successful campaign positions stanford for the future

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In 2006, Stanford set an ambitious goal: to raise $4.3 billion to

enable the university to seek solutions to global problems and

educate leaders for a world facing challenges of unprecedented

scale and complexity.

In true Stanford fashion, we far exceeded the campaign’s goal.

Through the tremendous generosity of our university family, The

Stanford Challenge raised an astonishing $6.23 billion as of its

conclusion on December 31. An impressive sum, but even more

impressive is all that the sum has enabled.

It has empowered faculty and students to pursue research and

teaching of enormous promise. Some of their stories appear in

the final report on The Stanford Challenge, which I urge you to

review at thestanfordchallenge.stanford.edu.

As readers of Stanford Benefactor know, the success of the

campaign also reflects untold hours of volunteer support and

thoughtful philanthropy. More than 166,000 alumni, parents,

and friends invested in this challenge. I hope the people and

projects featured here give you a sense of the remarkable work

taking place all across campus as a result of the generosity and

involvement of you and your fellow Stanford supporters.

Stanford has seized this opportunity to assume a larger role in

the world. The campaign has launched us into new territory,

from the ability to manipulate brain cells with pulses of light to a

biodegradable building material that could save trees, a training

program for leaders from developing countries, new data-driven

K–12 education policy, and a more central place for the arts

within the liberal arts.

Through it all, The Stanford Challenge has focused on people.

Over the past five years, Stanford has endowed 139 new faculty

positions and 366 graduate fellowships. After the 2008 global

financial crisis, financial aid became an even higher priority, and

with your help we raised more than $253.7 million for need-

based scholarships for our undergraduate students.

The revitalization of the Stanford campus has been an

extraordinary effort over the past decade as well. There are 26

new buildings, many of them dedicated to multidisciplinary

efforts. They give faculty and students the resources they need to

pursue groundbreaking work.

What happens next? Although the campaign has ended, its

ultimate purpose was to transform the way Stanford works—the

way we seek solutions and educate leaders. Obviously, daunting

problems continue to face our world. With the success of

The Stanford Challenge, the aim for Stanford now is to apply

our new capabilities with renewed dedication. Although we

cannot predict what the coming decades will bring, Stanford is

positioned for leadership as never before.

Thank you for lifting our university to ever greater heights.

Sincerely,

John L. Hennessy

President

Bing Presidential Professor

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Successful Campaign Positions Stanford for the Future

ABOVE: The Stanford Challenge eclipsed its original fundraising goal, providing essential support for the university. PHOTO: Jill Clardy

“Stanford has seized this opportunity

to assume a larger role in the world.

The campaign has launched us into

new territory.”

–John L. Hennessy President

Five Years. 166,000 Supporters. A Future of New Possibilities.

Defending Mother Nature in Court

In California’s fertile Salinas Valley, water loaded with fertilizers and pesticides flows off agricultural fields into a network of ditches and drains. The untreated runoff seeps into groundwater and feeds into Elkhorn Slough and Monterey Bay, harming drinking water and the wildlife-rich watershed.

But not for long, if students in the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford successfully represent their pro bono client, Monterey Coastkeeper.

“We’re trying to create incentives for the Monterey County Water Resources Agency to treat the runoff. They wouldn’t do it on their own, so we brought suit,” says clinic student Brigid DeCoursey, a third-year law student and an editor-in-chief of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.

She and fellow students, working in a clinic space designed like a law office, have been pulling out thick books, brainstorming legal claims, writing memos late into the evening, and presenting arguments in court.

Under the guidance of Stanford faculty and the clinic’s staff attorneys, the students practice real law for real nonprofit clients. Starting in their second year, students can join the clinic for one quarter, full-time, with no other classes.

The environmental clinic is part of the law school’s Mills Legal Clinic, in which students gain hands-on, practical experience in 10 areas of interest, including corporate and transactional work and criminal law.

“From the students’ point of view, they get a great experience,” says Bill Landreth, ’69, who heard about being a clinic student firsthand from his son, Peter, ’98, JD ’04. (Peter now works at GenOn Energy Inc. as director of California environmental policy and associate general counsel.)

A major gift from the Landreth family—which includes Jeanne, ’69, and daughter Kerry, ’95, a managing director at Goldman Sachs—will help the clinic expand to meet the increasing demand for its services. With additional staff, the clinic can train more students, act for more clients on precedent-setting cases, and collaborate more often with campus colleagues on interdisciplinary projects.

Bill and Jeanne Landreth are longtime Stanford volunteers who backed the Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability when it launched in 2004. Bill says, “I feel a strong commitment to do more” to nurture innovative environmental problem solving. He spent his early years hiking and fishing in the Sierra Nevada, and became a wilderness guide before a career at Goldman Sachs.

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ABOVE: Environmental litigation on California’s Central Coast—a hub of agricultural activity—provides a learning opportunity for students, funded through The Stanford Challenge.

Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability Campaign Highlights

PlantEd: The Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Institute for the Environment took root at Stanford in 2006. Housed in the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, the institute promotes multidisciplinary environmental research in five main areas—energy and climate, land use and conservation, oceans and estuaries, freshwater, and the sustainable built environment—addressing complex environmental issues and seeking sustainable approaches to development.

EnErgIzEd: Surging demand for energy poses challenges to our planet and humankind. From more efficient photovoltaic cells to global strategies to reduce atmospheric carbon, Stanford is moving to the forefront on these critical issues. The Precourt Institute for Energy and TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy draw expertise from throughout the university. The Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, jointly based in the schools of business and law, focuses on regulatory and market obstacles to clean energy technology.

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The retired couple lives in Carmel, on the edge of Monterey Bay.

The clinic’s philosophy is to seek solutions, and litigation is just one of many tools. For example, the clinic will consult with scientists on low-cost solutions to treat runoff, such as S-shaped channels to slow water flow and native plants that filter chemicals. Professors and staff attorneys also coach the students on negotiating agreements and creating good policy.

The Monterey County case concentrates on a small geographic area, but it’s a common scenario. Federal law currently allows farms to discharge wastewater without a permit. And the county water agency argues that it doesn’t need to treat the wastewater moving through its drainage system because it passively accepts the wastewater from the fields.

Clinic students disagreed in a well-researched complaint, and a judge affirmed that the case could go to trial. Like most clinic students, DeCoursey felt attached to the case she worked on in her second year, and has come back in her third year part time to help on the discovery phase of the case.

