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38 50 Years of Powwow On May 1, 1971, the first Stanford Powwow was held to highlight Native culture. Five decades later, it is the university’s largest annual multicultural event and a homecoming for 30 Indigenous students, Says Who Bay Area residents and These days, truth seems performers from across to be a slippery topic. the country. Universities can help us sort it out—but only with a full commitment to academic freedom, 44 the principle that enables Of Viruses us to pressure-test and Vectors our ideas. Zoonotic transmission, in which a disease jumps from animals to humans, brought us MERS, swine flu and the novel coronavirus. Scientists discuss their fears about the next outbreak—Disease X— and their hopes that our evolving understanding of the natural world, from people to pathogens, might keep it at bay.

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13 22 24 Meet The Statesman Open-Door Policy Luciana Frazao Four-time Cabinet member A former dean of freshmen A mechanical engineering George Shultz helped end the offers reflections and wisdom master’s student takes robots Cold War. Then, in 32 years with to people emerging into adulthood— to their limits. the Hoover Institution, he tackled and anyone else wanting help with topics from democratic governance that continual act of becoming. to climate change.

Digital STUDENT VOICE A letter to halmoni NEW PAGE 28 AT STANFORDMAG.ORG ALL RIGHT NOW DEPARTMENTS The history and future 16 Novels by young writers, 4 Dialogue of the USPS for young readers 6 Editor’s Note: 17 New dorm norms Why the camel Advice for new grads in our 18 Quelling your reentry anxiety 8  President’s Column: After the Farm collection 19 Friends for food banks The creative arts 20 Basketball, victorious 10 1,000 Words: A video interview and more about The Zoom room robotics researcher Luciana Frazao Biblio File: at alu.ms/lucianafrazao 54 Laws of fashion 57 Farewells 63 Classifieds 64 Postscript: STANFORDALUMNI @STANFORDMAG @STANFORDALUMNI Driving Dad CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: TONI BIRD; LINDA A. CICERO/STANFORD NEWS SERVICE; PRAISE SANTOS/COMEPLUM PHOTO; PHOTO; PRAISE SANTOS/COMEPLUM NEWS SERVICE; A. CICERO/STANFORD BIRD; LINDA TONI FROM TOP: CLOCKWISE ’22 (INSET) ANDREW TAN, COURTESY (ILLUSTRATION); DAVIDRO

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We’ve been given this unique How do we engage students in opportunity to redesign learning. virtual classrooms? Acknowledge To think outside the box, to every student by name in class, move away from a century-old include community-building archaic assembly-line education activities that motivate students to system. Many are mourning turn cameras on and more good academic loss. But is that all ideas in this article. #education we’ve lost this year? Amy Gillett, ’91, MA ’92 #remotelearning @AmyonEducation Monica Bhattacharya, MA ’11 @MonicaMoveEd

I find your article magnificent and worthy of national distribution. It carries such a produc- Food for Thought tive and positive and significant line of In March, we profiled soul food scholar Adrian thinking, so desperately needed in these days Miller, ’91, whose latest book is about barbecue. @STANFORDMAG of annihilating history, etc. Two key pieces of your message are “Everything about educa- Nicely done, but . . . as an ethical vegan, I A Good Ribbing tion has been disrupted. This is a moment for found this article very difficult to read. I’ve been teased about @stanfordmag reinventing school as we restart it” and “We Amy Halpern-Laff, JD ’85 calling me the “Bard of #Barbecue,” are giving them a solution that will work right Palo Alto, California but I think they are on to something. I now through remote learning, but we abso- need cool intros when I start my next lutely want them to continue this solution book tour. Here’s what I’ve come up when everybody is back.” Past and Present with so far: Sara B. Nerlove, MA ’63, PhD ’69 The March issue included a letter that The Ruler of Rib Tips The Sultan of Sauce Safety Harbor, Florida characterized the magazine as “lightweight” The Potentate of Potato Salad and an article with tips on empathy from Adrian Miller, ’91 The primary lesson learned from the pandemic psychology professor Jamil Zaki. @soulfoodscholar is that nothing happens with regard to our educational system unless the teachers unions I write to express full support for the critical Grade A suggestions included: dictate it. The important lesson learned should letter you published in the latest issue of The Baron of Babyback be that we fund students, not schools. All the Stanford. The Bishop of Brisket harmful issues raised in the article were felt to Your magazine used to inform me about The Crown Prince of Coleslaw a much greater extent by students confined to much fascinating work, study and advances Director of Dry Rub public schools, run by unions, that chose to going on at the university, plus some news The Head Hog remain closed (and continue to do so!). Private, of alumni. The Lord of the Greens parochial and charter schools continue to Now, for some unfathomable reason, your The Mac Daddy of Mac ’n’ Cheese teach and support their students in spite of the focus is on emotions, student feelings and Maestro of Maillard pandemic crisis. The power of the unions lightweight articles on serious topics with a Sauce Boss needs to be challenged by real school choice. Stanford slant such as the Mars rover. Steven Johnson, Parent ’19 In the March issue, to give some examples, Read them all at adrianemiller.com.

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4 MAY 2021 senior who plays a guitar in a band, two pages to an “empathy scholar” telling me to be kind, Post Haste four pages given over to “frosh” describing An online article put the much-ballyhooed student emotions (sample: “I’m dead all the USPS into historical context. time because I’m sleep-deprived” and “I definitely cried weeks one through four”), four As Professor David M. Kennedy, ’63, has pages on LGBTQ health, and an entirely noted, before the New Deal, the postal service speculative and overlong eight pages on was almost the only regular contact the average [education and] the COVID pandemic that citizen had with the federal government. And includes the amazing revelation “by definition, in the days before radio, TV and the internet, everyone is affected by a pandemic.” Yet delivery of newspapers by the postal service was STANFORDALUMNI exactly how Stanford University has coped in vital to the many people who lived in rural areas, the past 12 months remains a mystery. far from where the newspapers were published. Knifely Done You can do much better than this— Merlin Dorfman, PhD ’69 A March story marked Ana Ziadeh’s because you used to! San Jose, California 50 years with Stanford Dining. Robin Knight, MA ’68 London, England Oh, my! I was a hasher at Wilbur Allergy Angel for all four of my years at Stanford, As a retired theater teacher, I was delighted by Our March feature on professor of medicine and I remember working in the your article’s confirmation of my long-held Kari Nadeau’s treatment of children with kitchen with Ana! conviction that theater training is training for severe food allergies resonated with families. Anastasia Cronin McNabb, ’87 life—life as a more empathic, sensitive human. Stanford is more than the students I took as a mantra the phrase “Nothing human Your article made me cry with hope! God and faculty. Love this feature. can be foreign to me.” works in mysterious ways. Julius Paras, ’91 Suzanne Adams, ’57 Maile Cuffel Charlotte, North Carolina Dallas, Texas

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CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Charity Ferreira; of Two Covers Jonathan Green; Nancy King, MA ’97 The bat virus is connected to the camel virus, and the ENGAGEMENT EDITOR Dilys Ong camel virus is connected to the people virus. But we INTERNS Elizabeth Lindqwister, ’21; Andrew Tan, ’22 weren’t sure that would entice pandemic-fatigued readers. CREATIVE ART DIRECTOR Giorgia Virgili ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Bambi Nicklen DIGITAL ART DIRECTOR Michele McCammon FOR THIS ISSUE, we were in the unusual likely to open and why?” And you said, VIDEO PRODUCER Erin Attkisson position of having two cover mock-ups to 8–4–1, “camel.” consider (generally cost-prohibitive, but in The camel cover, you told us, was striking, CLASS NOTES one case the image was free). Having two unexpected, intriguing, wacky and “beauti- SENIOR MANAGER Pauline Steinhoffer, ’91 good choices was welcome, but it put us in fully bizarre.” Even if no one understood EDITOR Travis Kinsey a bit of a quandary. what exactly a camel had to do with anything. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jake Wellington INTERNS Emily Wilder, ’20; Daniel Wu, ’21; On the one hand, we thought you’d prob- Dromedary camels, it turns out, are the Gilare Zada, ’22 ably be eager to read our story on university main reservoir for MERS-CoV, the corona- scholars’ right to study what they want to virus of concern between SARS-CoV-1 and ADVERTISING ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS MANAGER study and say what they want to say, espe- SARS-CoV-2. And it appears they’ve been Valerie Pippin, (650) 723-0460

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WHO WE ARE Meet Luciana Frazao A robotics engineer meets the moment.

Brazil is not a culture where it is easy to be poor, because if you’re poor, you’re almost not allowed to dream.” TONI BIRD TONI

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GROWING UP POOR WITH A SINGLE MOM AND TWO SIBLINGS in Rio de Janeiro, Luciana Frazao realized early on that education was perhaps her only passport to a better life. But even that path seemed in peril after her first week in a rowdy high school. “Everybody was screaming, everybody was talking, not allowing the teacher to lead the class,” she says. “I was like, ‘I can’t stay here.’” So she concocted a plan: drop out, spend a year cramming and win entry to one of the city’s elite schools. Some in her family protested, but not her mom. Frazao aced the test. Success brought entry into an affluent new world, one where her sister’s baggy hand-me-downs marked her as an outsider. But she excelled again, winning a full ride to one of Brazil’s top-ranked universities, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where she studied industrial design and embraced combat robotics. That combination of interests led her to Stanford in 2019. As a master’s student in mechanical engineering, she’s developing robotics that help prevent elderly people from falling— work inspired by her grandmother, who died shortly after Frazao came to Stanford. The pandemic has loomed over her time on campus, but it has also brought opportunity. Frazao became a fellow with Meeting ROBOTIC ARM: A passion for testing tech through combat, plus her the Moment, a new outreach program created by the Office for interest in human-centered design, Religious and Spiritual Life to help students find meaning in led Frazao to Stanford. difficult times, which she credits with helping her clarify her life path. After she graduates in June, she’ll begin work as a global research manager at Z-Tech, an Anheuser-Busch InBev unit “I think [my mom’s lesbianism] made me a more focused on enabling small and medium-size companies to grow empathetic person. I had this feeling that I can’t and to improve their use of technology. share [the truth] because people think it’s a terrible thing, but that made me realize, ‘Oh my gosh, how bad it must be for my mom.’ She would walk on the street and never hold her girlfriend’s hand. Not even a hug.

“From an early age, I just started to see that if I want to change my life and provide for my family, “ I have to study. That’s the only way for me to “Meeting the Moment was, for me, a space where I be someone. had time to put myself first and to think about my own self. My entire life I never stopped to do this kind of exercise. It helped me a lot to direct myself and see what I want to do and what I want to be when I finish here. “Robotics gave me the technical knowledge to go nuts and think bigger.

“My main dream is to go back to Brazil to work “I love to see a material going to an extreme. Is this helping single mothers. It’s pretty common when the battery pack going to explode? Is this battery pack parents get a divorce, the father divorces from the going to support all the pressure and all the force children as well and just leaves the mother with a that is being applied on it? huge burden to take care of. My long-term goal is to use social entrepreneurship to help single mothers.”

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CHRISTINA LI, ’21 Clues to the Universe LAURA ROBSON, ’18 Girls at the Edge of the World Set in Aerial protagonists2 California (alternating chapters) Skills a convenience Middle school store or the literal hidden tunnels end of the world A SCIENCE FAIR queer Strong A BOOK love female teen AS A PLOT story protagonist Angsty POINT male Deep PLAGUE royals friendship dead parent(s) AND FLOOD murder secret identities INDIAN LORE a jungle MAGIC

MALAVIKA KANNAN, ’23 The Bookweaver’s Daughter CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: AIDAN BIGGAR, ’18; BRYAN ALDANA, ’20; KATRINA VOORHEES ’20; KATRINA ALDANA, ’18; BRYAN BIGGAR, AIDAN LEFT: FROM TOP CLOCKWISE

16 MAY 2021 All Right Now Neighborhood Watch A new vision for undergrad housing.

STANFORD’S UNDERGRADUATE housing relationships, learning and inclusion in student theme houses, such as ethnic theme dorms, system has long exalted the virtue of choice. residences. A central recommendation of the co-ops and Greek houses, will remain available During a four-year journey, students have 80 ResX Task Force was to group the dorms and to all upperclass students. different living options across the vast campus. houses into neighborhoods, where most Akshay Jaggi, ’19, a former frosh RA, sees a Even as they establish lifelong friendships undergrads would spend all four years with lot of upsides to the plan. “There’s still lots of with fellow Larkinites or have academic the same cohort. Within each neighborhood, choice within a more constrained system,” he epiphanies with their Structured Liberal they said, students should have equal access to says. And the sunsetting of the Draw in favor Education hallmates, frosh also confront the increasingly desirable and more independent of a seniority-based system could calm a lot anxiety of the Draw, where chance might place housing options over time. Seeing opportunity of anxiety. “I generally think that it’s a social them in the poshest Row house or in a campus in the disruption wrought by the pandemic, stress that would be lost—in a good way.” backwater (here’s looking at you, Potter), not university leaders announced in February The new model increases access to all-frosh to mention fling them far from many of their that the neighborhoods would launch in fall housing, which senior Alexa Thomson views as friends. And then there’s the sophomore 2021, a few years earlier than planned. “ResX a plus. And she’s hopeful that neighborhoods slump, when the thrill of being in college gives us a chance to restart how we want to will mitigate the “slump,” which, for her, came wanes and the pressure of finding one’s path build values-based communities,” Susie junior year when the Draw left her unassigned; bears down. Suffice it to say, the Residential Brubaker-Cole, Stanford’s vice provost for she eventually ended up in Florence Moore Education live/learn system is one of the most student affairs, said in the announcement. Hall without any close friends. “I was feeling so memorable parts of the Stanford experience, Each of the eight neighborhoods will have a separate and lonely my junior fall,” she recalls. but it also has headroom to improve students’ gathering hub, advising services, dining areas “Anyone experiences a slump at one point or sense of home and belonging. and meeting spaces. Students will be respon- another; having familiar faces that make you Enter the ResX initiative—a multiyear sible for personalizing their neighborhoods by feel like part of a community is so meaningful.” planning effort sprung from the university’s selecting their own themes, crests, mascots To view an interactive map of the new plan, Long-Range Vision that means to strengthen and traditions. Meanwhile, university-wide visit resx.stanford.edu/neighborhoods.

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Junior James Kanoff has received a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Citizen Honors Award for his work as co-founder of The Farmlink Project, which connects communities in need with farmers who have surplus produce during the pandemic. . . . Senior Emma Rashes published Lily the Llama Helps Her Herd in March to teach children about herd immunity and the importance of vaccination. . . . Former acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim, ’93, was one of two attorneys named in March to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against New York governor Andrew Cuomo. . . . Julie Su, ’91, head of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, has been tapped to serve as the Biden administration’s deputy labor secretary (confirmation was pending at press time). And Michael Sulmeyer, ’02, JD ’11, has taken the position of senior director for cyber on the White House’s National Security Council. He was a senior adviser to the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command during the Trump administration. . . . At the 2017 Emmys, actor, writer and producer Issa Rae, ’07, said, “I’m rooting for everybody Black.” Now she has teamed up with Black Lives Matter to sell shirts sporting the statement. . . . And in wrong-place-at-the-right-time news, Brandon Haase, MBA ’93, MA ’94, interrupted an attempted sexual assault on a Filipina woman after he got off the train at the wrong stop in San Jose, Calif. Haase and others scared off the alleged attacker, who was yelling anti-Asian epithets and has been charged with a hate crime, and followed him

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Of Two Minds We’re eager to reenter regular life. Then again, we’re scared to. Here’s how to put the risks into perspective.

AS MORE PEOPLE RECEIVE THEIR COVID-19 don’t meet the clinical definition of a phobia, night. Simply telling yourself that there is vaccinations, travel and social restrictions gradual reentry isn’t a bad idea. When pos- no more information to be had can reduce are loosening. But the toll the pandemic has sible, resume activities at a pace that you’re anxiety and free some mental space to make taken on our collective mental health won’t reasonably at ease with. “Slide back into it a plan. simply disappear with a shot (or two) in the in ways that are consistent with good health KEEP ZOOMING, TOO. People who feel arm, experts say, and may affect how you care and public health measures,” says connected to others have lower rates of anx- feel about resuming “normal” activities or Spiegel. “And don’t expect to be completely iety and depression, higher self-esteem and being in proximity to other people—even if comfortable, because you can’t be.” And other markers of mental health, says Adler. you’re simultaneously impatient to get back remember, he adds: “More worry does not And virtual connection works. So even as you out there. equal more safety.” start seeing some loved ones in person, “We’ve essentially been in training for a EMBRACE THE GRAY. Public health remember that you can keep up remote phobia,” says David Spiegel, a professor of experts still don’t have all the answers, and check-ins with others. psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stan- uncertainty doesn’t sit well with most PRACTICE GRATITUDE. Thankfulness ford Medicine and director of the Stanford people, says Sarah Adler, a clinical associate decreases anxiety, and three times more pos- Center on Stress and Health. “When people professor of psychiatry and behavioral sci- itive things than negative things happen to us start avoiding something, they then associate ences. When under stress, your brain isn’t every day, says psychologist Emma Seppälä, it as something dangerous or stressful. And wired to consider the nuances of risk and PhD ’09, science director of the Center for the more they avoid it, the more anxious probability. Instead, it seeks binary infor- Compassion and Altruism Research and they get about it.” mation. “When we’re hyperaroused, we’re Education. Unfortunately, humans have a Some of us have been more isolated than in prime learning mode. That’s how we learn to well-documented negativity bias—we focus others, but as it becomes safer to resume not step in front of cars or to not do dangerous on the bad stuff. In a year filled with trauma ordinary activities, any number of us may things,” says Adler. That black-and-white and loss, who can blame us? Still, Seppälä CAMMON find ourselves feeling uncomfortable. Here thinking is beneficial when you’re in the says it can help to simply notice when your are ways to ease the transition. path of oncoming traffic; it’s less helpful in perspective is negative. Then take note of

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Fishnet Stalkings The quest to fetch sea litter.

IN ANY GIVEN YEAR, some 640,000 metric tons of fishing gear is aban- doned in the oceans. The nets and traps drift from where they were The Last-Mile Helpers placed and continue to collect and kill How some food banks are meeting a spike in demand. hundreds of thousands of fish—for no one. It’s known as ghost fishing, and in addition to being bad for sea life, JEFF MILLER’S SUDDEN TURN into the than 53,000 families across the country. it costs fisheries thousands in lost world of food delivery began with a CNN In pre-COVID-19 times, most people equipment and harms the harvest. report early in the pandemic about an picked up their food-bank groceries in person, But Kortney Opshaug, PhD ’01, elderly couple too scared to enter a super- says Amy Kaiser, a director at Second Harvest a marine and aerospace engineer market. Instead, they sat in their car for of Silicon Valley, one of about 20 organiza- with expertise in underwater robotics, nearly an hour, until someone heard their tions that work with Helping Hands. The has a solution: trap tracking. Blue cries and took their shopping list through a pandemic created a surge in food insecurity, Ocean Gear, which she founded in cracked window. doubling the number of people using Second 2015, produces small orange and It hadn’t occurred to Miller, Harvest’s curbside pickup. But yellow Smart Buoys, which help fisher- MBA ’07, that something so mun- it also led to a spike in clients men relocate their lost tackle. dane could now be so terrifying. who couldn’t leave their homes. “At its core, the buoy is a GPS With some research, he began to Second Harvest’s home-delivery tracking device, similar to many that realize the dilemma high-risk rolls grew from 750 households are used on land,” Opshaug says. Americans were facing just to get to around 5,000. “We spent years with fishermen just food. “My eyes were wide open with That’s where the Helping Hands learning how they operate and listen- how large this challenge was going app has been crucial. The devel- ing to what they need; they really to be for our country,” he recalls. opers created a platform that came up with the design.” Now, And so Miller, an entrepreneur integrates with courier apps such Smart Buoys are at work off the and a tech investor, made some as Uber, AxleHire and Lyft, coasts of Alaska and Nova Scotia; phone calls—first, to an old co- allowing the food bank to upload Opshaug expects to have roughly worker from his days at Uber: hundreds of addresses and dis- 500 on the water by year’s end. Pedram Keyani, MS ’03, a veteran patch paid drivers on optimized Next stop? The open seas. of Google and Facebook, who routes. It also guides volunteer —Elizabeth Lindqwister, ’21 started tinkering on some code. drivers and records their drop- The goal was to hack together a offs. “We couldn’t have responded simple app to enable volunteers to without them,” Kaiser says. connect with people like the couple Even after the pandemic, Kaiser in the news. More than a year later, the effort expects deliveries to remain important. has grown into an all-volunteer nonprofit COVID-19 didn’t just increase the number called Helping Hands, whose mission is to of people stuck at home; it highlighted how connect food banks with the people who many were already there. need their services. In its first year, with sup- “I don’t think food scarcity is going away,” port from nearly 400 volunteers—in areas says Keyani. “If we can build a proper kind of from coding to logistics to driving—Helping IT department for these food banks, we can

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SPORTS Victory Lap After 29 years, the Cardinal women’s basketball team brings another national title home to the Farm.

