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Diane Gibbs
Childhood friends stay connected through music By Samantha Bergeson
tar and bass. By junior year, the band was officially pieced together, and by senior year, it inosaurs may be extinct, won M-A’s annual Battle of the but great music doesn’t Bands contest. die. A local band, made They have limited time to play up of four childhood friends together. Each member attends a who all graduated from Menlo- different college so they keep in Atherton High School in 2011, contact by sharing music files by hopes to keep their music alive. computer. “The common thing The band, named Tyrannosau- now for college bands since rus Sex, plays mostly technology is so jazz-funk, influenced by great is to ... use a variety of rock bands. DropBox to share Its members are guiGarageBand files tarist and backing vocalor recordings back ist Stefan Turkowski, and forth and then drummer Colin Sutadd to it,” Mr. Sutton, bassist Jonathan ton says. Wyatt, and lead vocalist Each song is and guitarist Noah Stid. started by a band The cover The band has released of the band’s album, member who lays two albums, “Barely a foundation and “Rough and Dirty.” Covered” in Februrary then shares the 2012 and “Rough and Dirty” fragment with the other band in October. T-Sex has played members via DropBox. Most of at a variety of bistros and cafes the second album, “Rough and throughout the Bay Area, with Dirty,” was written this way. its most recent show at the “One of the interesting things Brainwash Cafe in San Francisco about this technique for songon Dec. 29. writing is ... everyone fills in As drummer Colin Sut- the gaps on their own in totally ton explains it, the boys were different ways,” bassist Jonathan “friends since the beginning” Wyatt says. “And then when of elementary school and began we come back together, you jamming together starting fresh- can have these totally different man year. It was a smooth tran- images about what the rest of the sition since “we have all been song is going to look like.” playing and jamming for years. Such a patchwork method ... We all kind of know how each of song collaborations based other operates,” he says. on riffs or singular beats can Each played an instrument sometimes create a rift in the and taught one another gui- group itself. As guitarist Stefan Special to The Almanac
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Turkowski says, there tends to be some disagreement about the direction of songs. “There’s definitely some tribulations,” he adds. “And trials,” Mr. Sutton chimes in. The band practices when all its members are in town, which happens only when there are breaks from school. This past summer band members consistently practiced every three days to gear up for their August sold-out gig at Angelica’s Bistro in Redwood City. The main focus of the group is the instrumental sound, complemented by the deep voice of Noah Stid. As the main singer, he takes on the responsibility of writing the lyrics. “The lyrics usually have a lot of meaning behind them; we just tell him not to write about his girlfriend too much!” Mr. Sutton jokes. As a unit, the band is mostly influenced by Gov’t Mule, a Southern folk-rock group formed out of the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers. T-Sex covered two Gov’t Mule songs on its first album. Yet the members have a conflicting preferences when it comes to music, ranging from bluegrass to metal. Their friendships and professionalism transcend individual quarrels, they say. The band, Mr. Sutton says, “is really what all of our tastes come together as.” Visit tinyurl.com/Band-122 to see the band’s website.