“It’s been really great to see the project from its infancy,” she says. “It’s a very exciting process to be involved in.” n

Bill Landreth, ’69, serves on the advisory council of Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, the Lane Center for

the Study of the American West, and the Cantor Arts Center, as well as the California board of The Nature Conservancy. Jeanne Landreth, ’69, served on The Stanford Challenge Leadership Council.PHOTO: Steve Castillo

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ABOVE: The William H. Neukom Building at Stanford Law School, which opened in May 2011, provides 65,000 square feet of seminar, meeting, office, and clinic space— including the quarters for the Environmental Law Clinic. PHOTO: Misha Bruk

$432.8Mraised to support the Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability

$60.2Mraised within this initiative to attract and support Stanford’s outstanding faculty

$33.4Mraised within this initiative to attract and support the most talented graduate students

$246Mraised within this initiative to support promising new research and world-class programs

$92.3Mraised within this initiative to create state-of-the-art buildings and facilities

40 Years of HumBio

The wild three-tiered birthday cake said it all: Decorated with cell organelles, primates swinging from jungle trees, dairy farmers, and Charles Darwin, the confection composed a biological, social, and behavioral perspective on the human experience. The honoree was the Human Biology Program, offering one of the first interdisci-plinary degrees at Stanford, which celebrated its 40th birthday in 2011 in the same unconventional style in which it was launched.

“HumBio” graduated its first class in 1971. Having broken away from academic divisions dating back to Aristotle, the program offered a new approach to learning not only about the human body, but also about larger issues related to the human condition. Majors take a rigorous “core” course sequence, then team up with advisors to focus on issues of their choosing, from obesity in America to conservation biology.

As the single most popular major at Stanford, HumBio drew more than 400 students, alumni, friends, and faculty to mark the birthday milestone. That included thanking early donors who “saved the program from infant mortality,” according to Carol Boggs, the Bing Director of Human Biology and the Stanford Friends University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

During The Stanford Challenge, a wide range of supporters gave to the program. Three gifts provide examples of how the campaign sustained one of Stanford’s most celebrated academic experiences.

A perfect match for public health

The Human Biology Program was just taking flight when Richard Hoffman, ’71, MD/MPH, earned his Stanford diploma in biology—the traditional kind. Hoffman intended to be a physician, but after medical school and his internship, he joined the U.S. Public Health Service. Through a chance assignment as head of infection control in tiny Saguache, Colorado, he discovered the medical detective work of epidemiology. The experience launched his 35-year career in public health.

Hoffman has provided $1.5 million to endow an introductory course in epidemiology so current HumBio students can be

exposed to the field much earlier in their educations.

“I thought Stanford should offer undergraduates an introduction to public health and epidemiology, but that was missing from

the curriculum,” says Hoffman, who met his wife, Molly Bush-Hoffman, at the Colorado Department of Public Health. Effective public health programs by definition tend to be invisible to the public, he explains. These are the unseen efforts that keep outbreaks of measles, polio, and pertussis at bay. As a result, the field is often misunderstood or overlooked. With the class, he aims to change that.

In 2009, Hoffman proposed funding a pilot class and found an enthusiastic recipient in HumBio. “The ‘demi’ part of epidemiology is people, it’s humans,” he says. “So it’s a perfect match for the Human Biology Program.” After three years of positive reviews and high enrollment for the pilot HUMBIO 151: Introduction to Epidemiology, he established the endowment last year.

“We couldn’t maintain this course without the endowment,” says Boggs. “It also gives us the flexibility to really make it into an interesting course. We’ve had a number of students decide they want to go on to get an MPH degree as a result of this course.”

Hoffman says the aging public health workforce will also benefit from recruiting the promising minds of “the greatest university in the world.”

Unrestricted funding, unlimited horizons

The rigors of HumBio don’t just sharpen minds, they also forge lifelong friendships, says Wende Hutton, ’81. Over Reunion Homecoming Weekend, her houseguests were her HumBio study partners from three decades prior.

“What makes Human Bio so special is the core with that faculty group and the bonding that occurs,” she says. “It becomes an intellectual way of thinking … looking at all facets of a process, considering the psycho, social, cultural aspects, not just the purely scientific side.”

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ABOVE: A lecture in the Human Biology core series, circa 1973. Stanford’s most popular major won new support during The Stanford Challenge. PHOTO: Jose Mercado /Stanford News Service

RIGHT: Richard Hoffman, ’71, MD/MPH, of Denver, hopes to steer a few good HumBio graduates into the field of public health or epidemiology.PHOTO: Katie Githens

BraIn truSt: The Bio-X NeuroVentures Program, focused on interdisciplinary brain research, began in 2008. One new method developed with NeuroVentures seed funding already promises profound advances. Stanford scientists are able to excite or silence specific brain cells in freely moving animals using light—a technique called “optogenetics.” Researchers in numerous fields are applying the technique, which could one day lead to new treatments for Alzheimer’s, depression, and other diseases.

StEm CEll CEntral: The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building opened in 2010 as the world’s largest stem cell facility. The 200,000-square-foot building has space for 550 researchers working on conditions as diverse as cancer, spinal cord injury, heart problems, and autoimmune disease.

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ABOVE: The HumBio birthday cake was the handiwork of former NASA engineer BethAnn Goldberg, ’94, MS ’96, now the owner of Studio Cake in Menlo Park.PHOTO: Steve Castillo


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Wende and husband Tom Hutton, ’77, MS ’78 (Parents ’14), included $125,000 for the Human Biology Program in the gifts they made in honor of their 30th and 35th reunions. The funds are unrestricted, one of the strongest votes of confidence philanthropists can make.

Director Carol Boggs says the fluidity of the Huttons’ gift “gives us the opportunity to think broadly.” Their support could fund field trips associated with the core, or a coordinator position to help students leverage the internship required in the major.

Wende, who fondly recalls her classes with many of the HumBio greats—professors Hastorf, Dornbusch, Durham, and Kennedy—says she hopes the gift can buoy the program and attract the next wave of leaders.

(The Huttons also provided $170,000 for the Product Realization Lab—where Tom was one of the first to build a bicycle from scratch—and $125,000 to support an expendable Stanford Fund Scholarship.)

To remember those formative college years, the Huttons need look no further than their children, Cam, a Stanford sophomore, and Rachel, who graduates from high school next year. Looking back on her own undergraduate degree, Wende says HumBio was a foundation of her job as a biotechnology venture capitalist. Although she later earned an MBA from Harvard, she calls HumBio “the most outstanding academic experience I ever had.”

‘Lifetime human biologist’

Philanthropy came into vivid relief for Grant Heidrich, ’74, years ago as he stepped off a plane in Tanzania and eventually boarded a water taxi bound for the Gombe Stream Research Center. As a

Stanford senior and human biology major, he was about to spend eight months as a field research assistant for Dr. Jane Goodall through a program underwritten by donors.

Decades later, he calls the experience transformational and says it motivated him and wife Jeannette, ’73, MBA ’75, to act in kind. “Our aspiration was to make those kinds of analogous opportunities available to young students.”

They began in the 1980s with an endowed gift to provide grants to undergraduate students from departments all over campus to pursue individual research projects, periodically hosting dinners for the students in their Woodside, Calif., home. Learning about the student projects over the years has been a delight, but Grant and Jeannette say they are especially keen to promote research by HumBio majors.