BY SAM SCOTT

a season when nothing came handing in history’s first-ever loss by a No. 1 missed potential game winners in the dying easy, it seemed only fitting seed to a No. 16 seed, which happened to be seconds. Watching it unfold was like sitting for in that Stanford’s quest for its Harvard. In 2017, the team was up eight in a root canal, VanDerveer said afterward. first NCAA women’s basketball champion- its Final Four game when star guard Karlie “I think sometimes you’ve got to be lucky,” ship in nearly three decades came down to Samuelson, ’17, went down with an ankle injury. said VanDerveer, who was named the Naismith the agonizing end—a desperation heave by This year, the metaphoric breaks went women’s college basketball coach of the year the University of Arizona that came frighten- Stanford’s way. The team climbed back from a two days before the game. “We had some spe- ingly close to causing Cardinal heartache. double-digit halftime deficit against Louisville cial karma going for us.” “I was just like, ‘Oh please, God, don’t go in the Elite Eight before surviving a nail-biter The wins, she said, were more gritty than in,’ ” said sophomore Haley Jones, who was against South Carolina in the Final Four. In pretty, but that befits a team whose legend is named the tournament’s most outstanding the title game, both Stanford and Arizona forever tied to its ability to grind through a player, after the game. “I kind of stood there season of unprecedented off-the-court chal- for a second. It hadn’t clicked that we actu- lenges with their eyes always on the prize. ally just won and the shot didn’t go in.” The pandemic affected athletic pro- The confetti was in her hair before she fully The VanDerveer File grams across the country, but local strictures grasped the result: Stanford 54, Arizona 53. against playing or practicing during the YEARS AS CARDINAL HEAD COACH: Let the debate begin on how the 2021 winter COVID-19 surge cast the Cardinal champions compare to their predeces- 35 to the wind in a way that perhaps only their sors in 1990 and 1992, or even to the many fellow travelers on the men’s team fully talent-stacked Stanford squads who came so appreciate. For nearly 10 weeks, the women close in the long generation since. No NCAA FINAL FOUR APPEARANCES: lived out of duffel bags, played on the road, Division I coach in any sport has won cham- and practiced in a high school gym in Santa pionships as far apart as Stanford’s Tara 13 Cruz that had a short court and a plethora of VanDerveer. No coach knows better how wooden backboards. All told, the Cardinal thin the line is between winning it all and CHAMPIONSHIPS: played only 5 of 21 conference games in the going home hungry. comfort of Maples Pavilion. After the game on April 4, VanDerveer 3 It would have broken some teams, Jones mused on all the great players she’s coached said. But for the Cardinal, the curse of who didn’t get to cut the nets in the champi- CAREER WINS: COVID-19 contained blessings. Early in the onship, from Kate Starbird, ’97, to Candice fall, several players broke protocols by Wiggins, ’08, and how much fortune plays a 1,125 playing pickup at an off-campus gym. deciding part. The last time the Cardinal VanDerveer didn’t hold back her frustration. made it to the finals—in 2010—All-American But that moment set the stage for what was WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL center Jayne Appel Marinelli, ’10, hobbled to come, senior guard Kiana Williams said at COACHES WITH MORE WINS: through the game on what turned out to be a the postgame press conference: an unwav- broken foot. Back in 1998, Stanford lost ering commitment to following the rules, to standouts Vanessa Nygaard, ’97, and Kristin 0 leading and to winning. Folkl, ’98, to knee injuries the week before “When she found out, she was just so

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FULL CIRCLE: Players and coaches piled into a fleet of convertibles for a spin around Campus Drive on April 5. VanDerveer (top, right) last led the Cardinal to the title in 1992, when associate head coach Kate Paye, ’95, JD/MBA ’03 (top, left), was a freshman.

heartbroken and disappointed,” Williams said. one-point Stanford victory, 2–1 over Cal. her press remarks by revealing she’d already “I felt like the only way to make up for that is “Former players would be so proud to be received 600 text messages. to win a national championship for her.” part of this team because of the resilience But perhaps nobody could appreciate it as The months on the road—and the close- they’ve shown, because of the sisterhood that much as her former players. “When the game quartered living on an uncommonly quiet they represent,” VanDerveer said at the post- had finished, I was definitely ugly crying,” campus that followed—only brought the game press conference. “I’m just thrilled for Nneka Ogwumike, ’12, a star for the Los players closer, VanDerveer said, a bond as real this team, but also for all the women out Angeles Sparks, said on journalist Holly off of the court as on it. It was a sisterhood, she there that played at Stanford.” Rowe’s Twitter feed. “I went to four Final said, one that stood on the shoulders of all the The victory elicited praise from President Fours and was never able to really come back Stanford players that had come before—a tra- Joe Biden, of course, but also more person- with one. So it feels like we all won it, like dition that stretches further back than many ally from the director of the White House decades of players.” n realize. By coincidence, the championship fell Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice, ’86, on the 125th anniversary of the first-ever who tweeted out a video of her celebratory Sam Scott is a senior writer at Stanford.

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EXAMINED LIFE The Statesman George Shultz is best known for his work in the 1980s to end the nuclear arms race. But the economist and diplomat was a public servant to the end.

BY KEVIN COOL

EORGE SHULTZ and Nikolai Patolichev a nuclear arms agreement that effectively when he accepted a one-year fellowship at the could not have been more different. ended the Cold War. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Shultz grew up as an only child in a When Shultz died at 100 years of age on Sciences in 1968, and returned in 1974 for a prosperous New Jersey home, attended February 6, accolades for the four-time part-time teaching position at the Graduate gelite universities and believed deeply Cabinet member and longtime Stanford School of Business. in democratic ideals. Patolichev came from a scholar poured in from around the world. After leaving government service in 1989, Russian peasant family, was orphaned at age Many of them touched on Shultz’s humanity he joined the Hoover Institution and was a fix- 12 and got his start in communist politics as a and decency. “He was a gentleman of honor ture there for the remainder of his life. Shultz teenager. But when the two men met at a Battle and ideas, dedicated to public service and was an economist by training—he earned his of Leningrad wreath-laying ceremony in respectful debate,” said President Joe Biden. bachelor’s degree at Princeton and his PhD at 1973—while Shultz was Richard Nixon’s sec- Condoleezza Rice, also a former secretary MIT—and his scholarly pursuits were “ener- retary of the treasury and Patolichev was the of state and now director of the Hoover getic and ecumenical,” says Philip Taubman, Soviet Union’s foreign trade minister—Shultz Institution, called Shultz “a great American ’70, a former New York Times journalist and was moved by his counterpart’s reverence for statesman and a true patriot in every sense Shultz’s biographer. Shultz was prolific as a the sacrifices of his country­men. A World War of the word.” convener of symposia on a range of topics, II veteran himself, Shultz described the pain One of only two Americans to hold four from climate change to democratic governance of losing friends in battle and praised the Cabinet-level positions—he served as secre- to nuclear nonproliferation. At the time of his fallen Russian soldiers “who defeated Hitler.” tary of the treasury and director of the Office death, he was leading a Hoover initiative aimed Then he turned toward the cemetery and of Management and Budget in addition to at promoting international cooperation to deal raised a salute. heading the departments of labor and state— with new threats, including pandemics. A More than a decade after that graveside Shultz also was an accomplished industry Hinge of History: Governance in an Emerging meeting, his gesture of respect and subse- executive and academician. He taught at MIT New World, which he co-authored with quent dealings had won Shultz the trust of for nine years, served as dean of the school of Hoover visiting fellow James Timbie, was Soviet officials conditioned to see the Amer- business at the University of Chicago, and was published in November 2020, a few weeks icans as enemies. By then he was secretary president of the Bechtel Group, an engineering before Shultz turned 100. of state in the Reagan administration; the and construction firm, from 1974 to 1982. He “He loved Stanford,” says Taubman. “It goodwill he had fostered helped him negotiate began his 53-year relationship with Stanford was the anchor of his later life.” Shultz and

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his wife, Charlotte, regularly welcomed digni- reach an agreement at a summit meeting in highlights of his career, Shultz told Taubman. taries such as Henry Kissinger and Michael Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1986, Shultz nudged Shultz’s stoic public persona—reporters Bloomberg to their campus home. (In addition Reagan forward and brought Gorbachev covering the White House in the 1980s to Charlotte, Shultz is survived by five children back to the table. In December 1987, the dubbed him the Sphinx—obscured a more from his 49-year marriage to his first wife, United States and the USSR signed the playful side. In 2005, the campy San Fran- Helena, who died in 1995; 11 grandchildren, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, cisco comedy show Beach Blanket Babylon including Kelly, ’10, MS ’11, and Tyler, ’13; which eliminated all land-based short- and included a special skit for an audience and nine great-grandchildren.) An office and intermediate-range missiles. that included the Prince of Wales and the exhibition space currently under construc- His work in the arms talks made the Duchess of Cornwall. Onstage were Charlotte tion at Hoover will be named the George world safer, but when pressed to say what and George Shultz, portraying famous Shultz Fellows Building. he was most proud of, Shultz often pointed comic book characters. Charlotte played History likely will declare his efforts to to the liberation of Russian refusenik Ida Wonder Woman. And her 84-year-old end the nuclear arms race as Shultz’s chief Nudel in 1987. Nudel, who had been exiled husband—friend of presidents and saver of accomplishment. Although the United to Siberia and then put under house arrest worlds—well, he was who you might expect States and Soviet Union had menaced each for several years for her human rights activi- him to be: Superman. n other for decades, Shultz saw an opportunity ties, immigrated to Israel after Shultz when reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev helped persuade Soviet authorities to grant Kevin Cool is the former executive editor of took over as Communist Party general sec- her an exit visa. His phone call with Nudel Stanford. Email him at stanford.magazine@

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SPOTLIGHT Open-Door Policy Former dean of freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims offers advice on adulting.

BY SAM SCOTT

UCCESS AS AN AUTHOR came It might seem a small pivot—from one side stepchild I didn’t want to adopt,” she says. fast for Julie Lythcott-Haims. of the parent-child equation to the other—but “I dwelled in that space for a couple of years.” Three years after stepping for Lythcott-Haims, ’89, it proved paralyzing. Her breakthrough came with an assist Sdown as Stanford’s dean of freshmen to She’d spent years at Stanford and as a Silicon from a handwritten letter sent by a Wash- pursue a writing career, she had a bestseller: Valley mom steeped in the habits of parents ington University student named Kristine. How to Raise an Adult, an eyewitness to the stage-managing their kids—and as a mother Lythcott-Haims’s first book, Kristine wrote, epidemic of overparenting and a guide to a of two, she certainly would admit to having had helped her see how her parents’ heavy- better way. But then came a “how” she was done her fair share of hovering. Overparenting handedness had left her a little “underbaked.” less poised for: how to write a sequel. was an area she knew cold. Just that day she’d had to push her mom to Not that she had trouble writing. In 2017, But what expertise did she have on let her 16-year-old brother slice his own she released Real American, a well-received becoming an adult, besides having slowly salami. Kristine didn’t want to obsess on memoir about growing up biracial. But her emerged as one herself, with plenty of blame; she wanted to claim her agency—and publisher was nudging her back to the domain mistakes along the way? And wasn’t there to foster it in her brother. How could she? of her debut, a pop-culture hit one New York a suspicious irony in being the woman who The letter jolted Lythcott-Haims and Times reviewer likened to “the Black Hawk blew the whistle on checklist childhoods helped develop a vision of whom she was Down of helicopter parenting.” In her next only to create a checklist for young adults? writing for and why they would want to read book, they agreed, she would shift her gaze “If you could have heard me talking to what she had to say. “HEY Y’ALL WE’RE from raising an adult to becoming one. friends, I described this book like this poor WRITING THIS BOOK FOR KRISTINE,”

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she wrote to her editor and assistant, with a Lythcott-Haims, ’91, could and would do photo of the letter. this. They were adults—or at least adulting. She wasn’t an expert, but she’d long been The process never ends. a mentor. She was going to talk to her readers “Adulting is wanting to, having to and as if they were her former students, who still learning how,” she says, a phrase she calls the ask for her advice over coffee. She was going book’s guiding principles. And it’s hustling. to be open and honest with her own hard- Therapists’ couches, she writes, are heavy won lessons and the experiences she’d with the weight of 40- and 50-somethings who gleaned from others. “I am not smarter than marched lockstep into sensible, ultimately you. I am not wiser than you. I’m just going unhappy livelihoods. Lythcott-Haims herself to tell you what I know,” she says. “It’s meant started on that path as a corporate lawyer. to be this very close narrative that ultimately But today, she sees a contrary problem— feels like a companion walking this journey abetted by the over-protected childhoods with the reader.” she’s famous for calling out—where kids The result—Your Turn: How to emerge slowly into adulthood, and their 20s Be an Adult—came out in turn into a sort of playground. April. And judging by the Your Turn advises another reactions of some young path: Find and follow your own Stanford alums, she appears voice, most definitely, but get to have hit her mark. your “butt in gear” and engage “Going through this book ‘I very much with the world to find your has been the perfect balance believe in the place in it. of uncomfortable and loving,” “Yes, you should have fun,” says Michelle Goldring, ’10, power of our she writes. “But at the same MA, ’11, who is part of a group personal time, you’re supposed to be of alumni who began discus­ stories to help figuring out who you are and sing advance copies of Your others feel less what you’re good at, how you’re Turn on Zoom this winter. alone and going to make a living, who A corporate attorney who more seen and you want in your life, and how recently shifted into the HR supported.’ you’re going to make things side of law, Goldring didn’t better in the world, so you personally know “Dean Julie” need to get going on that.” at Stanford—they embraced But how to get there and once in White Plaza when know it, short of a burning Goldring was giving out “free truck blazing like a message hugs”—but the voice in the book feels from on high? Your Turn mixes tactics, intensely familiar to her. “Reading this book tough talk and earnest encouragement with sounds like sitting down in her office or sit- Lythcott-Haims’s personal experiences and ting with my favorite people who I knew at those of more than 30 people she interviewed Stanford who kind of set me straight.” from all walks of life. Weighing in at more than Key to the book is that “adulting”—dear 450 pages, the book is filled with people grammar traditionalist, she goes there—isn’t who’ve wrestled with racism, disease, incar- reaching a milestone, it’s reaching and sus- ceration, mental illness, death, divorce, taining a mindset. Lythcott-Haims was 25, poverty and, yes, helicopter parents in search married and armed with degrees from two of an authentic adult life, often with rewarding of the world’s most prestigious universities results, and sometimes falling short. before she ever felt like she was doing more The characters span political views, than playacting as a grown-up. socio­economic statuses and mindsets. Recognition of her arrival came only Lythcott-Haims purposefully introduces when the truck moving her and her hus- each by race and sexuality. This isn’t a book band’s possessions from Harvard Law where people are white and straight unless School back to the Bay Area went up in otherwise noted. flames—and she realized that not only was Some of the stories connect to Stanford. no one coming to the rescue, but she didn’t Lythcott-Haims tells the journey of Akshay, want anyone to. She and her husband, Dan a 36-year-old doctor whom she remembers

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from campus as a warm, brilliant and clearly the way that we are becoming ourselves,” scared 22-year-old who would spend the Watkinson says. “And I find that really com- next decade getting his conservative Indian pelling and really beautiful and not the parents to accept that he is gay. Others—like common narrative that always gets shared.” the 23-year-old white Lyft driver who came Some of the insights are very particular. to the rescue when Lythcott-Haims’s Prius Kristine, the student whose letter gave conked out—are the fruits of the author taking Lythcott-Haims a kick in the pants, gains more her own advice on the value of talking to independence by persuading her mom to turn strangers. His journey is one of self-reliance over one household responsibility—cleaning at an early age. Each receives equal weight. the family toilet. Still, Lythcott-Haims is “I very much believe in the power of our after a broader discussion about life. AS SEEN IN “CACOPHONY” personal stories to help others feel less alone “Adulting can’t be boiled down to just and more seen and supported,” she says. “This 10 steps,” she says. “It’s a very philosophical isn’t an explication on adulting. This is like, conversation about what life is, when life ‘Hey reader, I’ve been there, you’re there feels good, and what gets in our way.” now, let’s talk.’ ” She adds: “My hope is Lythcott-Haims is candid that, as [readers] get a taste about her own challenges in of it, as they hear the voice of work, life and love. She reveals it, they will be drawn in and the despair that led her to ‘Adulting can’t they’ll decide it’s worth turning abandon law for a job at Stan- be boiled the pages.” ford, the twists and turns of down to just As far as what’s next? She’s navigating three decades of 10 steps. considering co-writing a marriage, and her regret at It’s a very memoir with her 82-year-old economic missteps (she did philosophical mother, which could take par- not spend the insurance conversation enting and adulting insight into money from the truck fire about what a whole new trimester of life. wisely). “She is so much more life is, when Her mother joined Lythcott- vulnerable and open and Haims’s household more than INCREASE AFFECTION honest than I ever expected life feels good, 20 years ago in an arrange- and what gets Created by from someone who was always ment inspired by a goal any Winnifred Cutler, Ph.D. already so vulnerable, open in our way.’ helicopter parent could in biology from U. and honest,” Goldring says. appreciate: trying to afford a Penn, post-doctoral work at Stanford. The author’s continuing house in the Palo Alto Unified Co-discovered human evolution is part of what makes School District. pheromones in 1986 the book inspiring to Fannie Watkinson, ’12, The result has come with tremendous Effective for 74% in two 8-week another member of the Zoom reading group, upsides and a host of challenges, Lythcott- studies and 68% in who quit her job in educational technology Haims says. In an era when things like a 3rd study. in 2017 and spent the next three years COVID-19 and economic hardship are PROVEN EFFECTIVE IN 3 exploring careers. She recently started forcing more people to try multigenera- DOUBLE-BLIND STUDIES working as a life coach. tional living, she and her mother want to INCREASES YOUR For sure, the book offers direct advice offer an account of why they did it, what ATTRACTIVENESS and mantras, like most self-help books. was hard and what they learned. 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STUDENT VOICE The Great Barrier, Grief Could writing about my grandmother be my lifeline?

