Stories

I had a very good childhood. I grew up in East Palo Alto, but the good thing was that we had friends in Palo Alto. My mother worked at Stanford University, so we were able to venture out a lot. We had opportunities to do stuff at Stanford and, through our friends, we would be…

When I moved to Palo Alto in 1944, there were only 16,000 residents here. With three daughters and a husband who was sports editor for the Palo Alto Times, I spent my spare time getting involved in local organizations: the Palo Alto Historical Association, the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women,…

Meet Frank Wu. I was born in 1937 in Shanghai, China. My grandfather was a medical doctor, and my father studied at Un of Shanghai, which was founded by a group of missionaries from the United States…

Meet Al Bostic. I grew up in Philly. My mom was a riveter on Navy ships during World War I. She raised me and my three brothers. When I was an infant, I had whooping cough, bronchitis, and pneumonia all at once.