At the program’s 40th anniversary, the Heidrichs decided the time was ripe. They had previously established a charitable remainder trust at Stanford, and recently designated a portion to benefit the Human Biology Program, a gift that has earned matching funds from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

“Getting permanent funding is really critical. Those kinds of gifts allow programs to take a different level of risk in their evolution and development,” Grant says.

The hope is that more HumBio students will adopt the program’s distinctly interdisciplinary approach—a skill that may serve them long after graduation.

“I consider myself a lifetime human biologist,” says Grant. From the books on his bed stand to his career in venture capital for biopharmaceuticals and medical devices, “it’s tightly woven into what I do every day.”

He likens the skills acquired through HumBio to those of a symphony conductor. “You don’t have to be first violin. You don’t have to write the music. But you have got to able to understand what it means, to listen to it, and balance it altogether so that it works effectively,” he says. “That’s really one of the great gifts of Human Biology.” n

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ABOVE: The HumBio celebration included talks by (l to r) Nathan Wolfe, ’92, founding director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative; Don Kennedy, president emeritus of Stanford University; Deborah Zarin, ’77, director of ClinicalTrials.gov; and Ashley Boren, ’83, MA/MBA ’89, executive director of Sustainable Conservation—with Steven Crane, ’11, (center) as the panel emcee. PHOTO: Carlos Seligo

LEFT: Wende Hutton, ’81, and Tom Hutton, ’77, MS ’78, (Parents ’14) gave unrestricted funding to the Human Biology Program. Wende majored in HumBio and served as a student advisor from 1980–81.PHOTO: Courtesy of the Hutton Family

BELOW: Jeannette, ’73, MBA ’75, and Grant Heidrich, ’74, have high praise for the founders of HumBio, and its current leadership. “[Director Carol Boggs] makes a huge impact on the program,” says Jeanette. “She has contagious enthusiasm.”PHOTO: Courtesy of the Heidrich Family

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$657.3Mraised within this initiative to support promising new research and world-class programs


International Initiative

Stanford Launches Institute to Alleviate Poverty with $150 Million Gift

“More than a billion people live on less than $1.25 a day,” says Robert King, MBA ’60. “That’s just not right.” With that in mind, he and wife Dottie have committed $150 million to create the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, housed at the Graduate School of Business. Their gift is one of the largest ever to Stanford University.

The institute, known as “SEED,” aims to stimulate, develop, and disseminate research and innovations that enable entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders to alleviate poverty in developing economies. The Kings are excited about bringing together the best minds across campus to tackle one of the world’s most pressing needs.

Their gift includes $50 million to be used as matching funds to inspire other donors to fuel SEED’s mission.

The idea for the gift came out of homestays that the Kings have offered to international students at Stanford throughout the 47 years they have lived near campus. Says Dottie, “We’ve been astounded to meet people who have come from such difficult circumstances—living with dirt floors, very poor—and yet here they are at Stanford.”

Xiangmin Cui, PhD ’97, spent a summer with the Kings, practically becoming a member of the family. When Cui’s friend Eric Xu came to him with an idea for a Chinese-language search engine company, Cui introduced him to Bob King. Bob’s venture firm, Peninsula Capital, provided the first seed funding for what would become Baidu, a search engine giant that now employs more than 10,000 people in China.

Another homestay student, Andreata Muforo, MBA ’09, led a GSB study trip to South Africa, then brought fellow

travelers to the Kings’ home for dinner. “We heard how those firsthand experiences compelled some

of the MBAs to return for internships in Africa,”

says Dottie. “We saw the direct connection between the learning experience and the motivation to make change.”

Personal connections characterize the Kings’ life, including their history with the GSB. While Bob was a student there, Dottie supported the young couple by working in the office of then-GSB Dean Ernie Arbuckle. In 1972, Bob launched his own investment firm, R. Eliot King & Associates, and in 1998 he started Peninsula Capital.

SEED’s work will span three pursuits: research, education, and on-the-ground support to assist entrepreneurs and help scale growing enterprises. The school has already had considerable success in this area, for instance collaborating with Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design on the course Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. Working with in-country organizations, students have developed products that eventually sparked ventures such as d.light, a consumer products company serving people without access to reliable electricity; Embrace, which brings low-cost infant warmers to premature and low-birth-weight babies in the developing world; and Driptech, which produces affordable irrigation systems for small-plot farmers.

“Today’s students aspire to achieve a global impact that will change people’s lives for the better,” says Garth Saloner, the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the business school. SEED will work most closely with MBA students, but also plans to draw in students and researchers from Stanford’s six other schools and from various multidisciplinary initiatives throughout the university. “This initiative is an enormous opportunity to collaborate on the design and incubation of new enterprises and solutions.”

The Kings are optimistic—and ambitious. “When we know we’ve changed 200 million lives, we’ll know we’re on our way,” says Bob. n

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BELOW: Robert and Dottie King have committed one of the largest gifts in Stanford history to fight global poverty.PHOTO: Stacy H. Geiken

ABOVE: SEED will build on Stanford’s track record of launching entrepreneurship for social good—such as the student-founded startup Driptech, which produces affordable irrigation for farmers in developing nations. PHOTO: Courtesy of Driptech

“We believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the engines of growth to lift people out of poverty. And we believe Stanford’s tradition of innovation coupled with a forward-thinking global bias as well as its multidisciplinary resources will make a real impact.”

—Robert King, MBA ’60

gloBalIzIng Stanford: International undergraduates represent more than 80 nations and are a vital part of Stanford’s student body. Enriching classrooms and residences with different perspectives and experiences is essential to a vibrant learning environment. While the university’s need-blind admission policy does not yet extend to international students, the campaign raised $13.09 million to assist students from around the world.

BrEakIng ground In CHIna: Stanford is expanding its presence in one of the world’s fastest growing nations. The Stanford Center at Peking University, dedicated in March 2012, serves as headquarters for Stanford students and faculty conducting teaching and research in China in every field of study, from political science to engineering. Scholars from both countries combine their expertise on challenges like rural health care and education. Inside the new Lee Jung Sen Building, the center also houses the Bing Overseas Studies Program in Beijing.

Campaign Highlights


LEFT: Tumisang Madigele, ’13, an African Service Fellow, spent last summer supporting a women’s shelter in Gaborone, Botswana—about an hour away from her hometown. RIGHT: Mia Newman, ’12, another African Service Fellow, worked with the Survivors Fund in Kigali, Rwanda, including supporting a tie-dyeing cooperative. PHOTOS: Courtesy of the Haas Center

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history and racial reconciliation in South Africa, AIDS education and government accountability in Tanzania, and women’s education and safety in Rwanda and Botswana.

No longer do the students have to wonder who is behind their overseas experiences.

“David Abernethy is a philanthropist in the deepest sense,” says Suzanne Abel, senior advisor at the Haas Center, which administers the Abernethy internships and numerous similar opportunities. “He’s a remarkably engaged faculty person who has given of himself generously to students for more than 40 years, stretching well beyond his retirement in 2002.”

