I was an early member of the other board, then an early member of the Cardboard for years...then I unaccountably stopped posting for two years (new job, long work weeks, etc.). I started posting again about a year ago, I think.
I've been attending Stanford football games since I was 7 years old and Jim Plunkett was a senior. I was fooling around on the old rickety stadium railings which gave way, and I lost a few teeth and had some stitches...all on the day that Boryla set the TD record, as my dad reminds me on occasion. I attended Santa Clara, but would drive up the peninsula to watch John Elway before crowds of 80,000+.
I've had a lot of family at Stanford. My sister in law is a Stanford/Harvard hybrid, she is currently the CMO at one of the most prominent tech companies based in the SF Bay Area. My sister has a doctorate from SUSE (Stanf U School of Education, pronounced "Susie."). I have a cousin who has an undergrad and master's from Stanford (and an MBA from Notre Dame), he was manager of the baseball team when he was at Stanford. I have another cousin who is a nurse and graduated from Stanford in the 1960s. My father in law has an undergrad and master's there, he played on the basketball team at Stanford and was a NASA engineer for decades. My great grandfather had 25 season tickets at midfield dating from the 1930s onward. My grandparents met at Stanford; granddad was class of '42, Econ. He was taking Japanese Economic history which was taught by a Japanese deputy ambassador which met first thing on Monday mornings. He sleepily headed to class on the morning of December 8, not understanding why everyone was running around campus, and gradually getting the idea when he walked into the class, which was standing room only. The ambassador/professor showed up late, walked up to the podium, clearly shaken, and stated that he believed that the Empire of Japan was in the right in the dispute between countries, but had not expressed it correctly...meaning the prior day's attack on Pearl Harbor. At that point, said granddad, the largest MP he had ever seen before or since came and led the ambassador away in handcuffs. Granddad graduated and joined the Navy, he was stationed at the Pentagon as a computer operator, feeding punchcards into early IBM machines.
I'm in marketing and business development for professional services firms, most recently with law firms. I live in Willow Glen, attend Stanford games when I can. Unfortunately, I couldn't get either of my sons to apply to Stanford, both wanted to go to school in the East. My older son plays volleyball and will graduate from Princeton this year. He played club volleyball with Brian Cook and high school volleyball with Matt Aiello (both Stanford MVB). My younger son was just accepted to Princeton a few days ago (early admission). But both are Stanford football fans...;)
I've been attending Stanford football games since I was 7 years old and Jim Plunkett was a senior. I was fooling around on the old rickety stadium railings which gave way, and I lost a few teeth and had some stitches...all on the day that Boryla set the TD record, as my dad reminds me on occasion. I attended Santa Clara, but would drive up the peninsula to watch John Elway before crowds of 80,000+.
I've had a lot of family at Stanford. My sister in law is a Stanford/Harvard hybrid, she is currently the CMO at one of the most prominent tech companies based in the SF Bay Area. My sister has a doctorate from SUSE (Stanf U School of Education, pronounced "Susie."). I have a cousin who has an undergrad and master's from Stanford (and an MBA from Notre Dame), he was manager of the baseball team when he was at Stanford. I have another cousin who is a nurse and graduated from Stanford in the 1960s. My father in law has an undergrad and master's there, he played on the basketball team at Stanford and was a NASA engineer for decades. My great grandfather had 25 season tickets at midfield dating from the 1930s onward. My grandparents met at Stanford; granddad was class of '42, Econ. He was taking Japanese Economic history which was taught by a Japanese deputy ambassador which met first thing on Monday mornings. He sleepily headed to class on the morning of December 8, not understanding why everyone was running around campus, and gradually getting the idea when he walked into the class, which was standing room only. The ambassador/professor showed up late, walked up to the podium, clearly shaken, and stated that he believed that the Empire of Japan was in the right in the dispute between countries, but had not expressed it correctly...meaning the prior day's attack on Pearl Harbor. At that point, said granddad, the largest MP he had ever seen before or since came and led the ambassador away in handcuffs. Granddad graduated and joined the Navy, he was stationed at the Pentagon as a computer operator, feeding punchcards into early IBM machines.
I'm in marketing and business development for professional services firms, most recently with law firms. I live in Willow Glen, attend Stanford games when I can. Unfortunately, I couldn't get either of my sons to apply to Stanford, both wanted to go to school in the East. My older son plays volleyball and will graduate from Princeton this year. He played club volleyball with Brian Cook and high school volleyball with Matt Aiello (both Stanford MVB). My younger son was just accepted to Princeton a few days ago (early admission). But both are Stanford football fans...;)
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