March/April 1998

Features

COVER STORY

The Voyagers

They've walked in space, piloted the shuttle and fixed the Hubble. For Stanford-trained astronauts, the sky is not the limit.

Questions

In the winning entry from our first fiction contest for alumni, a woman confronts the connection between love, sex and motherhood.

Let's Make a Deal

Just a mile from campus, the venture capitalists of Sand Hill Road decide which business ideas will live -- and which will die.

Fan or Fanatic

A man travels more than 100,000 miles to see a thousand Stanford athletic games -- and asks himself: Is it ardor or excess?

A Warrior in Washington

With Beltway savvy and Cheyenne soul, Rick West is leading the charge for the Smithsonian's museum of the American Indian.

Leland's Journal

ON THE JOB WITH BOB HESS

A Day at the Races

A real-life horse whisperer.

DIALOGUE: MYRA STROBER

What a Wife's Worth

POLITICAL PULSE

Leaning Right

BRIGHT IDEAS

Interns on the Potomac

AUTHOR, AUTHOR

The Grisly Gourmet

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

All Write Now

SAA CORNER

Alums at the Ready

Class Notes

Profiles

CLASS NOTABLE: CAROLYN TANNER IRISH, '62

The Bishop's on the Board

CLASS NOTABLE: ANTHONY J.SMITH, '84

A Man For All Species

Farewells

DON E. FAHRENBACHER, 1920-1997

Civil War Scholar