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Changes to Stanford Alumni Blogs
More >>Thank you for reading Stanford's alumni blogs. We want to notify our readers that we're taking our alumni writings in a new direction--forming one big community of bloggers rather than many blogs with specific topics. The blogs you've been reading continue to be available, but as archives only. All new posts will be on a single Alumni Blog (Click here to set up RSS notification). The bloggers whose writings you've enjoyed will, we hope, continue contributing on the Alumni Blog along with a whole new crop of bloggers writing about new topics. So jump in! Become a guest blogger, or simply read and comment on posts.
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Posted by Ms. Summer Moore Batte on Jun 21 2011 1:01PM | 0 comments
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Things You Learn At Summer Camp
More >>This week I took my two older girls to sleep-away camp. They will be there for four entire weeks and it's their third year of rustic cabins, bug spray over sunscreen, canoe-tipping and infrequent showering (no wonder they go through so much bug spray). On drop-off day, we go through the same routine every year. My oldest starts to inch closer and closer to me as we reach her new cabin and her eyes fill with tears as we say goodbye. It is heart wrenching. The younger one, our middle child, leaves her father with the task of unpacking her bags while she gets right down to camp business (chatting up the counselors, visiting the nurse to personally introduce herself). And yet, when we pick them up, the oldest will have had a perfect, relaxing time at camp and can't wait to go back. Her sister, on the other hand, will fill the four hour car ride home with tales of high drama, her frequent visits to the camp nurse, the perceived injustices that...
Posted by Ms. Lea Ann Garrison Knight on Jul 31 2010 8:17AM | 1 comments
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Finding His Voice
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When the Class of 1983 met for their
twenty-fifth reunion two years ago, one of their classmates
couldn’t be there. Instead of seeing old friends
at the Larkin reception, Frank McGuire, ’83, JD ‘86 was
practicing his wedding vows. That following morning, as many
Stanford alums headed off The Farm and back to their lives, a few
attended a beautiful wedding and reception in the Oakland Hills
where Frank married his long-time partner, Trevor
Manning. They were in a race against time, determined
to get married before the vote on California’s Proposition 8,
which, when passed, would invalidate such same-sex marriages in the
future.I caught up with Frank recently and here’s what he had to say about working in the State Court System, being a registered Republican in a sea of San Francisco Democrats, and finding his ...
Posted by Ms. Lea Ann Garrison Knight on May 29 2010 11:28AM | 1 comments
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Finding the Right Parachute
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As a freshman at
Stanford, Tracy Scott ‘83 knew exactly what she was going to
do upon graduation. She would be a businesswoman. To do
that, she would need a business degree and the closest thing
Stanford had to offer was Economics. So, by the end of her
freshman year, Tracy had declared her Econ major. And
then proceeded to dislike every minute of it…After graduation, armed with a degree she didn’t want to use, Tracy spent the next several years figuring out what she DID want to do. She finally arrived at her true calling in a land far from home and a field quite different than the one she chose at eighteen.
Tracy is now Dr. Tracy L Scott, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Sociology Department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She teaches a popular Introduction to Sociolog...
Posted by Ms. Lea Ann Garrison Knight on May 2 2010 6:15AM | 0 comments
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From Basketballs to Boardrooms
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Two weeks ago, on a warm Tuesday afternoon in San
Antonio, Texas, I found myself standing in a sea of red shirts
eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Stanford Women’s
Basketball Team. The players were en route from their hotel
rooms to the arena to compete in the NCAA Final Four and we, the
fans, were there to help the Band pump them up for what must surely
have been the biggest game of their basketball careers.As I stood in the small crowd of largely middle-aged alums who had made the trek to Texas, I watched as each player sauntered into place on the top step outside of the hotel’s entrance. They stood in a row, uncertainty on their faces as they peered over the crowd. The band had already played a song or two and was heating up with some of the old favorites. Wearing their daughters’ jerseys, the girls’ mothers were snapping photos for the scrapb...
Posted by Ms. Lea Ann Garrison Knight on Apr 16 2010 12:57PM | 2 comments
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Why Television Might Be Beneficial After All
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My first ever Stanford football game took place at the end of
a crazy freshman orientation week. The RAs from my freshman
dorm marched us all off to Stanford Stadium to soak up that hot
September sun on a day before beer kegs were banned and when Elway
was just a promise. During a dull stretch of action on the field, my group began playing Trivial Pursuit. One question led to another and emerging from the pack of enthusiastic freshmen was a guy who clearly knew a lot of TV show trivia. (Particularly about Star Trek, I might add). I was a little disturbed, but mostly impressed. Here was a guy who had clearly spent a lot of time watching television in his formative years. I was determined to learn more…
Thus began my thirty year friendship with Dr. Christopher Schneck, M.D. For 4 yea...
Posted by Ms. Lea Ann Garrison Knight on Apr 3 2010 12:00AM | 0 comments
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What's Your Story?
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This year I participated in Stanford’s pilot
program to give every 2010 applicant in the state of Massachusetts
a personal alumni interview. As I prepared for my first
meeting, the palms of my hands began sweating. I
agonized over what I was going to wear. Perusing the
interview manual, I made sure I had memorized the best questions,
and I arrived sufficiently ahead of the scheduled interview time to
find a good table. Nervous, I had visions of
calling the student by the wrong name (been there); running out of
anything to say (not sure I’ve ever been there) or spilling
my hot cup of coffee down the front of my shirt in my haste to
“be friendly” (done that).
Clearly, even thirty years later, I’m still trying to make up for the disastrous job interviews I suffered ...Posted by Ms. Lea Ann Garrison Knight on Mar 26 2010 8:20PM | 0 comments
