Family
My mother, Mary Lou Glatfelter Zoglin,
grew up in York, Pennsylvania in the middle of Pennsylvania Dutch country, the daughter of a high-school French teacher. She attended Radcliffe College (now absorbed into Harvard). After graduating she received a Fulbright grant for a year's study at the University of Brussels and then returned to New York City to work for The Rockefeller Foundation as a translator and editor and there met my father, Stanton Zoglin, then an intern at Bellevue Hospital.
After marrying they moved first to Nashville, Tennessee and then to Seattle, Washington before finally arriving in Santa Clara Valley. In 1961 she was elected to the Foothill/DeAnza Community College Board of Trustees, where she served for 13 years. Later that decade she was appointed by the Governor to the statewide Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. In the 1960's she was named Citizen of the year in Los Altos.
After my father passed away my mother earned her Ph.D. in Administration of Higher Education at UC-Berkeley. With Prop 13 making it difficult to find full time employment my mother moved south to take a position as Dean of Instruction at Coastline Community College in Orange County, in charge of what was then the largest television course program in the country. A few years later she became Vice-President for Instruction, responsible for the education of some 15,000 students.
After “retiring” from her position at Coastline in order to return to the Bay Area and resume her life as a community volunteer she became the Executive Director of Mountain View/Los Altos Healthy Ventures, a collaborative of 21 schools, nonprofit agencies, the city, clinics and hospitals, and the YMCA and YWCA, working for the health and well-being of children and families.
Mary Lou was elected to the Mountain View City Council in 1996 and served as Mayor of the city in 1999. She was re-elected in 2000 and completed her final term just months before passing away in 2005. http://www.smartvoter.org/2000/11/07/ca/scl/vote/zoglin_m/bio.html
My father, Stanton F Zoglin
was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Nathan Zoglin, an immigrant who had migrated from Ukraine/Russia at age 11, and Jennifer Rosenberg. My grandfather was a physician and my grandmother was the second woman to pass the bar in the state of Missouri. His style of life is chronicled in the Mr and Mrs. Bridge books often read as part of high school English curricula which were written by his highschool classmate Evan S. Connell.
After attending one year of college at Carnegie Mellon, my father volunteered for the Marine Corps where he earned his purple heart while serving in forward positions throughout the Pacific; his division sustained had a 70% casualty rate. Their exploits described William Manchester – the frequently published author.
After the war he transferred to Harvard where he earned first his degree in Chemistry and then his MD. His style of life as an intern at Bellevue, was again chronicled in Dr. Nolen’s book: The Making of a Surgeon. Gradually moving across the country he decided to start his practice in the El Camino Hospital area – first at the corner of Miramonte and Cuesta and later at 2500 Hospital Drive across the street from El Camino Hospital where he practiced with Dr. Hake, Rush and soon Gilman.
After being elected as Chief of Staff at El Camino hospital he continued to participate heavily as a volunteer. He traveled with Dr. Bill Reeves to Washington DC in successful quest for funding for what is recognized as the first computerized system installed in a hospital in 1971.
My father also served on the regional Boy Scouts of America board for many years. He died at the age of 51 in his office, late at night while reading EKG’s, of a heart attack.
My wonderful wife, Karla Lacey,
was born in Texas and grew-up in an oil family which meant that she lived in a number of small towns in Texas, ultimately graduating from Cooper High School in Abilene. She is a proud Aggie, having graduated Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M before beginning her career as an accountant in San Antonio, Texas.
After earning her MBA at Harvard Business School she moved to San Francisco to work for Clorox. After Clorox she worked for Colgate, including nine years in Portugual, Argentina and ultimately Costa Rica where she was the General Manager. She returned to the States to work for the non-profit GMAC which administers the GMAT test for business schools.
We met the summer between years at business school and started dating a scant 19 years later. She is currently a Director of Marketing at Cisco.
Sarah and Kelly Zoglin were born on Friday, August 13th, 2004 – the day of the opening ceremonies for the Greek Olympics. They enjoy their time at Childrens’ Center pre-school, Tiny Twisters Gym and San Juan School of Dance. In their spare time they enjoy riding their bike with training wheels like demons around the back yard.
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