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Kennedy Cosgrove receives post-graduate degrees
By Mary Ann Cook
STUDENT SPEAKER: Kennedy Cosgrove was the student speaker at Tulane University's graduation exercises, held in the Super Dome at New Orleans. The keynote speaker was the managing editor of Time Magazine, Walter Isaacson. Some 2,000 received degrees with 25,000 in attendance, so he had quite an audience.
Cosgrove graduated with an impressive record: he pursued a double major, earning a doctorate in medicine and a master's degree in public health. He is now serving his residency in psychiatry at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Besides his academic achievements, Cosgrove directed the Phoenix Society, which provides psychiatric counseling to students. Before getting his medical degree he was a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. He is the son of Judy Maassen and stepson of Fritz Maassen. He is a graduate of UCLA and Los Gatos High.
HIGHEST HONOR: Don R. Kuehn was named Outstanding Rotarian of the Year in ceremonies in the Chateau la Cresta Restaurant at the Mountain Winery recently. Kuehn is treasurer of the service club, and serves as finance committee chair.
A retired IBM engineer, he has been a Rotarian for 10 years and is a Paul Harris Fellow, an award given for contributions of both money and time.
CATTLE BARONESSES: Three women will share chairing honors of the major fundraiser for the American Cancer Society in the Bay Area--the Cattle Baron's Ball. The ball will feature a Mission Trail theme when it opens on Sept. 23 at Moffett Field. They are Brookes H. Brown, Phyllis Romine and Sandi Conniff.
Brown is the founding president of Grandview League, the auxiliary that produces the ball. A longtime member of the ACS board of directors, she also served on the San Jose-Cleveland Ballet Council and Eastfield Ming Quong Auxiliary.
Romine is a volunteer for the Santa Clara County medical alliance and a trustee with the San Jose Cleveland Ballet. She is co-founder of the group Friends Fighting Cancer. Romine and Brown live in Los Gatos. All three have been personally affected by the disease.
CROPS TO CROW ABOUT: It's produce brag time in the valley and one of those who got in first licks was Jeannie Palma who displayed items grown in her garden at a Lions Club meeting. Lemons the size of a grapefruit, a foot-long cucumber with a 6-inch diameter and a carrot shaped like a girl with her legs slightly crossed were three of her offerings.
POURING IT ON: Artist Lian Quan Zhen will demonstrate color-pouring and blending, derived from a Chinese brush-painting technique, at the Aug. 12 meeting of the Los Gatos Art Association at 1 p.m. at the Methodist Church.
Zhen pours three primary colors onto paper and blends them for extraordinary effects. A former physician in Canton, China, he studied art and architecture here, has a bachelor's of art degree in art from UC-Berkeley and a master's of art degree in architecture from MIT. His book, Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolor will be published this fall.
ALL AT SEA: Gloria LeBlanc spent the summer of '84 on a sailboat, the Black Knight, which was the start boat for the America's Cup challenge, so she was part of the America's Cup team that year. Unfortunately it was the year Alan Bond claimed the cup for Australia.
She and her then husband were members of the New York Yacht Club. Their boat was called "Twin Drift," in honor of daughters Nicole and Michelle, both of whom now live in Boston and are part of dotcom start-ups. They are also the reason LeBlanc's license plate reads Twin Glo, (for Gloria, of course.)
VOLUNTEERS OF YEAR: Publicists Marie Low of Saratoga and Cathy Gillum of Los Gatos were named volunteers of the Year by Silicon Valley Charity Ball Awards Committee and were honored in an awards presentation at the Triton Museum.
More than $1 million in contributions raised at the May ball was awarded at the ceremony to 44 different nonprofit organizations. The Low/Gillum team has handled publicity for the event for the past two years.
LIVE OAK OFFICERS: Live Oak Senior Nutrition and Service Center celebrated the return of Joanne Benjamin to their midst by making her chairwoman of the board. Other officers named were Kern Hamilton, vice chairman; Betsy Dunbar, secretary; Lee Sullivan, treasurer.
Board members include Eric Carlson, Liberty Esch, Florence Frye, Joyce Hopkins, Gunnar Kristensen, Harold Lipton, Marion Lyon, Zee Ouellette, Eve Stephens, Susan Tuttle, Winston Weber and Dick Winckler.
NEW OFFICERS: New Lions Club officers are Gary Cayton, president; Jan Morris, first vice president; Chris Morris, second vice president; Tim Musselman, third vice president and secretary; John Lochner, treasurer; Joe Zanardi, tail-twister; Frank Bonacorsi, lion-tamer; and Bill Frey, past president.
Directors are Paul Grabeel, Roger Mason, Bill Linder, Carol Musser, Pauline Mifsud, Shaun Moran, Dennis Roberts, Eric Childs and Roland DeGeorge.
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