As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1958, Abernethy spent the summer in Nigeria with Operation Crossroads Africa, a precursor to the Peace Corps, learning about that country’s political and economic concerns. “That experience was critical in affirming for me what I wanted to do in life. I established the NGO internship fund to help other students have the same kind of opportunity,” says the sub-Saharan specialist. His wife, Susan, worked in the Stanford Office of Development for 28 years.

For Abernethy, stories like Madigele’s validate his gift. “I’m particularly delighted to help Stanford enhance its scholarship aid to students from developing countries, because many of these countries’ problems will only be solved from the ‘inside,’” he says. “When international students return home during summers to do socially useful work, they have the obvious advantage of knowing the culture and language firsthand, so they can get right to work.”

“Being a benefactor is tremendously gratifying when you find out what a large impact even a modest amount of money can have in a student’s life.” n

Mystery Donor Sends Interns to Africa

In 2004, a donor began contributing anonymously to a new internship program at the Haas Center for Public Service that would send undergraduates to summer placements with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in sub-Saharan Africa. For years, students addressed letters to “Mr./Ms. X,” thanking the philanthropist for providing what were truly transformative experiences that helped them clarify career aims and test their mettle.

At last, the donor has been persuaded to “go public,” revealing himself to be none other than Professor Emeritus David Abernethy, the political science expert known for his mentorship of many undergraduates since he joined the Stanford faculty in 1965.

Tumisang Madigele, ’13, is one of the beneficiaries of the internship program. An international relations major, Madigele returned to her native Botswana this past summer to work for Kagisano Society Women’s Shelter Project. She says helping the organization offer a safe haven to women and children suffering from domestic abuse opened her eyes.

“I’ve learned that abused wives are the most vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS because their spouses tend to have extramarital relations and refuse to use condoms,” Madigele says. “The internship helped me figure out where my interests lie, most likely in women’s rights and HIV/AIDS prevention. That’s what I’ll focus on when I go back to my country after graduation.”

So far, the internship program has enabled nine students to work with local NGOs in seven African countries. Madigele is among three undergraduates from Africa to participate. In 2011, an additional student served in Nicaragua.

The nine-week summer sojourns have touched on issues such as the status of Sudanese refugees living in Egypt, apartheid

$410Mraised to support the International Initiative



$256Mraised within this initiative to support promising new research and world-class programs

$14Mraised within this initiative to create state-of-the-art buildings and facilities

ABOVE: Formerly anonymous benefactor and Professor Emeritus David Abernethy also convenes the International Development Careers Group to help students understand and plan for the realities of living and working abroad.PHOTO: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service

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Easing Loan Burdens for New Teachers

According to The New York Times, the average starting salary

for a schoolteacher is $39,000; the average ending salary—

after 25 years in the profession—is $67,000. These are bleak

figures, particularly if one’s teacher education costs as much as

$65,000, mostly in loans.

In 2006, at the start of The Stanford Challenge, Judy Avery,

’59, set out to address that reality with a gift of $10 million

to the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE). With

matching funds, a $20 million loan forgiveness program was

launched to significantly reduce debt for graduate students in

the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP).

Five years later, 360 students have received support from the

Dorothy Durfee Avery Loan Forgiveness Program, named in

honor of Judy Avery’s mother. Graduates who teach for two

years in qualified K–12 schools repay only half their tuition. If

they teach for four years, they repay nothing.

“This has increased our ability to attract the best and brightest

and increased the diversity of our graduates, many of whom

would not be able to attend Stanford without such support,”

says education professor Rachel Lotan.

Students say the program significantly influenced their decision

to pursue a master’s degree through STEP.

“Loan forgiveness has had a huge impact on my life and

career,” says Robbie Torney, ’09, MA ’10, a kindergarten

teacher at the Lighthouse Community Charter School in

Oakland, Calif. “A big component of STEP is giving young

students access to quality education regardless of ethnicity,

income, and geography, and I might not have been able to

teach where I am without loan forgiveness lessening the burden

of my debt.”

STEP encourages all of its students to consider teaching in

underserved communities, where salaries are frequently the

lowest. Loan relief makes that prospect much easier. Because

research has shown that those who teach for three years

or more are likely to stay in the field, the loan forgiveness

program, which motivates graduates to teach a full four years,

helps produce teachers who are in it for the long haul.

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ABOVE: Kindergarteners practice hip-hop dance in the classroom of loan recipient Robbie Torney, ’09, MA ’10 (right) PHOTOS: Courtesy of Robbie Torney

gold StarS: Research shows having a great teacher three years in a row can significantly narrow the achievement gap. Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET), launched in 2008, is at the forefront of a national movement to scale up quality teaching. The center investigates practices with proven impact and spreads them through innovative programs. More than 1,400 teachers from across the country have completed CSET’s professional development programs since 2009.

tHE BESt PolICy: Despite years of tinkering with education reform, U.S. student performance shows only modest improvement—largely because there has been little access to data and analysis of what works. Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), launched in 2009, is serving a pivotal role acquiring data and conducting empirical analyses on teacher quality, principal effectiveness, school choice, college readiness, and other topics.

Campaign Highlights


ABOVE: (l to r) At an annual luncheon for recipients of the Avery Loan Forgiveness Program, Lauran Spivack, MA ’11; Lydia Cuffman, MA ’11; Katherine Woodfield, MA ’11; and Anette Norona, MA ’11, share how the loan helped them attend Stanford. PHOTO: Courtesy of the Stanford University School of Education

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“I’m understanding more and more the importance of opening the doors to these

motivated, gifted future teachers,” says Judy Avery, ’59, seen here with her granddaughter.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Judy Avery

Of the 48 teachers initially funded by the Avery program

in 2007, nearly half of their loans have been completely

forgiven. Others are working in that direction, continuing

to teach or taking deferments for maternity leave, travel, and

at least one Fulbright Scholarship. Only two teachers have

definitively withdrawn and repaid their loans in full.

“The crushing debt burden most students face when

they graduate was something that concerned me deeply,

particularly because my family has a long-standing

involvement in public education,” says Avery, chair of

the BayTree Fund in San Francisco. Her grandfather,

grandmother, aunt, uncle, and mother all taught school.

“The U.S. educational system is under such stress that more

gifts like this are definitely needed to support good programs

like STEP, and make it possible for the best and most motivated

students to make education their career.”

SUSE Associate Dean Eamonn Callan adds that the gift has

raised the profile of the School of Education considerably. “It

lends dignity and honor to a profession that’s marginalized in

our culture,” he says. n

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Some families go camping together. Other families share a passion for golf or cooking. One family has lovingly assembled one of the most outstanding private collections of post-World War II American art in the world.

“A family affair” is how Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, describe the landmark art collection they have built over a period of nearly 50 years—including their decision last summer to give the core of it to Stanford University.

The gift comprises 121 works by 86 artists and will be displayed in a new museum to be constructed in the university’s burgeoning campus Arts District. One of the most valuable and significant gifts of art to Stanford or any other university, the renowned collection includes such masterpieces as Jackson Pollock’s Lucifer, Willem de Kooning’s Woman Standing–Pink, and Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park #60.