BY ANDREW TAN

can’t imagine a more treacherous deeper in the recesses of my mind. place than a hospital waiting room. There, in an impossibly impersonal photo, All the weeping and whispering, the sat my halmoni (“grandmother” in Korean) sidelong glances and the concealing tethered to that ghastly paclitaxel bag, smiles, and the ineffability of it all bring one reading serenely from her Bible. Between us to the brink of oblivion. Yet here I sit, an spanned a chasm 5,000 miles wide—the dis- interloper in the kingdom of the sick, strug- tance between Palo Alto and Daegu, South gling to keep my composure. Korea—and on my plateau, I stood, glassy- Since March of last year, the deepest eyed and unfeeling. Out of the pit rose the personal connection I have felt was not to Grand specter of guilt to torment me for my a real person but to a literary character: numbness. So, I ran. Joseph Grand, from Albert Camus’s The Days after her diagnosis, I was in Bay City, Plague. Does this speak to my complete Ore., an hour and a half west of Portland, lack of a social life? Yes. But, at the risk of where I would spend the next nine weeks of sounding maudlin, I think (and certainly winter quarter. As a lifelong resident of Menlo hope) this bond speaks to more than just Park, I had frequently left the Farm to solicit my current Zoom-and-gloom lifestyle. home-cooked meals; this would be the longest In the plague-stricken town of Oran, I had ever spent away from my childhood Grand is preoccupied with the task of home, and I welcomed the change of scenery. crafting the perfect opening sentence With distractions aplenty, from the strange for his novel as miasma consumes verdure of the environment (“It’s so green!” the town and his fellow citizens I texted to family) to the nearby Tillamook succumb one by one. “How absurd,” Creamery (“The place where they make the I thought this past winter as I cheese!” I reported to my friends), I figured struggled to channel Jane Austen it would be easy to steer my mind away from for the first line of myNorthanger halmoni, forgetting that I had already enrolled Abbey fan fiction assignment, “that in English 118A: Illness in Literature. he should concern himself with such The weeks proceeded with Chekhov, frivolous work while people are dying.” Sontag, Verghese and, of course, Camus, each My situation was surely different, right? text another memento mori that brought me I ran down the list of similarities until the back to the abyss between her hospital bed list became a mirror and Oscar Wilde’s par- and my reluctant gaze, between the grief I adox rang as a taunt in my mind: “Life thought I should feel and the emptiness imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” I truly did. When it came to the anonymous Rebuffing the horned poet on my shoulder, patients of a worldwide pandemic, I could I searched for the distinction that would acquit reconcile my public lamentation with, as me of Grand’s escapism, but before I could Camus wrote, “the utter incapacity of every present my case, I was pulled from my imag- man truly to share in suffering that he cannot

inary waiting room into the infirmary, see.” But for halmoni, this would not suffice. ’22 ANDREW TAN, COURTESY

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“Where are the five stages of grief I was thoughts quickly turned away from halmoni I am flooded with emotion, yet I also can’t say promised?” I screamed into the chasm, so that soon I was writing about “Purina chow that anything I wrote is untrue. It is an inter- feeling that if I could name the emotional particles / on my cardigan.” mediate position, still an eternity away from void, I would understand it and then know As a last resort, I drafted a note of the things halmoni but committed to reaching her, none- how to bridge the gap. What I did not feel, I wished to say to her, hoping to manifest the theless. Straddling the abyss like the Colossus I could not describe, and what I could not feelings that I believed halmoni was due: of Rhodes, I feel afraid, longing to close the rift, describe, I could not control. “Halmoni, I miss you. I miss the way you but this is better than feeling nothing. So, I tried to write about her—through would peel sagwa [apples] for me without my Above the chasm, I continue to write, gimbap (rice rolls), tteokbokki (spicy stir- asking. I miss the way you would smile when moving closer with every word. I don’t know fried rice cakes) and Woobang Land (an I looked at you, even though you could barely if there is enough time for my mind to catch amusement park in Daegu)—but these efforts speak English and I could hardly speak up to my pen, but that will not slow me down. only made me feel more distant, especially Korean. I miss your laugh when it would take And if, when I arrive, the bed is empty and considering my flair for butchering the me five tries to saysaehae bog manh-I bad- halmoni is gone, I will know that I wrote as Korean language. euseyo [Happy New Year!] before I would best as I could. n Next, I became more abstract, scrawling receive that prized red envelope. But most a poem in my notebook about my desire to of all, I miss shiwonhada [literally, “hits the Editorial intern Andrew Tan, ’22, is the “exhume from the grey / matters of the heart,” spot,” aka “massage”]. Saranghae [I love you].” grandson of Ile-hae Cheun. Email him at

DAVIDRO (ILLUSTRATION); COURTESY ANDREW TAN, ’22 (INSET) ANDREW TAN, COURTESY (ILLUSTRATION); DAVIDRO but predictably, as a means of deflection, my When I reread the letter, I cannot say that [email protected].

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30 MAY 2021 WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE ONE PERSON’S DISINFORMATION IS ANOTHER PERSON’S TRUTH. BUT THE UNIVERSITY’S FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS CAN SHARPEN THE PICTURE.

ohn Etchemendy shakes his head. He actions of White House Coronavirus Task Force unclasps his hands, then clasps them again. member Scott Atlas, then on leave from Stanford, “I’m terribly worried,” he finally says. “I Etchemendy was the chief voice objecting to think that academia has not been going in a good institutional, as opposed to individual, censure. direction in terms of academic freedom.” When a group of professors raised concerns about Etchemendy, PhD ’82, should be enjoying perceived partisanship at the Hoover Institution himself. After 16 years as provost—the universi- and asked the senate to form a committee to ty’s chief academic and budget officer—the study the university’s relationship to it, there was philosophy professor has spent the past four Etchemendy again, proposing a compromise: that years pursuing his intellectual passions, the policy institute’s new director, former secre- including co-founding Stanford’s Institute on tary of state Condoleezza Rice, and Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. But provost Persis Drell prepare a report on plans for ever the university citizen, he can’t shake the and progress on increasing the interaction concern that something is amiss. between Hoover and the rest of the university. The academy, Etchemendy says, is becoming His fretting over academic freedom might increasingly one-sided—one university’s eco- seem esoteric, the kind of concern only a logician BY nomics department is liberal; another’s is and longtime provost could embrace. But what’s conservative; these cardiologists think it’s all at stake is nothing less than the university’s—and, KATHY about cholesterol; those say eat the eggs. “There’s by extension, society’s—ability to search for truth. a natural tendency to become more and more And at a time of deep cultural fissures not seen ZONANA homogeneous within a department, within a dis- since the Vietnam War, with fundamental dis- cipline, within a university as a whole, and less agreements about everything from pandemic tolerant of people with different perspectives,” policy to the nature of racism to election integrity, he says. And without the ability to pressure-test there might be nothing more crucial. ideas, scholarship can become less credible and the public trust in the knowledge disseminated by universities can erode. “You know, up until Free thinkers fairly recently—I think it’s fair to say 10 years ago— Academic freedom is the principle that protects support for academia was completely bipartisan,” faculty members’ right to study what they want Etchemendy says. “Science was good. That has and say what they think, to voice unpopular views completely become a partisan issue.” and question conventional wisdom. “It is vital for During recent campus controversies over sci- both our research and our teaching missions,” ence, politics and speech, Etchemendy, PhD ’82, says Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. has been the center. Not at the center; literally “It supports our scholars in their search to the center. When the Faculty Senate voted in advance knowledge and deepen understanding,

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that some may consider strange or objection- respectable arguments and sound evidence,” able. It’s also, we believe, essential for education. says Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the It helps prepare students to function in a society Hoover Institution whose areas of expertise ‘In all the where active citizenship and meaningful work include constitutional government and liberal require engaging with a broad diversity of indi- education. “We must immediately add that it’s academic viduals, ideas and arguments.” complicated. In all the academic disciplines, The university’s Statement on Academic there must be wide room for disagreement: dis- disciplines, Freedom is expansive by design. “Stanford Univer- agreement about the facts, the interpretation of sity’s central functions of teaching, learning, the facts and what constitutes sound evidence.” there must research, and scholarship depend upon an atmo- Scholars can use strong evidence to challenge sphere in which freedom of inquiry, thought, established orthodoxy, says history professor be wide room expression, publication, and peaceable assembly Priya Satia, ’95. “Academic freedom was what are given the fullest protection,” it begins. “Expres- allowed scientists to disprove the eugenicist for disagreement : sion of the widest range of viewpoints should be assumptions that guided early genetics,” she encouraged, free from institutional orthodoxy and says. “That’s how knowledge advances, but you from internal or external coercion.” The statement can’t just utter it. You’ve got to prove it and back disagreement goes on to say that “the holding of appointments at it up. It’s a collaborative, collective process. It’s Stanford University should in no way affect the fac- not just someone saying, ‘I had a thought today about the facts, ulty members’ rights assured by the Constitution in the shower, and since I’m an academic, I’m of the United States.” free to assert that as evidence-based truth.’ ” the interpretation This might suggest that academic freedom is Indeed, rare is the academic-freedom contro- essentially higher education’s version of free versy that arises from faculty publishing in of the facts and speech, and indeed both are grounded in John peer-reviewed journals subject to the standards Stuart Mill’s precepts in On Liberty. The First of their professional societies. Everyone agrees what constitutes Amendment, though, protects individuals from that plagiarism and data falsification are ver- government sanction; academic freedom, boten. When firestorms over academic freedom sound evidence.’ instead, from employer retaliation. “It extends erupt, a scholar who has taken a policy position the rights of faculty members from the public is almost always at the center of the conflagra- sphere to their place of work, which is not true tion. This was true in 1900, when Jane Stanford’s for all places of work,” says Tessier-Lavigne. animus toward a professor’s stance on Chinese In general, at secular universities in the labor led to his firing—and, indirectly, to the United States, the practice of granting lifetime establishment of tenure and academic freedom tenure reinforces that protection for a distin- in the United States (see sidebar, page 35). It was guished portion of the professoriate. It’s not that true in 1972, when tenured associate professor only tenured scholars have academic freedom— of English H. Bruce Franklin, PhD ’61, was dis- Stanford’s policy, for example, applies to missed from Stanford because of his role in pretenured and many nontenured faculty—but campus antiwar protests that turned violent. rather that the job security afforded by tenure And it is true of the questions permeating enables professors to feel secure in pursuing campus today, from pandemic policy to faculty their work. “In a sense, academic freedom forti- friction over the Hoover Institution. fies the First Amendment and tenure fortifies academic freedom,” Tessier-Lavigne says. The First Amendment comparison also Science says underscores that academic freedom protects When former School of Medicine dean Philip unpopular expression whether the shoe is on the Pizzo started hearing from people around the left foot or the right. “Beware of tinkering with country about misinformation related to the Statement on Academic Freedom,” Tessier- COVID-19, he wasn’t sure he had any responsi- Lavigne says. “Some people who are concerned bility to speak up about it. After all, since 2013, that certain types of speech should be either he has been focused on establishing Stanford’s censored or constrained may well find that what- Distinguished Careers Institute rather than ever is put in place then reverberates back on practicing medicine. Pizzo’s sense of obligation their own speech.” began to grow, he says, when Hoover senior But academic freedom is, well, academic. fellow Scott Atlas, a health policy scholar and the “The First Amendment does not say that Con- former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford, took gress shall make no law abridging freedom of a leave from the university to serve on the White speech except laws that require you to provide House Coronavirus Task Force. Being in that

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role, which Atlas held from August to December closures, lockdowns and mask mandates in stem- 2020, gave prominence to his opinions on mask ming the spread of COVID-19. “All legitimate wearing, herd immunity and risks of the disease policy scholars should today be openly reexam- to young people—views with which Pizzo, a pedi- ining policies that severely harmed America’s atric oncologist and infectious disease specialist families and children while failing to save the who is also a professor of microbiology and elderly,” he said. “Those who insist that universal immunology, frequently disagreed. “But it mask usage is absolutely proven to be effective at wasn’t just Scott Atlas,” Pizzo says. “There’s a controlling the spread of this virus and is univer- whole bunch of people, including here at Stan- sally recommended by ‘the science’ are ignoring ford, who had been making statements that have all published evidence to the contrary.” borderline scientific relevance.” Although it may seem as though “the As his inbox continued to fill up—Pizzo char- science” is at times overwhelmingly settled— acterizes the prevailing sentiment as “How could Rice, a political scientist, says she’s “envious” Stanford allow this to happen?”—he and 104 of of the scientific method—university adminis- his colleagues in infectious diseases, microbi- trators are agreed that scholars must be able to ology and immunology, epidemiology and health question its consensus. “I really have to defend policy wrote an open letter in early September a faculty member’s right to pursue ideas, to chal- countering some of Atlas’s statements. It says lenge ideas, to have unorthodox approaches,” that “the preponderance of data” supports the says Drell. “I mean, gosh, where would we be if use of face masks; that asymptomatic people fre- Galileo hadn’t insisted on taking an unorthodox quently spread the disease and should be tested approach to thinking about the solar system?” when appropriate; that children of all ages can Moreover, she says, many of Atlas’s statements be infected, increasingly with serious conse- were based on the work of Stanford professors of quences; and that herd immunity should be medicine Jay Bhattacharya, ’90, MA ’90, MD ’98, reached through vaccination rather than PhD ’01, and John Ioannidis, who is also a pro- unchecked transmission. fessor of epidemiology and population health. Pizzo says the group wanted to both respect The essence of the 105 letter writers’ argu- academic freedom and keep the letter apolitical. ment is that lives are at stake. “The natural “We really wanted to speak only when we felt process has been a disaster,” said Pizzo in Feb- that the health of the nation was being endan- ruary. “We’re approaching 500,000 deaths in gered,” he says. this country.” The essence of Atlas’s arguments One week later, the signatories received a is that lockdowns put livelihoods at stake—not to letter from an attorney giving them two days to mention that people forgo needed medical withdraw their letter or face a defamation law- care—and when livelihoods and medical care are suit. After a scramble, the faculty were able to at stake, so too are lives. “To determine the best ‘I mean, gosh, retain counsel pro bono, and no lawsuit materi- path forward necessarily means admitting social alized. But many of them were spooked, says lockdowns and significant restrictions on indi- where would we Pizzo. Professor of psychiatry and behavioral viduals are deadly and extraordinarily harmful, sciences David Spiegel, who was not a signatory especially on the working class, minorities and to the letter, took objection in academic- the poor,” Atlas said to the College Republicans. be if Galileo hadn’t freedom terms. “Siccing a lawyer on a group of “So set aside the mask thing,” Etchemendy 105 faculty who raised an issue,” he remarked to says. “It’s not obvious to me that we will know insisted on taking the Faculty Senate in February. “That is not wel- what the right policy decisions were until long coming disagreement.” after the pandemic’s gone and we look back and an unorthodox Atlas did not sit for an interview with we have lots of natural experiments where this Stanford, but at a virtual talk before the Stanford state did one thing, this country did another approach to College Republicans in early March, he said, “It is thing. And there you do have to weigh the disease, understandable that most professors at Stanford you have to weigh the economic factors, you have thinking about are not experts in health policy—that is my field, to weigh the impact on kids’ education.” my lane—and it’s understandable that most Stan- Indeed, say Tessier-Lavigne and Drell, it’s the solar system?’ ford professors are ignorant of the data about the imperative that a university let those scholarly pandemic. But it is not acceptable to claim that I debates play out. They resisted calls to censure made recommendations that were ‘falsehoods Atlas. “Marc and I actually try not to speak all and misrepresentations of science.’ That is a lie.” that often,” Drell says, adding that it’s “abso- At the event, Atlas questioned the efficacy of lutely appropriate” for individual faculty to voice government actions such as business and school their disagreements with colleagues.

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“When the university is sometimes called by someone with the prominence and influence upon to speak out against a faculty member, our of Dr. Atlas have no place in the context of the position is that, as a matter of principle, we do current global health emergency,” he said. not do that,” says Tessier-Lavigne. “We ask that “We’re therefore compelled to distance the uni- the faculty member clarify that the position versity from Dr. Atlas’s views in the strongest they’re taking is their own and not that of the possible terms.” Rice called the tweet “offensive university. If the university happens to have a and well beyond the boundaries of what is position on those issues by virtue of having to appropriate for someone in a position of have one for its own community, the university authority, such as the one he holds.” can express its position.” Such statements from administrators are Which is what happened after the “rise up” intentionally rare. Tessier-Lavigne says a “won- tweet. When Michigan governor Gretchen derful quip” by former Harvard president Drew Whitmer announced on November 15 that the Gilpin Faust, that she did not see herself as state would close some schools and businesses “denouncer in chief,” resonates with him. “I’m for three weeks amid a spike in COVID-19 cases, continually asked to criticize individuals all Atlas tweeted, “The only way this stops is if across the political spectrum,” he says. “That’s people rise up. You get what you accept. not the role of the president. It would be wrong, #FreedomMatters #StepUp.” and it would have a chilling effect on discourse, Some interpreted this as a call to lawbreaking, which would effectively undermine our State- even violence. “Critics immediately condemned ment on Academic Freedom. My role is to foster Atlas’s ‘rise up’ rhetoric,” the Washington Post and preserve an environment where diverse reported, “which mirrored President Trump’s opinions can be expressed and debated freely.” previous calls to ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN!’ and statements that correlated ‘tyranny’ with the ‘I’m continually pandemic restrictions put in place by Whitmer, Polarized lenses who was the target of an alleged kidnapping plot When Pizzo worked with his 104 colleagues to that was thwarted last month.” put together the open letter about Atlas, he asked to criticize The next day, Atlas tweeted a clarification. strove to keep it about science. “For me, it’s “Hey. I NEVER was talking at all about violence. never been an issue about the Hoover Institu- individuals all People vote, people peacefully protest. NEVER tion,” he says. “I’ve worked with many people at would I endorse or incite violence. NEVER!!” the Hoover Institution, and there are some across the Also that day, Stanford issued the following outstanding people there.” statement: But for some faculty, it is about Hoover. political spectrum. Some see the campus policy institute as an ideo- The university has been asked to comment on logically diverse and necessary corrective to an That’s not the role recent statements made by Dr. Scott Atlas, a overwhelmingly liberal professoriate; others, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who is right-wing think tank. In September, 122 faculty of the president. on leave of absence from that position. members signed a letter entitled “COVID-19 and Stanford’s position on managing the pan- the Hoover Institution: Time for a Reappraisal,” demic in our community is clear. We support arguing that statements by several Hoover It would be wrong, using masks, social distancing, and con- fellows downplayed the seriousness of the pan- ducting surveillance and diagnostic testing. demic in the service of a particular policy and it would have We also believe in the importance of strictly approach at a time when the White House was following the guidance of local and state suppressing or distorting information. a chilling effect health authorities. “We thought we detected a concerning pat- Dr. Atlas has expressed views that are tern where more than one person appeared to be on discourse.’ inconsistent with the university’s approach straying outside of their area of expertise and in response to the pandemic. Dr. Atlas’s state- making pronouncements on an important scien- ments reflect his personal views, not those of tific question,” says Joshua Landy, one of five the Hoover Institution or the university. professors who represented the group’s con- cerns to the Faculty Senate in February. “We At the Faculty Senate meeting that week, weren’t always convinced that their methodolo- Tessier-Lavigne reiterated the university’s com- gies were sufficiently robust for such a vital mitment to academic freedom and Atlas’s right question—it’s a matter of life and death. And we to express his opinions. “But we also believe that weren’t convinced that, as an institution, Hoover inflammatory remarks of the kind at issue here was taking all of the steps that it could to make

34 MAY 2021 SAYS WHO Freedom and the Farm It all began with a standoff between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan. Of course.

