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Early Families THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS DECEMBER 2016 5 6 9 10 How to History of Sharing Opossum Be a Good Public Pathways Witness Education CRANSTON MILESTONES 1914 William and Carol move to what is to become Los Altos Hills 1943 R.E. and Jack Fowle move to town 1947 Alan and Geneva move to town 1947, 1951 Robin and Kim are born 1956 Fowles donate land and Early Families: The Cranstons improvements for original Los Altos Hills Town Hall he Cranston family history is intricately tied to the town’s history 1958 Alan elected California — going back as far as 1914, 42 years before Los Altos Hills was State Controller incorporated. Three generations of Cranstons have made signifi- 1968 Alan elected California T U.S. Senator cant contributions to the local community in leadership roles, as well as 1994 donations to help build the original town hall, the Boy Scout hall, and the Alan, Kim, Colette and Evan move to Los Altos Hills Los Altos parking plazas. And contributions of one particular Cranston influenced the state, the nation, and the world — including publishing an unauthorized anti-Nazi version of Mein Kampf to alert Americans to Hitler’s anti-Semitism and plan for world conquest. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 2] Alan became Chief, Foreign Language Division, Office of War Information, Executive Office of the President, and worked in 1942 with Eleanor Roosevelt to try to prevent the creation of relocation camps for Japanese Americans. He later visited Los Altos friends interned at Tule Lake, California and Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In 1945, Alan published The Killing of the Peace, a chronicle of how a few senators opposing U.S. entry into the League of Nations thwarted the will of the people after World War I. Alan and Geneva returned to Los Altos in 1947 to a home Alan and friends built on Hilltop Drive. They had two sons, Robin and Kim. The William’s best friend, Fremont boys attended the Peninsula School Older, a newspaperman and editor and Hillview School. in San Francisco, influenced Alan’s Robin attended Foothill College, 1914–58 Cranstons move to interest in journalism. Fremont was an entrepreneur, and coproduced Los Altos Hills crusaded for people he believed a 1977 Broadway show that starred illiam and Carol Cranston were wrongly convicted. One such Canadian cousin Toller Cranston, moved to what became Los person was Tom Mooney, a labor who won the Bronze Medal in figure Altos Hills in 1914 and leader convicted of planting a bomb skating in the 1976 Winter Olympics. Wcalled their home at West Fremont (pardoned in 1936), whom Fremont Robin was tragically killed in a car Road and Campo Vista the “Red took Alan to meet in San Quentin. accident in 1980. Barn.” Their daughter, Ruth Eleanor Alan graduated from Stanford Alan’s older sister, R.E., married (R.E.), and son, Alan, attended University in 1936. Alan had been a Jack Fowle in 1929 and they purchased Castilleja. Alan attended Los Altos competitive runner since his youth. Feather Hill Farm from Rudolf and Grammar School and Mountain At Stanford he was a member of the Gerda Isenberg, who bought the View Union High School. In 1922, country’s fastest mile-relay team. In property from one of Juana Briones’ the family moved to Villa WAREC 1969, Alan set the world’s record for many daughters and sold the rest of (William, Alan, R.E., Carol), now on 55-year-olds in the 100-yard dash. their property to Esther Clark (much Cypress Court. Local street names After college, Alan became an of the land is now Esther Clark Park). derived from the family include International News Service foreign R.E. was politically active and WAREC Way and Edith Avenue correspondent, covering England, president of the Foothill-De Anza (Carol’s middle name). William Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Community Foundation; served on developed buildings on Main Street Ethiopia. Alan decided reporting the Stanford University Founding and was active in community projects, the tragic events in Europe wasn’t Grant Society board of directors; and such as building the Boy Scout hall. enough and returned to the U.S. One was a trustee of The Trust for Hidden day in Macy’s New York, Alan saw Villa. R.E.’s best friend was Mary an English-language translation of Stegner. R.E studied writing with Adolf Hitler’s Mein long-time town resident Kampf, sanitized to not and Pulitzer Prize winning alarm Americans. To author Wallace Stegner and divulge Hitler’s anti- published a biography of Semitism and plan for Alan in 1984. world conquest, Alan Jack’s father, Arthur published an unauthor- Fowle, was elected the first ized version that sold mayor of Los Altos Hills 500,000 copies in 10 but his health prevented days for 10 cents a copy him from serving. Jack was before Hitler’s publisher on the first Los