“Hunk,” “Moo,” and “Putter,” as they’re known, have always considered themselves custodians of these works, viewing them as a resource to be studied and experienced by as many people as possible, especially students.

“What we are bringing to Stanford is the real thing,” says Moo, who sees 20th-century art as a compelling point of entry into the liberal arts. “It’s good to study art in books, but something happens in the presence of the original—it affects the brain, taste, feelings, and more.”

The Andersons began collecting Impressionist art after being inspired on a trip to Europe in 1964. Their passion for new ideas soon drew them to post-WWII American Art, however. “We were fortunate to be able to participate in the first internationally acclaimed American art movement,” says Hunk,

adding that continually embracing new ideas “propelled them on to subsequent great American art movements.”

It was in this environment of new ideas that daughter Putter came of age. She remembers playing tennis with Frank Stella, spending the day with Georgia O’Keeffe, and visiting the studios of Sam Francis, David Hockney, Elizabeth Murray, and other noted artists. “Exposure to such creative talents opened my eyes to new and different perspectives, in business and in life,” she says.

Now an art advisor in Southern California, Putter speaks ardently of the collection’s potential to promote learning across academic disciplines. “Having a college-age daughter myself, I am proud that Stanford students and those from other colleges and universities will benefit from the collection,” she says.

The success of the university’s Arts Initiative in recent years factored significantly into the family’s decision to place their collection at Stanford. The upcoming additions of Bing Concert Hall and the McMurtry Building for the art and art history department are just two signs of new momentum in the arts on campus. President John Hennessy also impressed the family as a deeply committed champion of the arts. He brings a uniquely Stanford perspective, says Moo. “He is not copying any other institution. He has his own vision.”

The Andersons will continue to participate in the life of the collection—for example, by loaning works that remain in their private collection to Stanford for exhibition. Even so, Hunk says he expects to shed a tear one day in 2014, when the core of the Anderson Collection moves to Stanford for good. “It’s like saying goodbye to family,” he says, “but it’s not going far.” In fact, he admits that part of him is looking forward to a new beginning.

“The next phase will be a 21st- century affair,” he says. “We’ll start with a clean slate.” n

ABOVE: Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, and their daughter, Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence (center), together chose the artworks that will become the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. PHOTO: LINDA A. CICERO / STANFORD NEWS SERVICE

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Anderson Collection Brings Masterpieces to the Farm

Engaging the arts and Creativity

nEw talEnt: Leadership is crucial to integrating the arts into everything that Stanford does. Through The Stanford Challenge, the university was able to recruit a new professor to chair the Department of Art and Art History, as well as establish a new provostial professorship that bridges the arts and humanities. These two appointments are among six new faculty positions endowed through the Arts Initiative.

Bravo! A new Arts District is taking shape on campus, with the planned construction of Bing Concert Hall, the McMurtry Building, and a new home for the soon-to-arrive Anderson Collection at Stanford University—all in proximity to the Cantor Arts Center, Memorial Auditorium, and Frost Amphitheater. Grouped around Palm Drive, the new buildings welcome both the campus community and public audiences.

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ABOVE: A group of Stanford students tackles the Big Apple’s creative arts scene over spring break. (Standing, l to r) Kacey Marton, ’12, Darienne Turner, ’11, Carla Li Carrillo, ’12, Sydney Gulbronson, ’11, and Roger Tran, ’13; (kneeling, l to r) Alexzandra Scully, ’13, and Samantha Toh, ’10, MA ’11. PHOTO: Sarah Curran

Feasting on Art in New York City

How do you live as an artist? What’s the interplay between the grit and grace of a city and the art made there? These are just some of the questions Stanford undergraduates learn about in living color through the Arts Immersion program in New York City. Each spring break, some 20 students saturate themselves in six full days and nights of visual and performing arts in one of the most vibrant cultural centers on earth.

“Stanford educates students who will make an impact in the world. Having an appreciation for art makes them more well-rounded, regardless of their careers,” says Katheryn “Kitty” Patterson, ’75, who, along with her husband, Tom Kempner, has established Arts Immersion with a $1 million endowment. “Being able to understand art and the emotion that goes into it is a necessary part of being human, and yet that part can often get lost in our high-pressured society,” adds Patterson, a lifelong New Yorker and patron of the arts.

For the past three years, students have partaken of everything from opera to jazz, theater to dance, and museums to galleries. Their trips have included seminars with museum directors and artists in their studios, as well, giving them a more “insider” look at the art world. New York–based alumni have enthusiastically assisted by drawing on their contacts and expertise. Each trip is themed––the spring 2011 excursion was focused on the influence of postwar abstract expressionism on visual and performing arts––and students receive an $1,800 scholarship to cover airfare, hotels, and tickets.

It’s a seriously sweet deal, but also one backed with serious academics. Prior to the trip, students are well prepped through a Stanford course that plunges them into the cultural history and contemporary arts scene in Manhattan and the boroughs.

As a result of Arts Immersion, says Sarah Curran, programming director for the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and one of the leaders of the course and trip, students

ABOVE: Kitty Patterson, ’75, and her husband, Tom Kempner, share their impressive art and photography collection with students who participate in the Spring Break Arts Immersion in New York. PHOTO: Lynn Saville

$279Mraised to support the arts and creativity

$26Mraised within this initiative to attract and support Stanford’s outstanding faculty




come away with a fairly thorough sense of “the ecology of artistic life in New York.”

Many find their lives transformed by the experience. “My love for art has deepened in a very meaningful way after the March trip,” says Roger Tran, ’13, an architectural design major. “I returned with a rejuvenated passion for conceptual art and design, and I’m now intensively in search of architecture and art books, magazines, blogs, and more. My exposure to the radical fringe of the contemporary art world has also inspired me to take my architectural designs further.”

“It’s moving and rewarding to see how inspired students are by the experience,” says Patterson, who has rubbed elbows with students at a brunch held at her Upper East Side home for the past three years. “My hope is that the Arts Immersion program will grow to embrace many other cities with vibrant arts scenes and to immerse even more students in the visual and performing arts worlds.”

In spring 2012, Stephen Hinton, the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts and Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, along with Stanford faculty and visiting artists, angled Arts Immersion toward musical theater. After returning from the trip over spring break, students spent an additional three class meetings creating a piece that reflects their experience––works of visual art, performance art, sketchbooks, poetry, blogs, photographic triptychs, or virtually anything that emerged from the student’s creative engagement. These form part of the “Art After Dark” student arts festival on campus in May. A weekend pilot will also take 14 students to Los Angeles for a citywide look at art organized by the Getty Museum.

