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30 The War Rooms How Stanford alumni and scholars are combating the pandemic. 32 This Is Not a Drill Fully one-third of the Bay Area’s county public health officers are alums. They’re in the fight of their—and our—lives.

38 Rapid Response Patients need testing and treatment. Society needs solutions. Stanford researchers have mobilized across disciplinary lines.

42 ‘Impossible Not to Love’ Students had an open invitation to bend Donald Kennedy’s ear—if they were willing to run the Dish at 6 a.m. A remembrance of the biologist, FDA commissioner, Science editor and avid campus birder who served as Stanford’s eighth president. 48 Some Reassembly Required What if you’re in the midst of living your life and realize something just doesn’t fit right? You can fix that, say leading thinkers who help adults reinvent themselves.

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15 24 26 Meet Amber Moore This Is How It Ends What’s Funny Now? Once upon a time, a young girl After 3.66 years on campus, The Late Late Show writer dreamed of seeing the world. Now, graduating senior Melina Walling Olivia Harewood, ’09, wants she’s a grad student whose research pines for just five more minutes. to make sure we don’t lose our on the placenta keeps taking her places. sense of humor.

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ALL RIGHT NOW Voices from virtual graduation 17 Next year at Stanford

18 It’s rods and cones! It’s fast-twitch To Roble, from your resident fellow muscle fibers! DEPARTMENTS 19 COVID-19 in infographics Quarantine videos with 4 Dialogue 20 The 1918 flu on campus Olympian Jessica Mendoza, ’02, MA ’03, 6 Editor’s Note: Wise words photographer Art Streiber, ’84, and 8 President’s Column: Toward equity magician Andrew Evans, MS ’13 10 1,000 Words: Black Lives Matter 54 Biblio File: Father and son 57 Farewells 63 Classifieds

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While your article covered important health and In reading the article’s “bite-size history” of environmental issues related to the impact of the hamburger, I was disappointed to see that beef consumption, there is another issue— Frances Moore Lappe’s 1971 Diet for a Small animal and human welfare. Feedlots regularly Planet had been overlooked. Published 30 confine livestock to areas with virtually no years before Fast Food Nation and nearly 50 space to move, meatpacking facilities require years before the popularity of Impossible employees to work under unsanitary and Burgers, Diet for a Small Planet stands as one stressful conditions, and communities and wild- of the most influential books on the subject @STANFORDALUMNI life near feedlots and meatpacking facilities are of beef, the environment, the human diet and often sickened by toxic runoff and air pollut- ending hunger on the planet. Help ants. Similar arguments can be made for the Laura DeVirgilio Owen, ’71 poultry, swine and dairy industries. I’m hopeful Pacific Palisades, California Us Hug that the growth in plant-based meat consump- tion will help wean us off our addiction to meat We won’t eat the bugs. We won’t live in the The May issue and create a healthier, more environmentally pods. We won’t join the hive. included a story on sustainable and more compassionate world. Andrei Popovici, ’95 eclectic inventor Akshay Steven Breyer, ’86 Saratoga, California Dinakar, ’19. Medina, Washington Now please, design a Let’s see. The typical burger shown on the A Farm Farewell lightweight outfit that will cover, which looks delicious, has lettuce, We remember Donald Kennedy, Stanford’s protect us against virus but tomato, cheese, pickle, onion, sesame bun eighth president, on page 42. allow us to hug. and, of course, special sauce—who cares if the other thing is beef, plant based, grass fed, lab I was a freshman taking Donald Kennedy’s Karen Shapiro, PhD ’81 grown or imaginary? I doubt if many people Introduction to Biology class. It was Big Game could tell what the patty is—or maybe even if Week. Kennedy was teaching something Great idea! I’m on it it is there, say, on a blind tasting! about how the cell burns energy, and on the (not even kidding)! As for me, I’d love the sandwich with or blackboard he calculated how many calories without “the beef”! would be required by a certain number of busy Akshay Dinakar Merritt Kimball, ’49, MA ’50, EdD ’65 paramecia. He wrote the solution with large

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4 JULY 2020 I was surprised to learn that Kennedy was longer stocked the part. He was disappointed, only 88 when he died. That means he was until I then pulled a spare out of my pocket. only 30 when he was my favorite prof. How Roger L. Kohn, MS ’65, PhD ’68 could one so young have known so much? Manhattan Beach, California Allyson Johnson, ’66 Los Altos, California I started reading the magazine but I was dis- tracted by the news of the virus and was only I enjoyed his human biology lectures, but as through with the first pages before I put it KENNEDY university president he miserably failed the down to read the rest later. I thought, I have humanities (those great currents of thoughts a lot of time to read it now that I am almost in history) in favor of the social sciences. And always home. then there was the indirect cost scandal, for STANFORDALUMNI which Kennedy—at the helm—was responsible. I will never forget the mentor- John Rosin, ’79 ship he provided to me at a San Francisco, California critical time. Joseph Castro, PhD ’98 Taking Things Apart DK was my undergraduate The May issue provided an article about the adviser, mentor, advocate and effects of young blood on old mice, a story friend. He stuck with me about a quarterly pop-up fix-it shop in Palo through thick and thin, two Alto, and an unanticipated opportunity to pregnancies and two degrees. make art. Cynthia Yock, ’97, MS ’99 Last night, though, I noticed my wife, who is Finally, an alumni magazine that recognizes a painter and visual art instructor, was cutting He was a treasure. “To the that Stanford alumni are more than sports and through some papers while sitting on the floor Class of 1982, and Julia.” rah-rah but an intelligent and thoughtful group of our living room. I was busy reading all the Beautiful beginning of our of people. Thought the articles on parabiosis articles constantly being sent to my phone so graduation speech, addressing and the café’s fix-it folks were quite good. Can I did not pay much attention. A couple of hours us and his daughter who was I recommend that you tap the faculty for arti- later, I noticed she had cut most of the pictures in our class. cles on topics of significance to us all but with off my Stanford pages and had made a col- Lisa Marabotto Rockwell, ’82 more depth? Can you handle the controversy lage. My first reaction was of despair, but when that might result? I saw the collage, I changed my mind. She had I keep a print of the commence- Roland M. Peracca Jr., ’59 seen things that had not even remotely ment speech he gave at my New York, New York crossed my mind. 1991 graduation. I am anxiously waiting for the next issue of Roger Kohne, MS ’91 I was amused by the article about the Repair Stanford. I will read it quickly this time before Café. I too hate to throw out what (used to be) she turns it into another collage. He may have had no idea the perfectly good appliances and devices, and Hamid Najafi, PhD ’83 lives he moved and if he did, it always have a home workbench full of disman- Los Altos Hills, California never inflated him. tled equipment. Jay Bachicha, ’77 My favorite repair story is of an old daisy- wheel electronic typewriter that, with an adapter, became my computer printer. When began to hiss. Kennedy stopped talking, its printout became too weak to read, I con- Dialogue Box looked out at us in surprise, and as more stu- tacted the manufacturer, who recommended a [email protected] dents began to hiss, turned back to the new motherboard. I discovered that a tiny syn- blackboard and carefully checked his equation thetic rubber bumper on the hammer that hit Stanford magazine Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center and his math. By this time, the whole audito- the characters was heating and softening with 326 Galvez Street rium was hissing like a convention of teakettles. use, and could be replaced for a few dollars. Stanford, CA 94305-6105 Kennedy was beside himself—the math was A few years later, a colleague had a problem Letters may be edited for length, right, the equation was right . . . suddenly, he with his old printer and asked for help. I dis- clarity and civility, and may appear got it. With an elaborate swipe of the eraser, mantled it and recognized the mechanism. I in print, online or both. he got rid of the offensive abbreviation and suggested he replace the rubber bumper, but

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STANFORD 5 Editor’s Note KATHY ZONANA, ’93, JD ’96 EXECUTIVE EDITOR Kevin Cool EDITOR Kathy Zonana, ’93, JD ’96 EDITOR, STANFORDMAG.ORG Summer Moore Batte, ’99 CREATIVE DIRECTOR Erin Sonnenschein

EDITORIAL SENIOR EDITOR Jill Patton, ’03, MA ’04 COPY CHIEF Jennifer Worrell SENIOR WRITERS Deni Ellis Béchard; Beginnings Melinda Sacks, ’74 PRODUCTION MANAGER Pam Gorelow CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Charity Ferreira; Jonathan Green; Nancy King, MA ’97 and Endings ENGAGEMENT EDITOR Dilys Ong INTERNS Andrew Tan, ’22; Melina Walling, ’20 And the words that move us to make change. CREATIVE ART DIRECTOR Giorgia Virgili ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Bambi Nicklen CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER Michele McCammon VIDEO PRODUCER Erin Attkisson IN APRIL, the man who welcomed me to should worry less about external bench- Stanford and the woman who welcomed me marks and more about how we wished to CLASS NOTES to the Law School died within a week of serve the world. She would, I think, be SENIOR MANAGER Lauren Jacobs Black, ’83 each other. proud of how the Stanford community is EDITOR Travis Kinsey I have many fond memories of Don coming together in this time of uncertainty EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jake Wellington Kennedy, but perhaps my favorite was the and crisis, from alumni making key public INTERNS Emily Wilder, ’20, Daniel Wu, ’21, Gilare Zada, ’22 time he popped in unannounced to the health decisions in the Bay Area (page 32) Office of the Dean of Humanities and to faculty working frantically to develop ADVERTISING Sciences, where I worked throughout my the tools we need to survive the pandemic ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS MANAGER Valerie Pippin, (650) 723-0460 undergraduate years. The administrative (page 38) to the English department holding IVY LEAGUE MAGAZINE NETWORK assistants all gasped in surprise. The unfail- dance parties over Zoom (page 19). DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Heather Wedlake, (617) 319-0995 ingly down-to-earth university president And there was no one better than Don smiled, shrugged and said, simply, “I needed Kennedy at sending graduates out into the STANFORD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION to talk to the dean!” Our tribute to him world ready to change it. The president who CHAIR, SAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Andrew Haden, ’00 appears on page 42. championed public service—the Haas VICE PRESIDENT FOR ALUMNI AFFAIRS I have equally fond memories of law Center is one of his many legacies—ended AND PRESIDENT, STANFORD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Howard E. Wolf, ’80 professor Barbara Babcock, who, even in the each of his commencement speeches with CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER Page Murray midst of medical leave for cancer treatment, the same quote from Adlai Stevenson: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: made sure she gave her traditional greeting “Your days are short here; this is the last of Development Services Frances C. 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CAPTION MeetingMoment the urgent imperativesinourcountryandworld. The universitycommunityisworkingtoaddress university can shape the world that emerges fromthesecrises.university canshapetheworldthatemerges andexploring howseeking solutionstothesechallenges the been our long-termrecovery, Stanfordfaculty, students andstaff have barriers tohealthaccessintheUnitedStates. Aswelookaheadto systemicdisproportionately harmedBlackpeopleduetoongoing, These events comeamidapandemicthathasupendeddailylifeand have erupted acrossthecountryfollowing Floyd. thedeathofGeorge MARC TESSIER-LAVIGNE President’s Column AS IWRITEINEARLY JUNE,widespreadprotests forracialjustice First, wehave reaffirmedourcommitmenttosupportingStanford’s Black community. Amongourinitialsteps, weannounced that theuniversity isestablishing aCommunity safety, especiallyamongstudents ofcolorandother Board onPublicSafety toaddressissuesinvolving foster agreater senseofphysical andpsychological are consistent with Stanford’s valuesandthat safety andqualityoflifeoncampus. TheBoard shared expectationsforpublicsafety policiesthat leadership andthechiefofpolicetodevelop will workwithcommunitymembers, university marginalized communities. our accelerator focusedonsocial At thesame time,theIDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equityand Access inaLearningEnvironAccess - as well.Stanford ImpactLabs, ment) initiative, created under ment) initiative, createdunder our Long-Range Vision,our Long-Range launched avirtualforumfor the campuscommunityto butions through research hold discussions aboutequity, hold inclusion andracialjustice. The IDEALteamisalsopro- viding guidance to equip our viding guidancetoequipour staff, andleaders managers strengthening ourcontri- to tackle these issues. to We arecommitted to

world thatissafer andmoreequitable forall. solutions tothese challenges, wehave theopportunitytocreate a equitable andjust institutions. By pursuinginnovative, long-term developing accessiblemodesofremote learning,andcreatingmore This isthetimetocommit workofresearchingnewtreatments, solutions tothehealth,economic andcivicproblemsthatweface. the world. ity solutionsthroughexternal partnershipsandscalethemfor for GlobalImpactinSustainability, which willadvancesustainabil- will infusesustainability intoeducation,andtheStanfordAccelerator with twonewstructures: aSustainability Neighborhood,which Stanford’s existing strengths inclimateandsustainability, along announced thatwewillbeformingaschoolbringstogether by aligningpeopleandresourcesmoreeffectively. InMay, we institutes, ithasbecomeclearthatwecanamplifyourcontributions climate andsustainability studies acrossStanford’s schoolsand Whilethere isworkunderwayterm threatfromclimatechange. in injustice, the long- wearealsofocusedonathirdmajorchallenge: address foodinsecurityandhousingduringthepandemic. including lendingevidence-basedsupporttohelpcommunities Impact Labsisalsosupportingseveral projectsrelatedtoCOVID-19, offer moreequitableremote education,now andinthefuture.Stanford experimentation withonlinelearningtodevelop newmodelsthatwill Vision,researchersareusingthisperiodofintense our Long-Range of the pandemic,aswell.UnderTransformingEducationinitiative tests, inourregion. andstudying thespreadofCOVID-19 potentially life-saving drugs, developing diagnostic andantibody vative Medicines Accelerator, Stanfordresearchersareexploring crisis: thecoronavirus pandemic.WithsupportfromStanford’s Inno- researchers continuetosearchforsolutionsourother current Stanford toaddresssystemic inequities. This isjust asmall sliceofthesignificantresearchunderway at the police-communitydivide,andchildhoodpoverty andinequality. problems, isfundingresearchintoissueslike pretrial incarceration, We have lived througha difficultspring,andtherearenoquick andracial As weaddressimmediateissuesrelatedtoCOVID-19 Our researchersarerespondingtoother socialissuescreatedby As wefocusourattention on improving racialjustice, our n

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Second Lives, Second Chances Summer Cowboy LET ME IN: A Japanese American FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: By Donald R. Laub, MD, chief of plastic surgery By Jo DeEds, ’59, MA ’61 Woman Crashes the Corporate Club Preserver of Spirit and Hope Stanford University School of Medicine 1968-1980 By Barbara Bennett Peterson, PhD, MA ’65 Arne’s home town of East Fork is a hub of equestrian 1976-1996 activity, diverse values, and conflicting expectations. By Elaine Koyama, ’76 Dr. Laub has been at the forefront of some of the An outstanding representative of the First Men, Working summers as a wrangler and guide for his most groundbreaking work that shaped plastic America’s Presidents book series published by Nova mentor’s high Sierra pack station, Arne finds From the moment Koyama was hired at agri-business surgery into what it is today. He was a pioneer in Science Publishers (see novapublishers.com and serenity in the mountains. But weather there can giant Cargill, Inc. she began fighting to wedge through gender change surgery, led humanitarian surgical click series; FDR book cost $45). The life and be dangerously unpredictable, testing Arne to his doors the women’s movement opened. As men and trips to developing countries, and helped children policies of FDR show us a way forward in this time limits as he undertakes a nearly impossible task in women examined and redefined their roles, Koyama, with devastating facial disfigurements. “It’s really of crisis through New Deal legislation and presidential the face of a treacherous early snowstorm. fresh out of Stanford, navigated farmyard sales calls, more of an educational book about plastic surgery leadership that is decisive and inclusive. and how my experiences in international work meetings at strip clubs, and a new life in the Midwest. helped shape the specialty,” says the author.

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WHO WE ARE Meet Amber Moore A reproductive immunologist follows her curiosity.

I’m fascinated by pregnancy. It’s beautiful and scary. It requires so many things to go right.” TONI BIRD TONI

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GROWING UP, AMBER MOORE DREAMED of seeing the world. So in middle school, she began storing money in a rain forest–print papier-mâché box she called the Amber’s Going to Africa Savings Fund. Raised in San Diego by a single mom who worked as an animal-care attendant, Moore loved animals early on, but it would be years before she’d envision herself as a scientist. Yet research would become her ticket around the globe. The first in her family to attend university, Moore says she probably used her middle school savings on a plane ticket to Bryn Mawr College, where she double-majored in anthropology and chemistry. But soon she was studying traditional medicine in Swaziland, HIV in Japan, and transplant immunology at the National AMBER GOES TO . . . : Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health From top, Thailand, in Maryland. Germany and Hong Now a Stanford doctoral student in immunology, Moore Kong. Left, Moore demonstrates how to investigates how challenges to the maternal immune isolate immune cells system affect development of the placenta; her hope is to from a placenta. reduce pregnancy complications. The finishing touches to her research are on hold because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. So in April, she stepped up to help analyze data in a makeshift lab at the Palo Alto Sheraton as part of the COVID-19 antibody testing in Santa Clara County. From an immunological perspective, I am interested in what distinguishes healthy pregnancies from those with complications. Pregnancy complications can be In high school, my favorite teacher told “attributed to genetic or endocrine abnormalities and me I could travel through science. At first, I infection, but many still remain [unexplained]. We didn’t know what he meant. Now, going to hope to tease out some of the immunology behind “conferences, I’ve been to Paris, Australia, [those] complications. Argentina. So I keep joking that the placenta has been taking me places. “Being raised by a black woman, you learn pretty early on how much harder you have to work. “To me, the placenta is a fascinating Dealing with racism, sexism, discrimination—it organ because it comes from the baby, takes a toll, because it doesn’t magically disap- and it’s there to be the all-in-one organ pear when you get on Stanford’s campus. One of for nine months. It establishes and the ways I respond is that I mentor. I try to show maintains the tolerance that needs to [other students of color] that I’m here, so you can occur between mom and baby in order be here, too, and give them the support and for the pregnancy to be successful. I like resources they need. to compare it to an organ transplant. You’re putting this foreign material in [a recipient’s] body, and it sometimes Day in and day out, when you’re [a biosciences rejects it, even though [the] body really student] pipetting one liquid into another, you can kind needs it to survive. When you’re of lose sight of why you’re doing this. But [helping with pregnant, you have this semiforeign COVID-19 antibody testing] is a prime example of why fetus growing inside of you, but your “ I’m studying immunology. This work helps serve this body doesn’t reject it. larger purpose and can have a global impact.” FROM LEFT: OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION; AMBER MOORE (3) EDUCATION; FOR GRADUATE OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FROM LEFT:

16 JULY 2020 All Right Now How Next Year Will Be Different The outline of a plan for 2020–21.

EACH AUTUMN, 7,000 undergrads and 9,400 graduate students begin a new academic year on the Farm. They sit elbow-to-elbow in lecture halls, hunch together over lab microscopes, sing in a cappella groups and go to parties. University life—especially the residential education central to the undergraduate experience—is not built for physical distancing. So as the university wrapped up a virtual spring quarter, its leaders focused on figuring out how to provide a Stanford education amid a pandemic that could be exacerbated by the very activities that make college formative. In a June 3 letter to students, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne outlined an initial plan for 2020–21, citing three main considerations: • A plan that can withstand an increase in COVID-19 cases • Physical distancing • Sufficient residential space for students to quarantine as needed

HOUSING All undergrads will have private sleeping more than 50 students—will be held online, other features of in-person teaching,” spaces, which will reduce undergrad housing both to serve remote students and because Tessier-Lavigne said, “such as small group capacity by about half. Stanford plans to bring Stanford lacks enough classrooms to pro- interactions, academic support and peer- undergraduates to campus in cohorts, desig- vide 6 feet of distance between each person. to-peer learning.” nated by class year or using another rubric, “We have a beautiful campus with spaces over a four-quarter year through summer that haven’t necessarily been used for formal THE 2020–21 BUDGET 2021. Absent special circumstances, under- classroom teaching,” says vice provost for The Board of Trustees, anticipating revenue grads will be on campus for two quarters— graduate education Stacey Bent, PhD ’92. $620 million less than pre-pandemic projec- including autumn for frosh and transfers and “A lot of creative thinking is going on.” tions and ongoing market volatility, approved spring for graduating seniors—and complete Critical in 2020–21 are continuing a return a 2020–21 budget that includes a 10 percent a third quarter remotely. to research and strengthening online learning, cut in payout from endowment funds (except Because graduate students live primarily administrators say. Graduate research is for those that support student financial aid, in apartment-style residences, their housing highly varied, ranging from computational to payout from which will increase 3 percent) will not be substantially altered. field to library and archival research, says as well as a rare withdrawal of up to $150 mil- Bent, who is co-chairing the Research Con- lion from unrestricted endowment. The TEACHING AND RESEARCH tinuity Policy Committee with vice provost trustees also approved a 9 percent overall Fall quarter will start one week early, on and dean of research Kathryn Moler, ’88, increase in financial aid spending, including September 14 (with possible exceptions PhD ’95. In his letter, Tessier-Lavigne funds to fully cover tuition for undergradu- for certain degree programs in business, emphasized that online teaching will evolve ates whose families earn less than $150,000 education, law and medicine), enabling beyond the springtime priority of ensuring per year (up from $125,000) and expanded classes to end and most undergraduates to that students could finish the year. Stanford support for doctoral students. depart before Thanksgiving. Finals will be has hired 50 grad-student teaching fellows As plans for 2020–21 continue to take held online the following week. to help faculty improve online courses. “We shape, Stanford will provide updates online

ANDREW BRODHEAD Many classes—especially those with are also looking at ways to better replicate and in print. n

STANFORD 17 All Right Now Superpowers, Diagnosed What it takes to breathe underwater, harness your inner nanobots or leap tall buildings in a single bound.

