Barbara Jo Brandt, PhD, 71
Barbara passed away peacefully in San Mateo, CA on June 20, 2018 after a yearlong battle with leiomyosarcoma. She was born in Detroit on May 10, 1947. She graduated from Grosse Pointe University School, went on to attend Mt. Holyoke College, and then Stanford University. (She was an avid Cardinal fan.) She received her PhD from Michigan State University in Clinical Psychology. As an MSU graduate student, she often came north to ski at Boyne Highlands in the 1970s. She began her professional career as a staff psychologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and then moved to California, where she worked as Chief Psychologist and Director of Training at Stanford’s Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development (1984 - 1990), and as Head of Mental Health for the Children’s Health Council (1989 - 1993). She began her own private practice in 1994, retiring in June 2017.
She spent most of her adult life in California, but she regarded Michigan as home, and loved spending summers in Petoskey. She felt refreshed among Michigan’s one thousand shades of green, and enjoyed spending a hot summer day at Cross Village Beach. An avid lover classical music (she sang, played piano and guitar), she attended as many Bay View concerts as possible during her too-short summer vacations. A highlight was assisting Fred Marderness on the base drum during an excerpt from Carmina Burana at Vespers. She was particularly fond of the Bay View brass. She was looking forward to spending much more time in Michigan during the summer after retiring from private practice.
Barbara’s legacy includes the hundreds of children’s lives that she changed for the better through her inspired counseling, and those of numerous interns whom she mentored as graduate students and young professionals. Dr. Brandt was instrumental in developing Stanford’s psychology internship training program, obtaining approval in 1990 from the American Psychological Association. She regarded this as her greatest professional achievement.
She is survived by her sister Beverly, brother Richard, nephew Stephen, niece Kristen, grand-nephew William Griffin, grand-niece Charlotte Griffin, step-daughters Clare Hansen and Laura Stine, three step-grandchildren, Joseph Hansen, Gemma Hansen, Conifer Stine, and numerous cousins.
Her ashes will be interred in the Bay View Memorial Garden near those of her parents, Mark and Edith Littler.
Barbara passed away peacefully in San Mateo, CA on June 20, 2018 after a yearlong battle with leiomyosarcoma. She was born in Detroit on May 10, 1947. She graduated from Grosse Pointe University School, went on to attend Mt. Holyoke College, and then Stanford University. (She was an avid Cardinal fan.) She received her PhD from Michigan State University in Clinical Psychology. As an MSU graduate student, she often came north to ski at Boyne Highlands in the 1970s. She began her professional career as a staff psychologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and then moved to California, where she worked as Chief Psychologist and Director of Training at Stanford’s Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development (1984 - 1990), and as Head of Mental Health for the Children’s Health Council (1989 - 1993). She began her own private practice in 1994, retiring in June 2017.
She spent most of her adult life in California, but she regarded Michigan as home, and loved spending summers in Petoskey. She felt refreshed among Michigan’s one thousand shades of green, and enjoyed spending a hot summer day at Cross Village Beach. An avid lover classical music (she sang, played piano and guitar), she attended as many Bay View concerts as possible during her too-short summer vacations. A highlight was assisting Fred Marderness on the base drum during an excerpt from Carmina Burana at Vespers. She was particularly fond of the Bay View brass. She was looking forward to spending much more time in Michigan during the summer after retiring from private practice.
Barbara’s legacy includes the hundreds of children’s lives that she changed for the better through her inspired counseling, and those of numerous interns whom she mentored as graduate students and young professionals. Dr. Brandt was instrumental in developing Stanford’s psychology internship training program, obtaining approval in 1990 from the American Psychological Association. She regarded this as her greatest professional achievement.
She is survived by her sister Beverly, brother Richard, nephew Stephen, niece Kristen, grand-nephew William Griffin, grand-niece Charlotte Griffin, step-daughters Clare Hansen and Laura Stine, three step-grandchildren, Joseph Hansen, Gemma Hansen, Conifer Stine, and numerous cousins.
Her ashes will be interred in the Bay View Memorial Garden near those of her parents, Mark and Edith Littler.
