Alexandre Lockfeld:
CLASS OF 1975
Palo Alto High SchoolClass of 1975
Palo alto, CA
George Washington University - MedicalClass of 1985
Washington, DC
University of CaliforniaClass of 1980
Santa cruz, CA
Jordan Junior High SchoolClass of 1972
Palo alto, CA
Elizabeth Van Auken Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Palo alto, CA
Alexandre's Story
Life
The Story So Far -
Born 8/17/57 in Pittsburgh, PA, family immediately moved to Seattle. Moved to England 1964-67, then to California, eventually settling in Palo Alto.
After finishing Palo Alto HS 1975, attended Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp, goofed off some but graduated "with ears", met future (and current) wife, Joanne Carlson.
Spent a quarter with her as human lab rats at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, Fall 1980 got to see some of the mystic East with other "Normal Volunteers" (Yes, we were certified "Normal" by the US Government). Then worked at a neuroscience lab at Stanford 1980 - 81, hanging out in Palo Alto and Santa Cruz with friends, backpacking the Sierras, bicycled around Maui etc., and applied to med school.
Wound up at GW med school in DC 1981 - 85, Joanne did PhD in pharmacology there and NIH, toured the East Coast and Canadian Maritimes, got to know a lot of my East Coast relatives as an adult, spent a summer in Australia and Tahiti. Married Joanne in Walnut Creek, CA July 8 1984, with Jim Warner as best man (Paly '75, now living in Colorado) took "active" honeymoon on Big Island.
After a big road trip through the American West, did medical internship at GW 1985-6: worst year of my life - on call and no sleep every 3rd night for a year dealing with malignant personalities in a rigid hierarchy. Did get 3 minus weeks of vacation that year (some good memories of trips to US Virgin Islands, Cozumel and skiing in Colorado).
Then did Neurology residency and Epilepsy fellowship at UC San Diego 1986-90, so much more enjoyable living in Solana Beach, North county San Diego - with enough time for recreational and commute bicycling, boogie boarding at the beach and exploring So Cal and Baja coast, deserts and mountains by 4WD and also a trip to Israel when Joanne was there for Int'l catecholamine meeting. First child Matthew born in San Diego 12/7/1989, never a dull moment since!
Took neurology job in Eugene, Oregon in 1990 and unable to achieve escape velocity since then. Joanne taught at U of Oregon until after daughter Sarah born 11/7/1992 and Matthew diagnosed with high functioning autism about the same time. Thanks to Joanne's full time efforts, he is now living independently, working, driving, doing lots of outdoor sports and playing music. Sarah went to Colorado State for undergrad and vet school so we had a lot of trips out there til she graduated 2022, moved to Portland, married her college sweetheart here in Eugene. They are adulting fast, just bought a house. we have a grandcat there but no grandkids yet.
I worked in a group practice full time until my father started a more rapid decline with cancer in 2014. He took all us kids plu...Expand for more
s spouses on a bittersweet swan song trip to France April 2015 to show us his favorite places and meet some of his French friends, died in the arms of me and sister Jessica (Cubberly 1979) at his Palo Alto home in August 2015. I then had my own "decline" of working less and less and enjoying it more and more until finally retiring (almost fully, still volunteer here and there) in April 2018. Managed a family trip to Spain and couples trip to Italy before the pandemic hit, now getting the travel bug again...
We built a house at the edge of town on 4 acres in 2005 and were very glad to have space to spread out and do pandemic projects during lockdown. Some projects are going to have to wait for the next pandemic, though.
Getting slower every year, but I still do road and mtn biking, snowboarding, XC skiing (Matthew and Sarah were on the local HS XC team), backpacking, kayaking, and now birdwatching which Joanne went in on enthusiastically as a pandemic hobby. I'm still wine crazy to the extent of building a mini terraced vineyard "Cinque Terraces" like those we saw in the Cinque Terre. Most of my projects around here involve moving a lot of rocks and this was no exception.
During our rainy season, we have usually done at least a couple of trips a year to the Bay area/Sierra foothills to see friends and family as well as camping in the southwest deserts. April 2008 I had a reunion desert camping expedition to Eureka Valley with Dave Bell (Paly 75), Frank Koenig (Paly 74), and stepbro Max Rosan (Ravenswood 73). We still go visiting friends in California, camping in the southern deserts and sometimes Baja, now in a "retirement camping rig" little Four Wheel popup truck camper on a Ram truck.
Brother Tim (Paly A-school 77) lives in SF and has a cabin which is turning into a compound, in "frontier" Modoc county which is a great halfway stop enroute to points south.
Sister Jessica (Cubberly 1979) and her husband live in Denver, but spend winters on their sailboat (S/V Hajime on Wordpress) up and down the Pacific coast of Mexico where we have been visiting them each winter with a couple years off for the pandemic. I actually drove the truck camper down solo to Baja Sur to rendezvous with their boat and go sailing on the Sea of Cortez, but Joanne was never wild about long road trips. We have driven down to Baja a few times from Oregon for camping and sea kayaking trips, but she says next time we are flying...
Life's been good to me so far- reasonably healthy, happy in love and life and living in beauty. I can't complain (but sometimes I still do....)
If you're in the upper left corner and so inclined, look us up and say hi! Chances are good we'll be here.
Alex
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