LET’S SAY YOU’RE A DASHING MILLIONAIRE with a masked-vigilante secret identity and you’ve compiled a super-nerdy dossier of your most powerful friends and enemies. You’d probably turn to someone like Stanford hospitalist Errol Ozdalga to help you explain to the public what makes them tick—as Batman (or, at least, his ordinary human publisher) did to help promote the superhero’s recent book, Anatomy of a Metahuman. Ozdalga, who revealed the results of his physical exams on YouTube, breaks down some superpowers for Stanford.

TOUGH STUFF Maybe Doomsday is invincible TECHNOPATHY SUPER-SPY SEEING because he’s got a hard outer You’d never need to program Superman, who can see what’s layer with a super amount of your Roomba again if you had happening on distant planets, keratin, the protein that makes up AI-powered nanobots coursing probably has way more cones in your skin, hair and nails. Dooms- through your veins like Justice the back of his eye than the day’s shell probably also contains League’s Cyborg. “These nanites average human, says Ozdalga. chitin, a structural polymer found connect with Cyborg’s cells, and Plus, he may be able to extend in the exoskeleton of the aptly not only are they functioning to the shape of his eyeball so that named ironclad beetle. improve his body at the molecular the light hits farther back, allowing level, they’re learning at the same him to focus on something time,” says Ozdalga. really far away.

AQUATIC BREATHING While air is 21 percent oxygen, water is only 1 percent. Lungs, SUPERSONIC SPEED unlike, say, the gills of a fish, Whether you’re a sprinter or a ’ROID RANGE can’t process enough water to marathoner depends on how many Supervillain Bane owes his superior oxygenate Aquaman. Most likely, fast-twitch vs. slow-twitch muscle strength and focus to injections of says Ozdalga, the king of Atlantis fibers you have. Speedy heroes like venom, which Ozdalga says is exchanges oxygen throughout Superman? More fast-twitch—“like, CAMMON (7) CAMMON probably a combination of anabolic his skin, like a bullfrog. a hundred times more,” Ozdalga steroids and the stimulant Ritalin. says. And you guessed it—those (Don’t try this at home.) fibers enable him to leap tall build- ings in a single bound. MICHELE M c

18 JULY 2020 All Right Now Best Practices in Pictures Science-savvy graphic designers show us what we need to know about COVID-19.

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN a failure to read the describing how to don personal protective fine print could mean the difference between equipment while minimizing contamina- life and death? To Ryan Brewster—third-year tion—or how to reuse disposable med student by day, graphic designer by masks—helps them do their jobs while safe- night—the solution is obvious. You harness guarding their health. And for patients, who the power of design to turn complicated and are often exposed to contradictory and con- Everybody constantly changing medical guidelines on fusing news sources, a straightforward COVID-19 into easy-to-understand info- explanation of practices like mask wearing Dance Now graphics. And you do it free of charge. and social distancing can lead to behavior Brewster is the founder of COVID Cre- changes that help protect their communi- How Zoom atives, a group of science-versed artists and ties. Both doctor and patient materials are became the English graphic designers (including two other designed with minimal text in order to department’s jam. Stanford medical students) who have reach a polyglot population. assembled, Avengers-style, to develop com- Brewster says that the high-stakes munications for health-care providers nature of the work makes it painstaking, They don’t remember what they around the world. Their posters, charts and but the COVID Creatives are fueled by their cooked. That was beside the other materials fall into two categories: clients’ gratitude. “The adage that a picture point. But Ato Quayson and provider-facing instructions and patient- is worth a thousand words couldn’t be more Grace Toleque do remember facing information. true here,” he says. “This is where design dancing to the Caribbean band For medical workers, an efficient visual matters most.” Kassav’ for two hours that Satur- summary of a 50-page document —Melina Walling, ’20 day night in March, first while chopping onions, then while din- ner got cold. Dance is the preferred form of exercise for Toleque, the program officer for Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. And she and husband Quayson, an English professor, love throwing parties. “So we’re chatting and saying what a shame it is that in this era of social distancing and lockdown, we can’t dance with our friends,” says Quayson. Which led Quayson to email his colleagues: Join us for dance CAMMON parties on Zoom. Leave video off if you prefer. Eight to 10 members of the English department join the virtual gatherings, three times a week at 8 a.m. Regulars include Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who says, “I always find that I work better after I dance that day.” FROM LEFT: COVID CREATIVES; MICHELE M c CREATIVES; COVID FROM LEFT:

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TIME CAPSULE What Happened Last Time During the 1918 flu epidemic, a dozen students died.

BY SAM SCOTT

VEN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC swept a wave of illness crashing across campus. “Just tonight the campus has suddenly across campus in the fall of 1918, More than 100 students, it said, were under blossomed forth in white gauze masks,” Hope Stanford was a place transformed. doctors’ care. Snedden, Class of 1922, wrote in a letter to eAmerica’s entry into World War I a year ear- Spanish influenza—the deadliest pandemic her father on October 24, as a university lier had set off a rush of student enlistment. of the 20th century—had come to Stanford. mandate kicked in. “And you can’t imagine Virtually all male undergrads who remained The disease had risen to military doctors’ the ludicrous appearance of a tall S.A.T.C. man did so as uniformed privates in the Student attention that spring at an Army base in sneaking into the library with one of them on, Army Training Corps, the U.S. War Depart- Kansas, but its true horror was about to with the look of a highwayman. And you can’t ment’s effort to harness colleges to the unleash in a second, more virulent wave. recognize your friends by their eyes.” nation’s fight. October would be its deadly peak, and Stan- The pandemic wasn’t Stanford’s first fight For Stanford’s new soldier-scholars, long ford would not be spared. against contagion. In 1903, a typhoid out- days were now bookended by the blare of the Few chapters in the university’s past are break that was traced to a local dairy killed trumpet: reveille at 6 a.m. and taps at 10 p.m., as alien to us now as the fall of 1918. The nine students. Professor Ray Lyman Wilbur, with precious little freedom in between. school’s about-face into a glorified boot camp Class of 1896, MA ’97, MD ’99, the campus “Fraternity life is smashed completely,” was so complete that schoolwork was openly physician, began rising at 4:30 a.m. to ensure lamented Charles Sullivan, a member of Delta sublimated to war preparation, and male stu- that no milk left the offending farm; a Tau Delta, who was struggling in his first week dents risked reprimand for something as shotgun was at the ready should anyone as a grunt. With Army boots yet to be issued, slight as not making their bed with their pil- doubt his seriousness. his feet were no match for double-time lowcase opening to the correct side. Women Fifteen years later, Wilbur was Stanford’s marches in dress shoes, he wrote his fiancée. had curfews tightened in response to the president, and guards were stopping people, Blisters were soon the least of his worries. presence of troops near campus. not milk. The Daily reported quarantines Hours after Sullivan penned his letter, his And yet, viewed now from our own time of between campus and Palo Alto, as well as Camp temperature spiked near 104, he fell out of plague, the era appears newly familiar, a kin- Fremont, the vast Army base that had sprouted ARCHIVES DAILY ranks, and he was stretchered from his bar- dred moment of social distancing, deep anxiety in the Foothills in preparation for the war. racks in Encina Hall. The next day—October mixed with devil-may-care attitudes, and, of Wilbur mandated nightly temperature

9, 1918—the Daily gave its first accounting of course, the awkwardness of life in face masks. checks for all students. Those measuring above STANFORD

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MY and at the understaffed base, where hundreds • We are the experts on home more influenza victims suffered. CY care. Our founding team has Then as now, not everyone took things so CMY authored three books on healthy longevity including The seriously. Early in October, the Daily quoted K Brain Boost and Happy to 102. a campus Navy official dismissing the wave of and implored her to disinfect her mask three illness as the common flu. And even as deaths times a day. • Our Client Care Managers began to mount, some people still found room Still, life then appears not to have been provide ongoing quality assurance and are available to joke. On October 16, the newspaper ran interrupted quite as much as ours now. Unable 24/7. adjacent front-page stories that could hardly to get leave to serve as Hansen’s pallbearer, have clashed more. One announced the death Sullivan seemed relieved. “Such things break • We are proud to be the of a second Stanford student due to the epi- me all up and leave me sick for a day,” he wrote. Caregiving Partner of Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s demic, the other feigned outrage that those Instead he ditched his uniform for corduroys, Movement. with the illness supposedly received better slipped past quarantine, and got a haircut in food. “If it is necessary to get the Spanish Palo Alto, still open for business. The same influenza before you can get a good chicken day, October 21, the Daily announced four dinner in the vicinity of the University, more student deaths. things have got to be changed, or else let’s get By early November, though, officials felt the influenza!” the worst had passed, and the campus mask Sullivan, Class of 1919, survived after requirement was lifted. On November 11, spending two nights packed in ice and a week celebrations broke out at the news of the convalescing at Camp Fremont. He returned armistice ending World War I. And by Call For A Free Consultation:

to campus to find junior Lorenz Hansen, a Thanksgiving, Big Game football returned, ARCHIVES DAILY dear fraternity brother, at death’s door, and an ending rugby’s 13-year reign as Stanford’s 650-268-4443 eerie hush in so many places he’d made joyous marquee sport. HomeCareAssistance.com memories. “I wonder if the place ever again To many, the plague had already been van- will resume a normal status,” he wrote. quished. “The attack of the epidemic was met Headquartered in San Francisco “Nothing like it has ever hit this university in like the attack of the foe,” the Stanford Illus- with offices across North America its entire history.” trated Review, the alumni publication, wrote He asked his fiancée to drape his fraternity in its November issue. “Keep cool; stand

pin with a black sash in mourning for Hansen ready; aim low; go about your duties!” 1920; STANFORD QUAD FROM TOP:

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Yet illness on campus continued, albeit in smaller numbers. The last recorded death was that of Henry Lewin Cannon, a 47-year-old associate professor of English history who succumbed on January 5, 1919. Thereafter, the term Spanish influenza mostly drops from the Daily’s archives. COMMUNITY A comprehensive list of victims is hard Luxury Retirement to come by. The Stanford Illustrated Review identifies 10 dead undergrads in an honor roll that November. The president’s annual report, published the following year, indi- cates 12 students died—10 men and two FOR VIRTUAL TOURS women—but leaves them unnamed. Besides Cannon, at least one other nonstudent member of the campus community died: Charlie Meyers, the longtime campus barber, cigar purveyor, lender of last SMITH RANCH MARKETING ASSOCIATES resort and much-sought student counsel. 400 Deer Valley Road | San Rafael, CA 415.491.4918 Visit SmithRanchHomes.com Fourteen dead, almost all of them www.SmithRanchHomes.com students. On its face, it’s a jarring total. Adjusted for the size of the student body, it’s shocking. Stanford then had 1,322 undergrads, less than one-fifth the Own your own property with privacy, luxury, space and comfort. present number. Rather than horror at the tally, there seems to have been a sense that Stanford got off lightly. “I think the influenza is on Smith Ranch-Stanford Ad June 5.indd 1 6/4/20 7:21 PM the wane here. There are only 109 S.A.T.C. INCREASE AFFECTION men in the hospital,” Snedden wrote near Created by the peak of the epidemic. “We have only Winnifred Cutler, Ph.D. had one girl & eight men die.” in biology from U. Perhaps in that pre-antibiotics era, Penn, post-doctoral work at Stanford. with war raging and accidents common Co-discovered human (another Daily headline that October pheromones in 1986 told of a young alumnus lost in a ship- Effective for 74% in two 8-week wreck), death was a more familiar pres- studies and 68% in ence. And certainly, the toll elsewhere a 3rd study. may have made Stanford’s seem small. PROVEN EFFECTIVE IN 3 Nearly 150 died at Camp Fremont, 3,000 DOUBLE-BLIND STUDIES in San Francisco, 675,000 in the United INCREASES YOUR States, and likely more than 50 million MONTEREY PENINSULA ATTRACTIVENES across the world. Vial of 1/6 oz. lasts 4-6 months REALTOR FOR 36 YEARS Unscented Athena 10X tm For Men $99.50 But each death was still an explosion Fragrance 10:13 tm For Women $98.50 of grief to those close to it. A week after Additives Cosmetics Free U.S. Shipping Hansen’s death, his only sibling, a sister, Vilia Kakis Gilles ♥ Jay (WA) “It took about a week for my wife to com- died too. A few months later, a brief pletely change her reaction to me. Where before she Class of ’77 was straining to be affectionate, now she is flirty and appeared on the front page of the Daily. loving like 30 years ago when we were first married.” % Hansen’s parents were appealing for the Top 1 Nationwide ♥ Karen (OH) 6-pak 10 orders total “I am using *NRT 2017 return of any of their son’s papers, final your 10:13 and it works! I saw clearly how my husband responded to me: nicer, mementos of a life ended far too soon. n more affection. I think it has made 831.760.7091 a real difference.” [email protected] Not in stores 610-827-2200 Sam Scott, formerly a senior writer at Stan- viliakakisgilles.com ford, is now based in Ann Arbor, Mich. Email Athenainstitute.com DRE:00883948 Athena Institute, 1211 Braefield Rd., Chester Spgs, PA 19425 STF him at [email protected].

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STUDENT VOICE This Is How It Ends Wrapping up senior year with a mix of nostalgia, grief and gratitude.

BY MELINA WALLING

HE NIGHT BEFORE I LEFT STANFORD, Others have described, perhaps better than paddling furiously I stayed up until 3 a.m. I was with I can, the process of grief that many college underneath to stay people I wanted to lose sleep for, but seniors have gone through this spring. To me, afloat—is real and damaging. having packed to be away for a few it has felt a lot like sleep deprivation—an But in order to make myself feel more tweeks, I thought it prudent to get at least a oscillation between numbness and longing, whole—to find the solace that feels like a good couple hours of shut-eye before my 8:30 flight. an emotional teeter-totter that leaves me in night’s sleep—I find myself returning to all the If I had known that would be my last day tears more often than I’d care to admit. fantastic things I did get to experience during as an undergrad on campus, I would have Now, in lockdown at home in Wayne, Pa., my 3.66 years. I learned how to use an audio kit pulled an all-nighter. I’m readjusting to my bed. I sleep more rest- and interviewed a cave diver, a muralist and an I love sleep. No matter the difficulties I face lessly than I did at school—chalk it up to entomologist. I photographed elephant seals in during the day, I find solace in wrapping myself missing my cushy mattress topper, which I Año Nuevo State Park. I ate pie at the pumpkin in warm blankets and closing my eyes. I sleep bought for my dorm room as a bewildered festival in Half Moon Bay. I introduced a show long and deep. Freshman year, when my room- young shopper, or to the endless stream of live on KZSU. I rock climbed for the first mate had a knee injury that woke her in the activities at Stanford, which left me absolutely time. I met a master falconer and held a red- middle of the night, she somehow managed to drained by the time my head hit the pillow tailed hawk. I spent the night inside Monterey wake me up so I could find our RA—but as soon each night. Bay Aquarium on a dorm trip. I spent a quarter as I did, I fell right back into a slumber so pow- This has left me with a lot of time to think. abroad in Italy; a three-week Overseas Seminar erful that I had to be informed in the morning I have mulled over seemingly insignificant in South Africa; and a summer in Arizona, that five paramedics had been in our room. details of Stanford life that I now miss so where I worked for the Bill Lane Center for the I’ve only stayed up all night once in my much—the collection of succulents on my American West. I played intramural volleyball life. It was for an 18-hour puzzle hunt windowsill, the carefully arranged postcards one quarter, badly. I attended master classes by freshman year, a contest between FloMo, and posters on my dorm wall. I have even award-winning authors Alice Walker and Neil where I lived, and Roble. Our team of five romanticized things I used to complain Gaiman. I drove over the Golden Gate Bridge. drove all over the Bay Area, finding clues about—the way the duct tape on my bike han- Looking back, it’s hard to believe I slept everywhere from the Taco Bell in Pacifica to dles used to leave my hands slightly sticky at all. the Pixar studio in Emeryville. after each ride, the taste of honeydew melon Along with my fellow members of the Class It struck me that night how lucky I was to mingled with leftover tomato sauce on a of 2020, I had a lot of dreams for my final be part of a community that made me yearn rushed plate in the dining hall. quarter. In my imagination, it is perfect: a for the power to eschew sleep entirely. Every- Memories like these remind me that whirlwind of classes, parties, late nights spent thing around me—the opportunities, events, nostalgia can be dangerous. Stanford was talking and hugging, with traditions and cere- classes and, most important, people—made not a perfect experience. I was not happy monies to tie it all up in a bow. me resent the very essential human activity there all the time, or even half the time. Perhaps the hardest part of leaving it that I cherished most. In reflecting on my undergraduate years, behind is realizing that all those days and I do not want to perpetuate the ideas that nights we spent staying awake, we were living a More on can make Stanford a difficult place to attend dream. And these extraordinary circumstances VIRTUAL COMMENCEMENT college. Duck Syndrome—the feeling that we woke us like a blaring alarm clock, a glass of

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severed from the world we had created for our- for the ways that our professors and adminis- enough to inhabit, and that I hope I will be selves, with no chance to say goodbye. trators have recognized how painful this able to return to someday. I have never been a morning person, but feels, communicated with us to learn about Most of all, I am grateful for this commu- this time, more than ever, I really wanted five our diverse circumstances, and made what- nity—this ambitious, unfailing, insomniac more minutes. ever adjustments they could. I am grateful community—for staying up with me. n Still, in replaying my memories—in step- for our dining hall staff, custodians, and ping back and realizing how much joy and maintenance crews who made it possible for Melina Walling, ’20, is an editorial intern at wonder I found in the time that I did have—I me to live my life the way that I have. I am Stanford. Email her at stanford.magazine@

KLAAS VERPLANCKE KLAAS find myself filled with gratitude. I am grateful grateful for the physical spaces I was lucky stanford.edu.

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SPOTLIGHT What’s Funny Now? Comedian Olivia Harewood takes on our ‘social insanities.’