Barbara Jo Brandt, PhD, 71
Barbara passed away peacefully in San Mateo, CA on June 20, 2018 after a yearlong battle with leiomyosarcoma. She was born in Detroit on May 10, 1947. She graduated from Grosse Pointe University School, went on to attend Mt. Holyoke College, and then Stanford University. (She was an avid Cardinal fan.) She received her PhD from Michigan State University in Clinical Psychology. As an MSU graduate student, she often came north to ski at Boyne Highlands in the 1970s. She began her professional career as a staff psychologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and then moved to California, where she worked as Chief Psychologist and Director of Training at Stanford’s Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development (1984 - 1990), and as Head of Mental Health for the Children’s Health Council (1989 - 1993). She began her own private practice in 1994, retiring in June 2017.
She spent most of her adult life in California, but she regarded Michigan as home, and loved spending summers in Petoskey. She felt refreshed among Michigan’s one thousand shades of green, and enjoyed spending a hot summer day at Cross Village Beach. An avid lover classical music (she sang, played piano and guitar), she attended as many Bay View concerts as possible during her too-short summer vacations. A highlight was assisting Fred Marderness on the base drum during an excerpt from Carmina Burana at Vespers. She was particularly fond of the Bay View brass. She was looking forward to spending much more time in Michigan during the summer after retiring from private practice.
Barbara’s legacy includes the hundreds of children’s lives that she changed for the better through her inspired counseling, and those of numerous interns whom she mentored as graduate students and young professionals. Dr. Brandt was instrumental in developing Stanford’s psychology internship training program, obtaining approval in 1990 from the American Psychological Association. She regarded this as her greatest professional achievement.
She is survived by her sister Beverly, brother Richard, nephew Stephen, niece Kristen, grand-nephew William Griffin, grand-niece Charlotte Griffin, step-daughters Clare Hansen and Laura Stine, three step-grandchildren, Joseph Hansen, Gemma Hansen, Conifer Stine, and numerous cousins.
Her ashes will be interred in the Bay View Memorial Garden near those of her parents, Mark and Edith Littler.
Barbara passed away peacefully in San Mateo, CA on June 20, 2018 after a yearlong battle with leiomyosarcoma. She was born in Detroit on May 10, 1947. She graduated from Grosse Pointe University School, went on to attend Mt. Holyoke College, and then Stanford University. (She was an avid Cardinal fan.) She received her PhD from Michigan State University in Clinical Psychology. As an MSU graduate student, she often came north to ski at Boyne Highlands in the 1970s. She began her professional career as a staff psychologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and then moved to California, where she worked as Chief Psychologist and Director of Training at Stanford’s Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development (1984 - 1990), and as Head of Mental Health for the Children’s Health Council (1989 - 1993). She began her own private practice in 1994, retiring in June 2017.
She spent most of her adult life in California, but she regarded Michigan as home, and loved spending summers in Petoskey. She felt refreshed among Michigan’s one thousand shades of green, and enjoyed spending a hot summer day at Cross Village Beach. An avid lover classical music (she sang, played piano and guitar), she attended as many Bay View concerts as possible during her too-short summer vacations. A highlight was assisting Fred Marderness on the base drum during an excerpt from Carmina Burana at Vespers. She was particularly fond of the Bay View brass. She was looking forward to spending much more time in Michigan during the summer after retiring from private practice.
Barbara’s legacy includes the hundreds of children’s lives that she changed for the better through her inspired counseling, and those of numerous interns whom she mentored as graduate students and young professionals. Dr. Brandt was instrumental in developing Stanford’s psychology internship training program, obtaining approval in 1990 from the American Psychological Association. She regarded this as her greatest professional achievement.
She is survived by her sister Beverly, brother Richard, nephew Stephen, niece Kristen, grand-nephew William Griffin, grand-niece Charlotte Griffin, step-daughters Clare Hansen and Laura Stine, three step-grandchildren, Joseph Hansen, Gemma Hansen, Conifer Stine, and numerous cousins.
Her ashes will be interred in the Bay View Memorial Garden near those of her parents, Mark and Edith Littler.
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