THE IMPERATIVE to delineate others to shut down the Computa- and Franklin perused Chairman charge was academic freedom in the United tion Center, then-president Richard Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book thrown out. It States originated at Stanford, Lyman wrote in his allegations, during lulls in testimony. Dershowitz would take until 1985 although not in the principled way disrupting university operations, remarked afterward to the New for the case to wend its way you might imagine. Between 1896 including Stanford Hospital. York Times that he would not have through the courts, back to the and 1900, an economics professor (Franklin says the center was chosen to decorate the defense advisory board, which confirmed named Edward Ross came under running a government program table with a portrait of Stalin. that dismissal was appropriate scrutiny from Jane Stanford, pos- related to the war effort.) After And they were consequential. based solely on the Computation sibly for the political position he police cleared the building, Lyman The advisory board rejected the Center charges, and back to the took on silver monetary policy, but wrote, Franklin incited protesters first charge—disrupting a campus courts for a final decision on more probably because of his criti- to disobey orders to disperse. speech by former ambassador to appeal. Meanwhile, the dismissal cism of Asian immigration and Later that night, during a speech Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge, had real consequences for Frank- labor, given that the latter under- in the Old Union Courtyard, he forcing its cancellation (“I heckled lin’s career. He says he found pinned the railroad wealth that had encouraged the crowd to “make him twice,” says Franklin)—but himself “blacklisted” from aca- enabled Leland and Jane Stanford people’s war.” As was typical found Franklin responsible for the demia for three years, enrolling in to establish the university. (Lest during Stanford protests over incitement charges pertaining to a horticulture degree program at you detect a whiff of principle, Vietnam, rocks were thrown and the Computation Center and Old the College of San Mateo before Ross grounded his objections in fires were started. As was much Union, voting 5–2 to dismiss him landing a tenured position at Rut- xenophobic rhetoric. “He was a less typical, two young men were from the faculty. Religious studies gers University–Newark. racist,” says former Stanford pro- wounded by gunfire. professor Robert McAfee Brown, Franklin flourished at Rutgers, vost John Etchemendy, PhD ’82.) Franklin’s disciplinary hearings, who along with Kennedy pre- writing books and articles on topics In any event, after some years of which lasted six weeks and whose ferred a one- or two-quarter ranging from science fiction to pressure, Jane Stanford per- transcript surpassed 5,000 pages, suspension to outright dismissal, Vietnam to prison literature to the suaded the university’s first were star-studded: Donald Kennedy, explained his thinking in terms of overfishing of an unsung, ecologi- president, David Starr Jordan, not who would go on to become the intellectual pluralism. “Stanford cally valuable forager called the to renew Ross’s annual contract. university’s eighth president, pre- University will be less a true uni- menhaden. “American studies is It created an uproar. Five faculty sided over them in his capacity as versity without [Franklin] and more really my field now,” says the one- subsequently resigned—one under advisory board chair; Ray Fisher, ’61, of a true university with him,” time Melville scholar, now 87 and pressure from Jordan for ques- LLB ’66, later a Ninth Circuit judge, Brown said. “I fear that we may living in the East Bay. “Probably my tioning Ross’s dismissal, and four in represented the university; future do untold harm to ourselves and firing at Stanford was good for me. protest of that. One of those, Arthur New York City schools chief Joel to the cause of higher education I loved being at Rutgers, espe- Lovejoy, would go on to co-found Klein assisted Franklin; and unless, by imposing a penalty cially the Newark campus.” the American Association of Univer- Harvard Law School professor short of dismissal, we seek to In his memoir, Kennedy, too, sity Professors, which, in 1915, Alan Dershowitz, then a young keep him as a very uncomfortable brought the benefit of hindsight released a “Declaration of Princi- visiting scholar, supported his case but very important part of what to bear on the decision. At one ples” that led universities in a brief with the ACLU. In his this university, or any university, point, “I thought I had wasted half nationwide to adopt common prac- memoir, A Place in the Sun, is meant to be.” a year of my life,” he writes. “I now tices on tenure and academic Kennedy describes the hearings With the help of the ACLU, realize that the Franklin case was freedom. Its 1940 update remains as also chaotic: Some of the 111 Franklin challenged the decision influential in reshaping the faculty’s a guiding force in American higher witnesses showed up in costume, in court, where the Old Union view of its own role. . . . As I later education to this day. wrote, this case and others like it Stanford’s current academic proved that ‘faculties can take freedom statement was adopted hold of the values of their institu- in 1974, in the wake of disciplinary tions, defend them successfully, hearings that culminated in the and make a reality of the vision dismissal of a tenured faculty of the academy under even the member, a singular event in the most stressful challenges. The university’s history. Associate pro- Franklin verdict, whether one fessor of English H. Bruce Franklin, agrees with it or not, represented PhD ’61, was brought before the a triumph of due process.’ ” faculty advisory board on charges that his campus antiwar speeches Read the full story of had incited lawbreaking and vio- Edward Ross at lence. The most serious concerned stanfordmag.org/ contents/watch-your-words- the events of February 10, 1971: professor

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sure it was safeguarding public health while, of course, being sufficiently sensitive to academic freedom.” (Landy, it should be noted, is a pro- fessor of comparative literature and of French A Hoover Handbook and Italian; Spiegel made the medical portion of the presentation to the senate. “I’m happy until THE HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION further notice to defer to the epistemic AND PEACE began in 1919 as an archive of World authority of the vast majority of epidemiologists War I materials collected by Herbert Hoover, a at Stanford,” Landy says. “I’m certainly not member of the Class of 1895 and Stanford’s only U.S. about to quote a Shakespeare poem and go from president. It derives its current mission from his 1959 there to some new insight about COVID-19.”) statement to the university’s Board of Trustees: “This Institution sup- But the presenters’ concerns about Hoover ports the Constitution of the United States, its Bill of Rights and its fellows’ statements went beyond COVID-19; method of representative government. Both our social and economic their examples included sidelining ideas (a histo- systems are based on private enterprise from which springs initiative rian advocating “removing harmful influences” and ingenuity. . . . Ours is a system where the Federal Government from high schools such as the 1619 Project, a should undertake no governmental, social or economic action, except Pulitzer Center curriculum on Black history where local government, or the people, cannot undertake it for them- based on a New York Times special report) and selves. . . . The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to raising questions about the 2020 election (a clas- recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the sicist concurring with a TV commentator about study of these records and their publication, to recall man’s endeavors a “feeling” that Joe Biden was “installed” as to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safe- president-elect). They suggested that the pro- guards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not posed committee examine whether Hoover, be, a mere library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution which is uniquely independent among Stanford itself must constantly and dynamically point the road to peace, to per- institutes (see sidebar), has a partisan agenda. sonal freedom, and to the safeguards of the American system.” “It’s not as if Hoover is the only place that has By design, Hoover is more independent than other institutes on a value statement about what it’s studying,” says campus; it reports directly to the president rather than to a dean, and Rice. “I have been an adjunct to the Center for it is advised by a board of overseers. Financially, it is a tub on its own Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, bottom, supported almost entirely by endowment and donations. “I do and it explicitly says that it thinks these values not fund Hoover,” says Stanford provost Persis Drell. “I do provide [of democracy] are so great that we ought to be funding to the library”—a much-renowned archive largely dedicated to promoting them. Now, I happen to agree with it, the world history of the 20th and 21st centuries—“because that’s open but there are a lot of people who think the to the entire community.” United States should mind its own business.” Hoover has several categories of fellowships: visiting, research, “Hoover may be unique,” she told the Faculty adjunct—even particular ones for midcareer government officials and Senate, “but it is not singular.” for postdoctoral scholars. The senior fellows most closely resemble And it’s not as if Hoover is the only place in university faculty; they go through a four-step appointment process in the university that houses scholars whose views which they are vetted by their peers before being approved by the draw objections. “If the goal of the presentation Hoover director and the university president. Fully two-thirds of the is really to denounce or silence individual senior fellows have joint appointments and hold tenure in Stanford Hoover scholars who have behaved inappropri- schools and departments, largely business, economics, political sci- ately, who have voiced unpopular opinions or ence and history, but also law, comparative literature, materials views, who have spoken untruths, or have science and engineering, and developmental biology. The institution’s spoken publicly outside of their expertise, I just current research priorities include challenges in advanced capitalist have to say as provost that is not just a Hoover societies; America and the world; embracing history; state and local issue,” Drell said at the Faculty Senate meeting. governance; public opinion; China; and technology and governance. “I get many demands to censure Stanford fac- Because Hoover is a policy institute, about 20 percent of its senior ulty for all sorts of things. It is the essence of fellows don’t fall into traditional academic categories, often hailing instead academic freedom that we are not going to insti- from government or military service. One recent acclaimed presence on tutionally pass judgments of that sort.” campus—Drell calls him “one of my heroes”—was former national security As to the question of partisanship, Rice adviser H.R. McMaster. Hoover’s own Statement of Academic Freedom pulled 2020 data from the Federal Elections incorporates Stanford’s but also explicitly allows scholars and staff to Commission that showed that Hoover fellows publish writings that “give their interpretation or opinion.” donated in equal measure to Democratic and Republican candidates for office. The Stanford

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“I think we’re lucky that we have Hoover in technology,” Drell says. “Having some Hoover that it brings a little bit of this ideological diver- senior fellows who are joint with the School of sity that we sorely lack,” Etchemendy says. “I Engineering or the School of Medicine—I think wish people were encountering that kind of that would be awesome.” Also on the to-do list: diversity within their own departments. The increasing the diversity of the Hoover fellows in thing is, it hones your own argument. age, race and gender—“Condi will joke that she’s “Now, mind you, I’ve been a Democrat my on the young side of the age distribution”—and whole life.” focusing on the institution’s research priorities. Rice, too, speaks forcefully against echo “If it is a matter of cooperation, integrating chambers. “You have to subject your views and more deeply into Stanford, working more effec- your research and your opinions to contest with tively with Stanford, I am committed to that. And those who don’t agree with them,” she says. “I I do believe that I know how to do it,” Rice, herself say this to my students all the time: If you simply a former provost, told the Faculty Senate. “Let us are in the company of people who say ‘amen’ to get to work on it, and I’d be happy to come back everything you say, find other company.” with Provost Drell and talk about how it’s going.” But there’s the value of ideological diversity A fortified relationship between Hoover and and then there’s the pesky problem that com- the rest of Stanford could increase scholarly mentary, whether from left, right or center, isn’t cross-pollination and healthy debate. It’s the the same as data-driven research. And since kind of work universities are well equipped to Hoover is a policy institute, that issue can come do, both fueled by and in furtherance of aca- up a lot, especially when its fellows engage with demic freedom. Tessier-Lavigne brings us back What do you think the media. As Spiegel pointed out at the senate to Stanford’s statement of its principles. “Every about academic meeting, not every member of the general public word was carefully chosen by our forebears back can differentiate between the results of a peer- in 1974,” he says. “There is this phrase in it: freedom at reviewed paper and a scholar’s off-the-cuff ‘expression of the widest range of viewpoints remark, especially if it’s taken out of context and should be encouraged.’ It’s very important for universities today? amplified by an internet outrage machine. Either the university to be attentive to whether or not it way, they consider it “Stanford” speaking. has become captive to a small set of views, and That’s part of the price of academic freedom, there’s no question that without Hoover and the Tell us at says Drell, and the benefit “totally outweighs the scholars at Hoover, Stanford would have less cost” in the final analysis. “Academic freedom is intellectual diversity. The academic life of the dialogue@alumni. the right for me to study what I want to study university would be the poorer for it.” stanford.edu and draw the conclusions that I choose to draw, And he has a perfect example of the Hoover- and sometimes my conclusions are based in deep Stanford relationship at its best. “That senate disciplinary knowledge—and that’s the goal that meeting was very poignant because it was soon the university is built on. But sometimes my after George Shultz passed away,” Tessier- opinions are not very well formulated or they’re Lavigne says (see page 22). “If you think about based on shallow thinking on my part. Because I what George Shultz contributed as a senior want to protect the one, I’m going to allow the fellow at Hoover—to scholarship, to policy other,” she says. “And one person’s deliberate breakthroughs in arms control and energy policy disinformation is another person’s truth.” and many other fields—Stanford’s intellectual life would have been dramatically impoverished without those contributions. His approach to tackling problems was to bring together people A 3-D vision who often had very different views and persua- Drell and Rice, who were ultimately tasked with sions in an attempt to develop policy solutions presenting a report on Hoover to the senate in a that could elicit wide support. That was part of year’s time, already have plans underway. Rice his genius: He was a bridge builder extraordi- wants to more deeply integrate the institution naire. And so, especially at a time of such terrible with the rest of Stanford, especially in the rela- division in our country, which is preventing tively untapped areas of science and progress in tackling many of the great problems engineering, which Drell fully supports. “You confronting us, I hope we’ll keep in mind the want the technical people and the people who value of Secretary Shultz’s approach.” n are crafting policy to be very closely tied together, or policy can fail to understand the Kathy Zonana, ’93, JD ’96, is the editor of power of the technology or squelch the Stanford. Email her at [email protected].

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Work on the country’s biggest student-run powwow never really stops. By the time bills are paid, records are closed and everything is put away after the Mother’s Day weekend event, it’s nearly time to start again, says Denni Woodward, associate director of Stanford’s Native American Cultural Center. But preparations truly pick up after freshmen arrive in the fall, some of whom join the planning committees with only a vague idea of what lies ahead. Often, she says, it’s not until Grand Entry on opening night—as hundreds of dancers in tribal regalia from across the United States and Canada arrive to song and drum—that new students grasp the full picture. “They’re all just a blubbering mess,” Woodward says. “It’s so powerful. To see that arena full of the dancers you’ve invited and every seat, every bleacher, someone sitting—it’s amazing.” About 50 students work on Stanford Powwow throughout the year, a number that triples as the event nears. Over three days in May, Powwow attracts an estimated 30,000 visitors, about half of whom are Native, Woodward says. Or so it was for decades. This year, the pandemic forced Stanford Powwow to celebrate its 50th anniversary without the distinctive mix of drum, dance and dust in the eucalyptus grove across from the stadium. The same was true in 2020. But this time, organizers found ways to bring FAST FEAT: Julian Phoenix (Northern Paiute/ Tohono O’odham) competed in the Men’s Fancy Dance at the 2009 Powwow.

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most of Powwow—from dance contests to honor songs to art stands—online. “All you need is some dirt, frybread and the smell of the eucalyptus trees, and you will have the Stanford Powwow in your home,” says senior Jade Okute Win Goodwill, in her third year as co- chair. “We wanted to keep the people dancing and to keep this event going no matter what.”

Powwow can be an intensely social event. For former co-chair Marcel Begay, ’96, it’s what pulls him back to campus. “It serves as an anchor,” he says. For many, it also has larger meaning as a proclamation of the vibrancy of Native life on a campus that long seemed bereft of such, despite its roots on the ancestral lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. As recently as 1969, there were just HOOP DANCER: four Native undergrads in the Stanford Ginger Sykes Torres, ’02 student body. (Today, there are around (Navajo), in 2002. Her first visits to campus were for 300.) Ella Anagick, ’73, a Native Alaskan, Powwow, during high school. remembers the Daily asking to interview In 2014, she attended for the her during her freshman year. “I declined,” first time as a mom (inset). she says, “because I just wanted to blend in back then.” But Anagick and the other undergrads made their presence known in other ways. In November 1969, they signed a letter to Stanford president Kenneth Pitzer, asking the university to increase its enrollment of Native students and to offer more adminis- trative and academic support for them,

FAMILY MATTERS: For three-time co-chair Jade Okute Win Goodwill, ’21, third from right, Powwow has been a place to reunite with loved ones. Seen here at the most recent in-person Powwow, in 2019, are her father, Darrell Goodwill (Dakota/Lakota), mother Tamsen Holm, ’87 (Navajo), sister Dylan Goodwill and Jade (both Navajo/Hunkpapa Lakota/Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota), with aunt Evelyn Goodstriker (Dakota/Lakota) and cousin Juanita Growing Thunder (Assiniboine Sioux). FROM TOP: COURTESY DEAN A. EYRE III, ’80; JAVIER TORRES, ’99; COURTESY DEAN A. EYRE III, ’80 ’99; COURTESY TORRES, DEAN A. EYRE III, ’80; JAVIER COURTESY FROM TOP:

40 MAY 2021 STANFORD SHOUTOUT: Chandler Hood, ’14 (Navajo), performs the Grass Dance during the 2017 Powwow. COURTESY DEAN A. EYRE III, ’80 COURTESY

STANFORD 41 5OYEARS OF POWWOW NIGHT AND DAY: Storyteller and teacher Gene Tagaban (Cherokee/ Tlingit) in the Raven Dance in 2009. Tagaban travels the country telling the story of “how Raven including through changes to student orien- freed the Stars, tation. “Almost anything that is done in Moon and Sun into this regard will be an improvement over the nighttime sky and opened the Box the present situation,” they wrote. of Daylight.”

The letter helped spur a new chapter in the Native experience at Stan- ford. By 1970, Indigenous enrollment had increased sevenfold, and the newly founded Stanford American Indian Organization (SAIO) was pressing to remove the Indian mascot, which would happen in 1972. In 1974, Stanford’s Native American Cultural Center (NACC) opened, the enduring heart of Native life on campus. Amid all this, the first Powwow was held on May 1, 1971. Ads said the event would highlight Native culture to the local community and raise money for student financial aid. They also had a political cast: The two-day dance would honor the Sioux men, women and children massacred by U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890, an event one organizer likened to atrocities in Vietnam. Dean Chavers, MA ’73, MA ’75, PhD ’76, a Lumbee Indian who had been part of the Native occupation of Alcatraz the year before, remembers another motiva- tion as well: to attract Native students to Stanford and to make life better for the few already there. “It was most important for the freshmen,” he says. “They were pretty homesick.”

Fifty years later, Powwow is many things to many people. It’s a highlight for the Bay Area’s large Indigenous popu- lation, a magnet for tribal performers and vendors from across North America, a pan-Indian celebration of unity, a spiritual affirmation, the university’s largest annual multicultural event and an ideal way to celebrate Mother’s Day weekend. And, as in Chavers’s day, it’s a comfort to those adjusting to life at Stanford.

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42 MAY 2021 REFLECTING: A Northern Traditional dancer at the 1999 Powwow. “Dancing in one’s tribal regalia is often a prayerful process full of respect for the environment and Native lifeways,” Woodward notes.

who matriculate each fall are Native, jarred her. “I didn’t even realize that there campus that has put on the event live. Woodward says. was that much money in the world.” Her first Goodwill and other leaders are busy creating January Tobacco—a member of the Stanford Powwow surprised her with the way guides to bridge the knowledge gap. Oglala Lakota Tribe who grew up on Pine it transported her back to Pine Ridge. “To get But Constance Owl, ’18, a member of the Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a piece of frybread, to just hear all the Native Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and one of the poorest regions in the nation— voices and the Native laughter and to get another former Powwow co-chair, doesn’t chose Stanford because of its support for dust in your hair—it was like having a piece seem fazed. Powwow’s persistence for 50 Native students. She remembers getting of home on campus.” years is testament to a deep community calls from the NACC, and from students, There are other vital aspects of Stanford commitment to making things better for those reassuring her Stanford would be a good Native life: the NACC, the Muwekma-Tah-Ruk who come after. “I don’t know if campus is place for her. “No other university was ethnic theme house, SAIO and the students going to be able to handle the turnout that doing that,” she says. themselves. But Powwow weekend, Tobacco we’re going to have for the next in-person But as a self-described mama’s girl, says, brings them all together. Powwow,” she says. “It’s going to be huge.” n Tobacco, ’17, who co-chaired Powwow her Even next year, the pandemic could junior and senior years, still missed home— continue to present challenges for Powwow. Sam Scott is a senior writer at Stanford.

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STANFORD 43 44 ISSUE 2021 OF VIRUSES VECTORS& In an increasingly interconnected world, the next pandemic is not 100 years away. Here’s what scientists are worried about and how we can prepare. BY DENI ELLIS BéCHARD

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STANFORD 45 humans is crucial for developing strategies to prevent, detect and respond to future outbreaks. “By some estimates, 70 to 80 per- cent of emerging and reemerging pathogens ON THE are zoonotic,” she says, “so we always expected that the next one—Disease X— could be a zoonotic pathogen.” But though SARS-CoV-2 originated in bats, the story isn’t simple, and its journey to humans may have taken years. For instance, the MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) corona- virus, which was transmitted from bats to RARE NIGHTS camels to humans, was first documented in 2012, but analysis of stored camel blood has revealed the presence of MERS antibodies as far back as 1983. “This means that MERS coronavirus was circulating among drome- dary camels for almost 40 years—for at least that long,” Van Kerkhove says. In January 2021, a WHO team traveled to Wuhan, China, and examined the Huanan Seafood Market, THAT SHE where the COVID-19 outbreak was initially thought to have begun. They determined that the virus could have hitched a ride with a number of species sold there: rabbits, civets, ferret badgers, raccoon dogs, pangolins— some of which, though wildlife, are raised for slaughter in other provinces. The virus could have been circulating in animals for CAME HOME, years, mutating and becoming better adapted to humans, before the urban density of Maria Van Kerkhove crossed the yard to the Wuhan—a city of 11 million—provided the bedroom window of her sons, then 9 and 1, perfect setting for a massive outbreak. “The to wave to them. For two months—“the Huanan market itself was an amplification worst of my life,” she recalls—she saw them event,” Van Kerkhove says. “It wasn’t the and her husband only through glass. The start of the pandemic.” novel coronavirus was spreading in Geneva, News outlets have called COVID-19 Switzerland, where Van Kerkhove, MS ’01, is “a once-in-a-century pandemic”—as if, the World Health Organization’s technical when it’s over, the human race can indulge lead for COVID-19 response, and too little in a 100-year-long unmasked sigh of relief. was known about the disease for her to risk But today’s earth is not that of 1918, when exposing her family. “A lot of people have we last saw an outbreak this disruptive. asked me if that was an exaggeration,” she Since then, the world population has qua- says. “You have to remember that time and drupled, increasing by 6 billion, in lockstep the uncertainty in it.” with livestock breeding, the destruction of She, like millions of others, has since forests and global warming. Not for the dis- learned much about SARS-CoV-2, the virus tant future but for this world, as it is now, that causes COVID-19. And yet a question COVID-19 provides a cautionary tale—of remains as to how the virus first infected transmission between wildlife and humans, humans—an important one for Van Kerkhove, of densely packed urban areas, of a globe as an epidemiologist who also heads the WHO’s wound up as a ball of yarn but with high- unit for emerging diseases and zoonoses ways and flight paths. This, though, is a (animal diseases that have spilled over into tangled tale: In nature, all is connected, human populations). Understanding the and in ways that humans have only begun path each zoonotic disease takes to reach to imagine.