BY MELINDA SACKS

URING HER FIRST WEEK of new hire than at the actual idea. trying to make people laugh work as a writer on The Late He told me, ‘Maybe less about amid a global pandemic. Late Show, Olivia Harewood the honeydew melon.’ ” In mid-March, instead of dstood in front of British actor and That sketch never made it to brainstorming and telling jokes comic James Corden, making her the stage: It was pitched to guest over bagels with her colleagues first pitch to the star of the CBS star Brad Pitt, but he declined in the writing room, Harewood talk show. The sketch she wrote to participate. began working from the Holly- would feature Corden as an Harewood grins and shrugs. wood apartment she shares with astronaut and a song about “To get that far on your second her husband, Sterling, and her dog, melon, sung to the tune of day? Not so bad.” Zuzu. She tailored her material “Nothing Compares 2 U” by The job at The Late Late for the show’s quarantine setting: Prince. Harewood changed the Show is a coup for Harewood, Corden’s garage. At times, she and lyrics to “Nothing compares to who has been writing jokes and her co-workers joined the show honeydew”—which cracked up perform­ing in comedy shows via Zoom to play a role in a sketch the other two writers in the room. since she graduated from Stan- or participate in a game. (For the “I didn’t know if I should sing ford. It is the kind of steady, #GettyMuseumChallenge, some the song or not, but I decided to big-studio creative work that of them dressed up as characters pretend to be comfortable and many comedians dream of but from classic paintings.) just go for it,” says Harewood, ’09. few realize. When she landed People often ask how come- “James chuckled, but probably the gig last summer, little did dians stay funny during sad more at the absurdity of me as a she know that she’d soon be times. Harewood believes it’s

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at our low points that comedy is most com- was a naked stick figure,” recalls Klein. “The a lot for corporate shows—because they are pelling and important. look on her face as she revealed it and saw terrible,” Harewood says, describing a giant “I was probably doing the densest period where she stood among her peers—her face ballroom setting with round tables where of stand-up shows of my career when there tapped into everyone’s insecurity.” It still everyone is talking over you. “I had to get was a mass shooting almost every day,” she makes Klein laugh. through it because you have to do your time, says. “The world is very weird. Sometimes in “I take on innocuous things that relate to but in the middle I was like, Oh, I am bombing. the midst of everyone feeling really shocked some widespread social insanity,” Harewood All these people are looking at me, and they and anxious, we are able to be strangely explains. “I find the things that fascinate or aren’t laughing. Then I was, like, in that present and really listen to each other. And moment, a little bit happy because I figured, maybe comedy provides some relief.” This is as bad as it will get.” From a young age, Harewood was obsessed Harewood soon joined the improv cast at with I Love Lucy and liked to “wild out,” enter- Upright Citizens Brigade on Sunset Boule- taining her family with jokes and full-on vard. She appeared on The Misadventures of productions of plays. Her little brother, John, Awkward Black Girl, written by and starring took on supporting roles. Their parents and Issa Rae, ’07, and then interviewed for another guests made up the audience. “We were very not-to-be-named late show before a female much indulged,” she admits. writer she knew recommended her to The Yet Harewood resisted the entertainment Late Late Show. industry after watching her parents endure “I was flabbergasted those first few days the constant stress of working in an unpre- that I got to just sit and write jokes,” says dictable field. Her father, Dorian, is an Harewood. “There wasn’t someone telling Emmy-nominated actor known for Roots: me to stop and go file. I’m still in shock that The Next Generations and Full Metal Jacket. ‘The world is very weird. I get to do this.” Her mother, Nancy, played roles in Star Trek: Then there is her other dream—to join the The Next Generation and Remington Steele. Sometimes in the midst ranks of just four women of color who have “Acting seemed terrible,” Harewood says. of everyone feeling hosted late-night shows of their own. “It always looked like a very unfair profes- really shocked and Actor Amin El Gamal, ’08, has watched sion. I thought, I’m going to be a doctor. anxious, we are able Harewood’s career since the two were I want authority over my life.” to be strangely present undergraduates together. “She is 100 per- When she got to Stanford and dove into and really listen to cent the person you want in your living her human biology classes, Harewood real- each other. And room,” he says. “She’s warm and funny, and ized medicine wasn’t the right choice. But maybe comedy she doesn’t assault you with the truth the in cultural anthropology—ultimately her provides some relief.’ way some comedians do. She has this major—she thrived. The door to performing endearing and smart presence, so she’s in a opened when a friend dragged her to Dan position to make real change in the way Klein’s sketch comedy course. Before Hare- people look at the world.” wood knew it, she says, “I was a goner.” bother me. It won’t come as a shock to In all her writing, Harewood says, she “The clearest memory I have of Olivia is anyone that comedians are often very anx- depends on two basics—harnessing “raw from her first comedy class,” says Klein, ’90, ious and sensitive people who feel a lot of feelings” and sneaking in political humor a longtime Stanford lecturer in theater and things deeply. Those are the components of when she can. She draws on personal details performance studies. The students from our material.” of her life, including that her mom is Cauca- that class formed Robber Barons, a campus After graduation, Harewood headed to sian and her dad is Black, to let her audiences sketch comedy group that lives on today. Los Angeles, where she moved back in with get to know her. She has a way of taking the “Olivia had a combination of being self- her parents and waited tables. Once she had mundane and weaving it into something assured but in an easy way. Her take on the developed enough stand-up material, she funny. Take osteoporosis. world is so funny, and her ability to laugh at made a tape to submit to a Ventura, Calif., “My mom is an older white woman, and herself is something that makes her relatable comedy contest. When she got the call that I would see her take calcium, so I ended up to all of us.” she’d made the finals, she began the next writing about it. Why does [the disease] Klein remembers a sketch that Harewood phase of her education. always happen to women? I’m assuming it wrote and performed in which she played a “The guy asked me if I had a college agent, happens to women and not to men because, student in a Stanford art class. The skit and I said, ‘What’s that?’ ” as women, we don’t want to be rude and leave started with class members facing the audi- Harewood decided to give touring col- a skeleton behind when we die.” n ence as they painted. One by one, they turned leges and performing at corporate events a around their paintings, revealing breathtaking try. It wasn’t all standing ovations. Melinda Sacks, ’74, is a senior writer at

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hey could see it coming in January. that ring most of the Bay—a collaborative group that includes Erica At the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory, medical Pan, ’92—would conclude that the exponential spread of COVID-19 director Benjamin Pinsky started developing a test for COVID-19. in the region made shelter-in-place orders imperative. And by Meanwhile, public health officer Sara Cody, ’85, confirmed Santa then, Pinsky’s test had been FDA-approved for two weeks. He was Clara County’s first case. onto his next COVID-19 research project, as were hundreds of his By mid-March, Cody and her counterparts in the five counties Stanford colleagues.

30 JULY 2020 What happened in the labs and on by Deni Ellis Béchard the conference calls as the Bay Area braced for COVID-19. ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELLEN WEINSTEIN

Here we bring you inside the (virtual) room where the Bay Area If you’re anything like us, this pandemic has you pondering lockdown decision was made, and into the labs where Stanford some big questions about history, economics, inequality, education, researchers are devoting themselves to testing, treatment and and our relationships with one another and with Mother Nature. policy questions. There’s a point of intersection, by the way, in Fortunately, Stanford scholars are pondering those, too, and we which scholars conduct studies that help local public health offi- plan to share some of their findings with you in the coming months. cers decide when and how to open back up. In the meantime, stay safe and well. —Kathy Zonana, ’93, JD ’96

STANFORD 31 THE WAR ROOMS This is Not A Drill Bay Area public health officers had prepared all their lives for the possibility of a pandemic. That didn’t make their decisions any easier.

ince New Year’s, Sara Cody, the public health officer of Santa Clara County, had been watching the news coming out of China—the cluster of pneu- monia cases linked to a wholesale seafood market in Wuhan. As infections were confirmed across Asia, Europe and North America, her unease grew. “What I remember most about January and February and even into early March,” says Cody, ’85, “was just this really unsettled feeling that we couldn’t see what was going on.”

Cody, who has held her post beginning,” Cody recalls. “Right was greater than 100, and I even officials from six Bay Area coun- since 2013 and spent the pre- up through February 26, the only got a little bit choked up during ties and the city of Berkeley ceding 15 years as deputy public way we could test was to get per- the press conference because it made it together. And though health officer, had been pre- mission from the CDC and send just really hit me what that outlying counties followed suit, paring her entire adult life for a sample back to Atlanta. We meant. Over the course of the not all of their public health offi- the possibility of a pandemic: were just in this really, really, next 48 hours, I got to the place cers agreed on the path forward. After earning her MD at Yale and really uncomfortable place.” along with colleagues from They would have to address the completing an internal medicine Though Santa Clara confirmed around the Bay Area that actu- needs and inclinations of people residency at Stanford, she its first COVID-19 infection on ally that was far, far from who, though living within the trained as an epidemic intelli- January 31—in a man recently sufficient and we were going to same region, have dramatic vari- gence service officer with the returned from Wuhan—Cody be in trouble.” ation in population density, Centers for Disease Control and didn’t know whether the virus That Sunday, March 15, occupations, resources and cul- Prevention. And yet she had was spreading undetected in the marked the tipping point when ture. And they would have to never felt so concerned. With a community, since the CDC tested Bay Area recommendations and do so while readying their population of 1,922,200, Santa only after documented exposure. restrictions gave way to shelter- health-care systems and most Clara is the sixth-largest county In February, as cases increased, in-place orders—the first in the vulnerable citizens for a highly in California and contains San she issued a recommendation to United States. The decision, contagious and potentially Jose, the 10th-largest city in the avoid crowds. By early March, announced the following day, lethal disease. United States. It is also the heart she had placed restrictions on would catapult Cody into the of Silicon Valley, home to many gatherings of more than 1,000 national spotlight and lead to The Ides of March of the world’s tech giants, and— people. “On Friday, March 13,” controversies over the scope of “The actual shelter-in-place like other Bay Area counties—a she recalls, “it felt impossible that the orders and their economic decision was made very quickly point of frequent travel between I would actually be standing up fallout. But the shelter-in-place in a very short period of time,” China and the United States. there saying that you couldn’t decision wasn’t the work of Cody says Erica Pan, ’92, interim “We didn’t have testing at the have a gathering of any kind if it alone; rather, public health public health officer of Alameda

32 JULY 2020 This is Not A Drill Bay Area public health officers had prepared all their lives for the possibility of a pandemic. That didn’t make their decisions any easier.

County, which is home to more sync up policies on mass gather- juncture, and yet in less than important to do it together. It than 1.6 million people and covers ings so as not to confuse the three weeks Italy had gone from would be much harder for any most of the East Bay. “It’s hard for public. St. Patrick’s festivities a similar number of cases to one of us to do it alone. We’ve people to remember now, with were two days away and likely to more than 24,000 infections and seen data around how fast you what I call COVID time,” she facilitate the spread of COVID-19. 1,800 deaths. “We were com- can have exponential rise and adds, searching her memory back “Santa Clara County had more paring what we looked like and how much of a difference it can to March 15, that Sunday unlike cases than anywhere else in the what Italy looked like [on the make to intervene in a really fast any she had experienced. Bay Area and the state at that infection curve],” Cody says, and critical way.” Over two decades, Pan had point,” Cody says. “We’d had our “and realizing that we actually All day, the already exhausted forged ties in Bay Area public first death on Monday.” She also were not that far behind.” health officers hashed out health, directing units involved now had data no other county The calls the morning of the details, determining the scope with bioterrorism, infectious dis- possessed—from a small study 15th soon included three more of essential services like water, eases and emergency response. carried out as soon as testing was Bay Area counties—Alameda, food, sanitation, transportation “Many of us have worked on available locally. “We tested a Contra Costa and Marin—as well and health care, the wording of planning for this exact scenario,” subset of people with influenza- as the city of Berkeley, which has press releases and whether there she says, having previously like illness. If their swab was in its own health department. Pan was time to make the order effec- joined forces to ready the Bay for the lab and they had tested nega- recalls hearing Cody describe the tive the following midnight. avian flu, H1N1 and Ebola. “A lot tive for flu, then we used some of speed at which COVID cases in They had lawyers outline the of the players are still the same, our limited testing capacity to Santa Clara were doubling: order and spoke with local so we have really strong, collab- test those swabs for coronavirus. approximately every three days. elected officials. orative relationships.” We found that 11 percent of them “We’d already tried to do various A lot of the work, Cody March 15 began with an 8 a.m. were positive.” mitigation measures that weren’t recalls, involved the health offi- conference call among Cody and At that point, Santa Clara had necessarily slowing it down,” Pan cers’ getting to the same place the health officers of San Mateo only 253 identified cases and less says, “and we needed to do some- emotionally so they could con- and San Francisco counties to testing than Italy had had at that thing dramatic. It was really vince county leadership.

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“I remember there was a lot of because, until that point, the viral particles. With airborne dis- discussion of ‘You guys are quarantine approach at the fed- eases, after the droplets evaporate, moving too fast,’” she says. “‘This eral level was to look for people the active virus can travel long is impossible. We can never get with fever, and pretty much every- distances in the air, as does mea- this done. Let’s stop and think body else was let through.” sles, one of the most infectious about this and do this right.’ And The situation, he realized, diseases known. Droplet-borne I remember looking at some was far worse than most people viruses, however, remain most basic models of exponential knew. California was the premier contagious while suspended in spread and thinking, We actu- port of entry for travelers from the droplets and commonly infect ally don’t have that time. We China. Thousands arrived daily, nearby people who inhale them SARA CODY just need to move. Eventually, and if only symptomatic carriers or who touch surfaces on which everyone did get on board.” were being stopped, then many the droplets have fallen. infectious people had returned “We looked at so many Meanwhile, to the North . . . to their communities. “We were people, and we had a very clear Even within the nine counties of letting large numbers of people understanding of who did the greater Bay Area—the six in through while we thought we become positive,” Matyas says, the initial shutdown pact and the were containing it,” Matyas says. “and they all had had genuine three that ring the north—the “Containment is trying to stop extensive droplet exposures. months leading up to March 15 the disease, and mitigation is That allowed us to convince the offered different lessons about recognizing that you can’t and CDC to drop the airborne con- COVID. Under the guidance of trying to reduce the harm it tainment requirements.” public health officer Bela causes. I believe nature has Until then, hospitals first had Matyas, ’81, Solano, one of the already proved to us that for to confirm that a patient had outer counties, played a crucial this disease, containment is COVID and then put that person early role in understanding the impossible.” into an airborne isolation room. coronavirus. On February 26, Solano But it was clear to Matyas that Solano County lies along the County diagnosed the first case of there soon wouldn’t be enough north shore of Suisun Bay, with community transmission in the rooms in the country. “Instead,” Napa to the west and Sacramento United States. The patient first he says, “we assumed everyone to the east. “Solano has distinct reported symptoms on February who comes in has COVID and personalities in the northern 13 but, lacking documented [we] used universal droplet pre- BELA MATYAS part of the county versus the COVID-19 exposure, spent time cautions with everyone with southern,” Matyas says. “The in two hospitals before the CDC respiratory disease. Period.” southern is more liberal, very authorized a test. Health workers The strategy worked, with no much in tune with the Bay Area. suddenly scrambled to find further cases of COVID among the The northern part is much more everyone who had been in contact hospital staff. Given its success, in tune with the Central Valley.” with the patient. At one of the Matyas sees it as part of a portfolio Solano also includes Travis Air hospitals, they numbered 121. of mitigation strategies—including Force Base, where, in February, “Following the CDC guidance social distancing, wearing masks hundreds of passengers were then in place”—self-isolation of and banning large gatherings— quarantined when the State any exposed person for two that he would have preferred to Department repatriated Amer- weeks—“would have resulted in shelter-in-place orders. None- ican citizens from Wuhan. More the hospital having to shut down,” theless, he said, “every one of followed from the Diamond Prin- Matyas says. these decisions was made with cess and Grand Princess, cruise But the test results from the the best of intentions under ships with coronavirus outbreaks. exposed hospital workers shifted very adverse conditions with Like Pan and Cody, Matyas Matyas’s perspective on the very limited information.” had spent his career preparing disease. “Only three became for outbreaks, with three decades positive,” he says, “and it was Flattening the Curve in public health and epidemi- really clear by how they inter- After shelter-in-place, one thing ology. The testing of quarantined acted with the patient that they became clear: California—and people transformed his under- had significant droplet transmis- the Bay Area in particular—had standing of COVID-19. “There sion unprotected. There was just far fewer infections than pro- was a much larger number who no evidence whatsoever of air- jected. In terms of cases per were not symptomatic but who borne transmission.” capita, California ranked 32nd were positive for the virus,” he People with respiratory infec- in the country at the end of May.

recalls. “That’s important tions exhale droplets filled with Whereas New York topped the SOLANO COUNTY COURTESY CLARA COUNTY; SANTA COURTESY FROM TOP:

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list with 20,000 cases per mil- million as opposed to 6,569 per 2 percent of the population of the lion, California had only million as of June 10) than L.A. country. Two percent of 2.2 million 2,850—despite having had the County or, for that matter, many deaths is 44,000 deaths, and earliest known U.S. cases. In other lower-density areas of 2 percent of 1.7 million deaths is fact, on April 23, an autopsy the country. 34,000. We’ve had 420.” report revealed that a 57-year- Furthermore, Rutherford The speed of the shelter-in- old woman in San Jose had died explains that the Bay Area has place order, Rutherford argues, of COVID on February 6—the some of the nation’s most was significant. The Bay Area earliest recorded death in the racially and ethnically diverse enacted it four days earlier than United States. The CDC has counties (by some estimates, Los Angeles. Four days, he since confirmed that the disease Alameda ranks first and Solano explains, is long enough for a was circulating in California as second)—and international newly infected person to pass early as mid-January. travel to match. “There are tons COVID-19 on to several more Whereas some commentators of people here,” he says. “There’s people, since it takes an average argue that the Bay Area was rela- tons of diversity. We have non- of 5.2 days to start showing tively unscathed because of less stop flights to Asia and Europe. symptoms and the person could reliance on public transportation It could have been a disaster be contagious 48 hours before and lower population density, here, but it wasn’t, and I think that. Moreover, the Bay Area was George Rutherford, ’74, MA ’75, the reason it wasn’t was the seven relatively compliant. “You saw professor of epidemiology and health officers and the mayors the pictures from Los Angeles biostatistics at UCSF, dismisses and boards of supervisors. If the first weekend after the this. San Francisco County, he you look at the original mortality shutdown,” Rutherford says. points out, has the highest popu- projections, the United States “Everybody went to the beach. lation density in California— was looking at between 1.7 and They didn’t get the memo about GEORGE RUTHERFORD 18,808 per square mile compared 2.2 million deaths, which we social distancing.” And according with Los Angeles County’s could still get to, by the way. That to online reservation site Open 2,474—and yet it has had a far would have been in the absence of Table, restaurant attendance lower rate of cases (3,170 per doing anything. The Bay Area is continued in Los Angeles and

Sonoma A PANDEMIC 1 in 744 Napa AT BAY 1 in 877 Regional cooperation has kept cases low even Solano in high-density areas. 1 in 759 Marin 1 in 405

Contra Costa San 1 in 650 Francisco 1 in 316 < 1,000 people per square mile Alameda 1 in 419 San 1,000–10,000 people Mateo per square mile 1 in 315

> 10,000 people Santa per square mile Clara 1 in 639 Sources: census.gov, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Joint March 15 Center. Data as of June 10, 2020.

FROM TOP: COURTESY GEORGE RUTHERFORD; GIORGIA VIRGILI COURTESY FROM TOP: shelter-in-place order

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New York well after it had “We know about all the social When she considers the out- dropped off in San Francisco. determinants of health,” Pan break in Alameda County, she As for Solano and Alameda says, “how important it is for our reflects on how the pandemic counties, new cases largely economy to restart, and all the struck New York. “They’re remained flat during shelter-in- health impacts when people having to bring in refrigerated place, whereas in Santa Clara aren’t working, when they can’t trucks since they don’t even have County—predicted to be one of get food and when they have room in the hospitals with all of the hardest hit in the nation—the increased stressors.” And yet she the deaths. I’m just really grateful curve wasn’t just flattened; it was also took a key lesson from the we did not get there, and I’m con- crushed. “I expected much more 1918 flu. “Cities that shut down fident we won’t.It’s hard in the transmission in Santa Clara,” quickly and early and that waited moment to remind ourselves says Rutherford, “and the fact it out and didn’t reopen too early that it’s the pandemic that’s that there hasn’t been bespeaks actually did much better in the caused a lot of the economic their capacity.” long run as far as not only fatali- devastation. It’s been wonderful ties but also their economic to have people trust in our deci- Now What? recovery,” she says. A recent sion and authority to make these The Bay Area counties extended study by Drexel University decisions, but it’s also been a huge ERICA PAN their mutual shelter-in-place School of Public Health esti- amount of pressure, especially orders into May; then, as mates that in Alameda County now when everyone has interven- reopening began, their paths alone, 60 days of shelter-in-place tion fatigue. People want to started to diverge in response prevented 70,364 hospitaliza- reopen, but we want to do it to local conditions—and some- tions and saved 7,291 lives. safely and we definitely can’t times pressures. “The problem,” On May 9, Pan received her please everybody.” says Matyas, “is that the public most high-profile attack. Tesla we are working with as a partner CEO Elon Musk tweeted his Research-based Reopening in all of this has demonstrated intention to sue Alameda County How the Bay Area reopens may that it really has grown tired of for preventing the reopening of a be influenced by research funded restrictions on our lives. That factory. He characterized Pan as through the Chan Zuckerberg pressure by the public is going “ignorant . . . acting contrary to Initiative, a company that Face- to have a lot of power in the the Governor, the President, our book founder Mark Zuckerberg decisions around what to do Constitutional freedoms & just and his wife, Priscilla Chan, going forward.” plain common sense!” Pan established in 2015. The couple Reopening, Pan believes, recalls how trying that moment donated $13.6 million for two must be based on each county’s was. “Ultimately, my job as a studies conducted through capacities: availability of testing, public health officer is to protect Stanford, UCSF and the Chan personal protective equipment, the health and safety of our com- Zuckerberg Biohub. Led by Ruth- contact tracers (workers who munity, including our workers, erford and Yvonne Maldonado, find and inform everyone who and we were trying to have a col- MD ’81, a Stanford professor of has had contact with an infected laborative discussion around pediatrics and of health research person) and hospital beds. that. To have it inflamed very and policy, the first study enrolled Though she has been working publicly in the media was 4,000 Bay Area residents to test steadily for months, reopening extremely difficult. On the other them monthly for COVID-19 and has proved particularly stressful. hand, I’ve been lucky. I have seen its antibodies. “Early on I was running on colleagues across the state who “We’ll provide data in real adrenaline,” she says; now she are getting death threats. I’ve time to the counties so that spends days meeting with heads had some very nasty trolls, but I they know the baseline rate of of schools, hospitals, industry, haven’t actually gotten any infection,” says Maldonado. congregations and long-term threats. But it was really hard to “This will inform them of areas care facilities. She evaluates be personally attacked.” at risk or where people are actu- YVONNE MALDONADO whether contact tracing and It has also been hard, Pan says, ally at lower risk, and will help quarantining infected people to rarely see her husband and them understand how they can in hotel rooms could interrupt her fifth- and eighth-grade keep moving forward or stepping transmission. By some, she is daughters. “They’ve been under- back as we try to live through criticized for reopening too standing and they’ve been proud, this unknown period.” slowly or violating civil liberties; but . . . I’m getting emotional The second study, led by Stan- by others, for moving too quickly now. It’s been tough since the ford clinical associate professor of

since the virus is still spreading. end of January.” medicine Marisa Holubar, MS ’14, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DER GROEBEN/STANFORD VON NORBERT ERIN ATTKISSON; FROM TOP:

