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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.  Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice - he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -- Robert F. Kennedy

Lowell Klaisner

I was born in San Francisco on December 30, 1938. My mother was born in Palo Alto, California and her mother came to California in a covered wagon. My father was born in Chicago and his father in Austria-Hungry (Bohemia). I grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula and attended Stanford University (BSEE and MSEE). I moved to Illinois, then to the state of Washington and back to the Peninsula. While in Washington I attended the University of Washington and earned my MBA.

My father gave me my fascination with thing mechanical. We worked together on rebuilding the engine on the family '49 Chevrolet. In the summer, I worked with him in the pressroom. He taught me the importance of work.

My mother taught me the value of education and life-long learning. She taught me to be the best that I can be. She (and I) values style and the comfortable life.

I married Marilyn Wilson in San Francisco. We had two children, Mark Alan and Beth Anne. Marilyn and I divorced and I married Sharon Burkitt who had two children Jennifer Lynn and Shawn Lewis (he changed his name to Maximilien Xavier). Sharon and I had on child, Sheryl Aleece. I have these five children and four grandchildren.