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Don McCleve, MD
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Don Earl McCleve is a physician. He was born at home in Holbrook, Arizona, United States, to parents Pauline Greer McCleve and James Cyrus McCleve, March 4th, 1930. He was the youngest of 5 children. His father worked for Shell and did bookkeeping for other enterprises including the Hubbell Trading Post, and Pauline ran a beauty shop from an outbuilding on the home property. Pauline, who taught piano lessons, noted that Don at a young age had perfect pitch when he identified the tone of the vacuum cleaner, an ability he later demonstrated at a small town show in the presence of visiting professor []. He learned piano as well as violin and trumpet, and began general studies at University of Arizona.

He later transferred to Stanford University, finished undergraduate studies and continued on at the Stanford School of Medicine, earning an MD in 1958, and completing a residency in otolaryngology. He married Beverly Stern during that time in 1959. Wanting to learn a new technique called a tympanoplasty at the hands of its developer, Herr Doktor Horst Wullstein1, Dr. McCleve traveled with his little family in 1960 to Würzburg, Germany for 6 months intensive training in the method. This operation became integral to his ENT practice in Los Gatos, California and widespread in the US. He practiced at the Ear Nose and Throat Clinic, now owned and run by Stanford Medicine, for 35 years before his retirement in 1994. He continues to support research and keep close ties with the Stanford Alumni Association.

He continues to enjoy music, and was guest conductor of the Symphony Silicon Valley in a private concert in 2006. He ran in the Los Gatos Rotary 4 mile footrace in the 80+ division in 20132, 2014,3 and in 20194 at age 89.