36 JULY 2020 THIS IS NOT A DRILL and UCSF’s Sarah Doernberg a more severe outcome from the reflect those cultures. I don’t and Vivek Jain, MD ’03, disease, and you want to protect think any of that’s wrong.” enrolled 3,500 health-care them preferentially,” he says. workers negative for COVID-19 “For the rest of the community, Uncharted Territory and is testing them weekly to what you try to do is educate on Like her counterparts, Cody has determine the impact of the dis- how to minimize transmission of struggled with the repercussions ease on medical personnel. the disease.” After all, he points of shelter-in-place. “This is Rutherford also directs a out, it’s a question of how best to extraordinarily difficult,” she program training 10,000 civil protect public health given lim- says. “In a perfect world, there servants who can’t do their usual ited resources. would be a model where you can jobs to redeploy as contact Since COVID’s arrival, say, ‘OK, we understand that tracers. “We have people from Matyas has spent his days on shelter-in-place has these eco- the city attorney’s office, the conference calls at the county, nomic harms and social harms, assessor’s office and city librar- state and national levels while and we know how to translate ians—people from county and continuing to oversee the work that into a health metric, so we state governments—who will of his team on such programs as can measure the short-, medium- become the backbone of the con- nutrition and health promotion. and long-term harms of food tact tracing workforce,” he says. As for his home life, it is thinly insecurity and poverty and jobs Cody’s team has already separated from work, as his wife and exacerbations of mental begun contact tracing and is in runs the public health labora- health conditions, and now we discussion with Stanford asso- tory. “It does help having a can navigate the most protective ciate professor of pediatrics spouse who exists in the same path given all these terrible, ter- Jason Wang about an innovation basic environment,” he says. rible trade-offs.’ However, those The to scale it up: an opt-in smart- “The only thing that I’ve been sorts of conversions and models phone app that would keep a really derelict in is walking my really don’t exist.” Situation 14-day record of Bluetooth inter- dog, so that has fallen to my wife As the country reopens, she near Seattle actions between phones and with great consistency.” has spoken publicly about the notify users of exposure. Going forward, Matyas wants dangers of moving quickly, Washington state However, given COVID’s to prohibit high-risk activities arguing that the impact of each health officer Kathy often-silent nature, Matyas is such as concerts, trade shows phase should be studied before Jurgens Lofy, ’93, describes handling the skeptical that large-scale contact and parties while allowing low- the next is implemented. nation’s first hot spot. tracing will be effective. “Contact and medium-risk activities with Pausing for the longest possible tracing serves an incredibly vital precautions. “I firmly believe incubation period after each alu.ms/lofy function in all outbreak investi- that if you can create an envi- round of restrictions is lifted— gation,” he explains, “but there’s ronment where you make “at least 14 days,” she says, “and a big difference between identi- transmission risk negligible, 21 days is even better”—would fying those contacts who are in then you can operate. That allow scientists to understand high-risk environments and doesn’t make me pro-business. whether newly resumed activi- focusing on them to protect the That makes me pro-health, ties spread COVID. high-risk environments versus because unemployment is hor- Thinking back to the Sunday tracking down everybody who rible for health.” she and the other public health could have been possibly In Solano County, which has a officers decided to shelter-in- exposed in the last 14 days.” After third of Santa Clara County’s pop- place, Cody says, “It was Solano’s first community trans- ulation density, time will reveal stressful, but it’s nothing com- mission, he points out, tracing whether his approach is workable pared to how complex it is now.” for the patient, the three infected now that face masks are widely She is aware of people’s hardship, hospital workers and one family available. “We have to recognize the political pressure, the fear of member spanned six counties that we’re dealing with something lasting economic damage. And and linked 350 people. unprecedented, and it’s dynamic,” she increasingly feels the impact Matyas advocates prioritizing Matyas says. “People are genu- on her husband and two chil- high-risk environments, as with inely trying to do the right thing. dren. “When I’m home, I’m so the single nursing home where But there are different consider- tired I can hardly speak,” she an outbreak caused a quarter of ations in different circumstances, says. “My spouse is trying to Solano’s confirmed cases and, he and there are really genuinely dif- work from home with kids trying explains, all but six of its deaths. ferent cultures across the different to do distance learning. I’m “You want to identify who among counties in the state and reactions never home. My family says it’s your community are apt to have on the part of those communities like I’ve been deployed to war.” n

STANFORD 37 THE WAR ROOMS Rapid Response How the Stanford research community pivoted to address the coronavirus.

late February, Benjamin Pinsky’s commute became unmanage- able. He was readying Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory for COVID-19 testing, and he received so many urgent calls each time he drove between his home in San Francisco and Stanford that, fearing an accident, he repeatedly pulled off the highway to discuss solutions with his team and reference information on his laptop. Finally, the associate pro- fessor of pathology gave up on the drive. For the first two weeks in March, as COVID-19 community transmissions increasingly made the news in the United States and the World Health Organization debated whether to announce a pandemic, he took a hotel room next to his lab.

Since January, Pinsky had together to face challenges, to identify any positive patients, been at the forefront of a vast yielding stories of perseverance we would be able to ramp up collaborative effort to establish and teamwork that they will be testing relatively quickly.” COVID-19 testing in the Bay sharing for years to come. By February 29, the day the Area—an endeavor paralleled U.S. Food and Drug Administra- by labs across the university Testing, Testing tion relaxed requirements for striving to understand the dis- In determining how to respond clinical laboratory testing, Pin- ease, develop treatments and to the pandemic, the crucial first sky’s team had identified patient address many of the societal chal- step was having an accurate and samples that were positive for lenges presented by the virus. rapid test for COVID-19 infec- COVID-19. The following “The university is supporting tion. Medical personnel have to Monday, his lab notified the FDA rapid mobilization for COVID,” know who is infected in order to that they had completed require- says vice provost and dean of prevent the spread of the virus ments for testing. “They sent an rushing to increase testing research Kathryn Moler, ’88, among patients and staff. In the email back that afternoon, capacity for many hospitals in a professor of applied physics first weeks of 2020, as news of the saying, ‘You have permission the region—as the “early days.” and of physics. It is offering seed virus struggled to keep pace with from the FDA,’” he recalls—a That was seven weeks prior. Since grants, expanding biohazard its spread, Pinsky began ordering process that would typically take then, the lab has maintained the facilities, developing ways for supplies to create a test. “By Feb- several months or more. “We same pace, open 24 hours a day, people to work safely and accel- ruary 4,” he says, “we actually went live two days later,” he says, with three rotating shifts of erating the approval process started screening specimens that “on Wednesday”—just in time to dozens of scientists and assis- for new projects. The race to were negative for other respira- respond to the rise in community tants. Due to the high demand for respond to the pandemic may tory viruses to kind of keep an eye transmissions in the Bay Area. equipment and supplies, the lab mark a watershed in how on what was happening in our By April, Pinsky was referring has repeatedly validated the test researchers mobilize and work area with the idea that if we were to this period—when his lab was using different reagents—the

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only which medical personnel might have developed immunity and can most safely work with patients, but also how widespread the virus is, what its actual death rate is and how far the United States might be from developing herd immunity. Antibodies expert Scott Boyd, an associate professor of pathology, was well suited to the challenge. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, he majored in bio- chemistry at the University of Manitoba before becoming a Rhodes Scholar and studying Renaissance literature at the University of Oxford—an experi- ence he recalls as “a great chance to really broaden my education before I dove into medical aca- demia.” Like many of their colleagues since the pandemic began, he and research scientist Katharina Roeltgen spent day after 16-hour day in the lab. Their goal: to develop an anti- body test that would offer greater accuracy than the many point-of-care and home testing kits in the marketplace. “There’s quite a Wild West of testing going on right now,” Boyd says. “The majority of the tests really don’t seem to have much documented evidence of how well they work.” Though the SCOTT BOYD FDA has eased rules regulating the sale of such tests to make them rapidly available, a good deal of money has been wasted on shoddy products. In late March, for instance, the British government purchased 3.5 million tests that chemicals used to perform the of support from throughout then failed to give reliable results. tests. “There was a shortage of campus,” Pinsky recalls. Boyd’s team released its test the reagents,” Pinsky says. “We on April 6. In developing it, they didn’t want to run out of any one Antibody Answers kept the focus on maintaining particular component of the One of the next most pressing standards—going through all the tests, so there was constant work questions was how to develop same steps and seeing how each to make sure we were able to accurate screening for antibodies. version of the test performs—but BENJAMIN PINSKY continue to offer testing.” Other Since numerous infected individ- doing more experiments each Stanford labs also rallied, with uals appear to be asymptomatic— day than would be typical. “It’s donations of single-stranded as many as 60 percent, by some not that the methodology or the DNA primers and RNA extraction estimates—reliable antibody approach has changed,” he says.

STEVE FISCH/STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (2) SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (2) FISCH/STANFORD STEVE kits. “There was a great outpouring testing is crucial for knowing not “It’s just that we’re having to do

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it more quickly than would be It enrolled more than 1,000 Outpatient Options comfortable usually.” severely ill patients at Stanford Since remdesivir must be admin- In conjunction with Pinsky and 63 other sites across the istered intravenously in a and other collaborators, Boyd is globe. “Time zones don’t matter hospital, that leaves the more now turning his attention to when you’re trying to find a than 80 percent of COVID-19 determining whether antibodies cure that’s affecting the world,” patients recovering at home confer immunity. Since working Ahuja says. without a proven treatment. directly with the COVID-19 virus “What’s great,” says co- “We don’t have a lot to offer is risky, a less dangerous virus principal investigator and pro- folks when they’re positive, will be genetically modified to fessor of medicine and of either asymptomatic or with NEERA AHUJA express COVID-19’s spike: the pediatrics Kari Nadeau, “is how mild to moderate symptoms. prominent surface protein that fast the NIH was on its feet and We basically can tell them to go binds with receptors on human how fast the FDA was to address home and quarantine and stay cells to inject viral genetic mate- the challenge of this crisis. away from their family members rial into them. “You can put that It usually takes six months to and loved ones and wait it out,” on a different virus,” Pinsky says. get trials activated. This trial says Prasanna Jagannathan, an “It’s called pseudotyping, and was activated in six days.” assistant professor of medicine. then you use that in experiments With equal speed, many of He and Upinder Singh, professor to see if antibodies from patients Stanford’s scientists have piv- of medicine and of microbiology will block the virus from getting oted from their usual fields of and immunology, are co-leading into the cell.” study to focus on COVID-19, a trial to test the efficacy of with as many as 50 researchers interferon-lambda, one of the at a time on video calls briefing body’s natural antivirals. Treatment Trials one another about the virus. When under attack from KARI NADEAU Just as research in diagnostics “The COVID crisis motivated viruses, cells produce interferon, has been accelerating, so too people to work together from a protein that, as its name sug- have efforts on finding effective many different areas,” says gests, interferes with viral pharmaceutical treatment for Nadeau, who directs the Sean replication while alerting other patients with COVID-19. Clinical N. Parker Center for Allergy and cells. “It’s sort of like you have a professor of medicine Neera Asthma Research at Stanford burglar trying to get into your Ahuja, division chief of hospital and is best known for developing home,” Singh explains, “and medicine and medical director of treatment for severe food aller- you’re turning on the lights and general inpatient medicine, is gies. “Even though our specialty shutting the doors and windows. the principal investigator of a areas might not be to work rou- Interferon basically activates the trial to treat severe cases of tinely with one another, most cellular immune response to COVID-19 with remdesivir, an important is that our tools and fight viruses.” antiviral medication first used our approaches are similar.” Of the various types of inter- PRASANNA JAGANNATHAN during the West African Ebola Once again, the efforts paid feron that our bodies create, epidemic of 2013 to 2016. Rem- off. On April 29, NIH released interferon-lambda is of interest desivir works by interrupting the preliminary findings from the to scientists because receptors genetic replication of viruses, second remdesivir trial: For for it exist only in the liver, lungs and while it showed promise at severely ill patients receiving and intestines—the latter two stopping COVID-19 infections in remdesivir, recovery shortened being the novel coronavirus’s a trial sponsored by the drug’s from 15 days to 11 days. In a primary targets. Previous studies maker, Gilead Sciences, and car- Stanford town hall meeting that have shown that people injected ried out at Stanford and other same day, Lloyd Minor, dean of with interferon-lambda tolerate universities, more data was the Stanford School of Medi- it well—much better than other needed to show its effect on cine, announced, “These two forms of interferon—and that it severely ill patients whose lungs rigorously done trials provide may mitigate infections such as were being destroyed by the really the first evidence of the hepatitis, SARS and influenza. extreme reaction of their efficacy of any therapeutic for For the current trial, 120 immune systems. A new trial this disease.” patients with mild COVID-19 sponsored by the National Insti- Two days later, the FDA will be sorted into two groups. tutes of Health and including a approved remdesivir for emer- One will be injected with control group that received a pla- gency use in the treatment of interferon-lambda (which lasts

cebo was initiated on March 30. COVID-19. for a week) and the other with a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (3) STANFORD

40 JULY 2020 FROM TOP: STEVE FISCH/STANFORD MEDICINE; DAVID GONZALES, ’93 an expansionof thebiosafety lab The university haseven begun turned aroundreally quickly.” sure thatthoseapprovals get But weworkreallyfast tomake get approval toworkoncampus. approval—we alsoask themto lasers, theyneedlasersafety have toget—like ifthey’re using approvals thattheynormally addition togetting allthe ally, itwas harderbecausein make- itfaster forthem.Actu for [faculty]. We just triedto “We didn’t make itany easier research,” Moler explains. for conductingon-campus approved asquickly possible researchandget it COVID-19 a facultycommittee to review can proceedrapidly. “We set up nate barrierssothatresearch been workingnonstop toelimi - ford administrators have also Since thepandemicbegan,Stan- Still Accelerating outcomes even moreso.” these drugstogether toimprove “we couldpotentially usesomeof hepatitis C,” says Jagannathan, using themincombination. will considerfurtherstudies any ofthedrugsshow promise, will evaluatetheirresultsand,if completed all three trials, they entering cells. Oncetheyhave pound thatblocksvirusesfrom other withCamostat, acom- Avigan, anantiviraldrug,andthe will initiatetwomore:onewith than concludethefirst study, they and closecommunities.” transmission tofamilymembers very importantly, decrease tothehospital,andthen, going better, helpprevent themfrom “We want tohelpthemfeel “We have threegoals,” says Singh. and amountofviralshedding. symptoms, ratesofhospitalization researchers willrecordpatients’ placebo. Over thenext 28days, the “Like weapproachHIVor As soonasSinghandJaganna-

ated hundredsof research 9:15 p.m.” a.m., andmy last oneendedat my first Zoomcall was at 6:30 the pandemicstarted. Yesterday, working basicallynonstop since speed,” Moler says. “I’ve been time atareallyunprecedented of theseactivitiesduringthis “We forall needtowritepolicy with state andcountyguidance. employee healthandkeep pace manualstosafeguardits policy the university hasbeenupdating essential materials. Allthewhile, tive equipment andother ofpersonalprotecmanagement - janitorial work,andsupply-chain sible, suchaslabmaintenance, infectious-disease researchpos- often-unseen effortsthatmake had toensurethesafety ofthe appropriate,” Moler says. when pivoting theirresearchis people topivot theirresearch very thoughtfulaboutallowing of thoseentitieshave been very, foundations. “Iwouldsay thatall cies butalsofromcompaniesand - fromgovernment agen largely take in$31millionaweek, Laboratory National Accelerator Projects atStanfordandSLAC research sponsorsareonboard. by theendofAugust.” hoping tohave thisexpansion take ayearortwo, andwe’re quickly. Typically, thatwould facility thatismoving quite have begunanexpansionofthe viral treatments, “andalso coronavirus andpotential anti- including Blish’s tostudy the multiple shiftsinthatfacility,” Moler: “We’ve beenprioritizing meet thecurrentdemand.Says on tuberculosis—sinceitcan’t conduct separateexperiments Catherine Blishtypicallyeach associate professorofmedicine fessor CarolynBertozzi and research—where chemistry pro- capable ofhosting COVID Stanford faculty have initi- Meanwhile, theuniversity has Also crucial:ensuringthat

[email protected]. ting sleep.” these labsareget- of “None out, Nadeau points as meantime, the In disciplinary innovation. communication andcross- nity primedforagility, rapid virus may bearesearchcommu- of adeadlyanddevastating that amongthemixed legacies lectively, theseeffortssuggest assembly fromfewerparts. Col- patients—for rapid COVID-19 ill severely lators—required for concussions todesigning venti research frompreventing bioengineering, hasshiftedhis associate professorof ’08, PhD David Camarillo, MS’03, drove ittoPinsky’s lab. Orhow where heisco-president,and the ChanZuckerberg Biohub, nostic equipment intohiscarat physics, loadeddiag- applied of and professor ofbioengineering ’91, how StephenQuake, ’91,MS tioned here.Take, forinstance, numerous thanthefewmen- disciplinary effortsarefarmore sharing, collaborationandcross- respond. can and suggestsways humanity affects thedisease’s spread— to theways social inequality the impactofworkingfromhome pandemic affectssociety—from RISE reveals themany ways the through,”is going says Moler. as adiseasebutalsowhatsociety is relevantfornot onlyCOVID-19 across campusinoneplacethat bring together alloftheresearch ciplines. “RISEisaneffortto connect researchersacrossdis- Empower.), aresponseplanto RISE (Respond.Innovate. Scale. university haslaunchedStanford arising fromthepandemic.The andsocialchallenges policy lab benchtoaddresseconomic, many farbeyondthe ofwhichgo projects relatedtoCOVID-19, writer at Deni EllisBéchard isasenior The stories offrantic work, S tanford n . Emailhimat

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41 42 JULY 2020 Impossible ‘ not to ‘ love

Renowned for his leadership and a legacy of public service, Donald Kennedy is also remembered for ‘the spark in his eye.’

By Kelli Anderson

or Stanford people of a certain era, there is one picture of Donald Kennedy that comes to mind before all others. The university’s eighth president is not posed contemplatively in a book-lined office, nor is he clad fin academic regalia delivering one of his stirring go-forth- and-give-back commencement speeches. The picture that many remember—with delight—is of the 1986 Stanford men’s swim team soon after it had won its second straight NCAA title. In it, two dozen swimmers stand or kneel in coat and tie. Meanwhile, front and center is Kennedy—eminent scientist, former chief of the Food and Drug Administration, leader of one of the top universities in the world—wearing nothing but his glasses, a Speedo and a smile. The picture, the payoff on a year-old challenge to the team to repeat as NCAA champions, says a lot about Kennedy, who died April 21 at the age of 88 from COVID-19. Kennedy was open- minded, adventurous, fun and a big fan of Stanford sports, if not of traditional concepts of presidential propriety. He was happy to be surrounded by students. And at 54, he was in great shape, thanks in part to regular early-morning runs he made to the Dish, often in the company of any student who wanted to bend his ear—and could keep up with him. STANFORD NEWS SERVICE STANFORD What the picture doesn’t show is the stunning breadth of Kennedy’s knowledge and intellectual curiosity, or the mind that was constantly churning with ideas for how to make Stanford and

STANFORD 43 Along with public service, Kennedy Campaign, which raised nearly $1.3 billion. made multiculturalism and diversity a Even before he became president, priority. During his tenure, the percent- Kennedy helped create a legacy that age of undergraduates who were people would affect students for generations: of color increased to 45 percent, and As biology department chair in 1969, he campus policy changed to allow gay co-founded and later directed Stanford’s couples and unmarried couples the same first interdisciplinary program, human access to housing as married students. biology, which, a half-century later, In 1988, Stanford’s Western Civilization remains one of the most popular majors

requirement morphed into Cultures, on campus and serves as the model for Ideas and Values, which included more the dozens of other interdisciplinary

nonwhite, non-European and female programs Stanford now offers. perspectives. (The latter move infuriated Along with the triumphs, Kennedy William Bennett, the conservative faced controversies and natural disasters, ‘ including the 1989 Loma Prieta earth- quake, which caused $160 million in damage to campus. (In his typical opti- Most undergraduates get involved in independent mistic fashion, Kennedy would come to research projects. It was Don’s enthusiastic support see the quake as a boon to campus build- of that idea that got it started. ing.) His reputation among some ‘ students and faculty lost its sparkle the world a better place. It doesn’t describe the ways in which he inspired students through his teaching, his speeches, his friendship or his example. It doesn’t reveal the political and per- sonal skills he deployed to energize and empower colleagues, achieve consensus, and raise money to augur extraordinary growth in Stanford’s endowment, physical plant and academic opportu- nities. “In his time as president, Don changed the face of Stanford and brought us to a very different level,” says former president of the Board of Trustees Jim Gaither, JD ’64. Although his presidency ended 28 years ago, Kennedy’s imprint remains clearly visible all over Stanford, espe- cially in the university’s commitments to public service and to interdisciplin- ary studies. During his administration, from 1980 to 1992, Kennedy brought an optimistic, entrepreneurial spirit to the expansion of Stanford, championing all manner of academic opportunities and DIGNIFIED: Kennedy presents President enhancements, from a $7 million package Reagan-era secretary of education, who Jimmy Carter with the Jackson H. Ralston Prize in 1987, top. Above, in 1983, he plays of programs to improve undergrad­ uate­ swooped onto campus to debate Kennedy host to Queen Elizabeth II on a campus visit. teaching to new overseas offerings in on the merits of the established canon Kyoto, Oxford and Berlin, as well as a on national TV.) study center in Washington, D.C. His With Kennedy at the helm, the value when students in the mid-’80s protested tenure also saw the establishment of the of Stanford’s physical plant doubled, the his resistance to blanket divestiture from Stanford Humanities Center, the Center endowment tripled, and the school com- South Africa and when he resolved a for Integrated Systems and a place near pleted what was at the time the most 1989 minority-student takeover of his to Kennedy’s heart—the Haas Center for successful university fund-raising drive office by calling the cops.

