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How things have changed in two decades. In Late Spring 1997, my ex-wife and I were invited to a New York City reception for parents of incoming frosh, among them our younger daughter. The chablis-and-brie event was staged at one of the Ivy League alumni clubs in Midtown.
  To start the formal portion of the welcome, a Stanford official (male, mid-40s) tinkled his wine glass and asked, How has Stanford recently made big news?
  Nervous silence.
  So I ventured, "Tiger Woods?" in honor of his recent historic first Masters victory.
  The Stanford official eye-rolled me before claiming that LSJU scientists had just unMars-ed conclusive proof of prior life on the Red Planet. And no, his name was not Gen. John Kelly.

[FarmDad.01]

How things have changed in two decades. In Late Spring 1997, my ex-wife and I were invited to a New York City reception for parents of incoming frosh, among them our younger daughter. The chablis-and-brie event was staged at one of the Ivy League alumni clubs in Midtown.
  To start the formal portion of the welcome, a Stanford official (male, mid-40s) tinkled his wine glass and asked, How has Stanford recently made big news?
  Nervous silence.
  So I ventured, "Tiger Woods?" in honor of his recent historic first Masters victory.
  The Stanford official eye-rolled me before claiming that LSJU scientists had just unMars-ed conclusive proof of prior life on the Red Planet. And no, his name was not Gen. John Kelly.