ben Cutten; and sweetheart, Kara Dworak.
Memorial donations may be made to the Charlie Cutten Music Scholarship at the California Coast Music Camp, P.O. Box 60875, Palo Alto, CA 94306. To celebrate his life, please visit his Web site at www.charliecutten.com.
Robert T. Keine
Robert Thomas Keine, 78, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died March 6.
He was born June 9, 1925, in Aurora, Ill. He attended Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1946 and a master's degree in 1949. He moved to California to pursue postgraduate studies at Stanford University where he was also a senior lecturer in music.
In 1951 he became organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church in Menlo Park, a position he held for 33 years. He was named organist emeritus upon his retirement in 1984. During this time he was employed as a mail carrier for the Post Office.
At Holy Trinity he was instrumental in securing a Schonstein pipe organ from a church in Stockton, transporting it to Menlo Park and refurbishing it with the help of Redwood City organ builder John Swinford and his associate Charles Fisk, a member of Holy Trinity's choir who later became a noted designer/builder of organs, including the Fisk Organ at Stanford's Memorial Church.
During his tenure at Holy Trinity, he directed the senior choir and established a junior choir. Both of his choirs sang in various performances throughout the Bay Area. The junior choir taking first place one year in the Church Choir Division of the Junior Bach Festival in Berkeley.
Many of his choir members attribute their lifelong love of music and singing to the musical education they received from him. He also taught piano and organ and directed several small groups of local singers. He was active in the American Guild of Organists and the Fortnightly Music Club in Palo Alto.
He is survived by his sister, Barbara Goldtrap of Florida.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Trinity Parish Organ Fund.
Bob Markevitch
Bob Markevitch, 73, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died April 6.
He was born in Tsing-Tao, China, where he developed a love of radio and electronics that would last throughout his life. As a young man he immigrated to the United States, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He spent most of his career at the Ampex Corporation, where he worked on the world's first video tape recorder and in 1975 received the company's Alexander M. Poniatoff award for technical excellence.
A Palo Alto resident for 42 years, he was active in the community, especially after his retirement in 1995. He taught computers at the Avenidas Senior Center and was a member of the Palo Alto Neighborhood Disaster Activities program and the fire department's blue ribbon task force. He was a graduate of the Citizen's Police Academy, held a ham radio license and was active in the Southern Peninsula Emergency Communication System and the Stanford Macintosh Users Group.
He is survived by his wife, Ann Markevitch of Palo Alto; sons James and John Markevitch; and grandchildren Daniel, Kim, Annie and Will.
Donations in his memory may be made to the University of California, Berkeley Engineering Fund.
Patricia A. Maslow
Palo Alto resident Patricia Aldridge Maslow, "Pat" to her many friends, died April 12 after a short illness. She was 69.
She was born Oct. 20, 1934, in Boone, N.C., to Fred and Louise Hodges Aldridge. She received both her undergraduate and master's degrees in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She was employed for many years by the Santa Clara County Mental Health Department as a licensed clinical social worker. After her retirement, she dedicated her life to the pursuit of travel and the arts.
She was a frequent visitor to museums and theaters in New York City, as well as those throughout the Bay Area. Her enthusiastic devotion to the arts -- drama, film, music, and especially poetry -- was remarkable in its intensity and scope.
In the fall of 1971 she was a founding member of the Palo Alto Adult School "Thursday Poets" class. The class, dedicated to the study of poetry, thrives to this day. She continued to be an inspired and scholarly member of the class until shortly before her death.
She is survived by her son, Joseph A. Maslow of San Jose.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Foscoe Grandfather Community Center of Banner Elk, N.C., in care of Armfield Coffey, P.O. Box 526, Boone, N.C. 28607.
Orland Soave
Orland Soave, 82, founder and first director of the veterinary facilities where much of Stanford's pioneering heart transplant research took place, died April 6.
From 1960 to 1980, he directed the Stanford School of Medicine animal research facility. His work there supported the first adult human heart transplant in the United States, at Stanford Hospital in 1968. According to Dr. Norman Shumway, who performed the procedure, his development of surgical techniques and anti-rejection regimens, especially in dogs, helped make heart transplants in humans possible.
Dr. Robert J. Glaser, vice president and dean of the medical school from 1965 to 1970, noted the major role he played in the medical school's research programs. "Over the years, he helped expand the financial resources needed to ensure excellent care of animals," Dr. Glaser said.
In addition to his medical training, he had a bachelor's degree in law, which was reflected in such publications as "Animals, the Law and Veterinary Medicine" and "Veterinary Law."
After retiring from Stanford in 1980, he served as a consultant in biomedical sciences to the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine. He was also a member of the board of the National Society for Medical Research, and a consultant in laboratory animal medicine for NASA.
He was born in San Francisco, and received a degree in veterinary medicine at Washington State University during World War II, in which he served as an Air Force colonel. He obtained his law degree at LaSalle University in Illinois in 1955.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Soave of Menlo Park; son Clark Soave; daughter Kathryn Koch; and sister Arlene Soave Phelan.
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