Public Service. in history, the five-year Centennial In his most bruising challenge, the NEWS SERVICE ED SOUZA/STANFORD NEWS SERVICE; CHUCK PAINTER/STANFORD FROM TOP:

44 JULY 2020 indirect-cost controversy of 1990–91, institution, but it was poised to explode when he was done with his research, he Kennedy grappled with congressional in national influence, thanks in large was able to eat the damn things.” accusations and sensational media part to then-provost Fred Terman’s Acting on his conviction that all reports that Stanford had overbilled the efforts. Terman, Class of 1920, Engr. ’22, scientists should spend some time in government $231 million in research- helped seed the area with start-up engi- government service, Kennedy took a overhead costs and included things like neering companies and established break from Stanford in 1977 to head the wine, luxe furnishings at presidential “steeples of excellence” with top profes- Food and Drug Administration under residence Hoover House and the depre- sors in multiple fields who could attract President Jimmy Carter. During his ciation of a yacht. Although Stanford was federal research funds and other distin- stint, the agency tackled issues ranging eventually exonerated of any wrongdoing, guished teachers, researchers and grad from the safety of saccharin to the efficacy the PR damage prompted Kennedy to students. The medical school had just of laetrile as a cancer treatment. Although step aside. “I can’t be part of the solution moved from San Francisco to the Palo Kennedy lost many of his regulatory if I am part of the problem,” he said at the Alto campus, further boosting Stanford’s battles, his wit, clarity and scientific bona time, and he resigned after the 1991-92 academic firepower. “Given such power- fides elevated the FDA’s status, boosted academic year. ful events,” Kennedy wrote in his 2018 internal morale and won him a number As soon as the search committee memoir, A Place in the Sun, “it struck me of nonacademic admirers, including the started looking for his replacement, it that Stanford was the place to be.” New York Times. Upon Kennedy’s farewell realized the depth of Kennedy’s impact The introductory biology classes in 1979, the Times noted: “One measure on Stanford. “There was a lot of pressure Kennedy was hired to teach were so of the respect that Mr. Kennedy won is to bring in a caretaker to get us through large they were held in 1,700-seat that spokesmen for both consumer and the crisis,” recalls Gaither, who was chair Memorial Auditorium, requiring him, industry groups, who seldom agree on of the Board of Trustees at the time. “But on occasion, to lecture in front of the set anything, rate him equally high.” as we went around the country, people of a drama department production. Kennedy returned to Stanford to told us, ‘That’s crazy! Everybody knows “There I’d be,” he recalled in his memoir, serve as provost under President this is now the most important position “delivering my lecture beside a rumpled Richard Lyman, who had guided the in American higher education.’ It was bed . . . or situated in a seventeenth-cen- university through the tumultuous ’70s. clear how the world, other than the polit- tury castle paced the previous night by a When Lyman stepped down to become ical world, felt about Stanford. And that tortured undergraduate Hamlet.” president of the Rockefeller Foundation was because of Don.” The theatrical setting suited his in 1980, Kennedy was named Stanford’s animated teaching style. “He was eighth president, introducing a new vibe A natural love of biology kinetic—physically and conceptually,” on campus. “Dick protected the univer- Kennedy was born in New York City on recalls Pulitzer Prize–winning history sity during a tough time, and he was August 18, 1931, the first of two sons of professor emeritus David M. Kennedy, terrific at what he did,” says former Barbara “Babbie” and Bill Kennedy. The ’63, who took one of Kennedy’s biology English professor and associate dean of family moved often, but Kennedy spent classes as an undergrad in the early ’60s. humanities and sciences Bill Chace, his earliest years on a rented estate in “He could make things that were not who later served as president of both Greenwich, Conn., while Bill worked as a intrinsically interesting, at least to me, Wesleyan University and Emory Univer- writer for the J. Walter Thompson adver- quite compelling.” sity. “What Don came in to do was to tising firm in Manhattan. The estate’s If a quadruped feature could best be celebrate it, to enhance it. To make it abundance of maple trees to tap, brook relayed to hum bio students by demon- more outward-going. To make it more trout to catch and birds to watch sparked stration, Kennedy would get up on the inventive, more promising, more lively. Kennedy’s love of the natural world. It table on all fours. “He was dynamic, the To make it happier.” was a passion he would pursue in earnest best teacher I think I’ve ever seen,” says Where Lyman had been reserved, after a Harvard writing professor asked biology professor H. Craig Heller. “He Kennedy was warm and gregarious. As the would-be English major, “Tell me, had the ability to absorb complex infor- effective as he had been in his other Don. What else interests you?” mation and then convert it into a highly roles, his ascent to the presidency After completing his Harvard doctoral understandable explanation. He was an allowed the full range of his talents to dissertation, which focused on the elec- amazing interpreter of science.” flourish. Kennedy embraced every one trical signals generated in frog retinas, Kennedy also ran a lab that did impor- of his many responsibilities, riding his Kennedy landed his first faculty post in tant work on the nervous systems of 10-speed across campus from appoint- the zoology department at Syracuse crayfish, a species choice that prompted ment to appointment, tie flap­ping over University, earning tenure in just his third wry envy in his friend and noted popu- his shoulder. “He knew a lot about year. When Stanford called in 1959, Ken- lation biologist Paul Ehrlich. “Don was a everything that was taught at Stanford nedy declined. When the school tried lot smarter than me,” he says. “He was and about every research institution,” again a year later, he packed up his fam- trying to figure out how nervous systems says Gaither. “He was very comfortable ily—wife Jeanne and young daughters work. I was trying to figure out why with music or choir or biology or with Page and Julia—and took a leap of faith. insect populations got larger or smaller. the humanities. He fought very hard to Stanford in 1960 was still a regional But Don did his research on lobsters, and protect the humanities as Stanford

STANFORD 45 solutions. From those efforts emerged the Haas Center for Public Service, which now engages more than 1,000 students each year with opportunities ranging from direct service to social entrepreneurship, and Stanford in Washington, a program focused on pub- lic policy. In 1985, Kennedy co-founded Campus Compact, which institution- alized the public service movement­ in higher education and that now includes more than 1,000 U.S. colleges and uni-

versities. “Don understood early on that there was a tremendous desire on the part of young people to serve,” says

Milton, “and that if you gave them the right opportunities for preparation, they could change the world.” ‘ Kennedy loved his role as enabler, says Heller. “I once asked Don, when he Don understood early on that there was a tremendous was president, ‘Don, I know you enjoy desire on the part of young people to serve and that if you this, but don’t you miss being in the lab doing science?’ And he said, ‘Well, of gave them the right opportunities for preparation, they course I do, but the rewards of making could change the world. it possible for other people to have that ‘ experience are so much greater.’ ”

became so dominant in the sciences.” Kennedy’s seemingly boundless energy and bandwidth awed and exhausted his colleagues and staff. “We probably entertained four nights a week—it was nuts,” recalls David Voss, ’75, the manager of Hoover House early in Kennedy’s reign. “The busier he was, and the more stress that was on the situation, the more energized he got. Sometimes we were like, ‘Don, slow down. You’re killing us.’ ” A Kennedy quality that students and faculty had always appreciated—his knack for making you feel uniquely valued, “like you’re the only person in PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS: Many students the room,” says Voss—was particularly for undergraduates to write grant pro- over the years joined Kennedy on his valuable on the fund-raising circuit. posals for research projects. “And now at early morning runs, top. Above, Kennedy welcomes his successor, “Don could come up to you, put his Stanford, most undergraduates, not just Gerhard Casper, in March 1992. arm around your shoulder, grab your in the natural sciences but also social forearm and talk you into doing some- sciences and humanities, get involved in thing that you in your right mind would independent research projects,” says Kennedy was also a gifted public never do, but you’d be thankful to him Heller. “It was Don’s enthusiastic sup- speaker, and he was quick on his feet. for the opportunity,” says Heller. port of that idea that got it started.” When Soviet president Mikhail Gor- Among the things Kennedy talked Likewise, it was Kennedy’s listening, bachev visited campus in June 1990, at Heller into was serving on a committee early in his presidency, to student com- the end of his first visit to the United to decide how a particular fund-raising plaints about the lack of public service States, Kennedy prepared an introduc- campaign could be used to enhance opportunities at the career center that tory speech that would be broadcast undergraduate education. Out of that led him to hire Catherine Milton, an old nationally. When he stepped up to the

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46 JULY 2020 pocket for his notes—and found only played a game of football one day, “I his heart. I found him impossible not a pronunciation guide for the names remember thinking, ‘God, a 60-year-old to love.” in the Soviet delegation. “You could is just tearing it up out there!’ ” says In addition to Robin, Kennedy is see this funny look on his face,” recalls Anderson. “I think he was an under- survived by his children, Page Kennedy Gaither. “He had grabbed the wrong graduate at heart.” Rochon, Julia Tussing, ’82, Cameron paper, and this had to be the most At the completion of the D.C. gig, Kennedy, ’94, JD ’01, and Jamie Hamill, important speech of his life. So, with- Kennedy returned to campus to teach and nine grandchildren. out a note, he gave what I think was and write. In 1997, he published Academic It is ironic that Kennedy, who in his the best speech of his life.” In fact, Duty, an examination of major issues final years struggled with dementia and says Kennedy’s wife, Robin, Don had confronting higher education, and in the effects of a severe stroke, had his life spent so much time on the speech he 2009, he indulged his lifelong passion ended by a public health crisis that could practically had it memorized. “He felt for birding in a collaboration with artist have benefited from his thoughtful, it was the most important speech he Darryl Wheye: Humans, Nature, and authori­tative and clarifying voice. One would ever give; he wrote about 20 Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to of the signatures of his hum bio lectures drafts,” says Robin, ’68, JD ’78, who Computer Screens. From 2000 to 2008, was challenging students to consider married Kennedy in 1987. he served as editor in chief of Science the trade-offs between individual Even as he was overseeing campus magazine. Kennedy reveled in using rights and social responsibility. “He growth and curricular expansion and the magazine’s editorial page as a bully would have become a public figure on hosting­­ heads of state—Queen Elizabeth pulpit to pen opinion pieces on topics this crisis, no question,” says Ehrlich. II visited campus in 1983—Kennedy ranging from government secrecy to “He couldn’t have resisted. He would stayed engaged with students, taking on climate change. “I think Don was the have been writing to the New York Times freshman advisees, visiting the dorms last public intellectual to lead a univer- and organizing things and so on. That’s every month, teaching the occasional sity,” says Ehrlich. the sort of person he was.” hum bio lecture and giving constructive In 2005, the Donald Kennedy Chair That wasn’t to be a legacy, but he feedback to TAs. At awards banquets in the School of Humanities and Sci- has many others. “His real legacy, I honoring student service and achieve- ences was established, awarded to think, is the number of students he ment, Kennedy was there. The ascendant­ faculty in the department of biology empowered to be their best selves,” Stanford sports program? Kennedy was or in the program in human biology. says Anderson. Senator and former its biggest fan. Gaither remembers one The inaugural chair holder was biology presidential candidate Cory Booker, Saturday in the midst of the indirect- professor Robert Simoni, who said, “I ’91, MA ’92, was one. When Booker was cost crisis when he accompanied cannot imagine a greater honor. Don about to lose his football scholarship Kennedy to four different sporting Kennedy hired me in 1971, and though it with one year of eligi­bility remaining, events. “Don knew all about all of the was probably not the greatest moment Kennedy intervened with the coach to sports and the kids on every team,” he in his professional life, it was certainly preserve it, helped Booker find housing, says. “We had a lot of fun.” Indirect costs the greatest in mine!” and urged him to apply for a Rhodes never came up in conversation. Robin Kennedy says one of her Scholarship, which Booker won. “He “It was really fun to work with Don; “great regrets” was that she did not take lifted me at an inflection point in my he was a wonderful, warm, thoughtful Kennedy’s introductory bio course as a youth and helped make me the person person to be with,” says Gaither. “Even freshman in 1964 because she had taken I am today,” Booker wrote in the fore- in the worst of the times on indirect biology in high school. Her friends, she word to Kennedy’s memoir. cost, Don wouldn’t focus on it. He had says, raved about Kennedy’s energy, Kennedy kept up with many of the no interest in looking at the downside. brilliance, generosity and enthusiasm. students he befriended and mentored He was always very up.” Later, she knew Kennedy as a col- long after they had graduated, making After he stepped down as president league—he interviewed her for her first time to chat with them whenever they in 1992, Kennedy spent the following job at Stanford, as director of faculty/ dropped by the campus. Anderson, who winter quarter living with students and staff housing, and they were friends for now runs a multiclient lobbying firm conducting seminars at the D.C. center. many years. “Some have described Don and teaches winter quarters at Stanford Kai Anderson, then a senior, shifted his as a force of nature—someone impossi- in Washington, visited Kennedy every academic schedule so his time there ble not to love,” she says. “During that chance he got. “There was always a little would coincide with Kennedy’s. “He time, I saw not only the qualities I had spark in his eye, a curiosity about what brought such joy to his subject,” says heard about from my freshman class- you were doing and how you were mak- Anderson, ’93, PhD ’98. “He had an mates but also his passions—for students, ing the world a better place,” he says. empathy for the people he was teaching. for science, for higher education, for “And even if you weren’t, he made you He would bring you into the conversa- nature, for intellectual honesty, for feel like you were.” n tion, make you part of it. He saw value public service and for giving back. In in every single person in his classroom.” the end, it was his compassion for me Kelli Anderson, ’84, is a writer in Outside the classroom, Kennedy was at a difficult time during my life that I Sonoma, Calif. Email her at stanford. just one of the gang. When the group learned the depths of his soul and of [email protected].

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Second Acts Opener Spread vF.indd 3 5/21/20 9:40 AM Some millennials also say, “OK Boomer,” boomers—the result of converging tectonic an expression of frustration used when an forces: the tech revolution that favors skill older person—usually one of the 73 million sets overwhelmingly possessed by young baby boomers, like Conley—seems out of workers and the increase in longevity that vague borders of midlife touch. For many of the 168 million Ameri- has resulted in a rapidly aging populace. are thought to start cans born between the early 1980s and Accelerating this collision is automation, mid-2010s, the term also expresses a sense which displaces an aging workforce and around 45, the age when that boomers have made decisions that dam- increases the demand for workers with Chip Conley’s world aged the prospects for future generations. coding skills. began falling apart. With And yet if a story could make people rethink Conley lays out the situation in his latest the burst of the dot-com intergenerational relations and aging itself, it book, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a is Chip Conley’s—not because he flatlined, Modern Elder: “More than half of American bubble in 2000, the Bay but because of what he did afterward. baby boomers plan to work past the age of Area hotel chain he’d But first, his death: During a baseball 65 or not retire at all, and the number of founded nearly folded game at a friend’s bachelor party, Conley cut workers in the 65 and older demographic is and, not long after he’d his leg sliding into third. The wound became expected to increase at a faster rate than any infected, and a few days later, before giving a other age groups. In 2025, we will likely have revived it, the hemor- talk in St. Louis, Conley took antibiotics. He three times as many 65-year-olds working in rhaging resumed with the had an allergic reaction and his heart this country than we did 30 years earlier, and economic crash of 2008. stopped. Paramedics resuscitated him sev- the number of workers age 75 and older is During that same period, eral times before he finally stabilized. expected to increase by an unprecedented Experiencing so much distress and seeing 6.4 percent annually through 2024.” his eight-year relationship so many negative portrayals of midlife made Though financially stable, Conley felt ended, his foster son was Conley question whether he still had some- daunted as he faced a culture transformed by wrongly imprisoned for thing to contribute. What he’d thought tech, dominated by youths and pervaded months until the verdict was his life calling had lasted nearly with ageism—a prejudice he himself shared, 2½ decades: the chain of 52 boutique hotels he realized after accepting the job at Airbnb was overturned, and five he began creating at 26, buying rundown in 2013. The company’s founders had read his of his friends committed hotels and reinventing each one according 2007 book, Peak: How Great Companies Get suicide. Though his to a theme—luxury camping, new age well- Their Mojo from Maslow, in which he closest advisers urged ness or romance novels. But with so many describes managing his hotels based on psy- years ahead of him, he wanted a fresh calling. chologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of him to keep his business During his search for it, he accepted a job as needs to ensure that every employee was going, his heart was no Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy at happy and engaged. “They wanted to create a longer in it. “What had Airbnb, the iconic millennial online culture at Airbnb that was compa- been a calling had worn marketplace for home rentals. rable,” Conley recalls. “So I joined There, among colleagues who and realized I was twice the age of off and was just a job, not were half his age and far more the average person there and I’d even a career,” Conley fluent in tech, he contemplated never worked in tech before.” recalls. He sold his life’s his role as an elder and, in the At 52, he understood neither work at the bottom of the process, joined his ideas to those of tech culture nor the millennial a group of thinkers trying to reimagine argot of his co-workers. Music and market. To make matters aging—looking for answers to how soci- pop culture references went over his worse, he also died— eties can adapt as life spans increase, how head, and he was startled to hear women call literally, as some millen- generations can work together, and how indi- each other “dude.” When others discussed nials like to say. viduals can use additional years to return to “shipping a feature” (releasing a product that school, switch careers and renew their may need alterations and could be endlessly sense of purpose. refined), he was lost. “I felt like maybe the As it turns out, to start over, dying wasn’t business world, especially the technology part required; you didn’t even have to be very old. of it, had passed me by and there was no way to catch up.” On a spring day, he met his father, a 75-year-old retired banker turned real estate IN MANY WAYS, Conley came of middle age investor, for a hike above Los Altos Hills.

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Second Acts Background Spread vF.indd 2 5/21/20 9:43 AM “Social media comes down on people of my age group, but we have a lot to offer.” Listening to Conley talk about his own struggle to hear “elder” not as “elderly”—someone in the last years of life—but as a person who is simply older than others and has many years left, Del Hierro revised his own ideas about aging. “When I was 57,” Conley recalls, “I’d taken some longevity tests that said I would prob- ably live till 98. If I do, I wouldn’t have been even halfway through my adult life. The question I started asking myself was what is it that I wish I’d learned 10 years ago and what are the things I should learn now, so I don’t regret 10 years from now that I didn’t learn it now?”

