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*Profs Go to the Mat Not for Profit
*The GSB's Living Treasure
*Berlin Site of SEP 50th Celebration
*Hoop Dreams

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PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNE KNUDSEN

Profs Go to the Mat Not for Profit

FACULTY WHO MOONLIGHTED as Sumo wrestlers (Paul Oyer and Yossi Feinberg) were a star attraction at a GSB carnival held in October to raise funds for two student-led programs, the I Have a Dream (IHAD) project and the Stanford Management Internship Fund (SMIF).

This year, IHAD took on a new group of 60 first-graders in East Palo Alto, as the last of the original group of “dreamers” headed off to college in the fall. Organized a decade ago by members of the MBA Class of 1992 and based on a similar program in East Harlem, the student organization initially raised $450,000 and adopted 58 third- and fourth-graders at Flood Elementary School to mentor and tutor. As the GSB students graduated, they handed off tutoring, mentoring, and fundraising responsibilities to members of new classes.

Nearly all of the original dreamers have gone on to college with financial help from IHAD, which now must raise $1.5 million to cover scholarships as well as materials and administrative expenses for the new group at nearby Costaño Elementary School.

SMIF raises funds to support GSB students doing summer internships in nonprofit organizations.

The GSB’s Living Treasure

SARA LITTLE TURNBULL, the director of the School’s Process of Change, Innovation, and Design Laboratory who has helped GSB students design ski racks, alarm clocks, and water bottles, to name just a few projects, was honored in November by the Modern Art Council of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The council cited Turnbull’s contributions to the world of design and officially designated her a “Bay Area Living Treasure.”

Turnbull, who is 84, has enjoyed a storied career as a designer and consultant to such household names as Revlon and Procter & Gamble. She also spent 20 years as an editor at House Beautiful. The contribution for which she is most well known, however, is the design of Corning Ware.

ILLUSTRATION BY LEO ESPINOSA

Berlin Site of SEP 50th Celebration

THE STANFORD EXECUTIVE Program (SEP) will celebrate 50 years of outstanding general management education for senior executives with a conference in Berlin May 22-24. More than 7,000 managers from all over the world have taken part in the prestigious 6½-week program since it began in 1952.

Many SEP alumni/ae continue to meet with their study groups and in some cases have been doing so for decades. They will have a chance to reconnect and expand their SEP contacts at the all-SEP academic conference and reunion celebration in Berlin.

Stanford faculty and prominent European business and government leaders will participate in the academic conference, says administrative director Beverly Smith. The conference will conclude in traditional SEP manner, she said, with a Friday night party like the ones held by on-campus program participants. sep grads will receive their invitations in March.

Hoop Dreams

SCHOOL DEAN ROBERT JOSS celebrated his 60th birthday with a trip to Michael Jordan’s Senior Flight School for the over-35 set, a gift from his wife. Joss, who played basketball in high school in Spokane and was a point guard on the freshman team at the University of Washington, was commended by his latest coach, Lute Olson of the University of Arizona, for staying in great shape. Joss’s team finished with three wins and three losses, two of the latter by one point. “I was happy to have survived the tournament without injury,” Joss said.