Steven Alan Lowenstein Born in New York, NY died in Portland, Oregon Parents Albert Lownstein and Irma Solomon Married Andrea Stevens in 1966 (divorced) then married to Sandra Haefke in 1990 Published in: Who's Who in American Law. Fourth edition, 1985-1986. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1985. (WhoAmL 4)
BRAIN CANCER FATAL TO CITY HALL ASSISTANT
Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - Tuesday, September 11, 1990
Author: BARNES ELLIS - of the Oregonian Staff
Steve Lowenstein , a Portland City Hall executive assistant, author and lawyer, died early Monday in his Northwest Portland home. Mr. Lowenstein , who was 52, had battled brain cancer for 4 1/2 months. He thought he was winning until the disease resurfaced in his spinal column several days ago. His condition then deteriorated rapidly.
Memorial arrangements are pending.
Portland City Commissioner Mike Lindberg, whom Mr. Lowenstein had served as executive assistant for the past six years, described the thoughtful, bearded figure as irreplaceable in City Hall.
``He was a liberal in the purest form,'' Lindberg said, ``a fighter for justice, fairness, equity and human rights.''
Lindberg, who had visited Mr. Lowenstein in his home Sunday evening, said the death came as ``quite a shock. The prognosis was good.''
He was born Jan. 13, 1938, in New York City. He graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1959 and from Yale Law School in 1963. He then helped start Ethiopia's first law school while working with the Ford Foundation and later worked as special counsel to the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. He soon traveled abroad again for the Ford Foundation, this time to Chile to help revamp its legal education system.
Moving to Oregon about 1970, Mr. Lowenstein became active in public-interest law. He worked on draft cases and represented the People's Army Jamboree that summer when anti-war fervor threatened to throw the group into confrontation with a national American Legion convention in Portland.
Mr. Lowenstein served as director of Oregon Legal Services, an umbrella organization for legal aid programs, for 12 years. He left to help set up the Oregon Legal Foundation, which funds public-interest legal projects around the state. He also served as president of the Northwest District Association and helped to develop moderate and low-income housing in Northwest Portland.
In 1983 he went to work for Lindberg. He took a particular interest in issues surrounding the Willamette River waterfront, although Lindberg said that ``In the last six years, nearly everything that I have worked on had his fingerprints on it.''
Mayor Bud Clark, who lived only a block away from Mr. Lowenstein said he had ``given to the neighborhood, to the city, to all Oregonians.''
Mr. Lowenstein wrote three books: One on the penal code of Ethiopia, another on legal education in Chile and a third entitled ``The Jews of Oregon: 1850-1890.'' The Jewish Historical Society of Oregon published the latter in 1988.
He was preceded in death by his father, Albert Emanuel Lowenstein . Survivors include his wife, Sandra Haefker Lowenstein ; his son, Chris; two stepchildren, Hanns and Kris Haefker; his mother, Evelyn Lowenstein Strouse of New York City; his sister, Jane Ariel of Oakland, Calif; and brother, Richard of Walton, N.Y.
Lowenstein was a civic activist to many, but others saw him first as a man characterized by a rare thoughtfulness. His mother got a reminder of that thoughtfulness on Monday, the day after Mr. Lowenstein 's death, when a friend told her a secret:
According to family members, Evelyn Strouse had purchased a $1 lottery ticket in 1959, hoping to win a badly needed automobile. She won -- or so she thought. What she didn't know was that the car was really a gift from her son Steve. He had devised an elaborate scheme to hide his role, and he kept the secret until last week.
BRAIN CANCER FATAL TO CITY HALL ASSISTANT
Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - Tuesday, September 11, 1990
Author: BARNES ELLIS - of the Oregonian Staff
Steve Lowenstein , a Portland City Hall executive assistant, author and lawyer, died early Monday in his Northwest Portland home. Mr. Lowenstein , who was 52, had battled brain cancer for 4 1/2 months. He thought he was winning until the disease resurfaced in his spinal column several days ago. His condition then deteriorated rapidly.
Memorial arrangements are pending.
Portland City Commissioner Mike Lindberg, whom Mr. Lowenstein had served as executive assistant for the past six years, described the thoughtful, bearded figure as irreplaceable in City Hall.
``He was a liberal in the purest form,'' Lindberg said, ``a fighter for justice, fairness, equity and human rights.''
Lindberg, who had visited Mr. Lowenstein in his home Sunday evening, said the death came as ``quite a shock. The prognosis was good.''