PERCEPTIONS OF LIFE STAGES SHIFT as cul- tures change. In 1960, French historian Philippe Ariès proposed that “in medieval society, the idea of childhood did not exist,” arguing that children were treated like small adults until, after centuries of social and eco- nomic transformation, childhood became a concept in 17th-century family life. Similarly, fogey at Airbnb,” his father said, “All I’m its website—which also notes that “a positive in 1904, G. Stanley Hall, president of the hearing are your fears. How can you turn your perspective on aging can add 7.5 years to our American Psychological Association, argued fear into curiosity?” Conley was surprised to lives.” Through group projects, the academy’s that adolescence was becoming a devel- realize he’d assumed he couldn’t learn tech weeklong workshops teach people that they opmental phase thanks to universal education lingo and had nothing to offer. “I made the can learn at any age. and child labor laws that freed the teenage shift,” he says, “to realizing how, instead of After 20 years in the shrinking field of pub- years of the burdens of adulthood. being focused on my self-absorbed fear, I lishing, Irene Edwards, former editor in chief More recently, the term middlescence has could serve and be helpful to these young at Sunset magazine, says attending MEA begun circulating in English, referring to the people and their mission for the company.” “made me open to completely new experi- period of self-doubt and readjustment in At Airbnb, Conley increasingly thought ences.” She subsequently sold her Bay Area midlife. Conley argues that, like adolescence, about a new generational compact in which home and moved her family to Denmark to middlescence should be shaped by educa- old and young learn from each other. “I real- work in interaction design—a field exploring tion. “If adolescence is the transitional ized I could offer some mentoring,” he says, digital environments and interactive tech- period between childhood and adulthood,” “while also learning and in essence being nology such as mixed reality and artificial he says, “middlescence is the transitional mentored by them.” Recalling Conley’s time intelligence. “It’s basically designing the expe- period between adulthood and elderhood. with Airbnb, CEO Brian Chesky, in the fore- rience of the user,” Edwards explains. “It’s It is similarly a period when you go through word of Wisdom@Work, writes: “He affirmed really cutting edge. If you told me that I was emotional and hormonal changes. But it’s a that we all have a story to share and some- going to be working in this field a year ago, I period where we have zero in the way of thing to learn from one another. That if we would have laughed.” schools or tools for people to understand this take the time to connect, we can learn any- Similarly, Joseph Del Hierro, ’83, a film next period of their life.” where and from anyone. . . . He’ll show you producer formerly with Disney ABC and It is precisely this challenge—creating that wisdom has very little to do with age Walden Media, attended MEA because he educational opportunities for people later and everything to do with approach.” found himself sidelined in the youth- in life—that inspires Phil Pizzo, founding Conley’s reflections at Airbnb led both to obsessed film industry and wanted to do director of Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Wisdom@Work, in which he describes nonprofit work. (He now raises funds and Institute. Born in 1944 in the Bronx and making peace with being an elder, and to the fosters mentorship networks for an organi- raised in Queens, Pizzo grew up in a family of Modern Elder Academy (MEA), the school zation that helps underprivileged students Sicilian immigrants that imbued him with he founded in Baja California Sur in 2018 to apply to college.) “You learn that you’re just the value of education. His mother, a home- help “people navigate midlife,” according to at the beginning of your new cycle,” he says. maker, didn’t finish high school, and his

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Second Acts Background Spread vF.indd 3 5/21/20 9:45 AM loneliness—with 47 percent of Americans describing a lack of meaningful relationships. Social isolation, whether from changes in the labor market, economic hardship or other fac- tors, often correlates with drug overdose, suicide and alcohol-related illnesses—the “dis- eases of despair” responsible for the decrease in life expectancy since 2015. If this crisis has a solution, it might be in a return to education, says Dianne Millner, who retired from a law career supervising the real estate and economic development units of the Oakland City Attorney’s Office to be a 2018 DCI fellow. At 68, she studied education so she could provide legal and strategic advice to an educational nonprofit. DCI’s impact on her life was “monumental,” she says. “One of the big- gest factors was forming a new cohort.” DCI accepts approximately 40 fellows (including their partners) each year, during which they audit classes and meet frequently to discuss their experiences and goals. Since the challenge of making lasting friendships later in life is often contrasted with the ease of estab- lishing them in college, returning to school at any age offers the possibility of building com- father stopped in sixth grade; after returning then on an iPod and finally on an iPhone. But munity while renewing one’s purpose. from World War II, he sold women’s coats as 2012 neared—the date he had set for step- If Pizzo’s fears about aging haven’t borne during the day and spent nights as a cashier ping down—he began to question his plan. out, it may be precisely because of purpose: at Yonkers Raceway. Pizzo became the first in “That’s when I realized that the social narra- his new mission with DCI. “People in their his family to attend college. After earning his tive that had guided most careers up until 50s who have a high correlation on the MD, he began a residency at Children’s Hos- then—you get educated, you work and you scales of purpose,” he says, “have a significant pital Boston, where he had the experience retire—was less relevant,” he recalls. improvement in all-cause survival.” that first made him think about midlife edu- Pizzo found himself thinking In recent years, programs sim- cation, though he was only in his 20s. about American life expectancy’s ilar to DCI have started up at the “I saw incredible people who had invented increase from 46 years in 1895— University of Texas at Austin and the fields of pediatric surgery or oncology,” when Herbert Hoover the University of Notre Dame. he recalls. “They were more senior people graduated from Stanford’s first Though Pizzo envisions a future [by then] and were not at the top of their class—to 79 today. Mindful of the in which freshmen enter univer- game and were not being treated with the challenges facing aging Americans, sity with classes of midlifers, such same degree of respect. I found that pretty he focused back on education, programs are expensive. Furthermore, distressing. I made the decision that I needed founding the Distinguished Careers Institute, DCI has limited space, and only 217 people to have an alternative career plan so that a program that allows people in midlife to have participated since the program’s 2015 when I got to that point, I wouldn’t be attend Stanford for a year. launch. However, they, like graduates of MEA, hanging on.” “It turns out that in healthy longevity, have gone on to be ambassadors for lifelong Over the following decades, Pizzo served education is one of the single most important learning, and Pizzo sees the program as a in many roles—leadership positions at the determinants,” Pizzo says. “People who’ve prototype. Making the model scalable— National Cancer Institute, physician-in-chief had less than a high school education do not capable of supporting the educational needs of Children’s Hospital Boston, chair of pedi- do as well compared to those who do. Those of millions—remains the challenge. atrics at Harvard Medical School and dean of who’ve had greater than a high school educa- the Stanford School of Medicine—but he was tion have a much more significant likelihood also laying the groundwork to retire and do a of doing well.” AGING IS A FIELD that Laura Carstensen, PhD in history. A long-distance runner, he Likewise, studies show that community professor of psychology and founding listened to history books first on a Walkman, interaction increases longevity, while other director of the Stanford Center on Longevity,

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Second Acts Background Spread vF.indd 2 5/21/20 9:43 AM car accident when I was 21 years old that instead of four,” she says, “and one of those colleges would close over the next decade landed me on an orthopedic ward with years you volunteer in your community and since their standardized approach was irrele- 20-plus broken bones for four months.” the other year you work. If you think you vant in the marketplace. Though critics say While she was on her back, with one leg in might want to be a physician, you work in a his prediction is exaggerated, a number of traction, the nurses gave her the job of hospital.” The result would be healthier, colleges have shut down in recent years or keeping elderly patients upbeat. Her conver- more balanced youths who have a clearer are struggling financially, and the COVID-19 sations with women changed her views on sense of purpose and who learn to create pandemic could be the final blow to many. aging, making her realize that older people financial security for longer lives. “There are a lot of campuses around the aren’t all similar. “I got to see the diversity in Such an integration of education and work United States that focus their energy on 18- their circumstances, attitudes, roles, statuses would also create less age segregation—a to 22-year-olds, and many of those campuses and places in life,” she says. Simultaneously, problem to which “OK Boomer” could be are not going to make it,” Conley argues, she also saw how similar her experience—con- attributed. Young people working with adults pointing out the obvious opportunity to inte- fined to a bed, requiring help—was to theirs. and adults studying with the young could foster grate education for people of all ages and “I began to wonder how much of aging is a understanding. Just as Carstensen adjusted her shift the focus to lifelong learning—an expe- biological process—and it clearly is a biolog- views on aging as she became friends with older rience so in demand that Conley was ical process—but how much of that women, Kate Jerome, a children’s book surprised after starting his academy. “We process was being shaped by the author, publishing executive and thought we wouldn’t accept anybody other social world.” 2015 DCI fellow, grasped the frus- than people 45 to 65, but almost 25 percent Until then, Carstensen had trations of young people better of the people have been younger than 45 or shrugged off college despite the after having taken classes along- older than 65.” hopes of her father, a biophysics side them. “Opening While boomers might be bellwethers in professor at the University of Roch- conversations between genera- the social experiment with second acts, the ester. “It was the ’70s,” she says. tions,” she says, “can only help get indications are clear that the results will “That’s my only excuse.” But during her rid of stereotypes.” apply to the following generations and that convalescence, he offered to tape course lec- As for “OK Boomer,” Carstensen sees the more and more people in those generations tures. “I picked psychology, and that man went conflict behind it from multiple angles. “I know it. Automation and changes in the job to every single introductory psychology class, don’t want people to judge me based on my market are likely to accelerate in lockstep and I took my first college course in the hos- age,” she says, “but we really do need to think with the ever-shortening half-life of knowl- pital, surrounded by old women.” about what our responsibilities are to other edge, and job loss has become more dire Over the following decades of research, generations.” In her writing on the impor- since the emergence of COVID-19. If any- Carstensen concluded that writing on aging tance of older generations actively investing thing, the pandemic has highlighted the was often reductive and there was little evi- in young people, she quotes a Greek proverb: vulnerability of workers and institutions and dence for theories about fixed, biologically “A society grows great when old men plant the degree to which career change is often determined stages that all people go through. trees in whose shade they know they shall not a self-actualizing choice but a survival “Part of the problem with stages,” she says, “is never sit.” imperative. With the ensuing financial crisis, that we’re keeping everything up to 60 the many more people will likely need new jobs, same and then saying it’s at 60 that we’ve got and those jobs will have to last longer to com- more time.” THOUGH THE UNITED STATES has a long history pensate for diminished retirement In her 2011 book, A Long Bright Future: of adult education—from the Lyceum Move- portfolios. Increasingly, the future suggests Happiness, Health, and Financial Security in ment in the 1800s and Chautauqua assemblies that the new normal for all generations will an Age of Increased Longevity, she points out at the turn of the 20th century, to the massive be adaptability in the face of uncertainty. To that in 2050, there will be a million centenar- open online courses offered by learning plat- this end, developing flexible social structures ians in the United States, compared with forms and universities—few existing programs and educational systems is crucial. 80,000 today. With such extended life spans, provide community and funding or are tailored Recalling when she first began voicing the she argues, tacking extra decades to the end to contemporary challenges. need to revise how society approaches work, makes less sense than casting off notions of Transforming higher education, Chip education, retirement and aging itself, stages and spreading the extra years Conley believes, may require a government Carstensen says, “People sometimes said, ‘Oh throughout our lives. “We wouldn’t be del- initiative similar to the G.I. Bill, which bank- yeah, how could that ever work?’ And what I uged with too much work, which is what we rolled education for veterans after World say is, ‘How can this work right now? What do now in the middle, or too much education, War II. One opportunity for such an inter- we have right now doesn’t work. It’s not which is what we do early, or too much lei- vention, he argues, lies in the educational working for anybody. So we’ve got to start sure at the end.” crisis predicted by Clayton Christiansen, the making some changes.’” n Carstensen believes we should integrate Harvard Business School professor who leisure, education and work from the begin- coined the term “disruptive innovation.” In Deni Ellis Béchard is a senior writer at

ROD SEARCEY, ’84 ROD SEARCEY, ning. “Let’s make high school six years 2018, Christiansen stated that 50 percent of Stanford. Email him at [email protected].

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AT FIRST GLANCE, a description But that trip, and others like The mostly untracked park of a 60-mile trek by a father and it described in later chapters—in harbors ample dangers— his son across an unforgiving Borneo, in Mexico, and in various difficult, disorienting terrain wilderness on a remote Aleutian exotic locations where one might and poisonous snakes at every island would seem to be a fairly find Bear Grylls on assignment— turn, as well as occasionally typical account, familiar to also set the frame for what will violent human inhabitants. But KEVIN COOL readers of adventure nonfiction. become a torment of self- it is also a beautiful and edifying is the executive Typical save for one small recrimination by Dial when cradle of natural wonders. editor of Stanford. detail—the son in this case was Cody/Roman, at age 27, disap- Navigating it becomes a kind 6 years old. pears while on a solo expedition of metaphor for safe passage The depiction of their in the Costa Rican jungle. through the emotional trauma weeklong sojourn, the goal of Most of the book is devoted that Dial undergoes. which, says the author, was to to the search for Roman, under- All parents wonder whether “initiate a lifetime of shared taken by Dial and a revolving their influence has been positive wilderness adventures,” is cast of friends, local volunteers or negative, and in The Adven- punctuated by wildlife sight- and, finally, hired investigators. turer’s Son, Dial’s search for his ings, extravagant weather and It’s a litany of false leads and missing child is also a prayer for nightly readings of Charlotte’s frustrating dead ends, always forgiveness, an argument with Web. It is a delightful window shadowed by Dial’s struggle to himself about whether he was into a budding relationship. The reconcile feelings of guilt and a good dad. His heart-wrenching boy, Cody, even declares at one regret—did his own thirst for discoveries, both literal and point that he wants to use his adventure inspire his son to put metaphysical, conclude an middle name, Roman—same as himself in harm’s way? agonizing journey of mind, his father’s name—from then on. The setting is Corcovado body and soul. n National Park, a 105,000-acre rain forest preserve along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica that’s considered one of the most biodiverse places on the planet.

Together we had spent too many months over too many years in too many countries on too many continents for that to be the son I raised. He was in trouble. I knew. The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir, by Roman Dial, PhD ’92; William Morrow. FROM TOP: GLENN MATSUMURA; PETER MACK PETER MACK GLENN MATSUMURA; FROM TOP:

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FACULTY Sacramento River Delta to run a farm and raise Beaver. In retirement, he provided training, con- Athena Milatovich Cherry, of Stanford, February 4, their children. She was a charter member of the ducted safety inspections and assisted distressed at 60, of lung cancer. She was a professor of Courtland Community Methodist Church and a boaters as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. pathology and pediatrics. She co-authored more member of the Walnut Grove Community Church. He was also an active Mason and Shriner. He was than 100 papers on gene mapping, medical She served her community through the Sacra- predeceased by his first wife, Doris (Vivian, ’46); genetics and cteslerytogenetics. She started her mento River Delta Historical Society, Delta Young second wife, Sandy Hills; third wife, Audrey Fin- career as a lab technologist, which proved to be Women’s Club, and Mary and Martha Knitters, kelson; and fourth wife, Della Woosley. Survivors: invaluable experience for her as director of the and she received a 50-year pin from La Perita his stepchildren, and a niece and nephew. Stanford Cytogenetics Laboratory, where she Garden Club. She was predeceased by her hus- evaluated and diagnosed thousands of cases band, Carel, ’41, and daughter Laurie Shonerd. 1950s each year for more than 20 years. She also served Survivors: her children Topper, Russell, ’66, Richard Clemens Dice, ’50 (English), of Arroyo as president of the American Board of Medical Libbey McKendry and Helen Cardenas; 16 grand- Seco, N.M., January 11, at 92. He served in the Navy Genetics and on the boards of the American children, including Steven ’02, and Julie Murray, during World War II. At Stanford, he was in the College of Medical Genetics and the American ’04; 18 great-grandchildren; and sister. marching band and met his future wife. He spent Cytogenetic Conference. Survivors: her husband, Raymond Renton Ross Jr., ’44 (biological sciences), his career with First National Bank of Denver, where Bradley; and daughter, Jacqueline. MD ’47, of Santa Ana, Calif., December 21, at 97. he became vice president of the trust department. Bruce Foster Johnston, MA ’50 (economics), PhD He practiced internal medicine from 1957 until 1992. Retirement gave him the opportunity to enjoy gar- ’53 (food research), of Portola Valley, Calif., February He was an avid fly-fisherman and an active Kiwanis dening, raise sheep and horses, and feed wild birds 1, at 100, after a brief illness. His work for the Army member. He was predeceased by his wife of 53 in his adopted home near Taos. He was also a pub- with food rationing and distribution in postwar years, Kay. Survivors: his son, Raymond III; and lished author, mountain climber and tango dancer. Japan led to a career in international agricultural stepchildren, Janice Jensen, Richard Bate, Karen He was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Louise development. With NATO, he worked to implement Courtemanche and Barbara Preston. (Reyburn, ’52). Survivors: his children, Michael, the Marshall Plan. He then returned to Stanford Mary Adeline Richards Culp, ’47 (political science), Christopher, Timothy and Kathleen; seven grand- as a faculty member for the Food Research Insti- of San Francisco, January 18, at 93, of peripheral children; and nine great-grandchildren. tute. His career brought him to many parts of the arterial disease. She held numerous community John Edward Sudden, ’50 (psychology), of Thou- globe and entailed collaboration with the U.N. Food service leadership roles, including director of volun- sand Oaks, Calif., November 16, 2018, at 91, of heart and Agriculture Organization, World Bank, Agency teers at Mt. Zion Hospital, coordinator for Florence failure. He served in the Navy and was a member for International Development, and the Ford and Crittenton Services and president of the Volunteer of Chi Psi. He worked first for GTE and then for Rockefeller Foundations. He also enjoyed skiing, Center of San Francisco. She helped found the the Ventura County Association for the Retarded. hiking and rooting for Stanford sports teams. He San Francisco Interfaith Council and worked with He loved gardening, especially tending to his roses, was predeceased by his wife of 67 years, Harriet, pastors and lay leaders around the Bay Area in watching football and travel, but his favorite place and son, Bruce, ’68. Survivors: his daughter, Patricia, her role with the San Francisco Presbytery. The was South Lake Tahoe. He was predeceased by his ’76; and two grandchildren. Junior League, PEO, Old First Concerts and Century first wife, Virginia, and a grandson. Survivors: his Club of California also benefited from her talents. second wife, Millie; children, Lynn Martinelli, Robert 1930s She was predeceased by her husband, Frank. Sur- and Mark; stepson, Jerry McClain; five grandchil- Martha Sprague Hurley, ’37 (basic medical sci- vivors: her sons, Thomas, Fred, James and John; dren; two great-grandchildren; and sister. ences), of Palo Alto, January 7, at 104. She was a and two grandchildren. Elizabeth Ann Alexander Bennett, ’51 (sociology), member of Chi Omega and the track team. She was Florence H. Wickersham “Wicki” McDonald, ’47 of Corralitos, Calif., January 4, at 91. She earned involved in the life of her children through church (speech and drama), of Newport Beach, Calif., her master’s degree in clinical psychology from San​ activities and social clubs, including PEO and Colo- February 26, at 94. She was a member of Kappa José State ​and worked as a school psychologist for nial Dames of America, and especially by passing Kappa Gamma. She was devoted to helping chil- more than 25 years in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was on to them her love of reading poetry and literature. dren with speech therapy and remedial reading, also a marriage and family therapist and an educa- As a lifelong fan of Stanford football, she made sure through the International Orphans Organization tional psychologist in private practice. She earned to retire near campus. She was predeceased by her and through co-founding a chapter of Childhelp a second master’s degree and pursued additional husband, Melvin, ’37, MD ’42, and a grandson. Sur- USA. In 1974, she pursued her dream of starting a graduate coursework at the Pacific Graduate vivors: her children, Arthur, Nancy van Roessel and family-style restaurant and later played key roles School of Psychology. Her greatest joys were family Janet Boone; four grandchildren, including Peter in two more family-owned restaurants. She was vacations at Salmon Lake, meeting with friends for van Roessel, MD ’07; and five great-grandchildren. an avid golf player until the age of 90. She was birthdays and to support each other’s writing, and Nancy Pettigrew Moser, ’37, of Walnut Grove, Calif., predeceased by her husband of 52 years, Lloyd, helping her clients. She was predeceased by her January 23, at 104. She met her future husband in ’40. Survivors: her sons, Steven, Bruce, ’77, and former husband, Robert, and daughter, Rebecca. chemistry lab. During World War II, she sailed with Christopher; and six grandchildren. Survivors: her sons, Mark, Matthew and Todd; eight her children on a munitions ship to join her husband Jean Faulds Stohl, ’47 (biological sciences), of grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and sister. in Bahrain. After the war, she returned to California Cupertino, Calif., January 12, at 95. She served in Frank X. Gordon Jr., ’51 (sociology), of Phoenix, to join the family farming business. She served her the Coast Guard Women’s Active Reserve during January 6, at 90. He was a member of Sigma Alpha community by helping to found a local park and World War II. She met her husband at Stanford, Epsilon and the swimming, tennis, crew and golf was known for her love of books and preparing raised her family and later embarked on a career teams. He earned his JD from the U. of Arizona. exquisite meals for her many friends and loved as a lab technician at Kaiser Hospital in Santa After practicing law alongside his father, he was ones. She was predeceased by her husband of 61 Clara. She was predeceased by her husband, appointed and then elected to the county superior years, James, ’37, and son Jimmy, ’64. Survivors: Bob, ’47, and son Eric. Survivors: her sons David, court. In 1975, he was appointed to the Arizona her children Sally Moser Small, ’62, and Robert, ’71; Scott and Jeff Magus. Supreme Court and served as chief justice from seven grandchildren, including Kate Moser, ’02, and Ernest Floyd Latham, ’48 (biological sciences), of 1987 to 1992. After retiring, he joined the firm of Sarah Moser, ’06; and eight great-grandchildren. San Diego, December 26, at 94, of Parkinson’s Roush, McCracken & Guerrero. Survivors: his wife, disease. He was a member of Theta Chi. He Joan; children, Frank III and Candy Lander; three 1940s earned his MD from Johns Hopkins and then grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Elizabeth Coffin “Pan” van Löben Sels, ’41 (biolog- began service in the Navy. For service in combat John Colby III, ’52 (electrical engineering), of ical sciences), of Walnut Grove, Calif., February 9, zones while attached to the Marine Corps during Camarillo, Calif., January 4, at 89. He was a member at 101. She met her future husband on a Sierra the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Bronze Star. of Alpha Phi Omega. He spent more than 30 years Club outing, got married and transferred to Stan- For his lifelong support of Boy Scout units wherever as a Navy civil service engineer at the Pacific Missile ford for her senior year. The couple moved to the he was stationed, he was awarded the Silver Test Center at Point Mugu, Calif. He later worked for

