Former English professor H. Bruce Franklin, a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist dismissed from Stanford in 1972 for his anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, died on May 19 at age 90. In his decades-long career as an…
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Sarah Muller wrote ‘a poem of herself’
Sarah Ida Raphaelle Muller lived a life of music and dance, before she passed away on Feb. 19 in a fatal bike collision at the age of 28. Muller arrived at Stanford…
N. Scott Momaday’s voice echoes in Native American literature
Native American writer N. Scott Momaday MA ’60 PhD ’63 passed away at 89 on Jan. 24. More than five decades after his tenure at Stanford, his teachings still echo in the…
Sandra Day O’Connor ’50 passes away at 93
Sandra Day O’Connor ’50 LLB ’52, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, passed away on Dec. 1. From her early years at Stanford Law School,…
Rowland Rebele, journalism philanthropist and pioneer, passes away at 93
Rowland “Reb” Rebele ’51, a pioneer of local journalism in the Bay Area, passed away at the age of 93 on Nov. 25. He will be remembered for his philanthropy and patronage…