He was born Jan. 13, 1938, in New York City. He graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1959 and from Yale Law School in 1963. He then helped start Ethiopia's first law school while working with the Ford Foundation and later worked as special counsel to the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. He soon traveled abroad again for the Ford Foundation, this time to Chile to help revamp its legal education system.
Moving to Oregon about 1970, Mr. Lowenstein became active in public-interest law. He worked on draft cases and represented the People's Army Jamboree that summer when anti-war fervor threatened to throw the group into confrontation with a national American Legion convention in Portland.
Mr. Lowenstein served as director of Oregon Legal Services, an umbrella organization for legal aid programs, for 12 years. He left to help set up the Oregon Legal Foundation, which funds public-interest legal projects around the state. He also served as president of the Northwest District Association and helped to develop moderate and low-income housing in Northwest Portland.
In 1983 he went to work for Lindberg. He took a particular interest in issues surrounding the Willamette River waterfront, although Lindberg said that ``In the last six years, nearly everything that I have worked on had his fingerprints on it.''
Mayor Bud Clark, who lived only a block away from Mr. Lowenstein said he had ``given to the neighborhood, to the city, to all Oregonians.''
Mr. Lowenstein wrote three books: One on the penal code of Ethiopia, another on legal education in Chile and a third entitled ``The Jews of Oregon: 1850-1890.'' The Jewish Historical Society of Oregon published the latter in 1988.
He was preceded in death by his father, Albert Emanuel Lowenstein . Survivors include his wife, Sandra Haefker Lowenstein ; his son, Chris; two stepchildren, Hanns and Kris Haefker; his mother, Evelyn Lowenstein Strouse of New York City; his sister, Jane Ariel of Oakland, Calif; and brother, Richard of Walton, N.Y.
Lowenstein was a civic activist to many, but others saw him first as a man characterized by a rare thoughtfulness. His mother got a reminder of that thoughtfulness on Monday, the day after Mr. Lowenstein 's death, when a friend told her a secret:
According to family members, Evelyn Strouse had purchased a $1 lottery ticket in 1959, hoping to win a badly needed automobile. She won -- or so she thought. What she didn't know was that the car was really a gift from her son Steve. He had devised an elaborate scheme to hide his role, and he kept the secret until last week.
Steven Alan Lowenstein Born in New York, NY died in Portland, Oregon Parents Albert Lownstein and Irma Solomon Married Andrea Stevens in 1966 (divorced) then married to Sandra Haefke in 1990 Published in: Who's Who in American Law. Fourth edition, 1985-1986. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1985. (WhoAmL 4)
BRAIN CANCER FATAL TO CITY HALL ASSISTANT
Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - Tuesday, September 11, 1990
Author: BARNES ELLIS - of the Oregonian Staff
Steve Lowenstein , a Portland City Hall executive assistant, author and lawyer, died early Monday in his Northwest Portland home. Mr. Lowenstein , who was 52, had battled brain cancer for 4 1/2 months. He thought he was winning until the disease resurfaced in his spinal column several days ago. His condition then deteriorated rapidly.
Memorial arrangements are pending.
Portland City Commissioner Mike Lindberg, whom Mr. Lowenstein had served as executive assistant for the past six years, described the thoughtful, bearded figure as irreplaceable in City Hall.
``He was a liberal in the purest form,'' Lindberg said, ``a fighter for justice, fairness, equity and human rights.''
Lindberg, who had visited Mr. Lowenstein in his home Sunday evening, said the death came as ``quite a shock. The prognosis was good.''
He was born Jan. 13, 1938, in New York City. He graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1959 and from Yale Law School in 1963. He then helped start Ethiopia's first law school while working with the Ford Foundation and later worked as special counsel to the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. He soon traveled abroad again for the Ford Foundation, this time to Chile to help revamp its legal education system.
Moving to Oregon about 1970, Mr. Lowenstein became active in public-interest law. He worked on draft cases and represented the People's Army Jamboree that summer when anti-war fervor threatened to throw the group into confrontation with a national American Legion convention in Portland.
Mr. Lowenstein served as director of Oregon Legal Services, an umbrella organization for legal aid programs, for 12 years. He left to help set up the Oregon Legal Foundation, which funds public-interest legal projects around the state. He also served as president of the Northwest District Association and helped to develop moderate and low-income housing in Northwest Portland.
In 1983 he went to work for Lindberg. He took a particular interest in issues surrounding the Willamette River waterfront, although Lindberg said that ``In the last six years, nearly everything that I have worked on had his fingerprints on it.''