Altos Hills successfully sued for City Council, served as Cover: Aerial view of Feather Hill copyright infringement. mayor, and was a leader in Farm and surroundings circa 1920. Insets – top: William and Carol Cranston. Bottom: Kim, Evan, Alan also helped Jewish the Committee for Green Colette Cranston (photo by Larsen&Talbert). This page refugees arriving by ship Foothills. The Fowles – top: Anna Knapp Fitz painting of Alan, R.E., and in New York avoid being repatriated to donated land and improvements for their dog Zelma in front of the Red Barn. Courtesy of Europe. the original Los Altos Hills Town Hall. Anna Knapp Fitz Collection, Los Altos History Museum. In 1939, Alan met his wife, Geneva In 1947, Alan became a partner with Above: Aerial view of Villa WAREC. Right: Alan Cranston’s Anti-Nazi tabloid version of Mein Kampf. McMath, on a blind date. She was an William in The Cranston Co. — the activist who worked for Orson Welles family real estate business. Alan was and the Citizen’s Committee to Repeal national president of the United World Chinese Exclusion. 2 Our Town | December 2016 1993–Present: Cranstons return to Los Altos Hills lan retired from the senate in 1993 and returned to Los Altos Hills in 1994 A(the year Kim, Colette, and Evan moved here). He became chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation USA, chairman of the State of the World Forum, and founding president of the Global Security Institute, which is focused on nuclear arms control, non- proliferation, and disarmament. Shortly before his death at the age of 86 on December 31, 2000, Alan finished writing The Sover- eignty Revolution, on how global challenges, from international terrorism to climate change, can only be resolved at the global level. The book identi- fied Osama Bin Laden as a major terrorist threat Federalists from the money and I will hold it in escrow and the danger of U.S. 1949–52, through which until I find out definitely what your plans cities being attacked with he sought to strengthen the United are for the future. weapons of mass destruction. Sincerely, Groucho Marx Nations. He founded the California Since the 1990s, Colette and Democratic Council in 1949, and was Kim have been active in a range of Alan replied to the famous comedian its president from 1953–58. Closer to community projects. and film star: home, Alan and other property owners led the effort to create the parking Dear Groucho: Kim Cranston is chair of the Global plazas so Los Altos could compete with I was relieved to learn that you believe Security Institute, president and co-founder the new Stanford Shopping Center. in my integrity and my manhood, just as of Los Altos Property Owners Downtown, you will be relieved to learn that your co-founder of Los Altos Forward, and on $25 check, which I promptly cashed, the steering committee of the Los Altos 1959–93: California State was good. So much for my integrity, my Community Coalition. Controller and U.S. Senator manhood, and your twenty-five bucks. Alan Cranston Gratefully, Alan Cranston n 1958, Alan was elected Cali- fornia state controller, and the In 1984, Alan ran for president, a HISTORY PRESENTATIONS family moved to Sacramento in campaign that helped make nuclear I1959. In 1968, Alan was elected to or the last four years, the Los Altos disarmament a significant national FHills History Committee (LAHHC) the U.S. Senate and served four terms. issue. Alan’s many accomplishments has hosted a presentation focused on Early in his first term, Alan received in the U.S. Senate included advancing residents of Los Altos Hills, all of whom the following letter: peace, environmental protection, have helped shape Silicon Valley to Dear Senator: personal freedom and individual become the 21st century information and I was one of your strongest supporters rights, education, and care for veterans, engineering capital of the world. and one who believed in your integrity children, and others. Alan and his These presentations have shared — perhaps even manhood. I sent you a granddaughter, Evan, were walking fascinating stories of the visionaries who check for $25 for your campaign. settled in this area as early as the 1840s in Los Altos when Alan pointed to a and who made their mark on our town, Inasmuch as you are now safely curb cut and said, “Do you see that ensconced in office I think you would be the wider community, and the environs far doing a handsome deed by returning my dent in the sidewalk? I put that there.” beyond what most of us call home. $25. However, if you insist upon running He then explained the “dent” resulted For future presentations, we would like again at some future date, just send me from the Americans with Disabilities to feature current town residents who Act he helped become law to advance were changemakers in the best sense of ending discrimination against the the phrase.
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