September 2023

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For 50 years, Stanford has been telling the story of the university and its alumni. See what else just became vintage.

Features

We’re Golden

The First Stanford Astronaut Returns from Space

A Sequel for Supersonic Flight?

The End of the Nursing Education Era

A Classic Is Released

50 Years After the Stanford Murders, Three of Four Families Have Answers

SLE Club

The Axe Is Stolen One Last Time

A Young Lawyer Wins an Educational Equity Case

The Poet and the Coup

Joining the Force

Keepers of the Flame

A Godfather Delivers a Ransom Payment

Steps Toward Saving Salamanders Are Set in Motion

Fumble

‘Until the Birds Took Over the Singing’

A Splashy Debut

89 Rodins Find a New Home

California’s Charge

For Commencement Speaker, a Watergate Special Prosecutor

Fit to Be Tried

The Winds of Freedom

Transition at the Top

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Essays
Essays

Connecting with the Composer

Decades after graduation, I gave John Cage another listen.

by David Wilson-Okamura

All Right Now
All Right Now

Water Rights

One alum’s quest to address people’s most basic needs.

by David Silverberg

All Right Now

You Art What You Eat

A professor-photographer finds the fun in food.

by Tracie White

All Right Now

Meet Ecy King

A former senior class president puts the oodles in doodles.

by Kali Shiloh

All Right Now

Alone, Together

My husband had been my safe harbor. In the wake of his loss, how would I navigate Reunion Homecoming?

by Susie Colby

All Right Now

Happy Campers

by Kali Shiloh

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7 Races, 7 Days

by Rebecca Beyer

All Right Now

Beyond Student Council

by Rachel Lit

All Right Now

Ticker - September 2023

Stanford people in the news and on the move.

Columns
Columns

Past Is Prologue

Why we embarked on a history project.

by Kathy Zonana

Departments
Departments

Book Review: Flex Time

New and Notable

by Kathy Zonana

Departments

Biblio File: What to Read Now — September 2023

New releases that inspire us.

Departments

Dialogue — September 2023

Farewells
Farewells

Longtime Hoover Director and Change Agent

John Thomas Raisian

by John Roemer

Farewells

Developer of First Effective Treatment for Hepatitis B

William S. Robinson

by Tracie White

Farewells

Harvard Law School Professor and Social Justice Icon

Charles J. Ogletree Jr., ’74, MA ’75

by John Roemer

Farewells

Oboist Who Pulled Back the Curtain

Blair Alston Mercer Tindall, MA ’00

by Kali Shiloh

Farewells

Obituaries — September 2023