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Aegir Systems and served on the Somis School Harold William Dotts Jr., ’54 (industrial engi- Bruce D. Gillies, ’56 (economics), of Berkeley, District Board for 16 years. He was a photographer neering), of Northbrook, Ill., December 12, at 87. November 25, at 84. He was a member of Phi and woodworker, bred and raced thoroughbred He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and served Kappa Psi. He served two years in the Army, fin- horses, and exhibited oil and acrylic paintings. in the Army after graduation. He was a member ished his degree and then earned his JD from He was also an avid fan of Stanford football for of the Economics Club of Chicago for more than UC Berkeley. He spent his legal career with more than 60 years. Survivors: his wife of 63 years, 50 years. He enjoyed golf and downhill skiing Donahue, Gallagher, Thomas and Woods. His Janet; children, Jennifer, John IV, Jean Bricker and served as class correspondent for Stanford true passions were organizing sports for the and Jill Church; 14 grandchildren, including Justin magazine. Survivors: his wife of almost 50 years, neighborhood kids, jazz, singing in the Berkeley Bricker, ’13, MS ’14; and 21 great-grandchildren. Barbara; children, Deborah Phadnis and Mike; Community Chorus and leading trips to the Sierra Delight Stacy Kolar Leonard, ’53 (sociology), of four grandchildren; and two siblings. Nevada. Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Heidi; Portland, Ore., January 5, at 89, of Alzheimer’s dis- Keith Fitzalan Mulrooney, ’54 (history), of Falls sons, Donald and Robert; and sister. ease. She was a Dollie and met her future husband Church, Va., February 14, at 87. He was a member Kim Ernest Linnett Sr., ’56, MS ’57 (mechanical at Stanford. She was devoted to her family, friends, of the freshman track team, ROTC and Alpha engineering), of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., January faith and serving her community. In Portland, she Sigma Phi. He served in the Marine Corps and, 31, at 85, of Alzheimer’s disease. He married his uni- was a PTA president, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral after earning an MPA from the U. of South Caro- versity sweetheart and embarked on a career as a Altar Guild member, Junior League president, chair lina, worked in city management in California and rocket scientist on the Atlas and Titan programs at of the Women of Good Samaritan Hospital and a Virginia and was executive director of the Amer- Edwards Air Force Base. He would go on to work board member for Camp Fire and the Oregon Sym- ican Society for Public Administration. He began on aircraft air cycle systems for Garrett AiResearch phony. She also enjoyed golf, tennis, skiing and jog- running at the age of 43 and completed the first (later Honeywell). He was an active participant in ging. With her ladies’ cycling group, she made tours of six marathons in his mid-60s. The Nature Con- numerous sports and, as an early treasurer of throughout the United States and Europe. She was servancy recognized his service with its top AYSO, helped establish youth soccer in Southern predeceased by her husband, Richard, ’52, and award. He was a lifelong supporter of the Stan- California. He was predeceased by his wife, Patricia son Peter. Survivors: her children Chris, ’81, Libby ford Club in Washington. He was predeceased Meeks Linnett, ’55, MA ’57. Survivors: his sons, Leonard Pugel, ’85, and Richard; seven grandchil- by his first wife, of 38 years, Monica (Kaufmann, Kim Jr., Barry, ’82, and Chris; and six grandchildren. dren; and three great-grandchildren. Gr. ’55), and his second wife, Catherine Mitchell. Patricia Ann Powers McIntyre, ’56 (international Roger Alan Schwartz, ’53 (international relations), Survivors: his children, Michele Mulrooney Pavarino, relations), of Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019, at 85, MA ’55 (political science), of Mendocino, Calif., ’83, Jill and Scott; and five grandchildren. of bile duct cancer. She lived in Long Beach, Calif.; December 25, at 88, of metastatic prostate cancer. Harriet Louise Ritchie Nard Rivers, ’54, of Modesto, Madison, Wis.; Princeton, N.J.; and, since 1966, in He spent a year in France as a Fulbright scholar. Calif., January 14, at 87. She completed her degree Tucson. She was active in civic affairs, particularly He later started and for 23 years helped run a at Stanislaus State and worked as an accountant for Catholic charities. She enjoyed foreign travel for wholesale importing business with his father. On the Yosemite Area Boy Scout and the Muir Trail Girl short vacations and extended stays in Mexico, his buying trips, he traveled extensively in Europe Scout Councils. She gave volunteer service to Babe England, Scotland and Sweden. One of her favorite and Asia, while retirement offered him the chance Ruth Baseball, Memorial Hospital, the Center for journeys was visiting several of the 88 Buddhist to visit New Zealand, the Galápagos Islands, India, Senior Employment and other organizations. temples on the Japanese island of Shikoku in 2002. Alaska, Africa and Patagonia. He gave back to his She was also treasurer for Saron Lutheran Survivors: her husband of 62 years, Larry, ’56; chil- adopted home of Mendocino by helping to manage Church in Escalon, Calif., and an avid player of dren, David, Mark, Charles and John; 13 grandchil- its water infrastructure, serving as vice president of tennis and bridge. She was predeceased by her dren; three great-grandchildren; and brother. the music festival and on the county mental health first husband, Robert Nard, and second husband, William C. Jones Jr., ’57 (industrial engineering), MA board, and through the Rotary Club. Survivors: his John Rivers. Survivors: her children, Dennis Nard, ’69 (education), of La Jolla, Calif., February 28, at 85, wife of 58 years, Fran; children, Liz and Stephen; Nancy Morgan, James Nard, Lisa Ryan, Brenda of pneumonia. He pursued a career as a public high and granddaughter. Nard, ’82, MA ’83, Celia Harris and Maureen Nard; school math teacher. He was an avid traveler and Dorothy Elaine Spratt, ’53 (geography), of Los stepchildren, Susan Engstrom and Barbara Rivers; loved Stanford athletics. Survivors: his nephew. Angeles, February 28, at 88. She played in the 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Helen Margaret Roe Warren, ’57 (history), of symphony orchestra. After graduation, she spent Martin Adelbert “Marty” Spellman, ’54 (basic Peoria, Ariz., January 4, at 101, after a short ill- her career in real estate. She enjoyed horseback medical sciences), MD ’57, of Fremont, Calif., ness. She was working as a nanny, housekeeper riding and playing the piano and violin. She was February 10, at 87. He was a member of Delta and secretary to put herself through the U. of an avid tennis player and also loved tending her Upsilon. He served four years as an Army doctor Wisconsin when World War II interrupted her garden. Survivors: her sister. in Germany and was a radiologist at Washington studies. She finished her bachelor’s degree at Betty Jane Armstrong Dole, ’54 (political science), Hospital in Fremont for more than 30 years. He Stanford, earned her teaching credential, and of Palo Alto, May 4, 2018, at 85, of Alzheimer’s dis- also taught courses at Stanford Medical School then taught elementary school in New Jersey and ease. She was a translator for the State Department and helped train doctors in Ghana, Cuba, the Virginia. She was active in civic life through the in Peru before returning to Palo Alto to marry a Azores and Panama. He was an active Rotarian PTA and League of Women Voters to advance former classmate and fellow acrobatics troupe and enjoyed painting classes and art openings civil rights and the equal treatment of all people. member. In more than 30 years as a court reporter, and participating in two book clubs, but his Survivors: her sons, Hugh, ’63, Robert and Philip; she recorded testimony from tech giants, mob favorite moments were adventures with his wife six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. bosses and Cesar Chavez. She also helped feed and family in Europe, China, Russia and Nepal. Richard Maurice Codiga, ’58 (mechanical engi- feral cats, sang in the choir for Our Lady of the He was predeceased by his wife, Sherril. Survi- neering), of Carlsbad, Calif., November 10, at 82. Rosary, learned French, took ballet lessons and vors: his children, Shannon, Patrick and Peter; He was a member of Tau Beta Pi. His career as a traveled widely. She was predeceased by her son, six grandchildren; and brother, Michael, ’65. microwave telecommunications engineer spanned Jefferey. Her husband of 63 years, Richard, Donald E. Patman, ’55 (economics), of Long more than 40 years in the Santa Clara Valley. passed away last year. Survivors: her daughter, Beach, Calif., January 30, at 86. He was president Survivors: his wife of 61 years, Nancy; children, Janet Krovoza; and two granddaughters. of Patman Meat Co. from 1958 to 1977, served as Laura Codiga-Edwards, Douglas and Daniel; Richard Alexander Dole, ’54 (chemistry), of Palo president of the National Association of Meat and brother, Bill, JD ’56. Alto, November 27, at 87, of heart disease. He Purveyors and, with his son, started Patman Meat Anne Eastham Lewis, ’58 (Spanish), of Carmel was a member of Sigma Chi and the freshman Group. He was an avid photographer and fan of Valley, Calif., December 14, at 83, of progressive football team. He met his future wife through a college football and the Dodgers. Survivors: his dementia. She was a member of the golf, tennis and university acrobatics troupe. He worked as a wife, Mary Ann; children, Pat, Kelly and Paige; 10 club skiing teams, and the Texas and spirit clubs. chemist for Sunkist, a mail handler for the Postal grandchildren; and brother. She raised her blended family in Atherton, Calif., Service and an engineering aide for the Santa Winfred Eugene Wedge, ’55 (social science/ and Houston and was active in Peninsula Volun- Clara County Department of Public Works. He social thought), MBA ’59, of Modesto, Calif., teers and Junior League. She earned a master’s loved swimming and diving at Rinconada Park March 3, at 86. He was football team captain and degree from the Church Divinity School of the and fly-fishing and camping in Yosemite. He a member of Navy ROTC and Delta Tau Delta. He Pacific and found church communities in Sun Valley, was predeceased by his wife of 63 years, Betty served in the Marines before returning to Stan- Idaho, and on the North Shore of Kauai. She was (Armstrong, ’54), and son, Jefferey. Survivors: his ford for his MBA. He went on to a career of more predeceased by her second husband, John Lewis, daughter, Janet Krovoza; two granddaughters; than 50 years in the construction industry. Survi- and son Steven. Survivors: her first husband, John and two siblings. vors: his son, Douglas; and two grandchildren. Neff, ’56, MS ’63; children Linda Neff Sunde, ’84,

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Pamela Lewis Thornton and John Lewis Jr.; six enjoyed the outdoors and backcountry camping 1960s grandchildren, including Samuel Sunde, ’17, and with his family. He was predeceased by his first Barbara Kay Stephenson Harris, ’60 (education), Joseph Sunde, ’17, MS ’19; and sister. wife, Ann (Hagey, ’58, MA ’59). Survivors: his chil- of Olympia, Wash., February 7, at 81, after a long Troy Walter Barbee Jr., ’59, MS ’62, PhD ’66 dren, Troy III, Michael, Christopher and Rebecca; struggle with cancer. She sang in the choir and was (materials science), of Palo Alto, November 20, at second wife, Wendy Smith, and their son, Jacob on the Women’s Row executive committee. She 82. He was a member of the football and rugby Bowland; and four grandchildren. raised her family in several different states and in teams and Alpha Tau Omega. He spent 25 years Benjamin Butler Robinson II, ’59 (economics), of Korea and Germany. She later earned a master’s at the Stanford Research Institute and the Center Mission Viejo, Calif., November 29, at 81, of Alzheim- degree from the U. of North Alabama. She enjoyed for Materials Research. At Lawrence Livermore, er’s disease. He was a member of Zeta Psi, the singing in church choirs and following her favorite he directed a research lab for 30 years. His football and baseball teams and Navy ROTC. He sports teams, especially the Stanford basketball research on multilayer synthesis and nanotech- was a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam. His civilian team. She was predeceased by her son Jeff. Survi- nology led to more than 300 journal articles, two career was in stock brokerage and wealth manage- vors: her children, Steve, Katie and Kari; five grand- edited books and 28 patents. In 2015, Stanford’s ment. Survivors: his wife of 32 years, Margaret; chil- children; and two brothers, including Kim, ’63. Native American Cultural Center inducted him dren, Brooke Meyer and Ben; three grandchildren; Nancy Louise Erreca Robertson, ’60 (political sci- into its Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame. He also and sister, Melinda Robinson Moiso, ’63. ence), of Los Banos, Calif., January 27, at 81, of

Legal Pioneer, Scholar and Mentor A trailblazer for women in the legal profession to her proper role in legal history,” Lawrence and the first female tenured faculty member at Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Stanford Law School, Barbara Babcock was a Law, told Stanford Lawyer in April. “A century charismatic campus presence who inspired apart, two women pioneers.” students, defended the indigent and promoted Babcock left a legacy of scholarship, leader- gender justice. ship, feminism, and the enduring admiration of Barbara Allen Babcock, the Judge John students and colleagues. In an email the week Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, died of cancer after Babcock’s death, Justice Ruth Bader on April 18 at her Stanford home. She was 81. Ginsburg credited her with “support for my nomi- Encouraged by her lawyer father, whom she nation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. recalled as “a real Arkansas storyteller,” Babcock Circuit in 1980 and, 13 years later, to the Supreme graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University Court, [that] was constant and influential.” of Pennsylvania and was just one of 13 women Beyond that, Ginsburg added, “she had a in her class of 175 students at Yale Law School. zest for life that made it a delight to be in her In 1963, the year she earned her JD, the U.S. company.” Babcock delivered the annual Justice Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on that states must provide attorneys to criminal Women and the Law in 2018. defendants who could not afford one—and Others appreciated Babcock’s verve and Babcock’s career was set in motion. By 1968, inspiration. California Supreme Court Justice Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. she was director of a pilot project in Washington, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, MA ’96, PhD ’01, She would win the award three more times. D.C., that she renamed the Public Defender Ser- noted her encouragement when he, a freshly Judge Michelle Friedland, ’94, JD ’00, of vice. “We became a great agency and designed hired law professor in the early 2000s, pro- the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, recalls the best practices for public defense,” she told posed a research project at a faculty meeting. Babcock greeting her class with encouraging Stanford Lawyer in 2016. Georgetown University “‘The paper was nice, very nice,’ I recall her words to this effect: “You belong here. You have law students served as volunteers, and they saying. ‘But you know what was better? That everything it takes to succeed here, and we prevailed on Babcock to teach a Women in you got up there and said to folks: This is what are here to support you and cheer you on as Law course, one of the first in the country. I’m about! This is what I’m interested in and you do.” Friedland adds, “Her speech caused Recruited to Stanford in 1972, she helped why I have something to say about it.’ ” Cuéllar the entire [first-year] class in the audience to found a San Francisco public interest law firm, adds: “Nothing made me feel more confident breathe a sigh of relief. And she set a tone of Equal Rights Advocates, to promote gender that I belonged than Barbara’s mix of warmth friendship rather than competition that contin- equality. She took a leave when President Jimmy and wisdom.” ued through our law school years. I often felt Carter appointed her to be the assistant attorney In 1979, Deborah Rhode became Stanford like she was my law school fairy godmother.” general in charge of the Justice Department’s Law School’s third female professor (the sec- In her 2016 autobiography, Fish Raincoats: civil division, tasked with increasing the number ond, Carol Rose, Gr. ’77, taught there from 1978 A Woman Lawyer’s Life, Babcock describes a of women and minorities on the federal bench. to 1980). There were 36 men on the faculty, fourth-grade contest when she blurted out She would later say of that time, writing for the and women in the law were so rare, Rhode “raincoats” in response to a question asking Women’s Legal History blog: “I was often asked says, that she and Babcock were widely per- what, besides food, Indians use fish for. Laughter what it ‘felt like to get my job because I was a ceived as the same person by their colleagues. erupted (the answer was fertilizer), and she lost woman.’ I developed a stock answer: ‘It’s far “One thing that struck me as odd was the contest. “I had failed spectacularly,” she better than not getting it because I’m a woman.’ ” how often I was mistaken for Barbara Babcock. writes, but at Stanford she would share the She also pursued the lost history of Califor- I mean, she was tall and brunette,” Rhode, who anecdote as a tale of childish exuberance— nia’s first female lawyer—like Babcock, an inven- is blonde and shorter, recounted in a 2017 until Professor Pamela Karlan visited a museum tor of the public defender’s role and a leader of interview. Both felt so isolated, Rhode said, and spotted a 1910 Yu’pik Indian qasperrluk, a the women’s movement. Celebrated in the late that they circulated a memo asking the faculty fish-skin raincoat. “You have been vindicated!” 19th century as a legal reformer and public intel- to perform a thought experiment: What if you Karlan emailed her colleague. The story encap- lectual, Clara Foltz had been all but forgotten were the only man teaching at the law school? sulated Babcock’s self-deprecating wit—and her until Babcock made it her life’s work to return her “It was like a feather falling into a well,” Rhode lifelong tendency to be right. to public prominence. She retired from teaching said. “It became known as the ‘Barbara and Babcock is survived by her husband of 41 to devote herself to the project, which resulted Deb need a friend’ memo. That somewhat years, Thomas Grey, ’63, the Nelson Bowman in the critically acclaimed 2011 book Woman missed the point, though it was true.” Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz. “It was a labor As an educator, Babcock was immediately Emeritus; stepdaughter, Rebecca Grey, JD ’96; of love for her to spend years writing the life of embraced and admired by her students who, granddaughter; two brothers; and first husband, another special woman . . . and to restore Clara in 1981, honored her with the John Bingham Addison Bowman. —John Roemer STANFORD LAW SCHOOL LAW STANFORD

STANFORD 59 Farewells cancer. She worked for the California State Legisla- Angeles Police Commission and Constitutional of Alzheimer’s disease. He was a member of ture, in educational publishing and import/export. Rights Foundation. He was appointed to the 9th ROTC and the club ski team. After 10 years in After marrying (and learning to pilot a Cessna U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1999. His decisions engineering, he embarked on a new career in during her honeymoon), she was active in town touched on right of the press to observe execu- business, starting in life insurance sales and then government and served a term as Portola Valley tions, the use of cigarette tax money for anti- focusing on pension planning for individuals and mayor. In her later career, she held positions at mul- smoking ads, employment discrimination based businesses. He was active in Rotary, YMCA, and tiple Silicon Valley software startups. She also made on HIV status and the secrecy of the government’s Exchange Club and served on the Chamber of an appearance on the TV quiz show Jeopardy. no-fly list. Survivors: his wife of 59 years, Nancy; Commerce board. He loved skiing, enjoying suc- She enjoyed tennis, paddle tennis, bridge and golf. children, Jeff and Amy; and four grandchildren. cess in senior downhill races in his 70s, and was Survivors: her husband, Tim, Gr. ’82; sons, Paul, James Clair Flood, ’61 (political science), of San an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church. John and Mike; granddaughter; and two siblings. Francisco, February 18, at 80, of heart failure. Survivors: his wife of 58 years, LaVonne; sons, John I. “Jack” Yellott Jr., ’60 (political science), He was a member of Theta Chi and ROTC. After Steven and Stanton; and seven grandchildren. MA ’61 (sociology), PhD ’66 (psychology), of Laguna serving in Army intelligence, he began a banking Ronald S. David, ’62 (psychology), MD ’67, of Beach, Calif., December 4, at 81. He was a member career with Wells Fargo. He later joined the family Tucson, Ariz., February 10, at 80. After Army ser- of Phi Kappa Psi. He was professor emeritus of UC business. In this capacity he managed and oversaw vice, he pursued training in psychiatry in New Irvine’s department of cognitive sciences, which he the restoration of the Flood Building in San Fran- York. He was director of outpatient services at a helped found. He taught previously at the U. of Min- cisco. The mountains and rivers of northwest Wyo- mental health center in the East Bronx, N.Y., and nesota and was a visiting member of Princeton’s ming became a second home for him. One of his then in Tucson. He was also the director or man- Institute for Advanced Study. He was a popular favorite accomplishments was summiting the Grand aging partner of several private practice groups teacher of mathematical psychology, and continued Teton with his daughters. In the week before his and was a clinical associate professor of psychiatry his research in mathematics and vision sciences death, he went horseback riding and duck hunting, at the U. of Arizona for 30 years. He was awarded until last year. Survivors: his wife, Dorothea (Geary, and he skied in Jackson Hole the day he died. the position of Life Distinguished Fellow of the ’60); children, Carolyn Yellott Darlington and John; Survivors: his wife of 54 years, Astrid; daughters, American Psychiatric Association and served on two grandchildren; and sister. Christina Flood Kane, Lisa, and Karin; seven grand- the board of the Borderlands Theater in Tucson. Marvin Gary Dickson, ’61 (history), of Edinburgh, children; and three siblings. Survivors: his partner, Madeleine; children, Diana Scotland, February 25, at 81, of Alzheimer’s disease. John Ritchie “Jack” Lamey, ’61, of Seattle, and Sam; five grandchildren; two stepchildren, He was a Woodrow Wilson fellow at Yale, then December 15, at 80, of cancer. He was a member Sophie and Stephan; and three stepgrandchildren. earned his PhD at the U. of Edinburgh. As a medi- of Phi Delta Theta and the golf team. He finished Carter H. Harrison Jr., ’62 (petroleum engineering), eval historian, he published numerous journal arti- his degree at the U. of Washington and stayed for MS ’64, Engr. ’66 (civil engineering), of Tucson, cles and two books on the Children’s Crusade and an MD. During 30 years of practice in obstetrics Ariz., January 2, at 83, from Parkinson’s disease. charismatic movements. He was a fellow of the and gynecology, he delivered around 5,000 He served in the Army. At Stanford, he was head Royal Historical Society and a member of Prince- babies. Retirement allowed him to rededicate usher at Memorial Auditorium. He was a consultant ton’s Institute for Advanced Study. He was prede- himself to golf as a senior amateur player and as for water projects throughout the Northwest. He ceased by his wife of 45 years, Margaret. Survivors: board president of the Pacific Northwest Golf was also an assistant professor at Auburn U. and his daughters, Sarah Brengman and Rachel; and Association. He also served in leadership roles research manager of the American Society of two granddaughters. for Big Brothers of Seattle and Northwest Forum. Civil Engineers (ASCE). He served as president Raymond C. Fisher, ’61, LLB ’66, of Sherman Oaks, Survivors: his wife, Yvonne; children, Lisa Stewart, of the Oregon section of ASCE and the Society Calif., February 29, at 80. He finished his undergrad- Heidi, Michael, Jason and Laura; stepchildren, of Architects and Engineers. Survivors: his wife of uate degree at UC Santa Barbara before returning Mary Simpson, Taylor Everett and Paige Porter; 55 years, Connie (Tilton, ’62); children, Julie and to Stanford for his law degree. He clerked for Jus- 10 grandchildren; and sister. Berkeley; two grandchildren; and three brothers. tice William Brennan Jr., was in private practice Robert Stanton Niccolls Jr., ’61 (mechanical engi- Lee James Sneller, ’63 (industrial engineering), of for 30 years and served as president of the Los neering), of Meridian, Idaho, December 4, at 80, Long Beach, Calif., December 31, at 79, after a long