“We need our young people to stay in touch with the richness that arts can provide us, whether they’re creators or spectators,” says Patterson. n


ABOVE: Stanford doctoral students in any humanities field (including drama, pictured) may be nominated for funding from the Pigott Scholars Program. PHOTO: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service

Pigott Scholars Program Champions Humanities

endowment, making the family’s support even more valuable. “The establishment of a leadership program like the Pigott Scholars provides our brightest young scholars with support and recognition during a critical period of their academic careers,” Saller says. “The program will support doctoral students as they transition from classwork and oral examinations to their dissertations”—the most critical juncture

for a successful academic career, according to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Beginning in 2011–12, designated department chairs will nominate

outstanding third-year students for the program, rotating through all

11 departments in the humanities, such as drama, linguistics, and philosophy. The number of scholars is expected to grow from two initially to five or more annually as the fund grows.

The Pigott Scholars Program builds upon earlier gifts from

the family, which includes the Pigott Family School of Education

Professorship, the Mark Pigott OBE Professorship in the School of Humanities

and Sciences, and the Pigott Theater.

Mark Pigott is also an award-winning Stanford volunteer. As committee co-chair of his 35th reunion campaign in 2011 he helped lead the class in achieving its $10 million campaign goal. The Stanford Alumni Association has recognized his three decades of support with the Governors’ Award for “exemplary volunteer service to the university over an extended period.” There have been other honors for Pigott: being named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Commander of the Order of the Crown in Belgium, and an Officer of the Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands. n

“One of the real strengths of Stanford is that it offers tremendous programs in the humanities, science, and engineering,” says Mark Pigott ’76, MS ’84, ’98. Having studied industrial engineering as an undergraduate, and then earned a master’s in business, Pigott later returned for a bachelor’s in the humanities—all at Stanford.

“As people pursue engineering and science, they can enhance their leadership skills by having exposure to the humanities,” he says. “These fellowships will endow gifted candidates who will share their joy of learning in every field of the humanities.”

With his assistance last summer, Stanford launched a $4 million program to support exceptional students pursuing doctorates in the humanities. The new Pigott Scholars Program is part of a 10-decade tradition of the Pigott family contributing to Stanford.

“For over 100 years, my family has championed education,” says Pigott, chairman and chief executive officer of PACCAR Inc, a Fortune 200 technology company founded by his great-grandfather in the Pacific Northwest. Joining him in supporting the new program are his wife, Cindy, and daughters Kerry, ’09, MA ’10, and Turner, ’11, MA ’12. All of them see the humanities as a pillar of academics. “My family is pleased to contribute to the outstanding research of bright, motivated graduate students,” shared Mark.

For Richard Saller, the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, the program is a coup. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation matched the Pigott family’s $2 million gift to create the $4 million

reinventing graduate Education

$727.6Mraised during The Stanford Challenge to support graduate education

$103.9Mraised within the campaign to attract and support the most talented graduate students

$68.7Mraised during the campaign to support new and enhanced graduate programs

$540.7Mraised during the campaign to create state-of-the-art buildings and facilities that serve graduate students

CroSS-CuttIng aCadEmICS: Just as The Stanford Challenge enabled faculty to collaborate in new ways, the campaign sought to empower graduate students to cut across academic boundaries in solving complex global problems. The Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships have worked to this end since the programs began in 2001 and 2008, respectively. During the campaign, donors supported 69 of these fellows—many of them already rising leaders in their fields, offering novel approaches to intractable problems such as human trafficking, spinal cord injuries, gender stereotypes, food security, and overfishing.

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$253.7Mraised within this initiative for need-based undergraduate scholarships—two and a half times the initial goal

$135.7Mraised within this initiative to create state-of-the-art buildings and facilities, including the Stanford Stadium

$74.1Mraised within this initiative to support new and expanded opportunities for undergraduates, including athletics, research, and overseas studies

PayIng It forward: Estate gifts provided more than $50 million for scholarships during the campaign—nearly 20 percent of all funds raised for undergraduate financial aid. By putting scholarships in their wills, donors created gifts that live on for future students. At Stanford, need-blind admission continues to be backed by one of the most generous financial aid programs in the country. These gifts ensure that low- and middle-income students are able to come to Stanford, even when faced with unexpected financial hardship.

In the end, gifts of all sizes added up. With generous matching funds provided by the Bing Match, the Atwell Match, and the Parents’ Advisory Board, the Class of 2011 raised more than $240,000 for The Stanford Fund. In their own words, that’s $240,000 “for the memories ... for diversity ... for freshman roommates … for tradition … for the next batch of frosh.”

The Award-Winning Class of 1961

The sold-out crowd in Stanford Stadium gave a thunderous round of applause for members of the Class of 1961, as they joined in the Stanford tradition of marking the 50th reunion with a halftime celebration on the football field. Among those enjoying the moment was Jim Flood, ’61, who had spent the past year encouraging his classmates to take part in another Stanford tradition: giving back to the university.

Flood served as co-chair of his 50th reunion campaign along with classmates Linda Clever and Hort Shapiro. Additional campaign leadership came from Participation Co-Chairs Coeta Chambers and Jessica Niblo; Planned Giving Chair Rich Guggenhime; and Honorary Co-Chairs Dan Emmett, Linda Meier, and Victoria Sant.

Their overall fundraising goal of $27.5 million was “a real challenge,” according to Flood. “We weren’t sure we could get there, but we did, and it really was a team effort we could feel good about.” When the campaign ended on December 31, the class had raised more than $29.2 million for a range of programs at Stanford. They also claimed the 2011 Wilbur-Reynolds Cup, a trophy awarded annually to the class with the highest participation in a reunion campaign.

Flood directed his own pledge of $250,000 to one of Stanford’s highest fundraising priorities: undergraduate scholarships. He split it evenly between two annual funds, The Stanford Fund and the Buck/Cardinal Fund

ABOVE: Class of 2011 senior gift co-chairs: Tom Scher, Stephanie Werner, Mona Hadidi, Ali Romer, Pamon Forouhar, Neveen Mahmoud, Dante DiCicco, Molly Spaeth, and Ana Diaz-Hernandez (not pictured: Olivia Haas, Yin Yin Wu) PHOTO: Eric Koziol

Graduating Seniors and 50th Reunion Class Give Back

A Record-Breaking Senior Gift

“For the 4 a.m. life-changing conversations…Because I’m the first one in my family to have this chance…For study abroad (and back home)…Because I’ll have Stanford for the rest of my life.”

These are just a few of the reasons cited by members of the Class of 2011 as their motivation for giving to their senior gift, which set an impressive new record for class participation. Nearly 83 percent of all graduating seniors gave to The Stanford Fund last year—a testament to their affinity for Stanford as well as their awareness of the role philanthropy played in their education.

“We are all so privileged for our time at Stanford with so many incredible experiences and opportunities—we just want to give back in any way we can,” says Pamon Forouhar, ’11, MS ’12, one of 11 co-chairs responsible for leading the campaign. Enthusiasm among the class’s leadership was one of the keys to the campaign’s success—Forouhar was also one of four senior class presidents, all of whom served as senior gift co-chairs. An additional 75 classmates joined the committee, each volunteering to personally ask a number of their classmates to give.