46 MAY 2021 In the Beginning decreasing avian flu outbreaks lay in people’s Wrath of gods or evil spirits, epidemics are relationship with their poultry. “Eighty-five mentioned often enough in ancient texts as percent of the rural population in Bangladesh to count among life’s inevitabilities. While raise chickens,” he says. “The return on some civilizations may have understood the investment is on the order of 300 percent. source of infection—hence cultural prohibi- These are low-income settings, so you want tions against eating certain animals—the to raise poultry, and the cheap way to do that full extent of zoonoses was unknown. The is to have them run around your hut. Then, bubonic plague originated in gerbils; genetic at night, people usually bring them into the studies have traced smallpox back millennia home and, most commonly, put them under to rodents, and measles to cattle. Well into the bed.” Though such frequent contact the 19th century, diseases were often trans- could create a virus adapted to humans, mitted from animals to humans via milk people are reluctant to forgo economic Whereas until Louis Pasteur turned the page on that benefits. “We’re arguing from the perspective era with his eponymous technique in 1862. of pandemics, which are low-probability, He later devised vaccines for two zoonotic high-consequence events,” Luby says. “The COVID-19 bêtes noires, anthrax and rabies. Today, issue here isn’t about education and knowl- scientists continue to refine their under- edge. It’s really about incentives.” having already standing of zoonoses, increasingly However, Luby has seen success miti- advocating for surveillance of hot spots. gating outbreaks with a virus that few know Among the most monitored viruses is the by name but that anyone who’s seen the 2011 claimed nearly one we know best: the flu. Specifically, the avian filmContagion knows in spirit: Nipah. While flu, passed from migrating birds to poultry. In it doesn’t actually melt your brain, as 3 million lives 2009, Van Kerkhove finished her PhD on the depicted during the autopsy of Gwyneth Pal- avian flu and shortly afterward became a trow’s character, initial symptoms include has a WHO consultant, when that year’s influenza fever, coughing and vomiting, followed by pandemic began. Whereas the avian flu virus seizures, coma and often-fatal encephalitis. is poorly adapted to humans (difficult for us Today, Nipah is among the world’s most sur- 1 to 2 percent to transmit, though often causing fatal ill- veilled viruses. Whereas COVID-19—having ness), pigs are susceptible to both human and already claimed nearly 3 million lives—has a fatality rate, avian flus, providing a crucible in which a 1 to 2 percent fatality rate, Nipah’s can be as virus can mutate. The best-known virus to high as 75 percent, worse than the Black ’ emerge in this fashion was the 1918 flu, Death’s, which wiped out a third of Europe’s Nipah s can be which may have claimed 3 to 5 percent of the population during the late Middle Ages. world’s population—50 to 100 million people. Luby recalls leaving a CDC conference on as high as The 2009 influenza, dubbed the swine flu, Nipah earlier in his career, shaking his head was another interspecies alchemy. Since and thinking, “That is one bad virus. Glad I then, avian flu has been transmitted to don’t have to work on that.” A few years later, in 75 percent, humans many times, often directly from Bangladesh, he was studying Nipah outbreaks birds. “It just keeps going,” Van Kerkhove and prevention. Fortunately, whereas SARS- worse than the says. “You have spillover events and then a CoV-2 is airborne—diffused during normal small outbreak, but it hasn’t taken off.” breathing and able to linger in the air—Nipah Black Death’s. Stephen Luby, a professor of medicine is transmitted via large aerosolized droplets and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for from coughing that don’t carry far. “We’ve the Environment, has also researched avian had dozens and dozens of spillovers,” Luby flu outbreaks. “Had we had this conversation says, “but the virus has never been efficient 14 months ago,” he said in January, “we prob- enough in person-to-person transmission ably would have spent it all on influenza and to sustain ongoing transmission. But we not said a word about the coronaviruses, worry that the virus has changed just as because communicable disease epidemiolo- we’re watching SARS-CoV-2 change now.” gists are constantly looking back to 1918 and Though COVID-19 is to Nipah what hand saying, ‘It could happen again.’ ” grenades are to heavy artillery, they both— During his eight years in Bangladesh with like rabies and Ebola—originated in bats. In the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- Nipah’s case, large fruit bats savor date palm tion, Luby discovered that an obstacle to sap, which Bangladeshis collect similarly to

STANFORD 47 maple syrup. “It’s during wintertime when out for vaccines—may seem to be a viable there’s not a lot of other food available,” Luby solution, it doesn’t account for the fact that says. “Bats are smart animals, and they come as viruses spread, they mutate. “The proba- in and lick the sap stream. Occasionally, they bility of that happening is a direct function of are shedding the virus.” Luby’s team encour- the number of people infected,” says Robert aged sap collectors to use skirts on trees to Siegel, ’76, MA ’77, MD ’90, a professor of keep bats out of the sap stream. “We also microbiology and immunology. The larger went public with the data on the risks of date that population, the greater the likelihood palm sap. That was very controversial ini- that a mutant will adapt to survive longer in tially because it was so closely connected to the air or to better infect respiratory tracts, culture,” Luby says. “It’s kind of like telling as we are seeing with SARS-CoV-2. The same the French that wine with dinner is a risk is true for diseases spreading through large factor.” Ultimately, after the education cam- livestock populations crammed into limited paign, Nipah cases declined. spaces. Global increase in human population During our restive truces with the viral (on average, by 84 million annually) creates a world, we easily forget the unceasing muta- chain reaction: Meat demand rises, more for- ‘We’re pushing tions. While experts watched for Nipah and ests are razed, and more atmospheric carbon avian flu, coronaviruses schooled us in and methane are produced. Then, as the nature’s variability. Before SARS-CoV-1 planet heats up and habitats vanish, wildlife beyond the broke out in 2003 with a 9 percent mortality and insects migrate, increasing the likeli- rate, coronaviruses were known to cause only hood that even well-known diseases will carrying capacity mild upper-respiratory infections. MERS fol- become more devastating. lowed in Saudi Arabia with a 35 percent Consider Rift Valley Fever, a virus carried mortality rate but, mercifully, a relatively low by mosquitoes and thought to have originated of the planet. rate of transmission. “If the coronaviruses in bats. It has long infected cattle, sheep and had just read our textbooks, they would have people during rainy periods in East Africa, We are pushing into behaved better,” Luby says. but in recent years, outbreaks have become Whereas in previous centuries, outbreaks more frequent and widespread. “When the and exploiting among humans often burned themselves out rains come, you go from having zero mosqui- in remote villages, today’s coronaviruses jet toes to a million mosquitoes,” says Desiree around the globe. In late 2019, weeks after LaBeaud, a professor of pediatrics special- more areas SARS-CoV-2 was detected in China, it turned izing in infectious diseases and a senior up in California. “We’re pushing beyond the fellow at the Woods Institute. “Climate and exposing carrying capacity of the planet. We are change and more flooding events are leading pushing into and exploiting more areas and to more outbreaks.” exposing more people, and we are also just so Rift Valley fever hits livestock the hardest, more people. much more connected than we ever were,” causing nearly 100 percent of those pregnant Luby says. “There will be a SARS-CoV-3.” to abort while killing 90 percent of the young There will be and 10 percent of adults. For humans, typical consequences are fever, aches and dizziness, o ’ Reservoir Hogs with small risks of vision loss, neurological a SARS-C V-3. Human expansion and its consequences are damage or death. Twenty years ago, the dis- stirring further uncertainty into nature’s ease spread beyond Africa through cattle already formidable unpredictability. Global trading, infecting both livestock and people warming, habitat destruction, population on the border of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Yet growth, poverty and migrations—of both even as outbreaks grow larger and more fre- people and animals—are changing our rela- quent, there is little surveillance to prevent tionships even with well-studied diseases. the disease from reaching the western hemi- And what we know so far suggests that we are sphere, which has hundreds of millions of entering a new pathogenic frontier. cattle. “If the virus were to make it here, At first glance, the relationship between a there’s a lot of potential for it to become population’s size and viral spread is straight- endemic and to spread,” LaBeaud says. forward. Viruses thrive in dense populations, The movement of millions of humans where air, water, surfaces and so much else around the planet in conjunction with global are shared. But while the idea of herd immu- warming has, in just the past few decades, nity through infection—rather than holding caused known viruses to become newly

48 MAY 2021 OF VIRUSES & VECTORS established in the Americas. In 1999, West Nile virus—which originated in Africa— appeared in Queens, New York. In epide- miological lingo, the reservoir is the host species in which the virus multiplies, and the vector is the species that transmits the A New Way infection between organisms. For West Nile, both were present throughout the western hemisphere: Birds were the reser- to Support the Planet voirs and mosquitoes the vectors that transmitted the virus. The disease spread rapidly—especially along changing bird migratory routes—from Canada to Venezuela, infecting millions of people and killing STANFORD IS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK for a climate and sus- thousands from encephalitis. Similarly, tainability school that will work to find solutions to environmental Chikungunya and Zika, both mosquito- challenges. A Blueprint Advisory Committee, made up of 30 faculty borne viruses, have spread into the Americas from five Stanford policy institutes and all seven schools, has been and Europe. designing the school’s programs and structure. Among the topics Even long-established diseases such as that the committee proposes the school address are climate change, energy technology, the natural environment, sustainable yellow fever, dengue and malaria, which urban development, earth and planetary sciences, human society arrived in the western hemisphere during and interactions, food and water security, human behavior and the slave trade, are expanding their ranges. public policy, and human health and the environment. Yellow fever—transmitted from nonhuman The proposed school, first announced by Stanford president primates to humans via mosquitoes—found Marc Tessier-Lavigne in May 2020, will enable collaboration across a new world replete with all three and caused disciplines. As such, it will have themed initiatives, including envi- deadly outbreaks across the Americas in the ronmental justice and the circular economy (focusing on regeneration 18th and 19th centuries. In recent years, rather than exhaustion of resources), which will benefit from the Brazil has experienced some of the worst expertise of faculty across the university. Among its degree offer- flare-ups of yellow fever in nearly a century ings will be a joint undergraduate sustainability management due to rapid deforestation that brings the degree with the Graduate School of Business, the first undergradu- ate degree available from the GSB. “As a university, there is no mosquitoes down from the canopy and into doubt that education is and must be core to achieving the ambi- impoverished settlements. “Most of the tious vision for this new school in terms of research, collaboration, infected were young men working in the impact, and training of current and future generations of scholars forest or along the edge,” says LaBeaud. and leaders,” said Nicole Ardoin, an associate professor of educa- “They’ll say, ‘Oh no, the monkeys are drop- tion and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the ping dead out of the trees.’ They know that Environment, at a Faculty Senate meeting where the sustainability means yellow fever is around.” school was one of the main points of discussion. To understand how diseases are spreading, Kathryn “Kam” Moler, vice provost and dean of research, sug- LaBeaud partners with Erin Mordecai, an gested that the school could serve as a model for such schools at assistant professor of biology and a disease academic institutions across the country. “I would be thrilled if many, ecologist. Using LaBeaud’s field data, many universities developed such schools and if some of our gradu- ates could become the pipeline that makes it possible for other Mordecai models how climate change may universities to have those schools,” she said at the senate meeting. redistribute mosquito-borne diseases. “You Next steps include forming a search committee to choose a might think of it as the mosquito biting dean, putting finishing touches on departmental structures and someone and picking up some blood and put- degree programs, and hiring staff and a director for a Sustainability ting the pathogens in that blood into another Accelerator. The accelerator will work to provide training, funding person, but that’s not really the way it hap- and material support for the policy and technology solutions that pens,” Mordecai says. “The pathogens in that the school will generate. blood meal have to avoid getting digested and “The problem of building a sustainable future for our planet and excreted, so they have to be able to break coming generations is one of the great and very urgent challenges through the mid-gut barrier of the mosquito of the 21st century,” Tessier-Lavigne said at the senate meeting, in and then replicate and disseminate response to the presentation on the sustainability school. “We can go further and faster if we have the courage to do something bold throughout the body, and eventually bind to and reorganize ourselves.” the salivary glands.” With rising temperatures, that process speeds up, as does the mosquito’s life cycle. Taking both into account,

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Mordecai’s modeling shows optimal tempera- malaria and the drugs that work against tures for the spread of each disease: for malaria don’t work for dengue.” In fact, no dengue, 84 degrees; for malaria, a balmy 78. reliable treatment for dengue exists. The As average global temperatures rise, dengue mortality rate of its severe form—though could replace malaria across much of the less than 1 percent with proper care—can world and spread as far north as Alaska and be as high as 20 percent. Scandinavia. While less malaria sounds great, a corre- sponding increase in dengue is not a fair Living on the Edge trade. For decades, public health measures Historically, bats have had a bad rap in the have been developed to treat malaria and West—nocturnal, diabolic, vampiric—even to target the Anopheles mosquito, which though they pollinate plants and keep insects carries the pathogen. For example, Anopheles in check. Though scientific data has yet to is nocturnal and can be killed with insecticide- link them to the devil or living dead, they are treated bed nets. Aedes aegypti, which car- host to, well, a host of pathogens, in part ries dengue, is diurnal. “One way to control because of their proclivity for spending their malaria is to diagnose cases quickly and days in conditions as crowded as house par- treat people with antimalarial drugs,” Mor- ties. (We’ve seen how that has worked out for decai says. “Well, the diagnostic test for humans with SARS-CoV-2.) “Bats are what viruses dream about at night,” Siegel quips— not just because of their population density and their roosting in excrement-filled caves, but also because of their ability to fly and dis- perse pathogens. They may also have immune systems perfectly calibrated to sup- press viruses without eliminating them; or, through the high metabolic demands of mammalian flight, they may sufficiently raise their body temperatures at night to keep those pathogens in check, allowing for periods of latency and recrudescence (think herpes). These theories are unproven, but scientists are currently building cases. “Bat viruses adapted to fight a really immunologi- cally adept host and then got a different host, like humans,” Siegel says. “They don’t realize that they’ve got a weakling for a host, basi- cally, so we suffer the consequences.” Though bats hardly rise to mascot status for humans, humans are truly the stuff of nightmares for bats—not to mention other species. We’ve contributed to atmospheric carbon levels that are consistently higher than any time in the past 3 million to 4 mil- lion years, and global temperatures are soaring. The natural world—and by that, we’re talking ecological systems so complex and vast that scientists have barely tapped their mysteries—is buckling under the strain. Less obvious is the fact that sometimes we are driving the spread of diseases. Professor Elizabeth Hadly, an environmental biologist and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute, studied bats in Costa Rica, where farming has fragmented forests. Blood tests showed that 33 percent of them carried bartonella, a

50 MAY 2021 OF VIRUSES & VECTORS bacterium implicated in cat scratch fever, cat. From there, millions of humans and among other conditions, in humans. While other animals are easily within reach. By one this prevalence was remarkable, Hadly says, estimate, 1.7 million viruses have yet to be the real surprise came when her lab built a discovered in mammals and birds, of which phylogenetic tree of every known sample of 800,000 might be transmissible to humans. bartonella collected in the world, showing And we have little understanding of how they the many species affected. Human activity affect the wildlife that carry them. “We don’t appeared to be spreading independently know the basics of how bats or other mam- evolved strains of the bacterium into new mals are responding to the waxing and regions and between species, with evidence waning of diseases,” Hadly says. of transmission from domesticated animals While animals are forced to infiltrate to bats. “Many people assume that we have to human territory, our own most vulnerable fear wildlife,” Hadly says, “but actually wild- are the ones on the front lines of diseases. life has as much if not more to fear from us.” Americans have seen this play out with This risk of spillover—both to and from many service industry workers during humans—increases with climate change, COVID-19. Those with limited access to which continually shifts the natural environ- health care and who live in crowded condi- ments of animals toward the poles. A changing tions are at greater risk. Their increased climate can cause flowers to bloom and insects vulnerability can give a pathogen the foot- to hatch at different times, and animals that hold it needs to begin to spread, says James have adapted to year-round food sources sud- Jones, an associate professor of earth ‘People assume denly face privation. “As we all know,” Hadly system science and a senior fellow at the says, “when you’re stressed, it’s pretty common Woods Institute. Furthermore, in many to get sick, because stress basically causes a lot countries, rapid urbanization leaves city that we have of wear and tear on your system.” Starving bats dwellers with nostalgia for village life and on frantic forays into human farmland are at an appetite for wild meats from home. And to fear wildlife, higher risk of being contagious. in rural settings, poor people—living at the Hadly evokes the iconic image of an human-wild interface with less and less orangutan in a single tree, surrounded by buffer between them and natural habitats— but actually clear-cut forest. We have become accustomed find themselves foraging where humans to such images of charismatic, keystone spe- once rarely ventured, says Laura Bloom- wildlife has as cies: the polar bear trapped on the ice floe. But field, ’07, MS ’10, PhD ’20. “You have these what we fail to see, Hadly says, is just how islands of forest, which have been dimin- much if not more many wildlife populations are locked within ishing over time. People have higher access increasingly fragmented landscapes. This not to the core habitat at the center of that ’ only disrupts migratory patterns and creates forest,” she says. Her research in Uganda to fear from us. more edges where humans and animals come showed that people living in these regions into contact, but it also prevents animals from had a greater risk of contact with nonhuman finding new homes as the planet warms, since primates even in the absence of hunting. entire regions are now denuded. “How are Though additional forest may be cleared as they going to get across that area?” Hadly asks. local farms suffer the effects of climate “They end up either just dying or kind of change, the growing global demand for piling up on the last place they can persist— timber, sugar, palm oil and other exports is and that is exactly where human domination at the core of the problem, says Eric Lambin, of the landscape begins.” Bats that had inhab- a professor of earth system science and a ited the same caves for thousands of years senior fellow at the Woods Institute. suddenly begin roosting in the attics of The simplistic version of the COVID-19 homes and barns. tale is that a bat flapped out of a cave and Climate change essentially turns these happened to infect an intermediary animal, edges into a paradise for pathogens: large which ended up in a market. But the complex numbers of humans, livestock and wildlife pandemic reality is that as humans have crammed together, sharing water, air and reshaped the earth to our needs, desperate nutrients, contaminating one another with and vulnerable animals, sometimes carrying fecal matter. A virus can jump to a domesti- disease, are finding what may be their final cated animal when a sick bat feeds from a refuge at the edge of human habitats—among trough or gets caught in the jaws of a dog or our own most desperate and vulnerable.

