BACK AT THE DORM: In some ways, Steve Stedman and Corinne Thomas's home is like many other suburban dwellings: It has three bedrooms and space to cook, entertain, work and relax. But open an interior door and you'll find yourself in a dormitory hallway leading to the rooms of 380 upperclassmen in Stanford's global citizenship theme dorm, Crothers Hall. Stedman, '79, MA '85, PhD '88, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Thomas returned in 2009 for their second tour of duty as resident fellows after serving in that role in the all-frosh dorm Larkin, in Stern Hall, from 1997 to 2003. "What I love about our home is living amidst students," Stedman says. Their goal is to make the dorm feel like home to all its occupants, a task Thomas equates to staging a ballet: It takes a lot of work to make the result look effortless.
Monika Nagy with parents, Kären and Tom, and children, Elise and Gabe, at their home near the Dish. (Photo: Rico Andrade)
FOOTHILLS FAMILY: Kären Nagy joined Stanford in 1986 as head of the music library. Over the next 25 years, her roles included serving as executive dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences. Along the way, she made an unusual purchase—a house in the Stanford foothills just off the path to the Dish. She and her husband, Tom, who teaches ethics to clinical psychology postdocs, have lived there ever since. Now they share the house with their daughter, Monika Nagy, '00, her husband, Rico Andrade, '01, and grandchildren, Elise and Gabe. Andrade calls the location "a perfect place to raise kids"; the couple save money and lower their carbon footprint while their children get to know their grandparents. "I feel we're very lucky—to grow up and not lose the magical experience of being at Stanford," he says.
Tamara, Tatum and Dave Bunnett at Cherry House. (Photo: Benjamin Patton)
FOREVER CAMPERS: For three seasons a year, Stanford Sierra Camp director and CEO Dave Bunnett, '83, and his family live near South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in a house they built by hand. But come summer, Bunnett, his wife of 20 years, Tamara, and his daughters, Danica, '18, and Tatum, move into their 800-square-foot cabin, Cherry House, on camp grounds. Bunnett has been a full-time camp employee for 28 years—20 of them as director and another six as assistant director. The cabin's cozy, but the family speaks of it with affection. "One thing that's special about this house is it's so small that you're all with one," Bunnett says. "I think it has made us very close."
