Los Altos resident Dr. Dean Clark was a general surgeon from 1956 to 2013. His father was celebrated Palo Alto architect Birge Clark, who designed the Roth Building, and who was himself the son of a pioneer Stanford professor. His aunt, Dr. Esther Clark, was the first pediatrician on the mid-Peninsula and one of the founding doctors of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, which occupied the Roth Building as its professional offices. Dean entered the US Navy at age 17 during World War II, attended UCLA, then served on a destroyer in the Pacific. He later received his medical degrees from Stanford.
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