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Is There Hope? medical clinic was established, illegal logging Fevers. Blindness. Hemorrhaging. Inflamed had decreased by 70 percent and better access brains. And now a global pandemic, to health care had reduced the rates of infec- which—while not the most lethal one imagin- tious diseases. able—has devastated communities and left us Barry believes that governments must hankering for good news. And there is some. provide better funding for the WHO, CEPI The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and PREDICT, a USAID program that identi- Innovations (CEPI) is developing seven high- fied 1,200 viruses capable of infecting priority vaccines: Nipah, Rift Valley fever, humans, among them more than 160 previ- ‘If 40 percent Chikungunya, Ebola, Lassa (for a virus from ously unknown coronaviruses. (PREDICT, rats), MERS (which, alongside Ebola, helped part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats pave the way for the rapid creation of the program, was defunded in 2019.) “When we of the population SARS-CoV-2 vaccine) and Disease X—which look at the WHO, its budget is not even as is not a vaccine, per se, but a platform from much as the Stanford Hospital budget,” Barry think the virus which future vaccines could be developed. says, “and you’re talking about the budget for Among COVID’s lessons is the impor- the entire world.” Her goal is to establish a is a hoax tance of developing treatments for viral center for planetary health at Stanford, since infection, to save lives until vaccines are cre- ecosystem health is inseparable from human ated and distributed. Jan Carette, a professor health, just as the health of other nations is and another of microbiology and immunology, is working inseparable from that of our own. Barry to create broad-spectrum antiviral medi- believes we need to put some of our focus on 20 percent cines, not unlike certain antibiotics. He does other countries, or “it’s hopeless for pan- this by focusing on how viruses use animal demics—unless we work in a global fashion.” ’ cells to replicate. Rather than target the virus The challenge, of course, is that political— think it s actually itself, he blocks the cellular proteins that the and corporate—leadership changes, often virus needs to make a copy of itself, keeping a reversing previously established initiatives. the harbinger lid on viral load in the infected body and But some entrepreneurs are devising ways buying hosts—us—time to kick the disease. to mitigate pandemics by writing them into of a new world “What host components does the virus latch the business model. The virologist Nathan onto in order to start a successful infection?” Wolfe, ’92, who describes his former work as Carette says. His team has already identified a virus hunter in The Viral Storm: The Dawn government coming a protein used by flaviviruses (yellow fever, of a New Pandemic Age, has added pandemics dengue and Zika) and a drug that inhibits to the list of natural disasters against which to put mind-control them, as well as a protein that, once neutral- companies should insure themselves. Just as ized in mice, completely protects them from hurricane or earthquake insurance requires enteroviruses (those that cause polio, some that policyholders meet standards and take chips in your brain, forms of the common cold and more). He is precautions, pandemic insurance obliges currently evaluating the safety of treatment businesses to be prepared. “To qualify for the your optimal and the best drugs to use. insurance policy,” Wolfe says, “you have to But many of the most effective measures show that you have reasonable surveillance, against pandemics lie in governance—from and you have to have contingency plans. You strategies addressing people’s basic needs to funding are incentivized to look for [virus outbreaks] the virological sleuthing that detects foes because if you see cases, you know that the won’’t do a damn measured in nanometers. Michele Barry, certification of those cases will lead to the senior associate dean of global health at release of funds that permit you to control bit of good.’ Stanford Medicine and director of the Center the outbreak early.” for Innovation in Global Health, co-authored But companies showed virtually no a 2020 paper on how improving rural health interest in pandemic insurance before care in Borneo decreased illegal logging, COVID-19, and the cause may lie in how since many of the people logging did so to pay humans reason: We don’t worry about prob- for medical expenses. One of her students, lems that don’t regularly arise. “When Isabel Jones, PhD ’20, “did a deep dive and public health works, we don’t see illness and what we called ‘radical listening’ to hear disease, right?” says James Jones. “People what people wanted that would prevent them aren’t able to make that counter-factual sce- from logging,” Barry says. “And what they nario, where if we didn’t have the public wanted was health care.” Ten years after a health, what would this look like?” For

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Jones, understanding human behavior is crucial to preventing pandemics. “If 40 percent of the population think the virus is a hoax and another 20 percent think it’s actually the harbinger of a new world government coming to put mind-control chips in your brain, your optimal strategies won’t do a damn bit of good.” Behavioral response is crucial even at the most basic level, such as perceiving a disease as harmless and ignoring public health orders. “That’s the paradox of COVID,” Jones says. “Because it, for the most part, is a mild disease and most people who are infected will recover, people don’t take it as seriously as something like Ebola.” He recently received a National Science Foundation grant to investigate how ideas about pan- demics emerge, how they influence transmission and how they can be overcome. Understanding human belief might prove key to encouraging people not only to adopt preventive measures and get vaccinated, but also to run pandemic-conscious companies and elect governments that invest in surveil- lance, prevention and treatment. As for the beliefs of government leaders, those most attuned to pandemic prevention are in places that have experienced previous outbreaks. “These are real-world ‘simula- tions’ that countries have gone through,” Maria Van Kerkhove says. “Each time, they learn and they adapt and they adjust.” For instance, in 2015, a single individual who had visited several countries in the Middle East returned home to South Korea and started a MERS outbreak with 186 cases and 38 system, but every single one of them knows deaths. “The country had more than 70,000 how to use the resources they have strategi- people quarantined at one point,” she says. cally.” Van Kerkhove hopes that in many “The economic impact was on the order of countries—and especially in those of North $8 billion.” That experience with MERS America and Europe, where quality of indi- made South Korea more responsive to vidual care is emphasized over public COVID-19 than many other countries. health—the experience of COVID-19 results But even nations with comparatively few in better systems. And each nation, she resources—Nigeria, Senegal and Rwanda— believes, will have to take into consideration have successfully mobilized public health many larger factors—people and animals staff experienced with outbreaks. “Countries migrating and the disruption of ecosystems. across Asia and across Africa know the value “We have an opportunity here to use this of basic public health measures. This is Epi- horrible experience that we’ve all gone through demiology 101,” Van Kerkhove says. “You to better ourselves and better the world we build the system from the ground up. You live in and the world we’re giving to our chil- have the workforce in place to find cases and dren and our children’s children,” she says. do cluster investigations and have commu- “This is no longer theoretical. It’s real.” n nity health workers go door-to-door. These countries may not have the most robust hos- Deni Ellis Béchard is a senior writer at pital system or the most sophisticated lab Stanford. Email him at [email protected].

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REVIEW High Style and Misdemeanors

“APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS protected elites from competi- red soles. But he underestimates the man,” Shakespeare declared. tion with the emerging the extent to which sumptuary Clothing is a form of communi- merchant and middle classes. laws were often ignored or cation, conveying “respect or Today, dress codes turn up selectively enforced, and rooted disdain, purpose or aimlessness, in surprising places: not just in economic rather than moral seriousness or frivolity,” writes schools and offices, but also concerns. The platform shoes Stanford law professor Richard Disneyland and Starbucks, the of Renaissance Venice were KIMBERLY Thompson Ford, ’88, in Dress latter of which has a strict dress controversial because they CHRISMAN- CAMPBELL, ’94, Codes: How the Laws of Fashion code for its baristas. Controver- necessitated longer, more is a fashion historian Made History. But if clothing is sies over hemlines, hijabs and expensive gowns, for example, whose expertise lies at communication, are dress hoodies continue to make and the growing variety of dress the intersection of art, codes censorship? headlines. Even the most over time was a function of fashion and culture. She has been published in the Throughout history, antiauthoritarian subcultures cheaper, mass-produced clothes Atlantic, the Wall Street sumptuary laws—laws regu- have unwritten dress codes “as as well as the rise of liberal Journal and Politico, lating consumption, often but powerful as rules inscribed in individualism. among others, and is not always of clothing—have law,” Ford notes. And trade- Ford concludes, persuasively, a 2020–21 National Endowment restricted certain colors, fabrics marks increasingly do the work that true freedom of dress does for the Humanities and garments, usually to preserve of sumptuary laws, creating not (yet) exist; until it does, dress Public Scholar. a social hierarchy. The Spartans artificial scarcity. codes can be helpful as well as were, predictably, one of the first Ford dissects dress codes harmful. Thought-provoking societies to place legal limits on with the eloquence and argu- and sweeping in scale, Dress opulent attire; medieval sump- mentative precision you’d expect Codes captures how what we tuary laws reinforced biblical of a law professor, deftly drawing wear proclaims “our deepest dictates about vanity, greed and ideological lines from the commitments, aspirations, and modesty. As social mobility and sprezzatura (studied noncha- sense of self,” whether we realize industrialization transformed lance) Castiglione recommended it or not. Don’t get dressed until Western culture, dress codes in The Book of the Courtier to you read it. n The Official Preppy Handbook, from the Zoot Suit Riots to the sagging pants of urban Black teens, and from Louis XIV’s red heels to Christian Louboutin’s

Such laws were hard to enforce and often flouted: After all, if a nobleman was to be distinguished by his attire, how else could one tell whether a person dressed in red silk and ermine was entitled to wear it? Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, Richard Thompson Ford, ’88; Simon & Schuster. FROM TOP: ADREA SCHEIDLER; JENNIFER WORRELL ADREA SCHEIDLER; JENNIFER WORRELL FROM TOP:

54 MAY 2021 We Recommend On the Horizon

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FACULTY He received numerous awards, both in his field closer to home near Seattle. Survivors: his chil- Ernest William “Bill” Hancock, of Palo Alto, and for teaching, and founded the Journal of dren, Carl and Elizabeth; five grandchildren; and December 1, at 93. He taught cardiology from Labor Economics and the Society of Labor Econ- two great-grandchildren. 1960 to 1994 and was the 1997 winner of Stan- omists. He also served as chairman of the Council Elizabeth MacCallum Buell, ’38 (German stud- ford’s Albion Walter Hewlett Award for teaching of Economic Advisers and played a critical role in ies), of Greenbrae, Calif., September 1, at 102. and research. He made fundamental contributions addressing the financial crisis and recession at She was a member of Chi Omega. She worked to understanding mitral valve prolapse, pericardial the end of the George W. Bush administration. as administrative assistant to Ernie Arbuckle, disease and the effect of radiation treatment on Survivors: his wife, Victoria; and daughter, Julie. then dean of the Graduate School of Business, the heart. In the 1980s, he was chairman of the Carl Edwin Thoresen, MA ’60, PhD ’64 (educa- and moved with him when he became chairman cardiovascular board of the American Board of tion), of Los Gatos, Calif., October 20, at 87. He of the board of Wells Fargo in San Francisco. Internal Medicine. He also loved music and was was professor of psychology and the author of She retired in 1984 and moved to Greenbrae in a lifelong pianist. Survivors: his wife, Joan; sons, nine books and more than 150 articles and book 1997. She was predeceased by her husband, Ross, Will, Nelson and Adam; and six grandchildren. chapters on eating and sleep disorders and other daughter, Leslie, and grandson Rodney. Survivors: Ralph Hester, of Stanford, November 29, at 88. topics in the field of health psychology. He enjoyed her sons, Geoffrey Culver, MBA ’74, and Mac Allen He was professor emeritus of French after exploring the world with his family on visiting Culver III, ’64, MBA ’66; and grandson. spending his entire 37-year career at Stanford. professorships at Harvard and in Montana, New His research focused on Renaissance literature Mexico, Maine, Rome and London. Survivors: his 1940s and language pedagogy. He co-authored sev- wife of 62 years, Kay; children, Trygve, Kristen John G. “Jack” Gurley, ’42, PhD ’51 (economics), eral widely used French textbooks, chaired the Bridgeman, ’84, MS ’85, and Amy Goforth, ’88; of Palo Alto, November 15, at 100. He was a mem- department of French and Italian, directed over- and seven grandchildren. ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and helped the tennis seas programs in Tours and Paris and founded team, playing both singles and doubles, win the the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary 1930s national championship in 1942. After teaching at Studies. The French government awarded him Robert H. Dreisbach, ’37 (chemistry), of Spokane, Princeton and the U. of Maryland, he returned to the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Wash., at 104. He was professor emeritus of chemi- Stanford, where he was the first recipient of the Académiques. Survivors: his wife of 54 years, cal and systems biology. He did graduate work at Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. Claudie; daughters, Annabelle, ’90, and Nathalie; the U. of Chicago and served as an Army doctor His research focused on economic growth and and four grandchildren. in Panama before joining Stanford’s department of the economies of communist countries. He was Edward Paul Lazear, of Reno, Nev., November pharmacology. His handbook on diagnosing and predeceased by his wife of 69 years, Yvette 23, at 72, of pancreatic cancer. He was Davies treating poisoning became a standard reference (Magagnose, MS ’65). Family Professor of Economics. He was a pioneer work and is still in print. In retirement he enjoyed Barbara Vogt Mallery, ’42 (Spanish), of Santa Fe, and founder in the field of personnel economics. hiking and mountain climbing in Switzerland and N.M., November 11, at 100. She raised her family

Pioneer Lesbian Columnist Normalized Queer Life

Blazing a trail with wit and empathy, Deb Price Price, the daughter of an Episcopal priest, Column Comes Out. Her inaugural column, let readers into her life and neutralized homo- began her journalism career at the Northern Price recalled, “described how awkward it was phobia with candid accounts of quotidian con- Virginia Sun and the Washington Post before for me to try to introduce the woman I love to cerns she shared in weekly columns. joining the Detroit News, where, in 1992, she my boss because no universal language exists Deborah Jane Price, ’81, MA ’81, died pitched what would become the first column to describe gay couples.” So she solicited sug- November 20 in Hong Kong of an autoimmune on LGBTQ+ issues to be nationally syndicated gestions, and readers responded: One pro- lung disorder, according to her wife and sole in mainstream newspapers. posed “lovemate” while another offered survivor, Joyce Murdoch. She was 62. Her move was bold and her timing oppor- “partner in perversity.” tune, as the AIDS epidemic had frightened She discounted the barbs. “I think it’s really straight America and focused negative public important for me to remember,” she told the attention on gay men’s lives. She would write Associated Press in 1992, “that if there weren’t more than 900 columns over 18 years before hostility and if there weren’t misunderstand- accepting a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, ings about gay people, there would be no where she studied Chinese history and politics. point in doing this column.” After her fellowship, she became the Southeast “It’s hard to overestimate how significant Asia editor of the Wall Street Journal, and, this was,” tweeted Joshua Benton, founder of most recently, she worked for the South China Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, after Price’s Morning Post, based in Hong Kong. death. “Most Americans in 1992 said they Price’s columns were intended as a spir- didn’t know a single gay person. Then sud- ited and good-natured corrective to disap- denly there was Deb on the breakfast table, proving stereotypes. She visited a gay rodeo, next to the sports section.” referenced Bugs Bunny’s flirtations with Elmer Her work was groundbreaking, both for its Fudd in noting the rise of gay studies, and subject matter and its reach. “She was not skewered sodomy laws and the ban on gay singing to the choir,” Murdoch told the Detroit service members. News. “She was singing to people who had “I chose a very personal style, inviting not heard a voice like hers before. She was readers into my home life,” she wrote in the making a difference slowly, week by week, in introduction to her 1995 collection of columns, how they saw things.” And Say Hi to Joyce: America’s First Gay —John Roemer RICHARD A. BLOOM/NATIONAL JOURNAL RICHARD A. BLOOM/NATIONAL

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in Palo Alto and, after relocating to Santa Fe, lung cancer. As a media buyer and director, she Binswanger’s disease. He was a member of the worked for the U. of New Mexico Medical Center, handled a number of leading accounts, from marching band and ROTC. He served as a pilot state department of health and St. John’s Col- Gumps and Squaw Valley Lodge and Ski Area during World War II, training as a cryptographer lege. The Historical Society of New Mexico hon- to the Golden Gate Bridge Authority. In 1963, toward the end of the conflict. After starting his ored her for a book she wrote about her family’s she took a three-month tour of Asia and the career with IBM and Lockheed, he changed ranch at age 80. She was predeceased by her South Pacific. She served on the board of the course by earning an orthodontics degree from first husband, Lawrance Bell, ’42, MS ’50; sec- Green Street Cooperative for 22 years. She was UC San Francisco and opening a private practice ond husband, Richard Mallery; and son Alan Bell, also a lifelong fan of Stanford sports and an avid in Portland, Ore. He was a dedicated Rotarian ’65. Survivors: her children, Bruce Bell, ’71, and skier and tennis player. and loved history, animals, nature and music. Catherine Bell; two granddaughters; and one Mary C. Amadooni Tateosian, ’49, of Walnut Creek, Survivors: his wife, Joanne; daughters, Debby, great-grandson. Calif., December 7, at 94. She worked as a phle- Suzy and Carolyn; six grandchildren; and three Russell Byrne Bryan, ’43 (physics), of Belmont, botomist in San Mateo, Calif., and raised her family great-grandchildren. Calif., December 23, at 98, of COVID-19. He was in San Francisco and Walnut Creek. She held Marilyn May Dana Kennedy, ’51 (Romantic lan- a member of the soccer team and Phi Kappa Psi numerous roles at St. John Armenian Church and guages), of Kentfield, Calif., August 29, at 90. and served in the Navy during World War II. After served the Armenian community through the She captained the swim team. In her charitable earning his PhD at Harvard, he taught at Dartmouth, Daughters of Vartan Lodge. She also volunteered work, she supported the Tamalpais Guild of Cambridge and UC Berkeley. He was an avid at John Muir Hospital. She was predeceased by Sunny Hills, Florence Crittenton Auxiliary, Marin hiker and reader and twice ran for Congress in her husband of nearly 65 years, Charles. Survivors: Art and Garden Center, Marin Charitable and St. California’s 10th District. Survivors: his daughters, her children, David, Cathy and Lisa; and grandson. Vincent’s Dining Room. She was predeceased by Nicole Byrd, Katherine Larson and Jacqueline her husband of 58 years, Jack, and daughters Wender, ’78; four grandchildren; three great- 1950s Kathy and Frances. Survivors: her children Dana grandchildren; and brother Greyson, ’41. Wiley North Caldwell Jr., ’50 (mechanical engi- Kimsey, Brian and John; four grandchildren; and June Ellis Catron, ’44 (sociology), of Santa Fe, neering), of Evanston, Ill., December 29, at 93. great-granddaughter. N.M., October 12, at 97. She was a member of He was a member of Zeta Psi. After a Harvard Albert Allen “Bud” Warner, ’51 (social science/ Delta Delta Delta and Cap and Gown. She met her MBA, he founded Poroloy Equipment, a devel- social thought), of Fresno, Calif., December 24, at future husband on their first day of freshman Eng- oper of materials for the aerospace industry. He 92. He was a member of Chi Psi and the baseball lish. Her volunteer work supported Junior Welfare, was later president of Midwest American Dental team. He was the fourth generation in his family the Museum of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Opera Supply and W. W. Grainger. He traveled widely to to operate the Warner Company, a jewelry busi- and environmental causes. She was predeceased places from the equator to the North Pole. He ness that first opened in 1867. He was a Rotary by her husband of 74 years, Tom, ’44, JD ’50, and was predeceased by his son Charles. Survivors: Paul Harris Fellow and served on the Fresno son Stephen. Survivors: her children Fletcher, ’69, his wife, Joanne (Humphrey, ’50); children Dave, grand jury. He was also a skilled fisherman and and Peggy; four grandchildren, including Thomas Wendy Caldwell von Oech, ’76, and Tom; six masterful card player. He was predeceased by F. Catron, ’99; and two great-grandsons. grandchildren, including Athena von Oech, ’03; his wife, Margie. Survivors: his daughters, Nancy Joan Penberthy LaMontagne, ’45 (biological sci- and seven great-grandchildren. Warner McPhaul, ’78, MA ’79, and Katie Blanchard; ences), of Newport Beach, Calif., November 18, at Ogden Jay Lamont Jr., ’50 (mechanical engineer- four grandchildren, including Angela McPhaul, ’10; 97. She was a member of Alpha Phi. She declined ing), of Belmont, Calif, December 28, at 91. He and four great-grandchildren. admission to Stanford Medical School in order to served in the Navy during the Korean War and in James Grafton Brown, ’52 (biological sciences), marry, but she went on to earn her PhD in psy- the naval reserve until 1989. He worked at sev- MA ’55 (education), of Millbrae, Calif., November chology in 1987. She taught and wrote articles in eral aerospace companies and enjoyed hunting, 7, at 90. He began his career as a biology teacher her field and enjoyed sailing and playing the fishing and working in his home machine shop. in the San Francisco School District before assum- piano. She was predeceased by her husband, He was a dedicated Boy Scout leader and was ing administrative roles, including serving as prin- John, and son Stephen. Survivors: her children, awarded the Silver Beaver for his service. He was cipal of Woodrow Wilson High School. He was John, Anne and David; seven grandchildren; and proud of his Scottish heritage and served as pres- also a member of the Presidio Golf Club of San three great-grandchildren. ident of Clan Lamont. Francisco and a lifelong supporter of Stanford Clement S. Woods Jr., ’45 (general engineering), Walter Crocker Lundin Jr., ’50 (English), of Palo football and basketball. Survivors: his wife of 65 of Reno, Nev., May 2, at 97. He was a member of Alto, December 25, at 97. He served in the Army years, Toni; and daughter, Sandra Brown. Zeta Psi and the football team and served in the during World War II and the Korean War. In civil- Joan Wildey Marshall Inman, ’53 (social science/ Navy during World War II. He worked on commer- ian life, he was an office manager for Southern social thought), of Santa Rosa, Calif., June 10, at cial and industrial projects as a partner at Hess, Pacific. He loved taking his family to Pinecrest 88. She earned her master’s degree in social Greiner and Polland. He later founded an energy Lake, worshipping at Our Lady of the Rosary work at the U. of Colorado Denver, then worked analysis consulting firm, where he worked until Church and helping the less fortunate. He was in state social services in San Francisco. She later age 97. He was predeceased by his wife of 62 predeceased by his wife, Alice (Ferrera, ’51), and ran a bed and breakfast and pursued interests in years, Tracy (Price, ’45). Survivors: his sons, Rocky son Christopher. Survivors: his children, Walter, Rosen Method bodywork, opera and Jungian and Robert; and three grandchildren. Mark, Kathy and Alison; six grandchildren; and psychology. She was predeceased by her former Barbara Brooke Hultgren, ’46 (education), of six great-grandchildren. husband, Robert, ’52. Survivors: her sons, Michael Palo Alto, July 8, at 95. She taught elementary Howard Jesse Miller, ’50 (political science), of and Jeff. school on the Peninsula before starting a family in San Francisco, January 20, at 92. He was a San James Edward Monson, ’53, MS ’55, PhD ’61 (elec- Mill Valley, Calif. Her family moved to the Stanford Francisco native and a proud member of Boy trical engineering), of Point Reyes Station, Calif., campus in 1959. She was a highly ranked senior Scout Troop 17. Survivors: his wife of 62 years, January 1, at 86, of heart disease. He was a member tennis player, competing nationally for three Eleanor; daughters, Jeanne and Susan; and of Kappa Alpha. He and his colleagues created the decades and winning multiple singles and dou- three grandchildren. engineering curriculum at Harvey Mudd College, bles titles. She was predeceased by her husband, Kenneth D. Gardner Jr., ’51 (basic medical sci- where he taught for 35 years. In retirement, he Herb, ’39, MD ’43. Survivors: her sons, Peter ’81, ences), MD ’55, of Genoa, Nev., November 16, at enjoyed exploring the natural beauty of Point Bruce and John; grandson; and brother, John, ’55. 91. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Reyes, tutoring at Tomales High School and serving Charles Winthrop Metcalf Jr., ’48 (economics), MBA basketball team. After his internship and residency on community boards. Survivors: his wife of 65 ’50, of Elk Grove, Calif., December 2, at 97. He was at the U. of Pennsylvania, he returned to teach at years, Julie (Conzelman, ’56); children, John, Jamie, on the golf team. He put his education on hold to Stanford and conduct research in nephrology. ’78, and Jennifer; and four grandchildren. serve in the Army during World War II. After earning He was awarded the first Henry J. Kaiser Award Thomas Joseph Atchison, ’54 (psychology), of his MBA, he established his own accounting firm for excellence in teaching. He later helped estab- Chula Vista, Calif., December 5, at 88. He was a and worked as a CPA. He was predeceased by his lish the medical school at the U. of Hawaii. He was member of Delta Upsilon and the tennis team. first wife, Barbara (Ross, ’48). Survivors: his children, predeceased by his daughter Larraine Hawes. A sophomore class on industrial psychology led David, Susan, Sharon and Melissa; 12 grandchildren; Survivors: his wife of 66 years, Dorothy (Rowe, to an MBA from UCLA, PhD from the U. of Wash- and 12 great-grandchildren. ’53); and daughters Karen, Cathy and Hillary. ington and 27 years as professor of manage- Bernice Helen “Breazy” Rosenthal, ’48 (political Dean Edward Holman, ’51 (economics), MBA ment at San Diego State. He was predeceased science), of San Francisco, January 9, at 93, of ’52, of Atherton, Calif., December 17, at 93, of by his first wife, of 41 years, Elizabeth (Pierce, ’54),

