THE STANFORD ALUMNI

Although John Elway (class of 1983, economics major), quarterback for the Denver Broncos, may be the best-known recent Stanford graduate, there have been others of note over the years.

They include Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States; John Gardner, former secretary of health, education and welfare and founder of Common Cause; former federal judge and U.S. Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler, and astronaut Sally Ride.

Also, Warren Christopher, deputy secretary of state in the Carter Administration; William R. Hewlett and David Packard, co-founders of Hewlett-Packard Co.; Otis Chandler, chairman of the executive committee of the Times Mirror Co. Board of Directors, and TV newsman Ted Koppel.

John Erlichman, special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon and a key Watergate figure, is a Stanford graduate; so are painters Richard Deibenkorn and Robert Motherwell, architect John Carl Warnecke and writers Harriet Doerr and Ken Kesey.

Alumni in the business world include Roy A. Anderson, former chairman of Lockheed Corp.; Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., chairman of Bechtel Group Inc.; Thomas V. Jones, chairman and chief executive officer of Northrop Corp., and David Tappan Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Fluor Corp.

Besides Elway, other prominent athletes who have attended Stanford include John Brodie, former football player and TV sportscaster; Bob Mathias, two-time Olympic decathlon champion and former U.S. congressman; tennis player John McEnroe, and Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Jim Plunkett.

San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) are Stanford alumni, as are Derek Bok, president of Harvard University; film maker Francis Ford Coppola, and Barbara Morgan, who will be the next “teacher in space” if there ever is another.