Anuj Mohan
Anuj Mohan of Mountain View, who worked as a engineer and software architect at KANA, a Menlo Park high-tech company for six years, died June 11 at El Camino Hospital. He was 30.Mr. Mohan was injured in a near-drowning accident on May 17 at his apartment complex swimming pool. The accident left him with extensive brain damage and in a coma. He spent almost four weeks in the hospital before an infection finally took his life.
During his stay in the hospital, people flew in from around the world to visit and support him, according to his sister-in-law Hema Sareen Mohan.
Mr. Mohan was a graduate of MIT with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He had just completed his first year in the MBA program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
While living in the Bay Area, he founded and directed the Software Entrepreneurship lecture series of the 8,000-member MIT Alumni Association of Northern California.
When his father, Aditya Mohan, was diagnosed with kidney failure while living in India, Mr. Mohan worked to bring his parents back to this country and in touch with doctors at Stanford Medical Center, according to his brother, Neal Mohan. Six months ago, Mr. Mohan’s father received a kidney transplant. Anuj Mohan became an active advocate for the National Kidney Foundation.
Mr. Mohan spent the first years of his life in Florida and Michigan before moving to India with his family in 1985. In 1994, he returned to the United States to attend MIT.
Mr. Mohan’s family has established a scholarship in his name to help Bay Area students attend MIT and Wharton. For more information on the Anuj Mohan Scholarship Fund, visit www.anujmohan.com.
Mr. Mohan is survived by his mother, Dr. Deepa Mohan, father, Dr. Aditya Mohan; brothers Neal and Kapil Mohan, all of Mountain View.
Charles P. Stewart
A private memorial service will be held Saturday, July 8, for Charles P. Stewart, 87, who died June 21. The service will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. at his Portola Valley home.A native of Oak Park, Illinois, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign, where he earned a degree in architecture.
In 1956 he and his family moved to California, where, as a member of the American Institute of Architects, he worked for the firm of Skidmore Owings & Merrill for many years. Upon retirement, he volunteered as a docent at Filoli Center and was a member of the Portola Valley Garden Club.
Mr. Stewart is survived by his son Chuck of San Juan Bautista, and a granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his wife Grace and younger son Bill.
Memorials may be made to a favorite charity. Arrangements were under the direction of Roller Hapgood & Tinney Funeral Home.
Meyerhof services
A memorial services for Walter E. Meyerhof, professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, July 16, at the university’s Faculty Club.Mr. Meyerhof, a Menlo Park resident since 1949, died on May 27 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 84.
In 1997, Mr. Meyerhof established the Varian Fry Foundation Project, based in Menlo Park. He did so to honor and spread the word about Varian Fry, an American who helped 3,000 to 4,000 Jews and other persecuted individuals to escape from occupied France during World War II. Mr. Meyerhof and his parents were among the refugees he helped.
The family requests that memorial donations in Mr. Meyerhof’s name be made to the Varian Fry Foundation, care of Professor Justus Rosenberg, Bard College, P.O. Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504.
