November/December 1998

Features

COVER STORY

Let There Be Art

With a bold new addition and some badly needed seismic repairs, the Stanford Museum reopens as a visual arts complex fortified for a new millennium.

What's Next?

He’s a prize-winning chemist, entrepreneur, novelist and, now, playwright. The “father of the Pill” can’t stop.

Letters from the Western Front

Eight decades after the guns fell silent, the letters and diaries of three Stanford veterans bear witness to the horrors of World War I.

Trial by Fire

Caroline Paul set out to write an exposé of sexism in the San Francisco Fire Department. She ended up as a firefighter.

What I Learned From Joel

Back in 1979, Joel Dickholtz wrote a Daily column explaining why he was dropping out. It changed at least one reader’s life.

Leland's Journal

ON THE JOB

The Keys to Carnegie Hall

For Jon Nakamatsu, winning the Van Cliburn gold medal opened the door to Carnegie Hall.

VIRTUAL STANFORD

Starfish Have No Brains

And other factoids from a website devoted to trivial pursuits.

BEING THERE

Good Frosh, Bad Frosh

STUDENT VOICE

When We Were Kids

FOLLOW-UP

'My Way to Help'

AUTHOR, AUTHOR

Economics: A Love Story

In a new memoir, Milton and Rose Friedman celebrate an enduring, endearing partnership.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Model Museum

Class Notes

Profiles

CLASS NOTABLE: CURTIS BARNES, '35, MA '38

Uplifting Moment

CLASS NOTABLE: PETER WALES NADAN, '89

It's a Living

Farewells

REMEMBERING EDWARD LEONARD GINZTON, ENGR. '38, PHD '41, 1915-1998

Father of Invention