Business Notes Business Notes (June 23, 2004)

Lucy Berman joins Coldwell Banker in Menlo

Lucy Berman has joined the Menlo Park El Camino office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage as a sales associate.

Ms. Berman spent 25 years as an art dealer, including eight years as owner of the Lucy Berman Gallery in downtown Palo Alto. Immediately prior to joining Coldwell Banker, she worked with her husband in a plastic bag business, which they sold in 2002.

Ms. Berman is a vice president of the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation board and co-chairman of the facilities committee at Congregation Etz Chayim. She recently was part of the team that negotiated the purchase of the YWCA property on Alma Street for the congregation.

Ms. Berman has a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's in business administration from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Robert Stevens joins Cleo Eulau board

Robert Stevens of Menlo Park, co-founder of Learning Magic/Earthquest, is a new member of the board of directors for the Cleo Eulau Center in Palo Alto. The center, named for a retired Stanford-based social worker, helps children and adolescents develop their capacity to rebound from hardship and adversity. The agency serves eight Bay Area schools.

Mr. Stevens received an engineering degree from the University of Florida in 1969 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1971. He has been a full-time volunteer for Beyond War, an educational foundation based in Palo Alto, and is now providing free consulting to start-up companies and nonprofit organizations.

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