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and second wife, Frances. Survivors: his chil- husband of 58 years, Linn, MS ’61, PhD ’65; sons, Anthonie Maarten Voogd, ’59 (political science), dren, Michael, Marie Edwards, Steve and Pat- David and James; three grandchildren; and sister, of Ojai, Calif., December 5, at 83. He served in rick; 15 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; Ann Trammel Porkolab, ’62, MA ’64. the Navy. After earning his JD at UC Hastings, he and sister. Coy Edmond Swanson, ’57 (biological sciences), became a partner at Lawler, Felix & Hall, taught Edwin Stanley “Ted” Tanner, ’54 (political sci- of Fair Oaks, Calif., September 24. He earned his at Southwestern Law School and was general ence), MBA ’58, of Menlo Park, Calif., December MD at UC San Francisco and worked in child and counsel for KTI. He was predeceased by his wife, 24, at 88. He was a member of the football and adolescent psychiatry for nearly 40 years in the Dorothy (Heffner, ’61). Survivors: his son, Don. rugby teams, Delta Tau Delta and ROTC. After Air Sacramento area. Survivors: his children, Kitrena Force service, he was an agent-owner with LDM and Christopher; stepsons, Michael, Tim and 1960s United. He was also a Boys & Girls Club and Chris; and four grandchildren. Kenneth Gordon Anderson, ’60 (electrical engi- Guardsmen leader. He was predeceased by his Grazia Blaettler Bittner, ’58 (history), of Batavia, Ill., neering), of Greenbank, Wash., December 17, 2019, wife of 30 years, Marie Jo, and son Russell. Survi- April 28, 2020, at 83, of COVID-19 and Lewy body at 81. He was a member of the crew team and vors: his wife of 32 years, Ginger; children, Mary, dementia. She earned a master’s degree at North- Theta Delta Chi. He earned his MBA at Harvard ’81, John, ’82, and Richard; stepdaughters, Laura ern Illinois U. She taught Spanish and English at and held management positions at Pacific Bell and Genevieve; and seven grandchildren, includ- Chicago area community colleges, performed as a and AT&T. In 2000, he built his dream home on ing Molly Donner, ’13. musician, led music and educational tours to Eng- Whidbey Island, Wash., where he enjoyed hours Margot Anne English Lippert, ’56 (history), MA land, Russia and Estonia, and promoted numerous of sailing and helped found the South Whidbey ’57 (education), of Menlo Park, Calif., September community institutions and organizations. She was Yacht Club. Survivors: his wife of 22 years, Lynda; 30, at 86. She taught kindergarten at Phillips predeceased by her husband, Edward; former sons, Kent and Nick; stepchildren, Tim Bradley, Brooks School. She also served her community husband, Jerome Chambless, ’58; and son Jay Tammy Gordon and Kacy Proctor; 19 grandchil- as a volunteer for the Allied Arts Shop and a Chambless. Survivors: her sons Forrest Chambless, dren; and six great-grandchildren. docent at Filoli, but the service she loved most Theodore, Thomas and Christopher. Roger Nils Folsom, ’60 (history), of Monterey, was to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She Louis Michael Guerrieri, ’58 (social science/social Calif., October 7, at 82. He served in the naval was predeceased by her husband of 61 years, thought), JD ’71, of San Carlos, Calif., November reserve, taught high school and, after completing John, and daughter Alison. Survivors: her children 12, at 93. He served 23 years as a Navy fighter a PhD in economics from Claremont, taught at Paul, Lisa and Timothy; and eight grandchildren. pilot. He practiced business law in San Carlos. San José State for 17 years. He also taught at the Silas F. Morrison, ’56 (French), of Eureka, Calif., He had a lifelong love for the science of flight, Naval Postgraduate School and enjoyed piloting May 1, 2020, at 90. He was on the crew team. aircraft and space exploration and was a devoted small aircraft. Survivors: his wife of 61 years, Ann; He gained licensure as a CPA and practiced in builder and flier of model airplanes. He was pre- and daughter, Heather. Eureka, Calif., until 2011. He was a charter mem- deceased by his daughter, Diana. Survivors: his Neil Thomas Laughlin, ’60, MA ’65 (education), ber of North Coast Kiwanis. He also served as partner, Mary Flynn; children Renee Whitener, EdD ’72, of San Francisco, September 25, at 82. president of the Council on Developmental Dis- Sarah Lane and Michael; grandchildren; and He was a member of the football and rugby abilities and helped establish and guide the great-grandchildren. teams and Phi Delta Theta. His teaching and Redwood Coast Regional Center. He was prede- Richard Carlyle Wolf , ’58 (economics), of New coaching career began at the high school level ceased by his wife of more than 50 years, Joyce, York City, November 27, at 83, of cardiac arrest. and continued for 47 years at the U. of San Fran- and son Silas Marc. Survivors: his son Norman; After serving in the Navy, he earned his MA from cisco. His research focused on the physical and granddaughter; and brothers, James, ’55, JD ’60, UC Berkeley and MBA from Columbia. His banking mental aspects of sport. He was also a fifth- and John, ’57. career took him to San Francisco, London, Paris degree black belt in Judo. Survivors: his wife of Valerie Frances Weiss Newman, ’56 (interna- and New York. In retirement, he built a collection 57 years, Maryann; sons, Sean and Jimmy; and tional relations), of Los Altos, December 16, at 86. of 5,000 rare and antiquarian books. He was a two grandsons. She educated young people as a high school dedicated fan of Stanford football. Survivors: his Raymond R. Wolters, ’60 (history), of Naples, Fla., teacher and through volunteer work at a local wife of 53 years, Eva; daughter, Caroline Wolf December 1, at 82. He earned his PhD in history elementary school, as a visiting English teacher in Naralasetty, ’97; grandson; and two brothers. from UC Berkeley and taught at the U. of Delaware Poland and through the National Charity League John Paul Basye, ’59, of Burlingame, Calif., Sep- for 49 years. He wrote a biography of W.E.B. and Episcopal Church. She was predeceased by tember 18, at 82. He studied agricultural engineer- DuBois and seven books on U.S. race relations, her husband, Ronald, ’55. Survivors: her daugh- ing at Stanford, Texas A&M and the U. of Illinois, supported by grants from the American Council of ters, Pamela, ’85, and Ashley McCole; grandson; taught math, sold lumber, worked as a craftsman Learned Societies, U.S. Department of Education and sister. and remodeling contractor, developed an innova- and other institutions. His critique of forced inte- Grover William “Bill” Bedeau Jr., ’57, of Portland, tive textile printing method and launched a cloth- gration measures and the failure of school reforms Ore., January 8, at 85, of Alzheimer’s and COVID- ing business. He was predeceased by his wife, to address what he saw as intractable racial gaps 19. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Barbara Hewitt. Survivors: his children, Rachael, in academic achievement made him a figure of He earned his MD from George Washington U., Dale and Rebecca; stepchildren, Karen Hewitt, controversy. Survivors: his wife of 58 years, Mary; served in the Army Medical Corps in Germany Leigh Killgore, Lynn Hewitt and Carol Hewitt; and sons, Jeff, Kevin and Tom; and four grandchildren. and practiced as a surgeon in Sacramento and in three grandchildren. Jean Bartlett Gould Bryant, ’61 (history), MA ’62 the Black Hills of South Dakota. He loved hiking, Myra Ruth Enkelis, ’59 (social science/social (education), PhD ’73 (history), of Tallahassee, Fla., skiing, and caring for dogs and horses. Survivors: thought), of Mountain View, December 27, at 83, December 28, at 81. She was a member of Cap his wife of 60 years, Karen; children, Michael, of cancer. As director of medical records at New and Gown. She taught at Florida State U., where Deanna Nelson and Deborah Murnane; four York Presbyterian Hospital, she pioneered the she founded and directed the women’s studies grandchildren; and sister, Deanna Bedeau use of computers and trained professionals program. She was also active in Zonta Interna- Pritchard, ’59. across the country to do the same. She volun- tional, a women’s service and advocacy organiza- Allan Joseph Hill, ’57 (electrical engineering), of teered at local schools helping students learn to tion. Survivors: her husband of 37 years, Jerry; Lakewood, Colo., November 9, at 84. He earned read and appreciate music and also enjoyed trav- son, Steven Hales; and brothers, Dick Gould, ’59, an MBA from USC and spent his career in the eling extensively. MA ’60, and Bob Gould, ’63. aerospace industry in Southern California. He was George David Vendelin, ’59, MS ’61, Engr. ’63 Michael William Erlin, ’61 (political science), of predeceased by his former wife, Agnes, and son, (electrical engineering), of Saratoga, Calif., Decem- Palo Alto, December 17, at 81, of COPD. He was a Kevin. Survivors: two grandchildren; and two sis- ber 9, at 82. He worked in microwave engineering member of Theta Chi. He worked in insurance for ters, including Carol Hill Sox, ’61, Engr. ’90. for Texas Instruments, Signetics, Varian, Dexcel, more than 30 years, ultimately founding his own Marjorie Lynn Trammel Mollenauer, ’57, MA ’59 Eaton and Avantek. He was an IEEE fellow, wrote brokerage. In retirement, he moved to a remote (music), of Colts Neck, N.J., December 7, at 84, of two books in his field and taught at Santa Clara U., ranch in New Mexico to care for llamas, rabbits, pneumonia and heart failure. She played harp in San José State and UC Berkeley Extension. He was horses and dogs. He was also a Cardinal Club the orchestra. She continued as a concert harpist, a visiting professor at Stanford and at universities member and reunion chair and co-chair. Survi- including a performance at Carnegie Hall with the in Portugal and Taiwan. Survivors: his wife of 60 vors: his wife, Claire; sons, Michael Jr. and Chris- New Jersey Chamber Orchestra, and taught harp years, Barbara; children, Michelle Arroyo, David, topher, ’89; and four grandchildren. and piano. She was also a gourmet cook, an avid Kristin Earney and Brian; eight grandchildren; and Barry Michael Riley, ’61, MA ’63 (history), of Ithaca, reader and a student of art history. Survivors: her two siblings. 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Alpha Sigma Phi and business manager for the Janine Burford Canan, ’64 (French), of Sonoma, and partner, Frederick Fitzmeyer. Survivors: her Daily. His career in international economic aid Calif., October 26, at 77. After graduate study at former husbands, Elliot Elson, PhD ’66, and Dan spanned nearly 50 years with USAID and the UC Berkeley, she earned her MD from New York Evett; and three sisters. World Bank and as a consultant. He conducted U. In addition to her private holistic psychiatry Robert William Kitto, ’64 (economics), of Kent, research for his 2017 book, The Political History practice, she was a widely published poet whose Wash., December 25, at 78, of cancer. He was a of American Food Aid, while a visiting scholar at work touched on gender, spirituality, nature and member of Theta Delta Chi. He earned his JD Stanford. Survivors: his wife of 52 years, Esther; art. She also translated the works of French, from the U. of Washington and practiced law for children, Malaika Riley Imani, ’93, MA ’93, and German and Indian poets. more than 50 years. He also served two terms on Brendan; and four grandsons. Constance McMillan Elson, ’64 (mathematics), of the Kent City Council and as the fire protection Richard Milferd Baker, ’63 (electrical engineer- Tucson, Ariz., November 15, at 78, of colon can- district commissioner. Survivors: his wife of 42 ing), of Waconia, Minn., December 7, at 79. During cer. She earned her PhD in mathematics from UC years, Lois; former wife, Cathy (Smith, ’64, MS the course of his career, he owned and operated San Diego and taught at Ithaca College for 30 ’66); stepchildren, Kirk Peters and Sue Peters; multiple businesses, including several restau- years. She later worked as a biostatistician at three grandchildren; and sister. rants. He was a dedicated supporter of youth Massachusetts General Hospital before setting Alan Vern Hager, ’65 (history), of Los Angeles, sports and served as regional commissioner of out to explore the West Indies by sailboat for five December 29, at 77, of Alzheimer’s disease. After the American Youth Soccer Organization. Survi- years. She also loved the wilderness lands of earning his JD from USC, he spent four decades vors: his wife of 41 years, Melinda; children, John, America. She was predeceased by her son, Peter, with the California Department of Justice. As a Jim, John Walker, Jennifer Prueter, Michelle Kelly, Stephanie Henry and Kim Kalkbrenner; 13 grand- children; and two great-granddaughters. Robert Graeme Cormack, ’63 (architecture), of Palo Alto, Calif., December 5, at 79, of prostate Breakout Literary Voice Mined cancer. He was a member of Theta Chi and the soccer team. After a Fulbright fellowship in India, the Cambodian-American Experience he earned his MBA from Harvard and spent his career in real estate management. He loved Writer and visual artist Anthony So moved building things for his family, from toys and furni- through the world breaking boundaries of ture to a house in Sea Ranch, Calif. He was pre- sexual and cultural identity—and insisting deceased by his wife, Ann (Miller, ’63). Survivors: that artistic expression itself not be confined. his daughters, Alison, ’88, MBA ’93, and Sara He believed aesthetic wonder shouldn’t be Cherry, ’91, MBA ’96; three grandchildren; and reserved for outlets like writing or painting, brother, James, ’59. but should extend to the everyday—“from Mary Katherine Kroeger Porter, ’63 (French), MA selecting the right ingredients for a sandwich ’64 (education), of Mystic, Conn., December 4, at to picking the most beautiful walk to class,” says 79, of COVID-19. She taught elementary school Alex Torres, ’17, So’s partner of seven years. and then raised her family and built a community Anthony Veasna So, ’14, a first-generation of friends wherever the Navy brought them. She Cambodian-American writer whose debut book expressed her creativity as a newspaper colum- will be published this summer, died on Decem- nist, florist and handicraft artisan. She was prede- ber 8 at his home in San Francisco. He was 28, ceased by her husband of 50 years, John, ’63, and the cause of death remains unknown. and son Paul. Survivors: her children, Philip, ’91, So was raised in Stockton, Calif., by Cam- and Sarah, ’96, MA ’97; and two grandchildren. bodian parents who survived the Khmer Rouge Arthur Ralph Tollefson, ’63, MA ’64 (music), DMA genocide. A self-described “grotesque par- ’68, of Okatie, S.C., July 24, at 78. He was an ody of the model minority,” he studied art and accomplished and widely decorated concert pia- English literature (after dabbling in computer nist. As an educator, he chaired the music depart- science) at Stanford, where he met Torres. ment at the U. of Maryland, U. of Arkansas and So pursued an MFA in fiction at Syracuse Northwestern and was dean emeritus of the U. of University as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, North Carolina Greensboro School of Music. He earning numerous honors, including a Lambda and his family found great joy in exploring the Literary Fellowship and a Joyce Carol Oates many wonders of the world together. Survivors: Award in Fiction. his wife of 53 years, Brenda; and son, Brian. He was celebrated as a brilliant, mordant Paula Sue Born Bertness, ’64 (psychology), of and compassionate voice whose work de- writes about Cambodian refugee parents oper- Lake Wildwood, Calif., November 11, at 78, of picted queer life and the Cambodian-American ating a family restaurant in California with the cancer. After working as a probation officer, she experience with depth and energy. So’s fic- help of their American-born teenagers. Tevy, earned her JD from UC Berkeley. She specialized tion was published in the New Yorker and one of the sisters, would “do something as in labor and intellectual property law as a partner n+1, while his comics appeared in Hobart simple as drink a glass of ice water, and her at Morrison Foerster and also taught at Santa and Nashville Review. His collection of short father, from across the room, would bellow, Clara U. and Stanford Law School. She was pre- stories, Afterparties, will be published by ‘There were no ice cubes in the genocide!’ ” deceased by her husband of 13 years, Charlie. Ecco in August. “The community he portrayed was incred- Survivors: her former husband, Sheridan Downey, While working on his own stories, So was ibly vital and vivid and alive, but he was still ’63; daughters, Julie Downey Giordano, ’88, and committed to helping others tell theirs—par- acknowledging what his community had gone Kristina Stroeve; four grandsons; and sister. ticularly first-generation students. He taught through,” says Helen Atsma, vice president Mary Elizabeth “Molly” Brant, ’64 (Latin Ameri- at Next Generation Scholars, the Urban and editorial director of Ecco. can studies), of San Francisco, October 12, at 77. School of San Francisco, Colgate University, So’s art promoted self-actualization while She earned a master’s degree in public adminis- and the Center for Empowering Refugees repudiating imposed limits. “Anthony wanted tration from the U. of Washington. In her career and Immigrants. to break down the boundaries of the social with the General Services Administration, she In So’s eyes, humor was the path through structures, the bureaucracy that we live in,” was responsible for construction of and improve- hardship. Even as his material grappled with says Torres. “He wanted to wake up every ments to federal buildings throughout the west- intergenerational trauma, it was infused with day and feel liberated.” ern United States. Fluent in four languages, she wit and an irreverent edge—a delicate needle So is survived by Torres; his parents, Ravy specialized in intergovernmental relations with to thread. In “The Three Women of Chuck’s and Sienghay; and his sister, Samantha Lamb. Mexico and Canada. She also served as presi- Donuts,” a story included in Afterparties, he —Carly Stern dent of the Metropolitan Club of San Francisco.

