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Paul Grobstein

Submitted by Jennie Braun Serendip Visitor (guest) on Sun, 07/27/2014 - 5:29pm.

Just some backstory:
Fifty years ago I graduated in the same high school class as Paul Grobstein. I did not know him personally, but he was known to every one of our 400+ classmates and probably the rest of the school as well. He was the editor of the school newspaper, specializing in editorials decrying the lack of leadership in student government. According to the yearbook our senior year, he played basketball and participated in track. He was a member of the California Scholarship Federation and belonged to the Philosophy Club, which certainly seems to fit in with many of the descriptions I have read in this forum. In our senior year, he was voted Most Radical.
Neurobiology isn't a field that I think any of us would have expected him to be interested in--but the descriptions I have read in this forum about a free-thinking, endless and open curiosity, engaged in ideas, and slightly eccentric scholar I think were established even all those years ago. He was one of those people that stirred things up and made you remember him.

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