Spiritual Leader Who Popularized Psychedelics Before transforming himself into the counter- a wheelchair and unable to talk, but he learned Harvard that Alpert reconnected with a Stanford cultural guru known as Ram Dass, author of to “surf the silence,” he said. He eventually pal, Elliot Aronson, PhD ’59, an expert in experi- the bestselling Be Here Now, Richard Alpert regained some ability to speak. mental methodology. Alpert and Leary con- was a psychology grad student exploring Born in Boston, Alpert majored in psychology sulted Aronson on a study of psilocybin (aka achievement anxiety in academia. at Tufts University, and he pursued a master’s magic mushrooms) and rejected his suggestion Baba Ram Dass, formerly known as Rich- degree at Wesleyan University but failed the oral for making the study rigorously controlled. ard Alpert, PhD ’57, died December 22 at his exam. Nonetheless, he was accepted to the PhD “They ignored the precautions I recom- home on Maui, Hawaii. He was 88. In 1997, he program at Stanford, where he and Ralph Nor- mended, and the next thing you knew, Richard suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that left him in man Haber, PhD ’57, chose to study the impact Nixon was calling Tim the most dangerous man of anxiety on students’ academic achievements. in America,” Aronson says. Alpert turned the inquiry into his doctoral thesis. He continues: “I knew Richard in all his three So did Haber, separately. Professor Robert incarnations: the hard-striving young academic Sears, then chair of the psychology depart- who’d have killed to get tenure at Harvard, the ment, “told us we had probably produced the door opener to the Age of Aquarius, and the first joint PhD dissertation in Stanford’s history,” lifelong spiritual leader.” Alpert, he says, returned Haber says. from a years-long trip to India transmuted into Alpert and Haber applied to the National Baba Ram Dass. “He sought to expand people’s Science Foundation for a grant to expand their consciousness without the aid of chemicals. theories through experiments. The proposal He did an awful lot of good in the world.” was accepted, Sears supervised their research, Dass, who described himself as primarily and their work was published in 1960 in the homosexual in a 1997 interview with the web- Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. site Gay Today, reportedly had an affair with Alpert was hired to teach at Harvard, where a female graduate student at Stanford that pro- he met Timothy Leary and famously embarked duced a son, Peter Reichard, whom Alpert on the psychedelic drug experiments that would learned about in 2010. His survivors also lead to their dismissal in 1963. It was also at include a granddaughter. —John Roemer PETER SIMON

60 JULY 2020 Farewells struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was a 19, at 73, of melanoma. He developed the use of and soccer. Survivors: his sons, David and Adam; member of Delta Chi. He earned an MBA from Cal conditional probability distributions to forecast parents, Mark and Kathy; former spouse, Kim State LA in 1968 and was a manufacturing executive recoverable resources, an approach still used in the Cusato; and sister, Willow, ’92. at several companies, starting with Mattel. He met mining industry. His career, first with Hanna Mining his wife while working there in 1963. After his and then Fluor before he co-founded Mineral BUSINESS Alzheimer’s diagnosis, he made it his mission to Resources Development Inc., took him to 17 states, Raymond Hawkins Sheen, MBA ’57, of Thousand educate others about the disease. He was an avid eight Canadian provinces and 35 countries outside Oaks, Calif., February 5, at 96. He served for 26 supporter of the Alzheimer’s Association and rode North America. He served extensively in administra- years in the Navy and retired at the rank of com- on the organization’s Rose Parade float in 2011. tive roles for the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and mander. He then started a second career at RAND Survivors: his wife, Pat; children, Traci, Jeffrey, ’92, Exploration, and his work was recognized with Corp. in Santa Monica. He retired in 1978 as head MS ’92, and Todd; and seven grandchildren. numerous awards from professional bodies. He also of the facilities and services department. To fellow Robert Vincent Violante, ’63 (basic medical sci- pursued interests in trilobites, food and wine and parishioners at the United Methodist Church of ences), MD ’66, of Palo Alto, February 25, at 80. Porsches. Survivors: his wife of nearly 51 years, Thousand Oaks, he was known as the “friendliest As an Army physician, he was based in Bangkok Susan; children, Meg and Winthrop; six grand- man at church.” In retirement, he dedicated his for three years, and he returned often to Thailand daughters; and sister. time to visiting the sick and elderly and also found throughout his life. He managed emergency Douglas Alden Karlson, ’69, MS ’75 (mechanical time for travel. He was predeceased by first wife, departments at the Santa Clara Valley Medical engineering), of Palo Alto, January 1, at 71. He was Marion Bell, and second wife, Ruth Evens. Survi- Center and other Bay Area hospitals and helped a member of Chi Psi and the crew team. He spent vors: his third wife, Lois Olson Thorgusen Sheen; build medical institutions in Santa Clara County. his career as a manufacturing and supply chain daughters, Nancy Pasquarelli, Carolyn and Pam; He enjoyed skiing, sailing, swimming, fly-fishing manager in the Bay Area. He found joy in nature six grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. and sports cars. He was also a fan of Stanford and the outdoors, in the Bay Area’s food and Richard Whitehead, MBA ’66, of Brookhaven, athletics and gave guest lectures on emergency wine culture, in travel to Europe and Asia, and in Ga., February 4, at 82, of Lewy body dementia. medicine for the School of Medicine. He was pre- the community at Stanford Memorial Church. He In 1983, he founded the National Association of deceased by his wife Barbara. Survivors: his wife reconnected with the sport of rowing later in life Personal Financial Advisors, and he was a prin- Lauren Weissman; children, George, Gina Haynes, through the Bair Island Aquatic Center in Redwood cipal in several Atlanta financial advisory firms Tida, Suzanne Lytle and Cristina; stepdaughter, City, where he served as a board member, presi- for more than 30 years. He was an avid reader Danika Kohler; 12 grandchildren; and sister. dent and treasurer. He was predeceased by his of nonfiction and a fan of Atlanta sports teams. Graham Gilmer III, ’64 (biological sciences), of wife of 41 years, Rebecca. Survivors: his partner, Survivors: his wife of 55 years, Karen; sons, KC Lynchburg, Va., January 17, of cancer. He was a Nancy Radcliffe; and children, Sarah and Doug. and Jeff; and five grandchildren. member of the track team and Sigma Chi. He Elizabeth Ruth Gill, MBA ’89, of Toronto, January earned his MD from the U. of Maryland, served in 1970s 23, at 56, of cancer. She worked as a marketing the Marine Corps as a flight surgeon and then com- James Edward Duignan, ’71 (general engineering), executive for Disney, the Davies law firm, and pleted his ENT residency in San Diego. He prac- of Redwood City, February 9, at 77. He served in Danier and was head of the Childhood Cancer ticed medicine for 41 years in Lynchburg. He served the Navy during the Vietnam War. He worked on Foundation Canada. She was a fan of the Patriots, his community through Meals on Wheels, Habitat the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Red Sox and Bruins and enjoyed hosting elabo- for Humanity, and the Lynchburg Tree Stewards and enjoyed a long career as a heavy equipment rate Halloween parties. Survivors: her husband, and was an elder at First Presbyterian Church. mechanic and welder for Peterson Tractor, Cat- Shayne Kukulowicz; children, Caitlyn and Ryan; His interests ranged from photography, bonsai and erpillar, Fisk Firenze and McLean, and he retired stepdaughter, Halle; father, Thomas Gill III; and woodworking to birding, duplicate bridge and golf. from the San Mateo Department of Public Works. brother, Thomas Gill IV. Survivors: his wife of 50 years, Helen; sons, Christo- He was also a coach, referee and regional director pher, Drew and Graham IV, ’05; eight grandchildren; for AYSO Soccer, sang in local church choirs, ENGINEERING and three siblings. played acoustic guitar, baked bread, won chili Rune Evert, MS ’66 (aeronautical and astronautical Charles Bryan Burton, ’65 (political science), of cook-offs and built everything from coffee tables engineering), of Solvang, Calif., November 20, at Phoenix, February 17, at 76, after a short illness. to industrial-size BBQ grills. Survivors: his wife, 93. He came from Sweden to work in aviation, He was a member of Kappa Sigma. He earned his Sue; children, Nellie Mikulin and Paddy; two advanced his career with his engineering degree JD from Duke U. and then returned to his home- grandsons; and two siblings. from Stanford and later added an MBA from UCLA. town of Phoenix. He founded Burton & Leather & Timothy Bell Moyer, ’72, MA ’74 (economics), of He developed and operated satellite space launch Associates and enjoyed a legal career lasting nearly Califon, N.J., February 2, at 69. He was a member systems in engineering and management posi- 40 years. Retirement gave him the opportunity to of Delta Upsilon and the club lacrosse team. After tions at several aerospace companies, including focus on golf, watching sports and supporting his earning his MBA at Harvard, he had an extensive Lockheed Martin and Hughes Aircraft. He was also beloved Stanford Cardinal teams. Survivors: his chil- banking career with Salomon Brothers, Dean Witter a visiting engineer at the Aeronautical Research dren, Elizabeth and Bryan; and three grandchildren. and Société Générale. After 9/11, he joined the FBI’s Institute of Sweden. In retirement he enjoyed Robert S. Rosch, ’65 (history), JD ’68, of Bear, newly formed financial counter-terrorism unit, where building his dream home in Solvang, traveling with Del., July 2019, at 76, of ALS. He was predeceased he worked until his passing. He pursued broad the Stanford Alumni group and keeping two Volvos by his first wife, Anne (Selby, ’66, MA ’69, PhD interests in world travel, French and history, but perfectly maintained. He was predeceased by his ’71). Survivors: his wife, Phyllis; and daughters, he especially loved the peace and quiet of the wife of 56 years, Anne-Marie Johansson. Stephanie and Caroline. woods surrounding his home. Survivors: his wife, William Eric “Bill” Drummond, MS ’67, PhD ’71 Lawrence Gordon Tesler, ’65 (mathematics), of Wilhelmina; children, Lindsay Stempniak and (electrical engineering), of Cupertino, Calif., January Portola Valley, Calif., February 17, at 74. As a stu- Timothy Jr.; four grandchildren; and three siblings. 17, at 77, of bladder cancer. At Nuclear Semicon- dent, he was hired to write software for various ductor Inc. (later Spectrance) in Menlo Park, he university departments and set up a successful 1980s developed semiconductor devices for measuring consulting company. During the 1970s, he worked Marianne Miller Boyce, ’85 (economics), of San X-ray spectra. Over his 34-year career, he rose to at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in California, Francisco, January 27, at 56, after a long struggle the position of general manager and helped make which produced many breakthroughs in computer with metastatic breast cancer. She was a member the company a leader in its field. He loved traveling technology. He went on to work for several leading of the crew team and Kappa Alpha Theta. Survi- the world, collecting stamps, and being with family tech companies, including Xerox, Apple, Amazon vors: her husband of 34 years, Albert, ’86; sons, and friends. Survivors: his girlfriend, Connie Choi; and Yahoo, devoting his career to making com- Evan, Thomas, ’12, and Trevor; and grandson. and two siblings, including James, JD ’72. puters practical, affordable and easy to use. His Alfred Rew Yarrington, Gr. ’69 (electrical engi- best-known innovation was the “cut, copy and 1990s neering), of Venice, Fla., January 1, at 83, of a blood paste” command, which was incorporated into Scott Wallace Pearson, ’91 (political science), of clot. He served in the Army. In addition to his engi- Apple’s Lisa computer in 1983 and is now an ele- Alameda, Calif., January 25, at 50, of hyperten- neering degree, he earned a JD from Lincoln Law mental feature of all electronic devices. Survivors: sion. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and School in San Francisco. He made use of both his second wife, Colleen Barton, PhD ’88; daughter, the marching band. He worked as a project man- degrees in his career as an international contracts Lisa; and two brothers. ager for several computer game start-ups. He attorney in the defense industry. Survivors: his wife Harry McDougal Parker, ’67 (geology), MS ’74 (sta- was devoted to his sons and enjoyed playing of 50 years, Rita; children, Julia and Albert; stepson, tistics), PhD ’75 (geology) of Reno, Nev., December sports with them, especially golf, skiing, baseball Russell Jones; seven grandchildren; and sister.

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Kevin William Hannan, MS ’79 (electrical engi- wine. He was predeceased by his stepson Alvah neering), of Tacoma, Wash., January 3, at 63. Halle. Survivors: his wife, Ann; children, Lisa Osur Do you know of a Stanford alum He had a 30-year career with Boeing and retired and Victor; stepchildren Pamela Halle, Samuel who has recently passed away? in 2011. Survivors: his sister. Halle ll and Michael Halle; 10 grandchildren; and two brothers. Please let us know. HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES Richard Stuart Grim, LLB ’63, of Phoenix, Jan- Vladimir Joseph Kovalik, MA ’53 (economics), of uary 13, at 84. He served in the Air Force. He Simply fill out our online form: Monterey, Calif., February 15, at 91. He was a spent his career in international finance. His ini- https://stanfordmag.org/obituary member of the Alpineers Club. Born in Slovakia, tial position with Continental Bank in Chicago he became a member of the Czech national hockey was followed by postings in Milan and London. Or send the information to: team and carried the flag at the 1948 Olympics. But After joining the financial division of Greyhound Stanford magazine he was soon arrested for anti-communist activity in Phoenix, he took his family abroad once more Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center and put on a train bound for Siberia. He escaped, to open an Indonesian office in Jakarta and then 326 Galvez St. met his future wife in a displaced persons camp again to London. In retirement, he continued to Stanford, CA 94305-6105 and came to the United States. After earning his be active as a management consultant and Attn: Obituaries master’s degree, he took a position at the Stanford entrepreneur. Survivors: his wife of 57 years, Research Institute. Together with his wife, he pub- Linda (Harrison, ’63); children, Terry and Marisa; lished several books on oceanography. He was pre- and five grandchildren. deceased by his former wife, Nada (Skidmore, ’47). Russell Glenn Allen, JD ’71, of Newport Beach, Survivors: his children, Kim, Kyle and Karen. Calif., January 19, at 73. He served as a judge Thomas William White, MA ’65 (Latin American advocate at Norton Air Force Base for four years, Stanford Alumni Association studies), of Houston, November 24, of cholangio- then joined O’Melveny and Myers, specializing in Board of Directors carcinoma. He studied in Brazil as a Fulbright wills and trusts. After 32 years, he left the firm scholar prior to graduate study. Later, he served and worked for JP Morgan Chase before opening in Army intelligence in Vietnam and was awarded his own private practice in Corona del Mar, Calif. Chair: Andrew Haden, ’00, San Diego a Bronze Star. In his civilian career, he worked in Survivors: his wife, Joan; daughters, Samantha Vice Chair: James Ambroise, ’92, Brooklyn, N.Y. banking, savings and loan, and the oil industry. Allen Ochoa, ’91, Theresa, Rebecca and Deborah; Vice President for Alumni Affairs and He served on the board of the Stanford Club of and two grandsons. President, Stanford Alumni Association: Houston for more than 20 years. He especially Kaatri Robbins Boies Grigg, JD ’71, of San Fran- Howard Wolf, ’80, Stanford enjoyed being part of the Houston chapter of cisco, February 15, at 74, of frontotemporal the Larry Dierker Society for Baseball Research. dementia. After initially working in the Wells Fargo Survivors: his wife of 52 years, Monica (Stephens, Bank legal department, she switched to a career Martha Alvarez, ’08, MA ’09, Sacramento, Calif. ’67); children, Christopher, Harry, Irene and in nonprofit leadership. She served on the board Ethan Aumann, MS ’04, PhD ’10, Washington, D.C. Thomas Jr.; 10 grandchildren; and two sisters. of directors of San Francisco Children’s Hospital, Adam Bad Wound, MA ’05, MA ’06, Oakland Philip Oppleman Temko, PhD ’68 (philosophy), later the California Pacific Medical Center. She of Santa Rosa, Calif., December 19, at 95. He was also a founding trustee and board member Carol Benz, ’85, San Francisco served in the Army during World War II. He and chair for San Francisco Day School. She per- Yvette Bowser, ’87, Los Angeles taught philosophy at Sonoma State for 30 years. formed additional board service for Breakthrough Jennifer Chou, ’00, MA ’01, JD ’05, Los Angeles He enjoyed music and books, the outdoors, and Collaborative, Chanticleer and the American Con- Bob Cohn, ’85, Washington, D.C. family gatherings at home and on the Oregon servatory Theater. She was predeceased by her Doug Cushing, ’67, Lake Oswego, Ore. coast. Survivors: his wife of 70 years, Judy; chil- son Jeffrey. Survivors: her husband of 48 years, dren, Wendy, Heidi and Danny; four grandchil- Douglas; son Eliot; five grandchildren; and brother. Ivan Fong, JD ’87, Minneapolis dren; and two great-grandchildren. Cynthia Ann Vroom, JD ’87, of San Jose, Maeve Givens, ’20, Stanford November 27, at 70, of cancer. She earned a Patricia Gumport, MA ’82, MA ’86, PhD ’87, LAW PhD in French literature from UCLA before Stanford Charles Lawrence Swezey, LLB ’48, of Palo Alto, earning a law degree. She worked at several law February 10, at 96, of heart failure. He served in firms but found her dream job as legal counsel William Hagenah, ’66, Kenilworth, Ill. the Army and attended law school on the GI Bill. for the University of California. Her primary areas David Hornik, ’90, Palo Alto As an attorney, he specialized in workers’ com- of practice included employment litigation, First Nelson Hsu, ’91, MS ’93, Dallas pensation law, and he had particular impact Amendment issues and academic personnel Bacardi Jackson, ’92, Miramar, Fla. through public service. He was president of the issues. She was a visiting professor at the Univer- Ron Johnson, ’80, Atherton, Calif. Palo Alto Fair Play Council and served on the sity of Aix-Marseille and once had the opportunity California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board to translate for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Theresa Johnson, ’06, MS ’10, PhD ’15, for 31 years. He was also an avid cyclist and com- She was fluent in Italian and an avid fan of col- San Francisco bined his interests in art and travel by touring lege sports. Survivors: her brothers, Scott, Barry Tonia Karr, ’92, San Francisco museums in the U.S. and around the world. Until and Brad. Suleman Khan, MD candidate, Stanford the end of his life, he attended Stanford football and basketball games with religious devotion. MEDICINE Mary Jean Montgomery, MA ’73, Spencer, Iowa He was predeceased by his wife of 69 years, Michio “Mitch” Takahashi, MD ’58, of Walnut Nina Rodriguez, MS ’05, Arlington, Va. Betty Ann. Survivors: his children, Tim West, Kirk, Creek, Calif., September 22, at 86. He interned Lily Sarafan, ’03, MS ’03, Palo Alto Sean, Blair, Erin, Adam, Rory, Megan Swezey and did his residency in internal medicine with Phil Satre, ’71, Reno, Nev. Fogarty, ’86, and Tanya Swezey Stabinsky; 21 the U.S. Public Health Service, first in Seattle Srinija Srinivasan, ’93, Palo Alto grandchildren, including Devon, ’08, and Molly and then in San Francisco. In 1965, he joined Ellen Fogarty, ’19; and sister. Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek. He was Andrei Stamatian, ’00, Bucharest, Romania Donald Victor Petroni, LLB ’58, of Santa Ynez, later chief of internal medicine at Kaiser Perman- Jonathan Steuer, MA ’92, PhD ’95, New York Calif., February 7, at 88. He started graduate work ente in Pleasanton and physician in charge at Jorge Tapias, ’94, San Carlos, Calif. in English, served in Army counterintelligence, Kaiser Park Shadelands. His favorite pastimes Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Stanford then returned to earn his JD and edit the law were playing golf with his wife and friends, sup- review. He joined O’Melveny & Myers, first spe- porting the Stanford women’s basketball team Fernando Trevino, ’92, San Antonio cializing in international law and spearheading and playing the ukulele. He was a self-appointed Connie Wang, MA ’05, Mountain View the opening of an office in Paris, then returning to class photographer and attended every Stanford Sheila Wang, MS ’87, Singapore focus on entertainment law. He negotiated con- reunion with camera in hand. But his greatest Kelsei Wharton, ’12, Washington, D.C. tracts for actors like Burt Reynolds, ventures like joy was his granddaughter. Survivors: his wife Bess Yount, ’09, MA ’10, San Francisco Univision and events like the Olympics. In 1993 of 57 years, Millie; daughters, Sandy Takahashi he fulfilled his dream of building a castle in Santa Sirai, MBA ’89, and Sherry; granddaughter; and Rob Zeaske, ’95, Lexington, Mass. Ynez, growing grapes and olives and making three siblings.

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