Mayor Bud Clark, who lived only a block away from Mr. Lowenstein said he had ``given to the neighborhood, to the city, to all Oregonians.''
Mr. Lowenstein wrote three books: One on the penal code of Ethiopia, another on legal education in Chile and a third entitled ``The Jews of Oregon: 1850-1890.'' The Jewish Historical Society of Oregon published the latter in 1988.
He was preceded in death by his father, Albert Emanuel Lowenstein . Survivors include his wife, Sandra Haefker Lowenstein ; his son, Chris; two stepchildren, Hanns and Kris Haefker; his mother, Evelyn Lowenstein Strouse of New York City; his sister, Jane Ariel of Oakland, Calif; and brother, Richard of Walton, N.Y.
Lowenstein was a civic activist to many, but others saw him first as a man characterized by a rare thoughtfulness. His mother got a reminder of that thoughtfulness on Monday, the day after Mr. Lowenstein 's death, when a friend told her a secret:
According to family members, Evelyn Strouse had purchased a $1 lottery ticket in 1959, hoping to win a badly needed automobile. She won -- or so she thought. What she didn't know was that the car was really a gift from her son Steve. He had devised an elaborate scheme to hide his role, and he kept the secret until last week.
BRAIN CANCER FATAL TO CITY HALL ASSISTANT
Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - Tuesday, September 11, 1990
Author: BARNES ELLIS - of the Oregonian Staff
Steve Lowenstein , a Portland City Hall executive assistant, author and lawyer, died early Monday in his Northwest Portland home. Mr. Lowenstein , who was 52, had battled brain cancer for 4 1/2 months. He thought he was winning until the disease resurfaced in his spinal column several days ago. His condition then deteriorated rapidly.
Memorial arrangements are pending.
Portland City Commissioner Mike Lindberg, whom Mr. Lowenstein had served as executive assistant for the past six years, described the thoughtful, bearded figure as irreplaceable in City Hall.
``He was a liberal in the purest form,'' Lindberg said, ``a fighter for justice, fairness, equity and human rights.''
Lindberg, who had visited Mr. Lowenstein in his home Sunday evening, said the death came as ``quite a shock. The prognosis was good.''
He was born Jan. 13, 1938, in New York City. He graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1959 and from Yale Law School in 1963. He then helped start Ethiopia's first law school while working with the Ford Foundation and later worked as special counsel to the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. He soon traveled abroad again for the Ford Foundation, this time to Chile to help revamp its legal education system.
Moving to Oregon about 1970, Mr. Lowenstein became active in public-interest law. He worked on draft cases and represented the People's Army Jamboree that summer when anti-war fervor threatened to throw the group into confrontation with a national American Legion convention in Portland.
Mr. Lowenstein served as director of Oregon Legal Services, an umbrella organization for legal aid programs, for 12 years. He left to help set up the Oregon Legal Foundation, which funds public-interest legal projects around the state. He also served as president of the Northwest District Association and helped to develop moderate and low-income housing in Northwest Portland.
In 1983 he went to work for Lindberg. He took a particular interest in issues surrounding the Willamette River waterfront, although Lindberg said that ``In the last six years, nearly everything that I have worked on had his fingerprints on it.''
Mayor Bud Clark, who lived only a block away from Mr. Lowenstein said he had ``given to the neighborhood, to the city, to all Oregonians.''
Mr. Lowenstein wrote three books: One on the penal code of Ethiopia, another on legal education in Chile and a third entitled ``The Jews of Oregon: 1850-1890.'' The Jewish Historical Society of Oregon published the latter in 1988.
He was preceded in death by his father, Albert Emanuel Lowenstein . Survivors include his wife, Sandra Haefker Lowenstein ; his son, Chris; two stepchildren, Hanns and Kris Haefker; his mother, Evelyn Lowenstein Strouse of New York City; his sister, Jane Ariel of Oakland, Calif; and brother, Richard of Walton, N.Y.
Lowenstein was a civic activist to many, but others saw him first as a man characterized by a rare thoughtfulness. His mother got a reminder of that thoughtfulness on Monday, the day after Mr. Lowenstein 's death, when a friend told her a secret:
According to family members, Evelyn Strouse had purchased a $1 lottery ticket in 1959, hoping to win a badly needed automobile. She won -- or so she thought. What she didn't know was that the car was really a gift from her son Steve. He had devised an elaborate scheme to hide his role, and he kept the secret until last week.
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