Stanford Alumni

Your list (Times, Feb. 8) of a number of illustrious and widely known Stanford alumni fails to mention two of those who, by any objective standard, deserve inclusion, if not “top billing.”

They are William H. Rehnquist, recently appointed chief justice of the United States and Sandra Day O’Connor, associate justice and the first and only woman member of the highest court of our country.

Since between the two of them they hold five degrees from Stanford, could it have been that the writer assumed it should be common knowledge that they were Stanford alumni.

The 1984 Stanford Directory shows that Chief Justice Rehnquist was awarded AB and masters degrees in political science in 1948 and his LL.B. degree from Stanford Law School in 1952, the same year Justice O’Connor graduated from the same prestigious law school. Justice O’Connor had previously been awarded her bachelor’s degree with a major in economics in 1950.

MAX G. KOLLINER

Los Angeles