Although the primary focus of senior gift campaigns is participa-tion, some graduates felt compelled to step up and show their com-mitment to the university through a leadership gift. The Stanford Fund rewards this initiative with President’s Fund recognition at a subsidized giving level as a way of connecting the most committed annual donors from all class years. Last year, 30 graduating seniors joined the President’s Fund with gifts of $1,000 or more.

“My main motivation was a desire to give back to this school that nourished me,” says Shannon Harrington, ’11, a committee mem-ber who gave at the President’s Fund level. “We want to give back in any way that we can, while also stretching ourselves to give more than we thought we could. For me, this was an opportunity to start my career thinking about philanthropy, to be a leader in Stanford’s philanthropic community.”

(in athletics), each of which plays a vital part in Stanford’s ability to provide scholarships to about half of the undergraduate population. With gifts of $25,000 per year to both funds, Flood established individual scholarships in each, which will give him the opportunity to get to know the student recipients. A respected leader in the San Francisco business community, Flood views scholarships as good investments. “Your return is not a dividend,” he says, “it’s seeing these students do well.” n

“Four years at Stanford gave me a solid base in values, knowledge, leadership, and citizenship, all of which have

been a cornerstone of my business and family life for the past 50 years.”

—Jim Flood, ’61

Extending the renaissance in undergraduate Education Campaign Highlights

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go CardInal: Stanford football has called Stanford Stadium home since the original facility was built in 1921. A brand-new stadium (and a super quarterback) coincided with a historic turnaround for the team, which went from 1–11 in 2006–07 to back-to-back 11-win regular seasons and consecutive BCS bowl appearances in 2010–11 and 2011–12. Construction of the new Stanford Stadium began in 2005, moments after Stanford’s final game, and—in a feat of generosity and determination—finished in only 42 weeks.

ABOVE: The Miriam Aaron Roland Fellowship Fund will support Stanford undergraduates who conduct research on the issues of aging or who provide service to the elderly.

Across the Generations

Roland herself is a spry 81-year-old who practices yoga and travels regularly from her home in Montreal. Some friends and classmates have been less lucky, struggling with declining health and the loneliness that can pervade retirement homes. Even so, Roland believes the elderly are an untapped asset in our society.

“I wondered if somehow the shift could be made that the elderly are not a burden but an additional resource,” she says.

Already the wheels are turning for faculty.

History Professor Zephyr Frank is involved with an interactive history project in East Palo Alto. The team is reaching out to local citizens with an online platform called History Pin (www.historypin.com) that allows users to upload photos, videos, stories, and memorabilia into a Google Maps interface.

Stanford undergraduates and East Palo Alto youth involved will guide the project’s direction, but Frank anticipates the elderly will be a wellspring of information. “Ideally we’ll have young people who are relatively new to the community speaking with some old folks who have been in the community for 50 years,” he says.

The Stanford Center on Longevity, which studies the science and culture of human aging, is another logical possibility for the fellowship support.

This is Roland’s third major gift to the Haas Center. In 1993, she named a room in the Haas Center in memory of her daughter, Jessie, and, in 2004, she established the Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize to honor faculty who connect students with volunteer service in a meaningful way through academics.

That’s one reason she’s comfortable not knowing precisely who will use her latest gift. “Where this will lead I really don’t know,” she says with a twinkle. “I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised.” n

Miriam Roland, ’51, was a freshman in Roble Hall when she witnessed her first Stanford reunion. The year was 1947 and the Class of 1897 had just gathered beneath the oaks to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their graduation. Having grown up without grandparents, Roland confesses her perception of the elderly as a teenager was dim: “I thought that as people grew older they became, well, decrepit and somewhat inarticulate.” Imagine her shock to see 70-year-olds who could not only walk and talk, but also even crack jokes!

Inspired, Roland decided on the spot she would attend her own 50th reunion at Stanford. That was 10 years ago. Now, in honor of her 60th reunion, Roland’s latest gift to Stanford celebrates long life: The Miriam Aaron Roland Fellowship Fund Focusing on the Elderly.

The fellowship will support an undergraduate student doing research or service related to the elderly or intergenerational communication. The Haas Center for Public Service will select a recipient for the full-time summer or part-time school-year position as early as fall 2013.

Roland chose to focus on the elderly after a great deal of strategic thinking. Stanford already had programs focused on children, the poor, and minority groups. Aha—she thought, there’s the gap: the elderly.

Moreover, as a trained psychotherapist, Roland sees the effect of retirement on her clients. Some cope well; others struggle. “Once people are no longer part of the active workforce, they lose a certain amount of personal dignity in their own minds,” she says.

Miriam Roland, ’51, has been a lifelong volunteer— as a child in Montreal during World War II, rolling

bandages with her mother, and years later in Atherton as president of volunteer organizations such as the Sequoia Chapter of Hadassah.PHOTO: Katie Githens



LEFT: Jim Flood, ’61PHOTO: Steve Castillo

tEam SPIrIt: Donors endowed 12 funds supporting coaching positions in nine sports during The Stanford Challenge, helping coaches compete at the highest level of NCAA Division I athletics. Men’s soccer, swimming, golf, water polo, and football, and women’s basketball, golf, and water polo, as well as track and field, all benefited from the campaign.

$23.6Mpaid out from coaching endowments to help cover the salaries of coaches and program directors

$14.8Mto build a staff housing development, a true game changer for the program with the most expensive housing market in all of Division I athletics

$11.1Mraised for endowed scholarships, the lifeblood of the athletic department

35 teams(all of Stanford’s varsity teams) supported by the Buck/Cardinal Club

18,139athletic department donors during The Stanford Challenge comprising alumni, former student-athletes, parents, coaches, staff, and friends

ABOVE: Benefactors Bill, ’60, and Tish Kartozian with fellow Cardinal fans, the Stanford band. PHOTO: Steve Castillo

Home of Champions Builds Homes for Coaches

range from 1,550 to 1,880 square feet and come equipped with appliances and amenities.

“I cannot imagine there ever being a better housing situation in college athletics,” says assistant football coach Randy Hart. “The quality, location, and overall convenience of the Olmsted project are second to none, and we have great neighbors, too.”

John Rittman, head softball coach, adds, “After commuting an hour and a half every day for 14 years, it’s nice to actually enjoy meals with my family and attend many more of my children’s school and athletic activities.”

Coaches’ families are happy with the new arrangement, too. “It’s been great to hang out with the other spouses,” says Gina Filter, wife of assistant baseball coach Rusty Filter. “We all share a common thread and really look out for each other and each other’s children.”

Keeping their connection with coaches personal, the Kartozians host an annual coaches’ reception near their home in Danville, Calif. “Hearing from some of them this past year about how great it is to be in their new neighborhood, share their ideas about coaching, and have their kids grow up together has been very rewarding,” says Tish Kartozian. “It’s quite the little community.” n

Landing a coaching job at Stanford University, home of 102 NCAA team championships, is a dream come true by any measure, except one: the university resides in the most expensive housing market in all of Division I athletics.