Survivors: her two sisters, including Chrissy, ’72. ’16 CHRIS SACKES,

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supervising deputy attorney general, he was a 1980s children, Denman Jr., Stephen and George; two legal expert on oil and gas regulation. He loved Debra Sue Nicholson, ’81 (economics), of Tahoe grandchildren; and former wife, Susan. traveling with his family and visiting the national City, Calif., September 27, at 61, when the plane parks of North America. Survivors: his wife of 48 she was piloting crashed. She was a member of EDUCATION years, Kathleen; children, Anne and Christopher, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Cap and Gown. She Henry Joseph “Hank” Moroski, MA ’51, of ’96; and two granddaughters. earned her JD from the U. of Virginia. After prac- Novato, Calif., December 20, at 95. He served in ticing tax law in San Francisco, she opened an the Navy during World War II. A basketball stand- 1970s estate planning practice in Tahoe City and also out, he turned down the NBA to pursue his mas- Charles Christopher “Kip” Thieriot, ’70 (com- served as a county court judge pro tem. She ter’s degree. His career as a teacher, coach and munication), of San Francisco, January 2, at 73, loved flying, travel, skiing and mountain biking. administrator spanned 38 years, including 21 of COVID-19. He was on the golf team. After Survivors: her sons, Bob and Will; mother, Marilyn; years as the founding principal of San Marin High earning his MBA from UC Berkeley, he held former husbands, John Ward and Pete Craig; and School. He was predeceased by his wife of 68 executive and directorial positions at the Chronicle two siblings. years, Jo Ann, and daughter Jan. Survivors: his Publishing Company. Following the company’s Darren Alan Thorneycroft, ’85 (communication), of children Marty, ’76, Mike, Kay and Mary; seven sale, he started a Maui vacation rental business. San Mateo, Calif., September 25, at 57. He was a grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. He was an avid golfer and world traveler and finance and fitness writer. He enjoyed cooking and Joseph Perault Hannon, MA ’68, of Chicago, also served on the boards of numerous profes- fine dining as well as the outdoors. He loved hiking August 9, 2019, at 86, of heart failure. He served sional, corporate and nonprofit institutions. Sur- in the Sierras, camping in the desert, body surfing at in the Marine Corps. After a PhD from the U. of vivors: his son, Charles; and brother, Richard, Torrey Pines and watching Stanford football games. Northern Colorado, he became assistant superin- MBA ’69. Survivors: his wife, Lila (Collins, ’88); children, tendent of Chicago Public Schools. Elected super- Steven Paul Elliott, ’71 (political science), of Reno, Claire and Colin; mother, Karen; and brother. intendent in 1975, he was a forceful advocate for Nev., January 5, at 72, of cancer. He was a mem- magnet schools during a time of budget crises. He ber of Alpha Delta Phi. He earned his JD from the 1990s later directed the Chicago Convention and Visitors U. of Denver. In Nevada, he worked at Echeverria Margaret Joan “Gogi” Hodder, ’90 (individually Bureau, the Illinois Export Development Authority and Osborne and was the Sparks city prosecutor designed), of Berkeley, January 16, at 52, of cancer. and the Illinois Trade Office. Survivors: his wife, and city attorney. He was elected district court She spent her career as a liability claims handler, Denise; daughter, Kelley; and granddaughter. judge in 1996 and served until 2013. He was an but her calling was nonprofit work. She co-founded Philip Robert Hidalgo, MA ’75, of Los Altos, avid golfer, active in numerous civic groups and the Mosaic Project to train community peacemak- December 24, at 68, of acute myeloid leukemia. visited the Mount Everest base camp in 2019. ers, helped incorporate Voices Lesbian A Cappella After an international career as a human resources Survivors: his wife, Mendy; sons, Ben, Derek and for Justice and served on its board for many executive, he undertook a second career with Nick Vander Poel; and four grandchildren. years, taught self-defense courses for women Stanford Travel Study. Survivors: his wife, Laureen; William James Moriarty, ’72 (history), of San and children and supported numerous other non- children, Danielle, Richard, Rocky and Buzz; two Francisco, September 29, at 70, of a heart attack. profits. Survivors: her wife of 16 years, Sheri granddaughters; and two siblings. He was a member of Theta Xi. He earned his JD Prud’homme; and children, Noah Prud’homme at Georgetown and began his legal career on and Nico Prud’homme. ENGINEERING Wall Street. After relocating, he practiced law in Christopher Demetri Horner, ’90, of Belmont, Walter E. Jaye, MS ’52 (electrical engineering), San Francisco for decades, where his principal Mass., December 28, at 52, of pancreatic cancer. of Menlo Park, November 9, at 95. He was a Holo- focus was litigation. Survivors: five siblings. He finished his degree at Harvard, then earned caust survivor who escaped a French internment Thomas Robert Gidwitz, ’75 (communication), of an MBA and MS from MIT and a JD from Boston camp, joined the Free French Army and was South Dartmouth, Mass., December 4, at 67, of College. He worked as an editor and program awarded the Legion d’Honneur for service in World leukemia. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. manager at Microsoft and as a consultant for War II. Following the launch of Sputnik, he tracked After a cinema degree from UCLA, he wrote film Corporate Executive Board before retiring to satellites and missiles with the Dish at SRI Interna- scripts, novels and short stories but was primarily focus on volunteer work. Survivors: his mother, tional and also worked on projects for various a science writer. He was on staff at Archeology Matina, and two siblings. intelligence agencies. Survivors: his wife, Diana; magazine, edited a publication for the Woods John Santos “Jack” Buchanan, ’91 (philosophy), children, Laurie and Eric; and granddaughter. Hole Oceanographic Institute and recently com- of Jackson Hole, Wyo., December 4, at 51, of car- Robert Ernest Melbourne, MS ’55 (civil engineer- pleted a book on Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano. diac arrest. He was a member of the crew team. ing), of Oceanside, Calif., December 24, at 91. An ardent conservationist, he gave his time to the He worked as an instructor for the National Out- He served in the Korean War. He worked on Dartmouth Resources Natural Trust and the Buz- door Leadership School and as a youth counselor major water and road infrastructure projects with zards Bay Coalition. Survivors: his wife, Gail; and in group homes. He loved skiing, hiking, rock Morrison-Knudsen, founded his own firm and three siblings, including James, ’68. climbing, backpacking, music and writing poetry. then worked at the San Diego County Water Mary Kim Hom, ’77 (biological sciences and Survivors: two siblings. Authority for 28 years. He later earned a PhD in Chinese), of Menlo Park, January 13, at 65. She Jehangeer Shiraz Sunderji, ’98 (biological sci- history from USC with a dissertation on military earned her MD at Albert Einstein College of Med- ences and psychology), of Los Angeles, January 2, civil engineering. He was predeceased by his icine and did her residency in OB-GYN at Mount at 44, while surfing. He spent five years in invest- wife, Jeanne. Survivors: his children, Steven, Ann Zion Hospital in San Francisco. After her third ment banking before shifting directions and apply- Farley, Maria Hayes and Louise Vance. child was born, she retired from medicine and ing to medical school. With an MD from USC, he Norman Manuel Abramson, PhD ’58 (electrical took on countless volunteer roles. She loved oil developed a specialty in psychiatry and opened a engineering), of San Francisco, December 1, at 88, painting and travel and became conversant in private practice that provided individualized care of cancer. While at the U. of Hawaii, he headed a Spanish, German and Swedish. Survivors: her guided by the latest advances in neuroscience group that developed ALOHAnet, which led to the husband of 35 years, Thomas Cooper, ’77, MS and his interests in art, yoga, Eastern medicine, first wireless packet network and whose tech- ’82; children, Andy Cooper, ’11, Emily Cooper, ’11, somatic healing and the surfer’s “flow” state. Survi- niques are still in use today. He held eight patents MS ’12, and Robert Cooper; mother, Pauline; and vors: his parents, Shiraz and Gulzar Sunderji; soul and was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell five siblings. mate, Ivy Pruss; and sister. Medal. He loved the ocean and he surfed regularly Richard Hammond Dohrmann, ’78 (American until age 60. He was predeceased by his daughter, studies), of Rockport, Maine, January 13, at 65, of BUSINESS Carin Wethington. Survivors: his wife, Joan, Gr. ’64; cancer. He was on the basketball team. He taught Denman Kittredge McNear, MBA ’50, of Bethesda, son, Mark; and three grandchildren. history and coached basketball at Gould Academy Md., January 5, at 95. He served in the Navy during Richard Charles Bailey, MS ’62 (electrical engi- in Maine and Deerfield Academy in Massachu- World War II. He spent his career with Southern neering), of Webster Groves, Mo., July 23, at 80, setts. As a lifelong learner, he pursued interests in Pacific and rose to become chairman and CEO. of a stroke. After Army service, he spent 27 years photography, painting, woodworking, videogra- In retirement, he enjoyed traveling to Scotland, the as an IBM systems engineer. He continued con- phy, history, politics and music. Survivors: his wife, Galapagos Islands, Canyonlands and Yosemite sulting for Alliance Systems in retirement. Survi- Debra (Demers, ’78); children, Anna McIver and national parks, Africa, Iceland, the Panama Canal vors: his wife of 55 years, Ruth; children, Michael, Benjamin; two grandchildren; and two siblings, and numerous other destinations. He was prede- Sara, Martha Doennig and Laura; seven grand- including Stephen, MBA ’68. ceased by his second wife, Barbara. Survivors: his children; and sister.

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Frank John Muratore, MS ’63 (civil engineering), She worked as a writer and editor for Sunset San Diego, he returned to the Bay Area. His cli- of Merced, Calif., December 24, at 86, of cancer. magazine, Northern California Cancer Center and ents ranged from individuals and start-ups to He served for 22 years as an Air Force civil engi- Cygnus Solutions. She loved traveling the country major corporations. In 2000, the Santa Clara neering officer in South Korea, the Philippines in the family’s small plane, public speaking, ball- County Bar Association named him Professional and Japan. He later worked for the city of Turlock, room dancing and worshipping at St. Matthias Lawyer of the Year. He also served on the board Calif., and Merced County. He served as president Catholic Church. She was predeceased by her and as president of the Law Foundation of Silicon of the local Italian Catholic Federation and Italo- husband of 45 years, Ron. Survivors: her son, Valley. Survivors: his wife of 40 years, Nancy; American Lodge and in multiple roles at St. Pat- Wayde; and four granddaughters. daughters, Lauren Byrne and Kimberly Bausback; rick’s Catholic Church. Survivors: his wife of 53 Philip William Perry, MA ’69, PhD ’76 (econom- and two grandchildren. years, Jeanette; children, John and Lisa; grandson; ics), of Orinda, Calif., December 21, at 80, of Par- and sister. kinson’s disease. He served in the Navy. After Otis Frederick “Fred” Forsyth, MS ’69 (opera- teaching at Occidental College and a visiting tions research), of Chapin, S.C., May 30, 2020, appointment at Stanford, he moved to Data Stanford Alumni Association at 85. He served in the Marine Corps. His profes- Resources as manager of the company’s deposi- Board of Directors sional career included work at SRI International, tory institutions practice. He ended his career the U.S. Navy Third Fleet, NASA’s Ames Research with a return to teaching in the graduate business Center and Moffett Federal Airfield. Survivors: his program at St. Mary’s College. Survivors: his wife Chair: Andrew Haden, ’00, San Diego wife, Betty; children, Tamara Johnson and Saun- of 58 years, Julie; children, Kristienne Rassiger Vice Chair: James Ambroise, ’92, Brooklyn, N.Y. dra Taylor; stepchildren, Allison Hays and Scott and Philip; eight grandchildren; and sister. Hays; and nine grandchildren. Matthew Henry Cusimano, MFA ’74 (art), of Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Constance Elizabeth “Connie” Sauer Clark, Mountain View, September 3, at 75, of septic President, Stanford Alumni Association: MS ’70 (operations research), of Whidbey Island, shock. He served in the Marine Corps. He taught Howard Wolf, ’80, Stanford Wash., May 17, 2019, at 72, of cancer. She took art at West Valley College, founded a design busi- advantage of her time at Stanford to explore San ness and worked for the city of Mountain View, Francisco and the West Coast, ski in the Sierras AT&T and Xynetics before working for 37 years Antonio Aguilar, ’18, San Francisco and march against the war in Vietnam. She worked in the family mortuary business. He enjoyed golf, for more than 30 years at Bell Labs in New Jer- building model airplanes and travel. Survivors: Martha Alvarez, ’08, MA ’09, Sacramento, Calif. sey, then retired to Whidbey Island, where she his wife of 16 years, Irina; stepdaughter, Viktoriya Ethan Aumann, MS ’04, PhD ’10, Washington, D.C. volunteered for Beach Watchers and other non- Ledina; stepmother, Margaret; and two siblings. Adam Bad Wound, MA ’05, MA ’06, Oakland profits. Survivors: her husband, Neal; son, Alan; Patrick L. N. Seyon, MA ’75 (political science), and five siblings. PhD ’77 (education), of Arlington, Mass., October Yvette Bowser, ’87, Los Angeles Barbara Jean Sinkula, MS ’88, PhD ’93 (civil engi- 13, at 82, of Parkinson’s disease. As vice presi- Jennifer Chou, ’00, MA ’01, JD ’05, Los Angeles neering), of White Rock, N.M., November 19, at 59, dent of the U. of Liberia, he survived imprison- Bob Cohn, ’85, Potomac, Md. of brain cancer. Her dissertation led to a book ment by Liberia’s military dictatorship and later on Chinese environmental policy. She worked at returned to lead the university as its president. Doug Cushing, ’67, Lake Oswego, Ore. Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1993 to He also held positions at Harvard, Northeastern Preston DuFauchard, ’78, Oakland 2018. She enjoyed playing the cello with the Los and Boston U. and was a professor and dean of Alamos Symphony Orchestra, beekeeping and liberal arts at Roxbury Community College. Survi- Sako Fisher, ’82, San Francisco travel. Survivors: her children, Darcy Turin and vors: his wife, Barbara; children, Marina, Lord and Ivan Fong, JD ’87, Minneapolis Karl; and sister. Letecia; six grandchildren; six great-grandchil- Celine Foster, ’21, Stanford Benjamin Phillip Kessel, MS ’11 (mechanical dren; and sister. engineering), of Somerville, Mass., September 20, Patricia Gumport, MA ’82, MA ’86, PhD ’87, at 34, in a climbing accident. He worked first as LAW Stanford a test engineer at CoolChip Technologies and then Gary Byron Fields, LLB ’59, of San Francisco, as a control systems engineer at Ivenix. He was October 18, at 86. After working as a prosecutor William Hagenah, ’66, Kenilworth, Ill. also a climbing teacher and expedition leader for the Justice Department, he entered private Jamie Halper, ’81, Pacific Palisades, Calif. with the MIT Outing Club and had climbed in practice with a focus on civil litigation. He was Maribel Hernandez, MD ’85, Penn Valley, Pa. Nepal, China, Thailand, Patagonia and Peru. dedicated to representing unpopular causes and Survivors: his mother, Irene; father, Paul Costello; victims of racial discrimination. He was also an David Hornik, ’90, Palo Alto and brother. avid golfer and downhill skier. Survivors: his Nelson Hsu, ’91, MS ’93, Dallas wife, Margo. HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES Wayman McCowan Robertson Jr., LLB ’61, of Bacardi Jackson, ’92, Miramar, Fla. Jane Fowler Wyman, MA ’60, PhD ’70 (English), Berkeley, November 14, at 87, of Alzheimer’s dis- Theresa Johnson, ’06, MS ’10, PhD ’15, of Menlo Park, September 20, at 85. She taught ease. He served in the Navy. He was a personal San Francisco at Stanford and Colby College and, after return- injury and civil rights attorney for the California ing to California, worked as a technical writer at attorney general and tried more than 50 cases. Tonia Karr, ’92, San Francisco Tandem Computers. She served on the San Mateo He was a passionate player of golf, bridge, back- Suleman Khan, MD candidate, Stanford County grand jury and supported numerous com- gammon and poker, and also enjoyed travel to Eddie Poplawski, ’81, MBA ’87, Bellevue, Wash. munity endeavours, including the Menlo Park Africa, Europe and South America. Survivors: his Library Foundation and Music@Menlo. Survivors: wife of 52 years, Pauline; children, Wayman III Nina Rodriguez, MS ’05, Washington, D.C. her son, Jedediah. and Dana Kriesel; grandson; and two siblings, Phil Satre, ’71, Reno, Nev. William Mortimer Carley Jr., Gr. ’65 (political sci- including Carl, ’58, LLB ’64. ence), of Chatham, Mass., December 23, at 84, of Kelvin Lloyd “Kelly” Taylor, LLB ’66, of Medford, Andrei Stamatian, ’00, Bucharest, Romania small-cell carcinoma. He served in the Air Force. Ore., December 11, at 80. He worked for the Califor- Jonathan Steuer, MA ’92, PhD ’95, New York In a 40-year career with the Wall Street Journal, nia attorney general and in private practice before Lolita Sy, ’83, Makati City, Philippines he wrote about medicine, science, terrorism, shifting to writing and editing law books with Ban- espionage and many other topics for the San croft-Whitney. He enjoyed sports, especially base- Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Stanford Francisco, New York, and Boston bureaus and ball, and was an avid supporter of the Southern Fernando Trevino, ’92, San Antonio as a correspondent in London. In retirement on Oregon theater community. He was predeceased Cape Cod, he enjoyed bicycling and swimming. by his first wife, Judith. Survivors: his wife, Sandye; Matthew Tsang, ’01, Minneapolis Survivors: his wife, Jeanne; children, William, sons, Todd and Erik; stepchildren, John Rossello, Connie Wang, MA ’05, Mountain View Cathlyn Carley-Sobacic and Jeanne Revell; five Robert Rossello and Jennifer Andrews; eight grand- Kelsei Wharton, ’12, Washington, D.C. grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren. children; and great-grandchild. Jacqueline Rose Carter Walker, MA ’68 (commu- Norman Jeffrey Blears, JD ’80, of Atherton, Calif., Bess Yount, ’09, MA ’10, San Francisco nication), of San Carlos, Calif., October 5, at 82. November 7, at 65, of cancer. After clerking in

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STANFORD 63 Postscript ALISON CORMACK

One Last Time The day Campus Drive turned into Memory Lane.

DURING A ZOOM BREAK this past December, where I generously tipped the workers, as declaration that I wanted to major in English. I realized I had an hour or so between my he had taught me to do. On the left, his Theta Chi fraternity house, main task that day and an appointment down- As I turned onto Palm Drive, I thought where he built lifelong friendships with town. When it occurred to me that I should use of Dad arriving on campus in 1959, and my classmates who now live around the world. that time to drive around Stanford, a physical mother, and the many other generations of I reflected that we didn’t hear many stories wave of grief came over me, buckling my knees. students who had taken that same route. The about when he lived there, and then decided My main task was to pick up my father’s entrance to the Oval was closed, but I could that was probably just as well. ashes. I placed the heavy black velvet bag in see MemChu, where Dad had walked me down The driving was easy on the nearly empty the passenger seat of my car and, in tears, the aisle, concentrating so hard on not crying campus. A few more memories surfaced, and called Dad’s closest friends with an unusual that he didn’t hear the music of the trumpets at the next roundabout, I headed toward the offer—to stop by their house so they could playing in the loft. I began the long loop hospitals. The children’s hospital, now say goodbye. They hadn’t seen Dad in person around Campus Drive, past the eucalyptus rebuilt, where he’d given 29 roses to his first since the beginning of the year, and, like most groves, where my parents had tailgated with grandchild, born on the 29th day of the families who had suffered a loss in 2020, we their friends, enjoying the camaraderie more month. The main hospital, where his son-in- weren’t planning a service. than the football, and then the track, where law’s life was saved. And the cancer center, Wearing masks, his friends greeted me Dad had run as an undergrad. where he and my mother had both embodied solemnly in their front yard. After spending A little farther down, I noticed a new the word patient, enduring years of treat- a few reflective minutes with them, I headed underground garage where the Manzanita ments that ultimately failed. back to the car, which I realized was filthy. trailers used to sit. When my sister lived in I turned onto Palm Drive once more, the Every week, my father had washed all the Manzanita, Dad had insisted on replacing the circle complete. n cars parked in his driveway, whether or not gross carpet. Then there was Wilbur, where

they belonged to him. It was one of his ways each of us had spent our freshman year. A Alison Cormack, ’88, MBA ’93, is the CAMMON of taking care of us. On this day especially, Law School building has taken the place of daughter of Ann Miller Cormack and Robert driving around in a dirty car just didn’t feel Kresge Auditorium, where I took Econ 101, Graeme Cormack, both Class of ’63. She

right. So, I headed to a nearby car wash, Dad’s suggestion in response to my majored in history and economics. MICHELE M c

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