Thomas Samuel Glikbarg Thomas (Tom) Samuel Glikbarg passed away on February 13, 2013 at the age of 82 at his home in Atherton after a long battle with multiple myeloma. He was surrounded by his loving family at the time of his death. Tom was born June 5, 1930 in San Francisco. He was raised by his father, A. Samuel Glikbarg, after his mother passed away shortly after his birth. Tom played baseball and was an All-City basketball player at Lowell High School. He attended Stanford University where he played freshman basketball and many intramural sports, graduating in 1952 with a degree in business. He was well known for his achievements as president of Lyon’s Restaurants, a very successful restaurant chain, where he fostered a family atmosphere and earned the respect and loyalty of the employees. At the time of his retirement there were 86 restaurants throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. Tom was an avid sports fan. He was a regular at Stanford athletics events and attended over 50 Big Games. He thoroughly enjoyed Giants and 49er games. He loved playing tennis at the Menlo Circus Club and golfing at the Springs Club in Rancho Mirage and Half Moon Bay Golf Links. Tom sat on the board of directors twice at the Menlo Circus Club, served as president of the Springs Club in Rancho Mirage and was on several
local boards. He was well known for his exceptionally sharp wit and great sense of humor. He is survived by his wife of 52 years Elizabeth (Betsy), their children John Glikbarg (Becky), Bob Glikbarg (Jan) and Ellen Shea (Tom), 8 grandchildren (Elisabeth, Thomas, Ben, Leanne, Ryan, Patrick, Kevin and Casey), his sister Eleanor and her husband Arthur, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was a loyal and loving husband and father and relished spending time with his family. Many thanks to Yumi Ando, MD., Pathways Hospice, and Care on Call for their incredible support. A “Celebration of Tom’s Life “ will be held at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton on Saturday, February 23 at 3:00. In lieu of flowers please consider donating to Pathways Home, Health and Hospice in memory of Tom Glikbarg, 585 North Mary Av., Sunnyvale, 94085 or MMTI Fund in memory of Tom Glikbarg, UCSF Foundation, Box 45339, San Francisco, CA 94145, or your charity of choice. PA I D
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Mrs. Finley J. (Diane) Gibbs passed away peacefully at her Atherton home on January 28, 2013, after a brief illness. She had just celebrated her 100th birthday in October. Diane was born in Manila, The Philippines, to Camille Glubetich Pickering and John Kuykendall Pickering. She moved to California as a little girl to live with her aunts and attend school. She graduated from Castilleja School in Palo Alto (’31) and UC Berkeley (’35), where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. After college, Diane returned to Manila, where she married the late Finley J. Gibbs. The Gibbses raised their four children in Washington, D.C., Manila, Palo Alto, and finally Atherton. Diane loved to play golf and bridge, and was a world traveler. She volunteered at the Allied Arts Guild and the MRI, was a member of both the Century and Town & Country Clubs in San Francisco, and was a long time member of the Menlo Country Club in Woodside. She is survived by her children Finley P. Gibbs (Patricia), Judith Gibbs Brown (Dwite), Camille Gibbs Herrick (Sherman), and Christina Gibbs Thrash (Wallace). She also left behind twelve grandchildren, twenty five great-grandchildren, two nieces and four nephews. The family requests that any donations in her memory be directed to Castilleja School and to the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. PA I D
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Myron “Mike” Beigler Nov. 8, 1926 – Jan. 17, 2013
Myron “Mike” Beigler, biochemist, artist, and longtime resident of Portola Valley, California, died from cancer on January 17, 2013, at the age of 86. Mike was born in 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. Invited to join the Army Specialized Training Program at 17, Mike was preparing to join the troops abroad when he contracted meningitis, causing him to lose most of his hearing, but enabling him to study biology at the University of Michigan through the remainder of the war. In 1947, Mike moved to New York City to attend the Art Student’s League, immersing himself in the burgeoning abstract expressionist movement with fellow students Larry Rivers and Alfred Leslie. Together they transferred their GI Bills to New York University in 1948, where Mike earned a BS in Art Education, learning and teaching ceramics while spending his evenings with Tony Smith, Robert Motherwell, and Willem deKooning amongst others. Soon thereafter, matters of practicality turned Mike’s attention from art towards his other true passion: science. He earned his BS degree in biology and chemistry from NYU in 1953, eventually moving to California to work for Lockheed on the Polaris nuclear submarine missile system, preparing reports for President Eisenhower. Mike then embarked on an innovative and prolific career in the field of amino acids and nutrition science. By the end of his career, Mike was named on over 40 U.S. and international patents, having traveled the world and worked with companies in Japan and Germany. From the late eighties onwards, Mike rededicated himself to ceramics and sculpture. He developed a technique whereby he immersed cloth in hot wax, draping the pieces over each other, and finally creating a bronze rendition of the sculpture. In hanging each piece, Mike sought to explore the beauty and simplicity of gravity itself. Mike will be remembered for his extraordinary intelligence and talent in both the arts and sciences, his insatiable curiosity, kindness, and readiness to support and mentor those who were lucky to call him friends and family. He is survived by his wife of twenty years, Foster Beigler. PA I D
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