For years, sought-after coaching staff declined offers to move to the Farm for just this reason. Due to the cost of both renting and owning in and around Palo Alto, many coaches had to commute from more than an hour away. Evening and weekend practices and games meant precious little family time. So Stanford Athletics decided to use a tactic straight from the movie Field of Dreams: If you build it, they will come.

“Now, when we bring in a coach or an assistant coach, we can say, ‘Here’s your salary, here’s your team, your budget, and your benefits. And by the way, here’s a house,” says Ray Purpur, deputy director of athletics.

During The Stanford Challenge, the university established the Coaches’ Housing Fund (CHF), which has enabled the athletic department to buy and build local homes for coaches to rent. Affordable rates mean many coaches can save for their own homes. By fall 2010, a group of coaches and their families had moved into 22 rental homes in a new development on Olmsted Road, right on campus.

A $500,000 contribution from Tish and Bill Kartozian, ’60, helped get the project off—or rather onto—the ground. They were key players following the lead gift from John Arrillaga, ’60.

“I was on the athletic board from 1987 to 1993, so I got to know all the coaches well and knew that the housing issue was always a concern for them,” says Bill Kartozian. An avid sports fan who served as a “yell leader” at Stanford back in 1959–60, he and Tish had endowed scholarships in athletics and the humanities, and knew that CHF was the next “right place” for their funds.

Each coach’s home is two stories and features three bedrooms and two bathrooms––perfect for young families. The houses

PHOTO: Elizabeth Clair


ABOVE: Germaine and Benjamin Eaton, ’42, bequeathed their elegant San Francisco home to Stanford to benefit medical research. PHOTO: Courtesy of Carol Eaton-Preston

A Landmark Gift on Nob Hill

brokerage’s San Marino office, run by his father. Eaton worked his way up, moving to Los Angeles, then San Francisco, where he served as executive vice president.

Friends recall Eaton as a man of principle. “He had very high personal integrity, and he politely required that of all he was associated with,” says friend and colleague John Wells. “You always knew where you stood with Ben.”

Eaton also enjoyed a good party, and it was at one fateful gathering that he met his wife. The daughter of Belgian immigrants, Germaine Beaulieu graduated from the University of Vermont before becoming a New York–based model. In 1946, she was sent on assignment to Pasadena, where a friend invited her to a fundraiser for congressional candidate Richard Nixon. Ben Eaton was there, too. “He took one look at her and that was it,” says his daughter.

There was one hitch: Eaton was wearing his grandfather’s wedding ring on his right hand, and Germaine thought he was married. “I’m not taking up with a married man,” she told her friend, who responded: “What’s wrong with you? He’s the most eligible bachelor around!”

Their marriage would span 54 years, during which time the couple shared interests in community causes, travel, and golf. And they shared a love of giving, symbolized in their bequest to Stanford—a gesture that will, in turn, touch many other lives. n

When they moved into a historic townhouse in San Francisco’s Nob Hill, Germaine and Benjamin Eaton, ’42, knew they had found the perfect home. The four-level house at 843 Mason Street had a rich history: It was designed in 1917 by Willis Polk, the architect for the city’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Its location was likewise illustrious, right across the street from the famous Mark Hopkins Hotel. The Eatons took full advantage of their elegant residence, entertaining frequently.

After decades of living on Mason Street, the couple made a major decision: to make a bequest of their beloved home to Stanford, Ben’s alma mater. After his death in 2001 and Germaine’s passing in 2010, Stanford received the property, then valued at $2.75 million. The Eatons’ bequest will allow the dean of the School of Medicine to support any field of medical research, a flexible arrangement that magnifies the value of their gift.

When their daughter Carol Eaton-Preston learned of her parents’ bequest, she knew it would be tough letting go of this great house and its memories. But she quickly supported their plan, knowing how strongly they felt about sharing their good fortune with others. “It was a wonderful gesture, to give something back to the university that gave them so much,” Eaton-Preston says. “They just felt it was the right thing to do.”

Stanford left a lasting impression on Ben Eaton. “He made some of the best friends of his whole life at Stanford—and kept them,” says Eaton-Preston. Born in 1920 in Denver, Eaton studied social science and social thought at Stanford and joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He took up golf, a lifelong pursuit, and became a Stanford football fan and athletics booster.

Before Eaton launched his career, World War II intervened, and he served as an Air Force ordnance officer, active at bases in India and Guam. Upon his return, he took a job at the Dean Witter

BELOW: Stanford University received their handsome white townhouse, located on a steep incline in San Francisco’s Nob Hill.PHOTO: Katie Githens

multidisciplinary research

rEdESIgnIng long lIfE: After watching their computerized avatars grow older, young people are inclined to save more for retirement—that’s just one finding from the Stanford Center on Longevity. Established in 2006, the center is driven by the dramatic increase in life expectancy and the resulting explosion in the percentage of older people in the global population. More than 130 faculty from throughout the university are blending science and technology with entrepreneurial action to ensure longevity will be not a liability, but rather a great advance for people of all ages.

EConomIC growtH: Even before the global economy shuddered in 2008, the university was making a major investment in economic analysis. The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) had already broken ground on its new home. The new John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, dedicated in 2010, allowed the nonpartisan institute to move from cramped quarters to 32,000 square feet of office and meeting space, complete with an elegant courtyard.

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1 Anderson Collection at Stanford University *

2 Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation

3 Arrillaga Family Dining Commons

4 Arrillaga Family Athletic Center at SLAC *

5 Arrillaga Family Sports Center—Addition *

6 Arrillaga Gymnasium & Weight Room

7A Arrillaga Outdoor Education & Recreation Center *

7B Avery Recreation Pool *

8 Asian Liver Center *

9 Automotive Innovation Lab

10 Barnum Center for School & Community Partnerships

11 Bing Concert Hall *

12 Bioengineering/Chemical Engineering Building *

13 Biology Building *

14 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium

15 Center for Nanoscale Science & Engineering

16 Jill and John Freidenrich Center for Translational Research *

17 John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building (SIEPR)

18 Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center

19 Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge

Buildings created through The Stanford Challenge accelerated the flow of people and ideas

all over campus. To learn more about the changing landscape of Stanford’s campus—and see

photos of new buildings—please visit thestanfordchallenge.stanford.edu/interactive-map.

A Revitalized Campus



20 Lorry I. Lokey Stanford Daily Building

21 Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building

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23 Munger Graduate Residence

24 William H. Neukom Building

25 Olmsted Road Staff Housing

26 Physics and Astrophysics Building

27 Stanford Campus Recreation Association

28 Stanford Center at Peking University *

29 Stanford Stadium

30 Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building

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K2 Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center

K3 Zambrano Hall/CEMEX Auditorium

K4 North Building/Arbuckle Dining Pavilion

K5 John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building

K6 W. Carter McClelland Building

K7 MBA Class of 1968 Building

K8 Serra East Building

K9 Faculty Building

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