Spreadsheet One
*School Backs Interns in Nonprofits
*GSB Loses Long-Time Adviser
*Guilt is a Sunk Cost
*Accessing the Global Workplace
*Prom Night Redux

Spreadsheet One

Photograph by Saul Bromberger & Sandra Hoover

School Backs Interns in Nonprofits

THANKS TO THE SCHOOL'S NEW COMMITMENT to the Stanford Management Internship Fund (SMIF), second-year student Jay Hoffmann (left) could afford to take a summer job with the National Parks Conservation Association. It was nearly two decades ago that GSB students developed the first business school program to encourage MBA students to pursue summer job opportunities in the nonprofit sector. Since then, students have collaborated with alumni/ae, administrators, staff, and faculty to keep SMIF going. Their job became a bit easier this year after the administration agreed to have the School underwrite the student-run program. The level of funding for 26 SMIF interns was also increased to approximate the median summer salary earned by other GSB students.

“Student leaders retained leadership for promoting awareness, building community, and overseeing the screening and selection process,” said Julie Juergens, director of the Public Management Program. “Our thanks go to the SMIF student leaders who proposed this new structure and to Dean Joss, who enthusiastically supported it.” Hoffmann, who also worked for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, currently serves as a SMIF cochair.

GSB Loses Long-Time Adviser, Volunteer

A CEO WHO SERVES on outside boards learns not only from the substance of the discussions but also from seeing how that substance is presented, James Dickason, MBA ’51, remarked in 1982 when he received the School’s highest alumni honor, the Ernest C. Arbuckle Award. Stanford and the GSB also learned much from Dickason, a prominent Los Angeles business leader, philanthropist, and former chairman of the Newhall Land and Farming Co., who died Aug. 26 in Reno, Nev.

Dickason served six terms on the Business School Advisory Council, one on the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers, and 10 years on the Stanford Board of Trustees. He was national chair for major gifts in Stanford’s Centennial Campaign and president of the University’s honor society for alumni volunteers. Dickason received the Stanford Associates’ Gold Spike Award in 1990 and the Centennial Medallion in 1992.

Guilt Is a Sunk Cost

GUILT IS SO WIDESPREAD among professionally trained women with small children that Laraine Zappert advises these mothers to “accept some measure of guilt as a sunk cost.” In her new book, Getting It Right, about work/family conflicts, the clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford Medical School surveyed approximately 300 GSB alumnae on this topic in 1996. She found that mothers who continued to work felt guilty about not spending more time with their children, while those who stayed home felt guilty about not making more use of their education.

One way to handle the guilt is to talk about it with others who share similar concerns, she says. Many of the statistical results of Zappert’s survey—98 percent of mothers said having children was the right decision, but 42 percent said it compromised their careers somewhat—were reported in the September 1996 issue of this magazine.

Accessing the Global Workplace

THE BUSINESS SCHOOL'S Alumni Association has joined with 25 of the world’s leading business schools in 14 countries to bring international career opportunities to its alumni/ae. The new GSB.Stanford Global Workplace is a private career network that can be accessed by logging on to the GSB’s Alumni Online Directory. In the directory (which allows alums to find each other), the Global Workplace hyperlink is available under the heading “resources.”

Prom Night Redux

A HALF CENTURY after he missed his high school graduation, Edwin Bly, MBA ’49, of Sacramento, donned his Navy whites to go to his second senior prom. This time it was a “senior-senior” prom and graduation night staged for about 40 WWII veterans who missed their first graduation or prom night at Rocklin High School in California because of military service.

Bly, who was a skinny 17-year-old when he joined the Navy, told the Sacramento Bee that he managed to get a brief leave from Navy training for his first senior prom and wore his Navy blues, making it back to the base just in time for morning exercises at 5:30.

This spring’s celebration was planned by 30 Rocklin High seniors in the National Honor Society who wanted to express thanks to the veterans.